Now I do have a more workable solution.
Each team draws two opponents from their tier.
So for example teams that finish in the Top 32, would draw two other non-conference top 32 opponents the next season. One game at home, the other on the road. I would also have one of the games at the start of the season and the other towards the end of the season.
That would go a long way to clarifying which teams are truly the best when it comes to the end of the season.
Naw, I’m thinking of ways to help the “mid-majors” earn respect. If there was to be a super-conference which allowed match-ups based on the Association football rules, the higher level of that mid-major would become almost a power-5 conference.
Imagine the Super-conference result of the American and Mountain West conferences:
11. Central Florida
18. Fresno State
21. Utah State
23. Boise State
24. Cincinnati
Houston
Temple
Nevada
With Navy and Air Force in the same mega-conference, how long would it be before 19. Army wanted in?