November 7, 2003

Senators Criticize Bowl System

By WILL POTTER

Members of the U.S. Senate, given a chance last week to weigh in on the Bowl Championship Series, reiterated concerns raised in September by their counterparts in the House of Representatives: that major-college football teams are unfairly excluded from the lucrative bowl games.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who heads the Committee on the Judiciary, had harsh words for the bowl organization, known as the BCS. If it maintains its "present cartel," he said at a committee

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