North Texas congressman Joe Barton: College Football Playoff needs to expand, 'will fail every year'

[TexasTowelie]

A North Texas congressman once critical of the BCS already wants to see some changes to the new College Football Playoff.

Rep. Joe Barton, a republican who represents the 6th Congressional District of Texas, said the new playoff is a good start but isn't broad enough to include enough top teams, according to an interview on the ESPN/ABC News podcast "Capital Games."

Last week, the inaugural College Football Playoff included the top four teams of the selection committee's ranking. Baylor and TCU, ranked No. 5 and No. 6, respectively, were left out.

"The system as they have it now is going to fail every year because with five so called power-conference plus the major independents, you can’t squeeze all that sausage into the sack," he said on the podcast. "There's going to be a few teams left out."

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[joeybee12]

1. It's scary when I agree with a brain-dead fringe lunatic like him...nt

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Stopped Clock Syndrome

Don't feel bad. Merely a coincidence.

[joeybee12]

4. I'm willing to bet if it weren't two Texas teams that had gotten stiffed...

Barton probably wouldn't have cared.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. No Doubt

No way that can't be the truth.

[hughee99]

7. Probably, but we could easily be listening to someone from Ohio saying the same thing

if things had turned out different. Whatever number of teams there are, they're always going to be a "bubble" and a team that doesn't quite make it who feels they deserved to be in. You even see that in the NCAA basketball tournament and that's now 68 teams.

[KamaAina]

2. A repuke criticizing the playoff?!

Kinda Sleazy Rice will have him eliminated by any means necessary!!

[chelsea0011]

6. glad to see he is hard at work