Oh, no. It's time for the BCS bashing to begin

College football fans, it's been real. I'd love to stick around to watch those great rivalry games in November, but this is the point in the season when I have to check out. That's because the first BCS rankings of the season just came out this week and, from now until the last play of the last bowl game, every moment of every telecast and every article of every publication will be devoted to dissecting this insipid contraption of a poll.

See, it's not so much the BCS itself I have a problem with. It's the media's obsession with ripping the damn thing that makes my eyes glaze over. Hey, Joe Football Writer, we know the system sucks. We know anything short of a playoff will fail to satisfy our society's burning need for a "clear No. 1" at the end of the season. Please stifle the urge the next time you sit down to write your weekly, "what if there was a playoff" column.

Don't get me wrong. I love college football --- at least the action on the field. But I don't care for the this annual exercise in verbal diarrhea spawned by the BCS. (By the way, which incarnation of this bloody thing are we on now anyways? Is it all humans with no computers or all computers with no humans? Let me know when it's all monkeys and no midgets.)

This is what happens when you try to make a national sport out of something that is essentially a regional phenomena. I don't give two flips where my alma mater (Gator Nation) ranks in the BCS as long as we get our share of wins against Florida State, Georgia, Tennessee and LSU. Last season was a failure, you say? Hey, we won at Doak Campbell Stadium. That isn't something any poll or unimaginative football writer can take away.