4 to 8 isn’t the answer, 4 to 16 is. Conferences won’t be going away, nor will cupcake games (money games for the smaller schools). 16 teams with auto bids for each power 5 champion and the highest ranked group of 5 team. Ten at large bids. Seed them into four regions, one for each of the four major bowls. First round is an on campus home game for the top eight seeds (so the “regular season matters”), second round is the regional finals represented by the major bowls. Then FB gets its own final four to hype. At 16 teams, SoS matters less until you’re rounding out the field where you might be arguing whether a 3 loss P5 or a 1 loss G5 gets the final spot.
This would get rid of the griping about seeding we’re seeing now since each of the current top four would be respective one seeds (maybe some over which region their placed into, but whatever). G5 gets a seat at the table and a chance to knock off one or more of the big boys. And teams don’t have to worry about a late loss leaving them with no shot at a title.
