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Obama Wants College Football Playoff

Obama Wants College Football Playoff

Submitted by politicalWinters on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 2:12pm.

  It started as a throw-away answer on ESPN, got repeated in more detail on 60 Minutes, and now the president-elect has created a little bit of a firestorm in the sports world.

  He's come out in favor of an eight-team playoff seaon, and jokes he's ready to throw his weight around on the matter.

  Quote from the 60 Minutes piece: Kroft: "I have one last question: As president of the United States, what can you do, or what do you plan to do about getting a college football playoff for the national championship?"

Obama: "I think any sensible person would say that, if you've got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season and many of them have one loss or two losses, there's no clear, decisive winner, that we should be creating a playoff system. Eight teams, that would be three rounds to determine a national champion. It would -- it would add three extra weeks to the season. You could trim back on the regular season. I don't know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this. So I'm going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it's the right thing to do."

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