College Football Playoff's board discusses possibility, potential of restructuring how college football is governed, sources say

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Per ESPN:

The 11 college presidents and chancellors who make up the College Football Playoff's Board of Managers met via Zoom on Monday and began a discussion that could reshape the future of college sports, sources told ESPN.

Multiple sources told ESPN that the Board of Managers briefly discussed the possibility of restructuring how college football is governed, with the idea presented of major college football potentially being governed outside of the NCAA. The most logical place for the sport to be run outside of the NCAA would be under the auspices of the CFP, which was discussed on the call. The CFP currently oversees the sport's postseason playoff and has contractual ties to other marquee postseason bowl games.

Sources cautioned that these discussions are in such early stages that it could be considered the first steps of a complicated process that would resemble a marathon. The sources added that the group spoke about the idea for only about five minutes, as it was raised as something the group should think more about down the line.

The conversation is significant, however, in that it's the first known discussion among a group that would seemingly have the power to put such a plan in action. And the CFP looms as the most likely destination for running major college football outside the NCAA.


Go Gophers!!
 



With the direction college football is heading, it probably makes sense...the NCAA is essentially turning into a substitute teacher.
I think northern schools should create their own association for baseball, too. NCAA can have college basketball.
This is all weird. College athletics is weird.
 

With the NCAA out of the picture, it makes way too much sense for August college football to become a thing.

Starting the season two weeks earlier would allow for more rest during the season, less competition with the NFL, and more time for playoff games.

Also, late summer “bowl games” held in Northern cities could be enormous television events in the deadest period for sports on the calendar.
 


With the NCAA out of the picture, it makes way too much sense for August college football to become a thing.

Starting the season two weeks earlier would allow for more rest during the season, less competition with the NFL, and more time for playoff games.

Also, late summer “bowl games” held in Northern cities could be enormous television events in the deadest period for sports on the calendar.
How about the championship games in the footprint of all conferences? We have 3 pretty good sites in Detroit, Indianapolis and Minneapolis
 




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