Finally! It's over. I know what bowl my team is playing in. After weeks of speculation, nail-biting, and anguish I can now relax until game day when I will sit in agony as I watch my team choke once again. Hopefully this year the Mountaineers will actually win a bowl. They are playing Georgia Tech, a good team, and one which should be pretty evenly matched with the Mountaineers. Before you stop reading, I just want to assure you that this article is not about West Virginia football, even though it is my goal to single-handedly make The Journal into a propaganda weapon for the Mountaineers. No, my gripe is with the bowl system.

Don't believe the hype. The bowl system is screwed up beyond repair. Allow me to explain using West Virginia as an example. We are going to the Carquest Bowl. It is contracted with the Big East to take it's number three team. The number two team, Virginia Tech, is going to the Gator Bowl where they will play North Carolina. My theory is that even though the Mountaineers beat Tech, they didn't lose to a powerhouse like Miami of Ohio, so they don't deserve the number two spot. Anyway, both teams had a shot at the Gator and North Carolina. However, had UNC received an alliance birth, the Gator might have traded it's ACC spot with the Peach Bowl in return for a team from the SEC. The Peach would have then traded with the Motor City, which would have traded with the Canadian Bowl, which it turn would have make a swap with the Deutsche Bundesbowl. In the end, what we would have ended up with was Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes, (with the help of Barry Sanders) playing against the Mountaineers in Space Bowl XVI.

It is well past the time for a playoff system. Fans are tired of trying to figure out where their team will be going, and in many cases, if they will be going to a bowl at all. Also, we all get a big headache after trying to figure out who is the national champion. As it is now, we are left with teams claiming 7/23's of a national championship. I blame the sports writers for this. They are all idiots. Especially Chuck Landon. If you don't know who Chuck Landon is, don't get all worked up about it. He is a sports writer who I particularly detest. He is to college football what Bill Walton is to the NBA. The time has come to get rid of the forest of little bowls and put in place a playoff system similar to what the NCAA has in place in Division I-AA.

PS. I would just like to take the time to inform the world that Marshall University, in it's first season in Division I-A has won the MAC and will be playing in the Motor City Bowl. Some of you may be aware that a certain mythical man by the name of Randy Moss plays for Marshall. He is by far the best football player ever to grace this earth and deserves the Heisman more than some redneck from Tennessee and some chump from Michigan. Who's ever heard of Peyton Manning and Charles Woodson anyway?