SEIBERT: So what's the problem with college football's bowl system?

The Bowl Championship Series is the greatest system for college football, ever.

Excellent football games, increased television ratings and a regular season that matters are a result of this system.

The BCS does its job, and the system works to perfection.

A playoffs system is the key argument for people who sass the BCS. This would make the month of December similar to March for college basketball.

Teams can lose several games in college basketball and still make the tournament. In football, one loss can jeopardize any team’s chance at a national title. Every week brings the chance for heartbreak or euphoria.

Instead, every year during the month of December, the BCS receives more interest from sports fans than what to get a loved one for Christmas. Adults argue over which teams deserve a bid to the national title game. Teams from weak conferences use the “we can’t help who we have to play” tactic year after year.

The top conferences deserve to have its teams play for a national title.

Cincinnati vs. Boise State for the national title — no thanks. Florida vs. Texas — now that sounds intriguing.

The BCS singles out the two best teams in the country, and they play for a national championship.

The undefeated teams that complain every year are absurd. Hawaii entered the final game of the 2007 season undefeated behind the arm of Colt Brennan.

Hawaii fans complained that their undefeated team deserved a spot in the championship game against either two-loss Louisiana State from the Southeastern Conference or Ohio State from the Big Ten Conference.

Hawaii lost to Georgia, 41-10, in the Sugar Bowl that year.

Utah celebrated its 2008 undefeated season without a national championship. The best team won the title — Florida.

The BCS has named a champion every year since 1998, and in six out of 11 years, the team named No. 1 in the first BCS poll went on to win the national title.

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, wants to investigate the BCS because he feels the system violates “antitrust laws.”

Nobody tried to investigate the polls when The Associated Press and USA Today polls decided the national championship.

The Nos. 1 and 2 teams in the country rarely played each other in the final game of the season. Now, the two teams play every year.

The BCS brings in millions of dollars to each program that plays in the bowl games. The payout per team that participates in a BCS bowl game is around $17 million.

So sit down, grab a bowl of popcorn and enjoy the BCS while its here.

Odds are people will be watching, even if the weak majority dislikes the system.

Sports writer Trevor Seibert can be reached at 407-9952 or tseibert@coxnc.com