The College Football Playoff is not expanding.

All six bowl games that rotate to host playoff semifinals are locked in for eight more years. There’s already been four playoffs, and the original television contract was for 12 years, so the math adds up correctly.

All of the talking heads calling for, predicting, demanding and expecting an expansion of the CFP every season – when it looks like a tough selection process – can keep on wagging the chins. It’s the same people who wanted this playoff over the old BCS because, you know, the future of all civilization was at stake.

But they can take heed, for contracts were made to be torn up and re-did two days later. Just ask any wide receiver of your favorite professional football team. There is still hope they will be proven right because, again, a civilized society depends on it.

But if the system does stick to its plan, and University of Georgia football proceeds on its path to total domination, we can look forward to championship games in places like New Orleans, Miami, Indianapolis and a stadium that’s only a blueprint right now, the long-awaited Hollywood Park facility in Inglewood, Calif.

I’m not the only one who takes a cynical approach to what we hear year after year before and during a football season. “Babblefest” is how one fellow columnist described Southeastern Conference Media Days held last week, and I am sure the label applies to all the other Media Days conferences put on either last week or this.

What this particular piece had was a list of all the common, heard-it-before sayings that come out of both coaches’ and players’ mouths about the pressure to win, the need to take care of the little things and play one day, one snap at a time.

Me, I would love to go on a big nationwide tour of every major Division I football program on their first day of preseason workouts, when everybody from freshmen to senior walk-ons report in and get ready to go full speed and ‘win the day’ for the first time. There are 129 of these schools in the Bowl Subdivision, and at about 120 of them I would say just one thing:

“Congratulations on making it to this level, be careful out there and give it your all. Oh, and by the way, you have absolutely no chance of being in the College Football Playoff.”

How is that for honesty? I would say that from Arizona to Vanderbilt. To all the programs in Oregon, Kansas and North Carolina. If your school starts with a capital I, sorry, no playoff for you in 2018. 2019’s not looking good either.

When I did the recent research on all NCAA D-I champions of the 2017-18 year, I found that the NCAA recognized four national champions in football. North Dakota State is a Championship Subdivision power with six titles in the last seven years. Texas A&M-Commerce ruled the division of Valdosta State, Albany State and Ft. Valley State (II). Finally, Mt. Union is the reigning standard in Division III.

Sorry, no mention of Central Florida (UCF) as a national champion. Sorry, still, but the ‘no chance of being in CFP’ speech also has to be made at every Group of 5 program. That includes the Georgia Sunbelts (Southern and State).

Yes, UCF did not lose a game in 2017. When the Knights or Boise State or Northern Illinois have this kind of season, the great argument is that they took care of their business without a blemish. Great, but it can also be interpreted as, you beat everybody but played nobody.

UCF did beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl! Yes, an Auburn team bumming over how they were there despite wins over both Georgia and Alabama in the regular season not to mention having a star running back less than 100 percent healthy.

For all the people who want to see expanded playoffs, here is a better idea. Be prepared for a great unveiling of a great experiment. Just try it for one year.

What I am about to propose would not add any games to the schedule. The end result would be no different than what we’ve seen in the past four years with the playoffs … with an obvious exception, or else this would not be a great suggestion.

Right now, we have six major bowls, two of which are designated as semifinals. Those winners know they are meeting for the national championship, while the other four games are just great matchups … on paper anyway. Those winners only have the offseason ahead of them, and they know it going in.

What if all six of those games could possibly be a ticket to the title game? Key word: possibly. There’s your exception.

It would start before the whole season begins. There would be a lottery-type drawing involving the six bowl games. This determines a selection order that would be done at the end of the season, when all conference championships are decided.

Now, we have a CFP committee whose big job is to make a ranking. They decide who are in the semifinals now. There job in this plan is to make a final top 16 ranking of which teams they felt were the best of the season. A special condition is there must be at least one Group of 5 team in there. But it’s not limited to one.

This is the fun part. In the randomly set order of selection, bowl representatives from the one with the first choice can pick any team they want from the top 16. The next bowl game can chose anyone from the remaining 15, and so on until all six bowls have one team.

For the opposing team in these games, reverse the order of selection, so whoever picked last the first go-through picks first the second time.

The same condition applies: somebody from the Group of 5 in the ranking must be taken, even if it’s the last pick.

So you have your six big bowl games with 12 teams (Yes, four get left out, there’s always a snub factor in sports it seems. They can have fun in Orlando, San Antonio or San Diego.). Play those six games, and you get six winners, just like you do already. Which two are going to play for the championship?

That’s where the committee comes back into the picture. They make the rankings. Let them vote on which two bowl winners should play in the last game. So being impressive in victory as opposed to lucking out with a lackluster effort is very important. All the better to debate over the start of the New Year. Again, four winners get left out, which is exactly what happens now.

Debate this: Does UCF defeat Auburn if a title opportunity is at stake?