Column: Texas State, UTSA rivalry represents fabric of college football

The laundry list of issues in modern college football would make Chris Jericho blush. Two transfer portal windows. Unclear enforcement of the revenue share cap. An expanding playoff that undermines the regular season and is controlled by two conferences hellbent on tilting an already uneven playing field further in their favor. 

But the disappearing of regional rivalries across the country as conferences bloat into a national footprint represent the biggest threat to the true fabric of college football. Success was never measured by fans with television ratings or department revenue. It was rarely measured by national championships.