Conferernce commissioners open to making big BCS changes - ESPN
I wonder how serious they are? ESPN's Colin Cowherd has an interesting opinion on this. He seems to feel that all the "Plus-1" scenario will do is move the belly-achers down from #3 to #5. For instance, look at the BCS rankings at the end of the last three years:
2011: Stanford would go above Oregon, who destroyed Stanford during the season.
2010: 11-1 Stanford would've gone ahead of 11-1 Wisconsin and 11-1 Ohio State, both teams that had many more NFL prospects.
2009: #4 Cincinnati would've gone ahead of #5 Florida, who destroyed the Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl that year.
I think he's right. Plus-1 one will do nothing to lessen the amount of belly-aching there is today.
"They have a lot of cans to kick down the road," Hancock said. "This will not play well on Twitter."Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said ideas were neither ranked nor ruled out.
"I think people realize there are flaws in the current system and people are ready to think creatively about ways to improve it," he said.
One of the ideas is a four-team playoff called a plus-one model that would create two national semifinals and a championship game played a week later. The idea was proposed in 2008 by Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive and supported by the Atlantic Coast Conference's John Swofford, but it was emphatically shot down by the leaders of the Big Ten, Pac-10, Big East, Big 12 and Notre Dame.
This time, there will be a serious discussion about the plus-one.
I wonder how serious they are? ESPN's Colin Cowherd has an interesting opinion on this. He seems to feel that all the "Plus-1" scenario will do is move the belly-achers down from #3 to #5. For instance, look at the BCS rankings at the end of the last three years:
2011: Stanford would go above Oregon, who destroyed Stanford during the season.
2010: 11-1 Stanford would've gone ahead of 11-1 Wisconsin and 11-1 Ohio State, both teams that had many more NFL prospects.
2009: #4 Cincinnati would've gone ahead of #5 Florida, who destroyed the Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl that year.
I think he's right. Plus-1 one will do nothing to lessen the amount of belly-aching there is today.