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From: The Washington Times | May 2, 2009
Tackling an issue sure to rouse sports fans, lawmakers on Capitol Hill pressed college football officials Friday to switch to a playoff, with one Texas Republican calling the current “Bowl Championship Series” as unworkable as communism and saying it should be labeled “BS,” not “BCS.” John Swofford, the coordinator of the BCS, rejected the idea of a playoff, arguing it would threaten the existence of long-established bowl games such as the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl. Sponsorships and TV revenue that now go toward bowl games would instead be spent on playoff games, “meaning that it will be very difficult …
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