re: Why not move to a 6 team playoff vs. an 8 team playoff?

Problem with this is the Independents and Big 12...they have no conference championship game. If you go to 8 games...5 Conference Champions, 3 wild cards. Conference champions give 9-3 teams a chance to play their way in. The wild cards give the independents i.e. Notre Dame/BYU, teams that lose in Conference Championship Game i.e. 2003 Oklahoma or teams that don't win their division i.e. Bama in 2011.