Mike
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WASHINGTON -- The long, slow march toward a major college football playoff is over. It has been approved.
Conference commissioners met with an oversight committee of university presidents and chancellors in Washington Tuesday to approve the four-team seeded playoff, consisting of two semifinal games in bowls and a national championship game that will be put up for bid.
Commissioners presented the plan for 30 minutes then took questions from the presidents, who then deliberated for about three hours before announcing their approval.
"A four-team playoff doesn't go to far," said Virginia Tech president Charles Steger, chair of the presidential oversight committee. "It goes just the right amount."
The 14-year reign of the Bowl Championship Series -- and the persistent criticism that accompanied it â€" is finally near its send. The near deal will go for 12 years.
"This was timely, had to be done," former Big 12 acting commissioner Chuck Neinas said before Tuesday's meetings began. "(It was in) response to the public, response to the interest in college football. The BCS has done a great deal in helping promote college football, and there's a general feeling we need to do something better to determine a national champion."
The presidents also endorsed the concept of the semifinals rotating among six bowls.
"We do not know the rotation yet," said BCS executive director Bill Hancock. "That's still to be determined."
And they endorsed the idea of a selection committee for the playoff teams, which would end the combination of computer and human polls that have been lightening rods for criticism since the BCS began.
Current BCS contracts run through the 2013 season, so the playoff would go into effect after the 2014 season.
"I'm glad to see it, quite frankly," said former Georgia coach and athletic director Vince Dooley at the national athletic directors convention in Dallas. "It's something that needs to be done. The BCS has had, I think, too much controversy. You can always have some controversy, but this was a lot of controversy â€" Auburn being a classic example (finishing unbeaten and shut out of the national championship game in 2004). I think this will help to solve a lot of it, and also be productive economically to a lot of schools."
Conference commissioners met with an oversight committee of university presidents and chancellors in Washington Tuesday to approve the four-team seeded playoff, consisting of two semifinal games in bowls and a national championship game that will be put up for bid.
Commissioners presented the plan for 30 minutes then took questions from the presidents, who then deliberated for about three hours before announcing their approval.
"A four-team playoff doesn't go to far," said Virginia Tech president Charles Steger, chair of the presidential oversight committee. "It goes just the right amount."
The 14-year reign of the Bowl Championship Series -- and the persistent criticism that accompanied it â€" is finally near its send. The near deal will go for 12 years.
"This was timely, had to be done," former Big 12 acting commissioner Chuck Neinas said before Tuesday's meetings began. "(It was in) response to the public, response to the interest in college football. The BCS has done a great deal in helping promote college football, and there's a general feeling we need to do something better to determine a national champion."
The presidents also endorsed the concept of the semifinals rotating among six bowls.
"We do not know the rotation yet," said BCS executive director Bill Hancock. "That's still to be determined."
And they endorsed the idea of a selection committee for the playoff teams, which would end the combination of computer and human polls that have been lightening rods for criticism since the BCS began.
Current BCS contracts run through the 2013 season, so the playoff would go into effect after the 2014 season.
"I'm glad to see it, quite frankly," said former Georgia coach and athletic director Vince Dooley at the national athletic directors convention in Dallas. "It's something that needs to be done. The BCS has had, I think, too much controversy. You can always have some controversy, but this was a lot of controversy â€" Auburn being a classic example (finishing unbeaten and shut out of the national championship game in 2004). I think this will help to solve a lot of it, and also be productive economically to a lot of schools."
Sorry for the rant! Life aint fair and neither are sports! :wink:
