By far, College football is my favorite sport. Nothing matches the passion, the fan bases, the traditions, and the history. But the sport needs help. With the whole Kiffin situation and everything that has happened around it, pretending things are fine is not an option. Something has to give.

The playoff was a huge step in the right direction. It fixed the ridiculous idea that one small mistake could ruin an entire season. Expanding the playoff was another improvement. Teams with two losses now have a real path. That makes the sport better. And for anyone still pushing Texas as a playoff team, come on. Three losses and you are out. The idea that Texas deserves a spot is just something for sports talk shows to yell about. There is zero chance they get in, and everyone knows it.

Now for the part that matters. College football needs real reform. Here are my first five changes.

1. Move the schedule back so the season ends around January 1 before the transfer portal opens. The timing right now is crazy. Players are making life altering decisions while games are still going on. It makes no sense.

2. Fix intra conference scheduling. Some of these setups are a joke, especially in the ACC. You cannot take a conference seriously when its members barely play each other.

3. Expand the playoff to 16 teams.

4. Spots 12 through 16 should earn their way in through a play in round. It keeps urgency in the regular season and rewards teams that peak late.

5. Get rid of conference championship games. They serve no purpose anymore. Just crown champions based on the regular season. We do not need an extra weekend of nonsense deciding what the standings already told us.

That is my plan, and the play in portion of the playoff would be insanely popular.

If there is a play in round
The field would be 20
16 is enough teams

You are correct CCG games need to go away
opening weekend is CCG weekend round of 8 before Christmas
Semis new years weekend
Championship no later than January 10th


Army Navy game has to be moved up &
ND needs to join a conference
Conference need to be capped at 18 ( sixteen is better but ACC & B1G are already at 17&18 respectively)

Yep. Technically 16, but a pool of 20.

I don't see a reason most of these won't actually happen. Most on the list are pretty popular ideas, it just comes down to whether there's more revenue in the changes. That's all that really matters.

I think 5 rounds of playoffs is too much

I still think 16 will be more than enough
a 9th SEC game will limit the number teams than can finish play with 1 or fewer losses

While obvious that folks are pushing the sport in this direction, I strongly disagree. You're advocating that NCAAF follows the exact same model as other sports. Part of the beauty of this sport has been the ability to finish the season on a subdued high point, the joy of enjoying autumn, and the regional / local nature.

This was "our thing" done "our way." An island from the rest of the sports world.

Most of these proposed changes just strip what had made it different.

Didn't read LOL

Coaches cant leave until end of season.
Players cant opt out of bowl games.

have Big 10 drop Northwestern, Purdue, Minnesota, Rutgers and Maryland, then add Notre Dame, FSU and Miami.

have SEC drop Vandy and Kentucy, add Clemson and Virginia Tech

take the top 7 from each for playoff, all rounds at home fields, play the last game, which would be a super game, at a neutral site.

oh wait....

Regarding unworthiness
2 BDF teams are at 11-1
Oregon is 11-1
Ole Miss is 11-1
Ou is 10-2 worst loss is neutral site to tu with a win at Tuscaloosa

ND is a on 10 game win streak
Miami might be on the outside looking in with tge same record as ND and an early season win over ND

16 game four rounds of games would be pretty good

Possible 16 team playoff matchup off the top of my head


Bama @ OU in the 8/9
G5 @ OSU 1/16

tu at tech 4/13
UVA @ A&M 5/12

Miami at UGa 2/15
BYU at Oregon 7/10

ND @ IU in 3/14
Vandy @ ole miss 4/13

Suggestions are welcome this was done off the top of my head probably missing something obvious

They need to have a national signing day for coaches, too.

You get one free transfer. After that, you have to sit a year.

If we cared about the players we should decrease the probability of injury which is proportional to the number of hours of practice and playing time.
The following would go a long way toward reducing injuries:

• Maximum number of games per season - 10
• Maximum number of post season games - 1 bowl game for maximum number of total games at 11
• No conferences greater than ten teams
• No conference championship games
• No playoffs
• No consensus Number 1 team at the end of the season

How about this rule: If you lose to a 4-8 team you are automatically disqualified from the playoffs.

Cromagnum said:

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Coaches cant leave until end of season.
Players cant opt out of bowl games.

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-The portal shouldn't open until Feb 1.
-End the early signing period. If HS kids want to enroll early, that's fine but they can't sign until February.

Well, at least penalize schools for tampering with coaches during the season and penalize coaches for recruiting for a school they may be leaving for while at their current school.

90ags said:

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remove football program at tu....then all will be better as they just biatch and moan and think more of themselves than others do.

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This would solve everything for me!

12Power said:

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Well, at least penalize schools for tampering with coaches during the season and penalize coaches for recruiting for a school they may be leaving for while at their current school.

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And call it the Schloss Rule

Make conference championships matter. If you can't win your conference, or even compete for it...you shouldn't be in the playoffs.

4 super conferences. Conf champs get in, no more than 2 per conference.

Have divisions. Win your division, then win your conference, you're automatically in the 8 team playoff.

only 8 teams in the playoffs. 12 is too many...16 is WAY too many.

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12Power said:

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Well, at least penalize schools for tampering with coaches during the season and penalize coaches for recruiting for a school they may be leaving for while at their current school.

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And call it the Schloss Rule

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This is a personal issue of mine, but this rumor exists because "Brauny" said that Schlossnagle was tampering, that there were pictures of texts to prove it, and that those pictures would come out. If you're going to make this accusation and be taken seriously as a sports writer, you'd sure as hell better back it up.

He didn't. The pictures never came out, he never issued a retraction, and TexAgs posters continue to post the accusation as though it were fact.

Of any of that, I think the most realistic near-term change will be to kill the CCGs. It won't take more than 1 or 2 instances of an SEC or Big10 team getting left out because of it before it's killed. If Bama and Texas get left out because of 3 losses (regardless if it's valid or not) you will see the SEC raise holy hell and they may opt to just cancel the CCG.

90ags said:

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remove athletic program at tu....then all will be better as they just biatch and moan and think more of themselves than others do.

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FIFY. They ruin everything they touch.

ObjectiveUTLAW91 said:

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By far, College football is my favorite sport. Nothing matches the passion, the fan bases, the traditions, and the history. But the sport needs help. With the whole Kiffin situation and everything that has happened around it, pretending things are fine is not an option. Something has to give.

I'm with you so far.

The playoff was a huge step in the right direction. It fixed the ridiculous idea that one small mistake could ruin an entire season. That was a feature, not a bug in the previous setup. Expanding the playoff was necessary so we wouldn't have the three-or-more undefeated team issue. Expanding the playoff was another improvement. Teams with two losses now have a real path. Why is this a good thing? We already had NY6 bowls for good teams without a perfect season. That makes the sport better. And for anyone still pushing Texas as a playoff team, come on. Three losses and you are out. Why is three losses against an SEC schedule or a harder B1G schedule obviously better or worse than an 11-1 team from some podunk conference? The idea that Texas deserves a spot is just something for sports talk shows to yell about. There is zero chance they get in, and everyone knows it. They are definitely not getting in, but it's not because of the number of losses, it is because of the Florida loss with those other two losses.

Now for the part that matters. College football needs real reform. Here are my first five changes.

1. Move the schedule back so the season ends around January 1 before the transfer portal opens. The timing right now is crazy. Players are making life altering decisions while games are still going on. It makes no sense. This is needed, but it is not step 1. Other fundamental changes have to occur for this to be possible.

2. Fix intra conference scheduling. Some of these setups are a joke, especially in the ACC. You cannot take a conference seriously when its members barely play each other. Agreed, but the conferences have no incentive to change this for now.

3. Expand the playoff to 16 teams. No

4. Spots 12 through 16 should earn their way in through a play in round. It keeps urgency in the regular season and rewards teams that peak late. Sure. Call it conference championship weekend and let #3-6 play games as well. Only take teams that play in that weekend. If you are not one of the six best teams in your conference, there is no reason you should be in the playoffs. Keep the playoffs at 12. This allows five conference champs for legal purposes, a few at large spots to reward being a good football team in a tough conference (and Notre Dame).

5. Get rid of conference championship games. They serve no purpose anymore. Just crown champions based on the regular season. We do not need an extra weekend of nonsense deciding what the standings already told us. See above, just make this an input to how the playoff works. If it warms your heart, you can think of it as a 24+ team playoff, with 6 P4 teams, plus G5 schools.

That is my plan, and the play in portion of the playoff would be insanely popular.

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The biggest issues with the sport right now are not what you are talking about, but the following:

• This is the second biggest sport in the nation by revenue, and it is operating under a slightly modified rule structure than a rec league would use. In order to reign any of the craziness in, players have to sign contracts that can impose real enforceable benefits and penalties (i.e. become employees). I don't like this, and I suspect a lot of current players really won't like this as well, but the only other option at this point is the complete wild west that we are living in now that is choking interest out of the sport and will kill it shortly if nothing is done.
• There needs to be a person, or at least an organization, that is making decisions with the best interest of the sport in mind (i.e. a commissioner), rather than what will improve ratings the most for their network, or bring the most revenue to their particular school, or even lead to dominance of their particular conference.
• You probably need the two things above to happen first to really address this, but the biggest thing that needs to be fixed is the calendar. Early signing day before the school year begins, no transfer portal or final signing day until several weeks after the national championship is played, and no transfers mid-season all have to happen. Yes, this means transfers can't participate in spring practice. Oh darn, maybe teams will have to focus more on high school recruiting than stealing players from each other.
• There has to be more competition between conferences. It is impossible to tell who is good or not when 60% of the P4 plays one other OOC P4 each year, and another 30% don't play any. A commissioner can madate that all teams that want access to the playoffs have to play at least three P4 OOC games a year, for example.
• Conferences are too big and we all know it. Treat them like the brand they are and just split them into smaller segments with the same overall "conference" name. If you want to keep things somewhat as they are, use a pod system and each year the smaller segments in the "conferences" can be switched up slightly.
• There are a lot of other fixes that need to happen, but once the above items are fixed and we see the full impacts, they can be addressed one by one. None of the other changes are really going to matter until these happen.

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Well, at least penalize schools for tampering with coaches during the season and penalize coaches for recruiting for a school they may be leaving for while at their current school.

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And call it the Schloss Rule

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This is a personal issue of mine, but this rumor exists because "Brauny" said that Schlossnagle was tampering, that there were pictures of texts to prove it, and that those pictures would come out. If you're going to make this accusation and be taken seriously as a sports writer, you'd sure as hell better back it up.

He didn't. The pictures never came out, he never issued a retraction, and TexAgs posters continue to post the accusation as though it were fact.

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Doesn't change that Schloss is a POS.

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3. Expand the playoff to 16 teams.

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why even play the season. Jeez where does it end with you people? There are not 16, there are not even 8, teams that deserve a shot to play for a championship.

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Expand it to 128 teams and play a double elimination tournament starting in mid-October!!

dabo man said:

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Wabs said:

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Well, at least penalize schools for tampering with coaches during the season and penalize coaches for recruiting for a school they may be leaving for while at their current school.

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And call it the Schloss Rule

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This is a personal issue of mine, but this rumor exists because "Brauny" said that Schlossnagle was tampering, that there were pictures of texts to prove it, and that those pictures would come out. If you're going to make this accusation and be taken seriously as a sports writer, you'd sure as hell better back it up.

He didn't. The pictures never came out, he never issued a retraction, and TexAgs posters continue to post the accusation as though it were fact.

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From my recollection, Brauny's texts regarded Schloss potentially recruiting A&M players to transfer with him (please correct me if I'm wrong). I agree, no texts mean this didn't happen. But you really think Schloss wasn't doing ANY recruiting for Texas while actively coaching A&M? He waited until the end of Game 3 to start recruiting for his next gig (that he knew he was taking in April)?

The timeline provided by Schlossnagle was a joke. Clearly he'd known he was going to t.u. for a while. Was he recruiting for them (including our guys) during this time? I have no way of knowing. I certainly wouldn't put it past him.

But if you're going to make the accusation, you'd better back it up.

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The timeline provided by Schlossnagle was a joke. Clearly he'd known he was going to t.u. for a while. Was he recruiting for them during this time? I have no way of knowing. I certainly wouldn't put it past him.

But if you're going to make the accusation, you'd better back it up.

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Well, since this is a message board and not a court of law, I'm just going to go ahead and use common sense and assume that he was recruiting for his new team before the end of the season.

ObjectiveUTLAW91 said:

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5. Get rid of conference championship games. They serve no purpose anymore. Just crown champions based on the regular season. We do not need an extra weekend of nonsense deciding what the standings already told us.

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Keep the conference titles, and make it the first round of the playoffs. Get in a conference, Notre Dame. No at large bids. 2 teams from every conference go into their championship game, then Round 2 will seed the remaining teams ranked by the CFP committee. Every conference gets a team into round 2, and we don't have to complain all season about rankings.

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dabo man said:

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The timeline provided by Schlossnagle was a joke. Clearly he'd known he was going to t.u. for a while. Was he recruiting for them during this time? I have no way of knowing. I certainly wouldn't put it past him.

But if you're going to make the accusation, you'd better back it up.

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Well, since this is a message board and not a court of law, I'm just going to go ahead and use common sense and assume that he was recruiting for his new team before the end of the season.

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ERob did it.

Buzz did it.

Lane threatened to do it.

Schloss did it.

They all do it.

Skubalon said:

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Break up the huge conferences into 8 team divisions.
Division champions play for the conference championship.
The conference championship is the first round of the playoffs.
If you can't win your division, you don't deserve to be in the playoffs.
If you're not in a conference, make a better life choice.

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This will never happen. There's too much money for regional interests in conferences. The SEC simply cannot and should not be sharing revenue with parts of the country with less interest.