true NC

There have been legitimate proposals to determine the college football NC mess since the 1980's.

Those who waste their time thinking the governing body actually gives a shit are wasting their breath. A true NC is not what they're after. To them it's only about the cha-ching. As long as that takes place during bowl season, nothing else matters to them.

Nonetheless, here is the simplest and a viable scenario. Have #1 play #4 and #2 play #3 in two minor bowl games around Dec 22nd. The winners of those two face off in the NC game around Jan 7th-8th.

This would give these top four teams more than ample time to prepare, even if they did play in a Conference championship game the first weekend in December (approx two weeks). It would subsequently provide an additional three weeks from the early bowl game to recoup and prepare for the NC game.

It is not unreasonable to give the top four teams in the land an extra game. This behooves more than giving a bowl game to 6-win No Name State...just because.

There is also the myth mentioned by some that the fans of #1 through #4 won't travel to two bowl games well. If you really believe that, you have no concept of the reality in collegiate sports. The semifinal games and the NC game will both sell out and the stands will be full.