Perhaps no postseason system in the history of professional or college sports has received as much criticism and hostility than college football’s own Bowl Championship Series (BCS).

When the new playoff postseason system set to take place next college football season, on January 6, the BCS played its final game with the matchup of Florida State and Auburn, two of the best teams in college football – and it ended up being a perfect finish to an imperfect system.

Florida State 34, Auburn 31: Florida State’s Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Jameis Winston led the Seminoles down the field and scored the game winning touchdown with :05 left.

The game will forever be cherished and remembered in the likes of every college football fan, and for that, we thank the BCS. But did they always get it right?

In my opinion, the BCS did exactly what it was set out to do.

The goal for the BCS was to get the two best teams, based on prior performances during the regular season, to play in the championship game. Ratings and numbers were factored by a computer system that decided the rankings for each team.

Experts believe that the 2009-10 TCU Horned Frogs were the best team in college football and should have played in the championship. Instead the Horned Frogs were defeated by the Boise State Broncos in the Fiesta Bowl. TCU was undefeated prior to the bowl game, but so was Texas and Alabama, who played in the championship game.

Boise State’s first controversy came in 2004 when they finished undefeated and ended up playing in the Liberty Bowl against Louisville, in which Boise State lost 44-41. The championship game that season was between two, undefeated teams, Oklahoma and LSU, which LSU won 21-14.

The Broncos were resurrected in 2007 when they got a chance to play Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, and of course, we know that game to be quite possibly the greatest bowl game ever played.

I don’t believe in the BCS system, but, regardless, they abided by their rules and got it right year-after-year.

The BCS created chatter. It gave us something to talk and argue about, and definitely college football would not be where it was today if it was not for the BCS.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of the new playoff system, but I feel the BCS did not get the credit it deserved. A perfectly imperfect structure to determine a champion.