Sports

8 team playoff.

5 champions of Power 5 leagues.
Top rated group of Five team (May be seeded no lower than 6) -- would like a mix of people and computers so that playing someone matters but since top teams duck these guys, not sure how to do that fairly (although the at large rule about using Strength of NONCONFERENCE schedule might help).

2 at large teams who MUST BE SEEDED 7 & 8. (Limit one at large per conference so that ESecPN cannot self promote a playoff with 3 SEC teams). These at large bids should be based on a combination of human ratings and things like strength of NONCONFERENCE schedule. [I am looking at you SEC teams most of whom play only cupcakes out of conference]. Notre Dame either joins a conference or is limited to at large as the 7 or 8 seed on the road for the first round.

Every D1 team can practice 14 times between November 15 and January 15 so that going to a bowl game does not give you extra practice time for the young guys. (This was the original reason for extra bowl games)

First round is home game for top 4 seeds. (Could even go neutral site bowl games)

That leaves 3 bowl games for semis and finals.

You could then have 16 bowls that people might watch with teams in the top 40 in the country because the teams would be good or at least watchable no more 6-6 vs 6-6 in a bowl game.

This also prevent small bowls from causing teams to lose a ton of money by not being able to sell tickets to a crappy game in a place that the fans do not want to go to (I am looking at you Pinstripe Bowl, Motor City Bowl, etc.)