And now it is time for the annual gnashing of teeth and wishing the BCS would die... to no avail.

Future of the BCS (Sports Illustrated)

In multiple discussions with Slive for this story, as well as interviews with commissioners, bowl and TV executives across the sport, it's apparent that interest in the plus-one has become far more serious than at any point previously. When BCS officials convene in Miami in April for their annual meetings, Slive -- who has the support of ACC commissioner and incoming coordinator John Swofford -- will present several plus-one options to his colleagues.

"We are in the midst of doing a very careful and thorough analysis of the plus-one model," Slive told SI.com. "In doing this analysis, we're looking back on historical data and then thinking ahead to what we know. We need to put together a model that is one that some people will be comfortable with, and see if there is acceptance to it."
Plus 1 is the beginning. That is basically a 4 team playoff. Then it is just a matter of time before we can move that up to 8 teams which is what it really needs to be.

The big problems right now are the PAC-10, the Big-10, and their fucking pet bowl, the Rose Bowl (which they own apparently):

Those people Slive is presumably referring to are Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen and school presidents from both leagues. The two conferences, which, along with their longtime partner, the Rose Bowl, have repeatedly stated their adamant opposition to any postseason modification that might impinge on their arrangement. The fact that their ABC deal is locked in through 2014 will make any such discussions trickier.

"My sense," said one major bowl executive, "is that Mr. Delany is unconvinced [about a plus-one]. Mr. Hansen is uninterested. Everyone says, 'Why can't we get to this yet?' Until they look at it through each party's respective self-interest, nobody understands how hard it is to come to an agreement."
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is bad enough that the Pac-10 is a one team conference and the Big-10 get raped annually (anally?) in the title game, but somehow they are holding the whole system hostage as well.

Here is the brain dead shit that drives me insane:

Any discussion about the future of college football's postseason must start with the requisite disclaimer that "the one thing [all] of us are in agreement on is there isn't going to be a playoff," said Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese.
Plus 1 is a 4 team playoff, dickhead. Just admit that and admit that a playoff is what is needed.

I hate this:

Leaders of the sport generally point to two primary concerns that would arise from a playoff -- that it would devalue college football's uniquely gripping regular season, and that it would unduly interfere with players' academics.
1) Shut up. You don't give a fuck about academics. Just shut up.

2) Yeah, nobody watches the regular seasons of any other sport. This isn't baseball with 162 regular season games, or baseball with 70-80+. It would still be an 11 (or 12) game season, so each game would still be absolutely crucial. Shut up with this stupid lie that it would make the regular season less interesting.

Un... fucking... real

"Whenever my [league's] presidents have asked me about the positives and negatives of a playoff, I tell them the two positives are [more] money and people will stop yelling and screaming," said Tranghese. "And the negative is that the value and meaning of the regular season will be diminished. Playoff proponents who say that's not true -- that's just pure stupidity."
Do you even watch sports dumbfuck? A regular season is not diminished by a playoff. It is ENHANCED because it actually has some meaning when the final prize doesn't feel like it is pulled out of a goddamn hat.

Tranghese:

"People criticize us for low graduation rates -- then those same people want us to play playoffs during exams."
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Play them in January you goddamn idiot.

"The idea at the time [of the BCS' original creation] was we would lose a team potentially once every three to four years, based on the rankings the previous 10 to 15 years," said Rose Bowl CEO Mitch Dorger. "Coach Tressel and Coach Carroll appear on the scene, and all of a sudden we are almost perennially losing one of our champions. That has had a negative effect. It's impacted the tradition of the Rose Bowl."
Go fuck yourself Rose Bowl.

"We're not in favor of a seeded event that would break up conference tie-ins," said Hansen.

A pure plus-one would theoretically alleviate those concerns. All of the BCS bowls would host their traditional partner conferences' champions, regardless of ranking, and then the BCS' No. 1 and 2 teams left standing would advance to the title game.
Yay. So USC can play a shitbag team like Illinois, UGA can get stuck with fucking Hawaii, and one or neither of them gets to move on as a result.

LAME idea. Fuck you Rose Bowl.

he three BCS bowl games to date involving non-BCS teams -- Utah-Pittsburgh (2005), Oklahoma-Boise State (2007) and Georgia-Hawaii (2008) -- have produced three of the four lowest-rated broadcasts in BCS history. That hasn't seemed to deter Fox's enthusiasm.
Wow. I'm shocked........ not.

We are stuck with shitty FOX doing the BCS games because none of the other networks wanted those games (because the BCS is such a fuckup). As a result, we get a network that does ZERO college games throughout the year doing the biggest games. That is why their commentators suck dick.