Thursday night college football crowned its national champion.

Or did they?

It’s another season and another year where there will be more than one undefeated team.
So who is the true national champion?

Most will say it will either be Alabama or Texas because they are playing in the BCS title game.

I say that’s garbage!

Like Utah last season, Boise State has a legitimate right to wonder aloud why they are not national champions.

They did everything the Tide or Longhorns did. They won all of their games.

So what if they didn’t play the same strength of schedule. They did what they were supposed to do and now they need to be rewarded for it.

All last year the talk was Utah didn’t deserve to be national champions because they didn’t play in the right conference or didn’t play the right opponents.

However, when they took on the mighty Crimson Tide, that same Alabama team beat Texas Thursday night for the national championship, the destroyed them.

So much for that argument.

The same is true of Boise State when it took on Oklahoma a couple of years ago.
They were told they didn’t belong in the Fiesta Bowl because they didn’t play the right teams.

So when they beat the mighty Sooners there were a lot of people with egg on their face.
I learned a long time ago, and the hard way I might add, that every team is beatable.
So college football once again is faced with a problem.

Since there doesn’t seem any rush to create a playoff system for the “big boys,” it’s time to look at a different alternative.

If you only end up with two undefeated teams there isn’t really a problem and those two teams play in the BCS title game.

But when you have five teams like we did this year, someone is going to get the short end of the stick.

That doesn’t need to happen.

There was talk a couple of years ago of adding a game after the BCS title game if there were more than one undefeated team left.

I think that is a great idea.

I know that Utah last year and Boise State this year would be more than glad to take on the winner of the Alabama-Texas game a week later.

I have to believe that the ratings for that game would be good and the NCAA could make a boat load of money, which is truly what they are all about anyway.

So let’s add an additional game, if needed, to decide the national championship on the field instead of around the water cooler.

It’s an idea that needs to become a reality.

Scott Novak is sports editor for Leader Publications. He can be reached at scott.novak@leaderpub.com