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College Football Set to Change Forever

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Not to go all high and mighty on everyone, but college football as we know almost certainly will change later this month. That’s because the sport’s power brokers will meet April 25-27 in Hollywood, Fla., to discuss new postseason plans.

Change has been in the air for a while (actually, the NCAA’s Television Committee made a playoff proposal to the association as a whole as far back as 1971 – yes, 1971), and when Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany gave his tacit approval earlier this year to a change in the postseason landscape, the question then became how soon the change would occur.

Change will happen at that meeting. What type of change is the question.

Earlier this week, USA Today obtained a status report detailing the possible changes....

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