2. BCS announces four-team playoff – After years of public outcry, hearings on Capitol Hill and threats of antitrust lawsuits, the college football powers-that-be banded together and decided to do away with the evil BCS and start a four-team playoff system in 2014. While the system isn't perfect, doesn't include eight or 16 teams like many would have preferred and doesn't have the specifics worked out, the idea of a playoff is something college ... more 

2. BCS announces four-team playoff – After years of public outcry, hearings on Capitol Hill and threats of antitrust lawsuits, the college football powers-that-be banded together and decided to do away with the evil BCS and start a four-team playoff system in 2014. While the system isn't perfect, doesn't include eight or 16 teams like many would have preferred and doesn't have the specifics worked out, the idea of a playoff is something college football fans have craved. And now that the league commissioners and university presidents have figured out a way monetize it, they seem to be on board as well. The playoff is supposed to be a more fair way to determine a national champion. We'll see how many people want to change it by 2015. less