BCS Debacle 6.0

(Author's Note: I'd offer a more profanity laced and highly insulting column, but this is the best I can do in this forum.)

So let's go through Saturday's important scores:

Southern Cal 52, Oregon State 28 LSU 34, Georgia 13 Kansas State 35, Oklahoma 7

And here are the more important scores:

Syracuse 38, Notre Dame 12 Boise State 45, Hawaii 28

How come the above scores are more important than the scores before them? Because those two games might have affected Southern Cal's chances of being in the Sugar Bowl and playing for the National Championship. Instead, the Trojans might have to settle for co-champions instead of being outright champions because of the last two games played.

Half of the football writers agree with the Bowl Championship Series, and the other half disagree with the way things are done.

Count me as one of the latter.

To quote the late and very great Owen Hart, "Enough is enough, and it's time for a change!"

The BCS has gotten away with a lot of really horrible maneuvering over it's six-year inception, but for the first time, I can clearly say that this system needs to be dissolved once and for all.

I don't care if it means a breech of contract suit that involves the six major conferences, Notre Dame and ABC. I don't care if we waste taxpayer money in testimonies before Congress by commissioners of the so-called lower tiered conferences. The current system that's put in place now by the conferences of Division 1-A is severely flawed and is in dire need of a change.

The computer whizzes who are making money hand over fist in this sad venture need a new job. They need to come up with a completely economical, logistical, and fair playoff system that will give all of the 117 Division 1-A schools a chance to compete for every season.

How much of a travesty is this system?

Two years ago, Nebraska didn't even play in the Big 12 championship game and were awarded the number two spot in the BCS poll. This year, Oklahoma got spanked in their Big 12 championship game by a Kansas State team who was the first to really even challenge the Sooners in a game this season, save Alabama's efforts on September 6. Remember, two years ago, Colorado, who clobbered Nebraska on Black Friday, won the Big 12 championship the next week. They were left out of the BCS championship picture and were beaten by Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl.

Over the last three seasons -- 2003 included -- the Pac-10 has been left out of the National Championship picture. What's the reason? East Coast/Midwest bias? Weak scheduling? The misalignment of the planets? Heck, it might take even that to see a Pac-10 team into a National Championship game. Either that or the four horses of the apocalypse showing up at the BCS committee's doorstep. And if Southern Cal loses, shouldn't Michigan get some national title consideration? That might take a miracle, too.

But this is the twisted reality that is the business of Division 1-A football -- we might have two national champions. The BCS was devised to avoid this once and for all with the inception of this system, but for the second time in the Nano Era of college football, the possibility of national co-champions is very real -- and very sad as well.

I watched SportsCenter Sunday night on ESPN and there was an interview by John Anderson with the head of the BCS committee head, who looked like the proverbial "deer caught in the headlights" when he tried to explain why Southern Cal wasn't considered for a title shot. Before hand, they showed the interview done earlier with SoCal coach Pete Carroll. For as much class as he has in accepting his unfortunate fate, you can't help but wonder if he stared at his computer late last night and contemplated throwing it out of the window.

The time has come to scrap the system, folks. It's time for the two words that the six major conferences fear: playoff system. Whether or not they will accept that possibility is entirely up to them.

Let's hope and pray that they come to their senses.