(12-10-2017 12:30 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  

(12-10-2017 11:47 AM)Love and Honor Wrote:  If you want the 'perfect' scenario imo it'd be a twelve-team playoff in which all conference champs plus two at-large teams get in, where the top four seeds have byes with the first round played at home with major bowl sites for the remaining games. But that has no shot of happening.

Would this scenario work with 16 teams? If there were 6 at large openings, and most/all of these slots went to P5 conferences as you would expect, then most P5 conferences would have 2 horses in the race as opposed to the Mac's one. Might seem more "fair" to them by their currently crooked standards, but at least we'd have better access.

Perhaps. I like using 12 since it keeps the importance of the regular season intact for everyone by basically forcing you to either win your conference or have an Alabama-like season with one loss to an elite team while also incentivizing more difficult scheduling so you get a first-round bye or an easier matchup. They still wouldn't go for it though.

The 8-team setup with one G5 slot seems to be the direction this is trending and I think it's the best realistic scenario, but as pointed out they'd almost always get the worst seed. We need a football Pairwise to at least ensure consistency.