On The Trail: If The NCAA Ran Our Presidential Elections
Like any college football fan, my disgust for the Bowl Championship Series system, which decides the sport's mythical national champion, knows no bounds. And since it's December (translation: slow news season), what better time to combine two of my passions in life -- politics and college football -- into one column?
Fortunately, unlike college football, the parties' nomination processes still include some playoffs (the primaries) but the way the field winnows prior to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries too closely resembles the backward methods the BCS uses when anointing two teams to play for the national title. So let's identify some of the same factors to narrow down the presidential field that sports writers and football coaches use to determine the national title contenders.
Now, let's look at the candidates in the race just by the strength of the schedule (i.e., the races they've run in the past and whether that prepares them for the tough task of the general). [CHUCK TODD]
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