A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress had more pressing matters on its plate.

The bill, which faces long odds of becoming law, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I football game as a national championship unless that title contest is the result of a playoff

from With Leather via FOXSports.com

Because the longest of odds can always hit, let’s think of some alternative names for the BCS to use instead of National Championship. For starters:

• Medellín Presents: The Cartel Championship
• Commercials Promising to Make Your Dick Hard Sprinkled Throughout 4½ Hours of Football
• No Seriously, We Can Call it the National Championship because the Entire Season is a Playoff
  
• American Idol on FOX, the Preview Show
• The BCS Bowl Presented by Bob’s Big Boy
• The If-You-Want-a-Playoff-then-Fuck Off-and-Watch-I-AA Game
• That Game at the End of the Year that Matters More than the Rest

Leave some more in the comments.

Dry-Erase Marker Art FTW.

ECU and Conference USA are clashing over midfield logos for the Championship game ECU hosts Saturday. ECU wants the badass pirate skull they just paid for at midfield, CUSA wants their logo. I was looking forward to seeing the skull again too.

For some reason it led some ECU SID to create this completely in dry erase marker:

Is it even a choice?

Fallout from the ACC Fail. In typical Atlantic Coast fashion top dogs Georgia Tech and Clemson lost to middle of the pack SEC schools, rejoice ESS EEE CEE homers. Block-C places the blame on Dunce Dabo and From the Rumble Seat sees clouds, but the sky isn’t falling. We still think this weekend’s ACC Championship Game will be the most entertaining since Virginia Tech-Florida State in 2005.

Writing off Coaches. Two phenomenal pieces: Orson on Bowden, and Brendan on Al Groh.

Championship Rematch? Theoretically, yes, it could happen. Will it? We don’t think so. The voters set the precedent in 2006 when they put Florida in the MNC against the Ohio State instead of Michigan. If total chaos plays out on Saturday, the human voters will get wind (via BCS math gurus) of how to vote to avoid said rematch.

The 2009 #ArnBowl in photos, it’s our favorite feature from Friends of the Program. And, bonus, a Taylor Hicks sighting.

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And now for @INSIDEtheBCS’s latest bullshit: http://www.playoffproblem.com

“…some have advocated for a hypothetical playoff system, which would be more controversial and contentious than the BCS.”

Florida isn’t the unanimous #1 and that’s OK. Well it would be if some stooge didn’t vote for Oklahoma. In my opinion the votes for Texas fly because they didn’t get a chance to play the Gators, they beat Oklahoma and they are returning 16 starters. USC getting a vote is a little more shady to me because they are only returning 12 starters, 3 on defense, from a defensive team that lost their best offensive player, Mark Sanchez, to the Jets.

Duke DID NOT receive a vote. Tebow-Gate must have really messed with Steve Spurrier’s head. He actually listened to the machine.

Georgia Tech and Oklahoma State need to be higher based on returning players.

No Big East teams are ranked. 11-3 Cincinatti would be 29th based on points. Wow. Did everyone forget about USF? Sure they went 8-5 last year but they return 12 starters including Matt Grothe and George Selve.

5 SEC, 4 Big 12, 4 Pac-10, 3 Big Ten, 4 ACC, 3 MWC, 1 WAC and 1 Notre Dame comprise the poll.

You can view the entire poll here.