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BCS update
Commissioners for the six BCS conferences met on two occasions at the recent NCAA convention in Nashville, Tenn., discussing both potential changes to next year's rankings system in the wake of this year's LSU/USC debacle as well as the upcoming contract renegotiations with ABC.
Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen said there are three options on the table for revising the rankings: letting the human polls stand alone if there are consensus No. 1 and 2 teams, giving those polls greater emphasis than the computer rankings and/or eliminating the quality win component. Hansen said they'd also like the strength-of-schedule system to distinguish between home and away games.
In the meantime, the Rose Bowl's renegotiation with ABC, slated for the first half of the year, is on hold due to the uncertainty surrounding the BCS' future structure. The Rose Bowl's existing contract is separate from the other three BCS bowls but expires at the same time, after the 2005 season. While the Rose Bowl and its partners, the Big Ten and Pac-10, remain committed to staging a BCS title game, bowl officials aren't thrilled with the possibility of the championship moving to after the bowls as has been widely speculated.
"We're pretty much in the range that's been publicly discussed," said Hansen. "Four games plus either a fifth game played concurrently with them, or the 'plus-one' game, those are the major structural differences we're looking at. Or you could do both. Or there are various subsets within that."
BCS update
Commissioners for the six BCS conferences met on two occasions at the recent NCAA convention in Nashville, Tenn., discussing both potential changes to next year's rankings system in the wake of this year's LSU/USC debacle as well as the upcoming contract renegotiations with ABC.
Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen said there are three options on the table for revising the rankings: letting the human polls stand alone if there are consensus No. 1 and 2 teams, giving those polls greater emphasis than the computer rankings and/or eliminating the quality win component. Hansen said they'd also like the strength-of-schedule system to distinguish between home and away games.
In the meantime, the Rose Bowl's renegotiation with ABC, slated for the first half of the year, is on hold due to the uncertainty surrounding the BCS' future structure. The Rose Bowl's existing contract is separate from the other three BCS bowls but expires at the same time, after the 2005 season. While the Rose Bowl and its partners, the Big Ten and Pac-10, remain committed to staging a BCS title game, bowl officials aren't thrilled with the possibility of the championship moving to after the bowls as has been widely speculated.
"We're pretty much in the range that's been publicly discussed," said Hansen. "Four games plus either a fifth game played concurrently with them, or the 'plus-one' game, those are the major structural differences we're looking at. Or you could do both. Or there are various subsets within that."