The Chip Kelly Plan: Make every college football team "independent"

[giveemhell]

Notre Dame is an independent in football, but they’re in a conference for everything else,” Kelly said, alluding to the Fighting Irish's other sports primarily playing in the ACC. “Why aren’t we all independent for football? Take the 64 teams in Power Five and make that one division, take the 64 teams in Group of Five, make that another division. We play for a championship, they play for a championship and no one else gets affected. Our sport’s different than everybody else — we only play once a week, travel’s not a big deal for football, but it is a big deal for other sports. So that’s my theory.

Not really a fan of Chip Kelly, but his suggestion makes a ton of sense to me. Too bad the genie is already out of the bottle.
UCLA's Chip Kelly points to Notre Dame...

 

[giveemhell]

My one tweak to the plan: the Group of Five champion moves up to the Power Five division the following year, while the Power Five school with the worst record (among other tie-breakers) is relegated to the Group of Five division (like the English Premier League).

 

[LonghornDave]

Yes

 

[guy4321]

They're moving the other direction. Every team (that's big name) will be in a single conference outside the NCAA.