BCS Committee Approves Playoff System

[Dark Bohner]

The funny thing is that all of the small conference programs are whining that the new playoff won't help their chances at all, and might even make their chances worse. Yet, they were the ones screaming to congress for a playoff. Guess, you should be careful what you wish for. Suckers.

 

[Timbuff10]

I'm not looking forward to the controvestry from this which will be like this until 2025 when the contract ends.

Contracts can be broken. Especially when money is involved. Something tells me 8 or 16 schools will bring more money than 4. I wouldn't worry about the duration one bit. If 4 works well without controversy then it will probably stay. Have 3 or 4 years of controversial committee picks and they will expand pretty quickly.

 

[somebody]

Top 4 teams would sit their starters, conceding a late season loss knowing that they would still get into the Final 8. An 8 team playoff would ruin the regular season.

:rofl:

 

[somebody]

I think they're really close to getting this figured out. If they can tweak this to have the four winners of the four major bowl games as the participants in the playoff, it would be hard to argue against.

Gawd, this is so simple, why can't people see this?

 

[somebody]

Contracts can be broken. Especially when money is involved. Something tells me 8 or 16 schools will bring more money than 4. I wouldn't worry about the duration one bit. If 4 works well without controversy then it will probably stay. Have 3 or 4 years of controversial committee picks and they will expand pretty quickly.

Contracts can be replaced, but unless something drastic happens, it seems unlikely the collective presidents will be enthusiastic about doing anything - they can now say they have a playoff so it's done until the contract is complete.