BCS gets 4 team playoff

Why aren't schools closed today? Why aren't people making out with complete strangers on street corners? Why isn't your couch on fire?

People, rejoice! We're going to get a four-team college football playoff! It's the Finally Four!

In fact, right now, somebody ought to be bronzing meeting room 303 on the third floor of the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. Because that's where Twelve Good Men -- the 11 FBS commissioners plus Notre Dame's AD -- made history last week. They hammered out approval for a four-team playoff.

All praise the four-fathers!

"They were aware of the historical significance," says BCS executive director Bill Hancock, a great American. "It was done very thoughtfully. They knew."

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