I’ve been thinking about the best way forward in the future college football play arena. Here’s what I think we’ll see going forward: 1). Split football from the rest of college sports. Let’s face it, VT swimming versus Kansas swimming is just not worth the travel expenses. Some sports need to be some what regional. I don’t know about basketball. I would need to think about that. 2). Consider lumping all the P5, some G2 and independents into one big league. Then, organize regional divisions. The number of teams and divisions can get sorted out. 3). So, organize it into 9 team divisions. Everybody plays everyone else in division (8 games). Then play 6 out of division games. How to determine which 6 out of division games. I know determination of an equitable out of conference schedule will be difficult but not impossible. It’s being done this year with the national championship playoff tournament. 4). Win your division and move up into a super regional playoff. Move forward until there’s a top 8. That’s your championship playoff. 5). You have to have relegation because not allowing the other schools a chance is going to create an inequity and it becomes an antitrust issue. 6). Each last place team (based on some sort of point calculation), would play an extra relegation game against a non premier regional opponent. Determining a non premier opponent would be difficult but it should start with a point system and then move to a last 3 year average point system so that one bad year by a good team doesn’t get you relegated. I think this is somewhat equitable and keeps some regional flavor. There are a couple of things to figure out like determining the non divisional schedule and various point systems or maybe regional committees for relegation decisions. Let me know what you think. I know this is the Euro futball model but it does have it’s merits.