Outside proposals
Ideas index · Outside proposals (3)
Outside proposals are full reform plans from fans, writers and advocacy sites, not from people directly involved in college football. They are kept separate from the insider quotes archive and are summarized from the original pages, which are linked.
Fix College Football: 144 teams, 16 geographic conferences and a 32-team on-field playoff
An anonymous advocacy page calling for major changes to how Division I football is organized: new conferences, a new season schedule and a new playoff system. The 137 FBS teams plus 7 FCS schools would make 144 teams in 16 geographic nine-team conferences, gro…
Fixing College Football (SID Sports series), Parts 1-2: regional 10-team conferences and a 24-team playoff
A five-part newsletter series. Part 1 redraws FBS into 13 regional conferences of 10 teams built on historical leagues and rivalries (a slimmed ACC, the American, a revived Big East, Big Ten, Big Eight, a Northeast-based CUSA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-10, SEC, …
College Sports Only's 80-team proposal: eight 10-team conferences whose title games feed a playoff (via OutKick)
OutKick's Ian Miller writes up a proposal from the College Sports Only account on X. College football's top level would become an 80-team 'league' of eight 10-team conferences, each playing nine conference games so every team plays every other. Each conference…
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| Proposal | Author | Author type | Date | Teams | Playoff teams | Related ideas (#) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fix College Football: 144 teams, 16 geographic conferences and a 32-team on-field playoff | Anonymous / Fix College Football (fixcollegefootball.com) | advocacy site (anonymous) | Undated | 144 | 32 | 9, 13, 11, 12, 7 |
| Fixing College Football (SID Sports series), Parts 1-2: regional 10-team conferences and a 24-team playoff | Griffin Olah (SID Sports) | writer (newsletter; describes himself as a former FBS sports information director) | Mar 30, 2026 | 138 | 24 | 9, 13, 10, 12 |
| College Sports Only's 80-team proposal: eight 10-team conferences whose title games feed a playoff (via OutKick) | Proposal: College Sports Only (X account); article: Ian Miller (OutKick) | social media account (proposal), reported by a sports writer | Dec 12, 2025 | 80 | 16 (8 conference title games, then 8 winners) | 2, 9, 10, 12, 13 |