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The statement was a small step for Hancock nike hyperfuse 2011 but a giant leap for a coalition that for years has openly resisted anything resembling a playoff.
Hancock made the declaration at the end of a day of meetings of BCS leaders at a hotel in Hollywood, Fla., to negotiate possible new formats for when the BCS’s current TV contract expires after the January 2014 bowl games. College football’s 11 major-conference commissioners plus Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick will meet again Thursday and hope to release a shortlist of formats under consideration.
Hancock clarified that his statement doesn’t necessarily mean that there will be a major-college football playoff for the first time in the sport’s history. But the status quo is “off the table,” Hancock said. That could clear the way for a four-team playoff, the most-discussed option so far. Specifics—such as where games would be held, how teams would be selected and how the anticipated hundreds of millions in TV rights a new deal would bring—still must be worked out.
“I would say there is an expectation that there will be significant change,” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said.
Under the current method, a formula of human and computer polls selects the Nos. 1 and 2 teams at the end of the regular season and places them in one of four bowls that rotate as national championship sites: the Orange, Fiesta, Sugar and Rose Bowls. The winner is the recognized BCS champion.
Critics have railed about undefeated teams being left out of the title game and others being edged out by inscrutable calculations.
“I’m in favor of more objective criteria and rewarding performance in the regular season,” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said. “A team getting into a playoff or not based on a decimal point here or there doesn’t feel very kobe 6 men’s satisfactory, especially when you don’t understand how the formulas work.”
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