A 12-team playoff, no more Nick Saban — college football is at a turning point.
What will the game look like in five or 10 years? Will it still be recognizable as the sport that has engendered the sort of die-hard fans that the pro game only wishes it had?
Are we headed toward a time when NIL and collectives will morph into profit-sharing or straight payments between university athletic departments and their players?
And, if we are, will the college game become nothing more than collection of minor leagues grooming talent for the NFL?
And how will all this affect the Georgia Bulldogs?
No one really knows at this point, but college football fans, like my great nephew, who closely follows recruiting and the transfer portal (in itself a big change of relatively recent vintage).
like to quote various sites as “crystal balling” a player to a particular school/team that he’s thought to favor.
which keeps track of where various “experts” think top recruits might wind up, but it has become a sort of general term for predicting the unpredictable.
So, here’s my stab at crystal balling where college football is headed, along with some thoughts from several other Dawgs fans.
First of all, I think the retirement of Saban will bring to fruition what many prematurely had declared after the Dawgs’ back-to-back national championships: Georgia is the “new”
Alabama. In other words, it’s the program that sits at the top of the SEC until someone else knocks it off that perch.
