6 Big 12 Teams Make College Football Super League in Proposal

The College Football Super League has been at the center of plenty of conversation ever since “College Sports Tomorrow” tried to make its own proposal. In that proposal, there are 80 teams at the top with eight divisions of 10. Only members of the one division could be relegated, leaving 70 programs immune. According to them, all 18 programs are worthy of the top tier of college football.

At best, the proposal is weak and asinine. At worst, it destroys what the Super League is meant to be.

Last Word on Sports proposed its own Super League and it’s quite a bit better. To start, programs are ranked by win percentage against FBS foes. Then, no program is immune to relegation. If Georgia finishes 2-12 at the bottom of their division, they get sent down.

In their proposal, the FBS and so forth split up into 40 school tiers.

Here is a full breakdown.

Big 12 Programs Make the Top Tier of College Football Super League Proposal

Unsurprisingly, the conference’s top programs made the cut. All of Arizona State, BYU, Colorado, Utah, Houston, and West Virginia made the cut.

Arizona, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Cincinnati, Baylor, TCU, and UCF made Tier 2 while Iowa State, Kansas, and Kansas State, round out Tier 3.

Worthy Inclusions

The six programs that made it to the top 40 represent the elites in terms of the FBS winning percentage:

18. Arizona State (0.5914)
24. Utah (0.5734)
25. BYU (0.5638)
40. Colorado (0.5318)
42. West Virginia (0. 5247)
44. Houston (0.5344)

Due to the fact that Boise State, Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, and James Madison all have top-40 win percentages vs. FBS programs but haven’t played nearly enough games to be considered, they were knocked down a tier. That helped out West Virginia and Houston. With the defection of Oklahoma and Texas (third and seventh, respectively), the Big 12 lost its place among the truly elite.

Realistically, of these six, only Colorado has a historical presence among the Big 12/Big Eight and even they left for the Pac 12 for 13 years. Arizona State and Utah came from the Pac 12, BYU was Mountain West and then Independent, West Virginia was Big East and Houston was AAC. Really puts things into perspective.

Big 12, Little 16

The Big 12’s place among the Power 4 is not solid as it stands. In terms of competition, it’s fourth of four. In terms of stability, it’s only stronger than the ACC, and that’s not saying much. If the Big 12 is smart, they already have feelers out to poach ACC programs if it implodes. Even then, this would allow the conference to re-establish itself and prove that it belongs.

All in all, a College Football Super League is absolutely a great idea. Is there truly a better way to make sure the cream always rises to the top than to make sure each and every program’s feet are held to fire? No longer can the Kansas and Iowa States of the world rest on their laurels that they are included in the Big 12.

Given, at this point, conferences would die in favor of an NFL-like divisional system. However, would you trade conferences, which are becoming increasingly a formality with how national it’s all getting, for a system that guarantees the best of the best battle it out each and every weekend?

And, if the gripe is that a few Group of 5 teams got through, it’ll be sorted in time. If those Power 4 programs are worth their salt, they’ll win and keep winning, thus sending those MAC or Mountain West programs down.

College football has become unrecognizable from the game that most fans fell in love with as kids. We are already headed for a Power 2 system with the Big Ten and SEC with the ACC about to implode. Might as well steer into it.