NCAA boss Mark Emmert would support 4-team football playoff

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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"The notion of having a Final Four approach is probably a sound one," Emmert said when asked what he heard coming out of New Orleans this week. "Moving toward a 16-team playoff is highly problematic because I think that's too much to ask a young man's body to do. It's too many games, it intrudes into the school year and, of course, it would probably necessitate a complete end to the bowl system that so many people like now."

Emmert spoke two days after the 11 Bowl Championship Series conferences met to discuss possible changes to the system starting in 2014, but there is no consensus yet.

BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said Tuesday that 50-60 possibilities for various changes were presented during a deliberate meeting in New Orleans, where Alabama beat LSU in the BCS title game Monday night. Hancock anticipates it will take another five to seven meetings to reach a conclusion in July.

One possibility is the four-team playoff, or the so-called plus-one approach, that would create two national semifinals and a championship game played one week later. The original proposal, made in 2008 by the commissioners of the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference, was emphatically shot down by the leaders of the Big Ten, Pac-10, Big East, Big 12 and Notre Dame.

The BCS title game pits the nation's top two teams based on poll and computer rankings.

But momentum is clearly growing for a larger playoff system.

[Catch Prothro]

I think the Big12, PAC12 and Big10 are now on the plus one bandwagon after watching their teams sit at home for the championship game while the SEC rakes in the trophies.  It they thought they could avoid an SEC opponent, they probably would continue to oppose it, but that isn't likely given the SEC's dominance.

[BAMAWV]

These people are not sure what they want. They just know the status quo of the SEC winning every year can't continue or they will lose their jobs. As with the conference reallignments, they want change and don't care if the final result is good for college football. The nerve of these a-holes to think that they personally know better than the thousands of coaches and college presidents that went before them.

 

[Hannibal Lecter, MD]

These people are not sure what they want. They just know the status quo of the SEC winning every year can't continue or they will lose their jobs. As with the conference reallignments, they want change and don't care if the final result is good for college football.

 

This.  Like a buncha politicians they are.

[Catch Prothro]

I like the plus one system.  I would make it more likely a one-loss SEC team will make it to the title game, as opposed to an undefeated Boise or Virginia Tech.  Also, in years like this year, where two SEC teams are in the top 4, it would really give the SEC the opportunity to showcase talent.

[cbbama99]

So I guess this will be called the "Alabama Amendment"?

[ricky023]

So I guess this will be called the "Alabama Amendment"?

  hey that is a good one. I think this is a shot at keeping SEC teams out of the NCG on both sides, I still don't think it works. How are they going to keep a team from the East and West from being in the Top 4? I don't think so. RTR!

[2Stater]

You'll have your "plus 1", then there will be your 11-0 #5 ranked Boise's and Houston's that won't be happy being left out and will make a lot of noise and this debate will continue ad nauseum. Look at the NCAA basketball tournament, it's up to 65 teams and there are still many teams unhappy about being left out. I know I was extremely disappointed and vocal about Bama not making the tourney last year, but you have to wonder where to draw the line. Where does it end?

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