If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

That's the stance the commissioners of the 11 major college football conferences took last week in gunning down the proposal of a four-team college football playoff.

Attendance is at an all-time high and FOXcurrently has a four-year, $320-million deal with the BCSto televise games.

The next TVcontract involving the BCSis expected to approach $ 1 billion.

Why mess with that?

College football isn't going to.

The four-team playoff system wasn't going to rid the BCSof all the controversy over who should be playing for the national title anyway.

The plan was to take the top four BCS-rated teams after the conference championship games were played.

Had that system been in place last year, Oklahoma and Virginia Tech — not USCand Georgia — would have joined LSU and Ohio State in college football's Final Four.

Controversy would have reigned, regardless.

Some critics of the four-team playoff proposal actually argued that such a system would force games to be played during finals and would extend the season into a second semester.

Please.

Don't insult our intelligence by telling us that you truly care about the academic standing of major college football players.

Sure, the players are presented an opportunity to attain a college education and graduate, but it's up to the players to take advantage of it. The administrators couldn't care less. Just keep the revenue coming in on Saturdays.

It's a business — nothing more.

Fans are enthralled by the importance of regular-season games under the current BCSsystem. A loss at any point on the schedule could be fatal to a team's national championship hopes.

But because of that, college football offers few stellar matchups outside of conference play during the regular season.

A true playoff system would spell the end of the multimillion dollar bowl system that filters plenty of money down to every school in every major conference in the country.

Looking for an effective playoff system?

The champion of all 11 Division I conferences gets invited. So does the top-rated independent team, based on the BCSsystem. No one else. Seed the teams and play from there.

Wouldn't that make conference championship games exciting? If you don't win your own conference, you can't win a national championship. Makes sense to me.

The two highest remaining seeds after the first round draw a second-round bye. The other four teams play each other to determine the other two spots in the Final Four.

No team would play more than four playoff games to win the national title. The championship could be won in three games.

It's not too much. Division I-AA, II, III and NAIAteams do it all the time.

Instead, we're stuck with the same old BCSsystem until 2014.

Money talks. Guess we should be used to that.