Don't hold your breath for a "plus one" anytime soon

FlabLoser

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And like any commercial entity, they are subject to competition. Any other entity could contract the 4 highest ranked schools to play in a playoff. The likes of Fox & NBC should team up and bid something more valuable than what the BCS is already paying the top 4 schools. I think the ratings (for 2 semifinals and a final) would blow the doors off the top 3 BCS games.

The primary risk here would be whether or not the top 4 teams would sign up to play in it. But the carrot for those teams is going to be that if they don't sign up, a team behind them will and then you're looking at a contested national championship - one of which was "awarded" by the BCS and one of which was earned in a playoff. The public would sure as **** favor the team that earned it in a playoff.
 

RebelBruiser

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The reason it's being rejected is because they see it for what it truly is. They realize that if they went to a plus-one format, all the arguments about ratings and money would go out the window, because the semifinals and finals would get better ratings.

And once that happened, then everyone would be able to show concrete evidence that an 8 team playoff would be even better, and maybe even a 16 playoff, even better than that. If they allow anymore than 2 teams to play for the title, they realize that it will poke a hole in the dam that they won't be able to plug.
 
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SteelDawg99

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On ESPN late this afternoon, they were talking about the different conferences that voted against it. He listed off about 5 or 6, of those being the Pac-10, Big East, Big 10 and other sheep conferences, but the SEC was one of the few who voted for the playoff system. The reps for those conferences even went as far as saying that the playoff system would never exist as long as they had a say in it. Now 2014 is the next time the playoff system will come up for reconsideration.... Way to go USC and Ohio St, you know that's the only chance you have of making it in...
 

Todd4State

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the SEC teams would want a playoff. The SEC is so strong top to bottom that we basically kill each other off every year, and in the meantime a team like Ohio State only really has to beat Michigan and Penn State.
 
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leading the charge for a playoff.

I love it. The more teams they open it up to the more chances the SEC has to win it. The other conferences would **** themselves if there was ever an all SEC championship game.
 

RebelBruiser

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And that's because this past year, LSU won the national title, yet I think most SEC fans thought UGA was probably the better team and would've beaten LSU.

The other conferences know that the SEC would be able to prove its strength in a playoff system, and they don't want it. The ACC also seemed to be behind a 4 team set up for the same reason. It isn't as strong as the SEC, but they are a conference where they don't have one or two programs that simply dominate every year that have an easier route to the BCS title game.

In the Big 12, it's Texas and OU that are head and shoulders above the rest. In the Pac-10, it's USC. In the Big 10, it's Michigan and Ohio State. And the Big East teams realize that their best shot at a national title is to go undefeated in a weaker BCS league and only have to win one game to get a title. If they had to win 2 or 3 games, there is no chance you'd ever see a Big East team win it all. They know that.

By the way, here is the quote from Jim Delany (Big 10 commissioner):

"There's a strong sense in that room of the slippery slope view that there's never been a collegiate or professional playoff that's stopped at four teams."

It's exactly like I said. They realize that if they allow a 4 team playoff, all arguments against a playoff will be eliminated, opening the door for a future 8, 12, or 16 team playoff. That's what they are really trying to prevent, because the last thing we'd want to do is have a championship settled on the field.
 

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isn't it funny that every other sport has college playoffs??

isn't it even funnier that every other division and rank of college football ALSO has playoffs?? they seem to get along just fine with that system and they have finals just like everyone else.
 

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They had no problem adding a 12th game to the regular season, taking away one of the bye weeks and giving us 6-6 teams in bowl games. But we can't add one more BCS game that two teams would participate in to allow for a better championship system?

The best part of those stories on the WWL was this quote from Notre Dame AD: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." What? Dear Mr. White, college football's championship system is considered broken by the majority of college football fans and is definantly in need of a patch at the very least.

What this obviously comes down to are the tough leagues with conference title games versus the weaker leagues top to bottom most of which don't have a conference title game. Big 10, Pac-10, and Big East have the easiest rode to the national title game as is with the Big 12 not too far behind. Their fear is if a 2-loss SEC team is allowed in at #4 that team would win the whole thing. An even bigger fear is what they might have faced this past year had the plus-one system been in place - two SEC teams in the top 4 seeding. It's funny because these same people had no problem with two Big 10 teams that played at the end of the regular season facing off again in the BCS title game in 2006.</p>
 
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