Hide your eyes, Mr. and Mrs. America. The future of college football can no longer be avoided.

The SEC and the Big Ten have unofficially decided to start things a little early.

Two years early.

The anger and apprehension of the SEC and Big Ten taking over the future of the sport will come into full focus over the next 2 months, when the looming superconferences take all 4 spots in this year’s Playoff.

The SEC vs. the Big Ten. Everyone else is chasing.

After 2 more Playoff pretenders were exposed with this weekend’s games, we’re careening toward the SEC vs. Big Ten inevitability — and frankly, it’s a good thing. Better Playoff games beats “new blood” or a “fresh product” every single time.

Who among us is going to argue with Ohio State, Michigan, and (pick 2 of the 3) Georgia, Tennessee or Alabama matching up in the biggest college football games of the season?

No more whining about Group of 5 access or conference champions access or how many teams should or shouldn’t be allowed from a specific conference. It’s tired and boring.

I want true blue ball. The best teams and the best players, and if that means 4 teams from the SEC and Big Ten, then suck it up, people.

That could mean (1) Georgia vs. (4) Ohio State in the Peach Bowl Playoff semifinal, and (2) Michigan vs. (3) Tennessee in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal.

Yeah, those games would suck.

Georgia’s nasty defense vs. Ohio State’s NFL talent on offense. The best quarterback in college football and super senior (Hendon Hooker) vs. the future elite and first-year starter (JJ McCarthy).

Seriously, who in their right mind is going to complain about that? Who could possibly think the current unbeaten leaders of the ACC (Clemson) and Big 12 (TCU) — who both won’t be unbeaten for long — would be a better Playoff fit than the SEC vs. Big Ten?

The college football gods, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to give us a sneak peek at the future of college football. The sport’s landscape has seismically shifted in the past 12 months to favor the looming 16-team superconferences of the SEC and Big Ten.

Or as SEC commissioner Greg Sankey recently said — with the delicious snark of all snark — “We’re already are a superconference.”

Let me translate that for everyone: “Suck it.”

When the Big Ten moves to 16 teams in 2024 with the addition of USC and UCLA (and maybe more teams before or after 2024); when the SEC moves to 16 teams in 2025 (or sooner) with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma, what exactly does everyone think college football is going to look like?

Dennis Dodd at CBS Sports reported late last week that the Big 12 is closing in on a new media rights deal for $400 million annually beginning in 2025 for its 12 teams. That’s $33 million per team.

A new Pac-12 media rights deal with earn a similar contract, and the current ACC deal (through 2036) will pay as much as $40 million annually per team.

The new Big Ten and SEC deals will pay in excess of $75 million per team in Year 1, and gain in value with each season.

It’s an uphill fiscal climb — in the NIL/player movement (and eventual pay-for-play) world — for any program not connected to the SEC and Big Ten. So if the thought of that makes you sick, what played out on the field this weekend in college football made you puke.

Oregon whacked unbeaten UCLA to take the Pac-12 out of the Playoff race, and Clemson (which beat unbeaten Syracuse) and TCU didn’t exactly project unbeaten confidence — much less Playoff moxie.

TCU came back from a big deficit again, this time to a Kansas State team that played 3 quarterbacks. Then there’s Clemson, which struggled with overachiever Syracuse, and could be in the middle of a quarterback change from DJ Uiagalelei to freshman Cade Klubnik 2 weeks before playing at Notre Dame.

Even if Clemson were to finish 13-0, imagine the hideous carnage of Clemson vs. any of the aforementioned SEC and Big Ten Playoff heavyweights.

We’ve seen blowouts for years in the Playoff semifinals, and it’s bad television. Clemson delivered and sustained a couple.

The final two 4-team Playoff seasons — if the CFP executive committee can hammer out details to start the new 12-team Playoff in 2024 — should be all about the best teams.

Not access, not conference champions. Not “new blood” — or whatever nonsensical term you want to use to get a Group of 5 school or a Pac-12 team in the Playoff.

USC — a Playoff darling before the season even began — sustained its first loss to Utah 2 weeks ago. I don’t want to get into comparative wins and losses arguments that fuel annual Playoff discussion, but that same Utah team lost in the season-opener to Florida — 1 of the bottom 4 teams in the SEC.

Clemson’s best win is Wake Forest, and should the Tigers find a way to 13-0, the Playoff Selection Committee will have a difficult decision to make. Allow Clemson to backdoor its way into the Playoff because of its fortunate place in the ACC, or do what’s right for the game (and the Playoff) and choose a 1-loss SEC or Big Ten runner-up over the Tigers.

Then again, Clemson may not make it out of South Bend, anyway.

The future of college football is here. Instead of complaining about it, let’s embrace this early showing.

The best teams, the best players.

The best Playoff.