As long as there are crappy teams like Northwestern and Vanderbilt in the Big 10 and SEC, then there should be at least another conference (Big 12) full of the remaining teams that are better than them. With 16 teams, a conference can still feel like a conference. Not sure at 18 or 20. 24 teams is ridiculous. With 12 playoff spots it will sort itself out. The better conferences will get more teams in than the weak conferences, but they still matter. Even if they only get a team or two in. The best cast for me is to get to 3 conferences of 20 and stop there. In a typical playoff, the Big might get 4-5 teams, the SEC 4-5 teams, the Big 12 2-3 and maybe 0-1 comes from the rest. So to get there the following adds make sense: Big 10 - Notre Dame and UNC SEC - FSU, Miami, Clemson, UVA Big 12 - VT, Pitt, Louisville, Duke Best homeless: NC State, Georgia Tech, Stanford, WSU, Oregon St, Syracuse, UConn, Villanova, SD State