BCS PAC?

The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that an anti-Bowl Championship Series group has launched a political action committee to push a playoff agenda.  Good!

The Playoff PAC, launched by Utahn Matt Sanderson and several other sports fans, plans to raise cash and then donate to candidates and incumbents who support busting up the BCS, a system of polls and computers that doles out bowl game spots to the winners of six major conferences and four other teams.

Maybe we do need a political action committee to fight the BCS.  In fact, according to the story, there’s a lot of money already being thrown around by lobbyists in Washington.  BCS conferences and the bowls have spent at least $720,000, compared to the Mountain West Conference, which has spent around $200,000 to try to get a playoff instituted.

Both sides of the argument, though, are shelling out big money to Washington lobbyists. The conferences backing the BCS as well as the Football Bowl Association have spent $720,000 on lobbyists so far while the Mountain West Conference, in which the University of Utah and Brigham Young University play, has spent $200,000.

Who are we kidding?  College football is big time business.