Utah Attorney General Vows to Sue BCS

The federal government's opposition to the Bowl Championship Series is well established: President Obama favors a college football playoff, and last week a member of Congress compared the BCS to Communism. And now the attorney general of Utah is saying that if the feds don't go after the BCS, he will.

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says that he plans to take the BCS to court. Utah television station KUTV reports:

"It doesn't matter what Congress does, we're going forward, and we will sue," Shurtleff said. ... The next step is to talk to the Department of Justice, and see if they will lead on this suit."

Obviously, Shurtleff is motivated by the fact that Utah was shut out of the BCS championship game after finishing the 2008 season undefeated. And obviously, he's hoping to curry favor with his Ute fan constituents.

But I have a feeling quite a few of those constituents won't be so favorably inclined toward Shurtleff when they realize that Shurtleff is planning to spend a whole lot of their money on this issue. Shurtleff says he is willing to spend millions of dollars on this lawsuit if the Justice Department doesn't, claiming that a college football playoff is valuable enough to the state of Utah that it would be worth it in the long run.

I'm with Shurtleff in his calls for a playoff. I just think figuring out how to run the college football postseason is up to the NCAA and the individual schools, and not up to the attorney general of Utah.

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