Between Congress and the NCAA jockeying for power and NIL, the transfer portal and eligibility rules being a big mess, it's hard to look at the state of college football without wondering about the long-term health of the sport.ZERO BS.JUST DAKICH.
TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD.DOWNLOAD NOW!Sen.
Ted Cruz votes during a Senate session at the U.S.Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb.
25, 2026, amid a deadlock over funding that led to a Department of Homeland Security shutdown.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg)Any college football fans looking for even the slightest of wins will be elated to hear that we may have gotten one in the form of Virginia and NC State moving their matchup this upcoming season from Brazil back to the friendly confines of Charlottesville.Before we go any further, I understand this may be a massive bummer to any Wolfpack or Cavalier fans who bought tickets and made travel arrangements to see this game in Brazil and were maybe planning an extended vacation down there.RILEY GAINES: COLLEGE SPORTS IS BROKEN – HERE’S HOW TO FIX ITBut this is unequivocally a good thing for the sport of college football.An N.C.
State helmet is shown during a college football game between the N.C.State Wolfpack and the Clemson Tigers at Clemson Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C., on Oct.
1, 2022.(John Byrum/Icon Sportswire)Let me be perfectly clear on this: I don't even like college football games being played at neutral sites on American soil, save for a few exceptions like The Red River Shootout or The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.Seeing a game get shipped off to a foreign land for no good reason is even more disgusting.I've written extensively in the past about the globalization of football and how it has gotten out of hand.Between the NFL going increasingly global and college trying to follow its lead, I'm not a fan of seeing our greatest sport being played overseas.I didn't like it when we started playing week zero games in Dublin, and I sure as h...