College Football is Broken. Let's Fix It.

Some of you say we are watching the destruction of college football. I disagree. I believe that we are watching the renaissance of "Big Boy" College Football. (BBCF)

College football has been a Haves and Have Nots "business" for decades.

The PAC-12 is a perfect example. That league has been a joke for decades. UCLA and USC made the right move to the Big Ten. Just as OU, UT and A&M made the right move to the SEC

Let's start with the hard facts. 250 teams play Division I college football. 129 are FBS teams.

The FBS, or the Football Bowl Subdivision, has 11 different conferences: the ACC, American, Big 12, Big Ten, C-USA, Independent, MAC, Mountain West, PAC-12, SEC and Sun Belt conferences. 

The only people who are interested in watching games between teams from the American, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West and Sun Belt Conference leagues are current students, alumni, local residents and people who have nothing else to do.

The FCS, or the Football Championship Subdivision,has 14 conferences: the Big Sky, Big South, CAA, Independent, Ivy, MEAC, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Pioneer, Southern, Southland and SWAC conferences.

Who cares about FCS football besides current students, alumni and people who have nothing else to do?

That leaves the ACC, Big 12, the Big 10, the PAC-12 and the SEC as the only leagues that play BBCF (Big Boy College Football).

i've selected the Brand Name Teams, the runner up teams and the Only the Parent's Care teams (OTPC) for each league:

ACC     Pitt, Clemson, NC State, Miami, Florida State, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech.  Runners up: Wake Forest, Louisville and Virginia.  OTPC: Boston College, Syracuse, Georgia Tech and Duke

Big 12    OU, Texas, Okie State, Baylor, Iowa State, and West Virginia.  Runners up: Kansas State, Texas Tech and TCU.   OTPC: Kansas

Big 10    Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa, Purdue, Minnesota, Penn State, and Wisconsin.     Runners up: Nebraska and Northwestern   OTPC: Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Rutgers

PAC-12   UCLA, USC, Utah, Oregon, and Washington.  Runner up: Arizona State, Wash State and Oregon State   OTPC: Arizona, Cal, Colorado and Stanford.

SEC     Georgia, Bama, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arkansas, A&M, Tenn, Miss State, Auburn, LSU and Florida. Runners up: Missouri and South Carolina.  OTPC: Vanderbilt

Free Agent Brands    Notre Dame and BYU 

Party Crashers   Boise State, Cincinnati, Houston, UCF, San Diego State. Runners up: Coastal Carolina, Ragin Cajuns (Louisiana), Liberty and UTSA.

Forty-two Brand Names out of 250.  

FORTY-TWO BRAND NAME TEAMS OUT OF 250!

Do you real care about the rest? Come on, don't lie to me.  

You might care about the teams I've listed in the Party Crasher and Runners Up categories, but that's just 22 additional teams

What I want are three "Big Boy Pants" leagues with 20 teams each and four divisions.

Right now, that looks like an expanded Big Ten, Big-12 and SEC.  

Here are my picks.

Big Ten   Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa, Purdue, Minnesota, Penn State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland. New Teams: UCLA, USC, Oregon, Washington, Notre Dame, Colorado, Virginia 

 Big-12   Okie State, Baylor, Iowa State, West Virginia, Kansas State, Texas Tech, TCU. New Teams: BYU, Cincy, Houston, UCF, Missouri, Louisville, Arizona State, Wash State, Oregon State, UTSA, Pitt, Boise State and San Diego State

SEC     Georgia, Bama, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arkansas, A&M, Tenn, Miss State, Auburn, LSU, Florida, South Carolina. New Teams: OU, UT, Miami, Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, NC State and Wake Forest

Everyone else gets to wear short pants until the prove they are worthy of doing something other than playing in the wilderness.

Sixty out of 250 is not going to kill college football. It just recognizes that most college football teams are two-bit acts who are invisible to most football fans.

Finally, I want a real playoff between the top 32 teams.

In the first round, the 16 division champions would play the 16 division runners up from another league at their home stadium. After that, the quarter final, semi-final and national championship games would be played in "traditional" bowl game sites.

My format takes the polls out to the equation. The top two teams in each division qualify based on what they did on the field of play. That makes every league game count. Every single one of them.  

The first round games would match division winners against the division runner ups from other another league. Now that is one spicy dish.

This playoff format would make March Madness look like a kindergarten cookout in your backyard, baby.

Let the debate commence.