Congratulations to the Oklahoma Sooners: 2008 National Champions!

My regular readers know that I'm firmly against a playoff in college football. What they don't know is that I'm also in favor of eliminating the BCS system. That's because the BCS is also a playoff, even it has only a two-team bracket. About the only thing that makes less sense than a two-team playoff in a 119-team league is giving a bunch of 19- and 20-year-old college students a month of vacation before they play the game! I want to get rid of the BCS and go old school...real old school. Let's go back to the pre-1966 era, when the National Champion was declared in December before the bowls. The AP broke with tradition in 1966 and began publishing its final poll after the bowl games. The coaches refused to go along. For the next 10 years the final coaches' poll and the final AP poll were published at different times. "The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward," said Woody Hayes. The coaches knew that the results of the bowl games weren't true indications of the quality of their ... (link)