Only took 3 games to establish that 12 are 4 teams too many. Huge gap between the top 6-8 teams and everyone else. Besides, I don't want the 12th best team in the country to have even a puncher's chance at winning the NC.
Go to 8 teams. Eliminate the pre-Christmas first round. Play the big bowl games between Christmas and New Year's Day, with the top teams allowed to select their venue in order of seeding. Then play the semis a week later in places like Vegas, Dallas, Atlanta, and Indy, and the Finals in mid-January.
No byes based upon seeding ....and I go the other way with 16 teams. not 12....and they need a new formula for deciding the top teams and seeding.....won lost record should not be the deciding factor when some schools play nobodies...