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In many ways, Cody Campbell has become the embodiment, for better or worse, of this ungovernable era of college sports—a highly disrupted, frontier-pushing economic environment dominated by oodles of money, N.I.L. deals, Jordon Hudson, Dave Portnoy, constant conference realignment, the demise of the Pac-12, and Arch Manning–Warby Parker ads. It’s a world in which the Oregon football head coach takes off his shirt with Pat McAfee in a predawn Eugene rally, and Penn State vows to buy out defenestrated coach James Franklin for $45 million.
