Is College Football Getting Close To the Super Six and College Playoffs?

Larry Burton (Panama City Beach, Fl) With the news coming out of the Pac-10 and Big Ten that they are looking at expansion, joining the ranks of the conferences that play a championship game and ready to join the rest of the great conferences that do this, one can only ask when playoffs will be not just water cooler talk, but reality.

That would be the Super Six of the SEC, Big 12, ACC, Big 10, (renamed the Big North) the Pac-10 (renamed the Pac 12) and the Big East.

And allowing that playoffs must have an even number of teams to be fair, four other at-large teams would be picked, such as minor conference winners, a super six team with one loss and an independent, like Notre Dame.

That would be eight teams that could play in the following bowls: Cotton, Fiesta, Gator, and Orange Bowls. The two winners would meet in the Sugar and Rose Bowl and the championship game would be the BCS bowl.

Bowls could be rotated, but the Cotton Bowl has been itching to get into the BCS status and with the palace Jerry Jones has built, why not? The Gator Bowl is just an idea, but it could work.

I have never been a fan of playoffs, but the formation of super six will only make it harder for teams outside that group to make the big show. With lawsuits already springing up demanding inclusion, the four team at-large addition should adequately quiet them.

At least for a while.

I'll leave the debate open for now on who joins what conference and what shifting may take place, but the super six will happen and it could happen by as early as 2012 or 2013.

At least this way, the bowl system is kept up, television revenue will skyrocket, and money will flow like a river. The downside is two extra games for two teams and an extra one for four teams.

Is it a perfect system? No. Is it the best it can be? That is debatable. But mark this date and write down that this was the day you saw the future, because it will happen.

Or at least something very close to that.