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I’m fan of anyone that helps to get us to a college football playoff, but doesn’t the Utah Attorney General have more important issues to deal with than this one?  But I digress…

The Utah AG, Mark Shurtlett, told the Deseret News that he is “considering launching an investigation into college football’s Bowl Championship Series” because his Utes are not going to be crowned college football’s national champion.  Shurtlett said the BCS is “an unfair system” and is considering an antitrust case to break the monopoly they have on college football.

Wow, go Mark!  Maybe this is the kind of pressure we to land a playoff.  Or maybe it’s a political move on Shurlett’s part just to win favor with his homestate voters.  He started down the antitrust path when the Utes made the Fiesta Bowl in 2004, but subsequently dropped the case.

Whatever the motivates for the Utah AG, at least it has people talking about what a farce the BCS system is.  Just imagine how glorious a college football playoff would have been in 2008:

2008 College Football Playoff (projected):
(1) Oklahoma Sooners vs. (8) Ohio State Buckeyes
(2) Florida Gators vs. (7) Utah Utes
(3) Texas Longhorns vs. (6) Penn State Nittany Lions
(4) USC Trojans vs. (5) Alabama Crimson Tide

That could have led to Oklahoma’s offense versus USC’s defense in one semifinal.  With perhaps Texas playing Florida (sorry Utes) in the other semi.  The possibilities for a National Championship Game are good enough to make any college football fan drool.  Plus it would have settled it on the field.  It Utah is the best squad (which I don’t believe is true) then they would beat the likes of Florida, Texas and USC on their way to the crown.

Barrack Obama are you listening?  We need a college football playoff.

[Sidenote: Does anyone else find it odd that Salt Lake City has a major newspaper named the Deseret News?  Not "Desert", but "Deseret" which apparently has meaning in Utah.  I had to double-check to make sure I wasn't getting farked by that article.]