BYU Was Included in a Recent College Football Super League Proposal

Ever since conference realignment shook the foundation of the college football landscape, college football fans have been concerned about the future of the sport. With every realignment move, the SEC and Big Ten gain more and more power. According to The Athletic, one group named “College Sports Tomorrow” (CST), is trying to find solutions to stabilize the sport in the future.

The group consists of 20 members, including West Virginia president Gordon Gee. Accoring to The Athletic, "They are trying to implement a drastically new system that would replace the NCAA and the College Football Playoff and potentially provide a solution for the hurricane of current and future lawsuits aimed at the business of the sport, plus the NIL and transfer portal issues that, they believe, have put college athletics as a whole in peril."

Their proposal was a super league, including the top 70 programs (all of the current Power Four including Notre Dame and SMU) as permanent members and another division of 10 Group of Five teams that would be promoted and relegated using a merit-based system.

In this proposal, BYU would be one of the 70 permanent schools in the Super League. In this proposal, there would be eight 10-team divisions

The current CST outline would create a system that would have the top 70 programs — all members of the five former major conferences, plus Notre Dame and new ACC member SMU — as permanent members and encompass all 130-plus FBS universities.

The perpetual members would be in seven 10-team divisions, joined by an eighth division of teams that would be promoted from the second tier. Perhaps most importantly, "The playoffs would not require a selection committee, as the eight division winners and eight wild cards from the top tier would go to the postseason. The wild-card spots would be determined by record and tiebreakers, much like the NFL."

On the surface, this seems like a reasonable solution and one that would set BYU up to have a seat at the table in the future. However, it's struggling to gain traction. For this proposal to be approved, it would require the approval of both the TV partners and the two most powerful conferences: The Big Ten and the SEC.

Until a proposal is created that would allow the Big Ten and the SEC to maintain their power (which is, ironically, the primary reason why college sports are in trouble in the first place) and keep the TV partners happy, it's probably a non-starter.