...It is killing FCS, G5 and the lower P5 schools.
This is a professional model now.
Players drafted from FCS, G5 and the bottom of the P5 have fallen a lot from last season. The players are sorting themselves according to NIL value. For college football, conferences mean nothing now. The new division line is NIL capacity. The end result will be a system similar to the baseball minor league system.
Top of P5 is the AAA. Bottom P5/TopG5 is AA. Bottom G5/FCS is A.
Now, it could be possible that in the future a situation like we have in baseball arises where we have distinct MLB affiliated professional minor league and the collegiate model coexisting. For this to happen, the top of the P5 will have to completely divorce themselves from the NCAA for football only, and the rest of us continue with the pre-NIL model.
I, for one, am praying greatly that this happens.