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Tom Oates: College football endgame should be 8-team playoff

For years, the Big Ten was viewed as the most powerful entity in college football. Lately, however, the conference has been in full backpedal mode. Or maybe it?s just some good old-fashioned politicking. Whatever you want to call it, the national debate over changing the BCS format from a two-team championship game to a four-team playoff has put Jim Delany, the Big Ten?s always-visionary and sometimes-pushy commissioner, in a mood to compromise.