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There needs to be a playoff system in college football. This is how it would work :
- There are 11 Division 1-A conferences. The top 5 ranked conference champions would get automatic bids. The winners of the other 6 conferences would play 1 head-to-head matchup with another conference champion (1/6, 2/5, 3/4) for the other 3 spots in the 8 team playoff. (Note: The current BCS formula could be used to seed the 11 conference winners.)
- The conference championships and play-in games would be settled by the 2nd week of December. The playoff would start with the round of 8 on the 3rd week, the Semifinals in the 4th week, and the Finals on or around Jan. 1 (or the first week of January).
- Seasons would go back to the regular 11 games (that was standard for decades up until recently), meaning the longest season would be 16 games (11 games, a conference championship, a play-in game, and 3 playoff games). Only 8 teams would play 14 games or more (which many teams play regularly now).
- This system would give all 117 D-1A teams an equal chance, it would produce far more money than the current system does (the small bowl games could be kept as the football version of the NIT that they basically are now), and it would provide for December Saturdays full of classic games and occasionally, monumental upsets.