I had this big ol' rant written up about how tired I am of listening to sports writers gripe and whine about how shitty the BCS system. C'mon you idealistic dumbasses, I want to say to them, you know it's never gonna change because of the money that's tied up in the current system. And college football is arguably the most popular sport in the country right now, why do you guys constantly have to make it sound like it's post-season is so completely ludicrous? If it truly were, people wouldn't watch the San Diego Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl (Utah vs. Navy, Dec. 20 — if I'm by a TV that night, that's likely what I'll be watching, and most of you know you will be, too.)

I've never been a huge proponent of a playoff system, not so much because I'm fundamentally against it, but because I just don't think it'll ever happen — there's way too many powerful people and companies that make a lot of money off the current bowl system. The NCAA will continue to put those financial/power concerns over its fan's complaints (that is until those complaints really start to get loud, and this season could very well be the year it does).

BUT, once I actually stopped myself and thought about what a well-made playoff would look like, I was stopped dead in my tracks it was so beautiful. Just look at this potential first round of a 16-team playoff:

Tennessee at Ohio State
Clemson at LSU
Boston College at Virginia Tech
Illinois at Oklahoma
Florida at Georgia
Arizona State at Missouri
Hawaii at USC
West Virginia at Kansas

Imagine. Have one Thursday night game, another Friday night game, then the rest from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday. I wouldn't leave my couch. Hell, 90 percent of the males in America would be glued to their TV sets for over 20 hours in a three-day period! It would make the first round of March Madness look like a junior high AAU tournament. And that's just the start. It goes on for four more weekends.

If the NCAA can get something like this formulated in the next year or two, I don't see how they'd lose a dime or a fan.