Adopting the Euro soccer league promotion/relegation for CFB (Link)

[Saltydog]

What say you? The concept is somewhat intriguing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...d8164ad3&ei=66

[Pinto]

My brother in law and I have discussed this many a time. We are both big college football and premier league fans.

It will never happen but I think it would actually help on site attendance. Especially if the lower leagues aren?t televised during the season.

If EA Sports comes out with a college football game, then they should have relegation as an option for dynasty modes. Then you could see a live play out of it.

[Reason2succeed]

This would be terrible for college football in general and devastating to Mississippi State specifically. No thanks.

[Quaoarsking]

It wouldn't really work in college football where you're limited in how many years you can play. The lower conferences are often won by senior laden teams, so the next year they'd be a league up without all the main contributors who got them there.

If there's any American sport that should adopt promotion and relegation, it's pro basketball. Why are we sending so much talent to play in European leagues when we could build legitimate second and third divisions here?

[The Federalist Engineer]

The real way European soccer became relegation leagues is that the top teams fired the little teams. The premier league fired the "FA" in 1992.

It would be like the top-30 football programs simply firing the NCAA. Making their own Premier League. Then allow 6 non-Top 30 teams join their league to make a mathematically symmetrical 36 team cartel.

The bottom 6 would rotate, creating drama and human interest as Mississippi State, Syracuse, Iowa, and Oklahoma State play for dear life each year. For little teams like Iowa, just staying in the Premier league would be celebrated like a championship.

Texas, Notre Dame, USC, and UCLA would fire the NCAA today, if they could take another 26 teams with them.

[MrCoachKlein]

Article by Bill Connelly, SP+ creator:
https://www.sbnation.com/a/college-f...all-relegation

There was a really good one by some Missouri alum that went back and 'recreated' the previous 5 or so years of what would've happened with a P5/G5/FCS relegation system. It was an interesting read. Wish I could find the link.

I think it'd be interesting or at least an 'NIT' consolation playoff would be. In relegation we'd probably be stuck in SEC with no shot of winning a Natty like now instead of possibly being relegated and winning a 'D2' natty.