5 Changes to College Football That Need to Happen

1. Make Someone the College Football Commissioner. 

Someone with lots of college football experience in multiple conferences and over different eras. (Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Etc.)

2. 2-year minimum contracts out of high school.

2 years is plenty of time for college players to find out their roles on a college football team. Year one is development; you really shouldn't expect PT. Year 2 is the find it out year, you either are on the 2 deep and are set for playing time JR year, or you are just a bench warmer and then can decide to transfer. 2-years is long enough for recruits at big schools to find out their school's plans for them, but short enough that mid-major stars can still make a name for themselves at the P4 level.

3. Buyouts.

College Football needs to have a buyout system, something to the effect that if you want to transfer after freshman year, or after the first year you transferred somewhere, you owe the school 10-25% of your next contract.

4. College Football Calendar

First, conference championship games need to go away at the P4 level, while Group of 5 conference championship games still need to be kept. The Playoff format needs to go to 16, no less, and certainly no more. No automatic qualifiers into the playoffs, except for 1 G5 conference champion that is ranked in the Top 25 should get in. The first round of the playoffs needs to be played between December 10th and 14th, the quarterfinals between December 17th and 21st, then a break as the semifinals are played on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and the natty on the second Monday in January. The portal window then is fine, because it opens after the semifinals, making only the 2 teams in the natty the ones that have to still prepare and try to use the portal.

5. Light Salary Cap

I don't think an NFL salary cap is a good thing for college football, as totally parity isn't the goal. I do, however, think that a modest salary cap for recruiting and the transfer portal is necessary. I mean that you can pay whatever you want to retain players on your roster, but you do have a slightly limited budget (IDK a good number) to spend to recruit high schoolers and transfers to your team, making the big donor schools have to be a little more methodical about the way they offer prospects, so they don't just throw a bag at every 5* player.

Let me know what other rule changes need to happen to college football, on the field or off.