[Husker] Congress to investigate BCS - bring it back to

[Mike Nolan]

> The biggest structural drawback to a playoff system is the fact that
> two of the major conferences don't have playoffs - Pac10 and Big11.

Yeah, well having a conference championship game didn't prevent the
Big 12 South from having a very controversial choice for the
conference championship game.

The Big 10 did have exploratory talks with Notre Dame about joining
the conference to give them 12 teams.  Whether a conference championship
game was seriously discussed (ABC has made it clear they'd put up a
nice pot full of money to televise it) is unclear, but Notre Dame said 
no thanks anyway.

Also, the geographical distribution of the Big 10 conference makes two 
six-team divisions difficult, putting Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan 
in the 'east' division might make it too unbalanced (most years), especially
if Notre Dame is in that division, and there's no way that Penn State 
belongs in the 'west' division or that Ohio State and Michigan would 
agree to give up The Game at the end of the season, which means there's 
a reasonable chance they could wind up playing two games a week apart.  Ugh!
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Mike Nolan