If there is one thing I learned during the 1980s, it's that you can't trust the computer. It's the computer that launches nuclear weapons and starts World War III in Terminator. It's the computer that misunderstands Matthew Broderick in War Games and starts the countdown to our destruction. It's also the computer that has screwed up college football yet again.

On January 4, #2 Louisiana State will play #3 Oklahoma to see who the best college football team in the country. Did I say that right? #2 plays #3 to see who's #1? How does this happen?

Okay, a brief summary: Oklahoma was hands down the #1 team in the country, going undefeated in the regular season. Two other teams, LSU and the University of Southern California, had only one loss. All three teams had one more game to play to see which two teams would battle for the championship. USC drilled Oregon State, LSU pounded Georgia to win the SEC championship, and Oklahoma got shellacked by Kansas State in the Big 12 championship. According to the final human voting polls, USC was #1, LSU #2, and Oklahoma #3. It all made sense to me. The two teams that won their last game should play for the big prize, right? Not according to the computer.

Every year the BCS touts their efficient computerized system of deciding who the top two teams are. It takes into account the human polls, strength of schedule, power rankings and some bizarre home cooking calculus equation to come up with its rankings. Once all the numbers came out, the team voted #1 in all the human polls was #3 in the computer scheme.

An outrage! A scandal! We're not going to let a bunch of wires incorrectly tell us who plays for the national championship, are we? The Terminator is governor of California! He'll fix this atrocity, right? Uh, no. We are at the mercy of the computer. We bow down to its complex system. We agree to do what ever it says.

What is sad is that this happened three years ago. Nebraska didn't even qualify for the Big 12 Championship--it finished second in the northern division--but was still granted to play in the national championship because the computer said so. It's common sense to ask 'if you don't win your conference, how can you be the national champ?' Unfortunately, there is no computer equation for common sense. In the end, Nebraska was whipped by Miami in a game not worth watching. Oregon would have been a better foe, but that's just one human's opinion.

So here we are going into the meat of the college football bowl week, and once again, the computer got it wrong. Can we fix this? How do we put football back in the hands of the humans? Fix it, Chris! Fix it!

It's rather simple really. Most football champions are decided with something called a playoff. If Division I college football would realize that a playoff is the only righteous way to crown a champion, this would fix everything. There could be as little as four teams or as many as 16. Each game could be a bowl game itself, so as to not lose the pageantry that some of these bowl towns desperately hold dear. I would even let the computer tell us who the top four to 16 teams are. That way, the biggest scandal would be who was left out of the worst of the best. I can live with that.

When the computer is left to pick who the top two teams are, it gets it wrong as much as it gets it right. This must stop. The computer must be stopped. Pull out the wires! Reboot! Delete, delete, delete! Take back college football, America. Take it back!

Chris Jungle will still watch one bad bowl too many.