Whenever a college football fan brings up the ill-fated playoff word in front of the administrative Godfathers who control the sport via their self-serving monopoly, you can bet the administrative bigwigs will quickly stomp out the playoff fire with the often used rebuttal (ace in the hole) “how will the fans be able to attend from week-to-week because they will be traveling cross-country to the events?”

This is certainly the million dollar question, but if we begin to think like the late Tom Mickle, the ACC Conference administrator who created the initial version of the BCS, called the Bowl Coalition in 1992 by thinking outside the box, we can quickly challenge and defeat this oft used rebuttal.

Although this is certainly a major hurdle to consider, when adding some careful planning and consideration to our “outside-the-box mindset,” we can revive the playoff fire and put this rebuttal to bed. The highest hurdle we face, which is similar to the NCAA college football bowl format, is history and tradition.

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