By: MATT MARKEY (order prescription drugs source page in a new window” href=”http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091215/SPORTS16/912150384″ target=”_blank”>ToledoBlade.com) — COLUMBUS – It has become as familiar a sound this time of year as sleigh bells and Christmas carols – that endless chorus of calls for a playoff system in major college football.

But according to someone deep inside the inner circle of decision-makers who settle such matters, having a playoff instituted is about as likely as seeing those 10 lords-a-leaping come right down Main Street.

Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee has never disguised his disdain for a playoff system, and yesterday as the Buckeyes cranked up preparations for their New Year’s Day meeting with Oregon in the Rose Bowl, Gee emphatically reiterated that stance. From his vantage point, it will be a white Christmas in Hades when the Buckeyes are part of a playoff that takes the place of the current Bowl Championship Series.

“I think it’s apparent … that there is no support from among the college presidents in this country for a BCS playoff system,” Gee said. “And furthermore, if anything, the sentiment is to move back to the bowl system. I would say that [a playoff] is losing support from the college presidents.”

And with Congress now sticking its nose in the matter, Gee was asked if that action had weakened his opposition to a playoff or forced him to backtrack from a previous statement that a playoff would come only after it was wrenched from his “cold, dead hands.”

“It has solidified, actually,” Gee said about his resistance to the notion of a playoff. “My hands have gotten colder.”

Gee, a highly visible and often flamboyant Buckeyes fan, seemed irked that federal legislators would be meddling in college football, given the economic crisis at hand, the health care debate, and the on-going….

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