BCS solution: Divide up the 120-team Division I

Let me add a preface to this column by saying that, to start with, I like the way the college football Bowl Championship Series system works right now.

I especially like having a dump truck worth of bowl games to watch before the national         championship.

I enjoy spending the month of December in a sort of holy meditation, sitting on the holy worshiping couch and eating the holy Chex Mix feast as I can watch what  averages out to be about a game per day.

The thought of not having the potential awesome extra bowls to keep me warm in my heart — especially the ones that end in last-second surprise endings like this year's thrilling Roady's Humanitarian Bowl featuring Idaho and Bowling Green — brings a tear of sadness to my soul.

It's really enjoyable to watch the coaches and players from a school like Idaho, a five-loss team ranked fourth in the Western Athletic Conference, have the chance at a season-ending victory. To the Vandals, there was no better feeling in the world than lifting whatever trophy it is they give out in Boise — who knows, a potato-based trophy maybe.

That said, I understand people's qualms with the system as it stands. It's hard to look at Alabama and Boise and not think that they should now play each other to find out who is really the best.

I think I have a way to make that happen.

My theory on why the system as it stands is so unwieldy is the fact there are 120 teams spread out across 11 conferences – and a few scattered independent schools.

If you were to make a season-ending tournament, how do you pick who is allowed into the tourney?

If you take the champions of the different conferences, you are faced with a problem of possibly having to take a multiple-loss conference winner over a single-loss team who finished second in another conference.

Hey, that doesn't seem fair.

Oh, look, it's the same problem people have with the BCS system right now.
Instead of a time-consuming tournament, why not do this:

Let's split the divisions once again.

I know it seems like we have a lot of divisions, but we're not actually adding any teams, just making another division to break up the top-heavy 120-team Division 1 monster.

In one division we could put the current BCS conferences, and in the second, we could put the ones who don't have an automatic qualification into the big bowls: Conference USA, Sunbelt, WAC, MAC, Mountain West and any of the independent schools who want to join.

Both divisions could have a BCS-type bowl system at the end of the season.

Amongst those games, there could be non-BCS bowls so the corporate sponsors, fans who enjoy traveling and local areas who are supported by said traveling fans get their time to shine.

At the end, you take the No. 1 school from each of the two divisions and they could play each other to have a real "National champion."

Yeah, I know, most of the time the team from the current BCS group would win.

But most people's idea of a tournament would place the likes of Troy or East Carolina against Alabama or Oregon in the first round, so creating the potential for lopsided games is going to exist anyway.

It's not a perfect fix. And maybe I'm being selfish for wanting so much college football to watch in December.

But hey, under my proposed system, we get to see an undefeated Alabama and Boise throw down.