BCS Head Calls Status Quo Dead

[UNTflyer]

Late Wednesday afternoon, Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock said the words that many college football fans have been waiting more than a decade to hear: "The BCS as we know it with the exact same policies will not continue."

The statement was a small step for Hancock but a giant leap for a coalition that for years has openly resisted anything resembling a playoff.

Hancock made the declaration at the end of a day of meetings of BCS leaders at a hotel in Hollywood, Fla., to negotiate possible new formats for when the BCS's current TV contract expires after the January 2014 bowl games. College football's 11 major-conference commissioners plus Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick will meet again Thursday and hope to release a shortlist of formats under consideration.

Hancock clarified that his statement doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a major-college football playoff for the first time in the sport's history. But the status quo is "off the table," Hancock said. That could clear the way for a four-team playoff, the most-discussed option so far. Specifics—such as where games would be held, how teams would be selected and how the anticipated hundreds of millions in TV rights a new deal would bring—still must be worked out.

"I would say there is an expectation that there will be significant change," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said.

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Edited April 26, 2012 by UNTflyer

[golfingomez]

make it a four team playoff and lock that in for 30 years!!!

[UNTflyer]

make it a four team playoff and lock that in for 30 years!!!

Open the door to a playoff and eventually everyone will have a fair shot.

[UNTexas]

make it a four team playoff and lock that in for 30 years!!!

30 years? Bad idea. 11 Conference Champions + 5 Wildcards = 16 Team Playoff. TV market would destroy the current system and give way to the occasional Cinderella story while being fair to more teams.

I think the first thing out of a Congressman I have heard in a while is the current system creates a monopoly on the market and violates the law. Spin? Surely, but the point is to get people talking. A playoff solves all discussions. A 4 game playoff is still bs.