Seems like the NCAA might be the best thing ever invented for amateur football players. The allegiance fans have to their schools generates enormous revenue that college football players get to enjoy. College football players get paid well; it's ludicrous to argue that they don't.
By contrast, minor-league baseball players are suing MLB because, well, it sucks to be a minor-league baseball player. Minor leaguers make less than minimum wage and don't get any college paid for. The vast majority wash out after a few years of working for nothing with nothing to show for it.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/baseball-broshuis-minor-league-wage-income