I guess this is the top thing that the lawmakers can work on now...I guess everything else like the economy is going great...so they have nothing better to do..what a joke...
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WASHINGTON (AP)?Tackling an issue sure to rouse sports fans, lawmakers pressed college football officials Friday to switch the Bowl Championship Series to a playoff, with one Texas Republican likening the current system to communism and joking it should be labeled ?BS,? not ?BCS.?
John Swofford, the coordinator of the BCS, rejected the idea of switching to a playoff, telling a House panel that it would threaten the existence of celebrated bowl games. Sponsorships and TV revenue that now go to bowl games would instead be spent on playoff games, ?meaning that it will be very difficult for any bowl, including the current BCS bowls, which are among the oldest and most established in the game?s history, to survive,? Swofford said.
Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, who has introduced legislation that would prevent the NCAA from calling a game a national championship unless it?s the outcome of a playoff, bluntly warned Swofford: ?If we don?t see some action in the next two months, on a voluntary switch to a playoff system, then you will see this bill move.?