Sunday, April 27, 2008

BCS leaders to consider expansion this week.

College football's power brokers will dip a toe into the waters of an expanded championship format when they gather this week in South Florida.

Then again, they might quickly yank it back out. Or they could swish the concept around for a while.

The ''plus-one'' idea that would use the bowls to help set the national-title combatants figures to get its first real hearing as Bowl Championship Series leaders bring their annual meeting to the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa starting Monday.

''I don't know if they're going to come to any conclusion there,'' Orange Bowl chief executive Eric Poms said, ``but obviously they've got to move forward.''

This year's meetings are crucial as BCS officials set out to lay the groundwork for the consortium's next cycle. The four-year agreement expires in January 2010.

And for the first time since the BCS was launched a decade ago, there is an openness to at least examine whether the championship format should expand beyond two teams and one game.

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