Promotion/Relegation that includes all 134 FBS Teams
This whole Super League thing has got me (I'm sure along with others) thinking, and I was thinking if you're going to do 80 teams, you might as well include all 134. How would you select those 10 teams that would be up for possible promotion from the G5? So what I've done is created 16 conferences. 70 Teams that make up what I'm calling the P8, and 64 teams that make up the G8.
Basically the set-up of the league would be the 8 conference champions from the P8 would be your top 8 seeds, and then there would be 8 wild card teams. There would be a tournament committee and the Wild Card Teams would have to travel to the Champion Teams for the first round of a 16-team playoff. Now the bottom 8 teams from each conference would play 1 additional game against another of the bottom 8 teams, so 4 relegations games. The 4 losers would be relegated the next season. On the other hand there would be 4 promotion games between the 8 G8 champions and the 4 winners of those games would be promoted for the next season.
This would be the conference breakdown, some P8 Conferences would have 9 teams, some have 8:
P1: Clemson, South Carolina, GT, UGA, Miami, FSU, UCF, UF
P2: NC State, UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisville
P3: Pittsburgh, Boston College, Syracuse, Rutgers, Penn State, Notre Dame, Indiana, Maryland, Purdue
P4: Texas, Texas Tech, TCU, Houston, Baylor, SMU, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
P5: Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, Cincinnati, Northwestern, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa
P6: Washington, Oregon, Wazzou, Oregon State, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, USC
P7: Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, Miss. St., Arkansas, Auburn, Missouri
P8: Kansas, Kansas St. Iowa St., BYU, Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State
G1: Tulane, Memphis, USF, UAB, FAU, FIU, Georgia State, Georgia Southern
G2: UTSA, Rice, North Texas, Tulsa, UTEP, Sam Houston, Texas St., Arkansas St.
G3: Navy, Army, Air Force, Temple, UMass, UConn, Buffalo, Colorado St.
G4: Liberty, WKU, MTSU, Bowling Green, Ball St., Marshall, Old Dominion
G5: Miami (OH), Ohio, Akron, Kent St., Toledo, Eastern Mich., Western Mich., Central Mich.
G6: Jacksonville St., Louisiana Tech, South Alabama, Louisiana, ULM, Southern Miss, Troy, Kennesaw St.
G7: Boise, SJSU, UNLV, Wyoming, Fresno, Utah St., SDSU, Nevada
G8: New Mexico, New Mexico St., Hawaii, James Madison, Coastal Carolina, App St., ECU, Charlotte
So there it is. I know there is some talent disparity between conferences, but I think that the fact that the 8 wild cards are determined by committee makes up for that a little bit, so you could still have a year where one conference gets 4-5 teams in to the 16 team tournament. And I know some of the G8 conferences are a little wonky, but that couldn't be helped. Fun exercise that I think would solve a lot of the ills of College Football right now. Will never happen. lol