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A subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill Wednesday that, if it became law, would ban the NCAA from promoting the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game as a true national championship game since the winner is not decided as the result of a playoff.
Republican Rep. Joe Barton of Texas was the sponsor of the bill.
The BCS currently chooses two teams to play in a championship game based on two polls and six computer rankings. This year’s BCS national title game features No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Texas on Jan. 7. Eight other schools are selected to play in the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta and Rose bowls, but six conference champions — the ACC, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-10 and SEC champions — receive automatic bids to those bowl games while the remaining conferences do not receive automatic bids.
BCS officials do not appear to be worried about the bill becoming law, and BCS executive director Bill Hancock stated: “With everything going on in the country, I can’t believe that Congress is wasting time and spending taxpayers’ money on football. We feel strongly that managing of college sports is best left to the people in higher education.”
—the associated press contributed to this report.
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