UTAH ATTORNEY GENERAL THINKS BCS MIGHT VIOLATE ANTITRUST LAWS

The folks from Utah are pretty damn relentless.And we like it.The Attorney General in the state that houses the 2008 CFT National Champions thinks that the BcS might violate antitrust laws.A.G. Mark Shurtleff said Tuesday that the current system puts schools like Utah at an unfair competitive and financial advantage, and that he’s researching whether the issue runs afoul of the Sherman Antitrust Act.Utah comes from a conference, the Mountain West, that does not enjoy an automatic berth in the BcS. While the Utes earned an at-large berth via their 12-0 record, the system employed for determining the teams that will play for the BcS national title froze them out of consideration.We don’t know whether there’s any merit to the contention that the current BcS system in any way violates federal antitrust laws, but we’re in favor of any effort to shine a light on the deep flaws in the current procedure for determining the champion of college football.Basically, we don’t care how change comes about -- only that it gets here.The winner of Thursday night’s game between Oklahoma and Florida will be the BcS national champion, even though Utah flattened Alabama in the Vandalay Sugar Bowl.