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At last, a playoff for major college football

Posted June 27, 2012
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger (center) stood shoulder to shoulder with other university presidents Tuesday as they announced that the current method for producing a champion, the Bowl Championship Series, will be replaced by a four-team playoff. | Associated Press

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger (center) stood shoulder to shoulder with other university presidents Tuesday as they announced that the current method for producing a champion, the Bowl Championship Series, will be replaced by a four-team playoff. | Associated Press

Playoffs and tournaments long have determined champions of every college sport from baseball to bowling.

The exception was major college football.

That ended Tuesday. Come 2014, the BCS is dead.

A committee of university presidents, led by Virginia Tech’s Charles Steger, approved a plan for a four-team playoff put forward by commissioners of the top football conferences.

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