New Year’s Day Is All About Making Money In The College Football Industry [Video]

Playoff day!

January 1^st used to be the end of the college football season. There would be a champion crowned after the completion of the traditional bowl games. But money has changed everything and January 1^st features playoff games. This year’s Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California is a quarter-final College Football Playoff Game featuring Ohio State against Oregon. There are two other quarter final games, Arizona versus Texas in Atlanta and the other in New Orleans with Notre Dame playing Georgia. This is big business for the college football industry. But there are more games to come, the semi-finals and then the final which takes place on January 20^th, a date that is already into the second semester of the school year. Will the so-called “student-athletes” playing be excused from classes?

The term “student-athlete” has been used to deny players benefits such as salaries and long-term health care from injuries …