Congrats to the Bayou Bengal nation for their big win last night in the BCS National Title Game! What a scene it was inside the Superdome, where more than 90,000 fans piled into the stadium on Poydras Street to watch the LSU Tigers take on the Ohio State Buckeyes with the eyes of the nation watching from coast to coast! And don't be fooled, about 70,000 of those crazies inside were wearing purple and gold!

A few quick thoughts for you... while you can't take anything away from the players and coaches at LSU who prepared hard and fought the entire season to get themselves into position to win a National Title, you can fault the system that we all have to live with it. Plain and Simple, the BCS is illegitimate. It does not work, it's a sham on reality, and worst of all it punishes the people whose dollars drive all major sports - the fans.

It's time we go to a playoff. And don't tell me about corporate contracts, or bowl history, or tradition and point to that nonsense as an "excuse" for why we can't have one! It works in the NFL, it works for college basketball, and it even works for women's college softball and every high school sport in America! It's the American way, to decide it on the field, win or go home.

Hawaii vs. Georgia was a joke. Illinois got embarrassed by USC. And nobody cares about Virgina Tech taking on Kansas! Those BCS games meant nothing... but if they were all national quarterfinal or "Elite 8" match-ups in a playoff bound for a true legitimate National Title game... credibility would instantly return to the game we all love!

What do you think? Is it time, once and for all, for a playoff? Let me know

P.S. Holy Jambalaya... I'm hurting today! Can you say food poisoning?

Christian