Well-traveled television personality Danny Kanell has an idea to save college football, and it sounds a lot like the tier system used in English soccer.

Kanell, who played quarterback at Florida State from 1992-95, suggests splitting up FBS football with a top tier of teams and a group of teams under them. Both “leagues” would have their own playoffs with the opportunity for the lower tier team to get promoted to the upper tier.

“The month of November stinks for a lot of college fanbases,” Kanell said. “If you could infuse some life into the that with the Group of 5 teams at the top of their conference and say ‘if you win the Mountain West you’re going to get bumped up and potentially knock Rutgers out of the Big Ten’.”

Kanell also put over SEC commissioner Greg Sankey as the guy that has the ability to make it happen.

“He’s smart, he’s brilliant, he’s cut his teeth in the SEC. He’s made that the premier conference…it already was, but he’s built on that. I think he would be the best for it. But even if you just had him and Kevin Warren come together say ‘we have an opportunity, at this really critical juncture of college football, to do something special, to rip up the past and do something fresh.”

Will a direct ripoff of the English soccer tier system work for college football? Will we be talking about the match between “Bulldogs FC” and “Crimson Tide United” one day?