Joel Klatt's plan to fix the College Football Playoff

Finally, the 12-team College Football Playoff is here.

I love this for the sport and the introduction of the expanded postseason field led to a great regular season. It led to more meaningful games over the year as more teams were in the playoff hunt throughout the season. But that doesn't mean I don't have some issues with the field and the setup of the bracket, which I was reminded of after the reveal of the 12-team field on Sunday. While I don't think it's broken, there are a couple of issues I have with the committee and the structure of the playoff itself.

Here is how I would fix the College Football Playoff!

1. Create a scheduling committee of some sort

Simply put, I think we need to play more conference games. We need to have a centralized scheduling department in college football.

I've actually talked about that for years, so this isn't a new issue to me. Creating a scheduling department and implementing more conference games would allow us to iron out a clearer and more consistent path to each conference's title game. 

Remember, every power conference has gotten rid of divisions. So, now the two teams with the best conference records make the title game. But when you have fewer conference games, you create a greater possibility of a tie. There was a scenario in the SEC late in the season where eight teams possibly could've tied for first place. With the imbalanced schedules, there are unequal tiebreakers. 

In addition to the aforementioned examples, the imbalanced conference schedules benefited Penn State and hurt Ohio State. Penn State only played Ohio State of the three other playoff teams from the Big Ten and lost that game. Ohio State had to play all of the other three playoff teams from the Big Ten,