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The Big Ten is contemplating the idea of adjusting college football's postseason to a national four-team playoff, with games played on the campus of the higher seed, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday, citing sources.
The playoffs would involve the top four teams from the BCS bowl pool and bring an end to the use of neutral venues.
A site for the championship game could then be bid out, similarly to the Super Bowl.
The conference is ready to listen to ideas in the wake of a low-rated BCS title game between LSU and Alabama.
"We have to listen to the fans; we cannot be tone-deaf," said Northwestern athletics director Jim Phillips, who chairs the Big Ten's Administrators Council. "The Big Ten is open and curious."
The four-team playoff — also known as a Plus-One — was proposed by the Southeastern Conference in 2008, but the Big Ten, Pac-10, Big 12, Big East and Notre Dame disapproved.
A new system, if approved, would come into effect when the new college football cycle begins in the 2014 season.
