BCS official: Everything's fine with the system!

Harvey Perlman, chairman of the BCS oversight committee went onto Mike and Mike in the morning today to say that everything is fine with the BCS, no one should complain, especially not the Utahs and Boise States of the world (teams who went undefeated but never came close to the national championship).

His argument was that the schools from the smaller conferences "have more access" to the big bowls than they ever did before. He is correct, but this doesn't address the criticism.

Utah went undefeated last year, including beating Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Yet they didn't get to play in the national championship. There is nothing more that Utah could have possibly done, yet they didn't win the national championship.

Perlman said that it is better than it was in the past, but that is, again, missing the point. It shouldn't be said that the current system is better, but rather that the system in the past was even more flawed.

He even criticized college basketball, saying, "even when you're picking 64 teams, you have major controversies about who's numbers 65 through 68." This is different -- getting the NCAAs is the goal for the teams on the bubble. They don't expect to win the national championship.

When the problem is with the number three team, that's a different story.