An "A" for the Bsc. (Here Below).

ISN'T IT TIME THAT OUR knights of the laptops stopped zinging the NCAA for its "feeble attempts" to select a college football champion every year?

The press believes that the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a pitiful instrument and it never stops quibbling over the weekly ratings and the final selections for the championship game.

Is the BCS perfect? Absolutely not.

Does it work? Absolutely yes. Can we prove it? Just check the four national champions that have been anointed so far - Tennessee, Florida, Oklahoma, and Miami. All have been absolutely 14-carat champions.

The weekly polls may irritate once in a while, but they always come out right. The truth is that picking winners no longer takes genius. Every year the polls come up with the four or five best teams and a great matchup for the championship game.

So who needs an eight-team or a 40-team playoff series that could imperil the players' well-being and keep them away from their classrooms.

If the press has to have something to kick around, how about the unseemly glut of bowl games and all that exotic scheduling of 6-5 teams?

Do the ratings or the money or the publicity justify all those bizarre match-ups in far-away places with their strange-sounding Bowl names?