If a knowledgeable sports fan were told that a bill had been introduced in Congress to force a college football playoff, he would make an instant guess that the sponsor was from Texas.

He would be right. Legislation introduced this week by U.S. Rep. Joe Barton of the Lone Star state seeks to make it a violation of federal trade law to market a postseason college football game as a "national championship" contest unless it was the culmination of a playoff.

The current s ...

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