President-elect Barack Obama hasn’t even taken office yet but I already find myself disagreeing with him on an issue of vital importance.

See, the future leader of the free world wants an eight-team playoff involving Football Bowl Subdivision teams.

I don’t.

I say 16 teams or bust.

In an interview on “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Obama professed his love for college football and said it was long past time there was a playoff system in place.

“If you’ve got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there’s no clear decisive winner,” he told interviewer Steve Kroft. “We should be creating a playoff system.”

Obama suggests putting the eight highest-ranked teams at the end of the season in a playoff, which is certainly better than what we have now. To borrow a line from the campaign trail, however, we can do better.

Take the six major conference champions — winners of the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-10, ACC and Big East — along with 10 wildcard selections and create a 16-team bracket.

The wildcard teams would be made up of highly-ranked programs that didn’t win their league title. This group would also include “BCS busters” like Boise State.

The six league champions would have home field advantage in the first round, along with the two highest ranked wildcard teams.

The first two rounds would be played on campuses, while the semi-finals and finals could alternate between the traditional “major” bowl game sites — Rose, Orange, Sugar, etc.

All the other bowls could continue to exist and feature matchups between teams that didn’t make the playoffs.

And before you hit me with the “bowls are a college tradition” argument please try to explain me the tradition of all these postseason “classics” that feature 6-6 teams going head-to-head in the Anti Monkey Butt Powder Bowl.

(Just to clarify, Anti Monkey Butt Powder is a real product, but does not sponsor a bowl game. Yet.)

Anyway, that’s my idea, one I drew up about 20 years ago (along with several thousand other nerds) and one that seems to make pretty good sense.

But what makes sense to you and me doesn’t always make sense to the folks who created the BCS, so I have low hopes.

And as for President-Elect Obama, I’m glad you have an interest in big-time college football and wish you the best in convincing college presidents a playoff system is the way to go.

On the other hand if this issue gets lost in the shuffle during your presidency I won’t hold it against you.

If you can fix the economy, capture Osama Bin Laden and bring about a successful conclusion to two wars — well, then I’ll gladly tolerate the Football Bowl Subdivision a while longer.