Right now, if you lose in week one and you are not Alabama, Ohio State, or Clemson (or maybe another SEC team), your season is over and the other 11 games DO NOT MATTER. This means MOST games do not matter.
Want to make more games matter? Make conference titles an guaranteed qualifier for P5, and highest ranked G5 champ also gets in. Now a huge number of games are played at playoff intensity!!
Its the current structure that waters down the regular season.