May 22, 2013

NCAA College Football: College Football Playoff to replace BCS

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(Bill Hancock, executive director of the Bowl Championship Series, introduces the new College Football Playoff. Reed Saxon/AP) PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The Bowl Championship Series will be replaced by the College Football Playoff. The BCS conference commissioners announced the name of the new postseason system that starts in 2014 on Tuesday, the first of three [...]

College Football: Rose, Sugar will host first semifinals in new playoff system

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — The first semifinal games in the new college football playoff system will be played Jan. 1, 2015, in the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. The BCS conference commissioners announced the dates and rotation for all 12 years of the upcoming postseason format after a meeting in [...]

College Football: BCS on verge of historic move to postseason playoff

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Have they finally heard the drumbeats, or are they just now seeing the dollar signs? Those who govern major-college football are in the process of redefining the way a champion is determined this summer, with a four-team playoff likely coming our way in January 2015. That setup would end a [...]

College Football: BCS commissioners will present presidents multiple playoff options

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CHICAGO (AP) — The conference commissioners who have been working on a four-team playoff to determine college football’s national champion plan to present the BCS presidential oversight committee multiple formats from which to choose. Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said the university presidents will “have options – plural” to consider when they meet in two weeks. [...]

College Football: Big 12, SEC announce a deal for champions to play in bowl game

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(AP) — The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year’s Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff. In fact, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive all but said [...]

College Football: Outdated and unpopular, BCS finally embraces playoff plan

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — We gather here today to pay our respects to a fallen regime. The two-team BCS National Championship Game, college football’s annually frustrating, fascinating and infuriating culmination, will soon cease to exist. Any lingering doubts were put to rest Thursday following three days of commissioner meetings here at the Westin Diplomat. Bill Hancock, [...]

College Football: BCS brass work on whittling down options for postseason format

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — When Bowl Championship Series officials leave the beachside hotel where they’ve gathered to hammer out the future of college football’s postseason, they want to have the choices narrowed down to two or three. STAPLES: Three questions will determine change The 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director met Wednesday for [...]

BCS officials start dealing with details of football postseason

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — GRAPEVINE, Texas – Bowl Championship Series leaders finally are starting to get into some specifics in their discussions about possible — maybe even likely — changes in college football’s postseason and how to determine a champion.They are finding out just how tricky the process will be. And it’s still far [...]

CFB: BCS leaders in no rush to pick a postseason system

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — How many teams will be allowed to play for the national championship is just one of the many issues being considered by the guys who run the BCS. When the games will be played is a hot topic, too. The 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director met Tuesday [...]

Emmert supports football playoff

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NCAA President Mark Emmert address the media during a press conference before the second round of the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball tournament at the Verizon Center on March 17, 2011 in Washington, DC. (March 16, 2011 – Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images North America) INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert would support a four-team [...]