College football playoff with 11 teams

I hear a whole bunch of whining and bitching as to this team should make it in the playoffs this team shouldn't. Here is my solution. Have a playoff with each of the conferences ranking them by the best team. These are the only changes that would have to be made. I will use this year's teams and dates as an example.

1) Force every conference to have a conference championship. Why they would not want to have one anyway is beyond me. If you want to have a shot at the championship, you must have a championship game.

2) Rank each conference by the highest ranked team in the championship game. ex: Alabama (1) Ohio State (2) Clemson (3); #1 SEC, #2 Big 10, #3 ACC. This will give pride to each of the conferences and a reason to cheer for them. you could even rank the entire conference as a whole, but I took the easy road and only did the two teams in the championship.

3) Take the top two unaffiliated teams and have a head to head matchup. Rank them as if they were a "conference" themselves. Notre Dame/BYU

4) Have two extra weeks of games. If the conference championship weekend was this weekend 12/3 each week could be played and still have a bye weekend before the championship game the first week of January.


This is what the 11 team playoff would look like this year. Only 7 additional games and 2 additional weekends of games. For the most part the P5 schools would only have to play one extra game, unless there is a year where a Boise St. or Notre Dame shoot up in the rankings.


This will force each team to win their conference to get into the playoff, and will allow teams that aren't in the P5 conferences to have a chance at the championship.

I used the CFP rankings as of yesterday afternoon and any teams outside of that I used their RPI.

Who/What conference would be against this format?