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Now that the guys putting together the College Football Playoff have determined where the games will be played, there's only one major item left on the agenda _ and it just might be the most important piece.
The grandest stage in sports was too much for the guys who are putting together the College Football Playoff to pass up.
The major college football conference commissioners are holding three days of meetings in the Rose Bowl's backyard. They also will choose the remaining three sites for the six-bowl semifinal rotation in the new system, along with the site of the first championship game to be held Jan. 12, 2015.
The Bowl Championship Series will be replaced by the College Football Playoff.
The Bowl Championship Series will be replaced by the College Football Playoff.
With the how and when of college football playoffs determined, it's time to lock in the where.
The first semifinal games in the new college football playoff system will be played in the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015.
The BCS conference commissioners announced the dates and rotation for all 12 years of the upcoming postseason format after a meeting in Key Biscayne on Monday, the day after the BCS championship game in Miami.
The home of the first national championship game under the new playoff system, along with the three remaining semifinal rotation sites, will likely be picked by the end of April.
The final whistle of the national championship game also signals a new beginning.
The college football playoff system will be televised on ESPN for 12 years once it starts after the 2014 season, the network said Wednesday.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has agreed to a 12-year deal with ESPN for the rights to televise the Orange Bowl, with the conference champion facing either Notre Dame or a team from the Big Ten or SEC.
BCS conference commissioners have identified candidate cities to host the first championship game in college football's new postseason system, and the four current BCS bowls will be among the choices.
The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed so obvious to so many for so long. Just have a playoff.
Playoffs and tournaments long have determined champions of every college sport from baseball to bowling.
A committee of commissioners handled the naming of the new system, and Hancock said they ran through "in the neighborhood of three dozen" names.
"It's really simple. It gets right to the point," BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said at a short news conference with the 10 commissioners of the FCS conferences.
