What a load of hooey

J's World, by Jeremiah Bartz

This is the last straw. The one that broke the camel's back.

It should be the last hurrah in the controversy known as the Bowl Championship Series.

The world is facing many problems -- drugs, poverty, hunger -- but one problem tops them all: the lack of a playoff system in college football.

There are committees and task forces organized with the intent of stomping out these problems. Diplomats such as Sally Struthers focus all their efforts on ridding the world of hunger. Drug czars travel to drug dens in exotic locations such as Mexico, Columbia and Sutton to expose those who are selling crank and doobies to our children.

And now there should be a national committee, funded by the U.S. government, to overturn the cartel known as ABC, that is ultimately responsible for the BCS.

How can there be no playoff system in college football?

It is downright nutty. Professional badminton has a playoff system. There is even a tournament to win the grand prize in jeopardy.

But with no tourney in college football, there are now three teams that have a legitimate case for the grand prize, with no way of determining who is actually the big daddy of college football.

Right now it is like a junior high school party. Oklahoma and LSU were invited to the dance, otherwise known as the BCS title game, and Southern Cal will be home alone on Jan. 4 watching Growing Pains reruns and eating peanut butter, distraught and crying about its lost opportunity.

The intention of the BCS must be to either give one football program the proverbial prostate exam, or underpaid sports writers, like myself, something to complain about. Even if the BCS did not exist, sports writers can always find something to complain about, it is the nature of the beast. But as long as the system does exist, programs like USC will be getting a good rogering.

Jeremiah Bartz is the sports editor for the Frontiersman. Bartz would be happy to lead a committee with the purpose of dethroning the BCS.