re: Tim Brando: Fiesta Bowl is a glorified exhibition

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An 8 team playoff and we need to address the other issue: what do we do about teams that don't play in a championship game? It really should be an all teams are required to play in one, or none of them are and we stop penalizing teams for losses in their championship games.

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It should be less about penalizing teams that don't play a conference championship game and more about rewarding those that do. Plus Notre Dame will literally never join a conference so exceptions like that will always have to exist, just the way it is with them.

Five P5 conference champions, two at-large and the best G5 conference champion doesn't leave that much wiggle room for teams that don't play a conference championship game either, but if they do get in it means they're definitely ranked in the top 8 and deserve their shot.

Maybe the final CFP rankings should be released before the conference championship games and freeze until after the bowls? That way a conference championship game wouldn't hurt or help a ranking, but serve as a true "play-in"

ETA: there'd also probably need to be a clause where if no G5 is in the top 16 or whatever then just use three at-large bids, and of course no more than two teams from the same conference.

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An 8 team playoff and we need to address the other issue: what do we do about teams that don't play in a championship game?

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You get rid of conference championship games. You compensate those conferences with a larger cut of the playoff revenue. It is the only way. This would also incentivise independents to join a conference.

At the same time, you eliminate divisions within conferences, as they would no longer be needed. Best record wins it, with committee rankings being the tie breaker.