I’m trying to think of a college sport that isn’t heavily skewed towards the top teams in that sport. Men’s basketball is pretty much it and even that, the blue bloods have a huge advantage over everyone else.
It feels like there’s more parity because of the tournament format but of the last 29 national championships, 16 were won by either Duke, North Carolina, UCONN, and Kentucky.
The other 13 were won by Kansas, Villanova, Michigan State, Louisville, Florida, UCLA, Arizona, Syracuse, Maryland and Arkansas. So basically 1 in 10 years you might get what would be considered an outlier national champion based on all of those schools. (Syracuse, Maryland and Arkansas).