State Courts

Congressman Abercrombie says college football's BCS system is unconstitutional

By The Blog Team

Abercrombie said a system that limits automatic berths to six conferences "is restraint of trade. The automatic qualifiers are still taking care of themselves. I'm saying regardless of what good intentions may be behind this, it's restraint of trade. It's illegal. It's unconstitutional."

He said the best way to resolve the matter would be with a playoff system. All other NCAA football levels have playoffs.

Full post as published by Supreme Court of Hawaii Blog (Unofficial) on December 19, 2007 (boomark / email).