Anger management

Sifting through this week's final batch of Mailbag submissions, I think I have a new appreciation for what it must be like to work as a customer service rep for an airline. Or the person who answers the phone when your cable goes out.

Just as the woman behind the counter has absolutely no control over the cancelled flight that 50 over-stressed travelers are screaming at her about, just as the late-shift guy at the cable call center has nothing to do with his screaming customer's reception going out during American Idol , there's not a thing I could have done to change this season's undeniably crummy BCS bowls.

But I still get to read all your angry e-mails about it.

Rather than sitting here and rehashing each respective blowout, rather than offering another lengthy diatribe on why college football's postseason is the way it is (you can get that here), rather than debating for the umpteenth time the respective merits of LSU as opposed to Georgia as opposed to USC as opposed to Ohio State , I hereby offer the following CliffsNotes summation of the events we just witnessed.

While by no means providing a satisfactory resolution to your problems, you may find your anger level at least dissipate a couple notches simply by embracing the following realities:

1. This was an extremely unusual season. We've never seen one like it in the modern era, and we may not see a similar one again. Try finding another year when a large segment of the population felt the No. 7 team at the end of the regular season, USC , was as good, if not better than the No. 1 team ( Ohio State ).

2. There were no truly great teams this year -- just a bunch of really-good-but-far-from-perfect ones. Any team out there that feels it got "jobbed" out of the national title did something to put itself in that position to begin with.

3. Of that bunch, I truly believe LSU was the best team in the country, and certainly the most deserving champion. In a season where the top six teams in the final AP poll all had two losses, the Tigers were the only ones that could say they a) were champions of the nation's toughest conference; b) destroyed two other BCS-conference champions ( Virginia Tech and Ohio State ); and c) suffered their two defeats to a pair of eight-win teams, Kentucky and Arkansas -- not 4-8 Stanford , not 5-7 Pittsburgh , not 6-6 South Carolina . Their losses came in triple-overtime, not by three touchdowns at Tennessee .

4. Obviously, in a one-game setting, it's entirely possible Georgia , USC , West Virginia , et al., would have fared better against LSU than Ohio State , maybe even beaten the Tigers . In a plus-one system, they'd have their chance to prove that. Under the parameters of the current system, however, voters were asked to choose the two most deserving teams based on the information available as of Dec. 1. They did their best. It's not their fault the contenders at the time were nearly indistinguishable.

5. You can at least rest assured knowing that the powers that be across college football are fully aware of the dissatisfaction surrounding this year's bowl season. The games were dreadful. The TV ratings were awful. (The Michigan-Florida Capital One Bowl did better than the Sugar, Fiesta and Orange bowls.) It's no coincidence Mike Slive , John Swofford and others are suddenly pushing hard for a plus-one system.