College football is changing a lot, but it might not be a good thing, though, so I will be going over what I think will happen. And I will go over how much I think the odds of that are happening, and what I think the timing will be.
Paying Players: Rule set for 2022 season (Colleges get them endorsements, they do not pay them), Guaranteed, Bad (makes it so people just want to watch the best of the best players getting payed or the NFL)
12 team playoff: Rule set for 2024 season, Guaranteed, Not good (there is usually already 1 non-competitive playoff game, we don’t need to make it worse) (Only good thing is that it is more likely to eliminate the Florida State situation this year)
Loss of divisions totally: Set for 2024 season, Guaranteed, Good (This will make so the 2 best teams will play each other in the conference championships, and will get rid of the problem Iowa playing MIchigan in the Big Ten championship)
Teams getting a home game in the playoffs: Likely, if it happens I’m guessing 2028-2032, Bad (This would be getting rid of the neutral field, and this would be because of the 12 team playoff)
Two Power Conferences: Extremely Likely (This can likely only be stopped by the NCAA not allowing the Big Ten and the SEC from buying everyone). If it were to happen, I’m guessing 2028-2036 (For Power 5 Conferences), Not good, this again makes it more like the NFL, also you’ll have worse teams being grouped with better teams. The only upside is that with teams playing in the same conference… they should be able to get better bowl placement.
Buying out of current Grouper 5 Conferences: Maybe a 60% chance, if it were to happen 2040-2055. The reason this will take a long time is that the conferences like the Big 12 to stop them from dying they'll take in Grouper 5 teams, which will be bought out later. Not good, This would mean that these the two Conferences would become way more unstable, and bigger schools will most likely start paying the smaller schools money to play them.