I use computers every single day – and almost invariably there comes a time while perched over the keyboard that I find myself glancing around for something heavy to smack the thing, or myself, with.

It is the nature of their complexity. They make our lives infinitely easier – yet on regular occasions also drive us – either through a fault of their own or ours – to apoplectic rages.

Take Sunday for example. Had I been in the NCAA’s server room, it would have been batter up baby because the Bowl Championship Series did it to us all yet again.

The silicon chips decided that Florida and Oklahoma will play against one another for the national championship on January 8^th in Miami.

That’s because the computers calculated that Oklahoma’s 11-1 was better than Texas’s 11-1 despite the fact that Oklahoma’s “1” came at the hands of that self-same Texas.

That does not make any sense – ever.

Yet, that 1 + 1 = 5 solution to the BCS question sits right with every member school who just signed the contract extending this silly series through 2014.

Money talks – sanity walks when all schools need to do to get their share of this massive multi-billion dollar pie is to be one of the best 66 teams in the nation. Considering that there are thousands, that’s tough enough they say.

After all, what do we want? A meritocracy where only the best of the best is rewarded?

Well… err… yes.

Besides, it being the very nature of sports, winners win and losers don’t, the thing is, as a people, America decided quite recently that they didn’t want to settle anymore.

The best guy for the job was elected President of the United States. Not someone who, like the present resident of the Whitehouse, felt entitled.

Barack Obama knows the BCS is messed up. He seems a little bit too obsessed with it to be honest, bringing it up unsolicited in interviews on at least two occasions, most recently a couple of Sunday’s ago on “60 Minutes.”

He must have seen what was coming this Sunday as he suggested that college football needs a playoff system and that he “would throw his weight around a little bit.”

The American people agree with him, even more than voted for him to be President.

Yet the BCS lovers still hold sway and openly mock the incumbent’s suggestion saying a playoff system would be “too difficult” to set up.

So much for the schools of higher learning huh?

Not to brag, but I could do it in about 20 minutes, and I wouldn’t need a computer to help me.

Whatever number you want, make it eight teams, 12 or even 16, the combinations would be simple to manage.

As would the locations. They are already set.

They are these things called “Bowl Games,” and there are a frikin’ ton of them! Pick a bunch of the lower tier bowls every year and reward them by allowing them to host the early rounds. Once they get to the quarter- and semi-finals rotate the Orange, Fiesta, Rose and Sugar bowls so the name games will get to host the championship more often than not.

Just like they do now. As for the rest of the hilariously named games that are constantly paraded across ESPN’s air, the ones that survive the economic downturn can still host the 6-6 Notre Dames of this world, with those games mattering exactly as much as they do now.

That’s that, no muss, no fuss.

Except for perhaps the 9^th, 13^th or 17^th teams who would be excluded – but who would really care about that except for their own fans?

During the election campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly quoted another smart guy, Albert Einstein, who said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Every year it seems the BCS screws up.

It’s time to let the commander and chief have his way.

Cheers – Gavin McDougald – AKA Couch