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College football trivia time: How many times has Ohio State won the NCAA big-school championship in football? (Insert guess here).

Time's up. You're wrong — unless you said zero.

In fact, no university has ever won the NCAA championship at the highest level of college football. Oh, teams have been declared champions — by the Associated Press, UPI, USA Today, the American Football Coaches Association, Pepsi, McDonald's, Sears and Circuit City.

Now, the BCS title game winner gets the prestigious ADT National Championship Trophy. Feel the goose bumps.

How do those folks name a national champion and the NCAA does not?

To "simplify" things, the NCAA changed from college and university divisions to NCAA Division I and I-AA to the ridiculous Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision.

(As an aside, a Web search of FBS and FCS brings up more Fetal Bovine/Calf Serum references than for football).

It's amusing how tradition is a reason not to have an NCAA tourney in "FBS" football. The only "tradition" is schools and conferences taking massive payments to keep the bowl system alive and denying fans an NCAA title like the ones awarded in every other NCAA sport.

Had there been more of a Maurice Clarett fallout, it's not like the NCAA could wipe the Sears Trophy from its record book. You can't take away a title you didn't award.

Enjoy your BCS rankings Sunday. They rule the game.

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