Presidents approve college football playoff
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
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
(6,539 posts)Nothing to do with the extra $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)I agree with this, but ending debate.....
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Put them at the top of your chart.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)ellenfl
(8,660 posts)joeglow3
(6,228 posts)Psephos
(8,032 posts)joeglow3
(6,228 posts)I wasn't
Psephos
(8,032 posts)ag_dude
(562 posts)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
(593 posts)Psephos
(8,032 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)we have now.
pettypace
(744 posts)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
(22,143 posts)The playoff should be much bigger. But at least it's a start.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)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
(13,935 posts)Won't they still rank the teams each week and therefore decide which teams are the top four?
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)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
(29,322 posts)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.