University of Florida president Bernie Machen pitched a playoff system plan at the SEC’s spring meeting:

Machen’s plan is complex, and it does not even include details like how many teams would be involved in the playoff or when and where games would be played.

The basis of his proposal is to form a limited liability corporation that, much like the BCS, would work outside the framework of the NCAA. He wants to keep the current bowl structure intact and then distribute revenue to all 119 Division I-A schools instead of keeping most of the money for the schools in the six BCS conferences.

It’s complex, lacks details, keeps the bowl “structure”, and makes more money for everyone while distributing it to more teams? Sounds like a winner!

I bet one of the missing details guarantees Notre Dame an automatic playoff spot.

Naturally, the Big Ten and Pac-10 hate it. It’d be nice to have more details, so I can probably hate it too. I don’t care if there’s a national champion. Does that make me un-American?

Or is this just because I’m predisposed to dislike anything coming out of the SEC?

# 2007 Jun 01