Phil Masturzo / McClatchy Tribune

It’s late October, and with it comes the perennial orgy of “Why the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Sucksâ€Â columns.

The arguers argue so-called common sense points like, “it’s unfair,â€Â or “every other sport in America has a playoff system,â€Â or “this is just one more area in which computers are taking over the world.â€Â Stuff like that.

Well, allow me to play devil̢۪s advocate.

The BCS (if you̢۪re not into the whole brevity thing) has been a wild success and is much better than a playoff system, for many reasons.

First, the BCS is an upgrade from the former system. Hearken back to 1997. Bill Clinton was president. “Titanicâ€Â hit the big screen. “Seinfeldâ€Â experienced its first season without Larry David as a writer. And the BCS was formed. Before that? The champion was picked by humans voting on who the best team was. What kind of system is that? I would much rather have computers picking. They’re unbiased, and more likely to choose the team that has gotten it done all year.

Second, what would we do without New Year’s Day football? That annual barrage of those tiny little wieners (HA…he said wiener) that nobody likes except nobody says anything. The crazy uncle (or uncles) who gets incessantly drunk and tells an inappropriate joke in front of the kids, who all start snickering. The winner of, say, Troy versus Rice deciding a friendly wager. We’d be missing all of that!

Third, fairness is overrated. I want to see teams I know and love in the championship game. I don̢۪t care about Boise State or TCU. Give me another Florida versus Ohio State, or LSU versus Oklahoma. It never gets old. Never.

Fourth, who cares if the best teams play in the championship game anyhow? In the grand scheme of things, is it really all that important? And besides, everybody knows the SEC is the best conference every year anyways no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

I sure would be scared if Fresno State took on the mighty Auburn Tigers, or the cunning Tennessee Volunteers, or the terrifying Georgia Bulldogs. I̢۪d be shaking in my boots.

Fifth, the regular season wouldn’t mean anything. Look at college basketball, for instance. They may as well not even play a regular season, that’s how much it means. Every year the same powerhouse schools like Kentucky and Georgetown make the tournament, regardless of their regular season record (wait…did they last year?).

And more to the point, would you rather watch a movie like “No Country For Old Menâ€Â or something like “The Godfather?â€Â No Country had a phenomenal beginning and middle. So the end sucked. What more do you want? Who wants to see what happens to the main character instead of having to infer it? Who else wants an ending other than Tommy Lee Jones rambling endlessly until the credits roll? I sure don’t! Don’t give me that pile of garbage some want to call cinema of The Godfather. I don’t want to see an action packed ending. Leave that to the unsophisticated folks.

In sum, we should all be happy with the BCS system as it is. So it doesn̢۪t give us a true champion, like it̢۪s supposed to. So what? We should be content with it.

Otherwise college football might get smart and actually institute a playoff system.