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Doesn't seem convoluted to me at all.

The "traditional" conferences get to keep all their Olympic sports. The football schools are all like Notre Dame - Independent - except for the divisions they are placed in within the power league.

There are no more traditional conferences.  The PAC has been completely blown away and other conferences are now frankenversions of their former selves.  There's nowhwere for those schools to "go back to."  The infrastructure has already been completely wiped out.

Something like this might have been possible 12-15 years ago.  Maybe.  Even then it would have been highly unlikely.

This could become a food and wine and booze and travel and energy and weather board. And other news, of course. No electric cars. F that. Sporty cars is fine.

For some of us, it already is...

That's another reason I don't really see the top 40 or whatever, breaking away and forming a separate league.  You gotta have some Purdues and some Texas A&M's to pad your wins, right?

With an expanded playoff like that, and all helmets getting into one division alone, there will be padded wins in their divisions.

You're still gonna have 40 non-helmets to push around.

Michigan could have Wisconsin, Minnie, NU and MSU to push around.

Texas could have aTm, TCU, SMU and Houston to push around.

fND could have Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Cal to push around.

Etc.

You simply can't have it both ways. You can either have a big postseason tournament OR you can have regular season games that matter.

Please quit beating up strawmen. Nobody is saying that we don't want games to matter or that we want upsets to be ignored. The debate is over which games matter and when upsets matter.

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A direct statement I can make that might help out with your comprehension and understanding is this:

it's a lot about before the game begins - no team should win a national championship on a huge upset.

Is that actually inflammatory?
Am I nuts??

Biggest NCG upsets since the beginning of the BCS:
+11 - OSU, 2002
+7 - Florida, 2006....Texas, 2005....LSU, 2003
+6.5 - Clemson, 2016
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And I'll stop there. 
National championship games should have a big bouncer at the door, a spike strip in the parking lot, and surrounded by the walls of Troy.
Only big swinging dick programs with impressive schedules need apply. 
Why?
Because outside of 1 season, everyone we thought had no chance HAD no chance.
ND in 2012.  Destroyed.
FSU was a 10 point dog in 2000.  Didn't score a point on offense.
The Huskers in 2001.  No shot.
TCU....give me a break.
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I want 2 teams that will have big days on Day 1 of the NFL draft.  I want great HCs and battle-tested teams. 
I believe there were like 6-7 different teams that would have had better odds vs Bama in 2012.  Everyone knew ND wasn't worthy.  But they had a magical zero in the loss column.  Well, so did Boise a few times.  So did Tulane in '98.  So what? 

A five-year old could rank teams by number of losses.  You want to criticize me for what I said about TCU-UM (I still have no idea what I said wrong about it), but YOU'RE the one ignoring TCU's loss to KSU yielding ZERO consequences!  That's bullshit.  Everyone knows it.
We've taken the sport with THE best, most intense regular season and transformed it into a conference championship game outcome being meaningless. 
Fuck that noise.  You can have it.

FSU was a 10 point dog in 2000.  Didn't score a point on offense.

FSU was an 11.5 favorite and by your logic Oklahoma should not have been allowed in the game. That's my point - you keep saying these big upsets should not have been allowed to happen. I agree, to some extent, that expanding the playoffs cheapens the regular season, though that is more because of the selection process. The BCS even had the same problem - the LSU-Bama championship game was an all time own goal. I don't think there is a solution when the "process" is obsessed with selections as opposed to objective ways to earn your way in.