College football has turned into exactly what America is these days. Just because some people are better than others (i.e. Georgia, Texas A&M, LSU, South Carolina), we have to give the people who are mediocre a piece of the pie (i.e. Northern Illinois). I'm so tired of participation trophies in life. Get up and do your friggin part or go rot in the dang dumpster. I could give a rat's you know what about somebody just because they "try hard". I tried hard on a Cal 3 test one time in college. But I wasn't good at it and I failed. You know what I did? I went out and found something I was good at and I excelled at it...and now I'm better at it than most anybody I know. I didn't complain because they didn't scale the scores of the test. Some people are better than others, some teams are better than others. Some conferences are better than others. Getl over it. If you don't like what cards are you dealt, fold and live for the next hand!