Consensus reached on 4-team college playoff

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The BCS commissioners and Notre Dame's athletic director on Wednesday endorsed a seeded four-team playoff model for college football beginning in the 2014 season.

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[Hammer58]

Consensus reached on rigged "playoff". This selection committee will be as " unbiased" in deciding who gets in the "playoff" as the softball selection committee has been in determining seedings.

[CajunRed]

Reached a consensus? Yeah.whatever.

[Just1More]

This pretty much solves everything. (one eyebrow raised, slight tilt of head)

[CajunNation]

All they are doing is consolidating power and money for the big 5 conferences.

Even if they do expand this later, if a selection committee is the way they pick teams, the term "BCS Buster" will be null and void.

Also, the idea that a 4 team playoff will decide a champion is just as ludicrous as the current way of determining a champion.

[CRAWFISH61]

This will eventually lead to anyone not being in a BCS league to be shuttled down to some sort of lower division for mid majors. This is just one more step along to the way to making big time college sports a pro league that does not pay its players.

[CajunIke]

If strength of schedule is one of the criteria, will that push major programs away from money games against mid-majors and FCS? Currently their only concern is not losing, especially OOC. Seems to me the first time a BCS school is not selected to the 4 team tournament because of a weak SOS, they will all take notice and schedule accordingly and save some money at the same time. That would hurt schools like UL with subpar athletic budgets.

[CajunNation]

If strength of schedule is one of the criteria, will that push major programs away from money games against mid-majors and FCS? Currently their only concern is not losing, especially OOC. Seems to me the first time a BCS school is not selected to the 4 team tournament because of a weak SOS, they will all take notice and schedule accordingly and save some money at the same time. That would hurt schools like UL with subpar athletic budgets.

If they don't institute the conference champion as an AQ, this will eventually hurt more than half of the schools currently in the big-5 conferences as well.

How much longer will schools like Florida, Texas, Ohio State, and USC drag around Iowa State, Washington State, Indiana, and Mississippi State?

If I'm affiliated with schools like these, I'm pushing super hard for an expanded playoff with Conference Champions as an AQ. The longer it stays a beauty contest, the more likely it is that the biggest 30 or 40 programs in the country finally say Screw it, and ditch everybody else.