Elitist BCS is an insult to good teams

In reality, the six so-called BCS conferences have guaranteed access to the BCS bowls; five conferences do not. There are 10 spots in the five BCS games, and eight of them are reserved for the BCS schools, plus independent Notre Dame, which gets preferential treatment based on tradition even though it gets pummeled annually in the postseason.

That means about 45 percent of the teams are eliminated from the championship race before the first kickoff. The BCS leaves two spots open for at-large selections, but only twice in nine years has a non-BCS team been awarded one of those berths (Utah and Boise State).

Everyone knows the system is unfair, but the BCS conferences, run by greedy men at greedy schools, aren't about to give away any of the loot from TV and bowl payouts — $14 million to $17 million per conference — plus the exposure of the national stage, which attracts more recruits, which builds future powerhouses in a perfect, rich-get-richer scheme. If a monopoly like this occurred in the business world, the government would break it up.

It's a caste system. It's the haves and the have-nots. It's the blue bloods and the peasants. Half of the nation's teams are treated like kids from the wrong side of the tracks trying to get into a snooty fraternity.

No matter how the blue bloods try to justify it, they can't, but they sure try. Big 10 Commissioner Jim Delany, considered the most powerful man in college football, told Yahoo! Sports that a playoff would be good for football at large, but "I don't work for college football at large."

It's all about money and nothing more; otherwise, there would be a Division 1-A playoff, just as there is for Division I-AA, Division II and Division III.

"A playoff system really isn't needed after all," it states on the BCS Web site.

Try telling that to Boise State.

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