Utah is the real national champion

Rick Reilly pretty much says everything I wanted to say about the Bowl Championship Scam and Utah deserving to be crowned the true champion - including the bit about the federal government cutting off the millions (billions?) in taxpayers subsidies going to these major colleges/minor league football teams.  The only they I can add is that if a team like Utah can go undefeated - playing a tough schedule - and not get a title chance, why are they in Division I-A at all?  Put in another way, would anyone join a league or a contest, if the rules say "you aren't allowed to win"?

Argue with this, please. I beg you. Find me anybody else that went undefeated. Thirteen-and-zero. Beat four ranked teams. Went to the Deep South and seal-clubbed Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The same Alabama that was ranked No. 1 for five weeks. The same Alabama that went undefeated in the regular season. The same Alabama that Florida beat in order to get INTO the BCS Championship game in the first place. ...


Call Myles Brand, president of the asleep-at-the-wheel NCAA, and ask him if he and his greedy presidents are going to stand in defiance of president-elect Barack Obama, who wants a playoff and wants it yesterday.


Ask Brand what he's going to do if Obama starts asking the Justice Department to look into anti-trust hearings against the BCS. The Utah attorney general has already launched an investigation into that very thing. Or ask him what he'll do if Obama asks the Department of Education to consider withholding federal funds from these schools that have entered into this secret club called the BCS. You don't think playing in the title game means millions in general-fund donations for a school? That's as unfair as anything Title IX fought against.