Playoffs?! Maybe so.

1/9/08 By Ryan Chatelain

Playoffs?! Maybe so.

Photo credit: Game Face

The chairman of the NCAA’s executive committee says he will propose an eight-team college playoff.

Halleluiah! Halleluiah!

But I know what you’re thinking: “Haven’t we heard this before?” and “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Call me delusional, but I sense things are different this time.

For starters, the man behind the plan, University of Georgia president Michael Adams (pictured) had opposed a playoff system for 20 years. “But this year’s experience with the BCS forces me to the conclusion that the current system has lost public confidence and simply does not work,” he said.

Even NCAA president Myles Brand seems open to the idea.

“The BCS has produced some exciting games since it came into existence, but there may be a feeling among some presidents, though not all, that there is need for structural changes,” he said in a news release. “This is an issue that will be decided through presidential leadership.”

Adams’ plan would have the four current BCS bowls serve as first-round games. A week later, the semifinals would be played, followed by a national championship game the following week.

I do have one beef about Adams’ proposal, however: the timing of the announcement. He unveiled his plan Tuesday, one day after LSU won the national championship. Georgia was among the handful of schools that felt it should have been playing in the BCS title game. The timing gives the perception that Adams is crying sour grapes and takes away from LSU’s achievements a bit.

Regardless, if a playoff system comes out of this, who cares?

AP Photo/Athens Banner Herald, John Curry
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