Let’s start today’s discussion on the new Harris Interactive college football poll with a basic disclaimer: The BCS is a broken, collusive syndicate.
Funny that a century ago Congress could bring down John D. Rockefeller but today is unable to twist the arms of a bunch of public employees who run major colleges into adapting the most democratic of notions, a playoff system. Somewhere along the line, the Sherman Antitrust Act had its teeth extracted, and with enough novocaine that no one noticed.