Bcs Head Rejects Playoff Plan

Tue., June 22, 1999

The coordinator for the current Bowl Championship Series said he’s not interested in a Swiss marketing firm’s plan for a 16-team college football playoff to begin in 2003.

“I’m not here to say there will never be a college football playoff,” said Roy Kramer, BCS coordinator and commissioner of the Southeastern Conference. “But I don’t believe it will be run by someone in Switzerland.”

ISL, a Swiss-based marketing and licensing firm, first introduced its plan to Kramer last December. The firm has since met with many other conferences in hopes of drawing support for the proposal.

ISL’s $2.4 billion plan calls for a 16-team playoff that would begin in early December, with first-round and quarterfinal games played at the site of the higher ranked team.

The semifinals and title game would use three of the four BCS bowls, with the title game set for the weekend before the NFL’s Super Bowl.

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