Analysis: BCS may finally take a look at plus-one
Big-time college football never has been closer to having a playoff.
Don’t get too excited.
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College football’s ultimate prize, the BCS Championship Trophy, may require an extra week to acquire if the plus-one playoff system is ever approved.
There are still plenty of obstacles standing in the way, and at best it’s probably seven years away from becoming a reality — if it ever does. But, hey, at least the people in charge want to talk about it. In Bowl Championship Series terms, that’s progress.
“This whole postseason of college football, since going back into the mid- to early ’90s, has been an evolution. Significant change traditionally has not come speedily,” Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner and current BCS coordinator John Swofford told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview, chuckling at his obvious understatement. “I’ve often equated it to turning a battleship.”
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