[Straight Vermonter]

If there is going to be a playoff system leading to a national champion, college football will have become an activity that is no longer compatible with ordinary academics.

Swimming, diving, wrestling, skiing, hockey, etc. all have playoffs and all are programs with true student athletes. Your statement just doesn't make sense. Football has problems such as being "minor-league professional football" but playoffs have NOTHING to do with it.

[Haiku Guy]

You’re telling me that the swimming, diving, wrestling, skiing, and hockey programs in colleges are as intense and exhausting as the football program?

Really? Skiing?