[FreeAtlanta]

Teams outside the 16 could still participate in the current smaller bowls. Typically, only the fans of those teams watch the games or travel to them so the pay-off shouldn't be any less.

Some of the money from the play-off could be distributed to non-participating teams in a profit sharing scenario.

[Lee'sGhost]

That’s what I keep saying. And because there would be more games played that actually mean something the revenue would be sky high. Everyone involved would make more money than they ever dreamed of under the old non-system.

[DugwayDuke]

“Some of the money from the play-off could be distributed to non-participating teams in a profit sharing scenario.”

That ‘profit sharing’ is exactly why this won’t work. By the time the NCAA ‘shares’ the profits, the schools in the playoffs lose money.