Say it Ain't So.... Please.

To date, we’ve resisted full-fledged support of a playoff system for deciding college football’s national champion. There are various reasons but probably chief among them is that an 8 or 16-team format does dilute the magnitude and impact of the regular season. There is nothing quite like the college football regular season because of the fact each game is virtually an elimination game…. that Stanford receiver drops that ball in the corner of the endzone against USC, USC is playing Ohio State instead of most likely, LSU.

Of course, our very reasoning above is thrown completely out the window as we are all supposed to suspend belief by simply ignoring the fact that LSU lost to an Arkansas team on their home field just last Saturday for their 2nd loss. If the final BCS standings follow the USA Today coaches and AP polls as most experts believe it will, then it will be Ohio St. vs. LSU for the championship. Read story from SI.com, here

What we have here, then, is something in between - a system where each regular season game is really, really important… except when they aren’t. The “in-between” thing isn’t working. Either do a full-fledged playoff system or just go back to the old bowl system where you voted for No. 1 because that is essentially what you have now. The voters have decided OSU and LSU are the best two teams in the nation and thusly have decided that the winner of that game exclusive of any other game in which a two-loss team like respective conference champions Oklahoma, Virginia Tech or USC will play in, will be crowned national champ.

So while we are still not ready to throw in for a playoff we’re edging ever closer and one thing we are absolutely certain of is: Once (if ever) it does become reality we’ll be scratching our heads wondering why it is that we clung to the old, antiquated and ineffectual bowl system for so long.