BCS Coordinator Mike Slive's Statements from BCS meetings in Phoenix.

Explaining the "double-hosting" model "One of the things we need to be doing over the next several months is to explain the double hosting model, which is in effect the National Championship Game rotating among the four BCS bowls every year. There will be a Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Fiesta Bowl and once in a four year period, one of the sites will serve as host for the National Championship Game a week after its traditional bowl."

"The National Championship Game is 1 vs. 2 as determined by the polls after Championship Saturday (Dec. 2). This game would be played one week later than the regular New Year's Day bowl games."

The new format

"These are important issues that the format will have to sort out as we work through the next four years. As to how I feel about it, if it works well, that is fine, but we don't know how well it will work. I am open-minded on the format. It either works on its merits or it doesn't. I view my role as coordinator having two parts - as the coordinator administering the BCS during the next two years and, in the longer term, as to thinking if this format better serves college football."

More on the new format

"I think it goes back to the creation of the fifth bowl. It came as a result of an understanding and agreement with the five conferences that were not in the original BCS slots. We went back and forth between this model and adding a fifth bowl. This is all an example of what the BCS has been asked to carry through the years other than be a 1 vs. 2 game. This format reflects that."

Inclusion of all Division I-A conferences

"This is not just an automatic qualifying issue but inclusion of all Division I-A conferences in the BCS structure. The fact that there are 11 commissioners sitting here this week is good for college football."

Expanding the at-large pool

"There was good discussion on both sides of the issue. If we decide to expand from 12 at-large berths that does not do anything as to how the former coalition gets an automatic berth. The automatic berth has been set for the highest ranked team that is in the top 12 or ranked higher than the lowest ranked traditional BCS conference champion, if the former coalition team is 16th or higher."