WE NEED A PLAYOFF DAMNIT!!!

I just read an article that made my blood boil. It contains all the usual crap about why a playoff makes no sense and why a playoff won't work. I'm not going to cite the author's points but I'll give you the key information and a link just in case you are interesting in reading his b.s.

College football playoff makes no sense
Teddy Greenstein ON COLLEGES
chicagotribune.com
December 29, 2008

I wasted no time in posting a comment, as follows:

The bowl system wouldn't be a problem if the BCS or the media (ESPN, AP, etc.) didn't anoint a national champion. You cannot have a champion without a playoff. There simply is not enough interconference play in a short season to be able to compare one conference to another. Conference championships have meaning.

Unfortunately, this national championship b.s. started a long time before the BCS was ever devised. The media took great pride in declaring a national champion and people nodded yes, what a great team. But other schools that didn't get the TV coverage that Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State and Michigan got started to yell FOUL! We're better than them. But the way bowls were aligned with conferences prevented a true matchup of the top teams, or of teams that were potentially the best.

This is why there is a cry for equality, a call for a playoff. It is about freedom and democracy and earning the title. If there had not been discrimination in the polls, where teams got their rankings because of tradition and history, there wouldn't be a cry for a playoff. But the truth of the matter is that kind of discrimination DOES exist. We might as well choose a national champion by the first school's logo that Punksatony Phil sees on February 2nd, or have a watery tart rise from the lake and present a sword to the best looking quarterback in the land. After all, it is a beauty contest where style points count more than points allowed, margin of victory, and strength of schedule.