Abstract: Ideology-politics-education-led physical education (PE) courses go hand in hand with the ideological and political courses, and shoulder the mission of training more new patriotic and devoted generations who can take on the important task of national rejuvenation. In recent years, the ideological and political education of PE courses in colleges and universities has made a lot of achievements, but faces the need to further optimize and upgrade in the practice of construction. Also, it is necessary to fully examine the effective integration of PE courses and ideological-political education, the combined use of the methods to explore ideological and political elements in PE courses, how to integrate the ideological and political elements into the whole process of PE classroom teaching, and the improvement of PE teachers' consciousness and ability of ideological and political education in PE courses. At the same time, it is necessary to constantly reflect on the"strengths" and "weaknesses" of the ideological and political education in PE courses colleges and universities. Such principles should be abide by as the unification between the professional education and values molding, between the explicit educational goal and the implicit educational channel, between the overall planning and the classified guidance, and between the inheritance and the innovation. The problems, involving insufficient coverage, single types, weak progressive levels, the lack of mutual support, need to be identified and complemented. Only by strengthening the ideological and political courses leading, curriculum classification guidance, standardizing classroom teaching management, relying on the platform of teaching and research at all levels, improving quality supervision and evaluation, and reconstructing the realistic pattern and future prospect of ideological and political education in PE courses, can diversified theoretical guidance and action support be provided for optimizing the direction of ideological and political education in PE courses in colleges and universities.