My solution: Hypothetical - P5 Opponents Only & Playoff Expansion

Schedule hypothetical: SEC games stay at 8, Sankey doesn’t want canibilization.

P5 opponent from each other conference. So every year:

4 SEC Home Games
4 SEC Away Games
1 P5 Home Game
1 P5 Away Game
1 P5 Home or Away game (rotates)
1 P5 Neutral site or home/away game (Neutral if your awarded a contract, Home/Away series is not. In this situation you have to trust your administration to make the best decision for your program)

Let’s say this year our schedule looked like

vs Miami (neutral ACC)
vs TCU (Big 12)
@Auburn
@ UCLA (Pac 12)
vs Ole Miss
@Florida
vs State
vs Georgia
vs Bama
@Arkansas
vs Michigan (Big 10)
@A&M

So instead of La Texh, SE and Rice at home we play: TCU and Michigan at home and visit UCLA.

I would love to watch this schedule. Hopefully they could spread out the home games more evenly. With these games 3 things are going to happen: more people are going to go to the games and tune in, we will have a better idea where everyone truly stands instead of building a good record vs bad teams and almost everyone is going to lose multiple games.

I also think they would need to expand the playoff in this situation-

What about-

P5 Confernce winners receive an automatic berth. 3 at large bids.

Or P5 conference winners. 7 at large and the top 4 receive first round byes

Last year would look like

1. Clemson (bye) ACC champion
2. Oklahoma (bye) Big 12 Champion
3. Georgia (bye) SEC Champion
4. Alabama (bye)

(5) Ohio State Big 10 champion vs (12) UCF (winner plays Bama)
(6) Wisonsin vs (11) Washington (winner plays UGA)
(7) Auburn vs (10) Miami (winner plays OU)
(8) USCw Pac-12 Champion vs (9) Penn State (winner plays Clemson)


You already ask 2 teams to play 15 games, in this scenario your asking 2 teams (if they make it out of the 5-12 bracket) to play 16 games. Same as NFL regular season.