The Bowl Championship Series is shaping up to be a big mess again.

At No. 2 in the BCS Standings, Southern Cal &8212; a team whose only loss is to the mediocre and deservedly unranked Oregon State Beavers &8212; looks likely to be playing the the championship game while Michigan &8212; a team whose only loss is to the No. 1-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes &8212; looks likely to play for roses, not a championship.

Why? Because big-time bowls don&8217;t think TV viewers want a rematch.

They are wrong. What TV viewers want is to see the two best teams play for the national title.

In fact, what TV viewers really want to see is an eight- or 16-team playoff system, one that begins at the end of the college football season.

Every year the fight to determine the Division I college football champ shapes up to be a dogfight over polls, rankings, points and opinions, rather than a solid title system found in every other NCAA sport at every level of play.

We hope UCLA beats USC this Saturday, just to throw a big monkey wrench into the BCS gears and have the coaches, athletic directors and university presidents wage war over whether Michigan or Florida should play Ohio State.

Because they might find is the current BCS system don&8217;t have answers. The fans lose. It needs to be thrown out. That would be best thing that ever happened to college football.