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NEW ORLEANS -- Bowl Championship Series officials will meet Tuesday to
exchange ideas about possible changes to the format of major college
football's postseason system.
"Everything you can imagine will be discussed," BCS executive director Bill
Hancock said. "Everything from format, who plays who, to where they play, to
the business aspect of it ... it's all going to be on the table."
The meeting will bring together the 11 conference commissioners and Notre
Dame's athletic director to exchange ideas. The entire system is open for
debate, from eliminating automatic bids to top-tier bowl games to creating a
four-team playoff -- an idea that's known as the plus-one model.
But a full-scale playoff that would require numerous teams to play
additional games is not a likely option.
"Whatever we do, we have to protect the regular season," Hancock said Monday
at a meeting of the Football Writers Association of America. "I think the
larger the playoff field, the more damage to the regular season."
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"I think it's time to look at the entire system," said Mountain West
commissioner Craig Thompson, a playoff advocate who appeared with Hancock on
Monday.
It's clear there is much work to be done before June, when BCS officials
will need to have a new format in place to negotiate the next television
contract. The current ESPN deal runs through the 2013 season and the network
will get first crack at retaining whatever postseason system is created. |
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