BCS on ESPN Is a Conflict of Interest: How Will Execs Handle BCS Bashing?

Every day you turn on ESPN, it is almost inevitable that someone, some way, is going to voice their "expert" opinion on why there should or should not be a playoff in college football. ESPN is reportedly coughing up $125 million a year for the rights to broadcast the Bowl Championship Series games from 2011 through 2014, except the Rose Bowl, which ABC (the parent company of ESPN) holds under an older separate contract, which includes the 2014 National Championship game. I am undecided on the whole playoff argument. Right now I'm a defender of the BCS because my Gators are on their way to their second BCS National Championship in three years. But if Penn State hadn't lost, maybe I'd feel differently. I would go for a four-team playoff. I am definitely against an eight-team playoff, however. So with all these different objections to the current BCS system, how will ESPN react now that they are the BCS broadcasters? Now let's think about this. We all know that ESPN is THE main source of ... (link)