There's no other sport in the world where teams can't play their way to a championship. College football will always be bastardized until it plugs that hole. 16 team playoff, 10 auto bids for each conference is the only answer (unless you consolidate the G5 to 4 somehow, have a brief 4 team playoff of the conference champions, and give that winner an auto bid to a 6 or 8 team playoff).

There's no reasonable argument for being able to handpick teams out of contention. That violates the nature of organized athletic competition. The arguments that guys might get hurt or that games would be lopsided is ridiculous.

Besides, imagine a Buffalo beating an Alabama in the first round. That would be incredible for college football.