(Update 1:19pm: I beat Rush to this topic by almost three and half hours.)

Economic crisis. Rogue nations threatening millions. New anti-American global alliances.

Apparently these things are not enough to occupy the time of the United States Senate.

The AP reports this morning that the Senate will review how college football picks its champion at the end of the season. It seems that the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) poses an anti-trust problem that “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.”

Please, God! I can handle the politicians in Washington increasing the federal deficit by over 60%. I can handle the politicians in Washington reverting to a pre-911 mentality and weakening our ability to protect ourselves from foreign enemies. I can handle the politicians in Washington using my tax money to fund every single liberal entitlement project from the last 30 years as the nation falls into generational bankruptcy. But please, Lord, do not let them touch college football! It is all we are going to have left when they’re finished with what they’re doing.

All sarcasm aside, the real issue here is not the merits of a playoff system vs. the BCS (which, despite its faults, is still the best system we have). The real issue, as I see it, is two-fold: 1. The government’s attention being set on such a comparatively trivial issue in the midst of global chaos; and, more importantly, 2. The government’s intervention in yet another sector of American life. Why does Congress have to tinker with college football? Why can’t the conferences figure everything out on their own? Because Washington bureaucrats think they should be in control of EVERYTHING, even the most sacred of sports institutions.

I am disgusted by the surge of government intervention into every aspect of American life. Aren’t you?