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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro and Mark MurrayNow that President-elect Obama has waded into reforming the college football Bowl Championship Series (and one of our teams -- um, Texas -- was jumped unceremoniously in the rankings), we thought we’d offer the country a solution that should be adopted as soon as possible. Call this a foray into policy. It’s just too important to the country. Like the president-elect, we agree that the basis for reform should begin with an eight-team playoff. Inevitably...( read more ) (link)

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