According to several experts, a plus 1 format is almost certain to happen - although certain powers that be refuse to call it a "playoff", lol.

Sounds like they want to keep the bowl alliances in place but add a championship game. What are the various formats that would work?

I'm thinking we keep the 4 bowls then 2 of the bowl winners square off for the BCS championship.

This year it would have been OState vs Bama assuming LSU and Bama had played each other in the regular Sugar bowl instead of the title game. But how would you determine who plays who in each game and who advances?

a. Take the top 2 seeds AFTER all 4 bowls?
b. seed the top 4 teams to face each other in 2 of the BCS bowls, then the other 2 bowls get the leftovers?
c. something else?

option A could preserve the Pac10 and Big 10 Rose bowl alliances, while option B would most certainly interfere or destroy those alliances as the 2 "semi-final" bowls would presumably rotate every year. I think there is a hybrid scenerio that could work, but I can't get my head around it.

Bama will still be champs regardless
so whats the point?

Maybe option C is where the top 4 seeds play in 2 of the bowls, but the bowls and seeding are determined by the traditional bowl alliances, not by the BCS ranking. So if the Big 10 Champ and the Pac 10 champ are both in the top 4, they play each other in the Rose Bowl and the winner goes to the title game, regardless of how they are ranked in the top 4.

Roll tide!

You don't even like college football for the sake of the sport. You only care about 1 team - which is fine in pro sports, but we are talking about the other national pastime here.

Wes Lunt the new starting QB for OK State. I say this mostly because he's basically from my home town.

Sure enough. Go Pokes!

What?
i love college football
its my favorite sport outside of baseball.

my fav team just happens to rule the planet right now ;)

i dont want a playoff , never did

Its not a playoff. Its a "plus one".

still a playoff.

in 1a college football..every game is HUGE
its the only team sport thats like that
u mess up one week an your season is ruined.

it makes college football special
no second chances

"in 1a college football..every game is HUGE
its the only team sport thats like that
u mess up one week an your season is ruined."

Or you go undefeated and 2 other teams do likewise and you get no chance at the title. That isn't right.

"no second chances"

Now that is HILLARIOUS coming from a Bama fan.

I put that in there just for u;)

lsu or bama would have crushed u last season
go to the crying thread

Looks like your right about a 4 team playoff

it wont happen untill 2015 season though

Today SEC says fine..just take top 4 ranked teams..

Not 4 conference winners ( which is completely absurd)

War begins.

It should be the top four teams.

Well guess what..the playoffs nuts want conference winners.
This playoff has nothing to do with having the 2 best teams playing for it all.

The 2 best teams usually do play in the big one
They dam sure did the last few years.

Only 2 teams I can think of that were very good an were left out
Because of weak sc.

Utah in 98 ,an horned frogs a cpl years ago