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You’re not wrong… you’re right on the verge of a legitimate merit based playoff. It’s where we should’ve gone before all of the powers started concentrating in just two conferences.
The only good ideas are the ones that bring more money to the conferences. You could schedule two TBD non-conference games to each team somewhere in weeks 8-11, one home and one away. Then after week 4 assign the matchups via auction based on the promise shown so far in the season. Each team's possible matchups are those with TBD-away the same week you're TBD-home and vice versa.
The hype for the auction process itself and the auction matchup games would be more lucrative than matchups that were decided years in advance. Meanwhile, each team's home, bye, and away weeks are established at the regular time so the facilities and fans can make plans accordingly-- only the opponent is not known until a month or two from kickoff.
How great would it be to go back about 40 years and seed conference champs in a legit playoff? Back then they said it couldn’t be done. Too bad.. now they are right.