College Football’s BCS Is Indecisive on New Postseason Format

Here's a better article on the subject from yesterday.

College Postseason Will Change; the Question Is How

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By BEN STRAUSS
Published: June 13, 2012

CHICAGO — The details of what a new college football postseason format would look like were still fuzzy after Bowl Championship Series officials met at a hotel here Tuesday night and Wednesday. The sense of inevitability that change was coming, though, remained.

“There are a lot of thing still on the table,” said Bill Hancock, the B.C.S. executive director. “The status quo is not on the table.”

The 11 Football Bowl Subdivision conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director, Jack Swarbrick, stuck mostly to platitudes about general progress and the collegial nature of the meetings It is clear that the commissioners will not make a single recommendation to the presidential oversight committee—made up of 12 university presidents from around the country — which will ultimately decide what college football’s playoff format will look like.

“We will present them options,” Hancock said. “It’s important to remember that this is their decision.”

Some version of a four-team playoff also received more attention than the plus-one possibility, where two teams would be selected to play for national championship after all the bowl games.

“That’s where we’ve spent a lot of time, talking about those possibilities,” John Swofford, the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, said of the four-team format.

“I’ve always been happy with the four-team playoff,” said Mike Slive, the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.

Among the other questions being wrangled with are the selection process and the criteria for the four teams, like whether conference champions will receive priority. Where the games will be and how revenue will be shared among conferences are also being discussed.

The commissioners will meet again next week in Chicago, in conjunction with the Conference Commissioners Association and the oversight committee will meet June 26 in Washington.

Hancock pointed to a new television deal when asked about the timeline he was working under. The B.C.S. can begin negotiations for its broadcast rights on Sept. 1. The contract would begin in the 2014 season, when the new postseason format would take effect.

“The goal here is to develop a package that can be taken into the television market,” Hancock said.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/sports/ncaafootball/college-football-postseason-format-still-undecided.html

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So if we go to the new playoff, which seems inevitable. Does that mean teams going into the 4 team playoff would have a month+ for preparation for the 1st game and only a week or so for the Championship?

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At this point, who the frick knows?

Am I the only one who isn't buying this crap?

I'll believe they're going to change something when I see it. I still feel like they're just as likely to say never mind, let's leave it the way it is.

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I still feel like they're just as likely to say never mind, let's leave it the way it is.

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I wish this were the case but I'm pretty confident change is most definitely on the horizon.

It all comes down to one thing.

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I'm starting to get the sense these guys are going to screw it up.

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This is a guarantee.

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Is unanimous consent required among all of the BCS conferences? If not, what is required to actually pass anything?

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I started a thread on this and tried to find the answer to this earlier and it was a bitch. Forgot the links but basically the 'Presidential Council' (a rep from 11 conferences and 1 ND rep) have the final vote. Whatever is passed still requires sign-off by all involved University Presidents/Chancellors). Now if it is not unanimous the wording I saw is that those against proposal are then out of the BCS process. This obviously makes no sense since how would leave out the SEC or PAC12 say, but that's what I read.

The short of it...I don't know what happens if the vote isn't unanimous and hopefully someone smarter than me will find out.