The BCS System Down: How to Fix Division I-A College Football and Determine a Real Champion.

Over three months of great college football action and the BCS does it to us again.

By virtue of a yawn-inspiring, 10-point win over Arkansas in the SEC championship game, the Florida Gators leap-frogged idle Michigan in the BCS final standings and will play Ohio State for the Division I-A college football championship on Jan. 8. And anti-BCS, pro-BCS, heck all college football pundits left and right are crying foul, fair or playoff, as the case may be. This, then, is another shout out from the chorus.

BCS proponents often say that these kind of end-of-season debates are healthy for college football, that they generate interest. But, really, haven't people become weary of the same old song and dance from the BCS. You can make perfectly valid arguments for both Michigan and Florida. Florida played a tougher schedule, at least so people say. Michigan had better margin of victories. Michigan already had its shot at Ohio State. And on and on.

There is no objective way to separate Michigan from Florida and, thus, no matter who you put against Ohio State, the match-up will be tainted, a borderline sham, an affront to college football, a gob of spit in the eye of the BCS and yet another mark in favor of a playoff.

You could eliminate this year's version of controversy in college football by tweaking the BCS system, something which has become an annual ritual for BCS stalwarts and playoff naysayers. College football could simply add a rule that rematches aren't allowed. Michigan would have entered the big game at Columbus knowing that it had its shot and would understand afterward that they had blown its BCS bubble. Done and done.

But, lets face it, the perpetual tweaks of the BCS system is like trying to shield yourself from a typhoon with an umbrella. You're still going to get wet. The BCS doesn't need to be tweaked. It needs to be killed, buried and never spoken of again. College football would survive and a playoff system would be the afterlife.

Let's have some fun and pretend that this happens: The BCS people throw their hands up and say, "We give up." Great! What comes next?