<table> </table> MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. | The playoff people &#8212; and I won&#8217;t demonize them today &#8212; don&#8217;t want you to enjoy this game.</p><p>Oklahoma-Florida for the BCS title is part of an evil, annual conspiracy to destroy the lives of impressionable young men and ruin the joy of college football fans.</p><p>Do not be fooled. Bob Stoops vs. Urban Meyer, Tim Tebow vs. Sam Bradford, Sooners vs. Gators are not compelling story lines worthy of finishing off another terrific season of college football.</p><p>No, you&#8217;re about to be treated to a tragedy tonight.</p><p>College boys at Texas and Utah are under surveillance tonight, their belts and shoestrings confiscated so as not to be used in a self-destructive manner.</p><p>It&#8217;s a crime what&#8217;s about to be done to the Utes and Longhorns. I can&#8217;t imagine those boys mustering the strength to carry on after suffering the indignity of being crowned Sugar and Fiesta bowl champions and finishing the season ranked in the top five.</p><p>Oh, the horror, the injustice of it all makes me physically ill. Until the Utes and the Longhorns are free, we are all enslaved!</p><p>Barack Obama must act to end this crime against humanity. And no justice-seeking American can enjoy tonight&#8217;s game with a clear conscience. Oklahoma-Florida is a flaming symbol of America&#8217;s wickedness and willingness to mistreat its young.</p><p>Or maybe, just maybe, it&#8217;s a hell of a football game on paper.</p><p>Hey, everybody knows I&#8217;m a complainer. I understand the playoff people. They can&#8217;t fully embrace what&#8217;s happening tonight because they feel like they&#8217;re being denied something a little better. It&#8217;s like going clubbing with the hottest girls in Kansas City when you were promised a night out with &#8220;The Girls Next Door.&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;ve been to Hef&#8217;s house. &#8220;The Girls Next Door&#8221; have nothing on KC&#8217;s best and brightest.</p><p>And you can&#8217;t improve college football with a playoff.</p><p>About a month ago, my good friend J.A. Adande, a sports media personality for ESPN, shook me up with a brilliant, concise attack on the current college system.</p><p>&#8220;College football is about respect, not results,&#8221; he stated.</p><p>His insinuation was that the system was too subjective and fundamentally un-American. Rather than allowing results/outcomes to rule major-college football, the current system locks teams in an inherently unfair battle for respect from poll voters.</p><p>Now, I&#8217;m going to be completely honest. I&#8217;ve spent the last month trying to debunk Adande&#8217;s one-sentence knockout punch.</p><p>I can&#8217;t do it. He won. I can&#8217;t form a logical rebuttal.</p><p>I&#8217;m left to acknowledge that I just like and prefer the current system. I love the debates. I love the hypermeaningful regular-season games. I even enjoy the end-of-season whining.</p><p>I laughed out loud listening to Mack Brown campaign for the Longhorns to be No. 1 after Texas barely slipped past a one-dimensional, mediocre Ohio State squad. Texas didn&#8217;t make any kind of split-national-championship statement in the Fiesta Bowl.</p><p>If anything, I watched that game and wondered whether the Sooners will stay within two touchdowns of Florida.</p><p>Kansas has been the lone impressive Big 12 bowl team. (And, yes, I wrote that to irritate Mizzou fans.)</p><p>As for 13-0 Utah?</p><p>I&#8217;d have no problem if AP voters selected the Utes as national champions. Their resume justifies strong consideration. They beat Alabama by three more points than the Gators beat the Tide.</p><p>Having written that, I&#8217;m not going to pretend a felony has been committed if Florida and/or Oklahoma finishes ahead of Utah in the final AP poll.</p><p>Utah had a marvelous season. Its players won a conference championship, a BCS bowl and earned a top-three ranking. They won&#8217;t spend the rest of their lives haunted by their lack of inclusion in the national-title game.</p><p>I&#8217;m going to enjoy tonight&#8217;s game. I&#8217;m hoping we see an overtime thriller. The playoff people would love to see a boring, one-sided romp so they can use the game as a prop to argue for a playoff system.</p><p>Don&#8217;t you get caught up in the silliness. Tonight, appreciate what we have rather than what we don&#8217;t.