Anyone who follows college football even in the slightest should be aware of the fiasco that is the BCS or Bowl Championship Series. The idea behind the "series" was noble, to put an end to these competing polls that so often divided the national championship. The plan was to take all these polls, throw in some computerized data and come up with a scoring system that would pit the top two teams in a one of the top tier bowl games. It was last ditch attempt to prove that NCAA Division 1-A football did not need a playoff and it has failed miserably.

Every year there is some sort of a problem. Last season there was a clear number one team, LSU. But there were several teams with one loss, Oklahoma and USC included. Oklahoma would up in the BCS championship game even though they were beaten soundly by Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship game. Oklahoma got the bid and USC was left out in the cold.

This year USC can get some measure of revenge as they will face Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl to see who's number one. Both teams are undefeated. So it should be a true measure of the top team in the land, right? Wrong.

Auburn is also undefeated. So is Utah. And, well, Boise State. The latter two will never be considered for the title because they play in inferior conferences. But what about Auburn? They've been stacking up wins in the SEC, arguably the toughest conference in America. How did they get left out? Well, USC was ranked number one in the preseason poll. Oklahoma was ranked right behind them. Auburn? Auburn was 17th. They spent the entire season battling up the rankings because the pundits, coaches and writers in this case, didn't think they were that good.

Therein lies one of the many flaws of the BCS system and Tiger fans, just like Trojan fans last year, have a good reason to be upset. The only way this controversy is ever going to end is to have a playoff system.

There's no reason why Div 1-A can't do it. Every other division on college football has a playoff. Who wouldn't like see to USC, Oklahoma, Utah, Boise State, Cal, Texas and few other top teams battle it out on the field to see who really was the best team? Finally we would get to see if these mid-major teams were series contenders and we would finally lay to rest this fallacy of national championship that has gone on in college football for so long.

The games could be played in the bowl stadiums. They could even have the bowl names. They final game could rotate like it does now. It would take three weeks, but we'd really have a champion and it would be great to watch.