From the perspective of digital intelligence technology in its broad and narrow senses, this paper explains that digital intelligence technology provides an important impetus for change in the modernization of college sports and expresses the human-centered core of modern teaching. It proposes a teaching methodology based on the four pillars of system goals, digital intelligence empowerment, teaching application and classroom subject. By constructing a theoretical framework, it systematically explores how digital intelligence technology empowers the current teaching of college sports, thus revealing its conceptual connotation and mechanism of action. The analysis found that 69% of the students believed that the knowledge they acquired after using digital intelligence technology in theory classes increased. Therefore, digital intelligence technology empowers the modern teaching of college sports, which can effectively promote the development of education informatization.