Your money and college football...

I'll admit to being dense. That Neanderthal avatar I use is self-descriptive in many ways. Over the years I've learned to allow for being slow to grasp things.

But could someone tell me just why in Hell my tax dollars are being used to investigate alternatives to the college football playoff system; http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/01/29/obama.bcs.ap/index.html?xid=si_ncaaf

I've really had enough of the government in general and this administration in particular spending my money worse than a college student on Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale/Liquordale.