How Does the Election Affect Notre Dame Football?

As you Notre Dame Blog fans might have already heard, there was a pretty big election yesterday. Perhaps you heard about it. Hopefully you participated, but even if you only care about college football, there’s still some way you can link the election to the Fighting Irish. How do they connect? In an interview on Monday Night Football on the eve of the election, sportscaster Chris Berman asked both John McCain and Barack Obama what they would do, if they could do one thing, to improve sports in this country. McCain said he’s crack down on steroid use. Obama said he’d get a college football playoff system going. Said Obama:

“I think it is about time that we had playoffs in college football. I’m fed up with these computer rankings and this and that and the other. Get eight teams — the top eight teams right at the end. You got a playoff. Decide on a national champion.”

What does this have to do with Notre Dame? Well, suppose that Obama somehow uses his presidential powers to input a playoff system in college football, teams with more clout like Notre Dame might suffer because they are less likely to play postseason games, given that teams like Notre Dame have, historically, benefited greatly from being nearly guaranteed a birth in a postseason bowl game, based on their fan support and popularity. But is there a way to include the good elements of the college football bowl game system, while giving fans a clear national champion through a playoff format? Perhaps President-elect Barack Obama can lead a bi-partisan effort to compromise on this important Notre Dame issue.

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