SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Utah's attorney general now says there's an 80 percent chance a lawsuit will be filed against the college football
Bowl Championship Series (BCS).
Mark Shurtleff also tells ABC 4 that a draft of that lawsuit has already been written.
In just a few days, Shurtleff will be in Washignton D.C.
There, he will meet with a top anti-trust official in the Department of Justice.
Shurtleff's message will be simple: we're getting ready to bust the BCS, are you with us?
Utah's attorney general has been looking at filing an anti-trust lawsuit against the BCS for years.
Now, he says it's almost time to kick-off in court.
Shurtleff: “We believe we have enough evidence already to go forward.”
ABC 4: “To file a suit?”
Shurtleff: “Yeah, we do."
Shurtleff says the current BCS system is an illegal monopoly.
He also has concerns about price fixing.
This is why he's going to the nation's capitol, to see if the Justice Department wants to play with Utah and join the lawsuit.
ABC 4: "If the Department of Justice says no, what are you going to do?”
Shurtleff: “If the DOJ says no, I am still going to go forward."
Shurtleff says this isn't really about the University of Utah football team.
(Well, maybe a little, he concedes.)
But Utah's top elected law official believes the BCS is unfair, even going so far as to call it a "cabal."
ABC 4: "What are the odds of a suit being filed?”
Shurtleff: “The odds are high.”
ABC 4: “80 percent?”
Shurtleff: “80 percent."
