The Knucklehead of the Day award

Today's winner is Republican congressman Joe Barton. He will be chairing a house investigation next week. What will his committee be investigating? The Bowl Championship series or BCS.

Does this congressman have anything better to do than grandstand as James Joyner suggests? How about government waste? This committee hearing is just more government waste as Barton and his colleagues posture for the cameras. Who gives a damn if the BCS system works or not? Its not for the federal government to investigate. Dr. Taylor calls this investigation silly and I have to concur.

For wasting taxpayer time and money, Congressman Joe Barton is today's Knucklehead of the day.

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HOUSTON -- Calling the Bowl Championship Series "deeply flawed," the chairman of a congressional committee has called a hearing on the controversial system used to determine college football's national champion.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, charged with regulating America's sports industry, announced Friday it will conduct a hearing on the BCS next week, after this season's bowl matchups are determined.

"College football is not just an exhilarating sport, but a billion-dollar business that Congress cannot ignore," said committee Chairman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican. Barton's panel is separate from the House Government Reform panel that tackled steroids in baseball.

The committee announcement called the hearing, scheduled for next Wednesday, a "comprehensive review" of the BCS and postseason college football.

"Too often college football ends in sniping and controversy, rather than winners and losers," Barton said. "The current system of determining who's No. 1 appears deeply flawed."

Barton said he does not have legislation in mind to force a change, but said he hopes congressional hearings will spur discussion and improvements. It won't be the first time Congress has looked at the BCS. In 2003, the Senate probed whether the system was unfairly tilted against smaller schools.