If you kill off all of the small teams in college football, I would argue the pieces that remain are, in the aggregate, worth less than they were before. If Boise St fans, or fans of CSU, Tulsa, Nevada, Marshall, etc suddenly become disinterested in college football because their teams are totally excluded from meaningful participation in the sport (which is going to happen on our current trajectory), then college football is far less compelling as a product and worth less overall.