You say you want a revolution – well, at least in the college football postseason.

You say you got a real solution – a plus-one, or eight, heck, maybe even a 16-team playoff.

But I say let’s just change the constitution – of course not the U.S. Constitution. I’m talking about the Bowl Championship Series constitution.

This season, 57 percent of college football teams advanced to the postseason. That’s a lot of teams especially when only 37.5 percent of NFL teams make it past week 17. Or the even more selective MLB where 26.7 percent of teams get into October.

Maybe a fairer comparison would pit college football against college basketball. Turns out, a whopping 19 percent of Division I-A basketball programs are part of March Madness.

Just like the U.S. dollar, college football bowls are in a period of inflation. In 1999, there were 23 postseason games. This put 38.7 percent of college programs into an extra game; a percentage on par with the NFL. By 2003, another five games were added, putting 47 percent of teams bowling.

In 2008, a record 34 bowl games were played.

So what’s my beef with inflation besides that beef costs more? Well, that’s the point: Inflation devalues everything.

In 2003, a 10-2 Huskies team was given a cold shoulder as they were not invited to the postseason.

Now let me preface my next comment by saying it is not an attack on any football player, coach or anyone else related to the team here from this season. In fact, I was happy for NIU that it got to a 13th game, especially for the seniors who have worked so hard over the past four or five years.

But what does a postseason game mean when you can go .500 during the season? The Huskies beat every team with a losing record on their schedule this year except Tennessee and lost to every team with a winning record. And this is worthy of a postseason?

It seems like the college football postseason has turned more into a T-ball league where everyone gets a trophy instead of one step below the big show on Sundays.

But the real losers are the fans.

This year, 11 of the 34 bowl games had a two-touchdown differential between the winner and loser. While this doesn’t tell the whole story, it suggests about one-third of the bowl games did not produce close contests a.k.a. exciting games.

Yes, this year fans got treated to contests such as South Florida beating Memphis by a mere 27 points. Then there was the classic Florida State-Wisconsin matchup where the Seminoles squeezed out a 29-point victory.

Now, we can’t blame the BCS and college bowls for all the bad games. There are always blowouts in the postseasons (all I need to do is mention the Chicago Cubs…anything more needed?).

But 11 games out of 34. That’s too many uncompetitive games to keep a postseason that goes on for almost a month interesting.

I said earlier that I didn’t want a revolution or to even follow the solution put out by others. Let’s face it, getting a playoff would be the best thing, but that’s idealism.

So instead, here’s my suggestion for next year.

Step one: cut the flab and reduce the number of bowl games to 16. Step two: remove all conference tie-ins to bowls. Step three: take the best 32 teams in the nation, based on the polls, computers and simply by looking at their records, and pair them up in a bowl.

For example, No. 1 would face No. 2, No. 3 is pitted against No. 4, and all the way down to No. 31 against No. 32.

By doing this, we remove conference biases, hopefully create more competitive games and make the college football postseason mean something more.

Sadly, I know this change of the constitution will never be more than a dream. There’s too many dollars lost by this suggestion.

Sort of sad that as our currency keeps inflating so does the number of bowl games.