Don’t come to me with all your crybabyin’ today, now that the BCS (Because Cash Speaks) has driven college football into another tree. This is apparently what you want.

You want a team that’s already beaten another team to play the same team for the national title.

You want the team that got beat the first time to get a shot at the big prize even though it didn’t win its division, and even though Our Lady of Crummy Football couldn’t get onto its schedule because they were too good.

You want Michigan to get a BCS bowl, but not the team that pounded it on the way to the Big Ten title game (Michigan State). You want a microchip to decide, a month ahead of time, who’s going to play for the national title. You want to therefore turn the bowl season into a series of exhibition games with no weight or relevance whatsoever.

Remember the time Muhammad Ali fought the Japanese wrestler? That’s the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange Bowls now. And you want it that way.

You want it that way because you keep tuning in all these games, or worse, keep spending money to go see them in person. Stop doing that, and the ridiculous contrivance that is the BCS collapses of its own weight. And it does that because the Ridiculous Contrivance exists for one reason and one reason only: to make money for the co-conspirators who’ve foisted it upon us.

I’m talking the power conferences, of course, who decided some years back they needed a way to keep the lion’s share of the bowl money to themselves, and hit on this neat-o/keen-o idea. They don’t care whether you like it or not. They don’t care whether it renders meaningless the very bowls it sees as personal ATMs. They just care that the ATMs keep pumping out greenery.

Along the way, of course, they’ve destroyed what used to be the highlight of the college football season – New Year’s Day. New Year’s Day is pointless now, and would be even if half its bowl games weren’t scattered from here to Jan. 4. It’s all pointless except for the Microchip National Championship game, which features No. 1 LSU vs. barely-No. 2 Alabama, who’ll be reprising their November showdown.

It’s not the most egregious matchup the BCS has shoved down our throats, even if LSU-Oklahoma State would have been more intriguing, and even if Alabama got there by exploiting a schedule thick with .500 SEC schools and the occasional North Texas. And as far as the rematch business goes … well, the NFL has rematches all the time, and I don’t recall anyone squawking about it.

Of course, those rematches were earned by surviving the playoffs. ’Bama got there by surviving the voting booth.

The irony of all this is that a playoff system would be profoundly more lucrative to the power conferences than the Ridiculous Contrivance. Even the schools lucky enough to land the big-money BCS bowls wind up in the red half the time. And that’s despite the fact the Ridiculous Contrivance slots its BCS bowls more according to profitability than performance – which is why Michigan, a dependably lucrative draw, is playing in the Sugar Bowl instead of Michigan State.

I won’t be watching that particular exhibition game, by the way.

I won’t be watching any of the New Year’s exhibitions (moved to Jan. 2 in 2012 because the NFL season ends Jan. 1). My New Year’s tradition is now the NHL’s Winter Classic.

The thing about the BCS is this, see: You don’t kill the beast by feeding it. You kill it by starving it. So consider this my small part in that.

You’re welcome.