“Why are there 11 teams in the Big Ten?”

- Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney during Congressional hearings yesterday on the BCS.

According to Barton, “the current system of determining who’s number one is deeply flawed,” and apparently we need Congress and its noted problem-solving skills to fix it. Barton should work on his timing — this is the first year that there’s little argument that the two best teams are meeting in the title game.

Suggested topic for future congressonal inquiry: “How can they call it the Pacific Ten when it has teams from Arizona?”

source: Chris Dufresne’s column in the Los Angeles Times.

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