A four-team playoff system for college football has officially been approved by a presidential oversight committee. The proposed plan is set to take place in 2014.
Here's how it works: a selection committee will rank the teams to play in the playoffs based on win-loss records, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, and whether a team won its conference. The semifinal games will rotate among six bowl sites and the national championship will rotate among neutral sites.
Here are my thoughts.
First of all, why do we have to wait till 2014? Secondly, who's on the committee? It better be someone without a bias or agenda (leaving out most of the south). And its gotta be people who watch college football like it's their life. That means staying up and paying attention to late night games on the west coast as well.
Finally, a conference champion shouldn't factor into much of the equation. Not all conferences are created equally. I don't wanna see an 8-5 or 8-4 UCONN team playing in the Fiesta bowl anymore, just because they won the Big (L)east.
With that said, the cute little discussions about "bcs busters" and watching 30 minute shows in which the hosts put together a mock bcs poll, before the official one is released, will be a thing of the past...after 2013.
That may anger a few of the people at ESPN, but not me.
While it's not perfect, college football is finally taking some steps in the right direction towards adding some legitimacy to college football's post season.
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