Obama Wants Playoffs

With the BCS ramping up efforts to improve its public image, it might want to consider bringing in Alabama nose guard Terrence Cody as a spokesman.

The 365-pound All-American is no fan of the idea of a major college football playoff.

“That’s stupid,” Cody said earlier this week. “I don’t think there should be any playoff. Why should there be a playoff? I mean, in the NFL they’re getting paid to play off and stuff.”

Alabama guard Mike Johnson was lukewarm to the idea, but he could understand why others might want the BCS to expand.

“I can’t complain, coming from one of the better BCS conferences,” Johnson said. “Anytime you’re from the SEC and you go undefeated, you know you’re going to be in (the BCS championship) game. It seems we always get the benefit of the doubt.”

Longhorns defensive lineman Lamarr Houston is a playoff supporter and even offered a way to do it. He said the month most teams spend waiting to play in a BCS game could be used for playoff games.

“I’m sure if you had a couple extra bye weeks in there, maybe two weeks after the season give (the players) a break and then have a championship game in mid-January, I don’t think it would be much different from playing in a bowl game,” he said. “It’d benefit all of college football more and you could have a true champion with no complaints.”

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LAKE BUENA VISTA — If Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was the king of college football for a day, he knows the first thing he would do: Scrap the Bowl Championship Series and implement a playoff system.

“I’ve thought about it a lot,” McCoy said. “I’d have to say eight-team playoff and maybe cut the season one game short. I don’t think you would lose that much money because the playoffs would generate a lot of interest and ultimately you could find out who the national champion was for sure.”

That’s an interesting perspective, considering McCoy will play for the BCS National Championship on Jan. 7. But will McCoy really be playing for a true national title?

Even he has doubts. When one of the guys benefiting the most from the BCS system is not a proponent of it, then the system is broken. McCoy knows it. Fans know it. Even President Barack Obama knows it.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Count Colt McCoy, the Texas quarterback and two-time Heisman Trophy finalist, among those in favor of a playoff system in college football.

McCoy and the Longhorns experienced decimal-point devastation last season that kept them out of the BCS national championship. This season, Texas came up on the right side of the system and will play Alabama for the championship Jan. 7 at the Rose Bowl.

“There’s going to be two or three teams that are undefeated,” McCoy said. “It’s going to be hard not to argue that there should be a playoff system. That’s not my call, but I’d be all for it.”

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