College Playoff

[MD Buckeye]

Playoff push - NCAA Football - Yahoo! Sports

Playoff push

Mike Slive, the genteel commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, has heard the rage from college football fans seeking a new postseason system. He?s been stopped at airports, been grilled by the media and had endless proposals mailed to him.

He understands the frustration. He?s aware of the impatience. He feels the pain.

Monday, he is going to do something about it. While not the dramatic act playoff backers would dream of or even anything that ensures so much as a modest format change will be adopted by 2010, when the BCS television contract ends, Slive will at least take some action at BCS meetings in South Florida.

For the first time he will put forth for discussion a viable, detailed and intelligent plan for a seeded “plus-one” model (essentially a four team playoff) for determining college football’s national champion.

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[CleveBucks]

In return, the Rose Bowl will select weaker teams from the Big Ten over better options from other leagues. Last year, for instance, a 9-3 Illinois team, ranked No. 13, was picked over higher rated teams such as Georgia, Missouri and Florida. It then got blown out by Southern California. The reason cited for the selection is ?tradition? but it also conveniently assured the Big Ten an extra $17 million in BCS revenue.

Would love to hear Danny boy figure out how the Rose Bowl could've taken Missouri or Florida, when the SEC and Big 12 had two other teams in BCS bowls. Unless he wanted Georgia in the Outback instead of Florida. And the Sugar would've had to give the Rose permission to take Georgia. And the second BCS bowl for a conference doesn't add the full $17 million; it's closer to $4 million.

 

[osugrad21]

ABJ

BCS plan probably will be unchanged Big Ten, PAC-10 oppose playoff plan
Published on Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008
From Beacon Journal wire services


As they kicked off three days of meetings at an oceanfront resort in Hollywood, Fla., the Bowl Championship Series overseers appear to have a better chance of getting a sunburn than making any major changes in the controversial system.
''I continue to sense a certain comfort level, if you will, with the current status of things with the BCS,'' BCS coordinator John Swofford said after Monday's session. ''I think it's been a pretty stable few years.''
Still, the commissioners of the 11 major college football conferences, along with Notre Dame Athletic Director Kevin White, will have their most detailed discussions to date of the plus-one model, which could use two bowls as semifinals and another as a national title game, with the four participants seeded.
That conversation will take place Wednesday, with Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive leading it.

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[Bestbuck36]

That sucks that the Big10 and Pac10 oppose the plus 1 system. There are flaws all over the place I agree but the closer we get to a playoff system the better we are I think.

 

[MD Buckeye]

NCAA Football - CBSSports.com

Playoffs don't seem to be reality at BCS meetings

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. ? Sorry playoff supporters, it seems that you'll have to wait a little longer.

While official word probably won't come until Wednesday at the earliest, the BCS structure looks like it is going to remain the same. Amid speculation that a modest plus-one playoff might be considered here, BCS chairman John Swofford didn't sound like a man ready to participate in ripping apart the college football landscape.

"I continue to sense a certain comfort level, if you will, with the current status of things with the BCS," Swofford said Monday at the conclusion of the first day of the annual BCS meetings.

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[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Bob Hunter commentary: Plus-one is real option, but is minus key support

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:26 AM
By Bob Hunter

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
All this junk about the Big Ten and the Pac-10 standing in the way of plus-one, the most plausible format for a mini-college football playoff, is a little misleading. Despite some of the selfish-sounding quotes that have been attributed to Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany about his opposition to this proposal -- you can't always believe what you read, you know -- he has always shown himself to be an open-minded guy. I'm willing to wager that if the commissioners from the other 10 Bowl Championship Series conferences would consent to having the mini-playoff games broadcast on the Big Ten Network, Delany could find some real merit in the plus-one format. Wanna bet?
That's not going to happen, obviously. The reason conference commissioners, athletic directors, bowl officials and TV executives are discussing the future of college football's BCS postseason format this week is that Fox is halfway through its four-year, $320 million TV deal for the rights to the title game, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls, and it's time to start negotiating a new contract. The postseason format has some bearing on how much Fox or any network is willing to pay, so it is incumbent on the BCS folks to at least take a quick look at the postseason alternatives.
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[osugrad21]

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Football | Pac-10, Big Ten likely to be blamed for lack of playoff

By Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. ? If the "plus-one" playoff model is rejected, as expected, leaving the sport with at least another six years of status quo, an angry public won't need a posse to find the culprits.
The Pac-10 and Big Ten conferences, along with the Rose Bowl, already have been identified in wanted posters. Sports Illustrated recently described the triad as "the axis of obstruction."
"I think it's an interesting label, but it's a caricature," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said Tuesday during a break at the annual meeting of Bowl Championships Series commissioners.
There probably is not going to be a playoff in college football, and Delany might get blamed for it, along with Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen and Rose Bowl executive Mitch Dorger.
All have opposed a change in the current BCS system, which in its 10-year history has been controversial.
The Rose Bowl has received blame in some media accounts.
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[TGfan06]

ESPN - BCS rejects playoff proposal - College Football

Can someone please help me, my math is fuzzy at best. So the Big Ten and Pac Ten are the only ones opposed to it according to this article, yet it still failed. Now the BCS has 6 confrences, correct? The SEC(who created the BCS) and ACC (I think) were behind it for sure.

So my question, why no blame for the Big 12 and Big East? Pretty slanted article in my opinion.

 

[TheIronColonel]

I think the Mike Slive was moving too fast with his plan for the Jim Delaney and Thomas Hansen to keep up. All that SEC speed can be a real burden...

 

[martinss01]

That sucks that the Big10 and Pac10 oppose the plus 1 system. There are flaws all over the place I agree but the closer we get to a playoff system the better we are I think.

i used to be pro playoffs. but at this point i don't see how a playoff fixes anything. in fact, i see a playoff system seriously damaging the appeal of college football.

 

[cincibuck]

"Mike Slive, the genteel commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, has heard the rage from college football fans seeking a new postseason system. He?s been stopped at airports, been grilled by the media and had endless proposals mailed to him.

He understands the frustration. He?s aware of the impatience. He feels the pain.

Monday, he is going to do something about it. While not the dramatic act playoff backers would dream of or even anything that ensures so much as a modest format change will be adopted by 2010, when the BCS television contract ends, Slive will at least take some action at BCS meetings in South Florida."

It must take real courage for the commish of a league in which over half the major bowl games are played to push for a playoff system. Those bowl games were created to help states in economic stress in the 20s and 30s. the focus of economic stress has shifted, and the NFL has proven that you can play football in the north in winter. Why not split the action and give some of those major ranking games to sites in the plain states, the midwest ad the north east. Do that and I'm interested, till then, does your pecker reach your anus?

 

[buckeyemania11]

everyone except the ACC and SEC were opposed of it today..........

so how can anyone blame the pac 10 and big 10?

 

[OH10]

...so how can anyone blame the pac 10 and big 10?

I think plenty of people can... along with placing blame on the Big 12 and Big East.

I still have yet to figure out how a "Plus 1" hurts the appeal of college football. It would only add credibility to the champion. I'm tired of the BCS apologists.

No One... and I mean NO ONE complains about how the NFL crowns its champion.

 

[sandgk]

ESPN - BCS rejects playoff proposal - College Football

Can someone please help me, my math is fuzzy at best. So the Big Ten and Pac Ten are the only ones opposed to it according to this article, yet it still failed. Now the BCS has 6 confrences, correct? The SEC(who created the BCS) and ACC (I think) were behind it for sure.

So my question, why no blame for the Big 12 and Big East? Pretty slanted article in my opinion.

As I understand it, ESPN's math is even fuzzier than you fear.

The BCS needs more than a majority to accept a change - it needs unanimity.

As for the math - if Swofford (ACC and current BCS head) and SEC's DeSilva were the only ones in favor that leaves nine other voting commissioners AND Kevin White from Notre Dame with a 10-2 effective vote against the proposal.

The media can go back to griping about a system which they themselves urgently pleaded be created as far as I am concerned.

And the Rose Bowl will remain the Granddaddy of them all.

 

[buckeyemania11]

I think plenty of people can... along with placing blame on the Big 12 and Big East.

I still have yet to figure out how a "Plus 1" hurts the appeal of college football. It would only add credibility to the champion. I'm tired of the BCS apologists.

No One... and I mean NO ONE complains about how the NFL crowns its champion.

this argument is irrelevant, Division 1-A college football IS NOT the NFL I think people who are crying for a playoff need to realize this since the argument they like to use is that it works in the NFL