In a couple of hours the BCS Selection show will be on TV and we will find out which college football team will be playing against Ohio State in the national championship game on January 8. The whole bowl system is a mess these days, with a bunch of meaningless games in January and a system that seems to cause more arguments than the old days because it is "supposed" to set up a game between the two best teams in the country. 20 years ago we almost never got to see a No. 1 vs. No. 2 game in a bowl because all of the conference champions were bound to go to specific games contractually. There was something mythic about the Rose Bowl back then, when you knew it would be the Big 10 champ versus the Pac-10 champ. Growing up as an Ohio St. fan, the only two markers for a season were whether we beat Michigan and whether we went to the Rose Bowl.

From my point of view the University of Florida's team deserves the shot at Ohio St. They won their conference (Michigan did not), and they have a better record against Top 25 and bowl-eligible teams than does Michigan. Let's hope the voters and the computers spit out that result. I'd like nothing more than to hear Michigan fans and apologists whine for the next 8 weeks.