This is probably a better question for the MSB, but I like you folks on the SECr better so I will ask it here.

For the sake of this post let's say that at the least enough rules were broken to make Cam inelligible for this season. What impact does this all have on the call for a scrapping of the BCS system amd the implementation of a playoff?

As I understand it, the NCAA really doesn't have much to do with the BCS or the bowls in general. They set the rules for how teams become bowl elligible (number of wins, wins against FCS schools, etc.) and they approve the bowl games being added to the mix. Other than that the conferences make the tie in deals with the various bowls and the bowl selection committees chose the teams they want to invite. The NCAA doesn't have a selection committee like they do for basketball, etc. for guiding teams to bowls and they do not award an NCAA title.

Does the timing of an NCAA finding impact the national pulse for a football playoff?

1) The NCAA rules quickly (before the SECCG) on things and says Cam should not have played all year. Auburn wins are forfeited/vacated. LSU moves up to replace AU in the SECCG, wins and goes to the BCSCG against an unbeaten Oregon team. All is well in the BCS, things work like they should when all is done on a level playing field. TCU and BSU are left out, but still it is fair because the BCS formulas worked it out that way.

2) The NCAA drags this out, nothing comes out until well into 2011. Auburn continues to play Cam and continues to win. Auburn plays Oregon in the BCSCG. Next summer the NCAA rules Cam was inelligible and shouldn't have played all year. All wins are vacated, but that is all thatcan happen. Now BSU, TCU and LSU all complain that they had a right to play for the title but were cheated out of it. The arguement is made that if there was a playoff, the teams left out of the BCSCG would have a chance to play their way in and not get cheated out by one team in a numbers game.