Chaos doesn't legitimize ignorance or stupidity

By sheer accident, nothing more, Ohio State and LSU will play Jan. 7 in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game. A few days ago it was supposed to be Mizzou vs. West Virginia. And before that, Kansas vs. LSU. Ohio State reached the national championship game by doing nothing more strenuous than clicking the TV remote. Congrats.

Why is Oklahoma left out? They are 11-2 and beat the number one ranked team in the country on a neutral field by 21 points. Chaos doesn't legitimize ignorance or stupidity of flawed system. Any season that has the not-head-football-coach of Michigan Les Miles proclaim his team is "undefeated in regulation play" confirms the craziest college football season ever. However, college football deserves better than simple bedlam.

Mizzou went from No. 1 to a non-BCS bowl (the Cotton) in less than 24 hours. Meanwhile, Kansas, which lost to Missouri late in the season and failed to reach the Big 12 title game, was invited to a BCS bowl, the Orange. Georgia, which is 10-2, was in the BCS title game discussion despite not winning its division or conference championship.

SEC commissioner Mike Slive, who doubles as the Bowl Championships Series coordinator, says, "I don't see what I would call an NFL-style playoff in the offing." Someone needs to remind him that it isn't an "NFL-style playoff" we're talking about. It's an NCAA-style playoff, the kind of elimination tournament seen in nearly every NCAA sport and every NCAA football division except Division I-A. SEC schools won two of those "NFL-style" playoffs last season. They're called Final Fours.

Is this any way to determine a national champion?