There is something so right about college football this year. On Jan. 2, nearly a week before tonight’s so-called BC$ National Championship game, a legitimate national champion was already in place.

Also on Jan. 2, in some bowl game somewhere, Utah stomped all over Alabama. You will remember the Crimson Tide from earlier this season when they were ranked by several experts, computers and their fans as Number One in the nation. We know, however, that Utah is the national champion — not because they rolled all over the Tide, 31-17, but because they are the only undefeated team in Division One football at 13-0.

To repeat, there are no other undefeated teams. There are no undefeated BC$ teams. Only Utah was able to defeat all opponents, including the western division champions in the geographically challenged Southeastern Conference. The SEC is the best football conference in the country, as we all know because the SEC told us. Unless it is the Big 12 Conference, whose fans have also declared they are the best football conference in the country. We know that these claims are at best questionable and need to be modified. Perhaps they could claim they are the best BC$ conferences in the nation.

One can assume that if Florida wins the BC$ Championship game, then the SEC can claim to have the best BC$ conference, and if Oklahoma wins, the Big 12 can make that claim. Those living on the West Coast may object that they have the best football conference in the country. But we know it’s not true because the PAC 10 gets proportionally less press than the Big 12 and the SEC everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains, which you may note is the secret location of the University of Utah.

This is the second time in five years that Utah has finished the season undefeated. The last time it happened the coach was Urban Meyer, who in those days was an adequate football coach in an inferior league with an inferior team (”inferior” meaning non-BC$). Now that he is in the SEC, he is a genius — the greatest coach in the history of the football universe.

And, like many of the great coaches, he is noted for his small-minded behavior. Meyer has proven his greatness by refusing to ever refer to Florida State University by its name, instead calling it “that school out west.” You have to love this sort of infantilism. It is said that Meyer learned his display of “class” from his hero Woody Hayes.

Utah was inspired by another of the great coaches with an infantile vision, Alabama’s Nick Saban. Prior to the Sugar Bowl, Saban announced that Alabama was the only team from a real BC$ Conference to go undefeated in the regular season. Not only was this silly, it is not clear what it means, and it positioned Saban to eat his words. All of this has added to Saban’s total lack of credibility, which he firmly established with embarrassing ease over the past few years playing musical jobs.

After last week’s Siesta Bowl that drove people away from the television sets with a 6-3 first half, Texas struggled mightily to beat Ohio State from the 11-team feeble football conference, the Big 10. Only a classic display of dismal coaching by Ohio State’s genius, Jim Tressel, opened the way for Texas to rally in the last minute of play. This will lead some to claim that Texas is number one, although of course they are not. It may also lead those at Southern Cal to claim they are number one, because they hammered both Ohio State and Penn State. This claim of course is refuted with two words: “Big 10.”

So let the claims go on. Let those at Florida and Oklahoma operate under the delusion that they are playing for the national championship tonight. Meanwhile in Utah they can count up their wins and losses knowing that there is no team that can match them.