College football season: Let's call the whole thing off

I've been watching a lot of college football for the past month or so -- an average of seven games a week -- and the one thing I've learned after this past weekend is that we can stop it right here and now. There's really no need to do anything more than schedule the national championship game, wait until next year, and hope things get better then.

This year's crop of college football teams can be classified as either really horrible (Kansas, New Mexico, the entire Big East), somewhere between poor and mediocre (all the Big 12 teams with the possible exception of Nebraska, the ACC, 70 percent  of the PAC 10, 80 percent of the SEC, all the teams in those lesser conferences except Boise State and TCU) and then you have some OK teams like TCU and Boise State along with, perhaps, Auburn, Nebraska, Stanford, and Ohio State -- in other words, every other team except the two who should be playing in the BCS championship game: Oregon and Alabama.

That's the game I want to see -- Oregon's innovation vs Alabama's traditionalism. A dream contest. No other matchup is even worthy of watching the rest of the year.

Of course, that's better than the NFL which doesn't even have an Alabama or an Oregon to brag about. Parity has resulted in overall mediocrity there. It's a sorry state of affairs when a 1-2 Cowboys team looks to be the equal of any team in the league. Everyone is winning ugly and losing uglier.

But all is not lost. It won't be long until the NBA season starts and the entire civilized world outside of southern Florida can start rooting against the Miami Heat.