http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8041193/college-football-bcs-meetings-primer ....Commissioners of the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick will meet in Chicago on Wednesday, when they're expected to begin hammering out details of a potential four-team playoff.... ....After this week's meetings, the FBS commissioners will be back in Chicago next week for the NCAA Division I Conference Commissioners Association meeting. The FBS commissioners are expected to meet for a half-day on June 20, according to Hancock, and they might come out of that meeting with a proposal to take to the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, which is scheduled to meet in Washington, D.C., on June 26....
Sounds like something will be decided, hope so. As you've maintained, the important thing is to establish some sort of a playoff, if only to see, the current system being burnt to the ground. Paraphrasing mctiger, once the big-shots see how the money rolls in, the playoffs will be expanded in short order. I like the idea of an 8 team playoff, where the 5 highest ranked conference champions are in, with the last playoff spots filled by 3 remaining teams, chosen as "most deserving".
Of course any way you chop it up, there's always someone who's gonna bitch and moan about the current system, the seeding, being left out, blah blah blah.
Well I'm pumped, just with the mere thought that 4 teams get a shot at this thing. Guys like Delany, show how much pride and prejudice can get in the way of common sense and practical thinking. Given his recent self-rehabilitation, perhaps some of these folks are finally getting past life's most difficult obstacle, themselves. No sport has suffered more then college football. The top 4 teams on a neutral field is NOT too much to ask. It's not a real playoff, but it ain't quite the beauty contest we have all been accustom to.
Now you're talking a 16 game season. That's too many. 15 is a stretch considering how beaten up kids are after the bowl games alone.
The two teams in the National Championship would play 16 games, the losing semifinalists 15. Very few teams would be affected,..still it's a valid concern. Big $$$ talks though, I'll bet they find a way to expand relatively soon. Maybe eliminate an ooc game,.. how about expanding the rosters and Starting the Season Earlier!!! Where there's a will, there's a way.
