BCS Leaders Don't Need to Appease the Rose Bowl While Reforming the Postseason

We are headed towards a new world of college football, and that new world will include some sort of four-team playoff, according to USA TODAY.  

Good for college football.  

Fans are clamoring for "a playoff," and the option that best preserves the importance of the regular season and "crowns a true champion" is a four-team playoff without automatic bids for conference champions. For a national champion to be a "true national champion," that team must perform throughout the entire season, not just during a one-month playoff stretch.

BCS leaders threw a wrench in the works on Wednesday, when USA TODAY revealed that one of the four plans included a half-brained idea where Big Ten and/or Pac-12 teams would meet in the Rose Bowl instead of the playoff if one or both conferences were represented in the top four at the end of the regular season.

Drop. Cup.

The Rose Bowl is a dinosaur. The BCS has negated its importance, and it's time that college football leaders realize this.  

BCS leaders can't take a step back to the old system while taking two steps forward with a "plus one" format; it would be counterproductive. If this plan goes through, that's exactly what they'd be doing.

In reality, this is probably just a negotiating ploy so the decision-makers can go back to the Rose Bowl brass and say, "We tried." The simple fact that they would have to do that, though, still proves that the people making this decision are out of touch.

Take the top four in the BCS (or whatever the new ranking system will be), seed them, play the semis at the home stadium of the higher-ranked teams and then either bid out the championship game or rotate through bowl sites.  

It isn't rocket science.

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