College football fans know they hate the Bowl Championship Series, the backward system that determines the sport's national championship. v Dan Wetzel can help them understand exactly why.

The award-winning national columnist for Yahoo Sports and long-time investigative reporter has been part of a team of reporters who spent three years pulling apart the BCS one scam, boondoggle, and naked power grab at a time. Using tax records, bowl contracts, university documents, and scores of interviews with the sport's power players, his latest book is called: “Death to the BCS: the Definitive Case against the Bowl Championship Series.”

• * It reveals the real reason such a foolish system is maintained—an ugly combination of money and entrenched power.
• * It exposes how bowl games swindle millions from taxpayers while hiding under the illusion of charity.
• * It unearths athletic directors reaping five-figure bonuses for sending their teams to bowl games that end up costing their schools money.
• * It shreds the baseless polls and nonsensical computers rankings.
• * It proves the BCS is actually killing the game’s regular season, not protecting it.
• * And, most important, it shows exactly who profits quietly off this outdated system—the only explanation for its continued existence in the face of such widespread disgust.

The BCS remains the hot button issue of college athletics, its failures affecting schools big and small and impacting everything from soaring coaching salaries, increased rule breaking and conference expansion. No one has a better handle on the topic and no one is as capable of breaking down the BCS in such a clear, outrageous and at times humorous fashion.

Tackling controversial and difficult subjects is not new for Wetzel. He’s won dozens of national investigative and writing awards and co-authored the investigative book Sole Influence that exposed the link between shoe companies and elite high school athletes as Nike and Adidas hunted for the next Michael Jordan.

Since 2003, he’s been the lead sports columnist for Yahoo Sports, the most read site on the internet. He has a wealth anecdotes, stories, tales and jokes from the current world of sports. He annually covers virtually every major sporting event from the Super Bowl to the Olympics to the World Cup to the Final Four to rousing fall Saturday’s on college campuses and all sorts of hilarious backroom recruiting tales.