Take the Division I-A Conferences and condense them down to 8. Don’t want to be in a conference? Fine. You don’t have to play for the national championship.
At the beginning of the season it will be determined by random drawing which conferences will play each other in the first round. After the first round a drawing will determine who plays each other in round two.
Playoffs and championship will take 3 games. If the teams all play 10 games, plus one to determine the conference champion, the season will be a very reasonable 14 games.
The major “bowl” games will be rotated through the playoff games, so there will still be “bowl” games.
Minor bowl games can be between the also rans, pretty much like they are now.
There, solves that...
There, solves that...
except for travel costs for fans trying to attend the ongong games...big issue...