Bowl game or "a playoff"?

Considering it's bowl selection season and ALL pertinent teams are gearing up and preparing for their very best performance against their bowl opponent(s), here's a very sentient sentiment from a concerned parent:

"Now I know people say how much it works for basketball, but I think football is different. Is it really better for kids to have a playoff, or go to a bowl game and say, 'We won the Gator Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, whatever bowl'? You have USC and Penn State going to the Rose Bowl, whoever wins that game - that's something those kids can talk about the rest of their lives. They finished by winning something with a name, a tradition. They got to play in the Rose Bowl, not just the quarterfinals.

"People would have you believe, oh, the playoff would be perfect, ideal, but I think in about six years, people would say, 'Oh my God, what have we done? We've ruined a perfectly good season's ending for a whole lot of teams for the benefit on one.' Is that really better for the kids?"

----Sam Harrell, father of Texas Tech QB Graham Harrell, as quoted in the New York Times.

So we've all been inundated with questions- as well as their respective pseudo-answers- as it pertains to "fairness" in the final BCS rankings and team standings. We've even had conflicting evaluations as to the Big 12's conference champion! This 2008 football year has been, without question, another insanely biased collision in the post thunderdome of contemporary BCS partisanship. (remember, we've already had a few of these "end of season" controversial endings?)

We saw how some coaches, writers, and people's computers tallied it all up this year. We've seen and we've noticed yet more flaws in the system that's currently in place. Is it a "national" problem? Is it a "regional" problem?  Where do we go from here? Is it down to the lake, I fear? (aye, yah, yah, . . . . .kidding?) Anyway. . . . . . here we go!  . . . . . . . . ."Love, love, love, plus One!" (It's Haircut 100, and me taking liberties. All for a "Plus One" formatted playoff.)