Here is my suggestion for how to realign CFB conferences and prepare for a true playoff with 8 teams.
We need to get to just four super conferences with 70 teams divided into 8 or 9 team divisions. Each division champ would be in the playoff.
I think the Big 12 can be dissolved and their teams reabsorbed into the SEC, BiG, Pac12 and ACC. The new conferences could look something like this.
BiG East:
OSU MSU Mich PSU IU Purdue Rutgers Maryland
BiG West:
Nebraska Texas Wisc Kansas Minny Illinois NW Iowa
Pac 18 North:
Wash WashSt Oreg OreSt Colorado Utah Stanford Cal BoiseSt
Pac 18 South:
USC UCLA Ariz ArizST Okla OklaSt Baylor TCU TexasTech
SEC West:
Bama LSU A&M Ark Miss MissSt IowaSt Houston SMU
SEC East:
Aub UGA Fla Mizz Tenn SC Vandy Kent GaTech
ACC North:
BC Cuse Pitt Va Tech ND UVA Cinn UConn WVU
ACC South:
FSU Miami Clemson UNC Duke Wake NCSt Louisville UCF
The 8 division champs are in. On the first Saturday of December each conference Championship game site picks a team form its conference to be the home team. The opponents are chosen in a rotating fashion with each conference getting a chance to be first choice every four years. So if your conference thinks you have a team that can go anywhere and win you might take your other conference champ to give a home game to when you can be the first to choose the opponent.
So this year say the SEC gets first pick. They might think Bama can go on the road so they protect UGA and select Minny from BiG West in order to try to get two in the "Quintessential Quad".
Once the field is down to four a committee does the seeding and we proceed as we will this year
Bring it on fellow Buck fans! Tell me what you think
I like it cuz it has a degree of randomness to it and it eliminates the subjectivity of a committee picking all 8 teams. If this year hasnt shown anything else, its shown that there is a lot of parity in CFB. A BiG East team that will likely be bowl ineligible (my prediction) has already won at an SEC East team that will finish second in their division. On any given Saturday the difference is slim between all these teams, despite what the SEC homers say.