-Daniel Dravot From The Man Who Would Be King

The BCS is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

Or so they seem to want us to believe.

We hear tales of unbreakable conference entanglements and beloved traditions. But big cities and low politicians have bundles of bucks invested in the bowl system.

The the big conferences and their CEO money mad University Presidents want to dip their beaks too.

We hear cries of the academic cost of a playoff even though all other levels of college football have playoff systems. Somehow, since the Division I-AA players struggle through, perhaps the scholar athletes of the SEC and Big 12 could try.<...

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