New Year's Eve is supposed to be about all the good things about college football. For FCS, it's about the run-up to the FCS National Championship game in Frisco, Texas. This season - again - North Dakota State heads to the party once again, while the No. 1 team in the nation. Jacksonville State, tries to be the team that finally harpoons the Bison to break their consecutive national championship streak. In the FBS, the bowl games that really matter - the plus-one playoff teams, the four teams that could win their bowl championship - are being played. Lots of people will tune in. Advertisers will see a very strong return on investment on their ad buys for the game. The administrators for Alabama, Michigan State, Clemson and Oklahoma will be entertained, and well paid. Yet now, at the end of 2015, there are dark clouds on the horizon looming pretty much everywhere about the entire sport. Folks are worried about head injuries more than ever. The bowl system, with mo
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