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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/stewart_mandel/04/26/bcs-four-team-playoff/index.html

I am surprised this did not get more attention.  Maybe the Presidents still have to vote on it?  I suspect that LSU-bammer had something to do with this.  People probably don't want any more rematchs and a 4-team playoff will solve that.

Assuming they take the four best teams, and not strictly just conference champs, I'm all for it.  But under that scenario, I think there WOULD have been a rematch last season.  LSU would've destroyed Stanford, and Bama would've done the same to OSU, and they would've met for the title.

Actually, I'd like to see it eventually go to 8 or 16 teams, but this is a good first step.

I'm not totally opposed to a 4-team playoff, but the funny thing about people like Stewart Mandel, who bitch ceaselessly about the injustices of the BCS, is that with the exception of '04 Auburn, the BCS has crowned the best team in the land national champion every single year.

Yeah but at least bammer doesn't get the automatic rematch.

I am okay with four, I think it's good enough, but 8 would not bother me at all.

The only thing is, the BCS as formulated is close enough to the old bowl system that the older championships are still similar, in that there is one game at the end.  The difference in the old system is that the two best teams did not always play, in fact they rarely did, but still there was only one key game usually.

Going to this system really kind of degrades everything that happened before, in the sense that the NCAA "champions" in basketball don't get much respect prior to the tourney starting in 1938.  It seems that future generations will probably consider winners of an actual playoff system more "legit" than earlier championships, and I don't like that for historical reasons.

But thats a pretty minor objections.  The BCS, while IMO a big improvement over the old bowl system, is deeply flawed and going to four  pretty much solves it.