It won't ever happen, but it's simple:
Realign college football's top 44 programs into four conferences of 11 based on geography. Keep the traditional conference names if you want.
Each team plays every team in its conference once. Ten games. Five home, five away. Sites rotate from season to season.
There's still room for non-conference games. They would no longer need to be grotesque mismatches by way of upping record and profile for the sake of the rankings. There would be more good games.
Whoever finishes first in each conference is its champion. No conference championship games.
The top two teams in each conference go into the quarterfinals of a playoff. Brackets are predetermined and rotated yearly.
The first year, for example, could be SEC champ vs. Big 12 runner-up, ACC champ vs. Big Ten runner-up, Big 12 champ vs. ACC runner-up, Big Ten champ vs. SEC runner-up. No committee. Nothing subjective. The standings dictate the seedings.
Notre Dame has to be in a conference to be eligible for the playoffs. (It's about time.)
It's incredible that college football still doesn't have a fair, objective method of crowning a champ that's determined 100 percent on the field.
But that's not what the power brokers want.
The power brokers want do-overs and brand names.
The power brokers rank Notre Dame over Miami (Fla.) even though they have identical records and Miami beat Notre Dame.
The power brokers will trade credibility for money.
The power brokers want to retain that power, and objectivity hinders that.
College football stinks.
The absurdity of the CFP, the Lane Kiffin switcheroo and the coaching-search fiasco at Penn State make me glad I don't watch.
Which I don't. Let me know who wins.
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