College Football Needs This Playoff System

This is the yearly touting of my playoff system idea. I think this idea will get even better once all BCS conferences have a championship game.

Here it is:

Take the BCS conference champions plus two at large...eight teams total. The two at-large teams would be the highest ranked teams in the BCS poll that did not receive the automatic bid.

Amendement 1: BCS Conference champions must be ranked in the top 12 in order to get a playoff invite.

If you can't win your conference, you will need to be an at-large team to enter the playoff.

Don't give me this baloney that regular season games will have less meaning. Seeds will be determined by current BCS rankings. Therefore, playing a tougher schedule could get you the higher seed and the coveted home field advantage in the first round.

We need to move power away from the pollsters and computer polls that are determining who plays in the title game. This is preposterous. It is a joke. And potentially corrupt. Granted, in my system, the BCS ranking will still be used to determine the at-large teams, in addition to seedings. But the BCS poll will not get to decide the two teams that will play for the title, like is the case today. What we currently have is a complete joke of a system.

Eight teams mean three weekends of games. First round games are played at the higher seed's home stadium.

Semifinal games would be on same day at two different major bowl sites (eg, Fiesta and Sugar).

Final game will be at a third major bowl site. One major bowl would get left out each year of the playoffs, but could pick whatever teams were leftover.

To give you an example of dates:
First round: Dec 18, 2010
Semifinals: Jan 1, 2011
Finals: Jan 15, 2011

I dare anyone to come up with a plan better than this that removes as much bias from the selection process, addresses logistical issues with travel, appeases the college presidents that think the season is too long as it is, and generates as much interest.