Eight teams is the perfect number. I want the playoffs to expand to that, but I know some dumbass is gonna push for it to expand further. They did it for the FCS championship, which is now like 32 teams or something asinine like that, and they did it to the NCAA basketball tournament.
CPJ said it on the radio earlier this week, and it's the model I've been suggesting myself any time this discussion comes up:
Power 5 conference champs
Best of the rest
2 At-Larges
I'd go a step further, and tell Notre Dame to kick rocks and join a conference, or be subject to consideration as one of the 2 at-larges only.
"But what about all the smaller conference champions?"
-Don't give a öööö. Honestly, FBS is comprised of too many schools that can't compete on the highest level, but are too good supposedly to compete with FCS programs. That's where the problem starts. There have been all of maybe five or so programs that have proven the exception to this rule. I'm not wasting my time getting all of them in the playoff.
"But what about an undefeated team that just gets upset in a conference championship game?"
-Tough titties. You know what's laid out in front of you: Win your conference, and have a chance to play for the title. If you can't accomplish that first part, that's your fault, not anyone else's. Besides, you've still got the at-large spots to fall back on. You just made it harder for yourself, because you're likely fighting against seven or eight teams for all of two spots.
In all honesty, I think we'll see something like this come about sooner, rather than later. Leaves out the fewest teams not deserving, and the ones that are left out can only blame themselves for not controlling what they could have controlled. Also, it minimizes the subjectivity of the whole thing. Having a panel decide the entire field was asinine from the start, and wasn't much different than when we used the polls to pick 1 and 2 to stick in a title game.
