| 22 February 2012
Playoff discussions have begun. The first meetings will conclude today. BCS executive Bill Hancock
reported that the group has focused on the following broad discussion points. It's coming.
- Protecting the importance of the regular season.
- Finishing the national championship game earlier. Alabama played LSU in the national title game on Jan. 9.
- There is an agreement to avoid playing games around the time students have finals at the end of a semester, which is usually around Dec. 2 to Dec. 21.
- If a format includes a postseason game on a campus site, as one proposal has been reported, no one wants to do it when school is not in session.
- There is also the preference to avoid any scheduling conflict with Christmas, and avoiding any head-to-head with NFL games.
Taking all of these preferences into the equation, and reading between the lines, this smells like a four-team playoff.
By virtue of the calendar problems the BCS wants to avoid, they can do a four-team plus-one format. Potentially, the national semifinals would be around Dec. 27 and the title game the following week.
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