Give each team a BYE week. If we started this calender year. First game on september 1 and rivalry game november 10. Selection Sunday November 18. 

First Round games are on Friday and Saturday of thanksgiving weekend (NFL gets to keep thursday and sunday for that week)

round of 32 on the December 1st round of 16 on december 8 BYE december 15 round of 8 December 22 5th round of 4 december 29 2 more weeks to prepare for championship game January 12

millions more in revenue from these extra games and the toll not that much more except for a few extra teams who made it to the sweet 16 or beyond.

But the folks at the ncaa office are scared that beloved alabama might not make it past the elite 8 and we can't have that so... we like our popularity contest playoff instead.