After decades of debating the idea, NCAA college football will have a four-team playoff to decide the national champion, starting in 2014.
The decision was approved Tuesday in Washington by an oversight committee of 12 university presidents. For now, the playoff plan will decide national champions until 2025. Among things endorsed by the presidents was a rotation of both the championship game site, and six bowl sites used for the semifinals.
Questions still remain to be answered about the four-team playoff, such as how teams will be seeded, and if certain teams are ineligible to qualify if they are not part of a conference that gives them an automatic bid.
Dave Brandon, Athletic Director for the University of Michigan, told the Free Press he is very pleased with the college football playoff.
"With the selection committee approach, it provides an opportunity for there to be a balanced assessment of those four teams that are chosen. To me, that's as good as any system we could have come up with," Brandon said.
