11.   It is fine for a conference runner-up to vie for the national championship when a playoff format lets it reach that point, such as the NCAA basketball tournament.

12.   No team that has opened every series on the road has won the title under the current playoff format.

13.   New playoff format?

14.   Not once since ABC and the BCS signed their deals have radical changes been broached, including a playoff format, Matthews said.

15.   No manufactured playoff of x-number of holes in some bastardized compromise between sudden-death and full-form playoff formats.

16.   On this maiden voyage of the three-tier playoff format, the Indians and Red Sox have emerged from different ends of the spectrum.

17.   Retool the playoff format.

18.   Red Sox owner and committee chairman John Harrington said a wild-card scenario would still be included in the playoff format.

19.   So, if the BCS brain trust came to ABC with a playoff format, would ABC have to carry it?

20.   That part of the playoff format will add intrigue to the final series of the season for two of the division winners.