5 Group of 5 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.

Group of 5 Programs Make the Top Tier of College Football Super League Proposal

As surprising as it may seem, Fresno State, Bowling Green, Miami (OH), Toledo, and Air Force made the cut. They all have long histories of success at the FBS level and have evidently earned the right to at the very least start out in Tier 1.

How long would they last? Well, we can let the seasons play out to see.

Worthy Inclusions

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

29. Miami (OH) (0.5531)
30. Toledo (0.5515)
32. Fresno State (0.5410)
38. Bowling Green (0.5345)
39. Air Force (0.5342)

Of all of the Group of 5 programs, these are the ones with the most history of wins over FBS teams. There are a few programs that have more success of late but fall under that threshold.

It is interesting, however, that of the three service academies, Army (99th) and Navy (76th) are thought of more often. The Falcons own a 38-19-1 record over Army and a 34-22 mark over Navy.

Group of FUN

Casual college football fans don’t think twice about the Group of 5 and are worse off for it. #MACtion on Tuesday nights. The Fun Belt. Conference USA and its ever-changing lineup of programs. You can’t tell us the Mountain West isn’t intriguing yearly. Oh, and don’t forget the Power 6 conference itself, the American Athletic Conference, the unofficial feeder conference into the Power 4.

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 Rutgers or Northwesterns of the world rest on their laurels that they are included in the Big Ten.

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. Give these smaller programs similar resources and exposure and, over time, there would be a bit more parity.

Allowing these five schools into Tier 1 is honestly more about rewarding them for their histories. Will they eventually get sent down? Probably. But, at the same time, they could upset one of the bluebloods. That’s what’s so great about the Super League if done right!

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.