determined next year, I'm pretty sure there will be NO agreement on the final 4 teams.

Yea, last year had Notre Dame and that ended up a joke. But anyone who criticizes that conclusion didn't really explain HOW they would have justified another team other than just expressing it at the last moment. There has to be a process to select, and it must be transparent and understandable to joe fan out there or there really isn't a champion. The reason the much maligned BCS championship was successful was not that it was the best possible solution. It was that it replaced the ****ing train wreck of sportswriters and coaches who didn't really give a shit giving out split national drunkenmillerlite championships.

We bitch and cry about the las in the field of 64 teams with basketball, but certainly we all agree, the team who wins that monster of a tournament deserves the trophy. Same with baseball. You get to the end and win, you pretty much deserved it.

But with football there is going to be a board of 13 people. They are going to use things like strength of schedule, and head to head and whatever the **** else they are going to use, but at the end of the day there will be nothing more than a group of people subjectively asserting their opinions. To the extent they use each category is anyone's imagination. I imagine, whomever the most demonstrative person in the room, will likely influence the others and THAT person will unwittingly decide the critical differences in teams 4 and 5.

Even when I thought there was a major flaw in the BCS, it gave me figures I could see and compare to week to week. Typically what made me the most irritated were preseason polls that had the potential of handicapping a team.

Now 13 people are going to be able to shrug their shoulders and say, 'shit, I just wanted to get home for dinner and I'm not sure how the 4 teams came out that way" and that will be what we have.

I'm fine if you hate the BCS....but don't tell me this is going to be any better. At least not yet.