Now that the P5 has succeeded in establishing autonomy from the rest of college football programs it's going to be interesting to see what unintended consequences surface in the months and years to come. Here's a few I can see on the horizon

1. Smaller programs begin to drop football because it becomes too big a financial burden. Let's face it, how many athletic budgets are dependent on the "money games" to make ends meet? The more the trend towards scheduling only other P5 teams strengthens, the more schools are going to be in the red. Losses can only last so long before extreme measures are taken to protect the institution who's primary purpose is education and not athletics.

2. Title 9 will rear it's ugly head again and have an even more profound impact on college athletics. As more and more attention gets focused on football and men's basketball, and more specifically the money generated by those two sports, the imbalance between money spent on men vs women sports is going to grow and that will certainly lead to another round of feminist groups crying foul and demanding more money for women at the expense of men's athletic programs at every level of competition. Say goodbye to wrestling, swimming, golf and tennis, at least for men.

3. This one may be a stretch, but I can see the day when a P5 school (certainly a lower level one) decides it's just not worth it and withdraws from a P5 conference. Sure they all get a ton of money they wouldn't get otherwise, but more money isn't going to solve the problems of overspending in the athletic departments and eventually someone's going to start feeling some heat and force schools to make some hard choices.

4. Non-P5 schools finally unite and take their case (anti-trust) to court against the P5 conferences and schools. It's all about the money and when they see their budgets going further into the red, they will make one last gasp effort to bring "income equality" to college sports. BYU might make a great lead plaintiff if we're still on the outside looking in when this fuse gets lit. This will either play out in courts or in Washington DC depending on who fires the first shot. I could see congress getting involved to protect the "have nots." Congressman Chaffetz, a former BYU kicker, would be a likely flag-bearer.

5. College football and men's basketball players' compensation will continue to escalate bringing rampant corruption (drugs, gambling, scandal etc) to college sports the likes of which we've never seen before.

So what other unintended consequences do you see?