You left off my 6 team model... Any league champs ranked in the top 8 and fill in at large for the rest.
#1 SEC Champion, 13-0 Georgia
#2 B1G Champion, 13-0 Michigan
#7 ACC Champion, 11-2 Clemson
#8 PAC Champion, 10-3 Utah
#3 12-1 TCU
#4 11-1 tOSU
Lowest seeded champs host the at larges, to get to current playoff structure.
(My model would also push to have 4 Super Conferences, not the current "P5" or the mega 2 we are moving towards.)
i agree with this thought process. i'm all for rewarding conf champs, and if they're reasonably good then they deserve a shot. but with the way we currently decide conference champ, giving them an auto bid regardless of everything else is wrong, imo. a 4-5 loss team doesn't deserve to go over tcu or osu this year just because they won a conf. and a 4-5 loss team won't be top 10, or if they are it's an extremely unusual year that's never happened to date.
i'd do something like above. for a larger 12 team playoff, something like conf champs auto bid if in top 12 regardless of p5/g5 designation, then fill in with at large, limit of 3 teams from 1 conf. highest ranked conf champs get bye, remaining champs if any get home games rd 1, rest is based on seeding. and avoid all rematches until semis if possible, conf rematches take precedence if conflict.
so this year year we'd have:
sec champ #1 uga - bye
b1g champ #2 mich - bye
acc champ #7 clemson - bye
pac champ #8 utah - bye
bigxii champ #9 ksu - home rd1
no other champs in top 12, so at large:
#3 tcu - home rd 1
#4 osu - home rd 1
#5 bama - home rd 1
#6 tenn - road rd 1
#10 usc - road rd 1
#11 psu - road rd 1
#12 wash - road rd 1
other things of note:
- ALL games are on
saturday or traditional bowl game dates (dec 31/jan 1). this is non-negotiable.
- if rose/sugar (or others) demand they be on jan 1, then they must be content with being a permanent quarter final. thems the deals.
- rose gets higher ranked/seeded team of pac/b1g champs. their opp is determined by seeding and results. tough shit.
- likewise, sugar gets sec champ unless not top 4, then bigxii champ. opp is determine by seed and results.
- similarly, orange goes acc.
- fiesta and cotton go bigxii then pac/sec, respectively.
- peach goes sec/acc, whoever is higher or left over.
- pecking order for those are as follows: rose/sugar, orange, fiesta, cotton/peach. jmo, but that's how i sees it. so in this case, suppose troy had ended up ranked ahead of utah, the fiesta gets troy instead, as troy would have qualified for a bye being the 4th highest ranked conf champ and fiesta is lowest in pecking order for that round this year.
- champ site is bid out. it must hit each region within a 5 year period (we will define regions). so it doesn't always end up in sec/bigxii country. sites must wait 5 years before bidding after hosting. host site is chosen 2 years in advance, meaning no site will have it more often than every 7 years. hopefully that gets some diversity among sites.
- a host site may not allocate more than 20% of stadium to corps. each school gets tickets for 30% of capacity. the remaining 20% goes to gen public. schools can decide how to divvy up their allotment between season ticket holders, but must provide a reasonable amount to students (no less than 5% or something) and priced at the normal student ticket price for the season.
this has been a public service announcement from the cfp tzar. respeck my authoritah!
(i kinda went down rabbit hole there, lol)
