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"The tricky part is our 11 conference commissioners and the Notre Dame AD may have 12 different opinions about the direction we should go over the next six to eight months," Hancock said.
Complicating the issue is how to deal with the major bowls, which now host the title game on a rotating basis. Other than the Rose Bowl, though, they've been so co-opted by corporate greed and the demands of television that they've become increasingly marginalized. Does the Orange Bowl really deserve the BCS title game next year after the West Virginia blowout of Clemson was the least-watched Orange Bowl in nearly two decades?
Sanderson said he is skeptical the BCS will follow through and actually implement a playoff system. If it does, he said, it likely will be a hybrid of the existing system, and not something that brings meaningful reform to the postseason.
"I'm not encouraged by talk, though I would be encouraged by them actually following through," he said. "For umpteen reasons, I doubt their motives for even engaging in this discussion."
With good reason, because the BCS was never about giving fans something they wanted. It was -- and still is -- all about big schools maintaining control of college football and reaping the profits that come with it.
That's worked well over the years for members of the cartel. They foisted a system on college football that no fan likes, excluded schools they didn't like and happily collected hundreds of millions of dollars from the TV networks.
Until they actually do change the model, it really is nothing more than talk.
[Associated Press;
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