AG to sue Bowl Championship Series

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Big legal troubles could be in store for the college football playoff system that the Utah attorney general says disadvantages his and other states.

... and you just stepped all over the rights of the free market bowl games to choose who they will pay to play.

Nope: the NCAA already determines eligibility: there are actually precious few market practices involved. For example, there are only 4 bowl sites "sanctioned" for a national championship game - Sugar, Orange, Rose, Fiesta, and ... one more that escapes me. Orlando or Atlanta, for instance, are no allowed to host a championship game, despite having other bowl games. So that's already pre-determined today (and is why the NCAA is getting sued -- they control the process).

I thought about proposing that the top 20 get in the mix (and in that scheme, the top 12 get a bye during week 1 of the playoffs and the next group of 8 play each other for 4 slots -- giving 16 teams for the rest of the tournament). Since this is all about money, that's probably a reasonable solution to get a few more involved. But....

#1. There's already a top 16 scheme in place at all other football levels in college. So we have precedent.
#2. The gaps are pretty large between the top five, say, and those who might get left out. Few would seriously argue that after a dozen games that they were a serious contender if not ranked in the top 10-15 by that point -- nor would they have a case to make.
#3. From my own reckoning, the independents and minor conferences have been getting reasonable respect from the polls during the season. The BCS standings have actually been getting in the way only in deciding the top 2-4 for a single national championship game -- and that's what this playoff scheme would resolve.

(But an absurd 65-team field like in hoops would be completely useless!)

I can see the NCAA being sued, but not the BCS. The NCAA is a voluntary association (union) that actually controls the process. They should respond by going back to every bowl for themself and no attempt to make a champion determination.

We had that... and nobody was satisfied. The BCS was created as a pi**-poor playoff substitute since the university Presidents objected to a playoff system (for reasons surrounding the bowl system and $$$ more than the bogus stated rationale of 'too many games' and 'harms academics'). Basically nobody will be happy until a workable playoff system exists.

So there's my peronsal plan to bring harmony to college football.

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