Six conferences of 11 teams = 66 teams (64 current Power 5 members plus Notre Dame and BYU).
12-game regular season along with an exhibition opener.
Everybody schedules an "exhibition" game at home against a FCS team in late August.
Everybody plays two non-conference games:
- One at home versus a Group of 5 team
- One home or away (rotating two-year contracts) against another FBS team
Everybody plays round-robin conference schedule of 10 games (5 home, 5 away).
Six conference champs are seeded for playoffs much in the same way the NFC/AFC does it:
- Second Saturday in December is for "wild-card games" with No. 6 at No. 3 and No. 5 at No. 4
- Jan. 1 is for semifinals in traditional bowls (no change from current system)
- Second Monday in January is for title game (no change)
Nebraska (like everyone else in this system) would get either seven or eight home "dates" every year depending on the second non-conference game, whether it's home or away. The extra "exhibition" game would create revenue for the school, but it could also be sold like a second spring game in which non-season-ticket holders get a chance to purchase tickets on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Nebraska would be part of a reconstituted Big Eight, with the original eight along with three Texas schools (you pick).
So a typical schedule for NU might look like this:
Aug. 25 vs. South Dakota State (exhibition)
Sept. 1 vs. Northern Illinois
Sept. 8 at Penn State
Sept. 15 Kansas State
Sept. 22 at Missouri
Sept. 29 Texas Tech
Oct. 6 at Oklahoma State
Oct. 13 Colorado
Oct. 20 at Texas
Oct. 27 OFF
Nov. 3 Texas A&M
Nov. 10 at Iowa State
Nov. 17 at Kansas
Nov. 24 Oklahoma
Dec. 8 Playoff Round 1 (No. 6 at No. 3; No. 5 at No. 4)
Jan. 1 Rose Bowl (No. 3/6 vs. No. 2)
Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl (No. 4/5 vs. No. 1)
Jan. 14 Championship game