... experienced with the Five Stages of Grief. There's nothing like having to stomach a four-hour football game where you could have sworn your team won about three different times.

There's denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Among these five stages, the most important one is the last: acceptance.

The conversation about how to determine a true champion will never die. But we might all benefit from a little acceptance. The BCS system has been and always will be based on pure American greed. But this is not the reason a playoff will never work.

When arguing for the playoff system, we often bring up how well it works for NCAA basketball. Yes, there's a month long free-for-all that helps those guys figure it out....

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