BCS officials once again reject playoff system.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Saying the BCS was in an "unprecedented state of health," ACC commissioner John Swofford announced Wednesday that college football will not change the way it determines its national champion as it prepares to begin negotiations for future television contracts that will probably run through the 2014 season.

"We will move forward in the next cycle with the current format," said Swofford, who serves as BCS chairman. "I believe the BCS has never been healthier in its first decade."

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Dennis Dodd: "2014 is the earliest CFB may see a playoff."

For the first time, commissioners will formally discuss a different postseason model. A four-team playoff that has taken on the moniker "plus-one" will be on the table. The 2014 season is the earliest, realistically, it could be implemented considering the complicated series of television contracts that still exist. Not to mention the long-stated opposition of one-third of the six major conferences -- the Pac-10 and Big Ten.

When asked how plus-one proponents rappel up that little Everest, Swofford said, "I don't know that we do."

The question, then, is whether Wednesday's discussion will kill a plus-one for the foreseeable future. The answer is, probably. Things are too good now to take a chance that they might get better with a plus-one in the future.

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Tony Barnhart, on this week's BCS meetings.

SEC Commissioner Mike Slive will come to the meetings armed with a plan for a four-team playoff that would seed the teams 1-4. You’d have two semifinals and then a championship game. If there is going to be any change, I believe it’s the biggest one that can be made and actually put into place by 2010.

The commissioners are also going to talk about the current “double-hosting” model where one city hosts two games-its bowl plus the BCS championship game. Glendale, Ariz., and New Orleans both did a good job with it during the past two seasons. Miami and Pasadena will get their shot over the next two years. But I’m just not sure the idea is going to survive for another four-year cycle-not with Jerry Jones’s $1.1 billion stadium getting ready to come on line in Dallas. So that could change.

Everything is going to be on the table this week and I am told the discussions will be lively. There is the point of view that after 10 years of the two-team BCS championship fans are ready-and deserve-a new post-season product. There are equally passionate voices that believe that college football has never been more popular. The stadiums are full. TV ratings are good. Everybody’s making money. Why mess with a good thing?

Here is what I believe. I believe that the discussions that will take place over the next couple of days are to simply lay the groundwork for the REAL negotiations four years from now. By then the stadium in Dallas will be up and running full speed. The Citrus Bowl in Orlando will have completed its renovation. The Rose Bowl contract with ABC will also be up for renewal (it currently runs through the game of 2014). All of the moving parts that I mentioned before will finally be lined up.

The next four years will be used to build consensus for a big move, which is something that does not exist right now. Then the commissioners can put a four-team playoff on the table and open it up for bids to all of the TV networks and bowls who want to play. That’s the end game.

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