I agree that 16 teams is too many. But not for your reasoning.
If state champion high school teams can end up with 16 games (and they do in PA), then a handful of college teams could play that many games.
Bottom line is that we need to work with 4 teams here for a while to see how it goes.
People used to argue about who was #1. Then we got the BCS.
And people agrued about who should be #2.
Now, we can argue about who is #4.
Having 4 super conferences would be the logical way to do it, with conference championships being de facto quarterfinals.
Can’t we enjoy the fact right now that we don’t have Oregon playing OSU in the Roase Bowl while FSU plays someone else in the Sugar Bowl?
At least we get an actual bona fide tournament this year.
I agree we should celebrate the progress rather than whine about the imperfections.