College Football Needs to Make a 32 Team D1

College football needs to change.
I think we all know change is coming.
But with the 12 team playoff,
Transfer portal.
Multi million NIL deals
And now profit sharing.

It’s become more and more clear theres only a hand full of teams that will ever win the championship. So why keep them with the other 100+ teams.

The top 32 teams in college football are

  • the only ones ever ranked in the top 10 at the end of the year.
    -The only ones ever competing for the conference championship.
  • make over (or close to it) $100m in revenue from football
  • make over (ish) $200m for their athletic department
  • spend WELL over $1m annually in NIL.
  • receive over $20m annually from donors
  • and the only ones consistently sending players into the first round of the NFL draft.

So why keep the other 100+ schools of D1 FBS in the same league? Theres no way ever that a team like Central Michigan, Vanderbilt, hell even Purdue or Minnesota will EVER win the championship.

So heres my idea, the top 32 make their own division. A step above FBS. But it’s just 1 conference. So they all have the same rules, schedule ect.

As for those top 32? Here they are

So heres the top 16 schools out.

Yes some “bigger” names. But there are those teams that are just middle of the pack. Bowl eligible most years. But never really do anything or dont have any money to get better.

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How about adding promotion/relegation? Like the bottom 4/8 teams get replaced every year?

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How would the regular season scheduling work?

And how would the playoff format work?

2 easy games vs old fbs
7 Game conference schedule.
3 cross conference games. (1 each)

No conference champ game. Just seeding based on record

Then a 16 team playoff. Top 4 seeds are conference champs. 12 wild card.

Always been my dream. Based on performance, there can be 1-4 teams who move up. Those teams are cleared from moving back down for two seasons. Makes the lower league worth watching. Makes the crap teams in the top league fight for thier D1 rights at the end of the season.
I’d like to do this with the old school conferences. Like the winner of the old MaC is guaranteed to move to Big ten.
Boise deserved a sho tor two at thepac12 back in the mid 2000’s.

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I do this with my friends.

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You ever been relegated? Have to start hanging out at the dorks table?

Roman Abramovich purchased me in 2017. Due to my robust friendship transfer fee budget relegation is an impossibility.

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Ah, he has essentially purchased a lifetime spot in the top division. That said, his friends come and go pretty quickly. Most of them get arrested, which is one step down from relegations. You drop two leagues.

My friends and I don’t hang out anywhere with windows

College football needs to go back the way it was.

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Why would Michigan State be in and someone like Ole Miss out?

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Why just mention michigan state?

MSU vs O miss

FB performance last 25 years

Conference champs
2 v 0
Top 2 in conference
4 v 1
Top 10 in rankings
3 v 1

Money the last 10 years
Annual FB revenue
$75m v $75m

Annual Athletics revenue
$180m v $135m

Average annual donations
$25m v $15m

Avg NIL total
1m v 1.5m

Last 10 year NFL drafts
Total picked
25 v 36

First round
3 v 4

So sure Ol Miss has a slight edge in NIL and NFL player.
MSU destroyed them on field performance the last 25 years.

Ol miss is good. But they have never been great.

I mean only 1 Conference top 2 finish in the last 25 years. And not a single Con Title. I get it Georgia, LSU and Alabama have dominated the SEC for the better part of 30 years but come on.

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Current NFL players by school:

Ole Miss = 23
MSU = 16

How much tcu or Boise st? Why single out msu?

Tcu = 19
Boise = 10

Who is good for tcu. You seem very butthurt the op put msu in his 32.

Butthurt? LOL

MSU stood out on his list that wasnt a good team and hasnt been. I like MSU but do I think they should be apart of the 32?..idk, juat doesn’t seem like they should be on that list.

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Yeah but theres other’s who haven’t either. Msu isnt great right now ,but they have been overral better then ole since 2010

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