Relegation Evaluation Elevation

[Turbine]

They don't call it post season but in Europe, Soccer teams move up down and slideways between levels at the end of each season. CFB should do this.

So unless you were already at the bottom end of a division and you finished poorly, you will drop into the one below.

Teams on the sides finishing at the top end will move up a level.

It looks like a pyramid

They call it relegation, I call it incentive to excel

[cajunjayhawk]

Someone on Twitter (X) brought up a funny, unrealistic, but reasonable idea:
College Football should institute a pro/rel system similar to the Premier League/Championship/League One/League Two pyramid in England.

Win and you are promoted and earn more TV money the following season. Lose and get relegated.

134 FBS teams. ~34 teams per league. Bottom 4 are relegated, Top 4 are promoted. Idk... something like that.

[CajunNation]

If we were talking about a purely, football issue, relegation might be possible.

In reality, we are talking about Academic Institutions with administrations that view athletics as a necessary evil and athletic conferences as Academic cliques.

This is what will never allow relegation to happen. It is also the main block to the 2 Superconferences idea. They will never vote out half of their membership just to invite in a replacement with better athletics. Until they cull their herds, there will always be many, many better programs in other conferences than half of their legacy members.

It's all getting to be ridiculous. West Coast and East coast schools in the same, all-sport conference? I think the university presidents are going to put the brakes on this madness in the coming years.

[NewsCopy]

Ultimately, college football may resemble English soccer with promotion, relegation and a handful of marquee teams trading spots each year at the top of the table.

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[Clutch0364]

I want a promotion and relegation system. Will never happen, but it’s nice to think about.

[R1Letterman]

I want a promotion and relegation system. Will never happen, but it’s nice to think about.

Me too! And also a faster clock or a new calibration for the clock between posts

[CajunNation]

I want a promotion and relegation system. Will never happen, but it’s nice to think about.

Never say never.

I love them too, however, they only make sense within a closed system. Meaning that to do it correctly, you need enough teams involved where becoming champion of the highest division would be seen as a "system" title, not just a conference championship like we already have.

It needs around 20-30 schools, at least, and it has to make sense for travel purposes.

This is what I would do. Expand the SBC to include all public, FBS schools in SBC, AAC and CUSA. That is 30 schools. Hire some geniuses from the engineering department to create a calculation which computes historical(5years) strength of your major sports (FB,BasketB,BaseB,SB). Divide those schools into 3 leagues based on those rankings. Each league would have a 9 game conference FB schedule and 18 game conference BB schedule.

Promotion/Relegation would be done at 2 year intervals to allow for home and home schedules to be completed in all sports based on a 2 year calculation of the above model. Either 1 or 2 down/up at each cycle in each league.

[RedTails]

Never say never.

I love them too, however, they only make sense within a closed system. Meaning that to do it correctly, you need enough teams involved where becoming champion of the highest division would be seen as a "system" title, not just a conference championship like we already have.

It needs around 20-30 schools, at least, and it has to make sense for travel purposes.

This is what I would do. Expand the SBC to include all public, FBS schools in SBC, AAC and CUSA. That is 30 schools. Hire some geniuses from the engineering department to create a calculation which computes historical(5years) strength of your major sports (FB,BasketB,BaseB,SB). Divide those schools into 3 leagues based on those rankings. Each league would have a 9 game conference FB schedule and 18 game conference BB schedule.

Promotion/Relegation would be done at 2 year intervals to allow for home and home schedules to be completed in all sports based on a 2 year calculation of the above model. Either 1 or 2 down/up at each cycle in each league.

I dig it. G5 would steal the show (cfb) with a relegation/promotion conference taking up the fifth AQ/P5 conference-slot. Would generate a lot of interest.

[CajunNation]

I dig it. G5 would steal the show (cfb) with a relegation/promotion conference taking up the fifth AQ/P5 conference-slot. Would generate a lot of interest.

If all this league did is play football, you would be correct. This would place the overall champion of this group in the CFP most years, but my idea is to make it an all-sports group.

Only those schools that remain competitive in all of the major sports would remain in the top Division. Over time you would have the HEALTHIEST athletic departments in one Division. By definition, this would produce CFP participants, NCAA tourney wins and World Series trips more often than not.

[Turbine]

I think it would be interesting if each sport had its own Relegation, Evaluation , Elevation, system.

It would certainly tell you which program within an athletic department was on the right track.

As far as football goes the interest and passion generated would be unmatched.

[JamesTheJeweler]

Well, unless all schools are equal as far as money is concerned, none of this will work. Wouldnt it be the same schools/conferences dominating year after year like it is now?

[CajunVic]

. . . and where will each of these schools get the $1mm for each money game they played to supplement their budgets . . . Remember it’s all about the $$$$ . . .