I want an 8 team playoff. No more, no less. You have 5 conference champions, plus 3 at large for non P5, independant, or a second conference team. This year, you could hypothetically have: Alabama, Penn State, Oklahoma, Clemson, and Washington as locks, and then add in Ohio State, Colorado and one more at large. That way, every major conference is represented AND it leaves room for a non P5 like Notre Dame or an undefeated Houston, Northern Illinois, ect. It also allows for a loaded conference to have multiple shots without shutting out another conference.
8 conference of 10 teams
conferences based on geography and historical rivalries
yes, ND has to jump into a Midwestern conference
no more nonsense of UT/A&M not playing, WVU stuck with Oklahoma schools, etc.
or Miami playing Syracuse and Pitt instead of UF
just to bring up two examples
9 conference games, full round-robin, and 3 out of conference games
conferences can/cannot have a +1 championship game, no huge matter
just needs to be consistent across the eight of them
out-of-conference is for building your SOS and resume for seeding
restrict playing lower division teams to once per season as a tune-up
8 conference champions make the playoff
seeding based on individual and conference SOS
use existing bowls or play the first round at campus sites (like FCS)
college environments are way cooler than antiseptic professional facilities, anyways, and having a home game first round would make seeding matter A TON
after that, segues into essentially the current system
remaining teams can play bowl exhibitions as they see fit
essentially group play... 8 groups of 10... into a tournament
completely objective *who* makes it into playoff
preserves importance of out of conference for CV building/the committee to seed... but nobody can gripe about being left out entirely... everybody controls their own fate
everybody else can just do what they want for a postseason
this would be in the spirit of FCS' conferences (compact) and playoff system
