NCAA President Likes a 4-Team Playoff, My System Revealed

This. After giving his annual state of the association speech Thursday in Indianapolis, NCAA President Mark Emmert acknowledged he would back a small playoff if that's what Bowl Championship Series officials decide to adopt. ''The notion of having a Final Four approach is probably a sound one,'' Emmert said when asked what he heard coming out of New Orleans this week. ''Moving toward a 16-team playoff is highly problematic because I think that's too much to ask a young man's body to do. It's too many games, it intrudes into the school year and, of course, it would probably necessitate a complete end to the bowl system that so many people like now.'' BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said Tuesday that 50-60 possibilities for various changes were presented during a deliberate meeting in New Orleans, where Alabama beat LSU in the BCS title game Monday night. Hancock anticipates it will take another five...