Hollywood, Fla. — A lot of things — sun, sand, sea — were in the air on Monday when the league commissioners and representatives of bowls that make up the BCS began their annual meetings at a seaside hotel in South Florida.

Change, however, did not appear to be one of them.

ACC commissioner John Swofford, the coordinator of the BCS, gave his first hint that there likely will be no changes to the current format when these meetings conclude Wednesday.

"I will tell you that I continue to sense a certain comfort level, if you will, with the current status of things with the BCS," Swofford said Monday when he met with reporters. "It's been pretty stable few years."

The BCS format, which uses a formula to pick two teams that play for the national championship, has been in place for 10 years. The BCS' television contract with Fox has two more years to run, and negotiations for an extension are scheduled to start on Sept. 1.

If the format is going to change to some kind of playoff, which fans have been clamoring for, the movement for that change has to begin in the next two days.

The SEC's Mike Slive is scheduled to present a plan

for a four-team playoff to his fellow commissioners Wednesday morning. Slive's plan would seed the teams 1-4 and would have two semifinal games followed by a championship game. Slive would not handicap the plan's chances of acceptance.

"This is a discussion that college football needs to have," Slive said. "Sometimes change comes slowly. We'll just have to see."

Swofford said he looked forward to the specific discussion of the seeded four-team playoff.

"Up to this point, all of our discussions have been somewhat conceptual," Swofford said. "But when you reach a point of decision — and that may not be Wednesday — at some point you have to be reasonably specific."

Swofford also reminded reporters Monday that when it comes to change, the BCS "is not a democracy where the majority rules. It is a full consensus body."

And right now, there is not a consensus among the Big Six commissioners (ACC, SEC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10) on changing the BCS format.

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, whose deal with the Rose Bowl (which goes through the game of 2014) appears to be the biggest impediment to change, insisted Monday that he is open to any discussion on this or any other format change. But he reiterated his stance that a four-team playoff would quickly grow into eight or 16 teams, which would damage the bowl structure.

The commissioners will spend today in meetings with each of the four bowls (Fiesta, Sugar, Orange, Rose) and its two television partners (Fox, ABC) that will lay the groundwork for Wednesday's discussion.

Swofford would not predict whether or not a consensus could be reached by the end of the meetings.

"I think it would be a little premature for me as chair to step out there and handicap that or predict that at this point," Swofford said. "We've got two more days of meetings to go."

In other BCS news, Swofford announced that the BCS formula that picks the two top teams would remain the same for the next two seasons. The BCS formula is made up of two human polls and the average of six computer polls.

Each element is given a one-third weight in the formula.