Pin the tail on the right donkey. (Insider: College Football).

I've seen, heard and read countless supposed experts on the radio, on TV, in newspapers and online rip into the NCAA for being hypocritical by allowing teams to play an extra game this year. "If teams will play 12 or even 13 regular-season games" the thinking goes, "how can the NCAA say there's no extra time in the school year to fit in some kind of a playoff?"

Here's a news flash, all you "experts": College football hasn't been run by the NCAA for a long time. Anybody who's paying attention should realize by now that six conference commissioners--those atop the six BCS conferences, of course--are running things. The presidents of the universities that belong to those leagues have quite a bit of power, too. The NCAA? It keeps a pretty tight rulebook, but that's about it.

Don't take this to mean I'm not in favor of changing the postseason system, I'd like very much to see the winners of the four BCS games advance to a "final four" that could be held in a different city every year. The four teams would be re-seeded; after a stirring ...