The BCS -- An ugly system becomes uglier

Imagine this kids.

It's New Year's Day, 2008. It's 5 p.m. eastern time, 2:00 p.m. on the west coast, and as all college football fans know, this time every New Year's Day signals kickoff at the Rose Bowl.

It's sunny. The grass in Rose Bowl stadium is plush. The place looks like a postcard. There's only one problem.

The Big Ten champion and the Pac Ten champion aren't gearing up for battle. West Virginia and Florida State are. Rose Bowl stadium isn't even close to being full. TV ratings are extremely low, but Rose Bowl officials could care less. They've got the national championship game next week in prime time baby.

This is the situation college football fan's could be placed under when the new BCS starts in 2006.

Just when you thought the BCS couldn't be more of a joke, the powers that be in college football have done themselves one better.

If you don't know what will be instituted, this is it. The BCS will stay with four bowls. Every season, every one of those four bowls will host a BCS championship game a week after New Year's.

Also, more at-large spots will be available for the mid-major teams. You know, the little guys of college football. The Marshall's and TCU's of the world.

Both of these so-called "advances" are down right ludicrous.

Gone is the idea of adding a real fifth bowl game, not some fake one placed at the site of an established one. Gone is the idea of having the top two teams play in a real national championship game after the bowls are over, an idea as obvious as stating, "the sun is hot."

"Leans too much toward a playoff" the highly educated people that run this mess say.

Let us not mention that mid-major thing. Think about it. Let's say the final at-large spot comes down to Tennessee and Bowling Green. Bowling Green could be undefeated. Bowling Green could be a resounding MAC conference champion. Tennessee is still going to be picked over them because they put butts in the seats.

A system that reeked of hypocrisy before hand, now has taken a nice long bath in it.

As a college football fan, the BCS really drags this sport down. People all over the country will be laughing their heads off when they hear about this new system in the next couple of days, and that is sad.

A great sport like college football deserves to have its championship decided on the field. Not by some computer (an issue not even tweaked in the new system).

The BCS isn't going anywhere folks. Get used to it. As long as college presidents have their way, the BCS's poison won't be prescribed for many years' to come.