How would you propose an equitiable NCAA college football playoff without it being another giveaway to the 7 big teams plus Notre Dame?
I got your answer right now.
a 16 team tournament.
all 11 conference winners get in automatically.
You put it in 4-4 team regions, trying to keep the teams within their certain region (North, WEst, South, East)
You determine, via the BCS formula, the 5 at-large bids. The qualifiers are that they must be within the top 16 of the BCS and cannot have more than 3 losses in a 12 game season (sometimes in college there are 14 game seasons).
And another thing, you don't allow any polls or rankings to come out until week 5.
Well with the ridiculous number of bowl games and 4 weeks between the end of regulation and the "championship" there's plenty of time and games to have 4 rounds of playoffs that means 16 teams, which makes it twice as many as the 7 big teams plus Notre Dame. And so what if it is just the 7 big time teams plus Notre Dame, at least it would be all the teams that would have a legitimate shot in the playoff instead of the 2 teams the computer likes. The amazing thing to me about the BCS is they actually managed to come up with a system that made the poll system (which was horid) look good. Every other division of NCAA football has a playoff, why shouldn't the top division?