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Now that the dust has settled on what was one of the most exciting and talked about college football seasons ever, we congratulate the LSU Tigers on winning the BCS national title over an Ohio State team that once again proved it could not hang with the big boys in the SEC.

Forget that Ohio State is now 0-9 against the SEC in bowl games, the big news this year is that LSU became the first two loss team to play for a BCS national title.

And, because that happened this one time, this ONE time, the fuel for the fire for a college football playoff has perhaps never been higher.

Enter one Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgia, who now wants to advocate an eight team playoff for college football. Being in large part of Italian ancestry, let me give you my answer to Mr. Adams and his proposal...fuh-get about it!

First of all Mr. Adams, you have never before supported such a proposal. In fact, where in the world were you when University of Florida president Bernie Machen floated his playoff proposal LAST YEAR? Well, in case you forgot, you were one of the schools that basically told Bernie to go home and play with his marbles...you gave absolutely no support to the proposal.

Ah, but this is a new year, and your Georgia Bulldogs closed the season strong and humiliated upstart Hawaii in a BCS bowl game to lay a verbal claim to be one of the best teams in the country. But the poor little Doggies can't win a national title because there is no playoff and now all of a sudden Mr. Adams is a playoff guy. Coincidence?

I'm sure you will get some nice pats on the back from those who wear red and black but your proposal sir, in my humble opinion, has as much chance of passing as Brittney Spears has as coming off sane these days.

While I will admit that the playoff drum beats are louder than ever now because of what transpired in the college football postseason, I just don't believe a majority of school presidents are going to take the giant leap for mankind of going from no playoff at all to one that involves eight teams and adding more weeks to the college season. And, what about Adams and his proposal to cut back the regular season from 12 to 11 games...do you think the non-BCS teams want to give up the revenue they get from now having that extra regular season game?

The reality here is that we are moving closer to some kind of "plus one" format and I believe that will be implemented after the current contract with Fox expires after the 2010 season.

Oh, and speaking of that, please BCS suits, please, please, please do not let Fox ever again get the rights to broadcast the BCS bowl games. How do you let a network that broadcasts ZERO college football games during the year get the contract to televise the biggest college games of the year? The coverage is bad, the announcers are bad, and the idea is bad to have Fox ever do these games again.

Well, now that I have that out of my system, back to the plus one format. It certainly isn't perfect and there will still be a team or teams that will complain about being left out of that party, but what this will do if implemented is at least give a few more teams a shot at winning a national title.

Name me one other NCAA sport that only allows TWO teams to compete for a national championship? Can't think of one? That's because there are no other NCAA sports that do it that way so why should college football?

The current system we have renders the other BCS games meaningless, and if you don't believe me, check out those blockbuster ratings Fox got for those great Kansas-Virginia Tech Orange Bowl and Georgia-Hawaii Sugar Bowl matchups...no one watched and no one cared because the games meant nothing.

While it has its flaws, I think the plus one system is the way to go to at least get college football in some sort of playoff mode. And while I'm on this subject, let me give a word of advice to the Big 10 and to the Pac 10 conferences who stubbornly refuse to be part of the BCS party...jump on this bandwagon now or get off.

If those conferences want to be stubborn and not participate, I hope the other big conferences have the stones to tell those guys to stay out...and when their precious Rose Bowl means nothing while the other teams are playing elimination games for a national title, we'll see who gets the better ratings for their games. And in case you don't know, ratings drive advertising dollars and when no one watches the Rose Bowl, we'll see if it still will be the grand daddy of all the bowls.

Nice try, Mr. Adams, but your eight team playoff won't fly. Maybe if your team could just win the SEC East, it might help!