Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss a new 70-team league concept that would alter college sports and when it could be implemented. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

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The proposal is the four major conferences remain.

And basically, there's a 70 teams that are deemed major college football and those 70 teams will only play each other.

There would be no scheduling games against group of five teams, F CS teams, anybody else and these 70 teams will play each other.

They'll play for an expanded playoff.

You will have more big name versus big name and there'll be a private capital investment into college football of as much as $9 billion.

Right?

That's, that's the basic plan that would, that would impact.

So if you ain't in those four leagues, you're done.

But if you like playing anybody outside of those four leagues, you ain't doing it anymore.

It's really broken down into two main ideas, right?

It's one, the scheduling arrangement, as you mentioned, no more playing group of five F CS where you have kind of a conference schedule like we see now, it's probably more pitting blue bloods in the top tiers together and then adding, of course, playoff games where you have, you have more games.

And the second part of increasing revenue is uh consolidating a media deal, right?

And you'd have to wait right for the current media contracts to come up and then you consolidate a media deal that would be worth more when you, when you group just a a 70 of them together and that's where the extra money is coming from.

Now, another part of this is tier distribution.

This plan lays out three tiers, tier 12 and three and 16 schools in tier 122 and tier two and 32 in tier three.

And the tiers are based on performance.

They are split based on revenue line, you know, revenue generating line.

So if you're in tier one, you get more money than tier two, if you're in tier two, you get more money than tier three.

And there's a regular relegation promotion where schools can move up and down depending on again, their performance.

Is it gonna happen immediately?

Probably not many A DS say it, it one day probably will happen down the line.

But concepts of the plan will almost certainly be implemented in in college sports fairly immediately.

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