Before we close the book on the college football season, I wonder if you had the same feeling I did watching Florida trounce Ohio State for the national championship. It didn't leave me cheering. It didn't leave me satisfied.

It left me depressed.

I bet it did. Most people feel depressed when they are shown to be such whiney sanctimonious jagoffs who know nothing about the thing they are supposed to be "experts" in.

College football is a mess. Of all our major sports, it is the most confused and the most hypocritical. It has grueling practices in August, lopsided matchups in September, wonderful rivalries in November, silly bowls in December and a way-too-late championship in January. It is a sport operating on conflicting levels, like a four-headed monster always arguing with itself.

One of the primary reasons why college football is a mess is because dorks like you who don't know a damned thing about it and who weren't man enough to step out on the field of battle themselves get such a large say in determining who does get a chance to play for the championship.

For example, college football proclaims one thing ("we must protect the students' exam period!") but does another (drag those students six extra weeks to play a meaningless bowl).

That's funny you should say that.  You didn't seem to think it was so "meaningless" when you b!tched and whined like a spoiled 2 year old because YOUR choice didn't get to play in the bowl you wanted them in against the team which had just beaten them.  I wonder what's changed your mind.

College football rewards your number of victories (so teams load up on creampuffs early in the season) yet denies a title chance to a school with an undefeated season (Boise State).

Irony Alert!  Did you ever think the reason Boise State didn't get a chance to play in the championship game was because their schedule in no way shape or form compared to that  of the Florida Gators?

College football decides its championship on a field, but determines the combatants with computers and polls.

And college football culminates in a night so disconnected from its season you have to be reminded to watch it.

Like I said, a mess.

You gave every impression of needing anything but a reminder to watch the bowls when you whined loudly and and stomped your feet repeatedly that YOUR choice didn't make it to one of those "meaningless" bowls.  Again Mitch, why the change of heart?

Idle hands ruin momentum

Loser excuse-making at its finest.

The Gators whupping the Buckeyes might have made Urban Meyer happy (and rich), but I'm not sure what it did for anyone not wearing Florida colors. One of my fellow columnists suggested it proved the BCS got it right, but I disagree. I still believe the Ohio State team that beat Michigan in mid-November would have beaten Florida the following Saturday.

Well for one thing it showed that the SEC is indeed a very tough conference.  It also showed why nobody should listen to you.  I don't give a damn about what you believe about the chances of the two teams had they played in November.  If dog rabbit.

Problem is, they didn't play the following Saturday. Or the following one, or even the following one. College football is the only sport that fails to reward momentum. You can't get "on a playoff roll." You can't even get off the couch. Ohio State spent seven weeks inactive before that kickoff Monday night. Consequently, what the championship game rewards is not action, but adjustments. Who can come up with a better seven-week game plan? Which team's players won't lose focus over the New Year?

Cry me a freakin river.  That's the way its always been.  NOW you suddenly have a problem with it?  Could you be any more transparent in your attempt to cover your very exposed @ss?

Excuse me, but what does that have to do with college football? The rest of the season is about carrying effort from weekend to weekend, growing momentum.

Well had you ever played the game, you would know that adjustments are very much part of the game.  I fail to see where this supposed "momentum" has ever been the measuring stick before.  Did you ever think your precious Big 10 teams had more "momentum" because they were less dinged up and could get up emotionally once or twice a year because they play in a WEAKER conference?

Not the championship. Meyer reportedly got his Gators ready for the big game by building up six days at a time, as if there were a game, then not playing one. In other words, pretending Florida was actually active. Congratulations, college football. You are coaching make-believe.

This might be the stupidest comment of all.  Even you realize that gameplanning is a critical part of winning right?

As a result, nobody knows nothing. Most of the "experts" (myself included) were proved wrong (allowing the Gators to use the most overused phrase in sports, "No one gave us any respect"). And yes, it's fun when the experts look like idiots. But let's be honest. If the experts are always wrong -- and No. 2 has beaten No. 1 pretty often -- maybe it's not the experts.

Maybe it's the system.

ROTFLOL!  If the "experts" are wrong so often, its not that they are idiots and morons....oh heavens no!  Its that the system is all wrong!  Yeah, that's it!  Even 3 year olds can come up with better excuses than that Mitch.  Pathetic.

Which crown? Conference or national?

This speaks to another conflict in college football, one felt acutely in the Big Ten: going for a conference championship versus going for a national crown. A school like U-M has long prided itself on -- first and foremost -- winning the Big Ten. But doing that seems to require one approach, while winning a national championship requires another. The teams that survive the Big Ten grind usually pound the ball well, block well, defend well and use the momentum from week to week. Teams that win the national title seem to move like lightning, throw like crazy and get geeked up for one spotlight event.

Wrong again-jeez you're really making a habit of this aren't you?  Why don't you check out how often Florida threw the ball this year vs how often OSU threw the ball?  Even if what you said were true....did you ever think Big 10 teams fail so often when matched against others because they are s-l-o-w and run outmoded grind-it-out offenses?  Funny how SEC champs (3-0 in BCS games) can both win their leagues AND win MNC games.  Oh, and do you think for one second any SEC school's immediate goal is not to win the conference?  Have you ever been south of the Mason-Dixon line you ignoramous?

I'm not sure why this is. I don't buy the "SEC is better" argument. First of all, U-M, OSU and Florida recruit nationally, not locally. Secondly, if the SEC is so superior, why did Arkansas and Tennessee -- two of Florida's "impressive" victories -- lose bowls to Big Ten teams?

I see we're back to the whole "facts be damned, I have my opinion and if the facts run contrary to that, I'll just deny the facts.  The one thing I will never under any circumstances do is admit I might have been wrong" line of argument.  If the SEC is not better, then why do the top SIX programs in the SEC ALL have winning records against the Big 10?  Why does OSU-which has clearly been one of the top two powers in the Big 10 have an atrocious 0-8 bowl record against SEC teams?  Why did the SEC go 6-3 in the bowls while the Big 10 went 2-5?  Why did the SEC have so many more wins over ranked nonconference opponents than the Big 10?  I guess we don't really need to go on since I'm sure you'll ignore these oh-so-inconvenient FACTS as well.

All I know is the net result is unsatisfying. College football has more unhappy fans than any sport. The bowls are a joke. The polls are one big argument. And the championship game comes in the middle of the NFL playoffs.

Unsatisfying for whom?  I for one feel quite satisfied.  I know a lot of other fans in the SEC were quite satisfied to see idiot Yankee sportswriters get their arrogant words shoved down their throats as well.  And...why should college football give a damn about how their schedule fits in with anything the NFL does?

One team goes home happy -- and sometimes surprised -- while everyone else ranges from confused to confounded. And, thanks to big TV money, nothing will change for at least four years.

Which is the most depressing part of all.

YOU and your arrogant cohorts in the ABC/ESPN mafia may have been surprised.  Ask fans around the South how surprised they were that that a powerful, aggressive and above all, FAST Gator D was able to throttle the supposed masters of the universe OSU.   Ask them how surprised they were that big plodding Big 10 Defensive lineman were not able to apply pressure to the QB or that linebackers who looked like their feet were stuck in concrete were not able to cover the fleet footed Gator receivers.  You might be surprised again at their answer.