Have you thought seriously about how the teams and fans would handle a sixteen team playoff? Two weeks from the first game, you’ll know who is playing who and where. You can make arrangements. But what happens then?
You won’t know who is playing who or where or when until the games are played. Then, you’ve got to make arrangements to move teams to the new locations. The fans can’t make reservations either until the games are played.
Same thing next weekend. The logistics are horrendous.
I know you think every team should have a chance but practically the conference champions not from the big five have very little chance of winning even their first game. BTW, two of three giant killers no longer play in those minor conferences having moved on to the big five.
Time to put my tinfoil hat on.
From 2005 to 2010 the MWC met every metric to be included as an Automatic Qualifier conference per BCS rules. I totally believe ESPN and the so called Power 5 conferences conspired to blow up the MWC by poaching Utah and TCU. Once Utah and TCU were gone the MWC no longer met the BCS criteria. BYU said screw it and went Indy, leaving the MWC to backfill with the dregs of college football... Utah St, San Jose St and Hawaii. In 2009 ESPN and the BCS conspired to put match up TCU and Boise St in the Fiesta Bowl because they were terrified of another Utah/Bama debacle X2. There was no way in hell they were going to allow two BCS schools to get beat that year by non BCS schools. I have no love for this crappy system or ESPN.