BCS officials reject "plus-one" system

Posted: Wed Apr 30 8:02 PM

Hollywood, FL (Sports Network) - The Bowl Championship Series will not be amended to include a "plus-one" format to determine a national champion, BCS officials announced Wednesday.

The proposed changes, which would have created a four-team playoff using two BCS bowl games as national semifinals, was rejected by a consensus among the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences and Notre Dame.

The decision keeps the current system in place until at least the start of the 2014 season. Negotiations with Fox to renew the BCS television contract from 2010 to 2013 are slated to begin in the fall, and any changes to the BCS structure would have needed to come from this year's meetings.

While the proposed changes would have slotted the top four teams in the BCS rankings into a playoff, the commissioners opted to retain the current structure, which will feature a National Championship game played between the top two teams in the BCS standings about a week after the traditional BCS bowl games.

The site of the championship game rotates between the four BCS sites, with the Orange Bowl set to host the title game this season.