A playoff might seem like a good thing for college football, especially in a season like this where only two of five undefeated teams will play for a national championship.

But not everyone is championing the implementation of a March Madness-style football tournament.

Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer, for one, is a big bowl fan. All this talk about playoffs – the most recent headline involves Congress trying to pass a bill to prevent the BCS from calling its title game a national championship game – doesn’t suit the longtime Hokies coach, who will take his team to a 17th straight bowl game when it takes on Tennessee on Dec. 31 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.

“College football has got something special, and it’s not like everything else, and in my opinion, we don’t have to be like everything else,” Beamer said during a bowl press conference Thursday. “And we do name a champion.”

Beamer has said many times that he would be in favor of a “plus one” playoff, which still involves the bowl system but tacks on an extra game at the end to match up the two top teams following the bowls.

He came to this conclusion back in 2004 when his Hokies took on an undefeated Auburn team in the Sugar Bowl that was left out of the national title game.

Tech director of athletics Jim Weaver is also a fan of a “plus one.”

“Frank and I talked about that just (Wednesday). I, for one, happen to like the ‘plus one’ model, where you would take No. 1 and No. 4 and seed it and 2 and 3, and then play one more game,” Weaver said.

“The problem with trying to get a real playoff in place is you can’t get fans from Point A to Point B and the back to Point A and then the next week all over the country to follow their teams. It’s just virtually impossible to do. Plus, to have the playoff the way that people are talking about, it’s going to impact institutions differently with their academic schedule. Some people go later into December and start later in January with the second semester. Other people have their finals before Christmas. It’s just too complicated.”

Beamer sees bowls as a reward for the players. They get to spend a week in places like Atlanta or Miami or New Orleans and play in front of packed venues like the Georgia Dome.

In a perfect world, a playoff would draw a lot of fans to every game and the travel wouldn’t be cumbersome and class schedules wouldn’t be compromised. But to many, it seems like it’d be too difficult to pull off.

It might take more than Congress to convince athletic directors and school presidents that a playoff is the way to go.

“I think the people in Washington have a heck of a lot more important things to do for this country in this day than worry about the BCS,” Weaver said. “The more they talk about the BCS in Washington, the better it is.

“The BCS is talked about just about 365 days a year, and I think … it has one primary mission and that is to put No. 1 and No. 2 together, and I think a lot of people in Washington do not understand the primary mission of the BCS and I wish they would.”