Whether you like it or not, it looks like we’ll be living with the BCS format for some time to come:
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — After years of research, discussion and hype, college football’s top officials gathered here to finally have a formal discussion about changing college football’s controversial and polarizing postseason.
Years of bluster, posturing and endless talk of models finally resulted in a decision that college football’s method for determining a national champion will stay the same until at least January of 2015.
“I think that we feel that a format and potential change that deserved appropriate and considerable discussion has received that,” said the A.C.C. Commissioner John Swofford.
The most revealing part of today’s meeting of college football’s conference commissioners and the Notre Dame Athletic Director Kevin White is just how far from changing college’s football’s postseason the leaders of the sport really are.
The Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive presented a so-called “Plus One” model, would have used the Bowl Championship Series standings to determine the top four teams at the end of the college football season.
The winners of a game between the No. 4 and No. 1 team would play against winner of a game between No. 2 and No. 3 team for the national title. Right now, the Bowl Championship Series is set up so the No. 1 and No. 2 teams play for the national title. That’s a model that’s been consistently inconsistent in pacifying college football fans and many of its coaches and administrators.
Slive’s model was so staunchly objected that the commissioners didn’t even take a vote to see if the idea would reach the next step, which would have been taking it back to their conference presidents for discussion. Instead, only Swofford and Slive said they were in favor of bringing the idea back to their league presidents to discuss.
And, we’re likely to have the same result long about 2014 or so when the time comes to renew the Bowl season television contracts.
