Do you believe college football isn’t as popular in California because the colleges with D1 FBS teams there aren’t accessible to most?

Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, and USC are the four schools with D1 FVS teams until recently, and none of them are obtainable for average of above average students. Plenty of valedictorians in California don’t get into any of those colleges. It isn’t like the Midwest where the typical smart student can get into Michigan State or Ohio State.