The Lions' Pride

I think this is the year it happens. And the result will be a change to the BCS. It is early, but we could have undefeated Pac-12, Big10, Big 12, and SEC champ, along with Boise. If we do, Bill Hancock cannot say the system worked. we had 5 undefeateds a few years ago, but since that lot consisted of Cincy, Boise, and TCU, after Texas and Bama, not as big a stink was raised. but it could have gone to hell if McCoy waits one more second to throw that ball away against the Huskers. Same scenario with TCU last year.

while the SEC and Big12 champs would likely meet in the title game, an undefeated Stanford and/or Wisconsin in the Rose will scream murder if they are left out. The thing is, this could fairly easily be made into a playoff if the BCS thought about making their system more robust in the wake of all the conf re-alignment without changing the dynamics and tradition of the bowls at all:

This solution is a Plus-2 model (adds 2 extra games):
1. after the conf champ games, award the season-ending BCS #1 and #2 a bye week for the bowl games.
2. Have a BCS selection show and play the bowl games as usual. Whoever is BCS 3 and 4 AFTER the bowls gets seeded against 1 and 2 in a BCS Final Four the week after Jan 1 (this is when 1 and 2 would have played each other in the current BCS title game).
3. Winners of those games meet in the title game the week prior to the Superbowl (2 weeks after the Final Four).

Pros:
The BCS gets to keep the current bowl system traditions AND add 2 more BCS games to the rotation. The champion gets decided on the field. More $$$ to the universities, conferences, and BCS sytem. Novel idea right? The BCS would have to juggle a few things to ensure the top teams played each other in the bowls and any remaining undefeateds or top teams get whittled down, but it could work.

Cons:
fan travel logistics and cost.
possible rematches or teams from same conf playing each other again.
not much else.

Here's how it would look this year if this was in effect (since BCS is renegotiating the contract soon, they could implement in 2014, if not sooner)
Jan 2
#1 LSU (13-0), #2 Oklahoma (12-0) - Bye
#3 Wisconsin (13-0) vs #4 Stanford (13-0) - Rose Bowl - this is essentially a play-in game to the Final Four - assume Wisconsin wins
#5 Alabama (11-1) vs #6 Boise (12-0) - Sugar Bowl - play-in game again - assume Bama wins
ACC Champ Clemson (12-1) vs Big East Champ WVU (11-1) - Orange - Clemson wins, season over
At large Oregon vs At large ND - Fiesta - Oregon wins, season over.

Jan 8 -
#1 LSU vs #4 Alabama - Sugar Bowl site Semi Final (this site would rotate btw Sugar and Orange every year)
Jan 9
#2 Oklahoma vs #3 Wisconsin - Rose Bowl site Semi Final (this site would rotate btw Rose and Fiesta)

Jan 22
#1 LSU vs #3 Wisconsin - Cowboy Stadium- Dallas (meet in the middle)

there may be discontent from teams finish 5 or 6, but realistically the top 4 BCS teams after the bowls are the most championship worthy. At a minimum it gives more teams a shot to play for the title where there was no chance before. While this will never happen as long as Joe is still coaching, you have to ask yourself the question if PSU won the B1G at 13-0, went to the Rose, then to the Semi's, then the Title game, would you travel? Maybe not to all 3, but there are plenty of alums that would travel to at least one of the games. and this scenario only applies to the 2 teams that make it.