re: I have and idea....how bout a playoff system that looks like this

8-16 (128) team conferences. each conference split into 2-8 team division. you when your division you go to the conference championship. you win the conference championship, you go to an 8 team playoff. you win the playoff you win it all. add the cotton bowl and another as BCS bowls and use the 6 BCS bowls as play off rounds. then have the BCSNC. you have weaker and stronger conferences in every sport with a playoff it is the nature of the beast. and because you have to when your division and conference (no wild cards) the regular season would still be relavent.