GREENSBORO — Even after two Congressional hearings and a plea from President Barack Obama, the Bowl Championship Series won't be changing any time soon.

ACC commissioner John Swofford, who is also the chairman of the BCS, said Sunday college football's postseason format is unlikely to change in the next five years.

C-SPAN showed today's hearing (10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) on the fairness of the Bowl Championship Series before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee.

ACC Commissioner and BCS Coordinator John Swofford testified before the subcommittee.

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It wasn't great but it was better. After the 2008 college football season, the ACC can at least claim progress.

While the SEC won its third straight national title, the ACC can claim more wins (17) against teams from the Bowl Championship Series than the SEC or any of the other major conference during the 2008 season.

Bowl games in red

SEC (6-6)

Wake Forest 23, Vanderbilt 10
Wake Forest 30, Ole Miss 28
Clemson 31, South Carolina 14
Duke 10, Vanderbilt 7
Georgia Tech 45, Georgia 42
Georgia Tech 38, Mississippi State 7

Bowl games in red

SEC

ACC (6-6)

Florida 45, Florida State 14
Florida 26, Miami 3
South Carolina 34, N.C. State 0
Alabama 34, Clemson 10
Vanderbilt 16, BC 14
LSU 38, Georgia Tech 3

FOX Sports' telecast of Florida's 24-14 victory over Oklahoma on Thursday night in the Bowl Championship Series title game drew a a 15.8 household rating and was seen by an estimated 26.8 million people — 16 percent more than watched last year's BCS game, according Nielsen Media Research.

It was FOX's highest-rated of three BCS games. The most-viewed national championship game, dating to 1991, was Texas' Rose Bowl victory over Southern Cal in 2006, with a 21.7 rating and 35.6 million viewers.

This year's Rose, in which USC defeated Penn State on ABC, was second among this year's bowl games, seen by 20.6 million people. FOX's coverage of Texas' win over Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl was third this year with 17.1 million viewers. The viewership for the Rose and Fiesta increased 8 and 40 percent, respectively, over last year's figures.

The Orange Bowl, in which Virginia Tech defeated Cincinnati on FOX, experienced a decline of  22 percent — to 9.3 million viewers. It was the sixth-highest-rated bowl game this year, following the BCS game, the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Capital One bowls.

Dr. Jerry McGee, president of Wingate University in North Carolina, worked the BCS title game between Florida and Oklahoma last night as a field judge. ESPN The Magazine senior writer Ryan McGee followed his father for the day to chronicle the experience.

The 3D showing of college football's BCS title game last night at the Marquee Wakefield 12 in Raleigh — one of about 80 theaters nationwide to offer it — had almost no technical glitches and offered an incredibly crisp view. But those moments of a ball or player jumping out of the screen at the audience? Not too many. Here's what they got right and, well, not so right.

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Bowl system: College football’s leaders did it again: another tidy postseason with a clear-cut national champion and no doubt about the final two teams. The BCS is the “ShamWow” of postseasons.

Like Vince, the shill for the “As Seen On TV” towel says, why do you want to work twice as hard when the BCS solves everyone’s problems?

What’s that? Just ignore Utah, USC and Texas.

The Marquee Wakefield 12 theater in Wake Forest has sold about 40 tickets for the 3-D showing of the BCS title game between Florida and Oklahama at 8 p.m. Thursday. The theater holds 284 people, so it's expecting (hoping for) a strong walk-up crowd of fans who decide it's worth $20 a ticket to don those glasses and see the game in a different way.

The Wakefield 12 is the one local theater showing the game in 3-D. Others in North Carolina: Carmike Market Fair 15 in Fayetteville, Carmike 14 in Hickory, Carmike 16 in Jacksonville, Carmike Wynnsong 12 in Winston-Salem and Carmike 10 in Asheville.

If anyone's planning to go, I'd like to hear from you on your expectations.