(12-12-2018 04:22 PM)McKinney Wrote: Top 6 conference representatives. Two at-large bids.
This is the way I would go to avoid a legal challenge. That is part of the reason they busted up the BCS in the first place because some conferences had autobids while others didn't.
Keep the CCGs and make it a 12 bowl system.
1st tier: Rose, Las Vegas, Fiesta, Cotton, Sugar, Peach, Citrus, Orange
2nd tier: Holiday, Sun, Independence, Gator
The top 6 conference champions would play in the 8 team playoff which would rotate every year among the NY8 bowls.
The other 4 conference champions (G4) would be send to a second tier bowl game to play a 9-3 type P5 team. That makes all the conference championship games more valuable if a major bowl game is on the line.
1st Tier (2018) (Dec 31th-Jan 2nd)
1. Alabama (champ)
2. Clemson (champ)
3. Notre Dame (at-large)
4. Oklahoma (champ)
5. Georgia (at-large)
6. Ohio St. (champ)
8. UCF (champ)
9. Washington (champ)
2nd Tier (2018) (Dec 27th-Dec 30th)
21. Fresno St (champ) vs. 10-2 Washington St. (Holiday)
10-2 App St (champ) vs. 9-3 Penn St. (Gator)
9-3 UAB (champ) vs. 9-3 Kentucky (Independence)
8-5 Northern Illinois (champ) vs. 8-3 West Virginia (Sun)
To me this would be a fair system while still keeping the competitive realities intact for the power conferences. The P5 can still have its own bowls outside of the CFP that exclude the G5 ect. But at least this way the G5 CCGs have something on the line.