Just for fun: Heres your 12 team playoffs since 2014.

Ill bold the interesting ones.

2014

1) Bama
2) Oregon
3) FSU
4) OSU
5) Baylor
6) TCU
7) Miss State tGrind?
8) Michigan State
9) Ole Miss
10) Arizona
11) Kansas State
12) Georgia Tech (UGA was 13th. Would have been butt fricking hilarious.)

2015

1) Clemson
2) Bama
3) Michigan State
4) Oklahoma
5) Iowa
6) Stanford
7) OSU
8) ND
9) UNC
10) Fla State
11) TCU
12) Ole Miss (would have been their second straight appearance.)

2016

1) Bama
2) Clemson
3) OSU
4) Washington
5) Penn State
6) Michigan
7) Oklahoma
8) Wisconsin
9) USC
10) Colorado
11) Florida State
12) Oklahoma State

2017

1) Clemson
2) Oklahoma
3) Georgia
4) Bama
5) OSU
6) Wisconsin
7) Auburn
8) USC
9) Penn State
10) Miami
11) Washington
12) UCF

2018

1) Bama
2) Clemson
3) ND
4) Oklahoma
5) Georgia (SEC stacked)
6) OSU
7) Michigan
8) UCF
9) Washington
10) Florida (Playoff fricked)
11) LSU (Big dick Burrow
12) Penn State

2019

1) LSU
2) Ohio State
3) Clemson
4) Oklahoma
5) Georgia
6) Oregon
7) Baylor
8) Wisconsin
9) Florida
10) Penn State
11) Utah
12) Auburn

Wild that Bama still wouldnt have been in under 12. Anomaly.

2020

1) Alabama
2) Clemson
3) Ohio State
4) Notre Dame

Okay , now we are back in familiar territory. Its almost like 12 teams wouldnt be so bad.

5) Texas A&M (look ma, im in the playoffs finally!
6) Oklahoma
7) Florida
8) Cincy
9) UGA
10) Iowa State
11) Indiana
12) Coastal Carolina

Okay, so all in all. 12 is a bit much. 6 would be good. Even 8 if you feel so inclined. But 12 is just fluff.