SOUTH BEND, Ind. — There is plenty wrong with college football.
You’ve heard the grievances, the gripes and the grumbles. The transfer portal and NIL. Unfair resource gaps and an unregulated compensation system.
There are many things about which to complain, festering issues that need examining, problems that have to be fixed.
But Friday night was not one of them.
From snow-blanketed Northern Indiana, amid frigid temperatures in a capacity-filled 94-year-old stadium, college football — the entity whose off-the-field engine is sputtering along — delivered spectacular history to millions across the country: an on-campus playoff game.