BCS Playoff Proposal: Breaking Down 4-Game Postseason Plan

College Football is finally getting a Final Four. 

The news, which was announced via press conference by Virginia Tech president Charles W. Steger, comes from the USA Today's Nicole Auerbach:

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Official release: College football will have a four-team, seeded playoff starting in 2014-15 season.

— Nicole Auerbach (@nicoleauerbach) June 26, 2012"

This will surely delight fans who were growing increasingly tired of the BCS and how the computer polls were stifling their favorite teams.

Let's take a closer look at the new postseason plan. 

Rotation of Semifinals

According to the USA Today, the two Final Four games will rotate between the six BCS bowls.

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The presidents also endorsed the concept of the semifinals rotating among six bowls.

"We do not know the rotation yet," said BCS executive director Bill Hancock. "That's still to be determined."

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This is the best possible way to do it, as all of the bowls get the best of both worlds. Not only does each venue get the economical and historical benefit of hosting one of the biggest games of the year every few seasons, they also get to keep the history of their bowl.

For example, the Rose Bowl will continue to be able to host a Pac-12 versus Big Ten battle most years. The economic standards will be met, but the purists will still be happy.

Selection Committee 

Say goodbye to the computers you so desperately despised. The best four teams in the nation won't be determined by the BCS system, but by a selection committee. 

Let's face it, the computers were never going to make everyone happy—they weren't going to make even a majority of the people happy, either.

But, the selection committee won't be perfect, either.

We're facing the inevitable awkward situation when SEC—or any conference for that matter—teams make up three of the best four in the country.

The selection committee will either pick those three teams and anger everyone else in the country, or snub someone because they don't want three teams from the same conference and anger everyone from that school.

Also, throw in the fact that the odds of a mid-major school getting picked for the Final Four is likely still low, although it's much higher than it getting picked by the BCS for the championship. 

No one will ever be fully satisfied.

More Than Four Teams?

A way to make sure more people are satisfied would be to increase the number of teams in the playoff. Former Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley doesn't agree:

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"I'm hoping it'll never move beyond [four]," he said. "That's why I was in favor of a plus-one [in the '90s]; I thought that was the best way [to go] and it wouldn't move beyond that. Four is a little more dangerous in that respect, and it could happen. But I hope it never does. Because then, where do you go from there?

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Dooley makes a good point. Eight, in my opinion, is the most it could ever go.

Otherwise these kids are going to be playing too many games, school gets in the way—or football gets in the way of school, depending on how you look at it—and injuries add up. 

The pressure to continue to increase the amount of teams will always be there, but don't expect anything to change for awhile.

The four-team system doesn't start until the 2014-2015 season, and college football isn't exactly swift to make changes. 

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