Six wins are required for bowl eligibility.

Others have suggested neutral sites which I would guess would be in warm climates.

The neutral site schemes as well as the home game schemes have serious problems.

If Syracuse played Ohio State in one of the rounds in Tucson who would attend the game?

Would a huge contingent of Syracuse and Ohio State followers make the trip to Tucson?  Maybe. But certainly not enough to fill U of Arizona's stadium.  Filling the place would require that the game be a strong local draw. Would that happen (this year's ACC championship game between Boston College and Virginia Tech was played in Tampa.  Nice day, many, many empty seats.  The game had no local appeal and that was in Florida, a state loaded with expatriates from the north)?

What would happen with the winning school's followers if their team won and advanced to the next round?  Would they troop on to the next site? Ever made a long trip to a bowl game? Know how much it costs? Would fans hold back on the first round anticipating attendance in round two?

My point is that the playoff games could very well become nothing more than boutique games, lightly attended, completely lacking the color and pagentry of a college football game.

If the playoff games are played at bowl sites then what happens to the other bowls? How would those games be regarded?

Today college coaches are fired on a regular basis if they have a bad season or two at schools with even moderate expectations. Imagine the carnage if coach Big Time went for 3 or 4 seasons without making the playoffs? How many millions will some well heeled schools pay for a coach that they think will get them to the playoffs?

Offer a scenario like this to the people who actually pay for tickets and attend games and ask them what they think.

People who make statements like this:

There is no reason - none - that there is not a college football playoff.

Teresa: "They need to realign the Big 12 or something."

A couple of years from now, the power will inevitably swing back to the Big XII North.

Remember, only a decade ago, Texas A&M was the class of the south division, and Oklahoma and Texas were pretty much Nowheresville, U.S.A. when it came to football. In fact, many people considered Nebraska and Kansas State to be the best teams in the conference

Further, it wasn't all that long ago in an historical sense that I watched the Longhorns have their flank steaks handed to them well done by Brigham Young, 47-6, and UCLA, 66-3. The latter was the worst defeat in UT history, and to make matters totally embarrassing, it was at home in Austin before the Longhorn faithful.

And it was just last year that Alabama was losing at home to Louisiana-Monroe of the Sunbelt Conference. Four years ago, the Tide got rolled twice in the same season by the MAC's Northern Illinois and the WAC's Hawaii.

The point I'm making is this: Some years particular teams and conferences are up, and at other times they're down on their luck. That's The nature of college football.