There's a lot of reasons someone might be cynical about the current state of college sports in general and college football specifically. For a long time, it was easy to see it as a refuge from the overly corporatized, money-driven reality that dominates sports and life in every other facet of our lives. While I'm not sure when that actually stopped being the case (probably sometime during the Carter administration), in 2023 it's hard to avoid the seeing the of billions upon billions of dollars that underpins almost every decision made by everyone involved.
But there's still gotta be at least one part of the the game that's innocent and pure and good, and in my humble opinion that's Senior Day.