If you're looking for bitterness from TCU, you won't find it from the school's AD. Via ESPN.com: TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte is quick to point out the imperfections of the Bowl Championship Series, but he's going to love the only college football postseason system he's got until a perfect system is presented. No. 1 Auburn defeated No. 2 Oregon 22-19 in the BCS National Championship on Monday night, making the unbeaten Tigers the top team in the land.

Auburn (14-0) and TCU (13-0) finished the season as the nation's only undefeated teams.

"We're going to celebrate the fact that we won the Rose Bowl," Del Conte said Tuesday morning after TCU finished ahead of Oregon at No. 2 in the final polls. "But until they get a system that is going to be absolutely perfect so they can figure out a way to determine those things, we need to celebrate the system we currently have right now. I'm not going to go through my time with an asterisk: could have, should have, but ... No. We're Rose Bowl champions."

It's a classy approach, and perhaps it's the right path: Let the numbers and on-field play speak for themselves, and let everyone else who can see the system is a cluster-[redacted] do the shouting for TCU.

Still, one can't help but feel sorry for TCU. The Horned Frogs did everything they could do, and the absolutely deserved the right to play for a national championship.

There are two kinds of compromises: those that take two extremes and find a happy middle, and those that take two extremes and combine the worst of both worlds. The longer this farce drags out, the more we're convinced that the BCS is the bad kind of compromise. Either vote for a champion in the old bowl system or have a true playoff. This middle ground isn't working.

This is an old problem, but we're wondering if this scab has been picked anew for others as well.