All NCAA sports have some type of playoff system to determine a national champion. All of the sports except for football. While the other sports let the teams decide the best team of the year, the game on the gridiron is decided by what – a computer?

It’s a shame to let, arguably, the most anticipated and most watched game of the year be picked by an extremely flawed system with weaknesses that have been exposed for years.

For the entire 2008 season, the human polls have been consistently different than the computer polls. My question is – why is there a computer poll in the first place? Don't the human polls suffice? Think about it... determining the teams that play for the national title by a computer system? Give me a break.

Of all teams that should be screaming, the Texas Longhorns have to top the list. A team that beat Oklahoma on a neutral field, was passed up because the computer said the Sooners were better. Texas was ahead of Oklahoma by six points in the Harris polls, and were behind by one point in the USA Today Coaches poll, both of which are determined by a human vote. The computer vote, however, put the Sooners ahead by .02 of a point, giving them an undeserving shot at the Big 12 Title, a game in which they pounded Missouri 62-21.

Part of the problem is the current tie-breaker system that the Big 12 conference has in place. In the event of a three-way tie, in which we had with Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech (all three teams were 11-1), it goes to the head-to-head tie breaker. However, since Texas beat Oklahoma, who beat Texas Tech, who beat Texas, the head-to-head doesn't work. Therefore, the "geniuses" in the Big 12 decided to let the highest BCS ranked team play for the title. Unfortunately, the computers decided that team was Oklahoma. Thankfully, however, this current travesty of a system is now being reviewed and will, hopefully, be changed in the very near future.

Sure, Texas did lose to Texas Tech in a final last-second play. For the most part, Texas controlled that entire game and got unlucky. In the Okalahoma-Texas game, the Sooners demolished Tech, who didn't look like the same team that played earlier in the season. Texas also beat Bob Stoops' squad on a neutral field in Dallas, while dominating the majority of the game.

If you try to make the argument for Oklahoma, and say that they played a tougher non-conference schedule, try again. Texas played against teams with a combined record of 25-23, while opponents of the Sooners went 22-27, with Chattanooga and Washington ending with a pitiful 2-23 combined record.

The SEC has it right. Their tie-breaker is much simpler and more logical. If a three-way tie occurs in the SEC, the lowest ranked BCS team would be thrown out (i.e. Texas Tech.) Then, if the other two teams are within five spots of each other in the BCS polls, the head-to-head match-up is used to decide which team plays for the conference title. Had that been the system for the Big 12, since Texas won against Oklahoma, the Longhorns would have played for the title.

Ultimately, what needs to happen is that the computer rankings get taken out completely, and an eight-team, single-elimination playoff is used to determine a national champion. Sure, teams will still feel like they should have made it, but at least this way, humans will be deciding who plays for the title and not a computer.