NCAA Football Should have a Playoff

It would seem there's little common ground between Rep. Joe Barton - the Waco native, proud Aggie and Texas GOP heavyweight - and President Barack Obama - the Democratic star with international roots and Ivy League degrees. Football, however, makes strange bedfellows. Both Barton and Obama have called for college football to have a playoff system to crown a national champion and scrap the controversial Bowl Championship Series. The Arlington congressman has filed one of at least three bills in Congress to force action on the matter. "The biggest sport that raises the most money and has the most publicity has a totally artificial and undecipherable system that really doesn't base the championship on the merits of a playoff," Barton said. Proof that this Aggie doesn't have a dog in the fight: The Texas Longhorns - along with the University of Utah - were considered to have been cheated by the BCS. Rivalries aside, Barton's bill would prohibit the promotion, marketing or advertising of any postseason NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision matchup as a championship game unless a playoff system crowns the champion. "Otherwise, it's a false trade practice because it's false and deceitful," Barton said. The congressman is working to get a committee to consider the bill. Meanwhile, he is gathering more co-sponsors for the measure, a way to broaden its support in the House. Barton said he's talked to the president about the issue and that Obama is "enthusiastic." -- Dallas Morning News

Well I'll be damned. If he would have sold this on the Campaign Trail I would have been out there supporting him all the way. He may be totally destroying the federal deficit, but if he can get a playoff in the NCAA Football Division I, I will stand right there with him. OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA