Playoffs and keeping the Rose Bowl

Is a football playoff inevitable? If so, what does that mean for the Pac-12 and B1G as far as the Rose Bowl is concerned?

Recent reports suggest the B1G has been discussing a 4 team playoff plan that would keep the Rose Bowl match-up between the B1G and Pac-12:

"There is the matter of protecting the Rose Bowl, which is Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany's No. 1 priority. Delany often has stated that the Rose Bowl is the Big Ten's top external relationship, and he doesn't want to have access compromised.

While a playoff would prevent the Big Ten champion and the Pac-12 champion from meeting in Pasadena every year, we'd still see a lot of entertaining Big Ten-Pac-12 matchups at the Rose Bowl. And while a playoff system would take attention away from the bowl games, the Rose Bowl is the only contest that has prestige even when it doesn't factor in the national title race. If any bowl can maintain its shine in a playoff environment, it's the Rose."