All the madness in college football foretells a hard truth: The NCAA must die.

The NCAA was born way back in 1905 with the laudatory goal of preventing college football from killing its participants.

Well, more than a century later, college football is fixing to kill the NCAA.

The ideals of amateurism on which the NCAA was founded are dead. For better or worse, college football is a professional sport. What’s education of the student-athlete have to do with it? Nothing.

So let’s stop the charade and quit pretending it’s anything more high-flalutin’ than everyone chasing the bag, as CU coach Deion Sanders so astutely observed.

There might be a place for NCAA bureaucrats to play playground monitor in overseeing swim meets or field hockey tournaments, but it’s time for college football to grow up, treat its players like employees, sign them to three-year contracts and end the transfer portal nonsense.

This madness, with the Colorado football program testing free agency in the same manner quarterback Shedeur Sanders does, has got to end … or at least be regulated, in a way the NCAA no longer has the capacity to do.

As if we didn’t know already, the governing bureaucracy of college sports, which evolved into an institution whose mission was to make coaches rich and keep players poor, is irrelevant now that a secret $100 handshake for a star quarterback has been replaced by a shiny new $200,000 Maybach.

So here’s hoping that by the time the CU Buffs travel nearly 2,000 miles to the World of Disney to play a football game in Orlando against the Central Florida Fightin’ Goofys, the NCAA comes to a more untimely end than Scar.

That’s madness.

But we all know college football long ago stopped being about education or getting a football player home from an away game in a timely manner to study for a chemistry exam.

So how does this insanity in college football end?

When ESPN, Fox, Amazon or some other TV entity that brings the most money to the table restores geographic order and common sense eschewed by college presidents greedily chasing money across the country.

College football looks a little more like the NFL every day, except it’s easier for a running back to find a good-paying gig with the Alabama Crimson Tide rather than the Minnesota Vikings

The NFL divides its teams into divisions in two conferences that make travel sense and promote regional rivalries.

At this rate, the rule of the super conferences will be relatively short-lived, to be replaced by a super league of college football.

When all the survival-of-the-fittest upheaval in college football is finally over, here’s a bold prediction: The Big Ten and SEC will devour all the other competition, with the ACC eventually being left in the dust and the Big 12 also becoming a thing of the past, just as we’ve seen the Pac-12 fall into the ocean.

And when Notre Dame finally realizes its stubborn independence no longer makes financial sense, the last domino will fall in the creation of a super league.

The only question is: How many college teams are worthy? The NFL does very nicely with the nice round number of 32 and there aren’t three dozen teams in college football that drive ratings the way Alabama and Ohio State do.

But for reasons of simple math and booster pride, the super league of college football needs to have at least 64 teams, because at 32 it would force alums from tradition-rich football schools like Penn State or Oklahoma to suffer through 2-10 seasons on a regular basis.

That’s why I suggest there should be 64 members in the super league of college football, so the CU Buffs or Ole Miss Rebels can play the patsie and laugh all the way to the bank, collecting their share of television revenue, after getting beat by the USC Trojans or Georgia Bulldogs.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news to the fine folks at Colorado State and Wyoming, but there wont’ be a seat at the table in the super league if the cut line for membership is set at 64.

Here’s where I’d like to get creative (or at least steal an idea from soccer): Let the Rams, Boise State and Vanderbilt start a 32-team league of their own, with a champion crowned from their playoffs. And the reward? A spot at the big-boy table for the next season, taking the place of a down-on-its-luck team from the super league shamed with relegation.

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