What if the highest level of college football had its own version of the Ivy League?
That was apparently the idea San Francisco 49ers star Christian McCaffrey floated to Peter King of NBC Sports.
King wrote that McCaffrey, who attended Stanford, "is chagrined by the dissolution of the Pac-12 as we knew it." The two-time Pro Bowler proposed putting the Cardinal in a conference with other schools that hold a similarly high regard for academics. He listed off Cal, Duke, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, SMU and perhaps Georgia Tech as sensible candidates for such a venture.