College Football Needs To Adopt International Soccer Rules To Save Its Sport

College Football Needs To Adopt International Soccer Rules To Save Its Sport

College football is officially broken. The minute the CFB Playoff expanded from 4 to 12 teams, it marked the day the sport became broken. If the ridiculous targeting rule didn’t do this, this expansion pushed it over the edge. The bottom line is college football had the most important regular season of any sport and those idiots ruined it just like that.

We just need to accept things for what they are. The sport is broken and major changes need to be made. There are no rules on any of this stuff. NIL, transfer portal, conference realignment… it’s all being made up on the spot because there is too much money entering the sport.

The athletes are being paid now. The old days are gone. We have CJ Stroud handing out suits to his entire team. A literal college student… Can you imagine that happening even five years ago?

This stuff is moving fast and if someone doesn’t put a line in the sand soon, you’re in danger of ruining this product forever. College football needs a commissioner. Someone that’s going to define a set of rules that not only fix the sport but bring back the entertainment value that was lost with this new expansion.

College football needs to adopt the international soccer rules immediately. Nobody is saying FIFA is perfect but the Superleague got shut down for a reason. These conference commissioners will not stop until there are rules in place. At what point do we draw a line in the sand? Don’t tell me this stuff is good for the sport because if you think that, go find a new brain. We’re about to live in a world where USC and Rutgers are in the same conference. Argument over.

Let’s start with the transfer portal. Right now there are basically no rules in place. The big dogs are dominating. Seems a little unfair that Georgia Tech’s running back can just leave for Alabama whenever he wants and get paid to do so. We are talking about college football, right?

We now live in a world where Alabama can lose three games in the regular season while facing no consequences and will receive a bid into the playoff anyway. Oh, and they have unlimited resources and can steal your best players through the portal. Oh, and will win all of the recruiting battles too with NIL. You’re telling me we don’t need rules in place?

I’m not saying Jahmyr Gibbs shouldn’t be allowed to have freedom and transfer out. I just think there should be a cost of doing business. Manchester United just can’t have Lisandro Martinez and Antony. They have to pay Ajax a transfer fee for their services. If USC wants Jordan Addison, they should have to pay Pittsburgh for him. What’s fair is fair.

We want to help the little guys in college football? Insert the transfer rules in soccer. Maybe a University of Pittsburgh turns into an Ajax and can really use those resources to build a low-key power. Don’t talk to me about further steps to include lesser-known teams in the playoff. Right now they don’t have a fighting chance. Add these rules in and the smarter teams will use those new transfer resources to build a better long term product.

Additionally, relegation rules also need to be added. Riddle me this; If USC and UCLA join the Big 10, how many teams do they actually need? Are we going to go 20 teams deep and have teams like Rutgers and Vanderbilt get punked every single week? Why should those teams be included in those mega conferences? Easy solution, insert relegation.

Figure out how you want to realign the conferences. Make the top four conferences get two automatic bids in the playoffs. The smaller conferences also get one bid for the conference winner. The bottom two teams in those conferences get relegated to the Mountain West, Big East, Big 12 etc. Figure it out. The conferences already don’t make sense and this is the only solution. Was all of this worth killing Big East college basketball for? Forget the other sports. The relegation would only apply to football. Rebuild the conferences in basketball in other sports the way they should be before football ransacked the realignments.

This is your pathway. If college football doesn’t insert some of these rules, this sport is going to be in trouble. It’s being overrun by greed and nobody is taking charge of inserting real rules. Easy solution. Insert international soccer rules. Problem solved. It’s the only way to salvage this asinine 12-team playoff.

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