By Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports: If name, image and likeness benefits were directly tied to wins, Miami could just about punch its ticket to the College Football Playoff. Texas A&M would be close, at least according to Nick Saban’s offseason estimation. Texas would truly be back.
But reality being reality, performance on the field still counts for something. In these strange days where the sport walks the line — and sometimes step over it — toward pay-for-play, maybe we’ve forgotten a key ingredient.
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