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The Search for Four
Published: 6/25/2012 1:28 PM
Last Modified: 6/25/2012 1:28 PM

There will be controversy and some folks will be mad regardless of how the teams are selected for the BCS four-team playoffs.
More decisions about the future of the BCS system will be made this week.
The BCS commissioners have already done the really hard part. They agreed to a four-team playoff.
We’ve waited for decades for some type of college football playoff.
It isn’t perfect. We’re sure there will be deserving teams sometimes left out of the four-team playoff.
But, in the end, it is better than the current two-team playoff, which is better than the previous no-team playoff (prior to 1998).
So, the big debate remaining is how to select the teams.
Some are saying a committee should be formed.
Perhaps. But, the current BCS formula has done a decent job of determining the top two teams.
We don’t always agree with the BCS formula results but usually it is pretty close to right.
We wouldn’t mind seeing the current BCS formula adopted.
The committee idea, and especially who is on the committee, might be shaky.
Either way, having four teams in the final chase for the national football title is better than just two.
And, yes, the regular season still matters and the bowls will continue.
College football is finally going in the right direction.



Reader Comments 3 Total
marvin the martian (8 months ago)
It is a shame that Oklahoma State had to be screwed out of the national title game before we got to this point.
208228 (8 months ago)
Though there'll always be controversy over who's picked, it's about time.
bruinsooner (8 months ago)
The current BCS method seems to work halfway decently. Voters from the media, the coaches, and yes, the computers. The computers take heat but their systems of paying attention to what each team did against every other team on the schedule and their opponents body of work is overlooked by voters. Above all, take the 4 top teams at the end of the season not simply league champs. The idea of #14 Geezer Tech because they were champs of the Big Whatever League is not right.
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