Explain to me the +1 scenario

yes he misspoke. bama would play oklahoma st. lsu would play stanford.

I disagree

LSU and Bama would have faced each other in the +1 game.

1v4
2v3

Well thats impossible to do because the BCS contract isnt up until 2014.

If it was a plus 1 after the BCS then he's technically right. but it wouldn't happen that way. If there was a plus 1 in place, you would not have 1 and 2 play in a bowl. In a true plus one, this particular year, you would have had 1 v 4 and 2 v 3 most likley and the winners play. This year it works out since 2 of the top 4 didn't win a conference and could go anywhere, that's not always the case.

2010 for example in a plus one, you have Oregon play Wisky in the Rose and Auburn play maybe Stanford or TCU in the Sugar and the top 2 after that play for the title.

I think what is being proposed in a 4 team playoff.

Yes, +1 is just 1 versus 2 determined after the bowl games.

If instead, 1 has to play 4 and 2 has to play 3, you're no longer in the +1 realm.

That's a four team playoff.

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Not sure why they keep referring to it as +1...it is really a four-team playoff (top 4 in BCS).

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Yes. Another way to have a true +1 is to have LSU sit since there was no doubt about #1. Bama plays OK State to see who plays LSU. That's a +1 and not a playoff. Similar thing in '03.

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Yes, +1 is just 1 versus 2 determined after the bowl games.

If instead, 1 has to play 4 and 2 has to play 3, you're no longer in the +1 realm.

That's a four team playoff.

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While I like this idea, there better be WRITTEN standards for determining the final 4 teams. Not "eyeball tests" or "quality loses". Real standards.

Also, what does this do to address teams that will play an extra game due to conference championship games, etc?

This years set up would have been great:

LSU vs Stan
Bama vs OSU..

Except for the fact that LSU was the only team out of those four that played a conference championship game. LSU and OSU were the only two that technically won their conference.

So, Stanford gets in over Oregon because Oregon had the balls to schedule LSU in week one? That's bullshite as well. Oregon schedules a Bama schedule, and they don't have that extra loss that eliminates them from this imaginary final four.

I could go on and on about the flaws of this as well.

IMO, this "Plus 1" just gives ESPN an opportunity to add their one or two more of their darlings in the mix, regardless of who was on their schedule and regardless of who they beat or lost to.

Give me standards in writing. As a fan of CFB, I'm sick of these unwritten rules that change depending on who needs to benefit from them.

/of my pointless rant.

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So in other words, all a +1 would have done last year is made us have to beat yet another top-5 team before getting our rematch with Bama.

Woohoo, count me in

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well, Bama would have had to play another game as well.