The group College Sports Tomorrow came out Tuesday with its plan for a College Student Football League. The proposal: Take 136 FBS programs, split them into a Power 12 Conference of 72 teams and a Group of 8 with 64 teams and govern them with “an independent, impartial entity” that looks out for all.
It’s the Super League idea that’s kept message boards hopping for years.
The second tier would have a chance to play up into the top tier based on performance, but there’d be no relegation. The idea of relegation will never happen in college sports anyway, because it would cause chaos with athletics departments’ ability to budget from one year to the next.
The Power 12 Conference contains a dozen six-team divisions that make geographic sense. Texas Tech football’s in a division with Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, SMU and TCU. The little boy in me who grew up on the Southwest Conference can hope for a return to yesteryear, but Kern Tips is dead and that ship has sailed. The middle-aged me notes there’d presumably be no 10 p.m. kickoffs in the CSFL.
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The plan, however well-intentioned, isn’t going to happen.
Texas and Texas A&M didn’t spend the past few years distancing themselves from their rivals, geographically and financially, to go back to a reconstituted SWC. Similarly, Oregon and Washington didn’t just leave the Pac-12 to jump back into the proposed CSFL West Division with Brigham Young, Oregon State, Utah and Washington State.
Anyone really think LSU’s signing up to be in a CSFL South with Houston and Memphis? Florida, Florida State and Georgia going willingly into a Southeast Division…
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Publish date : 2024-10-04 09:07:50
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