Texas college football teams including the Texas Longhorns could be banned from playing in the Bowl Championship Series that's not part of a national playoff system under a bill filed in the Texas Senate Tuesday.

The Horns are coming off their first BCS game in school history after defeating Michigan 38-37 in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. In the final seconds of the game kicker Dusty Mangum kicked the winning field goal.

The senate proposal calls for at least a 16-team tournament to decide the National Champion. The bill would expire on Dec. 2 just before the BCS bids go out this year, if a similar law is not passed in four other states.

SB 1790, filed by Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, would prohibit Texas' NCAA teams from playing in "an intercollegiate post regular session competition that is part of a series that includes a national championship game unless that competition is part of a national playoff system."

On Tuesday, the Texas Senate on unanimously gave Wentworth permission to file the bill.

"The current system is so indecipherable that even people like Darrell Royal have said that they can't figure it out," Wentworth said. "I've had head football coaches and athletic directors and collegiate football fans that are a lot more into the game, candidly, than I am, tell me that it is really unfair and that Texas should stop participating until we have a fairer system."

"This legislation is not going to pass. I don't think anybody is talking about pulling out of the NCAA. I think the point is probably that let's look at this thing (BCS) closely and try to find a better way to help teams have a chance to compete to win it all in the end," Texas head football coach Mack Brown said.