The Playoff For The Playoff: UNLV Head Coach Dan Mullen Is Pitching The Group of 6 Champions Play Each Other To Get 2 Bids For The New CFP

There's all this talk about what the hell this sport is going to be next year when it's 24 teams in the playoff. People asking if conferences still matter: 

You have people saying how this is the death to small schools because of the requirement to play 10 power 4 conference games. That means teams are going to want to schedule Maryland, Rutgers, Arkansas, those sort of teams. That's where Dan Mullen is chiming in. 24 teams, everyone in the world just knows it means we're getting more middling SEC/Big 10 schools. 

Well, what about what Dan Mullen is throwing out there? I don't dislike it. I mean we've ruined everything with expansion already so what about a real Champions Classic? You win one of the group of 6 conferences, you play someone else for a bid to the main event. It's not a bad idea. Respects the Army/Navy game where you play around that. Play the G6 champions on Friday and keep Army/Navy as the solo game on Saturday. 

Here's the thing. The normal answer would be to just pick the 24 teams since conference championship games are going away. If there are two G6 teams, so be it. But I don't hate this. Nothing makes sense in the sport anymore. Nothing makes sense in college anymore. So if you win a G6 conference, you advance to this mini tournament. Draw names to see who you play and then line up. Or play 1v4 and 2v3 based on CFP rankings. That or just go to the BASEketball model: 

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There just has to be a happy medium somewhere here. We tried doing just polls for champions, that was dumb. The BCS had flaws but made sense. The 4-team playoff we tried, then 12 and now 24. Somewhere there's a medium. But at least give me someone like Dan Mullen trying to figure out how to get people involved.