Don't let 125 years of college football tradition get left behind

College Football's status quo is a constantly changing game of musical chairs disguised as conference realignment.  Many of the plans presented to fix college sports call for a further reduction in the top tier of college football until we reach a number between 40 and 50 programs.  

The goal of Saving Seventy is to protect the tradition and pageantry that has been the foundation of College Football for more than 100 years. We believe in creating a future that includes all the programs that have helped shape our great game instead of solely focusing on maximizing revenue.

To do this we must maximize schedules by eliminating the G6/FCS "BUY" games during the season that make up a quarter of the 12 game season.  Don't worry, we don't intend to leave the G6/FCS behind as they will have their own league structured in the same way.  We understand the "BUY" games are important to G6/FCS so we are proposing two scrimmages per team per year against the seventy teams that make up the top tier of the league, one to close out spring camp and one pre-season game.

Saving Seventy supports efforts to amend the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.  This is a necessity to ensure there's some semblance of parity in the sport.  Larger programs have done an excellent job of building their brands over the years but they didn't do that by playing themselves.  Media rights are the largest revenue generator on a universities budget, but it's not the only revenue generator.  There are fifteen stadiums in college football that have a capacity over 80K.  Those 15 universities will always generate more revenue through ticket sales and gameday events than other universities and that's the way it should be.  But a 30MM+ revenue gap created off media rights is a step too far and must be resolved.