Don't look now, college football playoff fans, but there are storm clouds on the horizon of getting a playoff actually implemented. The Big Ten and Pac 12 conferences came out this week by saying that they favored the "plus one" concept--the plan to use existing BCS bowls as the two semi-final games to determine who gets to the national championship. Conversely, the Big 12 came out and said that they want the four-team playoff to exist outside of the bowl structure as a true stand-alone playoff. The SEC is expected to take the same stance as the Big 12.
This puts the current four power conferences at odds with one another. And, are you surprised? The easy part of all this was the conference commissioners saying "yes, let's have a playoff." The hard work is now determining whether the bowl system remains in place or not, how the teams get ranked (e.g., is there a football equivalent of the college hoops Mens Basketball Selection Committe), if the games are played on neutral sites, and all of the other operational details which make up the enormity of this postseason system.
The June 20 meeting of conference commissioners is shaping up to be very, very interesting.
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