Like I said before, LSU wasn't really the 2003 national champion. Only true, blue national champs fall apart a year or two later because of transgressions and eventual NCAA investigations. And the NCAA isn't sniffing in Baton Rouge these days.

(Before we go on, that was sarcasm, people; please, enough of the e-mails about 2003. Besides, I was but a lone dissenting vote for the Tigers among the TSN staff. If you have any further questions, please see college football managing editor Steve Greenberg. He makes those final championship calls, anyway. Now, on with the show).

Seems as though the BCS is going to look into USC's off-field potential NCAA issues and could hand down a verdict after the investigation is complete. That verdict could include, in the harshest of penalties, stripping the Trojans of the national title.

The almighty, all-powerful BCS -- specifically, the dudes who run the thing -- have now officially stepped over the line. Since when does the BCS, a fun little conglomerate of bowl games to spice up the postseason, become an enforcement arm of the NCAA?

NCAA goof Myles Brand: "Mr. Carroll, meet our enforcement team: Boris and Rocco from the BCS. They're here to take your championship."

Petey: "Go ahead, we still have the AP title from '03, baby!"

It's bad enough that we have to choke down this convoluted formula they give us (I'd just as soon go back to the old bowl tie-ins and see how it all shakes out -- you know, like it worked for the previous, oh, five decades prior to 1998). Now we have to sit and listen to their holier-than-thou standards for winning "their" championship.

Just throw a garish green jacket on the winning coach and call it a day, will you Hootie?