The problem with college football is there are too many ISUs, too many Baylors, too many KSUs. We have too many teams to make any sort of pretense of a national competition viable. The NFL doesn't have to contend with this because they have just over 30 teams and they're divisioned off properly. With four superconferences, we could finally see the promise land of college football, free of the BCS, free of the unwashed masses of glorified 1AA schools. No more late comers like Boise State stealing slots from premiere teams that play in real conferences.
Nebraska is one of the proud few that couldn't conceivably be left behind––too much tradition, a national fanbase, and long standing prestige. Does it suck for teams like ISU that are probably about to be left in the dust? Yes it does. But frankly, our team has earned what I think we're going to get, which is a spot in a new world of college football. The fanbase has invested the time, the resources, the constant devotion for decades and decades. Schools like ISU haven't. In my view they're not worthy of a seat at the table, certainly not if we're ever going to realistically start a national college football competition instead of the garbage we've come to know as the BCS system.