BCS takes big step toward change, recommends four-team playoff HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- College football is on the verge of finally having a playoff, its own version of the final four. For the first time, all the power brokers who run the highest level of the sport are comfortable with the idea of deciding a championship the way it's done from pee-wees to pros. And the way fans have been hoping they would for years. "Yes, we've agreed to use the P word," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said Thursday. They want to limit it to four teams. That's for sure. Now they have to figure out how to pick the teams, where and when to play the games and how the bowls do or do not fit in. The new postseason format would go into effect for the 2014 season. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...eetings-four-team.ap/index.html#ixzz1tCuHlxII BCS officials and conference commissioners are scheduled to meet in Chicago again in June. "Having carefully reviewed calendars and schedules, we believe that either an eight-team or a 16-team playoff would diminish the regular season and harm the bowls," the BCS said in a statement. "College football's regular season is too important to diminish and we do not believe it's in the best interest of student-athletes, fans, or alumni to harm the regular season. "Accordingly, as we proceed to review our options for improving the postseason, we have taken off the table both an eight-team and 16-team playoff." Any proposed changes wouldn't go into effect until the 2014 season. The current BCS system, in which the top two teams in the final BCS standings play in a national championship game at the site of one of the current BCS bowls (Fiesta, Orange, Rose and Sugar), will remain in place the next two seasons. http://espn.go.com/college-football...cs-eliminates-eight-16-team-playoff-proposals
Report: Playoff selection committee to include current P5 ADs The College Football Playoff selection committee is beginning to take shape. According to a report from the Sporting News, the committee will include current athletic directors, former coaches and players and possibly former media members. While the total number of members isn't know, it's reported that one athletic director from each of the five power conferences -- ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC -- will be represented (The Big East split will leave the AAC, the football playing remnant outside of the P5). As for conflicts of interest, if an athletic director's school is being considered for the playoff, that athletic director will leave the room while the other members vote on that team. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ff-selection-committee-to-include-current-ads
NCAA Football Playoff Selection Committee Announced IRVING, Texas - The 13 members of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee were announced today. Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoff, said the members were unanimously selected by the commissioners of the conferences overseeing the new playoff. The four-team playoff will take effect next season (2014-15). The members of the selection committee are: Jeff Long, vice chancellor and director of athletics, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, Chair Barry Alvarez, director of athletics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lieutenant General Mike Gould, former superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy Pat Haden, director of athletics, University of Southern California Tom Jernstedt, former NCAA executive vice president Oliver Luck, director of athletics, West Virginia University Archie Manning, former University of Mississippi quarterback and all-pro NFL quarterback Tom Osborne, former head coach and director of athletics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dan Radakovich, director of athletics, Clemson University Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University professor, former Stanford provost and former United States Secretary of State Mike Tranghese, former commissioner of the Big East Conference Steve Wieberg, former college football reporter, USA Today Tyrone Willingham, former head coach of three FBS institutions http://www.newson6.com/story/23708996/ncaa-football-playoff-selection-committee-announced
