BCS Recommends Four Team Playoff

Gator Bill · Apr 26, 2012

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- The reality of a college football playoff got another step closer Thursday when the BCS announced it was recommending a four-team playoff beginning in 2014. Commissioners, Notre Dame statement

"We will continue to meet and review the exact structure for what a new postseason could look like," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said. "We are making substantial progress. We will present to our conferences a very small number of four-team options, each of which could be carried out in a number of ways."

The proposed playoff models, not specified by the BCS, likely will include:

• A four-team playoff with the semifinals and final rotated among the existing BCS bowl games (Sugar, Fiesta, Orange and Rose).

• A four-team playoff with the semifinals rotated among the existing BCS bowl games with the final held at a neutral site. The site of the final would be determined by a bid process, similar to how the Super Bowl is awarded.

• A four-team playoff with the semifinals and final held at either the existing BCS bowl game sites or neutral sites, determined by a bid process.

The BCS also announced there will no longer be automatic qualifier and non-AQ conferences, but the power leagues (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) likely will still earn more revenue than other leagues. A big unknown is whether the Big East will still be compensated as an AQ conference.

The options, which the conferences will present to their individual schools, must ultimately be approved by the NCAA Presidential Oversight Committee. Bill Hancock said he hopes to have that to the committee by July 4.
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Terry O'Keefe · Apr 26, 2012

A step in the right direction. Of course the devil will be in the details and how the money is split. I took it that BCS conferences will no longer get autobid for their conference champion. That's long overdue. It won't affect things very often but if a conference has an upset, that's great for that team but they shouldn't immediately jump into the highest level of the post season because of it. It's like giving a basketball team that had an improbable run to a post season conf tourney championship a #1 seed.

Motorcity Gator · Apr 26, 2012

Don't like it....if unbeaten McNeese State can't get in to the playoff then it's a frigging beauty contest...... :wink: 8)

Shoot....a team like that would have given Bama a real run for their money in New Orleans......I just know it......especially because Bama would probably have been playing their 20th game of the season in a real playoff and would have been all tuckered out for the boys from ol MCNSU.
:lol:

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