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BCS Talking 4 Team Playoff
I know you guys already know of this.....article from Bleacher Report...........
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Words that college football fans have been longing to hear are beginning to originate from all the right places.
A college football playoff is in the works.
This playoff is not a done deal, but serious discussions are taking place, and it leads observers to feel confident that a playoff will become a reality.
Brett McMurphy of CBS Sports presents the latest sentiment that instills this confidence.
While sources at the meeting said a four-team plus-one format looks likely when the new BCS format starts in two years, BCS executive director Bill Hancock stressed the meetings were “very broad and analytical” and that no decisions were reached.
While Hancock stressed that the discussions were broad, another source indicated to McMurphy that the format for this playoff is taking shape, and that format is going to involve four teams. McMurphy:
"I would say obviously eight or 16 team (playoff formats) are not on the radar screen," said a person attending the four-hour plus BCS meetings Tuesday at the Dallas-Fort Worth Grand Hyatt Hotel.
What This Means
This means that the playoff system is picking up momentum. This isn't going to take a huge amount of changes to make this system a reality, and it will be met by rabid enthusiasm by the public.
They will still have the task of getting all of the conferences on board, and that means intense negotiations of monetary dispersal.
While that task cannot be underestimated, the fact that they are discussing it at all needs to absolutely be seen as a positive and huge step towards a playoff.
What Happens Next
Along with getting everyone on board with the monetary arrangements they will have to devise a specific system.
This doesn't have to be a complicated process. They can essentially keep the same system they have now.
Every bowl could still exist. They could rotate the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl to house the two games that would determine the plus-one championship game.
They could keep the current BCS poll to determine the participants of these games, and while this is an imperfect process, it will be a lot more tolerable knowing that it is part of a playoff.
Seeding could be used to determine those matchups. The No. 1 team playing the No. 4 team, and the Nos. 2 and 3 teams squaring off in the other.
Then the winners meet for one final showdown that would give the NCAA a legitimate champion.
How do you feel about this........
Andy Lyons/Getty Images
Words that college football fans have been longing to hear are beginning to originate from all the right places.
A college football playoff is in the works.
This playoff is not a done deal, but serious discussions are taking place, and it leads observers to feel confident that a playoff will become a reality.
Brett McMurphy of CBS Sports presents the latest sentiment that instills this confidence.
While sources at the meeting said a four-team plus-one format looks likely when the new BCS format starts in two years, BCS executive director Bill Hancock stressed the meetings were “very broad and analytical” and that no decisions were reached.
While Hancock stressed that the discussions were broad, another source indicated to McMurphy that the format for this playoff is taking shape, and that format is going to involve four teams. McMurphy:
"I would say obviously eight or 16 team (playoff formats) are not on the radar screen," said a person attending the four-hour plus BCS meetings Tuesday at the Dallas-Fort Worth Grand Hyatt Hotel.
What This Means
This means that the playoff system is picking up momentum. This isn't going to take a huge amount of changes to make this system a reality, and it will be met by rabid enthusiasm by the public.
They will still have the task of getting all of the conferences on board, and that means intense negotiations of monetary dispersal.
While that task cannot be underestimated, the fact that they are discussing it at all needs to absolutely be seen as a positive and huge step towards a playoff.
What Happens Next
Along with getting everyone on board with the monetary arrangements they will have to devise a specific system.
This doesn't have to be a complicated process. They can essentially keep the same system they have now.
Every bowl could still exist. They could rotate the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl to house the two games that would determine the plus-one championship game.
They could keep the current BCS poll to determine the participants of these games, and while this is an imperfect process, it will be a lot more tolerable knowing that it is part of a playoff.
Seeding could be used to determine those matchups. The No. 1 team playing the No. 4 team, and the Nos. 2 and 3 teams squaring off in the other.
Then the winners meet for one final showdown that would give the NCAA a legitimate champion.
How do you feel about this........
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