Assumptions:

• No one wants to add more games to the season.
  
• No one wants playoff games to be rematches.
  
• Conference alignment will always be chaotic.
  
• Out of conference games will always include cupcakes.
  
• All 10 D1 conferences should have a clean slate at the beginning of the year.  Human polls introduce too much bias and too much consideration of last year and even last decade.
  
• People like conference championship games.
  

Proposal 1:
Move rivalry week to the first week of the season.
The last week of the season is tentative.
The top eight teams in the colley matrix will start a playoff bracket during the last week.  The next week the winners will play each other in a round of 4. that round of four could be at neutral sites just like the conference championship games. 
But all other teams play the games they already had scheduled, or their conference championship game.
For instance a team that lost in the round of 8 could play in a conference championship game the next week against a team that didn't make the round of 8 at all.
so after conference championship week the top eight teams would be down to a top two and you have a good national championship game that you can play on New year's day.
so in this proposal the conference championships work kind of like a consolation prize for teams that were pretty good but not quite good enough to be in the national championship conversation.

Proposal 2:
Keep the college football playoff scheduled at the same time it is now, and keep conference championship games scheduled the same time they are now. but now conference championships are the only possible route to the college football playoff. Notre Dame would have to get a relationship with one of the 10 conferences where, if they are ranked high enough on the colley matrix, they get to play in that conference's championship game.
Once you have the 10 conference champions, find where they all sit on the colley matrix, and the top four are your playoff teams.

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