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Playoff Coming to College Football

Associated Press

BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who has served since 2009 as the public face of the most hated entity in sports, finally got to say something Wednesday that made college football fans cheer from sea to shining sea. After conference commissioners met for almost 10 hours, a giddy Hancock emerged from a conference room and -- for once -- said something we can celebrate instead of mock.

"I can take status quo off the table," Hancock said.

But this is the BCS. So, naturally, Hancock qualified his statement a few minutes later.

"The BCS as we know it -- the exact same policies will not continue," Hancock said. "That does not mean that there is definitely going to be a four-team event or a plus-one."

A "four-team event" is better known to intelligent...

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