If you're comparing NFL to MLB, then not really -- there are 1696 NFL roster spaces and only 750 MLB ones. If you're comparing college football to minor-league

If you're comparing NFL to MLB, then not really -- there are 1696 NFL roster spaces and only 750 MLB ones. If you're comparing college football to minor-league professional baseball, then I agree with you. Really, every sport in the US should be run more like baseball. College baseball is significantly below the level of even the 3rd or 4th tier of the professional minors, and is an optional piece of the overall player development pipeline. The main trajectory of players who eventually make it to the majors is College->Minors->MLB, but High School->Minors->MLB is totally possible. Directly going College->MLB is extremely rare. It'd be even better if college baseball weren't part of the pipeline at all, and an even lower tier of the minors were added instead, but even as it is the baseball system is much better than football or basketball, where College->{NBA, NFL} is the normal path, and as a result college competition is extremely competitive and serious, and prone to massive corruption.