Plus-One to take effect...

Per Huntsville Times:
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Unless something changes, the current system - eight BCS teams playing in two bowls, with two of the teams meeting in a national championship game - will continue for only one more year. The so-called plus-one system - one additional game after the traditional bowl season to settle the national championship - is scheduled to begin in January of 2007. The Fox network has purchased the rights to televise that format for five years.

 

I am interested to see the spin on this...How will ESPN specifically, and ABC more generally, react to this decision...I wonder if the talking heads will disparage this after countless head coaches have come out in support of this format...

I wonder if their disparagement will be a result of the fact that ABC/ESPN will no longer have any invested monetary interst in the success of the system?

 

About *'n time ABC loses it's virtual monopoly over the BCS games.

At least that's all a start in the right direction.

 

ABC's coverage this year of the Orange Bowl could not suck enough.

 

....the two teams in the orange bowl couldn't suck enough.... :shock: :thumb:

 

The bigger question is.....what will happen if the top 2 undefeated teams meet and then are left to play a 1-2 loss team?

 

Is there to be a 4-team playoff, or is it going to be a "random" pick of who plays in the final game, and if so, who picks of who plays?

 

ABC still has rights to the Rose Bowl and when the Rose Bowl is the "title game" it will be on ABC. Fox got the Sugar, Fiesta, and Orange Bowl. ABC has the Rose Bowl until 2008 or something like that. Most likely the Rose Bowl and ABC will continue their contract.

 

And why is nobody reporting this HUGE story?

 

I just read this guy's article... I had not earlier. Here is what is actually being implemented. Nothing new, but I imagine it confused that poor Bammer journalist.

There is simply an extra BCS bowl game being added. Every four years, one of the major four BCS bowls will host the extra game AND the BCS championship game a week later.

For instance. This year's format may have allowed Boise State to play Louisville (just giving random teams as an example) in this new BCS bowl, at the Orange Bowl, a week before the BCS championship bowl. This is all done to allow for the smaller conferences to more easily get a team into the BCS games.

http://msn.foxsports.com/story/3059344