Every Friday, the Friday Five will rank something in the world of college football -- anything and everything from the logical to the illogical. This week, we rank five possible college football resolutions for the new year.

It happens to all of us in the final week of December every year. We take a step back and look at the previous year of our lives. We look at how things have changed in our lives, for better and for worse, and we also look toward the future.

We plan out things we'd like to change going forward to help ensure that the next year will be better than the last, and then by February, we generally settle back into the same old routine we've always followed. Oh well, we tried, right? It's just I wasn't really thinking it through when I said I was going to swear off pizza.

It's just so damn good, you know? You shouldn't deny yourself it's incredible pleasures!

Anyway, just because we don't always stick to our New Year's resolutions doesn't mean we should stop making them. It's one thing to try and fail, and it's another to not try at all.

So it's in that spirit that for this week's Friday Five, I'm proposing five New Year's resolutions for college football. While they're ranked from No. 5 to No. 1, I'm not really putting a ton of emphasis on the order. These are just things I believe college football can do differently that would improve the sport on the whole.

Or, at the very least, things it should try.

5. Stop scheduling FCS opponents/More conference games: I was originally going to make these two separate resolutions, but they really do belong together because they're related. Listen, I know that for a lot of FCS schools, a paycheck game against an FBS team can basically balance the athletic department's budget for an entire year. I get that.

I just don't care. Yeah, it's cold-blooded, but at least I'll openly admit it. I just don't want to watch FBS teams steamroll these teams on an annual basis. I know that every once in a while an FCS team jumps up and picks somebody off, and that's fun, but for every FCS team that wins a game there are roughly 75 others losing by 30 points. The trade off just isn't worth it.

I'd rather see that game be used as another interesting non-conference matchup, or just being replaced with another conference game. I'm looking at you here, ACC and SEC. The Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 are all living that nine-game conference lifestyle. Maybe it's time you give it a shot too. With so many bowl games these days, it's not like those wins over FCS teams are as vital to gaining bowl eligibility as they used to be.

4. Less clock stoppages: College football games take a long time. When you're watching at home, each game is allotted a 3.5-hour block on your cable guide, but we all know the games rarely end that quickly. It's the equivalent of buying jeans with a 32-inch waist when you know you're a 36.

"I can squeeze in," you tell yourself as you hop around the dressing room, slamming into the wall to keep from falling.

While one way to speed things up would be less commercial breaks, we all know that's not going to happen. Television networks would rather sacrifice family members than give up ad revenue, so we need to look at other places to save some time.

One way would be to change some of the clock stoppage rules in college football. Specifically, we could end that whole thing where we stop the game clock on a first down to allow the refs to reset the chains. If we amend that rule to only include the final two minutes of play in each half -- ensuring more exciting finishes to games -- that would help shorten games quite a bit.

3. Less neutral site games: They're becoming the norm more than the exception, and I don't like it one bit. I understand that when it comes to huge non-conference matchups, schools prefer neutral sites because that way, you only have to schedule one game rather than a home-and-home.

Hey, playing Alabama once could be fun. Two years in a row is a bit much.

Still, part of what makes college football so special is the campus atmosphere and the traditions that go with it. So when you see Alabama and Florida State playing against one another in Atlanta, it's pretty cool, but think of how much better that game would be in Tuscaloosa or Tallahassee.

Keep the games on campus.

2. Revamp the targeting rules: In the United States, there's a rather basic and simple right afforded to every single citizen. When arrested for a crime, you are assumed innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof is placed on the prosecution.

So why is it that when it comes to targeting, you're automatically ejected, and then they can review it to prove your innocence and rescind the sentence? How about a system in which the targeting is called, and then after it's reviewed we can eject the player.

I know that it doesn't make a difference in the grand scheme of things, but it feels a lot better ethically. Also, while I'm terrified of giving officials even more power to have to make judgment calls, I'd like to see some guidelines set about what should lead to an ejection following a targeting call.

For example, the rules for what constitutes targeting can remain the same, but if the targeting is a result of the offensive player ducking his head, which leads to the helmet contact, the defender shouldn't be ejected. On the other hand, if the defender lowers his head and leads with the crown of his helmet, it's an ejection every single time.

1. Give players a cut of bowl/playoff/neutral site revenue: Yeah, we weren't getting out of here without bringing up the fact that this sport produces millions upon millions of dollars in revenue every year and the players definitely don't get their fair share. Now, this isn't an argument that players don't get anything. I understand the value of a college education, though if you look at the currently state of the economy and job market in this country, a college education isn't worth what it used to be, either, even if the price for one continues to rise.

Which is all the more reason players should receive a piece of the pie.

So all the extra money that comes in from bowl games, the playoff and those neutral site games the schools love so much? The players should get a share of that cash to split among themselves. I'm not saying it has to be 50 percent of the money, but it needs to be something.

The sky will not fall. The Earth will not open up and swallow us whole. All that will happen is that kids who work their asses off for their schools will be more fairly compensated for what they do. Nothing else will change.

The only reason not to so this is greed. Nothing more.

Honorable Mention: Adopt a relegation model