Can the Feds file an anti-trust suit against the SEC?

Boise State, BYU and Utah State see no reason to protest "SEC Dominance". You might get some support from Oregon fans though.

Individually the SEC is probably safe, they can argue that there are other similarly-situated conferences (PAC-xx, B1G, whatever comes out of the ACC/Big East).

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I think the BCS could have an anti trust problem

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This could be the problem, though, if MWC or C-USA were to complain (and probably get the support of MAC, WAC, and Sun Belt).

Expansion is the essence of competition. But the BCS is not. SEC is okay.

Then you don't understand antitrust law at all then. Anybody that says the bcs is breaking antitrust law as its presently written is reaching big time and doesn't understand the law or how the bcs is setup.

BCS involves collusion among conferences to the exclusion of others.

Conference expansion is not collusion. There is an argument that the BCS does, hence the Utah Attorney General's posturing. I'm not saying it's legally correct, but it's there.

No its not. The bcs is a group of companies that gets together at the end of the year voluntarly to have their best teams play the other companies best teams in games hosted by outside companies. They do this to make the most money for their companies.

The bcs doesn't price fix any good our service. The bcs doesn't stop any smaller conference they can't create their own system. It doesn't stop any other conference from doing anything. the bcs just doesn't invite the smaller conferences to its event at the end of the year.thats not breaking antitrust law.


Think about it like this:

A group of large woodworking companies decide that every new years day they will hold a compitition pinning each companies best woodworker against another companies best, and the new orleans arena says they would like to host one of the compititions and sell tickets to the event and they will pay each company 1 million for the rights. At the end.the winner is named bcs national champion.


Should smaller companies that weren't invited be able to file antitrust lawsuits? Hell no, it would be laughed out of court. Well the bcs is the samething.

Think of conferences as companies and schools as divisions in the company. When you do this, an antitrust law suit seems ridiculous.


Sorry for the spelling, I'm typing on a phone.

Yeah sfp has pointed this out multiple times. The current system is way better to the smaller schools then the old system. And the old system us what they would go back to, with maybe a plus one game afterwards at like, the cotton bowl and just call it the cotton bowl. Therefore fricking all small schools.