BCS To Consider Selection Committee
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
With no plans for a playoff, the Bowl Championship Series will consider using a committee of college football experts to set the next national title game.
“I have to tell you, I really do not see an NFL-style playoff coming to college football any time soon,” BCS coordinator and Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg said yesterday.
Weiberg also said the BCS will search for a replacement for the Associated Press poll to help rank the top teams. The AP sent the BCS a cease-and-desist letter last month, asking that the AP poll not be used in the BCS formula.
Weiberg said he is “very interested” in a committee structure that would be similar to the one used to set the field for the NCAA basketball tournaments. The men’s NCAA basketball tournament uses a 10-person committee made up of conference commissioners and athletic directors to set its field.
