Even Critics Have To Admit That BCS Works?

The Sports Curmedgeon says, "Even critics have to admit that the BCS works."

No we don't. Just to say something works better than the old bowl system, as far as determining a champion, doesn't mean to say it works as good as we would like, or as best as we can envision. Especially when the solution is so, so easy:

Keep the BCS, and the major bowls, but instead of having #1 play #2, have #1 play #4, and #2 play #3. Then, the week after, host a national championship game between the winners of these games. Let the major bowls alternate for the national championship game, or not (i.e. just call it the BCS championship game). Though this is still not perfect, nothing in life is, and very few people will be paying attention if the 5th place team is crying about how they should be the champion (as opposed to the #2 or #3 team). And, if this 5th place team is undefeated from a lesser conference, perhaps it will just encourage another round of minor BCS tweaking.

Why can't we have a little early January Madness, to go with March? Put the game on Monday night, so that it caps off the NFL wild card weekend...