Division A	Division B	Division C	Division D	Division E
North	West	South	South	West
Washington	Arizona	New Mexico	Tulsa	Michigan
Washington St.	Arizona St.	New Mexico St.	Oklahoma	Michigan St.
Oregon	UNLV	UTEP	Oklahoma St.	Western Michigan
Oregon St.	Nevada	Texas A&M	Kansas	Central Michigan
Stanford	Boise St.	Houston	Kansas St.	Eastern Michigan
California	Idaho	Rice	Missouri	Ball St.
South	East	North	North	East
SJSU	Utah	Texas Tech	Wyoming	Illinois
FSU	Utah St.	Texas	Iowa	Northern Illinois
USC	BYU	TCU	Iowa St.	Northwestern
UCLA	Colorado	SMU	Wisconsin	Notre Dame
SDSU	Colorado St.	North Texas	Minnesota	Purdue
Hawaii	Air Force	Baylor	Nebraska	Indiana
Division F	Division G	Division H	Division I	Division J
South	West	North	West	North
Louisville	Tennessee	Boston College	LA-Lafayette	Clemson
Kentucky	Middle Tennessee St.	Connecticut	LA-Monroe	South Carolina
Marshall	Memphis	Army	Louisiana St.	Florida St
West Virginia	Vanderbilt	Buffalo	Tulane	Florida
Cincinnati	Arkansas	Syracuse	Southern Mississippi	Georgia
Ohio	Arkansas St.	Rutgers	Louisiana Tech	Georgia Tech
North	East	South	East	South
Toledo	East Carolina	Pittsburgh	Alabama	Central Florida
Kent St	Wake Forest	Temple	UAB	South Florida
Akron	North Carolina	Penn St.	Auburn	Miami
Bowling Green	North Carolina St.	Maryland	Troy St.	Florida International
Ohio St	Duke	Navy	Mississippi	Florida Atlantic
Miami (OH)	Virginia Tech	Virginia	Mississippi St.
State by State Analysis		Division Breakdown by State
Alabama (4)		Division A - CA, HI, OR, WA
Arizona (2)		Division B - AZ, ID, NV, UT, CO
Arkansas (2)		Division C - TX, NM
California (7)		Division D - WY, NE, KS, OK, MN, WI, IA, MO
Colorado (3)		Division E - MI, IL, IN
Connecticut (1)		Division F - OH, KY, WV
Florida (7)		Division G - AR, TN, NC, MO
Georgia (2)		Division H - NY, PA, NJ, MA, CT, MD, VA
Hawaii (1)		Division I - FL, GA, SC
Idaho (2)		Division J - LA, MS, AL
Illinois (3)
Indiana (4)
Iowa (2)
Kansas (2)
Kentucky (2)
Louisiana (5)
Maryland (2)
Massachusetts (1)
Michigan (5)
Minnesota (1)
Mississippi (3)
Missouri (1)
Nebraska (1)
Nevada (2)
New Jersey (1)
New Mexico (2)
New York (3)
North Carolina (5)
Ohio (8)
Oklahoma (3)
Oregon (2)
Pennsylvania (3)
South Carolina (2)
Tennessee (4)
Texas (10)
Utah (3)
Virginia (2)
Washington (2)
West Virginia (2)
Wisconsin (1)
Wyoming (1)
The proposed schedule for each team would be:
(5) intra-division games - two divisions of six schools each within each conference.
(3) inter-division games
(3) inter-conference games
(1) conference championship game for each division winner
(2) Byes - one after the non-conference games, and one after the conference championship game.
There will be 12 conference winners and 4 at-large invites to make up a playoff pool of 16 schools.
Then there will be four rounds of playoffs. I will also make up a consolation bracket of 16 schools who are invited to play one bowl game.
So lets examine a probable schedule for USC if my format was in play this past season:
9/3 - @ ASU
9/10 - @ ND
9/17 - Arkansas
9/24 - Bye
10/1 - FSU
10/8- @ Cal
10/15 - WSU
10/22 - @ Hawaii
10/29 - SJSU
11/5 - @ SDSU
11/12 - OSU
11/19 - UCLA
11/26 - Conference Championship Game (vs. Oregon)
12/3 - Bye
12/10 - First Round (vs. Iowa)
12/17 - Second Round (vs. Miami)
12/24 - Semi-Finals (vs. Penn St.)
12/31 - National Championship Game (vs. Texas)
Football season = 18 weeks - less than the NCAA basketball season.
Thus, critics cannot complain about amout of school missed, especially with the last two weeks being during winter break.
Accommodations will need to be made for finals though.