Landry calls for federal government oversight of college football.

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Gov. Jeff Landry called the current state of college football "a complete mess" in an op-ed published on Christmas Eve and called for the federal government to create a centralized governing body and unified media rights.

In the piece, Landry said he recently learned just "how broken" college football's current system is when he "was pulled into LSU's football program." "I learned way more than I ever wanted to know about how college football operates and frankly, the way the sport is run is a complete mess," Landry wrote.

The governor criticized the rules surrounding NIL, the transfer portal and the college football calendar. He pointed to bidding wars over players and the disadvantages teams face when losing a coach late in the season, even referencing his role in LSU's recent poaching of head coach Lane Kiffin from Ole Miss. "But to those critical of LSU’s coaching search and

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The governor's solution is a centralized governing body in charge of running college football smoothly while preserving conferences and sacred rivalries.

"The governance would set basic rules: decide when players sign, when they can transfer, how coaches move, and set spending caps, so schools aren’t spending themselves into insolvency," he said.

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