With college football around the corner, the most rabid fans, alumni and booster will be out in full effect to support their universities. Whether it be, Braves fans preparing for the annual matchup against Jackson State or Mississippi State students polishing their cowbells for their rivalry with Ole Miss, college football tends to bring out the most irrational side of people.

I, for one will be dreading this year’s season. Well dreading might not be the appropriate emotion to convey but I know my fandom will deteriorate as the season ends.

I was never a fan of the playoff system for college football and after the inaugural season, there’s nothing I’m looking forward to in its second term.

The BCS system to me was the most perfect form of determining who should be the named college football champion. It rewarded schools for winning the tough games and losing could jeopardize a team’s future at a title game.

The BCS was based on a series of algorithms and formulas – words that excite the techie side of my brain – that were written based off criteria meant to please everybody.

I feel like the reason people were mad about the BCS is because of the 2011 rematch between LSU and Alabama, ending in a perfect 21-0 skunk of the Bengal Tigers. Or maybe fans are mad about the 2012 game between the Tide and the Fighting Irish.

I will forever preach fans shouldn’t be mad at Saban or the Tide, but the schools who lost in the final week of the regular season: Kansas State, Oregon, etc.

In the decades prior to the college football playoffs, journalists and coaches eached had their own polls and waited until after bowl games concluded to announce a champion. There were times both polls didn’t agree with each other.

The previous millennium saw the Crimson Tide lose two bowl games, but was still crowned the national champions; against Texas in 1965 and Notre Dame in 1973. Bama fans still count those rings among the 15 title wins for the university. No championship or playoff system is perfect, but having the human element allows for bias, no matter how careful the committee was chosen.

I will go to my grave believing Baylor or TCU should’ve been the fourth team in the poll over Ohio State in last year’s CFP. When comparing the one-loss teams against each other Ohio State had the weakest one against Virginia Tech even if the team were going through roster changes.

As Marvel’s Ultron says in the Avengers; humans are flawed. With the BCS removing bias to allow a formula to decide who wins, this just made the most sense to me.

Alas, I’ll see what my Tide will do this season but I’ll just patiently wait for the Duke Blue Devils in March Madness.