--- title: Five Best: College Football is a Moneymaking Sham description: College football is a moneymaking sham, insect eyes are inspiring a new generation of more affordable solar cells and more. canonical: https://time.com/4927097/college-football-is-a-moneymaking-sham/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-05T16:00:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:31.481Z article:section: Ideas og:title: College Football is a Moneymaking Sham og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4927097/college-football-is-a-moneymaking-sham/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: College Football is a Moneymaking Sham twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # College Football is a Moneymaking Sham by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 5, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 5, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**College football is a moneymaking sham.**](https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/conversations/2017/9/5/16180862/college-football-ncaa-student-athlete-mike-mcintire) By Sean Illing at _Vox_ **2\.** [**Insect eyes are inspiring a new generation of more affordable solar cells.**](http://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/31/new-solar-cell-inspired-insect-eyes/) By Mark Shwartz at _Stanford University_ **3\.** [**America needs its historians now more than ever.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/04/opinions/liberal-arts-degrees-not-useless-opinion-cox/index.html) By Karen L. Cox at _CNN_ **4\.** [**Congress can stop the unfolding crisis in Yemen.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/08/congress-should-do-its-job-and-get-us-out-yemens-civil-war/140640/?oref=d-river) By Willis L. Krumholz in _Defense One_ **5\.** [**A targeted ethanol injection could be a silver bullet against some tumors.**](https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/09/02/ethanol-lethal-injection-tumors-11779) By Alex Berezow at the _American Council on Science and Health_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: College Football is a Moneymaking Sham ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4927097/college-football-is-a-moneymaking-sham/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4927097/college-football-is-a-moneymaking-sham/"},"headline":"College Football is a Moneymaking Sham","datePublished":"2017-09-05T16:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:31.481Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4927097/college-football-is-a-moneymaking-sham/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","health","Yemen","College football","solar"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4927097/college-football-is-a-moneymaking-sham/","name":"College Football is a Moneymaking Sham"}}]}] ```