Yep. Oklahoma (12-1) vs Florida (12-1). I plan on watching because I enjoy a good game. What it's not going to be, and what people should stop calling it, is a contest for the "National Championship". At least not the one involving football as I know it. Sports like gymnastics and diving and figure skating have panels of judges who vote on which competitor is better than which and they select National Champions. Football should have as little in common with figure skating as possible. Trust me on that one.

I like Florida. Love Tebow. Hell, they beat the #1 ranked Crimson Tide of Alabama. But so did Utah and Utah is undefeated.

Oklahoma is also a hell of a team. But how do they end up in a less prestigious bowl game than Texas, a team that beat them head to head?

The grumbling goes on every year at this time, but nobody ever does anything about it because nobody knows how to change the situation. The BCS has a strangle hold on college football. One thing that I think would help is if sportscasters and sportswriters and even fans would, whenever possible, stop referring to tonight's game as the National Championship. Call it The Argument Bowl. Call it The Money Bowl or The Bullshit Bowl. Call it the Last Game of the Year. Just don't call it something it isn't. Tonight's winner will finish the season with the same number of losses as Texas and Boise St and USC and one more loss than Utah. And you're going to call them National Champions? Based on what? How they did in the cumpulsories? What's the Russian judge say?

The other problem with college football is the number of bowl games there are. I checked somewhere to see when tonight's game would be and discovered that there are like 87 bowl games. Seems half the businesses in the country sponsor one. I think that's part of the problem. How do you keep the sponsors but lose all the bowls in favor of a playoff, which I'd love to see happen.

It's going to be a fantastic game tonight. With Harvin back the Gators will be firing on all cylinders, they're going to be hard to beat.

We can still have all the bowls or at least plenty of bowls. There are plenty of multi-loss teams playing bowl games now. Keep playing those, but send the major conference winners to the playoffs.

Florida Rules.

Enough said.

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Oklahoma is also a hell of a team. But how do they end up in a less prestigious bowl game than Texas, a team that beat them head to head?

OK, OK, pedantic quibbling, I admit. But who could resist that setup?