Three weeks to go in NFL season and 27 of the 32 teams still have a shot at the playoffs.

1. This gives the lie to the idea that an expanded playoffs renders the regular season meaningless in CFB. Compare NCAA teams still in the hunt with three weeks left.

2. Player movement is a significant reason for NFL parity and the wild popularity of the game, surpassed only by world class soccer in popularity and dwarfing CFB.

3. Every game is against a bonafide NFL team, not Middle Tennessee or Akron. No hiding allowed with intentionally weak schedules. How good is Fickell's crew? No one knows but would in a CFB that dictates serious schedules for any team wanting to be in the post-season.

4. There are no "minor" post season "bowl" games, every one is meaningful and most are very competitive, unlike the silly 40 game bowl season that is completely meaningless. 

5. No sport determines their elite by "votes" or "committees", only by play on the field. The NFL model allows players to move at will within the confines of their contract to which they agreed and yields a lot of change in power instead of the 6 teams in contention for the CFB title each year, with the rare exception like the Bearcats.

CFB is moving in the right direction and hopefully makes good choices to reshape the game, which is necessary in the current environment and mirror the incredible success of March Madness which is the diametric opposite to the CFB "post season". This will enrage those wanting to defend "tradition" and supposed "amateurism".  But like it or not it is the current situation and change is nothing if not inevitable.