College Football Playoffs?

     Commissioners from the 11 FBS conferences met at a hotel in New Orleans this Tuesday to brainstorm some new ideas for crowning the national champion in coming years. The current BCS model is going to be in effect until 2014 when its 4 year deal is finished. Reports say that at least 50 to 60 possibilities for different changes were presented. One of the ideas presented is a four-team playoff system called the plus-one model. The idea consists of two national semi-final games and then a national championship game played a week later. Each commissioner seems to have different feelings about any sort of playoff model because some fear the 4 team system would inevitably grow to more and more teams. some of the other of the commissioners are on board with the idea claiming it will give us a clear cut national champion.
       BCS executive director Bill Hancock says this process will probably take place over 5-7 meetings before coming to a final decision. He also said a final decision should be made by July 4th 2012. Pac12 commissioner Larry Scott says that none of the ideas on the table right now outrank any of the others and none have been ruled out yet. So after 2014 the people that lobby for a playoff system might finally get what they want. Things also might stay relatively the same. Either way there is going to be an interesting topic to debate this spring and believe me people will strongly debate this whether they are for or against a playoff system.