Happy Monday. Don't you love the BCS?

Plenty of bitching about the BCS on today's web show. Click on the link to the right and download the show anytime. Will Carroll joins me tomorrow at 11:20 to talk winter meetings and football.

Ok, so here's the BCS

1 Ohio State
2 LSU
3 Virginia Tech
4 Oklahoma
5 Georgia
6 Missouri
7 USC
8 Kansas
9 West Virginia
10 Hawaii
11 Arizona State
12 Florida
13 Illinois
14 Boston College
15 Clemson
16 Tennessee

Now you know I want the 16 team playoff. But let's keep it simple. Let's talk 4 and 8 team playoffs...

The 4 team:

1 Ohio State
2 LSU
3 Virginia Tech
4 Oklahoma

Ohio St. plays OU, and LSU and VT meet on a neutral field. The winners play and we have a real national champ. All 4 won their conference, and #'s 5 and 6 did not. Now what's wrong with that? I hear a lot of talk about the Plus 1 happening after the bowls are played. But how do you decide who plays? If VT and OU win their bowl, who would play the winner of LSU-Ohio St.? You'd have to have a bracket set up.

How about the 8 team, no wait, what about 6?

1 Ohio State
2 LSU
3 Virginia Tech
4 Oklahoma
5 Georgia
6 Missouri

Ohio St. and LSU get byes, which wouldn't be as along as they get now (50 and 37 days is just stupid). VT plays Mizz, Oklahoma plays GA. 3 extra games for teams without the bye. 2 extra for those with the bye. Why is this so hard?

Now 8:

1 Ohio State
2 LSU
3 Virginia Tech
4 Oklahoma
5 Georgia
6 Missouri
7 USC
8 Kansas

Same as the 6, except LSU has to play USC (nah, we wouldn't watch that) and Ohio St. plays Kansas. Maybe one day. How cool would OU and Georgia be?