We are a country in crisis: economic problems, the healthcare debate, sending more troops overseas. Yet somehow, a house subcommitee finds the time to draw up a bill to force college football into a playoff system.

The bill would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff. So, if the BCS continued, the winner of the #1 versus #2 game could only be called the ‘BCS Champion’, not the “BCS National Champion”. Pure genius.

I love college football. It is my favorite sport by far. I would love nothing more than for there to be a playoff system in Division I college football (the only Division 1 sport that does not have a playoff). What I do not want is our government attempting to regulate and legislate how it is run.

I mean, our goverment has had so much success with other things, Social Security, Medicare, FEMA. Oh, wait. They’ve totally botched all of that, and much more. And as such, I want them to stay as far away from the sport I love as they can.

The bureaucracy in the NCAA national leadership is bad enough. There are so many ridiculous rules and guidelines for student athletics that even experts can’t keep up. If our Federal Government were to get involved it would only get worse. Some may say that it’s okay for the government to intervene on this one issue.  But since when has our government not taken a mile when they were given an inch? I don’t care which party is in power, who the president is, and what their political stances are, they need to leave college football alone. Even if it means watching 35 meaningless bowl games for a few more decades years.

So please, call/email your representative and tell them to stay out of college football, and get back to more important issues.

Tags: congress, football, government