College Football 4 Team Playoff

from the Columbus Dispatch:

The conference commissioners who run the Bowl Championship Series are determined to have the championship game played earlier in January and stop playing major bowls in the middle of the week after New Year’s Day.

The 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director met yesterday in Dallas, along with BCS executive director Bill Hancock, to continue discussing changes to college football’s postseason.

-- This would be a welcome change. The bowl season has been watered down too much since 2007 when the BCS expanded to 5 games. Playing the Nat'l Championship game in mid-January on a Monday after the NFL playoffs is a terrible idea. I wish we would go back to all the major bowl games being played between Dec. 30 (or so ) and New Year's Day.

i hope it's a 8 team playoff

top 4 teams get home field

NO MORE AUTOMATIC BOWL BIDS!!!

Source -- BCS exploring neutral-site 4-team playoff format - ESPN

If Football Bowl Subdivision conference commissioners and the sport's other power brokers approve a four-team playoff to determine college football's national champion, the semifinals and the national championship game will be played at neutral sites and the BCS bowl games will be played closer to New Year's Day, a source familiar with the negotiations told ESPN.com on Tuesday.

Commissioners of the 11 FBS conferences, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick and other network TV and college football officials are meeting in Hollywood, Fla., this week to discuss the future of the BCS.

The source said he believed the commissioners "are too far out on a limb to turn back now," but said there were still many details yet to be finalized. A final decision on the BCS isn't expected this week, but the commissioners and other officials are expected to begin hammering out many of the details of a four-team playoff.

The 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 over the next two seasons.

"I don't know how they could walk back at this point, but they might," the source said. "I think because they're dealing in a world of compromise, I think there's a chance they could only tweak the current system and only deal with No. 1 versus No. 2. But I think they're too far out on a limb to turn back now."

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I've been a proponent of home games for the higher seed, but Schlabach's Source makes a good argument against:

"What happens if TCU finishes No. 2 in the country and hosts a semifinal game?" the source said. "TCU finished No. 3 two years ago. Are they really hosting No. 3 Ohio State in a 45,000-seat stadium? Where are people going to stay if Oregon hosts a semifinal game? In Portland? As much as it would be great for the sport to see a game played in Ann Arbor, Mich., Tuscaloosa, Ala., or Lincoln, Neb., some of the logistical issues are just too severe. I think that idea has come home to roost as far as these guys are concerned."

Just do it like the NFL, play at the team with the better record's/ranking home field.

still pissed ND gets a say

Originally Posted by Block "O"

Just do it like the NFL, play at the team with the better record's/ranking home field.

I think that's the best way to do it! Some teams will be able to fill the seats at 2 playoff games. Others may have problems filling 2 games on the neutral sites.

Originally Posted by Block "O"

Just do it like the NFL, play at the team with the better record's/ranking home field.

That doesn't make sense if you're Boise St or another small school... Imagine TOSU having to play at Boise or TCU. I bet your opinion would change when the tickets are impossible to get for a sub-30,000 seat stadium.

Originally Posted by AZBuckeye

That doesn't make sense if you're Boise St or another small school... Imagine TOSU having to play at Boise or TCU. I bet your opinion would change when the tickets are impossible to get for a sub-30,000 seat stadium.

Nope...when you're Armani "O" tickets are never hard to come by

Actually it would be pretty cool having the Bucks with Urban going into that environment!!!!

These bland neutral field games F'ing blow...I mean seriously did you watch the B1G championship game? Snoooooooooozefest

I agree... besides, if we weight things properly, there's no way OSU would be traveling to Boise. It'd be the other way around. Screw the records.

Originally Posted by seismicmike

I agree... besides, if we weight things properly, there's no way OSU would be traveling to Boise. It'd be the other way around. Screw the records.

If we weight things properly? What does that mean?