The above map isn't just a random map of the United States. Nor is it an attempt to blind the viewer. It's an amazing piece of proof that despite one of the most confusing and inconclusive college football seasons in recent memory, people have still learned nothing.

The above map depicts the results from a recent poll on ESPN's website, asking sports fans who they would leave out of a theoretical 4-team playoff, if they were to choose right now. The choices were Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, USC and Utah.

As you can probably guess, the purple signifies the states whose consensus indicated that they would bypass Utah. The yellow states left out USC, the green states left out Texas, and none of the states had Oklahoma or Florida as the team that they would most likely leave out of such a tournament. 37% chose to eliminate Utah, which was significantly more than anyone else. 26% chose Texas, 22% chose USC, 10% said Oklahoma, and the remaining 5% picked Florida.

While I've already made my case for Utah, as well as a case against Texas, it's shocking to me that people would be so unified in their disrespect for Utah. They are the only undefeated team in the country, and while they certainly had some wins over bad teams, the same can most certainly be said for USC (Washington, Washington State, Stanford, Arizona State, UCLA, Virginia), Florida (Tennessee, Citadel, Kentucky, Arkansas), Oklahoma (Baylor, Washington, Chattanooga, Texas A&M) and Texas (Florida Atlantic, UTEP, Arkansas, Baylor, Texas A&M). Some say that the bad teams of the SEC or the Big 12 could destroy the bad teams in the Mountain West. This might be true, but the bottom line is, they are still teams that a championship contender should be able to beat. Does anyone think that Utah would lose to Tennessee? Arizona State? Baylor? Of course not. So should it be held against them that they didn't play them, and instead played (and beat) the likes of Wyoming and San Diego State? I think not.

Normally, when there is outrage about the BCS, it's not necessarily because people are disappointed with who GETS a chance to play for the National Championship. The outrage is in the fact that other teams, who have done everything possible to prove that they deserve a chance, are left without an opportunity to prove their worth.

This year, Utah is the epitome of that. Of all the teams in the country, Utah is the one team who can stand proudly and say that, without a doubt, they have done everything within their power to position themselves for a championship run.

Yet somehow, despite the fact that they don't have an ugly loss to a supposedly weaker conference opponent on their schedule, and they also have 4 wins against top 25 teams, Utah is the team that would most likely be snubbed, if America were allowed to choose a team to eliminate from a hypothetical 4 game playoff.

Why Utah? Beats me. While Florida and USC have made very convincing cases (in my opinion), Utah has also done so. Oklahoma and Texas are also great teams, but each of them has one fatal flaw that would lead any truly objective team to concede that one of them would have to go, in this hypothetical situation.

Oklahoma - Yes, they're the #1 team in the country right now. But they are also the only team in the discussion who already has a loss to another one of the teams in question.

Texas - Unlike all 4 of the other teams, they didn't win their conference. Sure, it was largely based on a technicality, but they simply didn't have the credentials that it took to win it.

Utah has met all of the criteria. Except, of course, their conference. Despite Utah's accomplishments, they continue to pay for the ineptitude of the teams associated with them. Forget that they completely dominated an Alabama team that finished the regular season undefeated and hung in their with Florida in the SEC Championship game. Forget that they also beat ranked opponents TCU, BYU and Oregon State (who beat USC, by the way). That all gets thrown out the window, because Utah had the audacity to be in the same conference as San Diego State.

This is why America deserves the BCS. In the face of all the whining and the cries for a playoff, the country still agrees with the BCS in the end. So why the moaning? Why the complaining? Is it truly because people think the system is unfair? Or is it because it didn't produce the result that people want to see? Do people really want a true champion? Or do they just want to choose their own results? Clearly it's not fairness that they want, nor is it a true champion. It's just more of the same... and that's what they will continue to get.