In this file photo, Mark A. Emmert speaks during a news conference after being announced as the president elect of the NCAA in Indianapolis in April 2010.When Alabama thoroughly dominated LSU in Monday night’s BCS title game, it momentarily silenced many of the critics who questioned whether the Crimson Tide were even worthy of facing the Tigers for a second time this season.
Say what you want to of Oklahoma State — and it’s hard to imagine the Cowboys wouldn’t have been more of a challenge for Bama’s defense than LSU was — the flip side is that the Cowboys’ defense resembles the Tigers’ only in the number of players who can be on the field at one time.
So no matter how many Okie State might have scored, the Tide would have rolled. Case closed. At least for this year.
But that doesn’t mean the future of the BCS won’t be high on NCAA president Mark Emmert’s priority list when the NCAA convention gets under way today in Indianapolis.
Said Emmert a few days ago in an interview with the Huffington Post website: “I could easily see a movement toward the Plus-One that everyone is talking about. This year it would have produced something like No. 1 LSU playing No. 4 Stanford, and No. 2 [Alabama] playing No. 3 (Oklahoma State], and the winners playing in a championship.