Welcome to the 2040 Dubai Bowl, featuring UCLA and Michigan in a battle of tradition-rich college football teams. NCAA President Charlie Baker is seeing landmark changes in the college athletics landscape. There’s plenty at stake besides a first-round victory in the recently expanded, 64-team College Football Playoff and a bowl trophy made of 24-karat gold and flawless diamonds. Imagine what the late Bo Schembechler, who once preached “Those who stay will be champions,” would have said about college football today, much less in 2040. One former high-ranking UCLA administrator told me that he favored spinning athletics departments into their own entities, forcing them to exist free of university bailouts.