The "BCS v. Playoffs" debate is always intense (if not fun) but it rarely gets us anywhere.  I think it would best be described as WWI-style trench warfare.  Every once in a while one side takes a new trench only to lose it back to the other side, leaving only the expended words and wasted hours as evidence that any exchange ever took place.  With that in mind, I'd like to shift the argument to other aspects of college football that I believe should receive as much attention, from which the sport stands to gain if the proper adjustments are implemented.  And so, without further ado and in no particular order, here are my suggestions for changes that I believe the NCAA should take under consideration.

• Reorganization: Every conference should have the same number of teams and play under the same general rules.  I think ten team conferences that play a nine-game conference schedule (like the Pac-10) followed by a championship game on neutral ground (like the SEC, Big XII and ACC) is the best model.  Moreover, the three remaining (non-conference) games should include a minimum of one BCS opponent and a maximum of one FCS opponent.  Every team that wishes to be eligible for the BCS must join one of twelve newly reorganized conferences.  I'm not sure which schools would end up where, so I won't speculate to that.  The schools that get bumped out of the current BCS conferences should not fret, however, because of my next point.
• Relegation: It seems that every year now, some non-BCS conference pumps out a juggernaut (for their level of play, at least) that crashes the big bowl party, but not before a great deal of contraversy about their worthiness.  These teams are now 2-1 in BCS bowls, with a blowout win (35-7 Utah over Pitt in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl), a blowout loss (41-10 Georgia over Hawai'i in the 2008 Sugar Bowl) and, in my humble opinion, the greatest college football game ever played (43-42 Boise State over Oklahoma in OT of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl).  They deserve their seat at the table and the current system provides for one, but we should and could go one step further.  What if these teams had the ability to play their way into BCS conferences?  First, you partner every major conference with one of the lesser ones and, when one of the small-time schools wins 8 more games than any of its big-time counterparts, they take their place.  The tandems would likely be as follows: SEC and Sun Belt, Pac-10 and WAC, Big XII and Mountain West, Big Ten and MAC, Big East and Conference USA, ACC and Independents/New-Conference.  This would only affect a handful of teams per year, but it would be interesting and exciting.  We would finally know how well Boise State would fare in the Pac-10 or if the dredges of the Big Ten could dominate the MAC!  There are all sorts of kinks with this one and I'd love for you guys to pick at it until I work them all out, but it's a fun one that I just thought up.
• Bowling: I don't mind that there are a seemingly infinite AND ever-increasing number of bowl games out there, but they need to be sorted out.  The BCS National Championship Game reigns supreme, with a second echelon known as the BCS (Sugar, Rose, Fiesta and Orange) Bowls.  There's even a quasi-distinct third tier that includes the Cotton, Outback, Chick-fil-A, Capital One - and perhaps the Gator - bowls.  I'd like for them to be organized into groups of four and I'd really like it if the rigid conference match-ups were eliminated.  The Big Game would get the top two teams in the country, then the BCS Bowls would do the same (without picking more than two from any conference), followed by the third tier of four bowls doing the same and so on.  That way it wouldn't be BCS or Humanitarian Bowl outcome for schools like BCS and others like Ball State could hope for something better than the Motor City Bowl.  It would also serve to knock the big boys that get by on the strength and tradition of their BCS conferences down a peg to where they should be.  Hell, I think everyone with a winning record should get to go to a bowl game so long as the match-ups are compelling. 

Well, I'll leave it at that for now.  Feel free to post your own or simply criticise mine in the comments.  The point of this post is to start a conversation about the general idea (changes you'd like to make to college football) as well as my specifics.  I always think it's fun to debate these and rarely ever do they lead to real arguments.  And with that, I'm off to bed.  Go Gators!