It appears that the Utah Attorney General’s office (through private counsel versed in the field) will sue the BCS, reports the Arizona Republic:
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Monday that highly ranked Boise State University’s exclusion from a lucrative Bowl Championship Series game bolsters his pending lawsuit against college football’s postseason system, which determines a national champion.
Had Boise State, which played in the 2007 and 2010 Fiesta Bowls, or another school from those five conferences been invited to a BCS game, the shared payout for those conferences would have increased to $26.4 million.
Shurtleff said the Sugar Bowl’s decision Sunday to pass Boise State, the seventh-highest-ranked team in the BCS standings, in favor of a match between No. 11 Virginia Tech and No. 13 Michigan adds evidence for his suit because of the lost revenue for Boise State and its conference.
About Elwood Sanders
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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