I think deliberate tanking is a lot more prevalent than people might imagine in the NFL. It may not be throwing of individual games, but a lack of a commitment to win.
I live in Jacksonville; the Jaguars have become a laughingstock of a team since Shad Kahn bought the team 10 years ago, yet I read he purchased the team for 700 million and it was recently valued at 4.8 billion. That is a helluva ROI for a team that is a bottom dweller. The amount of money the NFL makes is crazy and many owners simply don’t really care if the team wins or not.
I don’t think the Jaguars are throwing individual games, but they have no talent and when they do manage to draft a quality player when they out play their original contract and are due a huge raise, they get traded leaving the team to constantly rebuild.
Given the amount of money the NFL makes it ought to be forced to subsidize college football. Get it off the back of the state taxpayers who think they are paying for education. If donors to private colleges and universities want to pay for football over education, let them.