Kirk Herbstreit lays out college football's path after NCAA loses NIL ruling: 'Losing power by the day'

College football analyst Kirk Herbstreit talks about college football needing to break from the NCAA on OutKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich."

Kirk Herbstreit, a former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback who is a college football analyst on ESPN, broke down Monday what he foresees as the next steps in the sport amid the NCAA’s latest legal battle over name, image and likeness (NIL).

A federal judge on Friday barred the NCAA from enforcing rules that prohibit NIL compensation from being used to recruit athletes. The judge wrote that the NCAA’s prohibition likely violates federal antitrust law and harms athletes.

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Herbstreit appeared on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich" and offered his perspective through the scope of college football and said he wouldn’t be surprised if some of the top college football conferences break away from the NCAA.

Kirk Herbstreit looks on from the Amazon Prime TNF broadcast booth prior to the NFL game between the Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago on Nov. 9, 2023. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

"I feel like the NCAA has lost any power whatsoever in college football," he said. "I feel like, at this point, as we go to this new world, I would not be surprised. I don’t know how they’d get there. You’d take the Big Ten, whoever it's going to be – it’s like 60 teams, it’s the Big Ten, it’s the SEC, the ACC and the Big 12 and whoever else – I think they should go form their own world. 

"Create their own governing body. Get one voice, one commissioner, instead of everyone having to get in agreement – these guys don’t always feel comfortable with each other – get one voice."

Herbstreit said commissioners like the SEC’s Greg