Chris Berman interviewed both presidential candidates today for a segment that will run at halftime of Monday Night Football, and Barack Obama said something that college football fans will find interesting: If he could change one thing about sports, he’d implement a college football playoff.

Berman asked both candidates to name one thing they would change in sports, and Obama answered, “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.”

I’m with Obama, although hammering out the details of picking the eight teams and scheduling the playoff is easier said than done. Still, a little nudging from Obama, whose brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, is the basketball coach at Oregon State, can’t hurt in persuading the university presidents to figure out a way to get a playoff done.

As for McCain, he answered Berman’s question by saying, “I’d take significant action to prevent the spread and use of performance-enhancing substances. I think it’s a game we’re going to be in for a long time. What I mean by that is there is somebody in a laboratory right now trying to develop some type of substance that can’t be detected and we’ve got to stay ahead of it. It’s not good for the athletes. It’s not good for the sports. It’s very bad for those who don’t do it and I think it can attack the very integrity of all sports going all the way down to high school.”