Posted: Tue April 23, 2013 10:24PM; Updated: Wed April 24, 2013
1:30AM Stewart Mandel  Flawed BCS replaced with better, if
imperfect College Football Playoff  Decrease font Decrease font
Enlarge font Enlarge font Even BCS titles from deserving teams
like Alabama in 2012 couldn't quell the calls for a playoff
system. Damian Strohmeyer/SI  PASADENA, Calif. -- At a news
conference here Tuesday at the Langham Huntington Pasadena,
executive director Bill Hancock and the 10 FBS conference
commissioners stood on a riser in front of the room watching the
screen as a video presentation touted their new creation. Amidst
a montage of memorable BCS moments -- Ian Johnson's Statue of
Liberty, Ohio State fending off Miami, etc. -- a male voiceover
declared: "The College Football Playoff -- you can't get more
straightforward than that."  No you can't. And that's probably a
good thing.  While the jokes are easy -- especially given the
fact a marketing firm actually collected money to devise it -- a
simplistic approach to a n