Off Season Topic: How to reorganize college football. (I'm beating a dead horse, I know.)

I really liked the Pod idea that was floated a year or two ago.

4 Conferences of 16 Teams
4 Divisions within each conference
Permanent home and home with 3 teams in your division plus 1 other rival in each other division of your conference (6 games)
Rotate 3 games between the 3 other divisions (3 games)
At least 1 OOC game against a P4 conference team (1 game)
At least 1 OOC game against a NP4 D1 team (1 game)
FCS game (1st or 2nd week of the season)

For the OOC game against a P4 conference team it would be fun to do it like the NFL where the Number 1 teams play each other all the way down to the number 16 teams play each other. Go off previous years rankings. Similar to the Big 12 SEC challenge in Bball.

No

6 conferences with 14 teams.

Not in a conference not eligible for playoff

All conferences play the same number of conference games, preferably 9 or 10

All non conference games must be vs teams from one of the other 5 conferences

All conferences have a championship game but can individually decide how to determine who plays in it. Ie 2 division winners or the 2 teams with the best conference records after tie breakers are factored in.

12 team playoff with the conference championship games serving as the de facto first round

After the CCGs teams are seeded and top 2 get a bye.

Non conference and non national championship Playoff games are at the home field of the higher seed

NC game rotated between various sites

Keep the other bowls...or not I don’t care.

4 conferences of 16; 4 conference winners in the playoff. That creates a de facto 8-team playoff with the conference championships, based solely on objective conference standings rather than subjective rankings. Let the AP rankings determine the playoff seeding.
Dissolve the Big 12, with 4 of the 6 Texas and Oklahoma teams to the PAC and 2 to the SEC; Iowa State and the 2 Kansas teams to the Big 16; and WV to the ACC. Then Notre Dame should join the ACC, but that leaves us with 65, so Notre Dame should have to hold an auction to buy their way into the P4 (lowest bidder wins). But preferably, the Big 16 should just give Rutgers the boot; they don't belong. This will be Division 1.
The current group of 5 should become Division 2 and create their own playoff, so that UCF, Boise, and whoever else comes along can actually win a championship that nobody cares about. FCS becomes division 3, D2 becomes D4, and so forth.
10 conference games for all of the P4. Only allowed to play up or down 1 Division at most (so no more FCS for P4 teams). But I think most teams will be using one of their OOC on a rival like Oklahoma/Texas if they don't end up in the same conference, and the other OOC as a tune up game.
7 of your 10 conference games is of course within your division, with 2 cross-divisional games alternating, and 1 based on where you placed the prior season (1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, etc.) Alabama/Tenn and Auburn/UGA will be preserved by moving the Alabama teams to the East, and moving Missouri and the two new additions to the West (the SEC will then make sense geographically). SEC Championship game to rotate between Atlanta and New Orleans or some other major city located within the Western Division. The other conferences can realign as they see fit.

Isn't it something? We let you assholes into our tradition-rich conference, and the first thing you want to do is destroy it.

Why don't you aggies take your team, and all your ideas on how to frick up college football conferences to some other conference? We're fine here.

Bye weeks in a college playoff is stupid. Too big of an advantage. Make it 8 or make it 16 or make it 4. Frick off with your 12 or 6.