BCS Rankings: Even If the BCS Gets It Right in the End, We Still Want a Playoff

It looks like the two best teams in college football—Louisiana State and Alabama—will face each other for the BCS National Championship.

Bowl Championship Series apologists will point out that, in the end, the system got it right by setting up "The Rematch of the Century."

But we can't help but yearn for more.

With no tournament in place, quality one- or zero-loss teams (entering Saturday) like Oklahoma State, Boise State, Stanford, Virginia Tech and Houston won't be afforded the opportunity to prove they belong on the same field as the powerful Tigers and Crimson Tide.

And while I have no beliefs any of those teams should muscle either Alabama or LSU (should it lose to Georgia in this afternoon's SEC Championship Game) out of the title tilt, that is because the game only has two slots.

And those are the two best teams.

However, who's to say that if there was an eight-team tournament that someone can't knock off the Tide or the Tigers?

After all, you only need to do it once.

It wouldn't be the best of five. It wouldn't even be the best of three.

Just once.

That's all anyone can ask.

For now, all anyone can ask after they do their work on the field is to get some love from voters and computers, meaning fat guys and hard drives have more to do with deciding championships than many quarterbacks.

They'll certainly have more to do with it than Andrew Luck, Case Keenum, Matt Barkley, Robert Griffin III and Landry Jones will.

In a society where we cherish competition, there is something very mixed up and backwards about that.