MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – The man with the tan came with a plan.

Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin , his skin so bronzed he looked as if he just came off the sunny beach here, entered his session with reporters on Tuesday ready to pitch his idea for a 16-team College Football Playoff .

Kiffin's playoff plan looks like this:

Sixteen teams. Four rounds. No automatic bids. Every team must earn at-large selection. The selection process would involve analytics, combined with a human element.

This wasn’t my first time hearing Kiffin’s idea . He ran this plan past me when we spoke in March . At the time, I didn’t love Kiffin’s idea. I detect no irreparable flaw with the current 12-team playoff. I didn’t hate his idea, though. And I’m starting to like it more.

In the months since Kiffin first

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