Forget about a college football playoff for now.

The committee overseeing changes to the Bowl Championship Series won’t consider using a tournament to determine the national champion despite pleas to open up the postseason to more schools.

The BCS Presidential Oversight Committee Monday directed the six conference commissioners to come up with proposals for changing the BCS without a playoff. The panel also said it would meet with representatives from the other five Division I-A conferences Sept. 8 in Chicago to hear their concerns.

Tulane president Scott Cowen, who is having a teleconference with 44 other university presidents from non-BCS schools today, said the invitation was a positive step. But he was disappointed that the committee refused to consider a playoff, which the NCAA has in all other divisions and sports.

“If we’re going to have a dialogue, all options have to be open,” Cowen said. “If they are eliminating options before the dialogue, then what are we talking about?”

In 1998, Tulane went undefeated but could only play in the Liberty Bowl because it was ranked 11th in the BCS standings.

The Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls generate more than $100 million a year for the BCS conferences. The BCS gives about $8 million a year to the schools from the other five conferences.

Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman said the commissioners could consider adding a championship game after the four BCS games, as well as adding another game to the system to give schools from smaller conferences a chance to get into a major bowl game.

The committee also said the Big East would remain a BCS member at least until the contract ends after the January 2006 bowls despite losing Miami and Virginia Tech to the ACC.