NEW ORLEANS — The Bowl Championship Series as college football fans have come to know it is going away.

Over the next six months, the people who oversee the much-maligned postseason system will talk about how to deconstruct the system for crowning a national champion. In the tumultuous 14-year history of the BCS, never has there been more of an appetite for change among college football’s leaders.

“It’s my impression that ... there will be meaningful discussion about possible changes to the BCS,” Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive said Thursday as SEC rivals LSU and Alabama prepared to play in the title game Monday night at the Superdome.

What the changes will be is hard to say because nearly everything seems to be up for discussion, from eliminating automatic bids to top-tier bowl games to creating a four-team playoff — an idea that’s known as the plus-one model.

What’s not on the table is exactly what many football fans are clamoring for, a full-scale playoff that would require numerous teams to play additional games.

Still, there is likely to be a BCS extreme makeover in the 2014 season.

“There will be 12 people in the room making decisions and each one comes from a different perspective, but the unifying thing is to make this thing the best it can be,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock said. “I don’t think there is any leader in the clubhouse on these possible changes. I think there could be 50 things on the table, with no leader in the clubhouse.

“I think the reason for that is we are being more diligent to solicit ideas for change than the last couple times we went through this.”

The last time was 2008. That’s when Slive, with the support of Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford, made a push for the plus-one model to the nine other FCS commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director.

Slive’s proposal was unceremoniously shot down.

Simply put, the plus-one would match the No. 1 team in the BCS standings after the regular season against the No. 4 team in a bowl game, and No. 2 against No. 3 in another, creating two national semifinals.

The winners would play in a championship game the following week.

It’s a format that Alabama coach Nick Saban has always liked.

“I just feel that only having two teams sort of takes a lot of teams out of it,” he said media day in New Orleans.