I've been watching college football with interest as the season winds down. So what's making news?

First, Ty Willingham was fired after only three years as coach. And he only had two recruiting classes. That means he's using Juniors and Seniors that he had nothing to do with getting to go to Notre Dame. So what happens if Notre Dame's program turns around next year or the year after that? Those would be Willingham's recruits getting the job done. Personally, I think firing Willingham is about as rediculous as people calling for Callahan to be fired from Nebraska after one year. I guess when a program is used to results, even one down year gets the alumni up in arms.

Hopefully Willingham will land somewhere else. I think he's a good coach, and deserved a couple of more years. It's not the same situation as Michigan State had when they fired Bobby Williams - Williams had other problems with the team - ones that I haven't heard mentioned about Notre Dame, such as control of the team. No, Willingham just had residual recruits from the previous coaching staff.

Maybe Lou Holtz will come out of his (short) retirement. I hear he's pretty loved in South Bend.

The other big news? The BS. Sorry, I mean the BCS. I always forget the C. Freudian slip! Anyway, the college football ranks are left with another failure of the BCS. There are three undefeated teams who have a legitimate claim to the national championship. Most likely, two after the bowls are played. Then, you have Utah and Boise State. While I don't think they deserve it, who knows? They haven't lost yet. Who's to say they would?

So what's the solution? An eight team playoff! If the lower divisions can do it, why can't the main league? It works for colllege basketball. Yeah, the number nine team would argue, as would others. But teams argue about not making it into the NCAA basketball tournament too. But no one argues that because of that the national champ isn't valid. There's never an argument that the NIT winner should be the national champion. I think it would work fine for college football. You've got seven games to play - you could work in the four major bowls into those, and rotate the others through some lower bowls. This way, your national champ is undisputed.

But we don't have that. And it sucks. Now, Auburn will never know if they are good enough to beat either Oklahoma or USC. So for two years in a row, the BCS fails. Miserably. And if that wasn't bad enough, Texas breaks in, and invades the Rose Bowl. So now, we'll have an unofficially disputed national champ, and no Pac 10 / Big 10 Rose Bowl.

This isn't how it's supposed to be!