Hatch urges Obama to investigate college's BCS

Maybe the President or Congress should make up the football schedules each year for all the teams (apparently they have nothing better to do); that way teams that play in traditionally weaker conferences will have to prove their worth by having 3 or so difficult non-conference opponents (like Alabama, Southern Cal, Texas, etc.). Then, at the end of the year if the team is undefeated it would have shown that, in spite of playing in a weaker conference, it belongs in the BCS title game. This is not to say that Boise State or TCU isn't as good as the best teams from the major conferences, it is just that it can't be determine given the schedule they play. Also, a lot of people who cry for a playoff system seems to forget that if you take the top 4 teams, number 5 will feel slighted; if you take the top 8, number 9 will have a case and so on. Another point to consider; what if the two best teams in the country are in the same conference and one beats the other by a point in their conference championship game - does the loser of the conference championship get eliminated from the playoff even though the "loser" is rated higher than the winner of the other major conferences? I doubt if fans will want to see more than one team from any conference be involved in a playoff.

Doesn't the president have more important things to do other than worrying about colege football championships. You would think Orin Hatch should too!

LOL!! Seriously? Really? How about let's worry about the state of the country, national security, and the economy before we worry about a damn BCS system shall we? And this is coming from a huge football fan. We know where his priorities lie, let's see if he gets re-elected next time. This government is so screwed up and corrupt it isn't even funny.

Congress and the entire Federal Government should stick to what they are empowered to do by the constitution. Not football playoffs, not steroids not portuguese water dogs. Stick to running the country

It is time to expand the BCS to include the MWC and WAC into the BCS. Those conferences have had their top teams beating the top teams of the six BCS conferences. And please don't give me the supposed weakness
of those two conferences schedules. If the Big 10, Big East and ACC
can be in it (look at those patsy schedules) than the WAC and MWC
belong.

Good

The country is in crisis, fearless leader can't make up his mind on troop strength in Afganistan and Hatch wants to get involved with football. Why?
There is big money floating around. This country needs a Football Czar.
Let the Congress run the NCAA and then we can have more lobbyests, payoffs etc....Let the school with the most money win

Lest you nitwits lose track after getting all the way to the bottom of this article, the senator who wants Obama to investigate this is a Republican. This has nothing to do with Obama except it was another piece of junk mail he has to toss.

Remember how it was before the BCS? Over decades there was a dispute only a few times. Now there are disputes every year over who gets that shot at the title.