New York -The nation watched a college football national championship game Thursday evening with 12-1 Florida against 12-1 Oklahoma down in Miami.  It was the final game of this bowl infested time of year and when it was over, Florida got the win, the debate continued as to who really is the national champion of college football.  

Just days ago, perhaps the top defensive college team in the country, USC, dominated Penn State in the traditional Rose Bowl Game, also a part of this BCS poll rated game system that determines who should play for the national championship

USC finishes 12-1 and after Florida celebrated their second title in the last three years, the Trojans got their share of first place votes in the final polls. But votes and a debate are just opinion because the NCAA college football way of determining a national champion will never be clear until there is a playoff system.

Florida wide receiver Aaron Hernandez and Oklahoma receiver Juaquin Iglesias, both who had an impact  in the game Thursday, can’t answer the question as to why the NCAA fails to implement a fair playoff system.  .

Want more confusion?  Utah defeats Alabama days ago in the traditional Sugar Bowl, another BCS game. They finish undefeated, 13-0, yet this Bowl Championship Series game was not the one to determine who has bragging rights as best college football team in the nation.

It is left to the people who get to vote, a determination of a computer system. So on Friday morning, Florida is he off

New York -The nation watched a college football national championship game Thursday evening with 12-1 Florida against 12-1 Oklahoma down in Miami.  It was the final game of this bowl infested time of year and when it was over, Florida got the win, the debate continued as to who really is the national champion of college football.

So the BCS bowl games, including the Fiesta played Monday evening, is a legitimate fiasco that college football officials say is not And when there is so much sponsorship money involved with each game, the prevailing opinion is that a computer and two polls should determine what school has a right to play for the national championship.

There is plenty of opinion offered about this one and it will continue.  The argument from NCAA athletic directors is that their bowl game championship system works.  They also see the billion dollar revenue that is shared when schools get an invite to play in one of the BCS games.

However, when USC coach Pete Carroll makes a statement, “We are as good as Florida or Oklahoma,” then the college football world has to listen. Because Carroll is correct. So is President-elect Barack Obama correct when he says there has to be a better way to determine a national champion.

Determine a national champion, they say, the way college basketball does it with a tournament, except if that is done it means all of that sponsorship money from Fed Ex, AT&T and others is lost. Those who run college football are content that 68 of 120 Division 1-A teams were in bowl games this season.

They seem to be content by bypassing Utah and USC as two schools that had a legitimate chance to be crowned national champion. But they don’t want to drag the season past early January and see a marginal viewing audience with the NFL deep into their correct playoff system.

More so college football fans, as opposed to college basketball fans, will never know who the real national champion is. The NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament committee has done it right over the years even with a multi billion dollar television contract with CBS Sports.

Until there is a national playoff system there are too many bowl games. The BCS is almost like the alphabet soup organizations that dominate the sport of boxing. And like boxing, a sport with too many champions, the BCS system never seems to determine who the legitimate national champion is.

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