See Chris DuFresne at the Los Angeles Times, "Bye-bye BCS: College football will have a four-team playoff," and "New college football playoff system won't end debates":
The throw-it-in-the-dumpster party is set for 2014, when the old carton likely gets replaced with a "playoff" involving four teams and Jerry Jones' enormous stadium/ego.And check Sports Illustrated, "Playoff approval a historic, joyous, overdue day for college football."
"BCS" follows "Enron" and "USFL" into history's ignominious logo bin and, in remembrance, there should be a moment of silence … OK, that ought to do it.
Bully to those who demonized the BCS all these years for want of something better, something more.
However, don't for a nanosecond let 11 conference commissioners standing for a photo op Wednesday in Chicago fool you into thinking college football has been saved.
You've got another think coming … and it's coming in 2014.
"Anyone who thinks going to a four-team playoff, or a Plus One, is going to end the controversy, they're naive,"Pac-12Commissioner Larry Scott told the Times following Wednesday's meeting. "Unless you go to an eight, or 16-team playoff, and I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future, you're going to have debate."
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