Didn't need a crystal ball to see this coming

NEW ORLEANS -- Finally, the end. Peace at last.

Louisiana State won the national title Monday night, Ohio State didn't, and the Sugar Bowl successfully pulled off its complicated double-host duties.

John Swofford of the Atlantic Coast Conference assumed his two-year role as Bowl Championship Series coordinator, replacing Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive, who presided over consecutive national titles for SEC schools.

Nice job.

There was no split title.

LSU Coach Les Miles sat for a Tuesday news conference surrounded by hardware -- the reflection off the BCS crystal football was almost blinding.

"It's nice that there's no indecision," Miles said. "There's one national champion."

USC began the season No. 1 but finished No. 2 in the USA Today coaches' poll and No. 3 in the Associated Press media poll.

Blame Tavita Pritchard.

So there you have it -- one completely nuts season packaged, boxed and sent to the archives.

No more crazy talk about a playoff . . .

Stop.

We interrupt this Pollyanna programming and return you directly to "Hootie and the BCS Blowfish."

This is college football, remember?

An off-season fistfight has already spilled through saloon doors.

Here's the way we figure it went down:

Georgia was mad it didn't get the chance to play for the national title and set out to lob water balloons on LSU's victory parade. Georgia finished second in the AP poll and third in the coaches' index, and that's just too close not to call a news conference.

Remember, Georgia, without losing, got jumped in the final BCS standings by LSU.

The voters decided, in the end, to send the SEC champion to the title game instead of the school that didn't win the SEC East.

So, Michael Adams, president of Georgia, decides this is a good time to feed the Atlanta Journal-Constitution his idea for an eight-team playoff.

Adams had opposed a playoff up until, just a guess here, one minute after the final BCS standings were released last month.

Adams wants the NCAA to take over control of the BCS. OK, and after that he can take over Pluto.

He wants the four major bowls to host first-round games. Assuming the Rose Bowl is still a major, that won't happen.

The Adams plan might have merit if it wasn't so ill-timed and polluted with self-serving interests.

Again, what are we missing here?

Didn't Adams get the memo?