Everyone knows that college football is in a weird state right now.
NIL, realignment, and the transfer portal dominate the headlines every week, which is something that wasn’t the case just a few years ago.
The College Football Playoff is also a major talking point all the time, especially right now after Florida State got snubbed just a couple of weeks ago.
UCLA head coach Chip Kelly was recently asked what his biggest issue with college football is and he provided a pretty good answer.
“I think we need to have a conference commission. I think football should be separate from the other sports. Just the fact that our school is leaving to go to the Big Ten in football, our softball team should be playing Arizona in softball. Our basketball team should be playing Arizona in basketball,” Kelly said. “They’ll say, ‘How do you do that?’ Well, Notre Dame is independent in football and they’re in a conference for everything else. I think we should all be independent in football.”
Kelly then went on to say that college football can have a 64-team conference in the Power 5, ditto for the Group of 5.
This is something that probably won’t happen in college football, especially as the SEC and Big Ten continue to grow.
It’s more likely there will be two super conferences at one point rather than a 64-team conference.