• Media Life, Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12 PM

With only a week left in the college football season, the Bowl Championship Series--a system instituted eight years ago to ensure that the two best teams in the country face off for the national title--is facing the biggest mess in its short history.

Three one-loss teams, Florida, Michigan and USC, are legitimate contenders to face undefeated consensus No. 1 Ohio State. And that's a problem, since no matter who gets the spot, there will be bitter grousing. The controversy will fuel sports talk radio for weeks, and it will all but ensure that the final BCS game airing on Fox will be low- rated, perhaps reaching an all-time low.

Fans want to see a national championship game that pits the two undisputed top teams against each other,the magazine notes. "They do not want to see a contender that scraped into the game by virtue of a few tenths of a point in the convoluted BCS scoring system."

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