If you're a Michigan Wolverine, you're probably angry right now.

If you're a Florida Gator, you're elated that things have worked out.

If you're Mike Slive, commissioner of the Southeast Conference and coordinator of the BCS, you're truly torn.

If you're a true fan of college football, then you most probably have reached this conclusion by now.

A playoff has to happen sooner than later.

It is time to blow up the BCS. Except for those (increasingly) rare occurrences, this potpourri of former coaches, administrators, players and media members (the Harris Poll) that have to be too busy to watch all of the games, and those computers that simply plug and chug based on the formulas given to them are slowly eroding what little credibility this sport has left.

I know, I know. I've railed against the BCS in this space before. Multiple times, in fact. Sunday's results do nothing to change my mind. In fact, I know that they've strengthened my resolve.

I will admit right here that I was never in favor of a rematch between Michigan and Ohio State.

That doesn't diminish Michigan in my mind. The Wolverines took their best shot against the Buckeyes, and came up a few plays short. They proved that they are a great football team, but they had their shot against the Buckeyes and failed.

Hypothetically, let's assume that Michigan had received the bid to play the Buckeyes again on January 8, and went on to beat Ohio State. In this scenario, the Big Ten regular season champion would have lost… to the conference runner-up. How big of a farce would that have been?

However, the voters did themselves no favors by placing Michigan second after immediately losing the game. Essentially, they painted themselves into a corner.

Things would have turned out fine, most assumed, if USC won out. The Trojans had two games in hand on the Wolverines, so all USC had to do was win and they would be in.

Alas, most people forgot about UCLA. The Bruins were 6-5 and had collapsed late against Notre Dame in their most recent nationally televised game. Surely, the Men of Troy would roll over the Bruins.

But after physically dominating USC on Saturday afternoon, UCLA forced the gears of the BCS machine to grind to a halt.

It was halftime of the SEC title game when the Bruins intercepted a John David Booty pass with 1:10 to go in the game to seal the 13-9 victory. It was halftime when fate intervened for the Gators. A couple of hours later, after cinching a 38-28 victory over a young Arkansas Razorback team, pressure was placed on the voters.

Do you reward Florida for playing the toughest schedule in the country? Do you reward Florida for playing in an incredible tough conference and winning game after game in a blue-collar, workmanlike fashion?

Or do you reward Michigan, a team that went toe-to-toe with Ohio State for over 58 minutes two weeks ago and dominated just about everyone else on their schedule? Do the dreaded "style points" come into play?

And that is precisely why the BCS is flawed. I'm sorry, but it shouldn't come down to style points. If that's the case, then you're going to start encouraging people to run up the scores like, well, Florida's Steve Spurrier used to do in the 1990s, when style points still mattered because there was no BCS.

The BCS has been around for almost 10 years now. It's been dominated by the computers and their sphinx-like formulas. Now it's dominated by the human polls, voted on by people who simply cannot be expected to vote on teams that they don't have time to watch. It even has coaches who elect not to vote in the final poll – which is the only one that really matters. (I'm looking at you, Mr. Tressel.)

In all of its iterations, the system has shown that it cannot be effective. Let it die its slow, merciful death, and let it be reborn as a playoff.

Please, for the good of the sport.