Dear Obama, when do we get our playoff?

i know you've been the President for less than 3 hours and you've got that whole economic meltdown and 2 wars and health care that you wanna tackle, but really...when do we get our College Football playoff? seriously you can accomplish nothing your first year in office and i'll still love you as long as you can get a playoff for College Football.

my plan involves 16 teams, just like in what used to be Division I-AA, the tournament would feature four rounds with teams seeded one through 16....every conference champion plus 5 at large teams. there would be no limit to only 2 teams from a conference. if their are 3 or 4 worthy teams from the SEC or Big 12 then they all get in based on their rankings in the BCS. the higher seeds host playoff games until we get down to a final two who will then face off on a neutral field.

this season the tournament would have been seeded something like this.
1. Oklahoma
vs.
16. Buffalo

2. Florida
vs.
15. Troy

3. Texas
vs.
14. ECU

4. USC
vs.
13. TCU

5. Alabama
vs.
12. Cincinnati

6. Utah
vs.
11. Ohio State

7. Texas Tech
vs.
10. Virginia Tech

8. Penn State
vs.
9. Boise State

what about the bowls? fuck em. most of the bowl games suck anyways. the Bowls can be the NIT for all the teams who don't make the 16 team tournament.

some people will try and argue that this takes away from the college football regular season. to those people i call bullshit. with only 2 spots up for grab in the current system most teams seasons are over before the season begins, for the rest it's over after 1 or 2 losses. with a 16 team playoff the MAC championship game becomes more than just a Thursday night distraction, when Ball State lost to Buffalo they'd really have something to lose more than an undefeated record. a team like Oregon who struggles at the beginning of the year but gets hot down the stretch can become a title contender. and most importantly of all no one who goes undefeated won't ever get a chance to prove their worth against the rest of the college football elite.

4 teams isn't enough. 8 teams still leaves too much room for schools like Boise State and Utah to get screwed over. it's 16 teams or it's nothing at all. if we shorten the season back to 11 games and start the season a week earlier then college football would be able to wrap up the entire regular season by Thanksgiving then have the conference championship games the next week. all conferences would be required to have a conference title game. then the next week the playoff would start. 16 games would be the most a team would ever be required to play.

some people would hate this format. Vegas would make a killing. the presidents would never go for it and the bowls would all suffer. but the truth is that noone could argue anymore about who the true National Champion was ever again...and in the end that's all i fucking care about anyways.

whatever. it's never gonna happen.