Sounds like I'm the contrarian here but I don't think you should have to win your conference to get into the playoffs.  I want the 4 best teams.  Just too plausible that one conference could have two of the best teams in the country.  If you had an 8 team playoff, then it would make more sense to me to guarantee spots for conference champs.  Maybe guarantee the 5 best conferences get their champion in and then take 3 at large teams.  One of which could be guaranteed to a mid tier conference champ like UCF if they go undefeated and play a worthy enough schedule.


And I think this discussion is part of the fear of playoffs in the first place.  4 teams is fun but it'll never be enough.  We move to 8 and people will want 16.  Move to 16 some people will want 32.  It never stops.  Even 8 starts to jeopardize the regular season to a degree.... and any system that guarantees conference champions definitely makes out of conference games a lot more irrelevant.

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