Give Your take/Opinion/Thoughts on what you think college football needs to do -Playoffs

8 feels right, but you have to end the conference championship games.
You could possibly go with 12, with the top 4 teams receiving byes

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I would love to see a 16 team playoff like all other levels of CFB. I could get behind a 12 team playoff with teams getting byes. The main thing I would like about a bigger field would be top seeds get home games...save a neutral site for finals OR final 4 teams

6 teams with top two getting byes.

Transfer portal is out of control. This needs to be fixed first. It is way too wide open as it’s essentially caused free agency with no salary cap.

Next, CFB needs reorganization. There are too many bowl subdivision teams and too much inequality among conferences both in size and numbers of conference games. I believe we should reduce the number of conferences to somewhere between 6 and 8 (down from 10), force every team to be in a conference, make conferences play an equal number of games, and make every conference have the same number of teams (between 12 and 16). Games between FBS and FCS should be eliminated. These reforms would help to reduce the gap in “strength of schedule” and reduce “rent-a-wins” that fans have little interest in watching.

Conferences should also be constructed with traditional rivalries and regionalism in mind, and ALL Conference Champs should make the playoff. This ensures all corners of the country have a team to watch for the playoff, which should include 8 teams.

I am perfectly okay with the 2nd place team in a conference NOT making the playoffs despite being better than most of the other conference champs because that team had a chance to win their division and conference on the field. That keeps the regular season’s “playoff atmosphere” intact. Mulligans are what destroyed this more than playoff expansion, imo. I also think the first round of said playoff should be seeded not based on wins and losses but by traditional conference matchups (think BCS Bowl tie-ins).

Finally, OOC schedules should be more or less standardized to ensure more marquee OOC games and conference interaction.

Should never be more than 4. Most (all?) years, the 4th team is incapable of providing even a reasonable contest for the legit playoff teams. Why go to 8? Teams ranked 5 to 8 aren't deserving, and it opens up way too much room for argument over who those teams are anyway.

Nah expanding is a waste because there are only a few who can compete for the NC anyway. 8 teams is just muddying the water when we know who the real contenders are...its just over kill

I have spent more hours than I should thinking about this over the last few years. I think 8 is the right thing to do. Power 5 winners auto qualify. Highest rated Go5 champ. Two at-large. First round on college campuses of top 4 seeds.

What is more than likely to happen is a 12 team playoff, but a 12 team playoff will almost always result in a rematch from earlier in the season. I personally don't care to see rematches, but that's just me. Also, I think it would be overly SEC; HOWEVER, if a 12 team playoff increases LSU's chance of a championship each year I'm for it.

Break off the premier 30-40 teams or so. Have them play only each other in games that count. Make the fluff in state games pre season exhibition games.

Make a 8-12 team playoff

I mean if you want to repeat what is successful in every major sport that is how you do it. Not saying college football hasn't been successful but it seams to be the outlier in format among successful systems.

I'm against an expanded playoff. Hell I'm against a playoff in general. I always loved college football because of how valuable the regular season was. My preference is the plus 1 model. You have all your bowls as normal after conference championship, sec champ to sugar, pac 12 and big 10 to rose, acc to orange etc, THEN after all those games, you have #1 play #2 after the post bowl poll for the natty

6 teams.
Top 2 teams get a 1st round bye.