I proposed this solution.
All the Power Five Conference Champs Quality, with the top two seeds getting a bye.
Then you have the two best at-large teams play the week after the conference championship game to see who the sixth team is.
Then the week before New Years’, the 3 through 6 seeds play to determine the Semi-Finalists to play the 1 and 2 seeds on New Years’.
And I would stipulate that the best non-Power Five conference team qualifies for the at-large game, provided they are ranked in the Top 16 (so UCF would qualify automatically).
It’s not a good choice to allow the media to be involved in the selection of any NCAA sport competition. A long time ago I was a member of a junior college football team that was from the northern part of state, and we were schedule to play the southern champion based upon winning a heads up competition with the other good team in the north determined by winning record, the media decision, and choice of schedule difficulty.
We went into that game number two in the state, number 2 in the nation at JC level defined by the A.P., the largest of the sports media at that time.
When the game ended, we beat them by 18 points. The rankings came out on Monday, they were still number 1 and we were number 2 in the state and nation.
So much for media biase.
rwood