🏈 A Super League in College Sports

When it’s all said and done, it makes a lot of sense for their to be some sort of super league in college athletics. Let’s dive into it…

If you know anything about me, you know that I’m a huge proponent of the college athletics super league. It just makes too much sense with the way that college sports have been moving in the last few years. With the increasing revenue gap and NIL increasing that gap, it’s hard to see colleges at lesser levels of division one competing.

Ralph D. Russo from The Athletic reported yesterday that Linda Livingstone, the president of Baylor and is currently serving as the chair of the NCAA’s Board of Governors, invited university leaders from the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12, and ACC to a December summit with the purpose of hearing pitches for super leagues.

The conversations almost exclusively concern football, as it could generate more revenue for schools with a professional-style approach to the sport. This would create a centralized governing body that pays players.

Nothing has been said of the idea which I think should be put in place: a relegation system. Exactly like the big soccer leagues in Europe do it, it would be perfect for modern college football. Divide division one into two leagues, the bottom ten teams from the top division get relegated, and the top ten teams from the second highest division go up.

It would be perfect. We’d have teams always fighting to stay in the top. There could be revenue caps, NIL caps, everything. It would mean something to people. I don’t know, maybe I’m crazy, but I love the idea.

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