Playoffs? Playoffs??!!?!?

Don't bet on it, but I'd love to see it. This week the Bowl Championship Series committee is meeting and, allegedly, will discuss the possibility of a "Plus 1" championship game. This is being proposed by Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive, who suggests a two-week playoff among the top four teams at the end of the regular season. Naturally this proposal would come from my conference, since we have the most recent credible team to go undefeated and get fucked out of a chance to play for the title. Oh well. I'm an Auburn fan, and as good as it has been recently, deep down we know we are born to suffer.

And suffer we will continue to do. The commissioners of the Pac-10 and Big 10 already say they will vote against any such playoffs plan, which kills the deal from the start. I sense sour grapes on the part of the Big 10, having lost two straight years in the BCS championship game to an SEC team. If they supported a playoff system, be it the Plus 1 or even my preferred Top 8 playoff, then the Buckeyes would not be able to whine that they had too long a layoff to be effective in the title game. God knows, we must preserve our excuses when possible.

So we'll be stuck with the Bull Chit Series for the foreseeable future and just hope another undefeated team isn't left to sop gravy. Maybe the Buckeyes will be happy.