AUSTIN -- Texas athletics director and longtime playoff proponent DeLoss Dodds is ready for college football to stop tiptoeing around the Big Ten and Pacific-12 conferences and their fierce loyalty to the Rose Bowl.

If that's what is holding off a move to even a limited playoff -- and Dodds says he thinks it is -- then he advocates a parting of ways in the postseason. Let those two leagues cling to their more than six-decade partnership with the Rose, and allow the rest of the country to settle the national championship as it sees fit.

"The only way it's going to get fixed," Dodds says, "is for the rest of the country to have a playoff of some kind and let them do their (own) deal. And then after five years, their coaches would go berserk because they're not in the mix for a national championship. And they'd have to join it."

That, of course, is not among the strategies under consideration as the league commissioners who oversee the Bowl Championship Series meet Wednesday and Thursday in Hollywood, Fla. They're looking at several variations of a four-team playoff, including one that would give the Rose special protection, and an amended version of the current four-bowls-plus-a-single-championship-game format.

No resolution is expected in Florida. Individual conferences are expected to weigh in after annual meetings in May and June, and BCS executive director Bill Hancock points toward a decision by July 1.

Athletics directors have input into the process through an advisory committee, but the decision-making power is vested in the commissioners and an oversight panel of university presidents -- on which Texas' William Powers sits.

Current BCS contracts with conferences, bowls and television carrier ESPN expire after the 2013 season.

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany often has said that his league would, indeed, go its own way if the sport went to a full-blown playoff, continuing -- in concert with the Pac-12 -- to send its champion to the Rose. Dodds' suggestion would test that resolve.

Not that he ever expects it to happen. "Presidents are collegial. They aren't going to do that so we are where we are," he says.

"I don't see anything changing."