My proposal for a revised football playoff scenario, a combination NFL & European Soccer model....
There currently are 134 teams in D1.
- move to 6 divisions of 9 teams allowing 8 division games. All leagues are eliminated for football only. Based on this year, this would allow for: 8 ACC, 6 American, 10 Big 10, 4 Conf USA, 2 Independent, 8 Big 12, 2 MAC, 2 mountain west, 10 SEC, 2 Sun Belt. The leagues as it relates to football would then be eliminated, and divisions would be generally geographically based.
- 3 out of division games that will have no bearing on division ranking allowing for historical rivalries to be maintained, new ones to be established and "pre-season" games
- top 2 teams from each division move to a 12 team playoff
- teams in 5- 7th place in each division play a like team in a bowl.
- bottom team in each division relegated to the minor league
- remaining teams are relegated to the minor league
- remaining 80 teams split across six 13 team divisions
- 12 game division specific schedule
- top 6 teams goto a playoff with 2 teams receiving a bye based on some clear metric
- division winners replace the relegated teams
Players are allowed to transfer once in a 4 year period without sitting out. A second transfer will require a year of sitting. All players have 5 years to play 4 years regardless of the circumstances.