Fixing College Football

My proposal to fix college football is keeping the BCS around (tweaking it a bit) and narrowing the Div 1 field down to either 5 conferences of 16 teams each or 6 conferences of 14 teams each.

We would then be able to have a fair 8 team playoff giving each conference champion a slot and then either 3 or 2 at-large slots, With the first round playing in the higher seeds home stadium and then moving to 3 of the 4 BCS sites (the 4th... which would rotate each year will get to put on a bowl game between the highest ranked teams not to make the playoff regardless of conference). Minor bowls can still be played in this scenario as well.

For arguments sake I will break down the the 5 conference 16 team way.

We would be left with the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Midwest Conference (MC), the Southern Conference (SC), the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Northeast Conference (NEC).

First off the PCC:
1. USC
2. UCLA
3. Cal
4. Stanford
5. Oregon
6. Oregon St.
7. Washington
8. Washington St.
9. Arizona
10. Arizona St.
11. Hawaii
12. Fresno St.
13. Boise St.
14. Utah
15. BYU
16. Air Force

Next the MC:
1. Iowa
2. Iowa St.
3. Michigan
4. Michigan St.
5. Ohio St.
6. Missouri
7. Wisconsin
8. Northwestern
9. Indiana
10. Purdue
11. Minnesota
12. Illinois
13. Cincinatti
14. Nebraska
15. Kansas
16. Kansas St.

Next the SC:
1. Texas
2. Texas A&M
3. Texas Tech
4. Oklahoma
5. Oklahoma St.
6. TCU
7. Arkansas
8. LSU
9. Colorado
10. Mississippi
11. Mississippi State
12. Baylor
13. Houston
14. SMU
15. Tulsa
16. Vanderbilt (fits better with the private schools in this conference)

Next the ACC:
1. Florida
2. Florida St.
3. Miami
4. Alabama
5. Auburn
6. South Florida
7. Tennessee
8. Georgia
9. Georgia Tech
10. North Carolina
11. Duke
12. NC State
13. South Carolina
14. Kentucky
15. Clemson
16. NC State

and lastly the NEC:
1. Penn St
2. Pittsburgh
3. West Virginia
4. Syracuse
5. Cincinnati
6. Connecticut
7. Virginia
8. Virginia Tech
9. Maryland
10. Boston College
11. Rutgers
12. Louisville
13. Navy
14. Army
15. Ohio
16. Notre Dame

Each conference would be split into 2 divisions. So you would play everyone in your division (7 games), 3 teams from the opposite division and 2 games from other conferences. (I will not speculate on outcomes, but there would have to still be 5 conference championship games to determine a true conference champion each year)

Based solely on this years standings this would be the seeding for this years playoff:
1. Alabama (ACC Champ)
2. Texas (SC Champ)
3. Cincinnati (NEC Champ)
4. TCU (1st at large)
5. Florida (2nd at large)
6. Boise St. (PCC Champ)
7. Oregon (3rd at large)
8. Ohio St. (MC Champ)

so the first round matchups would be
Ohio St @ Alabama
Oregon @ Texas
Boise St @ Cincinnati
Florida @ TCU

For arguments sake, let's assume the top 4 seeds move on and that the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls are the bowls of choice this year with the Rose bowl being the NC game. Alabama would face TCU in the Orange bowl while Texas faces Cincinnati in the Sugar bowl. and then Alabama and Texas in the Rose bowl.

Meanwhile the Fiesta bowl, while a little less important, would still get a fantastic match-up in #9 Iowa v. #10 Georgia Tech.

Now on to the BCS... I think strength of schedule is important, however it should not be weighed as heavily as it used to be. Currently the BCS Formula is split into 3 components (each counts for 1/3 of the standing): The Coaches Poll, The Harris Poll (which replaces the AP Poll) and an average of 6 computer polls. In a perfect world, and this is not all that complicated for a formula that helps decide what schools get several million extra dollars in revenue, each of those three polls would count for 3/10 of each teams BCS score, while strength of schedule would count for 1/10 of the score.

The strength of schedule formula is easy as it would consist of 2/3 Opponents record and 1/3 opponents opponents record. No wins against non-BCS level opponents (remember there are now 80 BCS teams in my scenario) would count in either opponents or opponents opponents record. Also, the outcome of the game between a certain team and its opponent would not count as part of the Opponents Record in this formula.

And like I said earlier, the other bowl games would still be possible with the remaining 70 teams (not all obviously) and we could even do away with some of the more pointless ones like the International bowl or the New Mexico Bowl.

This is an extreme rough draft and I know there are a few barriers to consider (such as could this happen and still keep basketball the same?) but let me know what you think.