If there is nothing more pressing to be taken up by the US Senate, it is time for them to get out of Washington until we have a financial crisis or a war to deal with.

Everyone from President Barack Obama on down to fans has criticized how college football determines its top team. Now senators are getting off the sidelines to examine antitrust issues involving the Bowl Champion Series.

The current system "leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year," the Senate Judiciary's subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights said in a statement Wednesday announcing the hearings.

Under the BCS, some conferences get automatic bids to participate in series, while others do not.

Let me say it -- I'd like to see a playoff for college football, too. But in the end, this matter is not something that is the business of the federal government -- at least not according to my copy of the US Constituion.

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