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Football and Competition  Posted: Updated:  If you were hoping
to catch a college football game or two on television this week,
you were in luck. In fact, if you wanted to watch 54 college
football games this week, you were in luck. 47 games were shown
on Saturday, and a smattering of games was shown on Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and even Sunday. Only 8 games were not
televised. If you flashed back to this same week 30 years ago,
your options were a bit more limited. In 1979, you could have
watched 2 games on television this week, and only 23 for the
entire season. Of course, instead of college football, you could
have watched new episodes of Three's Company in 1979, so let's
not shed too many tears.  How did we get from 23 games for an
entire season to 54 games in one week? The obvious answer can be
summed up in 1 word: Money. The networks are paying an obscene
amount of money to broadcast college football games. The SEC
just agreed to 15 year de