The annual Bowl Championship Series bashing every winter gets almost as tiring as my mother lecturing me on drinking. I now react the same way upon hearing both — I hit the mute button. Well, figuratively with my mother, but sometimes I wish I had Adam Sandler's remote control so I really could (And now that I think about it, someone really needs to get going on that. That, flying cars and a time machine. I mean, it's 2007 for crying out loud. Where's my flying car?).

After the bowl season mercifully came to an end Monday night with a welcomed win by Florida, it got me thinking about the bowl-bashing I so despise. Didn't the BCS get it right this year? Didn't everything work out? And didn't the sun rise once again Tuesday morning as it always does?

It's like that scene in Remember the Titans where Petey (with his fellow African-American teammates) tries to tell Sunshine that dining at that restaurant is a no-go. "Sunshine," who is a white Californian and apparently clueless to the societal norms of the South in 1971, decides to try anyway. Once the inevitable happens and the group is cast outside he says to Petey, "I didn't know." Petey quickly counters him angrily, yelling "What do you mean you didn't know? Man, you don't want to know!"

You see everyone wants to believe that the BCS doesn't work and that a playoff system is best for college football, so when it does work it's shocking.

Since I suspect many of you reading this column are sitting there asking aloud "How did they get it right?" The clear No. 1 team lost. The controversial title game snub (Michigan) got thrashed by USC and the only undefeated team left (Boise State) needed overtime and trick plays to beat a very average Oklahoma team. Are any of us left seriously considering whether another team could beat Florida? I hope not.

The other positive aspect this year, and one that I use to judge whether the BCS did get it right, was the excitement of the games. Even though the BCS championship game snuck up on us — after all, we did only have a seven-week wait — so when Monday rolled around I was like, "It's here already?"

Even with all of that, wasn't it an exciting game? Aren't we calling the Fiesta Bowl one of the best bowl games ever? It was and we are.

After all, 32 bowl games are more than enough. Having playoffs would only drive audiences away, result in more injuries and player suspensions and of course more whining. It is as much of a given as the Detroit Lions losing and Matt Millen keeping his job.

If a playoff system was instituted, how long would it be before the number of teams admitted was questioned? How long would it be before a coach argued that his team deserved to be included? And how long would it be before another solution was proposed?

The whining will never stop, and for some reason neither will my mom's nagging. It is persistent and unwavering. It is as annoying as a 5-year-old's temper tantrum over being denied a toy he so desperately wants.

I'm just glad that the people who matter don't listen and the bowl-bashing season is behind us.

Reach columnist Anthony Dion at sports@thedaily.washington.edu.