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Plus-one doesn't mean plus one mid-major.(COLLEGE FOOTBALL)
The latest round of appeasement came last month. A promise here, a gesture there. SEC commissioner Mike Slive, the new director of the BCS, declared he would look into all possibilities for tweaking college football's postseason--including the dreaded plus-one championship game.
Fresh off the best-ever BCS championship game, let's remember the BCS is taking a new step next season. The series moves from four to five BCS games--with the stated goal of allowing greater access to mid-major teams. Now, let me share a secret with everyone:
Very little is going to change, other than the amount of money in the pockets of the BCS schools.
"You still have to have the stars aligned to get in," TCU coach Gary Patterson says.
Patterson's Horned Frogs won 11 games and the Mountain West Conference title this past season. They had as many victories against Big 12 teams (two) as Kansas State--including a road win against the big, bad Oklahoma Sooners. But even if next year's new access rules had been used, TCU would have been relegated to a whocares.com bowl if not for a wild upset in the ACC championship game.
Follow me, everyone. TCU finished 14th in the BCS standings, and under the rules for next season, mid-majors must finish in the top 12 of the BCS rankings to earn an automatic at-large spot. The other way to automatic access: A mid-major must be ranked among the top 16 and be ranked higher than one of the BCS conference champions.
Under the new system, TCU would have received a BCS spot instead of ACC champion FSU (No. 22). But how many times will that upset scenario play out? The BCS sold us something that really isn't what the BCS says it is.
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