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DESTIN, Fla. -- Welcome to "Weekend at Bernie's."
The annual Southeastern Conference business meetings started here Tuesday, and by the end of the week, Florida president Bernie Machen will know if he has the support of the league in pushing forward a national championship football playoff plan.
Machen has been making noise about a playoff since December, when he feared the Gators might be shut out of the national championship game using the current Bowl Championship Series system. That didn't happen. The Gators got their shot at No. 1 and trounced Ohio State for the national championship.
Now, Machen says he has a plan that involves setting up a corporation to run a playoff separate from the NCAA and BCS commissioners.
"We'd just won the SEC championship, and I'm standing there in the Georgia Dome lamenting the fact I didn't even know if we were going to the national championship game," said Machen, recalling when he began to get motivated about devising a plan.
DESTIN, Fla. -- Welcome to "Weekend at Bernie's."
The annual Southeastern Conference business meetings started here Tuesday, and by the end of the week, Florida president Bernie Machen will know if he has the support of the league in pushing forward a national championship football playoff plan.
Machen has been making noise about a playoff since December, when he feared the Gators might be shut out of the national championship game using the current Bowl Championship Series system. That didn't happen. The Gators got their shot at No. 1 and trounced Ohio State for the national championship.
Now, Machen says he has a plan that involves setting up a corporation to run a playoff separate from the NCAA and BCS commissioners.
"We'd just won the SEC championship, and I'm standing there in the Georgia Dome lamenting the fact I didn't even know if we were going to the national championship game," said Machen, recalling when he began to get motivated about devising a plan.
