Phoenix ? The Bowl Championship Series will form a committee to discuss changes that eventually could lead to a college football playoff.

One president from each of six conferences — the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern — will be picked for the committee this month. They are expected to make a recommendation in 2005.

“There are four options. We can go back to the old system, we can stay where we are, we can tweak it, or we can go to a playoff,” BCS coordinator Mike Tranghese said Friday. “We’re going to spend some time and talk about all of them.”

The BCS is committed to a second rotation of the championship bowls, which began Friday night with the Fiesta Bowl between No. 1 Miami and No. 2 Ohio State.

The next three title games will be in the Sugar, Orange and Rose bowls before the contract runs out after the 2005 season.

ABC, which has a $525 million, seven-year contract to televise the BCS games, has an exclusive negotiating period in the second half of 2005 to keep the games on the network.

The BCS was formed in 1998 in an effort to match the top two teams in a national title game. The system is not problem-proof and some people would prefer a playoff system.

“My presidents don’t want to play football in December during exams and they don’t want to play in the second semester,” said Tranghese, the Big East commissioner.