By Dennis Dodd | CBSSports.com Senior College Football Columnist

The task is simple over the next few months. Twelve men with a combined three centuries of experience in college athletic administration must "fix" college football's postseason.

Simple? Those 11 Football Bowl Subdivision commissioners plus Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick might have it easier finding life on other planets. In both cases, the solution seems light years away.

Those 12 not-yet-angry men will take the next step toward reshaping that postseason this week when they gather in Dallas for the next round of BCS meetings Tuesday and Wednesday. The plus-one is all the rage -- essentially a progressive, seeded four-team playoff -- in the only sport where the NCAA doesn't conduct a championship. It is not a one-stop cure-all for what ails the sport, just the next logical step.

For decades the football's championship was mythical. But since the BCS debuted in 1998, those commissioners have controlled and profited from the BCS with oversight from a presidential overview committee.

Only lately has the majority of commissioners from most of the power conferences advocated for a plus-one format. SEC commissioner Mike Slive went from supporting the format in 2008 to telling me in January 2011, "No, I would not want to play another game."

That was shortly before Auburn won his conference's fifth consecutive national championship. This month in an email to the Chicago Tribune he said, "I am pleased to hear there is renewed interest in a plus-one format."

What changed? The money for one thing. CBSSports.com talked to several industry sources about pricing a plus-one. Depending on how it is administrated, a four-team playoff could be worth $250 million to $500 million per season. On the high end, that would almost triple the $180 million distributed by the BCS in 2011.

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