It's actually a second step, the first coming years ago when conferences began having conference championship games. As I pointed out earlier in the other thread:
said by me :
It's not yet a final & fair solution, but that will now come within just a few short years when all of the D1 schools are part of 6 or 8 Super conferences. Almost all conferences currently have a real first round playoff, it's called the conference Championship game.
Theoretically, 8 D1 conferences (assuming they are about 16 teams each, 8 teams to a division, and a Conference title game [Round 1] between the two division champs) could tie into the 4 legacy BCS bowls for a 2nd round playoff. The 4 BCS bowl winners go into the above +1 playoff. [rounds 3 & 4]
This would be the completely equitable playoff system we all want.
This is a very good thing.
In this new system, there
are no AQ's! It won't take a "committee" to match the team that won their division, and won their conference championship, and won their bowl against another conference champion, to seed that team in the +1 rounds.
At the end of the day, every D1 player, from every D1 school, will be able to walk into their schools Winter conditioning program
knowing if they win out, they will play in the National title game.
It's a little goofy multi-part system, but it will be that 16-team playoff we want and satisfies all the hands in all of the money pots; Conferences/Bowls/BCS...and even adds a brand new money pot in the form of cities that bid for the Title game.