[Editor's note: This is part of a series examining the real world constraints on any proposed post season design. For the previous entries is is best to start at the introduction of the series. This constraint has been added since this series started and will be moved to #4 in the introduction. The title will be fixed once the series is complete.]

Finally, a criteria that the BCS fails to achieve! Talonk's design would meet this criteria. If fact, Talonk's designs would tend to align somewhere between the Enhanced Bowl System and the Wetzel Plan in almost every criteria.

Many playoff designers express the ideal that all conference champions should be allowed to participate. This would guarantee access to all teams every year and maintain the historical emphasis on winning the conference.

This also requires a minimum of eleven teams and four rounds which would add pressure to several other constraints. Some conferences do not always crown an outright champion and co-championships are often poorly considered.

Plans allowing all conference champions also tend to minimize issues of how to fairly account for independents.

Now for a look at how several designs fair with this constraint:

Old Bowl System

The old bowl system regularly failed to determine a consensus national champion. This is one of the motivating factors that drove the formation of the BCS.

BCS

The BCS does not even guarantee access to all undefeated teams to their exclusive bowl games, much less all conference champions access to the national championship game.

A Tier Based Plus-One

All conference champions would not be invited to the four team championship design. Some conference champions would not qualify for a second bowl but could still automatically qualify for a BCS bowl.

More conference champions would have an opportunity to earn a spot each year if undefeated teams are given priority, significantly expanding the national championship field.

A Flexible Championship System

Even in years with a maximal eight teams, not all conference champions would participate. With a wider field more opportunities are open for a larger group of conference champions and all undefeated conference champions.

MWC Proposal

Eight teams is not enough to allow all conference champions. It would allow all major contenders to participate and compellingly allows a spot for automatic qualifying conference champions with multiple losses outside the tournament.

Enhanced Bowl Season

The Enhanced Bowl System maintains the current automatic qualifying conference champions and supplements them with any conference champions or independents in the top 12.

While not guaranteeing access to all conferences every year, this would allow them all to prove they should participate.

Voters would likely support an undefeated team's push for a #12 spot and the current computers used by the BCS heavily favor undefeated teams.

The Wetzel Plan

Dan Wetzel vehemently includes all eleven conference champions. He fails to address how he would handle conferences that allow co-champions.