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The first part of this article was published in January. The second and third parts, however, have not been published yet. Intro There are myriad ways to compare the 5-year dynasties that...

A college football playoff is born! It's what we had heard..but with a 12 year commitment to using bowls for the semifinals.

It's a four team playoff, with a selection committee choosing four teams to play in two semifinal games hosted by the bowl system. The national championship game will be bid out.

The BCS name is going away, but a national championship game seems almost certain to be played after everybody has played a bowl game.

Harvey Perlman defending the current BCS is nothing new. But when you dig into the Big Ten's position, you find room for a compromise.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott refloated the idea of the "Plus One", and Harvey Perlman heartily endorses it. But will the SEC ever accept it?

Does this agreement signal where the college football playoff is heading?

Nebraska's chancellor seemed to throw water on playoff talk. Let's not forget that he threw water on the idea of Nebraska leaving for the Big Ten and gave Steve Pederson a contract extension three months before having to fire him. What Perlman says today may not matter in the end.

College football has so much more to offer than the decaying Rose Bowl can ever offer. The Rose shouldn't go away, just merely put in it's proper place.

But where would the sixth game be? Here's a wild idea: place a BCS bowl game in Detroit or Indianapolis. Someplace drivable for fans in Big Ten country, yet climate controlled for fans from the south.