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My plan is to take the 5 Major Conference Champs, then add the winner of a “Play-In” to determine the 6th team.

Take the 5 conference Champs and two at-large teams, with the stipulation that at least one of the at-large teams must be from a Non-Power 5 conference if they are ranked in the Top 16. And if a Non-Power 5 school is Ranked ahead of some of the conference champions, then both At-Large teams would be from Non Power-Five schools (provided the best remaining non-Power Five is ranked in the Top 16). This avoids a potential problem when an independent school, like Notre Dame, is highly ranked, and say, UCF goes unbeaten, this would still allow both Notre Dame and UCF to be in.

So how would my system have worked this year?

Here are the teams, ranked by seed:

Conference Champsions
Clemson
OU
Georgia
Ohio State
USC

Best At-Large
Alabama

Best Non-Power Five Team
UCF

But if you seed the eligible teams according to Rankings, then it’s

1. Clemson*
2. OU*
3. Georgia
4. Alabama
5. Ohio State
6. USC+
7. UCF+

* First Round Bye
+ Play-In Teams

Play In Game takes place two weeks before New Years’.

Then the following week you’d have the First Round playoffs:

USC/UCF winner vs Georgia
Alabama vs Ohio State

Then New Years’ day, you’d still have the Semi-Finals, and the National Championship Game a week later, just as you have now.

I think this should work almost every year, and it involves the least number of games to do it. I don’t want too many teams in it. If you don’t win your conference, accept the fact that you might get left out.