In all sincerity - and I've been saying this for years - this is a tradition (like sacrificing virgins) that needs to die a quick death. I understand it's supposedly some big treat for players, etc, but let's be honest: it's little more than a sleazy politician trying to soak up some favorable press and identifying himself with "the winners" of an athletic contest.
This is no longer the 1970s, where the closest most players from rural Alabama will ever get to the White House is the $20 bill in their wallet. If folks want to go, they can.
This is just a tradition that needs to go the way of the dodo bird, and I was saying this LONG before it became the hot button issue it has been in recent years. Hell, while it wasn't the first time, what really got the ball rolling on this was President Carter wanting to identify with the US Olympic Miracle on Ice team on the day before the 1980 New Hampshire primary. Without that convenient backdrop, I'm not sure this thing ever gets going like it did. And then, the college from his home state just happens to win the CFB national championship. And the very next year, the guy who was governor of the largest state - and had been a baseball radio announcer as his first job - watches the Dodgers win, so they now have to come to DC.
(If it wasn't for loose connections like that, I'm not sure this would have become a thing. But it needs to stop, and the last guy plus the pandemic are the perfect reason to simply stop this attempt at identifying with winners).