As a Notre Dame fan, I like the setup as it gives ND the easiest path in the country to make the playoffs. As a fan of college football in general, giving one team a much easier path isn’t the way to go.


No one has asked for my opinion and likely never will. But here it is

1) Expand to eight teams
2) Get rid of the committee
3) Go back to the BCS formula for rankings
4) Selection Process
—— Top Four Teams are in.
—— Then the four highest rated conference champions not selected are invited provided they are in the top 10 of the ratings.
—— If any spots remain after the above step, the highest ranked team gets in.
5) Limit confernces to no more than three bids
6) Quater finals the week after Army-Navy
7) Matchips are based on rankings except that teams are moved to ensure no games against confernce opponents or rematches in the quarterfinals (where possible)
8) Semi finals on New Years Day
9) Stop hosting the chamionship on monday night! Either work something out with the NFL to play on saturday night without competition, or move it to Friday Night. Either way give the teams at least one saturday off between New Years and the championship game
10) Semi final & championship games are the Rose, Sugar, and Orange. The games would rotate through which one is the national title game. If Rose Bowl is unwilling to play on any day other than New Years, championship rotates between Sugar and Orange.

This has some big advantages over the current system and the 5+1+2 system

1) Conference championships are still important
2) Teams in conferences have an easier path than independents. I love ND’s independence but I don’t think they should have an easier path because of it.
3)The mixture of polls and computer rankings give a proper mix between the “eye test” and straight analytics.
4) The Army Navy Game is still given its own day. I love this tradition and think the midshipmen and cadets deserve to be showcased.
5)The minimum ranking prevents a bad conference champ from getting in just because they won a power conference. For instance what if a three loss Pac12 division winner ends up winning their confernce? Do they really deserve to be invited?
6) Given that all (or almost all) years their will be at least two conference champions in the top four teams, A G5 confernce champ in the top 10 of the rankings would be gauranteed a spot. It could even lead to two G5 teams getting in (although admittedly this would be much less likely)
7) Allows independents besides ND a chance at the playoff. Who likes the idea of an Army or BYU ranked 6th not given a chance because the best G5 confernce is ranked 12th?
8) You keep tradition alive by keeping the big 3 bowls prestigious.