The Bowl Championship Series as college football fans have come to know it is going away. Over the next six months, the people who oversee the much-maligned postseason system will talk about how to deconstruct it for crowning a national champion. In the tumultuous 14-year history of the BCS, never has there been more of an appetite for change among college football’s leaders. “It’s my impression that … there will be meaningful discussion about possible changes to the BCS,” Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive said Thursday as SEC rivals LSU and Alabama prepared to play in the title game tonight. What the changes will be is hard to say because nearly everything seems to be up for discussion, from eliminating automatic bids to top-tier bowl games to creating a four-team playoff—an idea that’s known as the plus-one model. What’s not on the table is exactly what many football fans are clamoring for: a full-scale playoff that would require numerous teams to play additional games. Still, there is likely to be a BCS extreme makeover in the 2014 season. “There will be 12 people in the room making decisions, and each one comes from a different perspective; but the unifying thing is to make this thing the best it can be,” BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock says. “I don’t think there is any leader in the clubhouse on these possible changes. I think there could be 50 things on the table, with no leader in the clubhouse.” Read the full story here.
Today’s poll question: Do you think the BCS method for determining the national champion of college football needs to be changed?
