When is the NCAA going to actually create a real playoff system?

The way I've tried proposing it is having a 16 team playoff. There are 11 FBS conferences (if you include the Independents). Take the winner of each conference, and the runner up in each of the Power 5 conferences. That way you don't have controversy, you don't have bias or a selection committee, and it's more fair.

The only way to get a true, fair playoff is to eliminate the mid-majors from contention, the power five conferences can only play each other(no more cupcake Saturdays) and conference championships become de facto playoff games. Ideally, you need four 16 team conferences. That would give you 8 playoff teams to meet in conference championships with the 4 winners meeting for a two round playoff. With the differences in the conferences, you can't allow for a team like Marshall, who plays in a weak conference, to get the easy road to a playoff while a major conference team has to go through a gauntlet of a much tougher conference to get to the same place. In my scenario, 64 teams will be in the 'Power 4' with eight teams being able to make the playoffs. Let the mid-majors have their own.

Nice analysis . College football is all about conference politics right now and it's bad for the game.

The current four team system is flawed and just wait and wait for the tantrum the fifth power 5 conference will create after they fail to make the 4 teams.

ACC commisioner Swofford have already expressed his frustration about this. This playoff system was created by the agreement of five power 5 conferences and they can certainly make modifications to make it more fair to them and in terms more fair to all the football conferences in the nation.

It's certainly a good start though. at least we don't have to see a national championship game between two SEC teams like LSU and alabama twice in the same year . Even if they send two teams from SEC they have to actually play a good power 5 conference team to go to the finals.