Common sense finally prevails over BCS

Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott summed up the thinking after the meeting, telling The New York Times: "So much of the passion of a move to a playoff is to see it earned on the field. What more clear way to have intellectual consistency with the idea of a playoff than to earn it as a conference champion? It would play down the rolls of the highly subjective polls that are based on a coach and media voting and a few computers."
It's a shame it took an all-SEC national championship to move administrators toward the epiphany of a playoff, especially since the championship in question (with Alabama winning over LSU) was one of the few times in recent years when the BCS grand finale clearly featured the two best teams.
After the current BCS contract runs its course, it looks like college football will go to a final-four format, with four conference champions playing semifinal games at one of the participating teams' home stadiums. That will be followed by a national championship game on or about New Years Day to be held at a neutral location.

"I hope we can come up with a system that turns the bowl model on its head and improves it," Scott told the Times.