BCS Commissioners Say No To a Playoff
…at least until 2014. That was the consensus of the BCS commissioners today at their Florida meeting. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive made his pitch, with the help of ACC Commish John Swofford, but it didn’t even come up for a vote.
In fact, the SEC and the ACC were the only conferences who wanted to continue discussing a possible playoff system. Today was the first time Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese and Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe indicated that their leagues are against a BCS playoff system.
2014 is the next logical time that a change of format can be realistically looked at , since that will be when the ABC-Pac 10/Big 10/Rose Bowl TV pact runs out, and Fox is expected to negotiate an extension on the rest of the BCS TV package this fall that will also run through 2013.
April 30, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Well, hopefully all these assholes will retire by 2014.
April 30, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Bastards, not even a 4 team playoff.
April 30, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I have a better chance of banging a supermodel while flying a solar-powered jet car than seeing a BCS playoff in my lifetime.
April 30, 2008 at 6:08 pm
It could happen. (the supermodel part, I mean)
April 30, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Sailor Ripley….
I’d just be happy to see The Unholy One (and horizontalism) gone from the program by 2014.
Side Note— Its my burrffday and WTF IS GUYS GONE WILD DOING ON TV? THIS SHIT WILL NOT STAND.
May 1, 2008 at 4:42 am
This may take an act of Congress. I wish I were kidding.
May 1, 2008 at 5:42 am
I used to believe in the existence of a doomsday scenario, which would cause all the big wigs to throw up their hands and say “okay, you win. we can’t allow this to happen again”. But after the #1 team in the country didn’t get in to the national championship game while #’s 2 and 3 did, and after an undefeated SEC team didn’t even get a sniff… I no longer believe in the doomsday scenario.
May 1, 2008 at 6:23 am
The only hope for a playoff is if this years’ MNC game is between the Spurs and the Pistons.
May 1, 2008 at 6:29 am
Can Mark Cuban buy the NCAA?