This is most certainly a step in the right direction, but assuming it will utilize three of the existing bowl venues for the new championship format, it still leaves, oh, say, about 30 bowls out in the cold. That will still leave tens of thousands of unsold seats and an immeasurable lack of interest in all but those three final games. The question arises...with progress creeping so slowly, will I ever see a real college football playoff while I'm still enjoying voluntary bladder control?

Any idea how the two extra games will be played? Will they be new games or placed within the existing BCS bowls with maybe the Cotton added?

Actually, there wouldn't be an extra game. The national championship game is already scheduled and the two semi-final games would probably take place in one of the major bowls.

A step in the right direction, but we need at the very least an eight team playoff; sixteen would be ideal. It would utilize fifteen existing bowls (filling minor bowl seats that haven't been filled, like, ever...) and generate fan interest that would put pro football to shame. And for all of you who are going to whine about the season extending into January I say, 'so what?'