Tonight one-loss Oklahoma and one-loss Florida will decide the winner of college football's mythical national championship in the BCS National Championship game in Miami, with undefeated Utah looking on from home. All the hype has been focused on Gators quarterback Tim Tebow and his counterpart on the Sooner Schooner Sam Bradford, but is anyone acknowledging the hypocrisy of college football?

The powers at be in college football, by powers at be I am alluding to the good ol' boy network of conference commissioners and bowl representatives that plot the course for college football's postseason and who are adamantly opposed to a playoff system. How can you not have a playoff system for the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly referred to as Division I-A) when every other division in college football has a playoff system? How can you argue that it can't be done? All of the other divisions do it -- what makes the Football Bowl Subdivision different that it can't figure out how to decide the national championship on the field?

The reason is simple: Money

If you develop an eight-team tournament to decide the national championship, would there still be a need for conference championship games? If there isn't a need for conference championship games, the conferences would lose a large revenue source.

What would happen to the bowl organizers and their good ol' boy network deciding what school's fans and wallets would travel to their bowl game? Some of the bowl representatives' power would unquestionably diminish and no one wants to convey that message to Billy Bob or Jethro's bowl. That's right, the Southern schools and bowls control the process and there won't be a change in the process until the public demands a tournament to decide the national championship.

But for right now, let's allow computers and polls to decide the mythical national championship. If it's good enough for figure skating, gymnastics and diving, it's good enough for college football's Football Bowl Subdivision.

Sitting at home tonight, the one-loss Texas Longhorns are rooting for the Florida Gators to win in a poorly played game. The undefeated Utah Utes need to be happy, with the knowledge, that they beat everyone on their schedule to achieve a 13-0 record.  

Oklahoma Legend "The Boz"