BCS Will Propose 4-Team Playoff

[UNTflyer]

(CNN) -- After years of resisting calls from fans, sports pundits and even President Barack Obama, key conference commissioners announced Thursday that they'd propose some variation of a college football playoff.

The leaders of numerous interscholastic athletic conferences -- including the Big 12, Big Ten and Southeastern Conference -- and Notre Dame released a joint statement Thursday signaling its intentions following ongoing deliberations about postseason play in college football.

In it, they stated that an eight-team and a 16-team playoff were not going to happen because doing so would "diminish the regular season and harm the bowls." That refers to the existing system, in which winning top-level teams traditionally get the chance to play in one postseason bowl game after they've finished their regular season.

Yet the conference commissioners opened the door to a pared down playoff.

"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 commissioners said.

[MDH]

I'm all for it as long as this doesn't mean four mega conferences whose winner goes into the playoff.

[oldguystudent]

I'm all for it as long as this doesn't mean four mega conferences whose winner goes into the playoff.

Pac-12, Big 10 (12?), SEC, wildcard from Big XII/ACC. Brother, it means exactly four megaconferences winners going to a playoff.

Think about it. Boise freaking State, San Diego freaking State, and Southern Freaking Methodist are going to what were "BCS" conferences. We can't have those schools winning big, now can we?

Edited April 27, 2012 by oldguystudent

[PlummMeanGreen]

And a 4 team play-off is such a trail-blazer of an idea?

That's it! I'm getting my three 8 year old great-nephews and two 10 yo. great nieces in a room

and let them come up with something new, unique and......much better.

Same song--different greedy verse, folks. They are trying to take the Cinderellas

out of any future play-off bowl considerations or equations.

Are these upper tier schools so broke that they want all the money because this is

all about money and everyone knows it if they are trying to hide that fact.

Next step will be they will leave the NCAA and go rogue leaving them free to

do anything they damn well please.

Come on Congress, this is one time we do want you to step right in the middle of something

(and not fall back in it).

GMG!

Edited April 27, 2012 by PlummMeanGreen

[UNTflyer]

From another article:

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.

[UNTcrazy727]

From another article:

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.

This move gives a lot more power to the big conferences. At least the BCS had rules in place to let the little guys in.

[PlummMeanGreen]

From another article:

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.

And if the Big East is not compensated as a future AQ or whatever it will be called then a lot of schools have been purchasing Samsonites

non stop for no real reason or purpose at all and for all practical purposes....are back at the same level as the MWC and CUSA and ...North Texas

Stay tuned...there is more to come from the Big Boys on all this.

GMG!

Edited April 27, 2012 by PlummMeanGreen

[golfingomez]

as earlier posted... there won't be automatic bids for any one conference, but they are trying to get a committee to select 4 schools every year...

on top of that, something else that is being kicked around is no conference affiliations for bowls... so that bowls could just pick out the best matchups they could grab

[TIgreen01]

How does the voting break down in all of this? Does every conference get just one vote? Or do some get more than others?

[rjmunthe]

Sounds like the little guys will continue to get screwed.

[CMJ]

Sounds like the little guys will continue to get screwed.

Screwed worse I am afraid.

[yyz28]

Any playoff plan where some "committee" chooses the 4 schools is BS. It should be based on the rankings which should be based on a formula not unlike the BCS has been in the past (though that needs some tweaking, and quality of wins and loss of Conf. Championship Game has some negative impact, etc) Keep that part of the system basically in tact, and take the top 4 schools.

The real bitch with the BCS has seemed to be that there is some argument over which one of two schools should get in. One is usually in without question, and then the second school there is controversy with. Put four in and make 'em play for it eliminates that crap. OSU & Stanford would have been in this year, and that controversy would have been non existent.

Ideas get floated all the time. let's see what actually happens and then react to that.

[GTWT]

It's a first step towards a meaningful playoff and any movement towards a playoff is better than the silliness we have now.

GBT

[EagleGreen]

Tru dat.

[greenminer]

It's a first step towards a meaningful playoff and any movement towards a playoff is better than the silliness we have now.

GBT

Would you feel the same way if you were told there was not going to be any opportunity for UNT to be included in the playoff?

Because that's a long-term possibility.