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As *wildly* unrealistic as it would be, I would love to see some sort of formal year-to-year promotion and relegation between "Power Five" conferences, "Group of Five" conferences, and "FCS" conferences

The only issue I have with this is that teams in the group conferences would never really have a chance at making the playoff. If the playoff is 3 weeks anyways, you could expand it to 16 teams, 1 from each conference, and then 2 at large. This allows the smaller schools to still get exposure. There’s a reason march madness works so well, and it’s because ANYONE has a shot.

The only issue with your conference breakdown is missing out on some of the rivalry games. Georgia would have to spend 2/3 of out of conference schedule to play South Carolina and Auburn, leading to no new challenges or anything different year over year. Alabama would spend one week of the three allotted every year to play Tennessee. I think there’s a way to manage the conferences to keep all the historical rivals together while still being regional and competitive. I like the breakdown just missing the rivals.

A simple solution was keeping the single National Championship BUT save it for AFTER all of the Bowl Games. That way results matter for everybody while supporting parity

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the hopes of every school, outside of the independents, was to win your conference. USC, Michigan, Ohio State, their goal was to make it to the Rose Bowl. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, all wanted to make it to the Sugar Bowl. Texas was the Cotton Bowl. Oklahoma or Nebraska, the Orange Bowl. BYU wanted to make it to the Holiday Bowl. Fresno State and Central Michigan wanted to make it to the California Raisin Bowl. If you happened to be voted a national champion at the end of the year, that was even better. But the goal was to win your conference. The game was so much more interesting back then. Also, I know that today, outside of Notre Dame, Independence seems like a killer. But it was kind of fun when you had a bunch of very high profile independent schools. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, and even earlier, Penn State, Florida State, Miami, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, Louisville, and many others, were all independent. Because these schools were independent, you could end up with some great intersectional matchups, even late in the season. Yeah, college football is just boring now.

Greed is a lesson that EVERY function, group, or culture needs to experience to disastrous levels before they reawaken to the stupidity of allowing only a few to succeed at the penalty of the masses.

LSU was in no way at the beginning of this year shooting for the playoff. The fact that they’re even close is a miracle

Low key one of the greatest videos I have EVER seen!!! It's been a while since the PAC12 has been to the playoffs and this system would be so cool!!! Conference of Champs needs another chance!!!

I might actually be interested in college football if it was structured this way. My biggest gripes with it is that there is not a good structure for determining who is the best team and most games don't seem to hold very much importance.

College football has the worst parity in all of American sports. That distinction used to belong to women's college basketball, but parity in that sport has improved in recent years, while it's gone in the opposite direction with college football. And most discouraging of all is that the powers that be in college football seem to be hell-bent on killing off whatever parity that still remains.

Bro, this is badass! Regional football with a 12 team play off system!!!

I love this idea, the conference and playoff system reminds on nfl Divisions. As an Eagles fan, there have been a couple times where despite not being very good we could still make the playoff by winning our division. This structure kept me interested even though my team probably wouldn't have made very high on power rankings. The college football structure has caused me to completely stop being a fan of a team and rather just watch the sport as a neutral observer. As much as I'd love to have a favorite team the truth is that only around 10% of teams have a real shot at making the playoff, so I'd either feel like a bandwagon or have to try and make myself interested in games that are essentially pointless.

I love the conference layout! I think that for the teams that don’t really quite fit in anywhere they could be an independent kinda like what we have right now so if teams need filler games before conference play they can schedule them

I love how you posted this months ago, and its just now blowing up! Good video!

I proposed something along these lines before. Creation of eight conferences of 16 teams with two sub-conferences with 8 teams each for a total of 128 teams. No independent schools in the system. You can play 3 or 4 games outside of conference but they have no bearing on conference standings. Winner of each sub-conference plays for the conference championship, essentially the first round of the playoff. Then conference champions compete in the round of 8. Then a round of 4, then a championship game as normal. No polls, no cigar smoke filled room with "experts" choosing the participants like a Miss America contest. The champion is determined on the field of play like, oh I don't know, the NFL for example. I like the idea of relegation to give up and coming teams a chance and to provide perennial doormats the incentive to invest in their programs.

I’d love to see relegation style conferences

I like your idea of CFB realignment. Imo, it's a good thing for recruitment when the university in your area can attract local top tier talent instead of having them head elsewhere. Case in point is San Diego county (and nearby Imperial co.) where HS standouts leave for the Power Five conferences. If San Diego State were in the PAC-12 or BIG-12 they'd be able attract not only local top tier talent but other top talent as well. For years, San Diego in the past has been raided by USC, UCLA and other major PAC-12 schools. Now with PAC-12 dominance waning, our HS standout players are heading for greener pastures in the BIG1O, BIG-12 and SEC.

I think right now the biggest issue is, like you said, the fact that every school/conference is more independent. I think the CFP should have more control over how games are scheduled…. Like it doesn’t make sense to me that it’s nearly impossible for both Michigan and Ohio state to make the playoffs bc one of them is guaranteed to loose the last game, whereas Alabama and Georgia can both make the playoffs because they don’t always play, and if they do it’s earlier in the season

Created something similar awhile ago, with 8 conferences. But recently updated it to where they would turn into pods and the big conferences would be over the pods. Great vid man!

I love how you have a conference called the New England conference when only 1 team in that conference is even in New England. Might as well call it the east coast conference

Feels like a TED talk, a TED talk about CFB…..awesome

Great idea, great video, well done. Add in a relegation system between the 9 regional conferences and the 5 group conferences and I think it's perfect. Still a good system but with the added chaos of some teams getting relegated and some teams getting promoted. I found it really cool that an Ohio State fan, a team that has benefitted from the current system, is proposing this kind of change. Shows you care more about the integrity of the sport. P.S. Good luck on the 26th, it'll be a hell of a game. GO BLUE!

This video is so put to together, keep up the good work!

Very good video, coherent the whole though & you wrapped it up well at the end. Bravo! Would love to see it happen!!

I think this is a great idea. It would be awesome if this were implemented. Just an idea to add onto that, I noticed that there were a handful of teams that missed out being in the power 9 conferences but are still quite good. It could be a good idea that the bottom one or two teams in the power 9 conferences gets demoted to the conference below it, and the top one or two teams in the lower conference get boosted up to the better conference. That would give schools that aren't as big a goal to shoot for.

Loved changing conferences in the old NCAA video game. Liked these conferences but it’ll never happen lol I think 12 teams will help a lot with getting more teams engaged longer

Wish this would happen. As a Pitt fan, we could still have the OOC game against WVU and play other teams. This idea also helps with traveling fans, more people going to games also means more money. Too bad this will never happen with the current deals every conference has 😕

Virginia (all schools) should not be in a New England conference, they should be in a Mid-Atlantic or Upper South conference. They have far more in common traditionally with rivals in the Carolinas and West Virginia than they do with schools as far north as Boston. Also, you completely forgot James Madison, who are new to FBS this year and in the Sun Belt. If you mention NDSU, JMU has been right on their heels in FCS for the past 10-15 years and has two national championships of their own (2004, 2016) and they have finally moved up whereas NDSU hasn't yet. (But should.)

Freakin' brilliant, kid! Add a relegation system to move teams up and down between the top-tier Regional conferences and the "Group" conferences and you make college football more rational and more attractive to more fans than ever. Schools in the Power 5, particularly those in the middle or bottom, would resist relegation, but it would be better for them in the end to drop down in certain eras and have fun winning their way upward. That's an experience that TCU actually had after the old SWC broke up and they were left out of the Big XII, but your plan, plus relegation would make that an opportunity (and a risk) for every school playing at the current Power Five and Group of Five levels (and maybe even those below).

technically GSU is the largest school in GA now since it absorbed a lot of it's perimeter college students. Georgia State definitely doesn't deserve to be in a power conference just yet, but it's for sure hard to get 9 teams from just Georgia and Florida. There would definitely need to be some shifting of all the different conferences, but this would be a very neat idea.

Love this video concept. Sadly we can't just wave a wand and realign conferences, but if I could I'd do this.

This video is very well made! Helped explain US college football to a Canadian.

Petition to make this man the head of the NCAAF.

I'm curious, past history and the like indicates that this would generate controversy because your "group" conferences don't have a playoff bid. Would you support giving them a playoff bid in this system?

What people don't understand about college football is that what matters is not the playoff or the championship but the 12 Saturdays in the Fall.

I tend to agree with your points. I've actually worked on something similar to this, but took a slightly different approach. 1. Rather than permanent conferences, I proposed that every team be paired with a dedicated travel team - Ohio State & Michigan, for example. 2. These pairs then would be grouped with geographic rivals as well as pairs of teams from very different geographies. 3. Each team would play a total of 10 games a season & since everyone is playing everyone else in your alignment, you've got a 'conference' champion. 4. Those champs then head into a 32 team playoff. 5. Finally, and most important, every 4 years the alignment of your conference shifts - one pair of teams is shifted out & a new pair is shifted in. The only team you always play is your dedicated rival - So Ohio State would always play Michigan.

This system sounds lit and would probably bring me back to college football, make winning your conference actually matter again!

Definitely some stuff here that I would like to see!

Super solid video dude! Not sure if I agree with your division solution, but it's very clear that you put a lot of work and thought into this video. Thanks for sharing :)

Great video man, first time watching your stuff.

These are some interesting ideas. I don't think it will fix the issues with college football though. A lot of people want the playoff to be expanded. Currently the college football semi final games have been almost always non-competitive. Adding more teams won't fix this issue, it just creates more blowouts that we have to watch. It will in theory give more teams hope/motivation to go for it, but this isn't necessarily a good thing. Right now with the 4 team structure. Teams outside of the SEC and Big 10 know that they need to rack up a strong strength of schedule to get into the playoff. This leads to more aggressive scheduling. If there are 12 teams in the playoff, and conference champions are automatic bids, there is literally no incentive to schedule any difficult out of conference games. This cheapens the regular season, which is the heart of college football. if Oregon knew that they could get in as a top 12 team, no way they would've taken on Kirby Smart's bull dogs. They would have just dusted their way through the barely power 5 PAC 12 and found out in January just how much worse they are than a team that can actually win a championship for the whole world to see.

Love it. This is more to my liking. Another benefit of the regional conferences is save the schools and fans money on travel. And it make the environment knobs happy. Win win win.

Paterno proposed an Eastern conference in the early 80's similar to what you have with Penn State, Pitt, SU, West Virginia, Maryland, BC, Temple, and Rutgers. Size wise PSU is a better fit in the Big Ten so might have been poached eventually but imagine if they stayed long enough to go to the ACC instead of the Big Ten.

The whole video I kept saying “he’s not wrong” Excellent work

I love this video and your ideas for the new conferences. Only problem would be how other sports fit into these conferences, ideally these would be for football only and the other sports would need new conferences too? But would that get too confusing and would the NCAA ever try that in the first place

Craziest part is, is that this 9 conference system already exists in the NCAA, in track and XC. There are 9 “regions” that have nothing to do with conferences, and the top 2 teams from each regional championship advance to nationals. This system spreads the power and has allowed smaller schools to become top contenders such as NAU, BYU, Tulsa, Villanova, Montana State, Georgetown, and Butler. All of these schools are ranked in the top 30 as I’m writing this, and sure XC is much like basketball in which you only need a handful of players to be successful, but the proof is still there.

Is the SBC logo in the South Coast conference just a mashup of the leftover SBC teams that didn’t make it, in order to make one super team decent enough to join?

Expanding the playoffs is a great idea. I have thought for years that an 8 team playoff would be much better. It would eliminate the need for an undefeated regular season as a prerequisite for the playoffs, and the short straw situations of decided which one-loss team is better than the multiple others, or choosing a one-loss larger school over an undefeated smaller school, for a 4 team playoff. The politics of rankings being decided off the field needs to be curtailed so the players and coaches can decide who’s the best on the field. A lot of benefit by adding only 1 more week to the playoffs. Your video has me reconsidering the first round bye, I initially dismissed, with your suggestion of a 12 team playoff. Four first round byes will reward undefeated regular season teams. A 12 team playoff would reinvigorate the importance of a conference championship. How great would it be to have the potential of the greatest rivalries to meet twice in a season, once in the regular and the other in the playoffs? Then we could potential see the likes of Mich. and OSU twice, where one team wins the regular season game and the other extracts revenge in the playoffs. The bowl games don’t have the luster and excitement that they used to have. Making the bowls a part of a larger playoff structure could change that. And end the 3-5 week downtime that exists now. Let the regular season play into the first week of Dec. Then have a conference championship round as part of the first week of the playoffs. Conference championship is an automatic bid into the rest of the playoffs; and still give the top four ranked teams a bye in the next round. With this set up, there’s even a potential for a third rivalry meetup (which is something to consider altogether). For example, Mich. and OSU meet in the regular season undefeated. After that game, they are still the top 2 teams in the B1G, so they play for the conference championship. The regular season losing team extracts revenge and gets the automatic bid into the next round; and the other continues in the playoffs based upon ranking. This is a controversial scenario that would result, and need for consideration. But, it would allow for conference title games to be played the holiday weekend around Christmas. Then have bowl games as the next phase of the playoffs on Jan. 1; which would be the bye week for the top four teams. Then the next two rounds follow to decide the national champion. Expanding the playoffs is the smart idea. I don’t think implementing a new conference structure will be welcomed by the existing conferences. But, improving balance among the conferences can be achieved by expanding the playoffs and giving automatic playoff bids to the champions. You have some good ideas in the video that I think many college football fans would like to see.

CFB needs something like the NFL has where the season champ drafts last. It's not a penalty per se, but something that forces parity. Maybe prohibit Natty game participants from accepting transfers that year.

Love the video, and a lot of it’s valid! But the #1 cause for a lack of parody is that some schools are simply more invested and have a better head coach at the helm. We can change the playoff and realign conferences all we want, but at the end of the day the cream still rises to the top. Resources and potential between the top 20-30 programs are all very even. Some programs are just more invested and better run than others, that won’t change until the Miami’s, USC’s, and Auburn’s of the world start stepping-up (which they’re starting too)

Eight conferences with 12 teams, two divisions. Play each team in your conference. Division winners go to conference championship. Conference winners go into playoff.

Enjoyed this. Made a similar video over 5 years ago. Inside the idea of similar sized conferences and a guaranteed jumper of playoff births. It would give more teams a shot to play at the big show. As it is, it's very biased towards certain conferences and the polls are incredibly biased. A tournament is the only way to go. It works in basketball, so why not bring more legitimacy to it. My only question would be how did u pick the 81 teams when there's over a hundred div 1 football teams? I ran into a huge issue trying to place circles around geographical areas that made sense. I had at least a dozen conferences of different sizes, but youve done a good job here. To me, more balance would come from culling out the weak teams and relegate them into a series of tiered divisions so more teams can compete. Otherwise, great job man.

This is kinda coming to fruition with the 12 team playoff having auto bids for the conference champions, and allowing the best GO5 team to have an autobid as well, with 6 at Larges. Makes things better

I still play NCAA Football 14 on my PS3 and every time I start a new dynasty, I always make these regional conferences. All in-state teams in same conference and some neighbors too. All Florida teams in one, All 12 Texas teams in one, All California teams in one and so on. Turns out great.

How would you align the conferences? Comment below!

I like your playoff format, it’s very similar to how college hockey creates its bracket

honestly this is one of the reasons i like watching the fcs. every conference winner makes the playoffs (plus a few at-large bids). that means more chances for teams to make a run. last year the 8 seed made it all the way to the final

Would the conference realignment work the same for other college sports such as basketball and hockey?

When they release the next NCAA Football game this coming year, I'll be focusing on adjusting the conferences to insure championships in each, just like I've done with NCAA Football 2014. SEC is getting way too big and should have all the schools, especially as nearly every one of them is a powerhouse school. Move everything back for the most part, so that all the conferences have at least 12, split into two 6 team groups... Even make a new conference to move all the new teams over from FCS (that are extra) and Independents, or just make Independents an actual conference.

This sounds much better than the current system.

This is a great solution, as difficult as it would be to get rolling. A lot of teams would play each other they normally don’t. A lot of great year-to-year rivalries, and because it’s regional there’s an opportunity to save money on travel!

Very admirable that an Ohio State fan (who arguably benefitted from the playoff) still wants to change the system for the sake of parity.

I'd have a bit of a different conference alignment (as a VT fan, the NE conference doesn't make much sense), but I definitely like the overall structure. What made CFB so different from the NFL is how localized it was. Even if people didn't go to those schools, they felt like the team represented their community or region of the state.

I've been watching Japanese college football cause I was kinda curious (hey the quality's pretty good, but it kinda varies between NAIA and D1 FCS) and I gotta say they're doing it right. The biggest conferences, namely the Kanto and Kansai leagues, have promotion and relegation. The top Kansai tier is divided into two divisions, Top 8 and Big 8 while the top Kanto tier only has one division. Kanto and Kansai are like the SEC and Big 10 of Japanese college football. The teams with the lowest record in the division go down one tier, and replaced by the below tier's winners.

I love these conference names

I think the best and easiest solution right now in college football is just expanding the playoffs. If they expand the playoffs to 16 teams, the 10 conference winners and then have 6 at large bids it fixes the issues you mentioned. It gives all of these other schools and conferences something to play for and causes the recruits to spread out. It will also appease the big schools because they can get a few extra teams in through at large spots. Have a committee made up of officials from every conference rank the team 1-16 and the first round the higher seed gets to host a playoff game. This format would be fun and exciting and give a lot of teams something to play for.

Love this analysis, conferences should a max of 12 teams. I'm a P6, then G6 guy. Big 10, SEC, ACC, Big East, Big 12, Pac

As a Kentucky fan. This destroys us as a football program. It would make more logical sense to fold. Your putting us up with the other teams in our recruiting area.

I guess the only thing I’d change is making the group conferences more prevalent cause you have all of those teams basically fighting with the power 9 teams that weren’t conference winners for like 3 playoff spots

The bigger problem at hand is the devide between the power and Group conferences, something you don’t address at all. When only the power 5 or 9 schools are getting national attention and going to the cfp it just ends up hurting the group teams

My only knock on these Regional conferences is that the TV dollars will not make sense, some of these schools have different academic acceptance rates, and some of these schools are limited to Talent acquisition due to their High School football.

I am NOT a Buckeye fan. I am a Duck fan. The first playoff, Oregon was knocked out by you in the Rose Bowl. In reality, it was a fantastic game. I just wish we could find a perfect season, at least in the conference. SOMEONE always gives us a loss in the conference, usually knocking us out of the playoff. Ohio State is always dominating in the Big Ten.

16 teams, no bye week, 7 at-large. Makes for a slower progression but eventual participation in playoffs becomes more representative and, structurally, better able to withstand future challenge. Cinderella comes to The Dance.

I love the idea, it's just could never happen

What resources does Bama have that other SEC schools don’t?

Dude this is awesome, an nfl style playoffs, that would be epic

As a georgia fan i do think changes need to be made in terms of balancing.I also think that in an expanded cfp the top 2 or top 4 teams should get a bye but great video

15:11 I love how the New England conference only has one team from New England (BC).

Always be skeptical of graphs that have a short x-axis and/or don’t use 0 as their baseline. They can be very easily used to mislead

This makes perfect sense. As a West Virginia fan I would say they need to be in the New England Conference because it would put them in line with more of the old Big East teams such as Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College, Virginia Tech and such

Sounds reasonable. Every division aside from '1-A' or BCS level has a functioning playoff system and has for decades. I'd like to see what you would do, should the 'Power Five' split from the NCAA. How would '1-A NCAA' rebalance itself?

You’re not going to top down change the conferences but you can change the playoff. And by giving 9 conferences an automatic seed the parity will naturally work itself out as powerful teams move to weaker conferences to take advantage.

This is very well done and I agree with the oeverall premise but you need to get Pitt and WVU in the same conference.

This needs to happen, amazing plan

I really like this. The only issue? It makes too much sense. I feel like if we had a perfect system, it would almost get boring after a while

"I was in elementary school sorry if that makes you feel old." I wasn't even in school then. Also Utah in 2021 we were happy to win the conference and go to the rose bowl. And it's the same this year. Not all teams expect to make the playoffs. Some hope to make a high renown bowl.

Would LOVE the red river conference as an OU fan. Now that we're going to the SEC my only realistic away game to go to is A&M because I live in Dallas. It's also gunna make home games much more expensive now 😭

Since there are 10 conferences that play D1 football, expand the playoffs to 8, but they all have to be conference champions. I would drop independents, if you want to get into the dance, you have to join a conference. I think this would bring some entertaining results.

As a UCF fan, we have better chances getting to the playoffs being in the big 12 than we do beating out Georgia Florida Florida state and Miami in a year. The sunpeach conference is no joke

The New England Conference. One school in New England.. But seriously I like the idea of the Red River Conference but including Arkansas.

Thanks for the video and your personal insights into how you think it would be best to fix CFB. I agree that it needs fixed in many areas. I too am an Ohio State fan by the way. Below are my additional thoughts or slight modifications to your proposed 9 conference system. The biggest thing that plagues college football (IMO), at large, is one thing - subjectivity. This subjectivity comes in many forms - such as the playoff committee picking teams based off no actual objective criteria...they get to pick and choose who they put in and cherry pick reasons to apply to the teams that make it in. The subjectivity though comes into play far before a single regular season game is even played...that being with preseason rankings. I would suggest that there be NO rankings, ever. Do you ever hear from the analysts/commentators about the NFL teams and how badly they beat a team, or lost to a team, or their strength of schedule? No. Why? Because all the NFL teams know BEFORE THE SEASON BEGINS, what the OBJECTIVE criteria is to make it into the playoff. They know they have to win their division (even if a team has a losing record). The point here isn't so much what the objective criteria is but moreso that there should be an objective metric that determines who makes the playoff - and in your solution, you have done that by making the conference winners and championship games matter. Preseason rankings also inflate teams that likely don't deserve to be ranked in the first place, or as high as initially ranked. Some will say that the rankings change to reflect the results so it doesn't matter much in the end, but it DOES matter because it influences the thoughts and opinions of the committee and the general public about college football's best teams...it also effects how every team's schedule is viewed. For instance, the SEC having 9 ranked teams to begin the season...even if they don't deserve to be, inflates all the other SEC team's Strength of Schedule metric, as the system and preseason rankings have already deemed them worthy of a ranking (so then the SEC says they look good or are good, solely because they've claimed that aura right off the bat without even playing any games). This allows them for when one team loses, the losing team gets to claim a loss to a ranked opponent, and the winner gets to claim a solid win over a ranked opponent. The teams then play each other, lose and win against each other, and simply replace one another in the Top 25 rankings (ALL BASED OFF of what the preseason rankings started with). Preseason rankings literally set the preconceived notions of teams, which greatly effects how the teams are viewed later on, especially since the current method for the playoff is based on nothing but subjectivity and an ever changing/different set of criteria. The order in which things take place in CFB is inverted. The games and their results should tell us who the best teams are - not that we decide who the best teams are based off returning starters, recruiting classes, and brands, only to have those teams fail on the field. Let the games be played, and the teams are placed into table/standings board just like every other sport known to man. For all we know, the coaching staffs or players will get swell heads at a bigger school and not play as well as their talent should indicate (examples, any Jimbo Fisher coached team, especially 2022 Texas A&M). So why should that team be ranked in the Top 25? They shouldn't. But what's the point in the rankings in the first place? There is none except to keep lobbying for opinions and biases that exist already. Just let the games be played, and remove the preseason rankings altogether (and in season rankings as well). Rankings could exist solely for the purpose of talking - the NFL shows all have these, but they're not influential in any way to the actual playoff teams. If Washington wins the NFC East with a 6-9 record, then they go to the playoffs, regardless of what some talk show says or what a newspaper poll ranks them. Lastly, my idea for CFB was to have it go to four super conferences...but after hearing your take on it, I LOVE the nine conference idea. It does (or would) keep the ENTIRE country still interested in it. Right now, not many people out west who have been fans of CFB are into it anymore, as the PAC has had a rough go of making the playoff, or succeeding when there. The nine conferences really gives the opportunity for all areas of the country to get a representative to the playoff, and they'll be interested in the on field result whenever the playoff came around. I may change some of the teams in the conferences you selected or change the names of said conferences, but again - the idea to have more 'power' conferences is a good one - as going to four super-conferences would completely eliminate interest from average to lesser schools currently existing in CFB. However, I will say that the current group of five schools should just be made into Division 2, the current Division 2 should go to Division 3, and current Division 3 can be made into Division 4. Thanks again for the video! Go Buckeyes!

Honestly this makes too much sense… they will never do it 😢

Respecting Boise State My guy

So group schools would be SOL? No chance to make it to the playoffs based off there conference?

I think every season should kick off with the previous season bowl games that will shuffle things up quite a bit

Yes, set it up similar to the NFL but with relegation. Had the same idea a few years ago. Playoff seeding can be set by conference strength measured by out of conference games

I love the out of the box thinking but you have to remember there are sports at these schools other than football. I feel like doing a big realignment for one sport is a little short sighted for the other sports.

Very misleading graph in the beginning. The bottom is 5, not 0. The top is 8. There's too much that graph doesn't take into account.

This is a really good point. For the majority of college football programs there is really no chance to reach the playoffs. The conference championships are pretty much meaningless. We all know the Bowl games are worthless. I wonder how much longer fans will remain interested in the sport?