Hello college football fans. Now I know that before I start there are those of you that will not like my thoughts and ideas on this topic. One reason could be that your team has benefited from polls that are made by coaches and writers that dont watch the games and are bias. Another could be you love all these bowls and regularly go to the Carquest Bowl and love the atmosphere there, right.

   First thing to be done is start the season on the second to last saturday in August. Everyone that is, not just a few select teams that warm up on cupcakes (shout out to Lisa H. there).  No weeks off for 11 straight weeks of games. Yes 11, not 12. We cut back the number of games to 11 for a season. If that means that some schools in conferences will have to eliminate a cupcake to fulfill their conference quota, so be it.

   This has the season ending on or about the first weekend in November. The second saturday will be dedicated to conference championship games. Quick note to Pac-10, Big East and big-10, 'Get a title game quickly'.  The third weekend in November starts the 20 team playoff.  

   12 of the 20 spots are filled with the champions of the 12 major conferences.  The other 8 teams are chosen using the current BCS formula. This would give conferences like the SEC and Big-12, for example a chance to have their second best teams still in the hunt for the national title.

   The first saturday has four play-in games to get into the 16 team tournament. The teams, again, are seeded using the current BSC formula. The number 1,2,3 and 4 teams would get the winners of the four play-in games. The second week (fourth saturday of November) would have all 16 teams in action.

   The 5th saturday in November would have the final 8, 1st in December final four. Given some years its the month of December not November that has the 5 saturdays so adjust your calander accordingly.

   So now here we are, no bowls played yet but we have fairly decided who the teams to play in the championship are. The Championship game will be played on New Years day at 7:00pm eastern time. The rest of the big bowls (Rose, Orange, Fiesta and Sugar) are to be played earlier that day.

   This gives the bowls 3 weeks to get their teams invited and chances are they would like teams that were in the round of  8 but didnt make it to the championship game plus two tie in teams (see Rose Bowl with its Pac-10/Big-10). All the other bowls would start on the 22nd of December and run until the 31st of Dsecember.

   There would be plenty of time for these bowls to pick their teams from bith those that have been in the 20 team playoff and teams that were not in the 20 team playoff. Every bowl game would still be played, conference tie-ins could still be honored, and no team that would of gone to a bowl in the old pre-playoff system would miss a bowl.

   In a perfect world, one with all the bowls and a playoff, this is how it should be done. I know that there will be plenty of people that will find fault with this system but why? Are not the 2 best teams from the conferences (SEC, Big-12 just to throw a couple out there) getting a shot? Aren't we still giving the little guy a chance in letting all 12 conferences in? Isn't there still room for Navy and Notre Dame with the at-large bids?

   You could always revisit the system in say 3-4 years and then decide if there needs to be an expansion of the play-in teams by 4. This would give the top 8 teams a bye week and give you two straight saturdays of eight games of playoffs.

   I know that there will be nay-sayers out there. Those comitted to the BSC as it stands but that is a too-far from perfect system. Lets at least take the time to admit that. Better than before, yes. Good as it needs to be, never.