I would like something that solves ALL of the "fairness" issues, as well as rewarding other good teams, and emphasizing conference championships.


What if you had

At large (1)-----Stanford
SEC Champ-----Alabama

MAC Champ-----Northern Illinois
At large(2)-----Miami

PAC12 Champ-----Oregon
SunBelt Champ-----UL-Lafeyette

AAC Champ-----Central Florida
At large(3)-----Clemson
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B1G Champ-----Ohio State
CUSA Champ-----Rice

Big12 Champ-----Baylor
At large(4)-----Missouri

ACC Champ-----Florida State
At large(5)-----Oklahoma

At large(6)-----Auburn
MWC Champ-----Fresno State








Theoretically assuming, right now, here's what the bracket would look like. Its a 16 team format, includes ALL conference champs, and the 6 highest ranked teams after all automatic bids have been placed. You can flip and flop what conference plays who, but I thought it would only be fair that if you're a non AQ and you think you can hang with the big dawgs, then that's who you should play to start with. I also mixed up the geography a little, just to give it a different look. I'm not looking for politics in this necessarily, but if you think it would for most all major purposes satisfy every conference fan pundit in the nation since everyone gets representation for the most part, please tell me. I think its fair and effective. My guess is an independent team, in order to get in, would have to be ranked at LEAST top 12. Any lower is probably too low. So basically, if you don't win your conference, you need to be the next best team in your conference, and finish with a record of at least 10-2 or 11-1.

The criteria to get in would be:

1. Win your conference.
2. Finish with 2 losses or less.

This would end any conference bias for the most part. Right now, all at large teams in my theoretical bracket have 1 or no losses. The rest are predicted conference champs.

Last year would have looked like this(after conference championships, before bowl games):


Notre Dame
Alabama

Northern Illinois
Florida

Stanford
Arkansas State

Louisville
Oregon
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Wisconsin
Tulsa

Kansas State
Georgia

Florida State
LSU

Boise State
Texas A&M


Now tell me you would not have loved to see that bracket last year