It's every college football fans favorite time of year. No matter if you're cheering for the Bulldogs of Fresno State or the Dawgs of Georgia, your team is undefeated right now and hope springs eternal.

Last season and its tumultuous final few weeks, with teams jumping into and dropping out of the Top 10 at a record pace reinforced the fact that you never know what can happen in the crazy game of college football. With road games becoming tougher and tougher each year, and non-BCS teams continuing to try and throw a monkey wrench into the coronation of the nation's top teams, you needed a degree in statistics to keep track of the odds on any number of teams to walk home with the crystal football.

As history does tend to repeat itself, there is no point in trying to figure out who will be left standing at year's end, but that's the business we're in. And, truth be told, there do seem to be some unquestioned favorites heading into the 2008 college football season. If you've gotten tired of the Buckeyes, Gators, Trojans or Sooners over the past 10 years, well, there are probably a lot of coaches in the Big X, Big XII, SEC and Pac-10 who feel your pain, but the hard truth is, you probably better get used to seeing those names near the top of the polls for much of the season.

Of course, the Texas Tech Red Raiders could shock the Oklahoma Sooners. The SEC's ferocious defenders of home field may take the Florida Gators down a notch, and who knows when a team like Arizona State could knock the USC Trojans off their high horse? And, the Ohio State Buckeyes, well, let's not even get into the frustration they have caused fans and voters lo these many years.

The point being, despite the perceived dominance by several teams spread out across this great country like an empty backfield, the only thing we can probably be certain of is another raging debate at year's end about the credibility of the BCS.

With only three teams notching one loss last year, two of them being Kansas and Hawaii of all places, the season ended with outright confusion about who deserved to be playing in which bowls, and even some question after the season about whether the best team actually walked home with the game's biggest prize. So, naturally, college football went out and created a tournament to avoid any such squabbles.

Just kidding. They wouldn't want to lose all that precious bowl money. Oops. I meant they'd hate to see all those great student athletes miss an extra week of class and destroy some of the intrigue of conference rivalries during the regular season. Because, as we all know, Alabama v. Auburn or Texas v. Oklahoma would be utterly unwatchable if there was a four or eight-team playoff at the end of the season. Or something.

With parity increasing each year, or home fields becoming louder, or players choking under pressure more readily, or whatever the hell it is, the top 25 is becoming more and more equitable.

Of course, BCS officials will simply say that last year's season, which saw the fewest one-loss teams in history, was an aberration. It's a downturn. Just a fluky one-time deal. Remember how there were five teams that went undefeated in 2005? That's more the rule than they exception, right? They hope so. Otherwise, people may have to start making decisions based on football instead of finances or risk watching teams play easier and easier schedules in hopes of becoming one of the few teams with just one loss. That could help someone, I imagine. But who really cares about the finances of Louisiana-Lafayette?