I am a college football junkie. I can watch any game any where at any time. Being the junkie that I am, this was the weekend I expected to overdose - too much of the good stuff. Being a Gator fan (University of Florida) me and my significant other decided to have our annual Florida v Florida State bash at our house on Saturday. We all sat around my 51 incher and sweated like the Christmas goose on December 22. It was close but we won, whew! During the game we also flipped over to the South Carolina v Clemson game. Again close and SC won. We took a timeout and binged and purged until USC v Notre Dame came on. Not close and USC won damnit! If they (Notre Dame) had won we (Gators) would have fought it out with Michigan for the number 2 spot on the BCS and the right to get our heads smashed in by Ohio State. I went to bed a disgruntled man and awoke to BCS dreams still lingering in my head.

All day on Sunday I kept thinking how much the system for determining a National Champion in college football sucks. It basically comes down to whose conference in the hardest or best. So now we have to debate whose conference is the hardest as well as who is the best team. How can you tell? I think the PAC-10 sucks but what do I know? They (NCAA brain trust) invented the BCS to help determine a National Champion. We had National Champions before but the BCS was supposed to give a consensus champion whatever that means. So, basically they set the BCS up so that Number 1 plays Number 2 every year for the Championship. What Number 1 and Number 2? Good question. Officially it is the BCS ranked number 1 and number 2. How does the BCS rank the teams? Better question. I don't have a good answer. I know it has something to do with the ESPN poll and the AP poll. It also incorporates the Harris Poll (I have no idea where this poll comes from) and computer rankings of which strength of schedule is taken into effect. So how does the computer determine strength of schedule? I don't know. I know it has something to do with how many ranked teams you play which seems like circular logic to me. Well if this isn't working for you what is your answer?

Many people are pushing a playoff system between the top four or eight teams. Better but not good enough. That just brings debate about the teams that just miss getting into the playoffs. Here is my answer. Be careful reader it is radical! It brings systems in that other sports in other countries are using. Blasphemy, I know but here it is - Conference Championship Series (CCS). Here is how it works. All conferences play only conference games - no playing outside your conference and they only play 9 games instead of 12 games. There will be only 8 conferences. At the end of the year each conference plays a championship game. Each champion enters the Conference Championship Series plus two at large bids determined by a committee (for a little uproar). Those 10 teams play a playoff to determine a National Champion. Also, the ten worst teams in division 1 A fall to division 1 AA for the next season and the top ten 1 AA teams come up to division 1 A. Each conference will only contain 10 teams for a total of 80 teams in the top conference. There it is. No polls. No bowls (screw the presidents wanting the money). One true champion!