Good grief, he’s done it.

Les Miles has fixed college football forever.

Alert the Nobel Prize committee. Reserve him a spot at next table for the very next ceremony.

Pick any category you want — physics, geometry, psychology, even world peace — but award the man now.

This competition is over.

For some 150 years they’ve been trying to get football perfect. It’s been tinkered with by nimble minds such as Bryant and Rockne, by Wilkinson and Gen. Neyland, even by Curley. And yet one Les Miles strides in and takes care of it on his lunch hour.

But, holy gracious, who knew it could it be that easy — that obvious, that simple?

Who knew all it would take was one phone call from Lester Miles and — voilà! — there you have it?

Perfection.

It didn’t really get the play on the big networks and news pages that it should have. Probably just another in the long list of things that the “mainstream media” doesn’t want you to know about.

But Miles made a Sunday phone call to Steve Shaw, the Southeastern Conference coordinator of football officials, and danged if it didn’t sound like the two of them bickered and bartered for a while but finally came out the other side with a solution that will eradicate bad officials’ calls (and no-calls) from the college football game equation.

Possibly forever.

This is ground-breaking, earth-shattering, mind-boggling. It’s a game-changer, though sadly Miles said it comes too late to change his own recent scuffle with Alabama.

Miles was explaining all of this in own tongue Monday, working with neither a net nor an interpreter, so we kind of have to read between the lines here, possibly take a few blind leaps of faith.

But they deciphered the Dead Sea Scrolls, we can do this.

He even admitted that “I am going to be more candid with my team than I am here (with the media).” But he also said that “I think my team will enjoy that review.”

Kids don’t normally enjoy having to admit they did anything wrong, so it must mean he got some admissions out of Shaw, right?

Even better, it sounds like, according to Miles, they stumbled onto a solution.

Take the perhaps over-officious unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on LSU’s Vadal Alexander, the one that pushed LSU back to the 21-yard line after recovering a fumble at the Bama 6.

Best could be deciphered, Miles and Shaw apparently came to an accord that, as Miles put it, “The official must see the whole play, can’t make a partial call. Can’t just, you know, think he saw (something) it’s got to be the whole play.”

Shaw apparently agreed — “I’m satisfied, very satisfied,” Miles said, “of how Mr. Shaw reviewed each and every call.”

So just like that, the age-old conundrum of the retaliator always getting hit with the penalty flag is solved.

Maybe they will call it Vadal Alexander Rule — zebras have to see the whole play.

Miles suggested that it’s only the beginning.

“He did a great job explaining to me … there seemed to be a way in which he viewed these calls that would allow his guys to do a better job.”

All of these bad calls, he and Shaw apparently agreed, can be reviewed and corrected in follow-up meetings with the officials.

It may take a few weeks to get to them all, but it will be well worth it once all the remaining kinks are worked out.

“I think we’ll all enjoy … how they’ve improved as officials and will continue to do so,” Miles said.

If only he’d placed that phone call the previous week.

During that Monday revelation, Miles at one point grabbed a stack of papers, waved them in the air and declared, “I could bring in, I don’t know, 25 calls (plays) that we sent in specifically, and I could display them by film and go right through it.

“What’s the score of the game? The one we just played?”

Miles was informed that the Tigers lost — or, in the vernacular he would understand, “finished second” — to Alabama by, I believe, 20-13 in an unfortunate overtime.

“If that sucker (score) could change,” Miles admitted, “You’d see an entirely different (presumably happy) guy at the podium.

“We can do better and that includes the officials.”

Ah, but by now surely you are detecting the one possible flaw in Miles’ miracle-working.

Had his list of 25 egregious miscarriages of gridiron justice been handled to his satisfaction Saturday night, presumably the Tigers would have “finished first” against Alabama and everybody would have been happy.

Most everybody in Louisiana, at least.

But Monday Alabama’s Nick Saban would have addressed his own media luncheon, most probably annoyed, and likely waving his own stack of papers with own 25 (different) plays of discontent and demanding his own recount.

But this is a start.

And, of course, Miles hints that in this utopian future, now that the process has been ironed out and explained, there won’t be any more bad calls.

Brilliant. We can only thank him for his diligence. And the Alabama loss could turn out to be a small price to pay for perfect football.

Scooter Hobbs covers LSU athletics. Email him at shobbs@americanpress.comLSU Tigers head coach Les Miles. (Photo courtesy of Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images North America)