deck chairs rearranged. The lifeboats that could actually help save college football - i.e., some strong, wise leadership capable of seeing more than five minutes into the future - are nowhere to be found.

Everybody knows it's sinking. They can't even run a playoff correctly. A playoff! Any city rec league director making $22,000 a year knows how to run a proper playoff. But college football can't figure it out. And they screwed up NIL. And they ran their budgets into the ground during COVID. And they see ticket sales gradually declining. And they see TV viewership lurching unpredictably...

And they're afraid. They're all afraid.

Texas and OU called up the SEC last year because they were scared to death. USC and UCLA hit up the Big 10 for the same reason. They see the water rushing in. They know they can't stop it. So, they do the only thing they can think of - rearrange the deck chairs. "Maybe if we just join another conference, it will all be OK. Right, Nebraska?"

I hate the Pac-12 because of its snobbish, prejudiced arrogance. It's hard not to laugh at them right now. But the bigger picture isn't funny. It's just sad. What a fantastic, mesmerizing sport college football used to be. It was so good for so long. The worst part is that it would be simple to make some changes, launch some lifeboats and get it back on track. But nobody is trying. They're just moving the deck chairs around. "The last round of conference realignment didn't really fix anything. But surely this one magically will!"