The Big Ten is not only ready to listen to proposals regarding a national four-team football playoff, league and school officials are kicking around an intriguing idea.
Sources told the Tribune that a Big Ten plan would remove the top four teams from the BCS bowl pool and have semifinal games played on the college campus of the higher seed. That would do away with the facade of “neutral” sites such as New Orleans, Miami and Pasadena, Calif., and ease travel concern for fans.
The championship game then could be bid out, like the Super Bowl.
The concept of the Big Ten even entertaining playoff proposals seemed laughable as recently as two months ago. But in the wake of a low-rated BCS title game that satisfied few outside the Southeastern Conference footprint, the conference is ready to study and contribute ideas.
Full Article at: Chicago Tribune
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Wow, I guess the Big10 finally realizes that it sucks and a playoff is the only chance in he|| they would ever get a shot to play in a NC.
Whole lot easier to buy your way into a top 4 ranking than top 2.
While they may suck top to bottom the voters and computers still love the BIg 10. They’ve got a great idea and money wise it works. Having the top 2 teams HOST a semi-final game is brilliant. Raises revenue for the school and levels the playing field. Let’s see Bama, USC, or LSU roll to Michigan, Boise or WVU in the December/January and find out if they do as well. A home game in the dead of winter for a shot at the NC… I like it. Now to consistently make the Top 4.
now that the Big 10 has blessed it, it can happen.
I’m liking the idea, too. If this had been in place last year, we would’ve seen
Stanford @ LSU
Oklahoma State @ Alabama
The games would’ve still been in SEC country, but I think those would’ve been much more compelling games.
I also like the idea of moving the NC up a bit – All bowl games should take place in “bowl season”, not two weeks after.
but did you catch the last bullet of the four questions of principle? the holy grail question. . . can the Rose Bowl be protected?
The B10 was the one dragging its heels when an NC game was first proposed and even the BCS system and it all came down to what would happen to the Grandaddy of them all?
The Rose Bowl gods must be furious when teams outside the B10=2 and Pac 12 play in Pasadena (even though the exclusivity didn’t start until the 1940s).