To me, this plan smacks of further monopolization disguised as equal opportunity. Why? There are no guaranteed slots for any of the conferences. The SEC knows its champ will always be ranked in the top six, and in the proposed format it can get more of its teams in through the committee evaluation process. As someone who merely wants to see more balance across the college football landscape, I do not like this proposal.

The next proposal should be this: eight teams, with five of them being the champs of the P5 conferences, one being the best G5 team, and two wild cards. I have been saying this for 15 years now. This format makes things less vulnerable to subjectivity and manipulation (though it does not eliminate these issues), and it essentially makes it so that the SEC cannot get more than two teams into the playoff (though this could also be undermined if a single conference can get both wild cards). This format still guarantees the G5 a seat at the table every season amongst a smaller field, and that is where we need to start.

A playoff with five SEC teams and a single G5 team in perpetuity would hurt the G5 more than it would help it. I'm all for progress, but the 12-team proposal doesn't pass the smell test for me. I hope there is some kind of counterproposal out there.

(Note: I hold out no hope for us specifically. Our ship sailed a long time ago. I just want D1A college football to be interesting again.)