It’s pretty clear at this point that almost every college football fan wants a playoff system to determine the national champion. The bowl games are fun to watch, but with every season ending in debate over who the true champion is, it’s time for a change.

Luckily, our new president is all about change.

During his campaign in November, Barack Obama could be seen all over TV stressing this message. You could find him on every channel, including the one place I go to avoid thinking about politics — ESPN. Interviewed by Chris Berman, the soon-to-be president talked about the flaws in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and how they needed to be addressed.

More recently, he has been on the network more than Lebron James for important stories such as attending his daughter’s soccer game and saying Notre Dame football was in the dumps.

The sports world’s infatuation with Obama is disturbing to me because it underlies a deeper issue of the government encroaching on something it has no business in. While our president is busy celebrating his correct pick of the NCAA basketball tournament champion, Congress is turning its attention to the ever-so-important issue of college football.

Rep. Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, is leading the charge in the House of Representatives against the atrocities of the BCS. As the ranking member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Barton has taken the initiative to threaten the NCAA with a bill that clearly falls under the umbrella of energy and commerce.

His bill, which he introduced earlier this month, would prevent the NCAA from labeling the national championship game as such. Barton had his own solution to the problem, which demonstrated his expert knowledge on how college football works.

“Well, you could have a playoff system of 64 teams and use every bowl that’s currently in there,” he told the New York Daily News. “You could do that.”

Case in point: The government should stay out of sports.

In the same way that the Senate completely wasted its time by holding trials on steroid use in baseball, Congress should have the common sense to not involve itself in something of such little importance to the welfare of our nation.

Solving the current economic hardships and the wars in the Middle East are a lot more important than deciding whether or not Barry Bonds lied under oath in steroids hearings that never should’ve been conducted in the first place.

As such, I would like to propose an amendment to the Constitution calling for the separation of sport and state. Seeing as how I follow sports much closer than I do my own religion, I don’t think this is too much of a stretch.

Let the NCAA and professional sports leagues figure out their own problems. And please, ESPN, for the love of all that is holy, stop showing Obama or any other politician on your network.

Reach columnist Scott Eisen at sports@dailyuw.com.