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Jan. 10, 2008 | I'm afraid to look, but I think they've finally stopped playing college football.

That means it's Reform the BCS season, the annual exercise in trying to find a better way of crowning an NCAA football champion than the Bowl Championship Series. Actually, all you have to do to find a better way of crowning an NCAA football champion than the BCS is think of a way. It'll be better. That's why there are so many ideas floating around.

Michael Adams, the president of the University of Georgia, announced his on Tuesday, the day after LSU beat Ohio State in the BCS Championship Game, a game the Georgia Bulldogs believe they should have been invited to play in, though that couldn't have had anything to do with the timing of Adams' proposal, with the confetti still floating around and the beer puddles still standing, because university presidents are above that kind of athletic rivalry stuff, concerned as they are with the education thing.

Adams' idea is to have an eight-team playoff, with the four BCS bowls acting as quarterfinal games, followed by semifinals on the second Saturday in January and the Championship Game the Saturday after that.

This would have college football competing with the NFL playoffs, which usually have a double-header on the second and third Saturdays of January. As they say in l'académie: Duh.

This is why Michael Adams is relegated to being a university president rather than having an important job on campus, something to do with the football team.

But he's the highest-ranking committee member in the NCAA, so people have to listen to him. E. Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State, is the leader of the no-playoff faction. "They'll have to wrench a playoff system out of my cold, dead hand," he said last month. "It smacks too much of universities being too much of a farm system for the pros."

That quote about the cold dead hand rocks, but listening to college powers that be argue against a playoff system is a little like listening to people argue against smoking bans in restaurants. The argument's over. It's going to happen. It's just a matter of how long it's going to take for the losing side to accept defeat.

Next page: You're a feeder league. Deal with it. Here's your check. Plus: Pete Carroll to the Falcons?