So by now we’ve heard about nearly every other possible playoff setup - 4 teams, 6 teams, 16 teams (twice!), even ditching the system entirely and going back to 2 teams.
Let me just tell you, all of those setups are wrong.
The obvious - and only - answer is an 8-team playoff. So, why don’t you just ruminate, while I illuminate the possibilities!
It all stems from the single biggest flaw of the current system - in the best case scenario any given year, one of the Power 5 conferences is left out of the playoffs.