Wait I thought you hated the BCS Zack or was that Tilley? One of you fuckers were ranting about how much the BCS sucked and I pointed out that about 90% of the time the real champion won the damn thing anyways hahahaha. I used to be so anti-playoff thats its ridiculous looking back, but now after this SEC vs SEC bullshit that was decided by who, a computer and some coaches that dont even watch the games, I feel its time for one. You could keep the bowl games for teams that didn't make the playoffs, or you could even keep the "BCS" gams, just make them the locations of the 1/4 finals.
Say you make it a 12 team playoff, you could have "wild card" rounds for the bottom 4 teams at say a bowl such as The Cotton Bowl. Then have 4 1/4 final games at the Rose, Sugara, Fiesta, Orange. I also disagree with "its a season long testement not a hot streak at the end", its been proven that if you lose early in the season you stand a better chance to make the NC then a team that loses in week 11. You mean to tell me its fair for the team that went 10-0 and then lost to its rival by say 3 points (cough cough Michigan/OSU lol) to not make the NC, but a team loses by 3 points to its rival in week 4 or 5 (cough cough LSU/Bama) makes the NC?! Whats the difference, a loss is a loss in my eyes. I don't really care when it comes about. If division 2 and 3 schools can afford to fly their guys from location to location for playoff games, there is absolutely no reason what so ever that the big boys can't do it as well.
^^ This is just a rough idea, but with some fine tuning I think it could be pulled off in a manner that makes everyone happy...unless your that 13th team haha