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LA Ute
04-23-2013, 06:56 PM
Here's the story:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ap-source-college-football-playoff-203225831--ncaaf.html

Excerpt:


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 days of meetings at a resort hotel in the Rose Bowl's backyard.

They also will choose the remaining three sites for the six-bowl semifinal rotation in the new system and the site of the first championship game to be held Jan. 12, 2015, this week.

The website www.collegefootballplayoff.com (http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com) is already up and running and allowing fans to vote on a new logo. It also has a Twitter handle: (at)cfbplayoff.

''It's really simple. It gets right to the point,'' BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said at a short news conference with the 10 commissioners of the FCS conferences.

''Nothing cute. Nothing fancy. We decided it would be best to call it what it is.''

Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park, Kan., was hired to help come up with a name and brand the new system. A committee of commissioners handled the naming of the new system. Hancock said they ran through ''in the neighborhood of three dozen'' names.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said, ''We're clearly trying to make a clear break from the BCS.''

Before the news was reported, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said he'd be happy with whatever was selected.

''I'm am not good with names - obviously,'' Delany said during a break in the meetings, referring to the Big Ten's division names, Legends and Leaders, that produced so much negative feedback the conference has already decided to change them.

The new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the winners advancing. The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal....

SoCalPat
04-23-2013, 07:22 PM
Here's the story:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ap-source-college-football-playoff-203225831--ncaaf.html

Excerpt:

A four-team playoff is miles ahead of the current system. A step-ladder 6-team, in which 1 and 2 receive byes into the semifinals, is my dream format. With a six-game format, it would be really easy to expand in future years if need be.

LA Ute
04-23-2013, 07:40 PM
Just looked at the schedule. From New Year's Eve to Jan. 2 is going to be college football fan nirvana.

Crimsonute
04-24-2013, 03:57 PM
http://www.thedahlelama.com/ could come up with some better logos than any of those four.

wuapinmon
04-24-2013, 08:33 PM
The professor in me worries about the schedule reaching into two semesters. But, I think that this is fairer to all players; the playoffs are good. I hope they shorten the season by a game to accommodate this.

LA Ute
04-25-2013, 06:00 AM
Cowboys Stadium gets 1st playoff championship game (http://news.yahoo.com/cowboys-stadium-gets-1st-playoff-championship-game-235202772--spt.html)