Here is a Google Sheets document that I quickly made, sorry it's so rudimentary, to see what it would be like if College Football had a promotion/relegation system like European soccer leagues use. I made two models to see which would work better, I'm personally torn on which one would be better for the players. Also just of note, I used Bill Connelly's SP+ for the rankings. And if anyone is confused on how to read the table I'll work on clearing things up to make it more legible.
10 Leagues 13 teams each:
10 Leagues 13 teams each:
- Six home games, six road games
- Minimum 12 games, maximum 15 games
- Four team playoff (top four teams in the top league make the playoff)
- Bottom two teams in each league (besides the lowest league) automatically move down to the next lower league
- Top two teams in each league (besides the top league) automatically move up to the next higher league
- 11th ranked team plays the 3rd ranked team in the league below them, winner stays in the higher league (Notre Dame vs Utah)
- Seven home games, seven road games
- Minimum 14 games, maximum 17 games
- Eight team playoff (top eight teams in the top league make the playoff)
- Bottom three teams in each league (besides the lowest league) automatically move down to the next lower league
- Top three teams in each league (besides the top league) automatically move up to the next higher league
- 12th ranked team plays the 4th ranked team in the league below them, winner stays in the higher league (Oklahoma St vs Iowa St)
- Needed to add 5 teams from FCS, added the top 5 FCS teams from last season to the lowest league