Lawmakers want probe of college football bowl system
(April 18th, 2008)
by turpin
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON- Forget government corruption or corporate fraud. Three members of Congress want the Justice Department to investigate whether college football's Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise. Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, are introducing a resolution rejecting the oft-criticized bowl system as an illegal restriction on trade because only the largest universities compete in most f the major bowl games.The resolution would require Justice's antitrust division to investigate whether the system violate federal law. The measure also would put Congress on the record as supporting a college football playoff. Ambercrombie said the matter s worthy of federal review because college football s big business with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. "It's money, That's what this is all about," he said

