I Can Save College Football

I refuse to let a handful of schools with delusions of grandeur (Texas), inferiority complexes (Nebraska, Texas A&M), or just plain greed (Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Pitt, Syracuse) ruin college football as we know it. If the Saturday morning landscape is going to change, we should change it for the better, and here's how.

1. Create four 16-team regional super conferences (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and West) from the closest geographical members from the current Big 10(12), Big 12(10), Big East, ACC, SEC, and Pac 12, plus a few at-large teams like Notre Dame, TCU, Boise State, and BYU.

2. Take the remaining non-automatic qualifying conferences (Sun Belt, MAC, MWC, C-USA, etc.) and create four more Tier Two conferences geographically co-located with the four super conferences (i.e. MAC teams align with the Midwest, Mountain West teams with the West). This scheme accommodates up to 128 teams in 8 conferences.

3. Each year, the 64 teams in the four super conferences play each other in the regular season plus a conference title game to determine the best team in each conference. These four teams play in a two round playoff to decide the national champion. All the other teams in both tiers with winning records can go to bowl games like always.

4. The 64 teams in the second tier conferences also play a regular season plus a conference title game to determine the two best teams in each conference. Next year, these eight teams move up to their respective super conferences, and the bottom two teams in each super conference get relegated to their aligned tier two conference (just like soccer). This way, deserving teams can earn their way into the big conferences, and dead weight in the upper tier gets booted down to keep the competition level in the top tier high.

5. Revenue from bowl games and TV contracts gets split evenly between all 32 teams in each super conference / tier two conference pair, so even the smallest schools get a share of those big contracts.

6. Each team gets to save one rivalry game against one opponent that gets played every year regardless of conference position.

7. The NCAA gets the power to punish teams that violate rules by forced relegation to the lower tier conference for any number of years. They then have to earn their way back to the super conference after they serve their punishment.

This won't solve problems with boosters and money, but it will get rid of the BCS, crown an undisputed national champion, preserve historical rivalries and bowl games, force the top teams to play harder schedules, and allow every team in the country the chance to earn its seat at the table.

Discuss.