This way it does. The bowl system will remain pretty much as is. The final four semi-finals will be

Just when you thought you had entered the dead zone of sports college baseball is over, the NBA is done, football hasn t started yet and pro baseball crawls toward the mid-season leave it to the lords of college football to bring us something new to argue about.
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Yes, the college football playoff is here , and the BCS system american asia travel will die. But don t go thinking all the bitching and complaining you did about the BCS made any difference (or President Obama s obvious desire for that matter); no one cares about complaints this is about money and there s billions to be made. When there s huge money involved, college presidents listen .
Contractual agreements will keep the current BCS in place for two more seasons. But the first college football final four (we don t know what it ll be called yet, but it won t be BCS) semi-finals will be played on New Year s Eve of 2014 and New Year s Day of 2015 with the national championship game played about a week later. Until then we have two years to argue the merits of the new system.
A committee will choose the final four teams and seed them. This is already being done for the College World Series and the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Who will be on the committee? No one knows yet (which provides something else to argue about) but whoever it is will use four criteria to choose the final four:
Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops thinks it s great. During his interview on ESPN he talked about that mess of a 2008 season when Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech all finished the season with one loss. Oklahoma headed to the championship despite having their one loss handed to them by the Longhorns. There was a lot of controversy about that, and we (Oklahoma) ended up going, but this way we re both in and we see how it plays out. (It still hurts Longhorn fans to remember that one loss to Texas Tech.)
This way it does. The bowl system will remain pretty much as is. The final four semi-finals will be rotated among as many as six bowls you can be sure the current four BCS bowls and the Cotton Bowl, played in Cowboys Stadium, will be among them.
This is great for college football, it s just a shame we have to wait two years for this to happen. Playoffs are fair and a fan favorite, every other college sport has them and after over 100 years without them, it s time for the highest level of college football to join in.
The access for conferences throughout the FBS [Football Bowl Subdivision] is going to be better in this system than the current system, said ACC commissioner John Swofford. That s an important part of this. But you have to play your way in. That s a plus.
The NCAA Board of Governors still has to approve the change in order to allow the final two teams to play one extra game. Yeah, like that won t happen. This is a big corporate decision made by big corporate executives (aka major college presidents). As evidence of that, the playoffs will be overseen not by the NCAA but by the big conferences, and the championship game will not be called a bowl game.
In the meantime, we have two more years to complain about how badly the BCS sucks and how unfair it is. But no worries, there will be plenty to complain about when the play-offs come along (stupid committee members, small schools being left out, etc.) Awesome.