The change has come...the Dawning of a new day in Football's Postseason

The leaders in college football Thursday formally endorsed a four-team playoff. And officially placed the Bowl Championship Series on life support, with plans to pull the plug beginning with the 2014 season.

Following the end of the meetings in Hollywood, Fla., the commissioners of the 11 Div. 1-A (FBS) conferences as well as Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick issued a statement that read in part that the group “will present to our conferences a very small number of four-team options, each of which could be carried out in a number of ways.” Borrowing from JFK, within that document lies the dawning of a new age in major college football’s postseason.

The impact of today’s developments wasn’t lost on the organization perhaps impacted the most by the tidal wave of postseason discussion that’s swept over the sport the past several months.

“This is a seismic change for college football and commissioners are aware of that,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock candidly and correctly stated.