This might not be the best week to write about that vile, vindictive whore that is college football.But in light of the tragedy that took place this weekend, let’s take a trip to Imagination Land and just say LSU beat Alabama. Now let’s get even more ambitious and assume the Tigers went on to defeat Florida in the SEC championship game.Now let’s take our imagination one step further and assume both USC and Texas finished the season undefeated.Given the situation — a one-loss, SEC Champion LSU and undefeated USC and Texas — I have little faith the media would’ve voted in favor of the better team and conference at the expense of their beloved media darlings.The reaction here in Tiger Town would have been mutinous. There’d be chaos in the streets. Kirk Herbstreit’s head would be paraded around on a blood-covered spike. Lou Holtz’s blabbering tongue would be cut off and force-fed to Mark May. Brent Musberger’s scrotum would get cheese-grated into oblivion. The list goes on.This scenario brings up an interesting paradox.Most Americans praise and adore our nation’s system of representative democracy, where a small group of elected individuals wield transcendent power over our entire society. We trust them with our currency, our economy, our individual rights and our national security. We support this system in most cases despite our better judgment — no matter who’s in charge — because we’re taught it’s our “patriotic duty.” And if you don’t like it, you can “git out!”But the reaction is entirely different when we extend these sacrosanct democratic ideals to the holy realm of college football. Fans are willing to revolt against their football overlords. They agree the system is entirely broken — to the point where no computer formula or BCS/voter hybrid can possibly deliver a truly fair system.The debate has interesting implications on our political society.Throw Harry Reid and Newt Gingrich in a room to debate any policy, and they’ll launch into each other’s throats like rabid dogs. But change the subject to college football, and even the most ardent political rivals will join hands and transform into BCS-anarchists — reviling the entire college football model as unjustifiably evil and corrupt.President Obama openly disparaged the BCS as illegitimate and impractical days before his election. His solution was remarkably simple: To be fair to all teams, champions should be determined on the field, not by electoral votes or computer polls.Of course, if the president applied these same principles to his own office, he would have to admit his democratically elected authority is inherently illegitimate and his economic initiatives — entirely impractical.Maybe it’s time we start applying the same level of scrutiny to our system of government as we do to our college football system.If thousands of complex computer formulas can’t fix something as trivial as the college football championship system, why should we believe a smooth-speaking lawyer from Chicago and a handful of political cronies can resurrect a politically ravaged economy, maintain an imperial military empire and reform an already government-controlled health care system?It’s also time we give individuals the same rights we advocate for college football teams.Any rational football fanatic would agree we wouldn’t solve anything by trying to reform the existing AP and Coaches’ poll or even by reconfiguring the entire BCS ratings. That’s why the best thing to do is “let the teams play” until a true champion is determined on the field.The application is ultimately the same for both the BCS and the US government. The problem isn’t merely the corruption in the system. It’s the corruption of the system itself.Once we apply these same “libertarian” ideals to individuals in society, the moral is quite profound.Complex problems can’t be solved by biased pollsters, geeky computer simulations or corrupt, involuntary authorities.The longer we live in that fantasy, the longer we’ll be disappointed.Scott Burns is a 20-year-old economics junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_sburns.—-Contact Scott Burns at [email protected]