I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: I hate the BCS.

It’s wrong that the #4 team in both polls didn’t make a BCS bowl even though there are 8 teams playing in BCS bowls.

And it’s just amazing how college football is about politics and lobbying instead of what happens on the playing field.

Texas coach Mack Brown spent Saturday calling his buddies-- coaches who have votes in the ESPN poll— and pleaded with them to move Texas up in their ballot.

Cal coach Jeff Tedford would have none of that—he refused to run up the score in the last seconds of the Cal-Southern Miss game and didn’t beg his friends for votes in the polls. He has too much class to do that.

But I can’t really blame Mack Brown for lobbying—that’s what this system is about: handing out $15 million to teams because of some people’s and computers’ opinions, instead of giving teams a chance to prove themselves on the field.

Just ask Auburn about that.