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HI HR33

Resolution

Status

Introduced

2/8/2010

Primary Sponsor

John Mizuno

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Origin

House of Representatives

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Urges the NCAA to implement a "Plus-One" playoff system allowing the top four ranked teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision to compete for a national championship.

  • Criticizes the current Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system as controversial and relying on complex mathematical computations, polls, politics, and corporate influences rather than on-field performance.

  • Notes that smaller "Mid-Major" conferences and independent schools are disadvantaged under the BCS system and rarely receive automatic bids to the five lucrative bowl games.

  • Requests that the NCAA reserve at least 10 percent of seating in the first national playoff championship game for members of the armed forces.

  • Directs that 10 percent of the national championship game proceeds, after expenses, be distributed to scholarship foundations at participating schools for handicapped students with financial need.

Legislative Description

Urging the NCAA to implement a "Plus-One" model playoff system to determine a national champion in the football bowl subdivision of collegiate football.

Last Action

(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred.

3/8/2010

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