Larry Scott has floated the idea of a plus-one. While not likely, and wildly unpopular with college football fans, it just might be better than the four-team playoff proposal laid out before us.
LSU and Alabama are the two best teams in 2011, just like Ohio State and Michigan in 2006. Why don't Stanford and Oklahoma State deserve a shot at the BCS championship like Florida?
The Oregon Ducks are unlikely to return to the BCS National Championship game, but they would be virtual shoo-ins in a theoretical plus-one playoff format.
Say the NCAA and college football scraps the Bowl Championship Series model of rewarding a national champion and went to a playoff. What type of playoff format would result?
