Well, so far the first four Bowl Championship Series (BCS) games this season have been mostly a bust to say the least. The big one is left and that’s tonight. Some of the non-BCS games were really exciting, but one would expect that the BCS games would be the best. No so this year.

Something really needs to be done about the post season in major college football.

There are five BCS games, so 10 teams make the BCS and each game pays $17 million to the teams selected. Yes, $17 million.

One would think all the top ten teams would have made the show. #1 would take on #2 and so on. Not so fast my friend, there are deals between conferences and rules that prohibit more than two teams from the same conference. Listed below are the final BCS standings before the bowl games were awarded:

1. Ohio State 11-1
2. LSU 11-2
3. Virginia Tech 11-2
4. Oklahoma 11-2
5. Georgia 10-2
6. Missouri 11-2
7. USC 10-2
8. Kansas 11-1
9. West Virginia 10-2
10. Hawaii 12-0
11. Arizona State 10-2
12. Florida 9-3
13. Illinois 9-3

First up in the BCS was the Rose Bowl with #7 USC and #13 Illinois. USC slammed Illinois 49-17, a winning margin of 32 points. It was not even exciting to watch, but I did. Illinois was in this game because the Rose Bowl folks needed a Big Ten team to fill the Rose Bowl requirement since Ohio State was playing for the national championship.

Second was #10 Hawaii and #5 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Georgia completely shut down Hawaii 41-10, a winning margin of 31 points. I went to sleep. Last year Boise State showed that smaller schools with weaker schedules can compete. Hawaii was a setback for these schools with this showing.

Third we had #9 West Virginia taking on #4 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. West Virginia took care of business beating Oklahoma 48-28. It was closer than the first two BCS games with a winning margin of 20 points. I went to bed in the fourth quarter. I thought Oklahoma was better than this. They were Big 12 champions.

In the fourth game, we finally had an exciting contest. #8 Kansas beat #3 Virginia Tech 24-21 in the Orange Bowl. No matter how much the fans of Kansas celebrate this victory, Kansas should have not received a BCS bid because they lost to #6 Missouri. Kansas did not win the Big 12 North, Missouri did.

The average margin of victory for these first four BCS games was 21 points. This is not what the BCS promoters were hoping they would see.

Tonight’s BCS Championship game will pit #1 Ohio State and #2 LSU. We can only hope it will be a close game. I think LSU will win. They are healthy now. It may not even be close.

I have to mention that #6 Missouri was left out of the BCS, and they pounded unranked Arkansas 38-7 in the Cotton Bowl, a winning margin of 31 points. This bowl paid about $3 million to the two teams. Missouri should be in the top five when the final polls come out. Missouri got hosed by the BCS folks, and they took it out on Arkansas.

Although the BCS games have mostly been a bust, the 2007-08 Bowl season had some worthwhile games. Here’s hoping the major college football leaders take some time and put together a playoff system that incorporates the bowl games into a playoff format. Let’s take the top 16 teams (select them by their average place in the BCS, AP, USA Today, Coaches, and Harris polls) and play it out on the field to decide who the real National Champion is.