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The NCAA Football Oversight Committee has made new recommendations to remove the requirements for FBS conference championship games and allow a two-year waiver for unlimited recruiting classes. Both initiatives, announced on the same day the NCAA’s Board of Directors issued new NIL guidances, will come to the Division I Council to be formally ratified later this month.
Removing championship game guardrails is considered noncontroversial and will likely be rubber stamped, giving conferences additional flexibility in approving new ways to crown a champion. Most notably, the change would allow conferences to eliminate divisions, an idea that has grown in popularity in recent years.
Present NCAA rules mandate that any football conference with 12 or more members must hold a championship game and split teams into divisions with round-robin seasons for divisional opponents. The NCAA passed legislation in 2016 allowing conferences with fewer than 12 members to hold conference championship games, clearing the way for the 10-member Big 12 to hold a title game between its top two teams from the regular season.
A more significant development, especially in the midst of the transfer portal era, would be the two-year blanket waiver to eliminate the 25-man initial scholarship counter. Programs are only allowed to add 25 scholarship football players per recruiting cycle between high school recruits and transfers. However, a period of major transition can decimate a roster and render it unable to meet the 85-man scholarship limit. The extra COVID year of blanket eligibility only complicated scholarship counts, especially as players transferred to use a…
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