Anti-BCS fans form political action committee

[JonLP24]

Fans against BCS form PAC

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers who have been trying to prod college football to replace the Bowl Championship Series with a playoff system now have the Washington equivalent of a booster club: a political action committee.

A group of college football fans launched the Playoff PAC Monday with the goal of electing similarly minded members of Congress. The hope is that if there's enough pressure from Congress, the BCS -- a complex system of computer rankings and polls that often draws criticism -- will voluntarily change to a playoff system. The BCS released its first standings of the season on Sunday.

"We recognize this is not a top-of-the-line issue for members of Congress and for the public, but college football is financially and culturally important to a lot of people," said one of the PAC's founders, Washington lawyer Matthew Sanderson. "So we feel members of Congress should spend time on a national institution that's financially and culturally important to their constituents. We also feel there will be a lot of support out there for this type of an effort."

"What we wanted to do was put together an effective way to ratchet up the political pressure," he added.



http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4577459

[bluevoter4life]

1. Though I support a playoff system

I think Congress should focus on more important things right now than meddling in NCAA affairs. There is no law that says sports must have a playoff.

[LisaM]

2. I don't support a playoff system, so find this extremely annoying

I want to go back to the old way. There's definitely no rule that a league must have a playoff, but I just don't like this one winner, everyone else a loser mentality that is poisoning everything. I can't bear that catchphrase "Win or Go Home". It defines everything that's wrong with us right now.

[Auggie]

3. I was indifferent until I read your post

You make a great a point and I agree. What's wrong with competition for the sake of competition? Besides, there were winners and great rivalries when the same conferences met in the same bowl games. It worked.

[El Supremo]

4. Oh yeah..........................

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[Capt. America]

5. When you think about it, there is a playoff in CF every week. That's what makes it more

interesting and intense than the pros.