re: 4 not enough?

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Get rid of AQ status and you are close. Just take the 6 highest rated conference champions (no matter the conference) and the two highest rated teams after that (the two wildcards, which theoretically could be either conference championship or not, most years they probably won't be conference champions is my guess). Easy, fair, awesome.

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I totally agree except that I'd go with the 5 highest rated conferences instead of 6. That leaves 3 wildcards instead of 2. However, there will undoubtedly be years when there are only 2 teams that didn't win their conference that are qualified for the playoff so that leftover at large would go to another conference champion. I'd also simply add a Top 12 requirement.