NEW ORLEANS – The Bowl Championship Series as college football fans have come to know it is going away.
Over the next six months, the people who oversee the much-maligned postseason format will talk about how to reconstruct the system for crowning a national champion. In the tumultuous 14-year history of the BCS, the appetite for change among college football’s leaders has never been stronger.
“It’s my impression that … there will be meaningful discussion about possible changes to the BCS,” Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive said last week as SEC rivals LSU and Alabama prepared to play in the title game Monday night at the Superdome.
The 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director will meet Tuesday in New Orleans to exchange ideas.
What the changes will be is hard to say because it’s all open for debate, from eliminating automatic bids to top-tier bowl games to creating a four-team playoff — an idea that’s known as the plus-one model.
What’s not a realistic option is exactly what many football fans are clamoring for, a full-scale playoff that would require numerous teams to play additional games.
“Whatever we do we have to protect the regular season,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock said Monday at
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