re: If you could create the college post season however you wanted...?

First, a couple of points:

1. If you're going to use a playoff, you need to COMPLETELY get rid of the opinion polls from the equation.

2. If you believe that the national championship game determines the best team in the nation, you must accept that the conference championship game determines the best team in the conference.


It's this simple:

Eight conference champions, seeded by SOS, first round at higher seed's home, semi-finals and final rotate as they do today.

No byes, no wildcards, just a tournament of champions.