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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 289840, member: 628"]
I'm really not sure that things are changing nearly to the degree that people think. The whole reason the BCS existed was to provide (1) a #1 vs. #2 matchup, and (2) stability and revenue for everyone who may have previously had a bowl game with small national title implications (the old #2 vs. #5 and #3 vs. #7 games when #1 was playing, say, #4).
 
So now we'll have a final four, and everyone else lining up guaranteed matchups -- just like when the Big 8 champ played in the Orange bowl every year, or the SEC champ played in the Sugar, etc.
 
I just think that the notion of the Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12 and Big XII creating a 4-team, 4-conference system for determining a title to be far-fetched. Everything the BCS has done in recent years has been to expand access, not limit it. There are significant legal considerations at play. And the notion that those 4 leagues are destined to go to 16 teams each is far-fetched as well. I mean it may happen, but to assume that there is some Montgomery Burns-like puppet master engineering it is silly Internet conspiracy theory nonsense.
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