UCLA’s Chip Kelly suggests Notre Dame model for all of college football

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College football has experienced massive change over the past several years, with the first week of August proving seismic change to the landscape of the sport. 

Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Oregon and Washington will all depart the Pac-12 Conference following the 2023-24 seasons, joining UCLA, USC and Colorado in seeking greener pastures. 

Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins looks on from the sidelines during the Golden Bears game at California Memorial Stadium on Nov. 25, 2022, in Berkeley. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

The moves leave the conference with just four teams starting in 2024. 

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While college football is the driver of conference realignment, with it being the main source of revenue for athletic programs, all sports will be impacted by the moves.

For UCLA, the switch to the Big Ten will mean longer travel days as all sports programs will now need to travel to the Midwest and the East Coast for road games. 

On Tuesday, UCLA head football coach Chip Kelly provided an idea with the other programs in mind. 

"Notre Dame is an independent in football, but they’re in a conference for everything else," Kelly said, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Why aren’t we all independent for football? Take the 64 teams in Power Five and make that one division, take the 64 teams in Group of Five, make that another division. We play for a championship, they play for a championship and no one else gets affected.

A Fighting Irish helmet during the Blue-Gold Spring Football Game at Notre Dame Stadium on April 22, 2023, in South