Buh Bye, BCS; Hello Democracy

Now that the tryptophan has worn off, it's everyone's favorite time of year again: the time where we all moan and gripe and lobby and complain about how our favorite college football team deserves a shot at the BCS title and our rival doesn't.

With four one-loss teams, an undefeated team, and several pretty dang good two-loss teams clogging up the rankings, just about anyone could make their case. It makes for fun conversation, but logistically it's a problem.

That's why All on the Field has devised an exclusive solution, one that keeps the bowl format in place and spares the big wigs from getting their underwear tied up in a bunch over a pesky playoff system.

Ladies and gentlemen, we propose to you a fan voting system!

Yes, hanging chads darned, it's the perfect solution.

The point of the bowl games, most of us know, is to make money (and here some of you thought it was to determine rankings... ha!). See, the more people that watch, the more people who will use FedEx to ship their stuff and buy Tostitos to snack on during the game, or so the prevailing logic goes.

But if we somehow were forced to watch a Kansas-Hawaii BCS championship -- won't happen now, I know -- eh, I'll pass on the game, I have to drop something off at the UPS store.

Instead, we vote for who we want to see (Florida vs. West Virginia, anyone?), and the BCS gives it to us. Millions of us watch, the sponsors see a spike in sales, and everyone's a winner. Except for Kansas, that is.

Postscript: Of course, this proposal should be taken with a bag (not just a grain, mind you) of salt. If the bowl championship was determined on the basis of fan voting alone, can you imagine the problems? We'd have a Notre Dame - Ohio State final every year!