Four-team playoff proposal heads into homestretch

[cdj]

If the long slog toward a college football playoff were the Tour de France, the only thing left would be the ceremonial victory lap down the Champs-Élysées.
The guy in the yellow jersey, sipping champagne as he rides? That would be Mike Slive.

This Tour de Playoff has been a tour de force for the SEC commissioner. Four years after his playoff push was rejected by the Big Ten's Jim Delany and others, Slive has forced change upon a resistant sport.

"I am delighted with the progress," Slive said Wednesday.

The tough climbs through the BCS mountains largely have gone the way he envisioned. So have the sprints, the time trials and just about every other stage of the grueling journey from bowl system to something better.

That was the logical conclusion Wednesday, when the commissioners of the 11 Division I football conferences appeared together on a podium to say they're carrying a unified call for change to the last group that needs to sign off on it. They're taking a seeded, four-team playoff proposal to the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee for its hoped-for approval next week in Washington, D.C.

After 143 years, Tuesday could be the day the bowl establishment is overthrown as the method for selecting a national champion. Set your calendars accordingly.

Specifics of the plan were not publicly discussed Wednesday, as commissioners asked for time to debrief their member schools before discussing the details in the media. But sources told Yahoo! Sports that the plan calls for the "best four" teams to be chosen, likely by a selection committee, with added weight given to conference champions. That's also a win for Slive, since it does not limit the potential playoff field to only conference champs. At present, the SEC is the most likely conference to have more than one team finish in the top four of whatever ranking system is used.

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[ram29jackson]

best 4 from the SEC LOL

until this gets to like 8 or 10 teams, it cant be taken seriously.

[morsdraconis]

best 4 from the SEC LOL

until this gets to like 8 or 10 teams, it cant be taken seriously.

Without skipping teams for not winning their conference, I completely agree.

[psusnoop]

Without skipping teams for not winning their conference, I completely agree.

I'm so ******g tired of hearing about the SEC.

I'd have liked to see more teams but this is a start towards that in my opinion. Once they realize the windfall of profits they surely will take this up another notch or two

Money talks

[souljahbill]

I'm so ******g tired of hearing about the SEC.

Haters gonna hate. :p

#SECCountry

[psuexv]

Haters gonna hate. :p

#SECCountry

Penn State overall is 9-5 against current SEC teams since playing their first SEC team in 1959. Since joining the Big Ten in 1994, Penn State is 4-2 against the SEC.

[souljahbill]

What's Penn State's record vs. the SEC the past 5 years?

#DirtySouth #SECCountry #IReallyCouldntCareLessAboutTheSEC #IOnlyCareBecauseILiveInBatonRouge

[baseballplyrmvp]

What's Penn State's record vs. the SEC the past 5 years?

#DirtySouth #SECCountry #IReallyCouldCareLessAboutTheSEC #IOnlyCareBecauseILiveInBatonRouge

iirc, is 14-0 against big10 and sec teams in the bcs era. i'd call that dominance. lol

[psuexv]

What's Penn State's record vs. the SEC the past 5 years?

#DirtySouth #SECCountry #IReallyCouldntCareLessAboutTheSEC #IOnlyCareBecauseILiveInBatonRouge

2-1

2006 Outback Tennessee 20-10 W

2009 Capital One LSU 19-17 W

2010 Outback Bowl Florida L

[souljahbill]

iirc, is 14-0 against big10 and sec teams in the bcs era. i'd call that dominance. lol

The same USC that paid Reggie Bush and spent the last 2 years or so on probation?

#SECCountry #IHaveNoClueWhyImDefendingTheSEC #CUSAAllTheWayBaby #SouthernMissToTheTop

[psusnoop]

What's Penn State's record vs. the SEC the past 5 years?

2-3 dating back to the end of the 2006 season.


" Penn State overall is 9-5 against current SEC teams since playing their first SEC team in 1959. Since joining the Big Ten in 1994, Penn State is 4-2 against the SEC."

E, PSU lost to Bama twice in regular season and Florida in the bowl game.

[baseballplyrmvp]

The same USC that paid Reggie Bush and spent the last 2 years or so on probation?

#SECCountry #IHaveNoClueWhyImDefendingTheSEC #CUSAAllTheWayBaby #SouthernMissToTheTop

reggie bush NEVER received money from . /cheapshotfail

[souljahbill]

2-1

2006 Outback Tennessee 20-10 W

2009 Capital One LSU 19-17 W

2010 Outback Bowl Florida L

Aren't there suppose to be some games vs. Alabama on that list?

#OOOOOOOOOOOH #HeTalkingAboutYoMomma #YouGonnaTakeThat #DontTalkNoStuffWontBeNoStuff

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[souljahbill]

reggie bush NEVER received money from . /cheapshotfail

Technicality.

[morsdraconis]

How about actually talking about the thread instead of retarded fan e-penis shit?

[baseballplyrmvp]

Technicality.

receiving money from 2 wannabe sports agents who have no affiliation to a university is technically the same thing as being paid by the university to you?

[souljahbill]

receiving money from 2 wannabe sports agents who have no affiliation to a university is technically the same thing as being paid by the university to you?

Now, I know we're on a message board so one can not really tell what people's intentions are but I was just kidding (I was hoping the #SillyCommentsBehindAHashtag would relay my intent). I honestly don't care about the SEC, who did or didn't pay Bush, Penn St.'s record vs. the SEC or any such nonsense. I only follow LSU, kinda, and it's mostly because my wife works there.

[gschwendt]

I notice no one is posting their records against SBC...

#youscurd

[baseballplyrmvp]

I notice no one is posting their records against SBC...

#youscurd

[souljahbill]

I notice no one is posting their records against SBC...

#youscurd

I know I'm scared to admit the BEATDOWN Middle Tennessee gave Southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl a few years ago. That game had me cursing my tv like a mad man. Our defense could NOT stop that QB. I think his name was Dasher or something like that. We even jacked his leg up and he STILL whooped our ass.