It is the offseason for football, and my basketball bracket is completely destroyed, so I am going to take a moment to layout my thoughts on a frequent college football topic: playoff expansion.

I am opposed to playoff expansion for the simple reason that there aren't typically enough teams that matter or could actually win. In fact, I'd rather see Division I football contraction (basketball and other sports would remain unchanged) into four conferences and only have the conference champs reach the playoffs each year.

Why? Let me lay this out:

-The below teams/conferences include every single team that has won a playoff championship, a BCS championship, an AP championship or a UPI/Coaches for the LAST FIFTY YEARS. The only teams I left out are one-time winners Pittsburgh and BYU.

-The below teams/conferences account for the committed school  of 87% of all five star recruits over the last 20 years.

-The below teams/conferences account for 58% of all NFL first round draft picks over the last 20 years. 

It would be very difficult to argue that any other team has an actual shot at competitiveness. 

Division 1 could be reduced to these 24 teams and account for all of the above. For simplicity's sake I have gone ahead and put them into 4 conferences from which the champions would go to the playoffs but certainly the conferences could be different.

CONFERENCE 1 (Southwest?)

Alabama

Florida

LSU

Auburn

Tennessee

Texas A&M

CONFERENCE 2 (Southeast?)

Clemson

Miami

Florida State

Georgia

Virginia Tech

Georgia Tech

CONFERENCE 3 (Northeast?)

Ohio State

Nebraska

Notre Dame

Penn State

Michigan

West Virginia

CONFERENCE 4 (Northwest?)

Oklahoma

USC

Texas

Washington

Oregon

Colorado

That's it folks. That is all it takes to encompass any legitimate chance of college football success. Additionally, each of those conferences have definite bottom-feeders- teams that were once great but haven't achieved that level consistently in recent times (Miami, Florida State, Michigan, USC, Tennessee), and yet each conference also has one of the recent four dominant teams (Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma). 

Tell me watching a home and home versus the other five teams in our conference, followed by a four team playoff of the conference champs would not be amazing. Try to make the case for somebody not in that list. 

Forget playoff expansion. We need to shrink D1.Thoughts?