Commissioners Want to Kill The BCS - The Name - But Can't Agree on a Successor
The BCS name is going away, but a national championship game seems almost certain to be played after everybody has played a bowl game.
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.
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.
"Death to the BCS" provides college football fans with a through expose of the bowl system, but struggles to fully explain why the big conference commissioners still push the BCS system, except because they can. Or maybe it's because while they don't get the additional revenue of a playoff, they keep much more of that smaller pie.
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