College football has always been a sport without parity. NIL, combined with transfer is a wholly new factor that may allow some reshuffling in this current Wild West time but even without legislation I think eventually it will settle some.
UT seems to be doing really well thus far with their NIL deals (or Spyre's deals I suppose). That's great but It doesn't guarantee anything in terms of results on the field. But, what I think it can do is shorten or lower the hill to climb for teams like UT trying to crawl back into relevancy. You've still got to stack multiple great recruiting classes, this helps do that but no guarantee.
Get it while the getting is good I think is the way I'd phrase it and there are a few schools that recognize it and are trying to capitalize. Just my .02 on the whole matter.