Most of us wouldn't be here if we didn't have a real love and interest in college football (and basktball and even other sports.)
Unfortunately the problems you list are those that could very well kill the sport as we know it.
It may be that the only way that college football survives as something that exist at a high level outside of a few schools mostly in limited regions of the country are to directly address the things you listed.
At some point to save college football we really do need a central governing body. That most likely will involve a commissioner, an investigative authority and a real ability to impose penalties and sanctions.
There will also need to be a real answer to the NIL question that doesn't allow some schools to simply buy talent that others can't or won't pay for. Part of this will also involve some form evening out of TV and other national media revenues.
Scheduling is a whole other issue and there is the problem of dealing with the G5 schools and even the FCS schools that we like to dismiss and say should not be on big school schedules. The reality is though that a lot of those schools rely on the money they make scheduling major conference schools. In order to be able to address these issues the P5 schools cannot afford to have the smaller schools and their supporters opposing them.
In order to address these issues is probably going to require some authorizing legislation at the federal level. They need to address anti-trust concerns. They also need to address the question of athletes being employees and thus requiring minimum wages, workman's compensation, and meeting federal workplace guidelines. All of this is going to require the support or at least not having the opposition of the congressmembers from the states where P5 college football isn't king.
At the same time as this legislation happens some other questions will be addressed. I have stated earlier that at some point I see the federal government taking a role in investigating and penalizing schools for actions that infringe on title IX areas. Schools like Baylor, MSU, PSU, Miami, and more that covered up criminal activities against non-athletes (and athletes) to protect the reputations and image of football programs will eventually face government investigation and at minimum the prospect of being declared ineligible to receive federal funds. This would mean no federal research dollars, no Pell Grants, maybe no VA funds and the huge one being no federally guaranteed student loans which would cripple many schools.
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