Bill Hancock, executive director of the BCS, told reporters that he expects conference commissioners to begin discussing possible changes to the BCS beyond 2014.
Hancock was speaking to reporters at a Football Writers Association of America event on Monday prior to the BCS national championship game between Auburn and Oregon.
The BCS is in the first year of a four-year, $500 million television contract with ESPN that runs through the 2014 national championship.
Hancock said the conference commissioners will initially get input from the university presidents about any revisions to the current format.
After taking every suggestion into consideration, college football will more than likely not have a playoff despite pressure from politicians like Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Representative Joe Barton (R-TX).
If the BCS is eliminated at the conclusion of the current contract, Hancock believes college football could revert to the system that was used prior to 1998 when bowl matchups tried to arrange a championship game between the No.1 and No. 2 teams in the country.
However, Hancock said while that scenario is possible, it too, like a playoff format, wouldn’t be likely, saying an 8 or 16 team playoff is “not even in the spectrum.”
Last month at a college athletics forum in New York, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said supporters of the BCS were fatigued with defending the system from constant legal and political pressures.
Hancock said it has not been easy to fend off all the attacks from playoff supporters.
“I think we all get a little tired of the invective,” he said.
