College football still one big mess

Do you know who is powerful enough to stop the maddening, frustrating, nonsensical, inexplicable, archaic, idiotic college bowl system?

Do you know who could bring the pinheads and dolts of the BCS, NCAA and various bowl games to their knees?

Do you know who could do what Congress and the media haven't been able to do — create a playoff system?

You.

Here's how: Don't watch their bowl games, especially the four BCS bowls.

It's simple. Tell the BCS and the rest of them to take a hike. Don't buy tickets to their games. Don't watch them on TV.

Call it a fan boycott.

When the sponsors and the BCS see the empty seats and the poor TV ratings, well, there goes the gravy train. The people will have spoken again, except this time they will have been heard.

It will never happen of course, because football fans won't deprive themselves of the bowl season. College football has them right where they want them. If they showed a flag football game between Sigma Chi and the Pi Kaps and called it the John Deere Riding Lawn Mower Fiesta Bowl, you'd ask what time and what channel. All they have to do is put "bowl" on the end of it, and you're there.

It's going to require sacrifice and discipline and some farsightedness on your part. You're doing this for future generations. Besides, you can get your fix with the professional games, which, by the way, have a PLAYOFF!!!

Need more incentive? At the moment, the BCS is congratulating itself because it managed to match the nation's top two teams in the Rose Bowl, a process which, for them, was like inventing cold fusion.

It took decades while the NCAA power brokers racked their tiny, tiny brains for a way to put the best teams on the field every year.

And they still haven't done it. They pulled it off this year, but most years it won't work out that way. This year they got lucky. This year they got two teams that are clearly better than the rest. There is no argument about this year's championship contenders.