Put the names of the champions of each conference in a hopper.
Pull two at a time.
Any odd team left over gets a first round bye.
Play until you have a winner.
Now THAT’s a “playoff’.
What we have now is still spinach, and Popeye and I say to Hell with it, AND to Hell with NCAA football bowl money gurus.
The college football “national championship” will remain a joke until we have real playoffs, like every other professional and college sport.
It will also remain a joke until an NFL minor league system (separate from Universities) is created.
Universities need to go back to eliminating freshman eligibility and forcing REAL academic reform. Kids shouldn’t see the playing field before they attend a class or know where the library is.