1. The season kicks off a week earlier. This will make the regular season end the weekend before Thanksgiving (as it did for the Big Ten up through 2009 or so*).

2. End conference championship games. Go back to having co-champions, like the Big Ten did forever and ever and ever. Amen.

3. Thanksgiving weekend is now an off week, which is important because...

4. The first three rounds of the CFP will be played at home stadiums on the first three weekends in December. (Though they shouldn't be, some of these games will be played on Friday nights at the behest of the wizened television gods.)

5. The field now has 16 teams in it. (Note: I don't necessarily want this, don't get mad at me. But it is inevitable. More first rounds games, more inclusion, more TV inventory -- we're not stopping that train. Might as well lean into it and get as many southern teams playing in northern stadia in December as we can.)

6. No seeding preference will be given to any conference champion. (There may still need to be automatic inclusion of the ACC champion, Big XII champion, and best G5 champion to avoid antitrust lawsuits or whatever, but they get seeded where they're ranked.)

7. The national championship game will be played at the Rose Bowl on January 1st. Yes, every year.

8. The other bowls can go back to being held whenever they want, choosing from the teams that don't make the CFP.

Bonus: Does this fix some of the transfer portal/recruiting calendar weirdness? Maybe?

What do you, my esteemed fellow commenters, think?

*Anyone remember 2006 when Ohio State had something like 53 days off between The Game and the BCS National Championship? Dark times.