Presidents approve college football playoff

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"College football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead.

A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved the BCS commissioners' plan for a four-team playoff to start in the 2014 season.

The move completes a six-month process in which the commissioners have been working on a new way to determine a major college football champion. Instead of simply matching the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the country in a championship game after the regular season, the way the Bowl Championship Series has done since 1998, the new format will create a pair of national semifinals. No. 1 will play No. 4, No. 2 will play No. 3.

The winners will advance to the championship."



Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/26/2869085/presidents-hear-college-football.html

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Finally, it's a reality: Presidents sign off on a four-team college football playoff system

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"A group of 12 college presidents passed a plan for college football to have a four-team playoff starting with the 2014 season.

The BCS Presidential Oversight Committee emerged from a meeting at the Dupont Circle Hotel late Wednesday afternoon to announce they have adopted the playoff format that had been approved last week by the commissioners of the 11 BCS conferences.

The first playoff will take place after the 2014 season. There will be four teams, and the semifinals will be rotated among six bowl games over the life of the contract, with the championship game put up for bid. A selection committee will rank the teams, based on factors including head-to-head matchups.

Semifinals will be held on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1; the championship game will be played on the first Monday that is at least six days after the last semifinal. The first playoff game will be Dec. 31, 2014.

This ends years of debate over the idea of a college football playoff, a subject that has even drawn the attention of President Barack Obama, who has been an advocate of a playoff system."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--football-playoff-approved.html;_ylt=ArTbKoNTL.jW34f9Gw7xTI05nYcB


"This ends years of debate..."

[russspeakeasy]

1. In the fans best interest, right ?

Nothing to do with the extra $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[maddezmom]

2. LOL

I agree with this, but ending debate.....

[Swede Atlanta]

3. I for one am glad the BCS is history.....

[leveymg]

4. Odds are, one sure bet to win in '14: Univ. of Vegas College of Sports Wagering

Put them at the top of your chart.

[PoliticAverse]

5. How much of the increased revenue will the players get ? n/t

[ellenfl]

7. did you forget the sarcasm emotie? since when do college players get paid? eom

[joeglow3]

16. SEC players do.

[Psephos]

17. No, they don't. Steve Spurrier is for it, but good luck with that.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/31/spurrier-sec-pay-players.ap/index.html

[joeglow3]

18. Oh, you are talking legally.

I wasn't

[Psephos]

19. lol - good point n/t

[ag_dude]

20. The cost of tuition increases every year.

At pretty alarming rates.

The idea college athletes don't get anything is an insult to everyone else who saves for 20 years and still has a mountain of debt when they get out of school.

[may3rd]

6. no more polls deciding the championship game

[Psephos]

8. Finally, thank God. n/t

[totodeinhere]

9. I would have preferred a larger field than just four. But this will be much better than what

we have now.

[pettypace]

10. Head count: Raise your hand if you went to an eligible college?

i.e. a member of the Pac10, Big 10, SEC, Big 12 or ACC (+Notre Dame)?

I would bet less than 5 percent of us are affiliated with schools that will even be in the discussion for this Final Four.

Pretty sad tbh.

[MrSlayer]

11. There's like 150 teams.

The playoff should be much bigger. But at least it's a start.

[Crowman1979]

12. Here's my idea for a 24-team playoff.

Have either the top 8 conference champions or independent teams in the top 8 of the AP 25 receiving a first-round bye. Then all of the other conference champions and the rest of the teams in the AP 25 play the first-round. It will also be divided into four regions like the NCAA basketball tournament.

So there, problem solved

[Orangepeel]

13. Why is the BCS dead?

Won't they still rank the teams each week and therefore decide which teams are the top four?

[JonLP24]

15. Those will be polls

Coaches and AP.

Selection committee decides who gets in and they'll probably use the polls to help decide but either way this sucks.

[JonLP24]

14. As I said in another thread

This will be worse than the BCS because a selection committee will decide the teams.

I'd rather have the BCS Rankings and put the top 4 in.