[Matt Hayes] The SEC willingly flushed its conference championship game that last year had better ratings than all eight first round CFP games of the brief, 12-team era.

[u/CrashB111]

https://x.com/MattHayesCFB/status/2111056779366785054

[u/beornn2]

At this point it’s time to do away with conferences and go to divisions if they’re fully committing to a massive playoff system. Doesn’t make sense to keep them around, they’re relics now and serve no purpose.

[u/Green-goonie → u/beornn2]

This would be so much better. 10 team divisions, create by region. 2 non conference games. Round robin season.

There are currently 67 teams in the P4. Kick out 7 teams. 6 “divisions”. That’s 12 teams. You can do 4 teams from “G5”. That’s 16 teams.

Then add in ND and 7 at large teams. That’s 24.

[u/Skywalker247365 → u/Green-goonie]

What criteria do you use to kick out the 7 teams? A couple years ago, Indiana would have been a good candidate to be kicked out because they sucked for decades, now they're national champions.

[u/Rickydada → u/Skywalker247365]

Presumably you’d want to set up a system of relegation and replacement like in soccer.

[u/1850ChoochGator → u/Skywalker247365]

Boot out the ones with the worst records over an x year span. It’s the only fair way.

[u/Skywalker247365 → u/1850ChoochGator]

If college football had done that 4 years ago, Indiana and Vanderbilt would have been kicked out of their conferences. It's not a realistic plan.

[u/1850ChoochGator → u/Skywalker247365]

You gotta draw the line somewhere and that sucks. Someone is going to feel like they got screwed.

It’s the only way that’s objective and rewards actually playing well and not skating by on your national brand but sucking.

If you want a spot, don’t be a bad team.

The bottom 10 over the last 4y are Stanford, Purdue, Colorado, Michigan State, Boston College, Virginia Tech, Northwestern, Arkansas, Oklahoma State, and Mississippi State.

[u/mulligan381 → u/Skywalker247365]

I think Arkansas would be one of the 7