College football needs some guidance.

Although the NCAA oversees the sport, the entity primarily takes a hands-off approach to the Football Bowl Subdivision. And that's not always a great thing. Conferences tend to govern themselves with, unsurprisingly, minimal regard for one another.

The lack of leadership and uniformity has become readily apparent in several areas, most notably in the transfer portal and with NIL (name, image and likeness).

It's well past time for a commissioner to oversee the FBS, even as this conversation remains a hypothetical at best.

Trace Armstrong

In mid-2021, the NFL's Chicago Bears approached a season in which administrative changes would likely be made if the team struggled. However, that included the speculative idea of the Bears—who are ultimately a family business—actually hiring a football person to run their football operations.

One of the names floated was Trace Armstrong, though he denied a report of conversations with the Bears.

No surprise. He's waiting to become FBS commissioner, after all.

In seriousness, Armstrong is a former Pro Bowl defensive lineman who played 15 NFL seasons. During that time, he was the NFL Players Association president for eight years. He's since become an agent, currently representing USC's Lincoln Riley and LSU's Brian Kelly, and he has several well-known clients in his past too.

Armstrong knows football, knows business and is well-connected on both sides of the discussion.