Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen has taken some heat recently for saying that the Pac-10 presidents would rather leave the BCS than support the Plus-One model recently rumored. Now, SI college football writer Stewie Mandel is calling Hansen’s bluff. Mandel believes that Hansen is just talking out of is a$$ and that the Pac-10 would compromise eventually, in order to guarantee that a Pac-10 team would have a shot at the national title instead of just playing in the Rose Bowl against a Big Eleven (soon to be Midwest 12?) opponent.

Now here at Student Body Right, we are definitely concerned about Hansen’s posturing. Any talk about bolting from the BCS is not a good thing for the evolution of the conference (or the sport, for that matter). Deciding a champion on the field is all we want; is that really too much to ask? Something is wrong with college football when it’s the only sport where a team can win a title without playing in the alleged title game. (USC 2003)