BCS plus-one format gains momentum


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DALLAS – There are still a myriad of things to determine how the Bowl Championship Series’ postseason format ultimately will look like in 2014, but one topic seems apparent: college football’s playoff will not be larger than four teams.

“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.

On Tuesday, the 11 conference commissioners, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, two BCS officials and a BCS attorney met to discuss what form college football’s postseason will look like beginning in 2014.

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.

The group will meet Wednesday then again in Dallas next month and in Fort Lauderdale in April. However, Hancock says he would be surprised if a decision is reached before summer.

“I don’t think this will be an overnight decision,” Hancock said.

Added SEC commissioner Mike Slive: “This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

Maybe so, but when they’re done running there likely will be a four-team playoff.

Now comes the intriguing part: how will the plus-one model look like?

Will it be a seeded model (one vs. four, two vs. three); where will the semifinals be played; and how - or will - the bowl games be utilized? Will the bowl games host the semifinals and final or will the plus-one semifinals and final be awarded to the highest bidder – i.e. the Cotton Bowl or another current non-BCS bowl?

Even with a four-team format some of problems are "insurmountable" according to source in attendance Tuesday. Hancock and others spoke of not wanting to hold BCS games during the December exam period, usually between Dec. 1-21. While FCS (Division I-AA), Division II and III stage playoffs in December, FBS (Division I-A) would be doing it for the first time. The scrutiny would be enhanced on presidents at the highest level of college athletics if football cut into that exam time.

Besides wanting to avoid BCS games during the exam schedule, they also want to avoid playing BCS games around Christmas. Another challenge, Hancock said, is scheduling games around the NFL.

Presidents also want the season to end before the second week of January and closer to Jan. 1. Ohio State has flown back from a BCS championship game site immediately after the game at least once because school had started back home.

Last season's BCS title game between Alabama and LSU was played on Jan. 9 and resulted in the lowest TV ratings in BCS title game history.

Based on those preferred timelines (no exams, no Christmas and no NFL conflicts), the most likely time for a plus-one would be holding the semifinals a few days after Christmas and the final about a week later.

Any changes to the BCS format, which expires after the 2013 regular season, must be approved by the NCAA’s Presidential Oversight Committee, which must decide whether to approve the recommendation of the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision commissioners and Swarbrick.

Since: Sep 5, 2006	Posted on: February 22, 2012 9:23 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Excellent... Get rid of these Bowl games. There are too many and most are not entertaining or worth watching. I read an article a while back and in it most AD's said the amount that needs to be spent by the schools puts them in the red, losing big time money. Not to mention that the only bowls games that should be played after Jan 1 is the Championship games there were still 2-4 games, a little inflated you think. I think so.
Since: Jun 5, 2011	Posted on: February 22, 2012 9:14 am BS plus-one format gains momentum If they don't allow every major conference champion an opportunity to find out who's best in a playoff, it's still the BS Sham-pionship. Four teams is still a beauty contest, and it still makes it grossly counterproductive for teams to play non conference games against bona fide contenders. They need to go to eight teams and allow conference champions only, with the lone exception being the highest-rated independent team if it is ranked in the top eight. Why do these idiots expect the public to believe that football's best division can't do what all of the lower divisions manage to do: have a real playoff to determine a true champion? My belief is that you have to follow the money. There is a lot more money to be made with a playoff, so there has to be something different about bowl money compared to playoff money that makes less bowl money more important than more playoff money. The only possible answer here is that the bowls are buying votes from the school presidents. The WSJ was right; the bowls are simply a device that takes money from the general funds of schools and gives it to the presidents and trustees in the form of "official" bowl game events. It's all a giant scam, and people entrusted to protect their states' funds and the interests of their students are violating their codes of ethics every time the vote or discuss this issue. I hope somebody does a real investigation here. The WSJ article was a step in the right direction, but somebody needs to do an investigation with a little teeth and a far wider scope.
Since: Apr 6, 2007	Posted on: February 22, 2012 9:03 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Exactly why playoffs fail to actually prove who's the best team. The BCS at the very least, attempts to place the 2 BEST teams, not the two who may get lucky to avoid the toughest roads. We see this every year in March madness...There's A team that will get the easiest road to travel no matter their seed. Its all based on who beats who. you get a 4 to beat a 1 and now the #3 is playing the #4 team to prove who's the best. For an entire season someone may have been rated the best they lose now the best 2 teams could be the two lower seeds. In my opinion, College Football is best suited being different. This whole story, as many others, are nerdy media fabricated.
Since: Oct 1, 2007	Posted on: February 22, 2012 8:54 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Playoffs are great. It allows a team like the NY Giants to lose 2 games to my woeful Washington Redskins and still get the crown as best team in the world.
Since: Dec 24, 2011	Posted on: February 22, 2012 8:52 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Great! Now the BS can place 3 SEC teams and one Big 12 team!! More of the same. We need a REAL playoff system like ALL other sports. 12 team playoff for 4 weeks. The Bowls can still be part of it. As of now only one Bowl can produce the so-called champion and the other bowls have done well.
Since: Apr 6, 2007	Posted on: February 22, 2012 8:51 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Get ready for an all SEC (at least 1 maybe up to 3) playoff. Boise's of the world and small time programs making it big are still going to be left in the cold at #5. All this does is move the #3 spot down to #5. The #5 team will have a case, make it, and the arguments over the last couple years will rage on. They are making you playoffers look silly by throwing you the bone. IF you go playoff on the premise of "fairness", the only "fair" or most "fair" would be to extend it too all 25 ranked schools.
Since: Dec 8, 2006	Posted on: February 22, 2012 6:07 am This comment has been removed. Post Deleted by Administrator
Since: Feb 11, 2009	Posted on: February 22, 2012 3:39 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Why is this like a marathon and not a sprint? If there is so much momentum to get this done and the BCS members are concerned about the ratings of this year's championship game, why are they waiting so long to implement the desired changes? The pace for change seems to rival that of an NCAA investigation, you know the "go all out and win everything you can now, because when we're done with you, you're going to give it back anyway" variety. All that the continued media output about this plus-one in the future is doing is stoking fan interest for the powers-that-be to get it done sooner rather than later. And in an era when schedules are made yearly instead of well in advance, there should be enough fluidity in the system to getthis done and stop talking about it...or else stop talking about it.
Since: Dec 1, 2009	Posted on: February 22, 2012 2:31 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Paut25, I'm curious. Do you even know what your goal is and why you so frantically seek it? Why does the status quo ante vex you so? (Put another way, 'Son, what is your major malfunction?') "WON'T WORK" to do precisely what? And why is the achievement of this thing of such importance to you? Do you indeed know why, or are you just following the other lemmings toward some distant cliff's edge and the rocks below? Forgive me if you actually do know, but so vanishingly few do. The usual response to the question is to gape like a fish at the approach of someone outside its bowl. Curiously, a not-so-small minority behave as if merely asking the question constituted some great religious or political crime.
Since: Dec 1, 2009	Posted on: February 22, 2012 1:55 am BCS plus-one format gains momentum Ajasys, "actual college football fans" are actually fans of college football. Were fans of college football actually enamored of "at least a 'Sweet Sixteen' playoff format," they would actually watch the FBS, Div-II, and Div-III playoffs. Nay, they would discuss them ad nauseam on bulletin boards and eagerly champion the merits of the incoming freshmen at Montana State and the new defensive coordinator at Hillsdale College. Instead, they pretty much don't give a rat's ass. Whereas they most certainly DO do all of the above and more with regard to the (famously described) 'only sport in the NCAA that does NOT hold such a playoff'. What's more, that narrow slice of the collegiate sports scene is 95% (+) of what actually excites and involves us. It's precisely BECAUSE it is the ONLY aspect of that particular sports landscape which is about something other than reducing the grand panoply of the human condition down to a single outcome. It ISN'T only about one damn winner and a bunch of miserable losers every year. It isn't the brutal calculus of Wall Street and Murder for Hire, Inc. Washington, D.C., but rather the Main Street that is steadily being ground beneath their treads. It isn't billionaires and millionaires and the merely well-connected paying exorbitant ticket prices so that they might schmooze one another and/or get their overexposed mugs yet one more photo op or 'candid' crowd shot. It isn't the Maw, it's us. Or what little remains of us, anyway.

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