Proposals
College football rules have changed pretty constantly for decades and decades. Many of those changes were conservative. Let's have some actual fun here.
Bad Idea Time: Auction Off the Top Five Draft Spots
It’s for charity, so you can’t get mad
Bad Idea Time: Elect the CFB Playoff Committee
Democracy is broken, and so is the college football postseason, so let’s mash ‘em up!
Bad Idea Time: Abandon All Playoffs
Embrace the chaos of the 70s, 80s and early 90s!
Bad Idea Time: The Division Basement Draft
Shuffle the schools in a conference every season, and let the worst teams do the picking.
Bad Idea Time: The Conference Exchange Program
See the world! By which I mean the Central Time Zone!
The Tennessee-Georgia Series Is Bad. Let’s Fix That.
On the creation of the Cool Wet Kiss Of Friendship Classic
Good Idea Time: September 2020 Presidential Debate Special Edition
Wash your hands of the debate moderators of yesteryear!
Bad Idea Time: Empty Stadium Solutions
Boom goes the microphone
Rank every team, cowards
If we’re going to a silly poll for this very weird season, might as well lean into it!
It’s time to change non-conference schedule protocol
Everybody get out a legal pad and a pen.
The intellectual tyranny of the preseason poll must end in 2020
For too long, college football voters have been motivated by fear. This season, let their ballots sing with inspiration.
Any 2020 football season should be a rules laboratory
In which we make the Big Ten even puntier.
Jet Ski Basketball will pave the way to our new world
Remember, cars once seemed like strange, alien things to civilization.
How CBS and UConn can crush the SEC
A very serious plan that you should take seriously
Bad Idea Time: a Playoff spot in exchange for a vaccine
Here’s an idea that wouldn’t backfire: tying postseason eligibility to a school’s medical research success.
Bad Idea Time: The State Champs System
Can’t travel? Time to play all the nearby schools you’ve been ducking!
Bad Idea Time: Make every college have a totally unique nickname
For one thing, there are way, way too many Eagles.
6 ways to make the NFL’s stupid Wonderlic thing actually good
Let’s not only test intelligence in better ways, let’s get some good TV out of it.
Bad Idea Time: Safeties should be worth 11 points
Make football’s rarest scoring play its most valuable, and let the ensuing chaos overtake everything.
Pac-12, get even with your rivals the American way: by exploiting new laws
It’s time for the conference to embrace California law and turn on the NCAA!
Here’s what we should do when coaches leave after Signing Day
This should cost someone money. That money should go somewhere specific.
LSU, follow your championship with Football Mardi Gras
The football can’t get better than it was in 2019, but think bigger.
Bad Idea Time: Make ADs do all non-con scheduling in public
It’s time to bring scheduling out of the caves and embrace stressful capitalism.
There are other coaches you could hire
It might feel like a good idea to hire a coach connected to bad things, but here’s an idea: what if you hired a different coach?
National Championship should always be on Saturday and on campus
Stop trying to be the NFL.
The Plus-One system would’ve been better than the Playoff
Or at the very least, far more college football.
Universal All-Americans: Let’s combine all CFB awards into one thing
Sort of like the NCAA’s "consensus All-Americans" idea, but much more encompassing and definitive.
CFB has SO MANY Coach of the Year awards. Let’s make each unique
You know how the NBA has hilariously literal awards like "Most Improved Player?" Let’s make all 9,000 of college football’s coaching awards just as specific.
Bad Idea Time: Replace all bowl ties with randomized bids
Conference ties are a pain. Merely getting rid of them is not enough.
Fun ways to replace conference title games with Playoff games
The best way to expand the Playoff is to let it absorb something else college football went a long time without.
Bad Idea Time: Replace conference title games with FLEX GAMES
Two teams in your conference can play a 13th game against each other. Spend it more wisely.
Improve rivalry games with 12 kinds of flexible scheduling
Spice up your relationship with your rival by agreeing to play in April instead, then showing up in March.