

"We need a playoff system." Joe Paterno "I support a playoff, I think it would give us the chance to decide a champion on the field." Lloyd Carr |
"It's a matter of independence and control." However , "Eventually the consumer will get what he demands." Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany |
"University of Florida President Bernard Machen and Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell are pushing for a playoff." Bloomberg.com |
"Once I put it down on paper, I was blown away at just how incredible this would be. Imagine two and a half weeks with seven of the most exciting games of the year, in which every game is huge for everybody. It makes the BCS system we have today – and the money it generates – look like a joke." Terry Bowden |
| “The Rose Bowl is the most important external relationship we have, It’s more important than the BCS. We’re going to honor it. We’re going to salute it.” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany |
| “What you’ve got is a system now that’s run by people whose interest is the protection of their personal domain, that being the six (major) conferences, any solution that they come up with is going to be based on how to protect themselves and their conference members. We need to have that go away.” University of Florida President Bernard Machen |
| "The Big Ten and the Pac- 10 would prefer to return to the old bowl system — which had no mechanism for matching No. 1 vs. No. 2 — rather than have a playoff." NY Times |
| "I've looked at the Big 12's 10-year revenue projections basketball television, basketball tournament, football championship game and percentage increases range from 20%-50%. Post season football is like 2.6%. And you're thinking, 'Our bell cow, our big money producer, is going to generate 2%-3% more in 10 years. People ought to be in jail.' " Texas athletics director DeLoss Dodds |
| "There is no reason on this earth why we can't have the best four and then play one more." Tommy Tuberville |
