There will be shifts. I remember 20 years ago, The ACC had a better shot at a national championship than the SEC. Alabama sucked back then with a bunch of scandals. An always evolving thing. That’s why the playoff needs to expand immediately.
Having enough of them to treat them like fungible goods is the rub. That is what removes the “primadonas” part, telling them they are not critical and having the level of competition revolving in and out of the program to make it true is the difference at 4 or 5 programs in America.