What is your ideal # of playoff teams?

I like 12. All the more, good, meaningful football to watch!

Unfortunately I don’t think there is an ideal number. Every year a different number of teams deserve to play for a championship.

I like 12 and set it up just like nfl playoffs used to be

8

Gets in conf champs of Power 5 and leaves 3 more at large for committee to choose. Adds 1 game and probably means some early bowl games are worth watching.

68 including the play-ins.

Oh, wait, you mean football? Maybe 8, but if they go with 12 I think it'll be good.

12 max 8 min

I like either 6 or 12. With a high ranking giving your team a massive advantage in the form of a bye and or home field advantage.

6 team playoff:

Round 1:
#1 and #2 gets a bye
#6 @ #3
#5 @ #4

Semi-final:
Winners play out how the current playoff is with the bowl locations

Final:
Stays the same

12 team playoff
Round 1:
#1, # 2, #3, #4 gets a bye
#12 @ #5
#11 @ #6
#10 @ #7
#9 @ #8

Round 2:
Winners of round 1 are paired against the top 4 as follows; lowest seed plays highest seed at high seeds stadium

Semi-final:
Winners play out how the current playoff is with the bowl locations

Final:
Stays the same

4 is perfect

I think the playoff should consist of all conference champions. I think every team should be in a conference, and if there are conferences that are too “weak” to deserve a playoff spot every year, then those conferences shouldn’t be in FBS. Conferences should each have the same number of members. Conferences can decide to send their regular season champion or their title game champion if one is significantly higher ranked than the other.

Maybe we condense from 10 conferences down to 6 or 8 and go from there.

I would also seed the playoff not by rankings but by traditional bowl tie-ins. Those bowls host the playoffs.

So, imagine there are 8 conferences: SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12, American, Mountain West, Sunbelt
Big 12 Champ plays SEC Champ in the Sugar, Pac 12 plays Big 10 in the Rose, ACC plays American in the Orange, Sunbelt vs Mountain West in the Fiesta, all on New Years Day.
The playoff is then seeded by rankings, and games are played at the home stadium of the higher ranked team.

Granted, conference realignment over the next few years is about to make all of this irrelevant with the American and PAC 12 all but collapsing. Odds are, we’re going to either end up with 4 super conferences or some stupid 16 team playoff that’s nothing but rematches.

*checks current AP poll*

I'd say 18 would be about right.