Get over it, Utah.

All this whining about not being able to compete for a national championship seems a little childish, doesn’t it?

Life’s not fair.

Of course, you should know this better than anyone by now, what with two undefeated seasons in the last decade under your belt, and nary a BCS trophy or trip to the White House to show for it.

And really, who wants to see a fundamentally sound, largely underrated program challenge a team like Oklahoma or Florida or USC, anyway? That would be embarrassing, especially if Utah won — kind of like the other night against Alabama.

Then we might have to actually acknowledge that yes, WAC and MWC teams are capable and deserving of competing against teams from the elite conferences, and who really wants more competition in college football?

You want a playoff, you say? Well, so does USC. And Texas, and every group of fans whose team will never play for the national championship because their school doesn’t belong in a conference that has an automatic BCS bid. President-elect Barack Obama does too.

Political intervention may be the only way a team like the Utes will ever get its day in the sun (or dome).

But don’t look for that to happen any time soon. Politics and sports don’t mix, which, of course, is why we would never see any sort of congressional hearing on something like, oh, I don’t know, steroid use in Major League Baseball.

Oh, wait.

It’s not that Utah got screwed in the current system. It’s that the current system is, well, screwed.

The Utes went 13-0, beat the crap out of a team that was considered one of the best in the country for the better part of the season, and probably will have a hard time cracking the top five on a lot of voters’ top 25 polls. Any conversation about the best team in the nation should certainly include Utah.

The way things are now, though, it wouldn’t have made sense to put Utah in the championship game. The Utes hadn’t played anyone as good as Oklahoma, Texas or Texas Tech this season, and using the current BCS formula, it technically was correct to leave them out of the title game.

Herein lies the problem.

The BCS is about as popular with college football fans as Spencer Pratt is with 18-year-old females. But there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight, regardless of public vitriol and angry attorney generals in Utah.

So as former Utes head coach Urban Meyer takes his Florida team into today’s national title game, let’s hope he remembers how it felt in 2004 when he led Utah to a 12-0 finish and saw no piece of the BCS championship pie.

Nothing’s changing any time soon.

Reach columnist Christian Caple at sports@dailyuw.com.