December 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Former NCAA head football coach, Rick Neuheisel, drops by to weigh in on the College Football Playoff and the injustice suffered by Notre Dame. And Dan revisits las hour’s interview with Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacvqua and considers the changing landscape of college football.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Final Hour. In this Monday Dan and the
dan 's Dan Patrick Show. Doctor Rick Neuheisel College football
a list. He'll join us coming up here shortly. Sunday
Night Football. It'll be justin Jefferson and the Vikings against
Dak and the Cowboys. That'll be at seven Eastern, non
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NBC and Peacock. I mentioned with the NFL, it was
more about the teams that lost over the weekend. Certainly
the Colts losing and losing their quarterback. Chiefs lose last night,
Bengals lose in Buffalo, the Buccaneers lost at home, the
Ravens lost at home as well. You know, the Bears
had the best record in the NFC. They ended up
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losing to Green Bay. And Green Bay is kind of
quietly becoming a very good team, if not great team.
And you know, I think we focus usually on the
offense and Jordan Love and is Jordan Love holding them back?
And the defense is playing well. But that's a big
You know that you're at home, Yes you're supposed to win,
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it's against the Bears, and you end up winning. Because
when we look back on this season, there's going to
be a couple of teams where you're going to single
out one game, maybe two games, where you go, how
did you lose to them? Take care of the business
that's in front of you, and then you hope that
you're going to be able to get into the postseason.
You know the Steelers. Steelers aren't great, They're a little
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better than average, it feels like, but that's a desperate
Ravens team. You're at home. You got to win that game.
You have to win that game. And what I have
given Isaiah likely a touchdown. I would have because it
felt like it was one step, two steps control of
the ball. Football moved to keep the ball away from
the defender and they decided to overturn that. But as
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Aaron Rodgers said, maybe this will keep us idiots in
the media off Mike Tomlin for a week, maybe nationally
not locally. It'll be like, ruggled. We maybe shouldn't have
won that game, but that's a big win. But it
sounded like the Ravens are out of it in that division.
They're still in it. You went too in a row.
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Did you see Ben Johnson, the Bear's head coach, and
Matt leafleour at the end of the game with their handshake.
Frosty is the word that I would use. Keep in mind,
when Ben Johnson was sworn in as the Bear's head coach,
he was like, oh yeah, I always like beating the
Packers twice a year. That was when he was an
assistant coach in Detroit. Well, now you're the head coach here,
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And I think that's why it was a little bit
of a frosty handshake at the end of the game.
And they play each other in two weeks. But I
was kind of surprised that when Ben got sworn in.
I'm like, all right, he's buying into that rivalry. Now
you've got to go out there and win.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, Paul, that barely counts as a postgame handshake. They
didn't even break stride or slow down. It was like,
in real time, a grab and go and they didn't
even give the good game turn in you just throw away.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I did like it, though, yes, because you know it
feels like, hey, everybody loves everybody. Every quarterback loves every quarterback,
every coach loves every that's not the keys. But I
like it when you don't like each other. I like
it when there's a little bit of a frosty nature
added to that. Packers' next game in Denver. In Denver, Nah,
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that's what I want to see Jordan Love against that
Broncos defense. Is that Broncos defense. I think they're up
to like fifty five sacks something like that. This year.
They've been great, and they roughed up the Raiders yesterday
as well. All right, eight seven seven three DP show
more phone calls best and worst to the weekend, uh Seaton,
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You got a poll question for the final hour, and
then we will talk to Rick Newheisel.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, we got three of them up there right now.
Notre Dame either your options are got hosed, will change
the playoffs as being petty or all of the above?
Right now, being petty has about thirty six percent, followed
by all of the above, which is thirty four. We
also have up there the Chiefs playoff chances are dead,
on life support or alive, and well fifty four percent
of the audience have them as dead. And the worst
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loss this weekend Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens. It's in that order. Actually,
Bucks and Chiefs almost tied for the top.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Fritchie just reminded me The late field goal by the
Raiders put the game total over by a half. The
total was forty and a half. The field goal got
it to forty one, and the points spread was seven
and a half. They were down ten, they kick a
field goal and they lose by seven. This is where
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Todd comes in. He goes, how did they do that?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How did I do that?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, it's their job, Todd.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
The last second, meaningless field goal somehow gets involved with.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I just can't. This is what they do. They have
to do this so they can make money. New Heisel
college football analyst works for CBS, joining us on the program.
All right, do we talk about what the committee got
right or what the committee got wrong?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
I think the answer is we're all kind of lost
in a world that for six weeks we were told
that Notre Dame was better than Miami. We all made
our proclamations about how that game went on the field
to play in week one, but to do it for
six weeks and then choose the week after neither one played,
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to make the adjustment. That to me is time for
a change. And I don't blame anybody, but all of
a sudden, you've teased Notre Dame for too long to
do this to them, And I see now they're taking
their ball and going home. They're not going to play
in a bowl game. This is bad for college football.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well what do you make of that decision to not
play in the bowl game against BYU.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think it's a sign of the times.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
We saw Iowa State, we saw Kansas State also make
similar decisions. Obviously coaching changes there as part of it.
But I think bowl games are going to end up
being the first game of the year. Dan, I think
we're going to see a bunch of these bulls go
by way of the whales. And I also think the
college football playoff is going to go. As they extended
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that deadline to January twenty third, I think we're going
to go right past sixteen all the way to twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, wait a minute, we're going to get rid of
bowl games. What do you mean by bowl games will
be the first game of the year.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
I think we're going to have a hard time talking
a bunch of teams into playing in the postseason. Maybe
I'm wrong, and I hope I am, because I remember
vividly how much I enjoyed them both as a player,
and as coach. But I just think in this day
of transaction football, where people are coming and going, that
there are going to be a lot of teams and
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we're going to see a lot of players that aren't
going to participate, and I think that's a shame. So
I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of these
bowl games get moved to the front end of a
college football season.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Does Alabama deserve to be in not?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Based on the eye test? They were not themselves. Give
Georgia a lot of credit for that, but that was
not a good looking football team. And you know those
two conference championship games, the Acid excuse me, the SEC
and the Big Ten. For there to be that little
movement in the CFP rankings meant that they were basically
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not important enough to make changes.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
That to me signals of time.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
We're going to change those out, We're not going to
have those, We're going to end up having play in
games to replace the money.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And I'm wondering about these weekly ranking shows that ESPN
has right, and I think it puts the College Football
Committee in a really precarious position because they have to
explain themselves and they don't do a very good job
explaining themselves.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
No they don't, and the poor communicator in this case,
Hunter Yrchek, the CFP chairman, has to try to make
sense of things. And I mean, for the for six weeks,
you basically said that Miami is not as good as
Notre Dame because Notre Dame's on this fabulous run. Notre
Dame finishes the run, Miami finishes the season, and.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Then you flip them.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Uh. It brings into question all sorts of things, which
isn't fair to the committee, but ultimately they have to answer.
So these shows to me ought to be one show,
the last one. And I understand how television works. We
like our cake and eat it too. We like people's
eyeballs and commercials and all that stuff. But that was
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that was difficult. I knew the committee was in trouble
when bou Corrigan, as the committee chaired, Dan said, as
you know, we like wins and we value wins. When
he came up with that, Pearl, I said, now that's
common sense.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
He's Rick new Heisl, CBS college football analyst, former college
football head coach. If I would have told you five
months ago, Indiana is going to be undefeated, number one
team in the country and they're going to have the
Heisman Trophy winner and Notre Dame is not going to
make the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
You would have said, where's the statue of Signetti? The
guy has pulled a rabbit out of his hat.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Is there anything that's comparable to what he's accomplished, because
I do think it's being underrated what he did growing
up in the Midwest, knowing what Indiana football was and
they want to be a basketball school and what he's
done in two years time is working.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Yeah, I think we're working so hard to figure out
how it could have happened. And obviously with a transfer
poral in his experience at James Madison and a lot
of really good players, the sarat kid and others that
came with him from James Madison. But at the end
of the day, let's just stop and admire the work done.
It is phenomenal. It is out of this world. This
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is a program that was the losingest program in all
of college football. No one had lost more games, and
for them to go and have this run that they
have enjoyed eleven and two last year and now sitting
there at thirteen and zero and the number one team
in the land going to a Rose Bowl. If you're
a Hoosier fan, you're going just don't wake me up.
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Just keep this thing rolling. And now you know we're
going to be listening to Abba played Fernando for on
and on and on.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
How many teams can win the title?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I think seven. I think I like maybe maybe eight.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I think the top seven teams are all absolutely good
enough to do it. And as we saw over the weekend,
defense plays right that those were games I think all
went under. So if you have the top seven, and
I think, if I'm looking, that's the seventh team, I
kind of like Miami. I think Miami is dangerous if
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Carson Beck gets on a heater.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
How did Penn State do in the big picture here?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
A whole lot of a whole lot of you know, consternation,
and a whole lot of time and money spent to
get the same coach. I mean, Matt Campbell's a fine coach,
but he has no better resume than James Franklin when
he got there, and James Franklin had a great run.
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I understand the whiplash of the three games and why
it happened, but Matt Campbell's going to have to go
aways to be better than what James Franklin is And
right now, if you're looking at Virginia Tech and Penn State,
the momentum is clearly with Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I was told over the weekend that we're going to
sixteen teams with the playoff next year.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I think I think, you know, as the old saying goes,
the answers money Now what was the question?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Right?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
But but you know, given the noted Aime situation, I
wouldn't be shocked if we go right through it. I
really wouldn't because to get to twenty four. Now you
can start supplanning some of these conference championship games, which
right now after the weekend we saw even with Alabama
looking that terrible, didn't move a spot. Ohio State lost
the game, but is the two seed and nothing really matters.
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All they did is risk players. I think we're going
to look for games to supplant those, and in so doing,
we're going to end up at a number that's larger
than sixteen. Why would we stop knowing that we're probably
going to get there anyway?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, you know, the conference championships have always been a
money grab sure, right, that's all. That's why they were
just like basketball.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Just like basketball, conference tournaments are a money grab. They
don't really mean that much when you're in the power
for structure.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Now for the ACC.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
And the Big Twelve, they're important games because loser is out.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Uh and in this game even winner was out. Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I wonder if they might make a deal with the
Notre Dame in the ACC. If the ACC doesn't have
a champion as as Duke was, that Notre Dame can
be their champion. Remember Notre Dame went as there as
an ACC team back in the COVID year.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Who would you make the commissioner of college football? Oh goodness,
is there somebody who can do that?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Jobs as big as it is, it's all it is
is given the bad news, right, It's it's the guy
who can come up and tell people, or or the
the woman who can come up and tell people things
that they.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Don't necessarily do. Exact their commissioner like somebody like Goodell,
like scheduling. You know he's running or they are running
everything here.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I'm available, Dan, I just want to make you you
got a great life.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You don't want this.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I got, I got my I'm working on my grip.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, enough people hate you. You don't need more people
to hate you. It's an excellent point. D It's an
excellent point. I don't need that nonsense. Thank you, buddy.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Jo always wonderful to be with you. Happy holidays, and
I'll have a song for you the next time we talk.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Rick new Isiel CBS Sports analyst. Okay, he brings up
something interesting from the standpoint of expanding the playoffs. Now,
I'm going to take a break and then we'll come back.
I want to talk about this because there's also going
to be a push for something that has to do
with bowl games, and we might flip the script of
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having bowl games to start seasons. They want to make
sure that these players are going to play in the
bowl games. Rick is talk about expanding the playoffs to
twenty four and I understand you may not like it
his logic, but I do understand it. We'll take a break,
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Notre Dame athletic director uh Pete Bavaqua joined us and
he talked about his relationship Notre Dame's relationship with the
ACC and where it stands now after the college football
playoff snub. What role do the ACC play in any
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of this in your opinion?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have
tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team school,
their athletic director Dan Radikovich is a good friend, and
all the teams in the ACC great wonderful universities. We
have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC.
But we were mystified by the actions of the conference
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to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in
football and a member of their conference in twenty four
of our other sports. And I would tell you, Dan,
I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say
that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship
between the conference and Notre Dame. What do you mean,
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just we didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled
out repeatedly and compared to Miami.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Not by Miami.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Miami has every right to do that, but it raised
a lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking
shots at us, and you know, that's just not something
we chose to do.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
We wouldn't choose to do that in the future.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
People might disagree with us, but that's just not something
that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we have no
problem with any of these teams. These are all great teams.
You look at those teams, Miami, like I said, great season,
they beat us. You think about Alabama, and nobody's had
more success in college football over the last decade than Alabama.
But Dan, you know, I mean, you follow the sport
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so closely everybody was saying that we were one of
a handful of teams that could win this whole thing,
and that we have zero percent chance. Even Nick Saban,
you know, nobody knows more about college football maybe in
the history of the world than Nick Saban, you know,
and he said it yesterday, like, how is Notre Dame
not in this? I mean, everybody's just kind of confused
and perplexed, and we don't have good answers for the
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kids on our team, for our student athletes.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Are you going to reevaluate your relationship with the ACC
the overall relationship.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
I would just say it's been strained.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That is going to go viral there with that comment. Now,
I did ask Pete to explain the decision name is
going to sit out their bowl game.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
You know, we made the decision not to play in
a bowl game, as I know you're you're well aware,
and a lot of people have asked me about that.
And you know, when Marcus, we watched the presentation show,
the selection show with the team, and then Marcus, like
he always does, was wonderful, got up and for somebody
that always has great answers, he was brutally honest with
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the team and said he didn't have a lot of answers.
Doesn't understand how this happened, Why this happened, Why a
team that thought it was doing what it needed to
do all of a sudden kind of woke up on
kind of the wrong side of this. And then just
as you're kind of dealing with that, you start getting
these calls from other bowls.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
And you know that the.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Role of a captain on the Notre Dame football team
is a role that that the program and Marcus takes
very very seriously. And he talked to all the captains,
you know, I said, hey, what are you guys thinking,
What's what does the team thinking.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Let's talk about this, And you know.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
To a person, the captains and some of the other
you know, underclassmen on the team said, listen, we are
such a close knit team.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
We've done so much this season.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
We overcame those two opening losses, we rallied, we dominated
in the last ten games. We can't imagine taking the
field not as that team. And it's reality, Dan, you
know that certain players wouldn't participate in that game. You
think about somebody with the future that he has, like
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a Jeremiah Love, a Jadarian Price Eli Rared and you
know Emil Wagner, who's one of the most impressive people
I've met in my life, who hopefully after he's done
playing football, I hope he runs for president one day.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
It just wouldn't be the same.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
And you know, made the decision that it was time
to start thinking about next season. Give these these student
athletes a break. They have exams coming up, and then
you know, really hopefully they'll go home and spend Christmas
in the holidays with their family.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
And so that's Pete Babakway. He's the athletic director at
Notre Dame. And whether you agree with him or not,
I wish they would have played in the ball game.
I do understand what he's saying. If you're not playing
for anything, then why are you playing in the bowl game,
Especially if you're Jeremiah Love and you're going to be
a top fifteen pick and some of these other players
at Notre Dame, why are you playing? This is why
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what Rick Newheiser was saying. If you expanded to twenty
four schools, now you have and they'll still be playing
in bowl games, they'll be playoff games. But now all
of a sudden, they're relevant now I have more teams,
more players, and better games. Now, is that too many
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twenty four teams instead of twelve or going to fourteen?
But this is what Rick Newhaisa was saying. I'm wondering
if we get to the point where we need to
schedule bowl games at the beginning of the season to
ensure that you get a good game site and you're
going to get players who are going to play. Now,
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you know it's not during the winter time, and a
lot of these fans want to go to a nice
place weatherwise. Well, the weather would be nice in September
everywhere in the country, and then you could get them
to play in a bowl game as opposed to the
future of the bowl games might be in jeopardy here.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Yeah, Marvin, Yeah, you could do the same thing college
basketball does every single year they have the Preeces Nit
Duke plays North Carolina or Kansas places Michigan State at
the beginning of every single season Madis Square Garden. They
always have a big college basketball game. So you can
kind of do the same thing to make sure you
have a big time matchup and put the name of
the bowl on there.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah. Yeah, I think college football's changing and what happens.
It usually takes something that you know calls about change.
If you believe this call is about change, it's Notre
Dame and it's a controversy. And I think you can
actually understand Notre Dame's side of this, just from the
standpoint of Miami didn't do anything, but they jumped Notre Dame.
Why wasn't Notre Dame in front of them for the
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last month? Alabama loses and really was never competitive in
the SEC title game and they don't drop. Why not?
Because history shows teams that lose in those conference title
games almost always drop. Twenty out of the last twenty
two have dropped in the rankings. The only two that
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didn't Alabama. And then I think you can go back
to TCU a couple of years ago. That's it, but
they didn't drop. I'm going to go back to what
my source said, and he said it during the week
it felt like the committee was setting Notre Dame up
for disappointment. That was the quote, and it stayed with
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me the entire weekend, and when I realized Notre Dame
wasn't in, it just felt like ACC was against Notre
Dame and maybe the college Football Playoff Committee to a
certain degree was but put Miami ahead of them, then
we don't have that controvert Alabama shoot a drop down. Yes,
they're in the SEC title game and that's the most
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demanding conference and to do that is quite an accomplishment.
But you were not competitive in that game. You should
have dropped at least a little bit there. Yeah, see agree,
full stop, Paulie.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You know the other thing you could do if you
wanted to make a sixteen team playoff, you could remove
the conference championship weekend and make those into a series
of play in games for the last two spots and
those could be called bowl games or something like that,
because right now the conference playoff weekend is becoming semi relevant,
but it doesn't really matter in your rankings. You could
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lose and still stay where you are.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
What used to be a great weekend and impactful weekend
is kind of like high end exhibitions.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I hate the conference championship games.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I do.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Some conferences have a conference championship game, some don't. Can
you schedule another game? You know, Vandy tried to do that.
I'm curious if Notre Dame tried to do that. It
just make it all equal. There's millions and millions and
millions of dollars at stake here.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yes, all that's really being highlighted, though essentially on an
annual basis, is how stupid this whole setup is. Okay,
the idea that we've just gotten to a point where
you said, you know, I actually hate the conference title games?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
What are we doing?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I've hated him for years? What are we doing years?
It is the dumbest thing in the world. But it
generates money, and that's all they care about. That's all
the playoff is about. It's about money. Yes, it's generating money.
It's not no one actually cares who is the real winner.
It's how much money can we make it till we decide, Well,
you're the winner, then okay.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, somebody're gonna get a nice shiny trophy at the
end of this. But then all these schools are going
to make millions of dollars because they're in, you know,
the playoffs, And you're right. I mean, they went kicking
and screaming from four to twelve, remember that.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Four to twelve, getting to four and they screened the
entire existence of college football.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Percy Lean, when I go, wait a minute. When we
went from two to four, I did say on on
the radio show, all right, I'm good, like I'm we
accomplished something. And then all of a sudden it was
four to twelve, and I go, oh my god, this
is awesome. I don't want us to go to twenty four,
but I do want these games to mean something. And
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college football has so many games that don't mean anything.
But maybe you put a bowl game at the beginning
of the year. Maybe that's your bowl, your bowl month
celebrated espnos sell it.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
Yes, Marvin, Yeah, the a SEC championship meant nothing. Duke
won great. You want in front of fifteen thousand people,
you won a trophy. You're still not even.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They should have put him in the playoffs. You won
the ACC playoffs. I thought that's how we usually go. Yeah,
not used to, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But conference championship and could also be a double standard.
It doesn't hurt Alabama to lose poorly, but it does
hurt BYU to lose poorly. Both were right there in
the thick of things. But BYU getting beat thirty four
to seven by Texas deck, you wipe your hands a
BYU there out of the mix.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
That's what the committee did.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, Seaton.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Just the fact that we sit here year after year
and debate why he can't expand the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I mean, how would that even work.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There's a whole other group of schools that have a
twenty fourteenth playoffs since forever and it works just fine there.
How in the world can we honestly sit here and be.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
Like, how would that even work? I mean, how could
you possibly expand it? I what twelve sixty, what's next?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Twenty four? Yeah, they've been doing it since I don't
even know how long.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
Yeah, Yes, what the hell? What is this a debate for?
I wo, how would we do that? H Adam in
La Hi Adam. Best and Worst of the weekend?
Speaker 13 (26:57):
Happy Monday, DP. I have two best and a quick
two worst of the weekend. My best was that I
got the opportunity to be the head coach for my
two oldest daughters in their versus varsity basketball tournament.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
They both did really well. Couldn't be more proud of
as a dad and a coach. Second best with my
Los Angeles Rams with the bounce back dominating performance over
the Cardinals back on top of the NFC Matthew Stafford
again another flawless performance. Definitely right now front runner to
win NFL MVP.
Speaker 13 (27:26):
Two quick words.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Nobody should be crying about not making the college football playoffs.
The top four is more than enough for me to
make it this year. The second worst Purdue suffering their
worst loss at home in over a decade at the
hands of a really good Iowa State team.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You all have a great week.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Thanks DP, You're the best.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Thank you Adam, Thank you, Zach and Noggsville. Welcome back, Zachy.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Zach.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Dorsey in North Carolina, Hi, dors, Hi.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
Dan, how are you great?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Well?
Speaker 11 (28:01):
My best say the week was hands down to Indiana
Hoosiers winning meeting Ohio State, being number one in the
country and finally getting some respect. Signetti is the greatest
story in the history of college football.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well, I don't know if it's the greatest, Like, is
it better than Rudy?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You know?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean, is that the great? Are they going to
do a movie on Kurt Signetti? But he's done a
great job. Dorsey just just adding a lot levity there.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Well, I got three kids that graduated from IU, so
I'm obviously favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, that clears it up. That clears it up.
Speaker 11 (28:35):
Yeah, that does. But I want to know one thing
about Notre Dame. Who was on that selection committee? And
were anybody on the selection committee from the SEC?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, everybody's represented. I just think from what I'm told,
the ACC took up about three hours and they have
too many people with too many different too many agendas
in there. But there's going to be more that'll come
out here. There'll be more information about this. And was
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there an agenda against Notre Dame? Maybe we'll find out.
Let's see Matt in Nashville. I'm Matt. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Hey Matt, good morning.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
How are you good, sir? What's on your mind? Oh?
Speaker 14 (29:21):
Not too much long suffering. As to your resident University
of Virginia sports fan, here got a best and worst.
I'm gonna go ahead and rip off the band aid.
Worst is what it is, man, No excuses. We lost
it on the field. Terrible, terrible game, just all the
way around. I told a buddy of mine, the only
good thing about being a Virginia football fan is you
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never expect to win the big games, so when you lose,
it's never shot. On the flip side of that, the
best I don't know if you guys are paying attention
to college basketball yet, but my Virginia Cavaliers on Saturday morning,
Saint City, Sat. And Charlotte played your Dayton Flyers, and
Jacari White, the seventh man off the bench, went at
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a stat line. He went nine for nine from the field,
seven for seven from three. He is currently thirteen for
thirteen in his last three games from three. He's got
a crowd or a group of students that are called
the CHICARMI if you're not paying attention to the Jacory
White over Virginia. So I've never seen the state line
stat line like that in my life.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
All right, well, thank you, Matt, and congratulations with your
Virginia Cavaliers against my Dayton Flyers. Stephen in Bismarck, North Dakota, Hi, Steven.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, hello Dan, second time, long time five nine one
sixty five and I'm sixty six years old. I'm closer
to you, okay, guest.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
And worst.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
The best of the weekend, and this is from an
NBSU fan, is that we lost our game. The worst
is that Notre Dame got voted out. Here's why. Best
is North Sacota State losing football in all sports is
a merit sport. It means the end of the game.
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It's no different than you losing or winning a three
point contest. To Fritzy Bali, we're seating. The score is
the score. We lost the game. And as hard as
it is to lose a game, you lose by a score,
to get beat out by a committee of some sort
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that goes has different political feelings to me is just wrong.
And that's why I love sports because of I love merit.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
All right, Well, thank you, Steven, all right, getting some
morals there, understanding the sportsmanship and what you prove it
on the field.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, Paul, I saw some people on social media compared
to imagine you're up for a job and you do
the final interview, and the other person who's up for
it does the final interview, and they tell you a
couple of days before, well it's yours. We had to
wait till Sunday morning to announce it. But it's yours,
and nobody else has any more in interaction, and nowhere
more else has any more interviews, and they give it
to the other guy.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's the feel Yeah, like you know, just as long
as it's not transparent. I guess that's the thing that
bothers Notre Dame. They just wanted to know. Wait, what
happened here? We didn't play Miami, didn't play Miami's in
front of us. Alabama got roughed up. They didn't drop, Like,
help us understand this here?
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
See, yeah, it is weird when you look at like
the rankings right now, Notre Dame is eleventh, except that
really they're not.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
No. Yeah, eleventh in real life, but not eleventh in
college football life yeah life, Yeah, all right, last call
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Search FSR to listen live. Satan, would you give us
the final results of the poll question today? Please?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, we got a few of them up there. Things
not going well for not to day. Most of a
vast majority of the audience think they're just being petty
over being things like screwed, etc.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Etc. Etc.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Also, the Chiefs playoff chances, according to that same audience,
are mostly dead or on life support, and the worst
loss of the weekend right now, Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens
in that order.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Okay, Joe and Orlando, Hi Joe, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (33:35):
You?
Speaker 13 (33:35):
And Dennetz? Hope you guys are having a blessed start
to the week. First caller, longtime list First time caller,
longtime listener eighteen.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I'm five.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I just wanted to ask you, if we do move
to a twenty fourteen format, would there be any sort
of conference tie in at all? Would we have to
look at the mid majors?
Speaker 13 (33:57):
What would be the deal there?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Once again, I don't even want to dive into that
deep end of the pool because I don't know what
I mean. Once again, we're dealing with a fluid topic
in the college football Playoff committee, So I don't want
to throw out, you know, possible scenarios here until we
get to that and it's in the formulative stage of
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this where we're actually trying to do something like this.
I don't want to go, well, you could have a
AQ and then you could have the highest and that,
you know, then all of a sudden, that's not good radio.
But I do think if we got to make the
bowl games mean something, the players will play in those
Bowl games if it means that they're in the playoffs.
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But I don't even know. The other bowl games won't
matter for a lot of these kids. I just worry
that these bowl games will become obsolete. And that's why
I'm saying, why not do something like college basketball does
and they have these matchups. It'll be the Big Ten
in SEC. They'll meet at the Garden, they'll meet in
random sites. Okay, nothing's really accomplished there. But if it
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means I can have the Rose Bowl and you're gonna
have Oregon play throw out a team at Miami and
they're going to play in the Rose Bowl, and that's
the Rose Bowl, and you get a good matchup against
two teams that wouldn't normally play each other. That's what
we want. We don't want these games where you go,
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who are you playing? You know, we're playing Tennessee Valley
State University, you know Northeast. It doesn't help now, it
helps those schools because that's their big payday. But we're
talking about big boy football here and a lot of
money at stake, So play quality opponents here, yes, Marvin, Yeah,
and a lot.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
Of those smaller bulls. You can just turn it into
the pop Tart Classic, the Pinstrike Classic. You don't have
to put even a bowl and you just have two
pretty good teams just play each other.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Let's see Ted and Nevada.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Ted, Hey dad, how are you doing this morning? Pay
quickly with the.
Speaker 15 (36:05):
Whole Notre Dame Miami. Does anybody really think that Alabama
with one more loss and neither one of those two
teams should be in the playoffs? I mean, you can
argue all day long who had the better loss, who
had the better schedule, who had it's another loss, one
more than the other two teams?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Why are we playing the games? If wins and losses
don't matter? These are all good topics, they're relevant topics,
And it becomes we don't know what goes on behind
those closed doors. I mean, i'd I'd love to make
it transparent, but it's never gonna happen. But you know,
you're just trying to understand exactly what is what are
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there formulas for this? Just help us understand that. I mean,
I don't think any of us have a problem if
we at least understand what the rules of the game.
You can't play monopoly, but you're you know, using shoots
and ladders rules like it doesn't make sense here, and
it feels like college football is shoots and ladders. It's like,
(37:09):
wait a minute, how did we end up down there?
And how did they end up up there? Paul in
North Dakota. Hi, Paul, Wood's on your mind? Hey Dan,
This is Paul and Boseman. Actually, first time caller, longtime
listener since the Dibble and Salisbury Days. Best of the
(37:29):
weekend Montana State Bobcats over Yale and the FCS playoffs.
I don't know why FBS can't go to FCS. Other
best North Dakota State, South Dakota State going down, which
means there's going to be a new champion. Yeah, and
another best. I'm sitting here in the new member df
(37:50):
Nations twelve point six pound fox red labrador, eight week old.
Thank you, Paul, good luck, good luck. We got a
onesie for your your dog.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Brian in Indiana, Hi, Brian, WIT's on your mind?
Speaker 16 (38:08):
Hey Dan, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Just calling in.
Speaker 16 (38:11):
This is a five nine, one sixty two retired looking
over the lake right now. I think the elephant in
the room is Alabama and part that's the pun on
the whole thing too. They lost to Florida State early
in the year, and nobody's factoring that in. They're sitting
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there saying Notre Dame, you know, and lost to Miami
and that's why they're out. And they lost two games
by total of four point Yet Alabama got hammered by
Florida State, they lost his home to Oklahoma, and they
looked terrible in the championship game. And they are the
elephant in the room as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
All right, thank you, Brian. Yeah, all I can go
on is, you know, last week, a week ago at
this time, and that's when my college source said, you know,
the Alabama placement is drew his attention because he said
it feels like they're setting Notre Dame up to be disappointed.
(39:15):
Those were his words. And he's a great college source here,
Josh and Iowa, Josh, what's on your mind?
Speaker 17 (39:23):
Hey guys, thanks for having me. Shout out to the
guy who repped his dog just a second ago, five eleven.
Thank you. Best and worse. I got a best, which
is the annual snow game in Buffalo. I always love
those games. Worst of the weekend is we still suffering
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snow Mgeddon here and Iowa a lot of hurtbacks around here.
Thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Bye, PAULI this day in sports history, I just got
one for you.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Dan Tom King of England won over John Heaton of
America in eighteen sixty three to be the first world
heavyweight champion.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
I've ever heard that before. Hm hmm.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Okay. Earl Campbell won the Heisman on this date in
nineteen seventy seven. Kyler Murray, friend of the Show, won
the Heisman on this date twenty eighteen. That career in
Arizona is over. It feels like a healthy scratch for
the rest of the season for Kyler Murray. All right, Todd?
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Would you learn today?
Speaker 9 (40:26):
Rick Newhausel thinks the selection committee tease Notre Dame for
too long, ranking them ahead of Miami for the last
possible moment.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Satan, would you learn today? Permanent damage? Irreparable d yeh Marvin,
you owe Pritzy, You owe Fritzy a pie and I
owe Pitsy of fry. Paulie, what did you learn?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
The best ballgame would be Notre Dame versus.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The ACC Todd? What did I learn.
Speaker 10 (40:49):
Notre Dame ad pee Pavakua says the relationship between Notre
Dame and ACC is now being strained.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Have a great day, everybody. We look forward to chatting
with you tomorrow.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Final Hour. In this Monday Dan and the
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Night Football. It'll be justin Jefferson and the Vikings against
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NBC and Peacock. I mentioned with the NFL, it was
more about the teams that lost over the weekend. Certainly
the Colts losing and losing their quarterback. Chiefs lose last night,
Bengals lose in Buffalo, the Buccaneers lost at home, the
Ravens lost at home as well. You know, the Bears
had the best record in the NFC. They ended up
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losing to Green Bay. And Green Bay is kind of
quietly becoming a very good team, if not great team.
And you know, I think we focus usually on the
offense and Jordan Love and is Jordan Love holding them back?
And the defense is playing well. But that's a big
You know that you're at home, Yes you're supposed to win,
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it's against the Bears, and you end up winning. Because
when we look back on this season, there's going to
be a couple of teams where you're going to single
out one game, maybe two games, where you go, how
did you lose to them? Take care of the business
that's in front of you, and then you hope that
you're going to be able to get into the postseason.
You know the Steelers. Steelers aren't great, They're a little
(01:26):
better than average, it feels like, but that's a desperate
Ravens team. You're at home. You got to win that game.
You have to win that game. And what I have
given Isaiah likely a touchdown. I would have because it
felt like it was one step, two steps control of
the ball. Football moved to keep the ball away from
the defender and they decided to overturn that. But as
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Aaron Rodgers said, maybe this will keep us idiots in
the media off Mike Tomlin for a week, maybe nationally
not locally. It'll be like, ruggled. We maybe shouldn't have
won that game, but that's a big win. But it
sounded like the Ravens are out of it in that division.
They're still in it. You went too in a row.
(02:11):
Did you see Ben Johnson, the Bear's head coach, and
Matt leafleour at the end of the game with their handshake.
Frosty is the word that I would use. Keep in mind,
when Ben Johnson was sworn in as the Bear's head coach,
he was like, oh yeah, I always like beating the
Packers twice a year. That was when he was an
assistant coach in Detroit. Well, now you're the head coach here,
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And I think that's why it was a little bit
of a frosty handshake at the end of the game.
And they play each other in two weeks. But I
was kind of surprised that when Ben got sworn in.
I'm like, all right, he's buying into that rivalry. Now
you've got to go out there and win.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, Paul, that barely counts as a postgame handshake. They
didn't even break stride or slow down. It was like,
in real time, a grab and go and they didn't
even give the good game turn in you just throw away.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I did like it, though, yes, because you know it
feels like, hey, everybody loves everybody. Every quarterback loves every quarterback,
every coach loves every that's not the keys. But I
like it when you don't like each other. I like
it when there's a little bit of a frosty nature
added to that. Packers' next game in Denver. In Denver, Nah,
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that's what I want to see Jordan Love against that
Broncos defense. Is that Broncos defense. I think they're up
to like fifty five sacks something like that. This year.
They've been great, and they roughed up the Raiders yesterday
as well. All right, eight seven seven three DP show
more phone calls best and worst to the weekend, uh Seaton,
(03:46):
You got a poll question for the final hour, and
then we will talk to Rick Newheisel.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, we got three of them up there right now.
Notre Dame either your options are got hosed, will change
the playoffs as being petty or all of the above?
Right now, being petty has about thirty six percent, followed
by all of the above, which is thirty four. We
also have up there the Chiefs playoff chances are dead,
on life support or alive, and well fifty four percent
of the audience have them as dead. And the worst
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loss this weekend Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens. It's in that order. Actually,
Bucks and Chiefs almost tied for the top.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Fritchie just reminded me The late field goal by the
Raiders put the game total over by a half. The
total was forty and a half. The field goal got
it to forty one, and the points spread was seven
and a half. They were down ten, they kick a
field goal and they lose by seven. This is where
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Todd comes in. He goes, how did they do that?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How did I do that?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, it's their job, Todd.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
The last second, meaningless field goal somehow gets involved with.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I just can't. This is what they do. They have
to do this so they can make money. New Heisel
college football analyst works for CBS, joining us on the program.
All right, do we talk about what the committee got
right or what the committee got wrong?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
I think the answer is we're all kind of lost
in a world that for six weeks we were told
that Notre Dame was better than Miami. We all made
our proclamations about how that game went on the field
to play in week one, but to do it for
six weeks and then choose the week after neither one played,
(05:33):
to make the adjustment. That to me is time for
a change. And I don't blame anybody, but all of
a sudden, you've teased Notre Dame for too long to
do this to them, And I see now they're taking
their ball and going home. They're not going to play
in a bowl game. This is bad for college football.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well what do you make of that decision to not
play in the bowl game against BYU.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think it's a sign of the times.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
We saw Iowa State, we saw Kansas State also make
similar decisions. Obviously coaching changes there as part of it.
But I think bowl games are going to end up
being the first game of the year. Dan, I think
we're going to see a bunch of these bulls go
by way of the whales. And I also think the
college football playoff is going to go. As they extended
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that deadline to January twenty third, I think we're going
to go right past sixteen all the way to twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, wait a minute, we're going to get rid of
bowl games. What do you mean by bowl games will
be the first game of the year.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
I think we're going to have a hard time talking
a bunch of teams into playing in the postseason. Maybe
I'm wrong, and I hope I am, because I remember
vividly how much I enjoyed them both as a player,
and as coach. But I just think in this day
of transaction football, where people are coming and going, that
there are going to be a lot of teams and
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we're going to see a lot of players that aren't
going to participate, and I think that's a shame. So
I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of these
bowl games get moved to the front end of a
college football season.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Does Alabama deserve to be in not?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Based on the eye test? They were not themselves. Give
Georgia a lot of credit for that, but that was
not a good looking football team. And you know those
two conference championship games, the Acid excuse me, the SEC
and the Big Ten. For there to be that little
movement in the CFP rankings meant that they were basically
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not important enough to make changes.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
That to me signals of time.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
We're going to change those out, We're not going to
have those, We're going to end up having play in
games to replace the money.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And I'm wondering about these weekly ranking shows that ESPN
has right, and I think it puts the College Football
Committee in a really precarious position because they have to
explain themselves and they don't do a very good job
explaining themselves.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
No they don't, and the poor communicator in this case,
Hunter Yrchek, the CFP chairman, has to try to make
sense of things. And I mean, for the for six weeks,
you basically said that Miami is not as good as
Notre Dame because Notre Dame's on this fabulous run. Notre
Dame finishes the run, Miami finishes the season, and.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Then you flip them.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Uh. It brings into question all sorts of things, which
isn't fair to the committee, but ultimately they have to answer.
So these shows to me ought to be one show,
the last one. And I understand how television works. We
like our cake and eat it too. We like people's
eyeballs and commercials and all that stuff. But that was
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that was difficult. I knew the committee was in trouble
when bou Corrigan, as the committee chaired, Dan said, as
you know, we like wins and we value wins. When
he came up with that, Pearl, I said, now that's
common sense.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
He's Rick new Heisl, CBS college football analyst, former college
football head coach. If I would have told you five
months ago, Indiana is going to be undefeated, number one
team in the country and they're going to have the
Heisman Trophy winner and Notre Dame is not going to
make the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
You would have said, where's the statue of Signetti? The
guy has pulled a rabbit out of his hat.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Is there anything that's comparable to what he's accomplished, because
I do think it's being underrated what he did growing
up in the Midwest, knowing what Indiana football was and
they want to be a basketball school and what he's
done in two years time is working.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Yeah, I think we're working so hard to figure out
how it could have happened. And obviously with a transfer
poral in his experience at James Madison and a lot
of really good players, the sarat kid and others that
came with him from James Madison. But at the end
of the day, let's just stop and admire the work done.
It is phenomenal. It is out of this world. This
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is a program that was the losingest program in all
of college football. No one had lost more games, and
for them to go and have this run that they
have enjoyed eleven and two last year and now sitting
there at thirteen and zero and the number one team
in the land going to a Rose Bowl. If you're
a Hoosier fan, you're going just don't wake me up.
(10:28):
Just keep this thing rolling. And now you know we're
going to be listening to Abba played Fernando for on
and on and on.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
How many teams can win the title?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I think seven. I think I like maybe maybe eight.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I think the top seven teams are all absolutely good
enough to do it. And as we saw over the weekend,
defense plays right that those were games I think all
went under. So if you have the top seven, and
I think, if I'm looking, that's the seventh team, I
kind of like Miami. I think Miami is dangerous if
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Carson Beck gets on a heater.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
How did Penn State do in the big picture here?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
A whole lot of a whole lot of you know, consternation,
and a whole lot of time and money spent to
get the same coach. I mean, Matt Campbell's a fine coach,
but he has no better resume than James Franklin when
he got there, and James Franklin had a great run.
(11:34):
I understand the whiplash of the three games and why
it happened, but Matt Campbell's going to have to go
aways to be better than what James Franklin is And
right now, if you're looking at Virginia Tech and Penn State,
the momentum is clearly with Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I was told over the weekend that we're going to
sixteen teams with the playoff next year.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I think I think, you know, as the old saying goes,
the answers money Now what was the question?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Right?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
But but you know, given the noted Aime situation, I
wouldn't be shocked if we go right through it. I
really wouldn't because to get to twenty four. Now you
can start supplanning some of these conference championship games, which
right now after the weekend we saw even with Alabama
looking that terrible, didn't move a spot. Ohio State lost
the game, but is the two seed and nothing really matters.
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All they did is risk players. I think we're going
to look for games to supplant those, and in so doing,
we're going to end up at a number that's larger
than sixteen. Why would we stop knowing that we're probably
going to get there anyway?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, you know, the conference championships have always been a
money grab sure, right, that's all. That's why they were
just like basketball.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Just like basketball, conference tournaments are a money grab. They
don't really mean that much when you're in the power
for structure.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Now for the ACC.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
And the Big Twelve, they're important games because loser is out.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Uh and in this game even winner was out. Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I wonder if they might make a deal with the
Notre Dame in the ACC. If the ACC doesn't have
a champion as as Duke was, that Notre Dame can
be their champion. Remember Notre Dame went as there as
an ACC team back in the COVID year.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Who would you make the commissioner of college football? Oh goodness,
is there somebody who can do that?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Jobs as big as it is, it's all it is
is given the bad news, right, It's it's the guy
who can come up and tell people, or or the
the woman who can come up and tell people things
that they.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Don't necessarily do. Exact their commissioner like somebody like Goodell,
like scheduling. You know he's running or they are running
everything here.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I'm available, Dan, I just want to make you you
got a great life.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You don't want this.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I got, I got my I'm working on my grip.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, enough people hate you. You don't need more people
to hate you. It's an excellent point. D It's an
excellent point. I don't need that nonsense. Thank you, buddy.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Jo always wonderful to be with you. Happy holidays, and
I'll have a song for you the next time we talk.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Rick new Isiel CBS Sports analyst. Okay, he brings up
something interesting from the standpoint of expanding the playoffs. Now,
I'm going to take a break and then we'll come back.
I want to talk about this because there's also going
to be a push for something that has to do
with bowl games, and we might flip the script of
(14:35):
having bowl games to start seasons. They want to make
sure that these players are going to play in the
bowl games. Rick is talk about expanding the playoffs to
twenty four and I understand you may not like it
his logic, but I do understand it. We'll take a break,
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Notre Dame athletic director uh Pete Bavaqua joined us and
he talked about his relationship Notre Dame's relationship with the
ACC and where it stands now after the college football
playoff snub. What role do the ACC play in any
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of this in your opinion?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have
tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team school,
their athletic director Dan Radikovich is a good friend, and
all the teams in the ACC great wonderful universities. We
have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC.
But we were mystified by the actions of the conference
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to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in
football and a member of their conference in twenty four
of our other sports. And I would tell you, Dan,
I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say
that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship
between the conference and Notre Dame. What do you mean,
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just we didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled
out repeatedly and compared to Miami.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Not by Miami.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Miami has every right to do that, but it raised
a lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking
shots at us, and you know, that's just not something
we chose to do.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
We wouldn't choose to do that in the future.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
People might disagree with us, but that's just not something
that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we have no
problem with any of these teams. These are all great teams.
You look at those teams, Miami, like I said, great season,
they beat us. You think about Alabama, and nobody's had
more success in college football over the last decade than Alabama.
But Dan, you know, I mean, you follow the sport
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so closely everybody was saying that we were one of
a handful of teams that could win this whole thing,
and that we have zero percent chance. Even Nick Saban,
you know, nobody knows more about college football maybe in
the history of the world than Nick Saban, you know,
and he said it yesterday, like, how is Notre Dame
not in this? I mean, everybody's just kind of confused
and perplexed, and we don't have good answers for the
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kids on our team, for our student athletes.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Are you going to reevaluate your relationship with the ACC
the overall relationship.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
I would just say it's been strained.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That is going to go viral there with that comment. Now,
I did ask Pete to explain the decision name is
going to sit out their bowl game.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
You know, we made the decision not to play in
a bowl game, as I know you're you're well aware,
and a lot of people have asked me about that.
And you know, when Marcus, we watched the presentation show,
the selection show with the team, and then Marcus, like
he always does, was wonderful, got up and for somebody
that always has great answers, he was brutally honest with
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the team and said he didn't have a lot of answers.
Doesn't understand how this happened, Why this happened, Why a
team that thought it was doing what it needed to
do all of a sudden kind of woke up on
kind of the wrong side of this. And then just
as you're kind of dealing with that, you start getting
these calls from other bowls.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
And you know that the.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Role of a captain on the Notre Dame football team
is a role that that the program and Marcus takes
very very seriously. And he talked to all the captains,
you know, I said, hey, what are you guys thinking,
What's what does the team thinking.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Let's talk about this, And you know.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
To a person, the captains and some of the other
you know, underclassmen on the team said, listen, we are
such a close knit team.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
We've done so much this season.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
We overcame those two opening losses, we rallied, we dominated
in the last ten games. We can't imagine taking the
field not as that team. And it's reality, Dan, you
know that certain players wouldn't participate in that game. You
think about somebody with the future that he has, like
(19:30):
a Jeremiah Love, a Jadarian Price Eli Rared and you
know Emil Wagner, who's one of the most impressive people
I've met in my life, who hopefully after he's done
playing football, I hope he runs for president one day.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
It just wouldn't be the same.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
And you know, made the decision that it was time
to start thinking about next season. Give these these student
athletes a break. They have exams coming up, and then
you know, really hopefully they'll go home and spend Christmas
in the holidays with their family.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
And so that's Pete Babakway. He's the athletic director at
Notre Dame. And whether you agree with him or not,
I wish they would have played in the ball game.
I do understand what he's saying. If you're not playing
for anything, then why are you playing in the bowl game,
Especially if you're Jeremiah Love and you're going to be
a top fifteen pick and some of these other players
at Notre Dame, why are you playing? This is why
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what Rick Newheiser was saying. If you expanded to twenty
four schools, now you have and they'll still be playing
in bowl games, they'll be playoff games. But now all
of a sudden, they're relevant now I have more teams,
more players, and better games. Now, is that too many
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twenty four teams instead of twelve or going to fourteen?
But this is what Rick Newhaisa was saying. I'm wondering
if we get to the point where we need to
schedule bowl games at the beginning of the season to
ensure that you get a good game site and you're
going to get players who are going to play. Now,
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you know it's not during the winter time, and a
lot of these fans want to go to a nice
place weatherwise. Well, the weather would be nice in September
everywhere in the country, and then you could get them
to play in a bowl game as opposed to the
future of the bowl games might be in jeopardy here.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Yeah, Marvin, Yeah, you could do the same thing college
basketball does every single year they have the Preeces Nit
Duke plays North Carolina or Kansas places Michigan State at
the beginning of every single season Madis Square Garden. They
always have a big college basketball game. So you can
kind of do the same thing to make sure you
have a big time matchup and put the name of
the bowl on there.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah. Yeah, I think college football's changing and what happens.
It usually takes something that you know calls about change.
If you believe this call is about change, it's Notre
Dame and it's a controversy. And I think you can
actually understand Notre Dame's side of this, just from the
standpoint of Miami didn't do anything, but they jumped Notre Dame.
Why wasn't Notre Dame in front of them for the
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last month? Alabama loses and really was never competitive in
the SEC title game and they don't drop. Why not?
Because history shows teams that lose in those conference title
games almost always drop. Twenty out of the last twenty
two have dropped in the rankings. The only two that
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didn't Alabama. And then I think you can go back
to TCU a couple of years ago. That's it, but
they didn't drop. I'm going to go back to what
my source said, and he said it during the week
it felt like the committee was setting Notre Dame up
for disappointment. That was the quote, and it stayed with
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me the entire weekend, and when I realized Notre Dame
wasn't in, it just felt like ACC was against Notre
Dame and maybe the college Football Playoff Committee to a
certain degree was but put Miami ahead of them, then
we don't have that controvert Alabama shoot a drop down. Yes,
they're in the SEC title game and that's the most
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demanding conference and to do that is quite an accomplishment.
But you were not competitive in that game. You should
have dropped at least a little bit there. Yeah, see agree,
full stop, Paulie.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You know the other thing you could do if you
wanted to make a sixteen team playoff, you could remove
the conference championship weekend and make those into a series
of play in games for the last two spots and
those could be called bowl games or something like that,
because right now the conference playoff weekend is becoming semi relevant,
but it doesn't really matter in your rankings. You could
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lose and still stay where you are.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
What used to be a great weekend and impactful weekend
is kind of like high end exhibitions.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I hate the conference championship games.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I do.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Some conferences have a conference championship game, some don't. Can
you schedule another game? You know, Vandy tried to do that.
I'm curious if Notre Dame tried to do that. It
just make it all equal. There's millions and millions and
millions of dollars at stake here.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yes, all that's really being highlighted, though essentially on an
annual basis, is how stupid this whole setup is. Okay,
the idea that we've just gotten to a point where
you said, you know, I actually hate the conference title games?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
What are we doing?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I've hated him for years? What are we doing years?
It is the dumbest thing in the world. But it
generates money, and that's all they care about. That's all
the playoff is about. It's about money. Yes, it's generating money.
It's not no one actually cares who is the real winner.
It's how much money can we make it till we decide, Well,
you're the winner, then okay.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, somebody're gonna get a nice shiny trophy at the
end of this. But then all these schools are going
to make millions of dollars because they're in, you know,
the playoffs, And you're right. I mean, they went kicking
and screaming from four to twelve, remember that.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Four to twelve, getting to four and they screened the
entire existence of college football.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Percy Lean, when I go, wait a minute. When we
went from two to four, I did say on on
the radio show, all right, I'm good, like I'm we
accomplished something. And then all of a sudden it was
four to twelve, and I go, oh my god, this
is awesome. I don't want us to go to twenty four,
but I do want these games to mean something. And
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college football has so many games that don't mean anything.
But maybe you put a bowl game at the beginning
of the year. Maybe that's your bowl, your bowl month
celebrated espnos sell it.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
Yes, Marvin, Yeah, the a SEC championship meant nothing. Duke
won great. You want in front of fifteen thousand people,
you won a trophy. You're still not even.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They should have put him in the playoffs. You won
the ACC playoffs. I thought that's how we usually go. Yeah,
not used to, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But conference championship and could also be a double standard.
It doesn't hurt Alabama to lose poorly, but it does
hurt BYU to lose poorly. Both were right there in
the thick of things. But BYU getting beat thirty four
to seven by Texas deck, you wipe your hands a
BYU there out of the mix.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
That's what the committee did.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, Seaton.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Just the fact that we sit here year after year
and debate why he can't expand the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I mean, how would that even work.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There's a whole other group of schools that have a
twenty fourteenth playoffs since forever and it works just fine there.
How in the world can we honestly sit here and be.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
Like, how would that even work? I mean, how could
you possibly expand it? I what twelve sixty, what's next?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Twenty four? Yeah, they've been doing it since I don't
even know how long.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
Yeah, Yes, what the hell? What is this a debate for?
I wo, how would we do that? H Adam in
La Hi Adam. Best and Worst of the weekend?
Speaker 13 (26:57):
Happy Monday, DP. I have two best and a quick
two worst of the weekend. My best was that I
got the opportunity to be the head coach for my
two oldest daughters in their versus varsity basketball tournament.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
They both did really well. Couldn't be more proud of
as a dad and a coach. Second best with my
Los Angeles Rams with the bounce back dominating performance over
the Cardinals back on top of the NFC Matthew Stafford
again another flawless performance. Definitely right now front runner to
win NFL MVP.
Speaker 13 (27:26):
Two quick words.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Nobody should be crying about not making the college football playoffs.
The top four is more than enough for me to
make it this year. The second worst Purdue suffering their
worst loss at home in over a decade at the
hands of a really good Iowa State team.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You all have a great week.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Thanks DP, You're the best.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Thank you Adam, Thank you, Zach and Noggsville. Welcome back, Zachy.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Zach.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Dorsey in North Carolina, Hi, dors, Hi.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
Dan, how are you great?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Well?
Speaker 11 (28:01):
My best say the week was hands down to Indiana
Hoosiers winning meeting Ohio State, being number one in the
country and finally getting some respect. Signetti is the greatest
story in the history of college football.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well, I don't know if it's the greatest, Like, is
it better than Rudy?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You know?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean, is that the great? Are they going to
do a movie on Kurt Signetti? But he's done a
great job. Dorsey just just adding a lot levity there.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Well, I got three kids that graduated from IU, so
I'm obviously favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, that clears it up. That clears it up.
Speaker 11 (28:35):
Yeah, that does. But I want to know one thing
about Notre Dame. Who was on that selection committee? And
were anybody on the selection committee from the SEC?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, everybody's represented. I just think from what I'm told,
the ACC took up about three hours and they have
too many people with too many different too many agendas
in there. But there's going to be more that'll come
out here. There'll be more information about this. And was
(29:05):
there an agenda against Notre Dame? Maybe we'll find out.
Let's see Matt in Nashville. I'm Matt. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Hey Matt, good morning.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
How are you good, sir? What's on your mind? Oh?
Speaker 14 (29:21):
Not too much long suffering. As to your resident University
of Virginia sports fan, here got a best and worst.
I'm gonna go ahead and rip off the band aid.
Worst is what it is, man, No excuses. We lost
it on the field. Terrible, terrible game, just all the
way around. I told a buddy of mine, the only
good thing about being a Virginia football fan is you
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never expect to win the big games, so when you lose,
it's never shot. On the flip side of that, the
best I don't know if you guys are paying attention
to college basketball yet, but my Virginia Cavaliers on Saturday morning,
Saint City, Sat. And Charlotte played your Dayton Flyers, and
Jacari White, the seventh man off the bench, went at
(30:03):
a stat line. He went nine for nine from the field,
seven for seven from three. He is currently thirteen for
thirteen in his last three games from three. He's got
a crowd or a group of students that are called
the CHICARMI if you're not paying attention to the Jacory
White over Virginia. So I've never seen the state line
stat line like that in my life.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
All right, well, thank you, Matt, and congratulations with your
Virginia Cavaliers against my Dayton Flyers. Stephen in Bismarck, North Dakota, Hi, Steven.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, hello Dan, second time, long time five nine one
sixty five and I'm sixty six years old. I'm closer
to you, okay, guest.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
And worst.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
The best of the weekend, and this is from an
NBSU fan, is that we lost our game. The worst
is that Notre Dame got voted out. Here's why. Best
is North Sacota State losing football in all sports is
a merit sport. It means the end of the game.
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It's no different than you losing or winning a three
point contest. To Fritzy Bali, we're seating. The score is
the score. We lost the game. And as hard as
it is to lose a game, you lose by a score,
to get beat out by a committee of some sort
(31:28):
that goes has different political feelings to me is just wrong.
And that's why I love sports because of I love merit.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
All right, Well, thank you, Steven, all right, getting some
morals there, understanding the sportsmanship and what you prove it
on the field.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, Paul, I saw some people on social media compared
to imagine you're up for a job and you do
the final interview, and the other person who's up for
it does the final interview, and they tell you a
couple of days before, well it's yours. We had to
wait till Sunday morning to announce it. But it's yours,
and nobody else has any more in interaction, and nowhere
more else has any more interviews, and they give it
to the other guy.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's the feel Yeah, like you know, just as long
as it's not transparent. I guess that's the thing that
bothers Notre Dame. They just wanted to know. Wait, what
happened here? We didn't play Miami, didn't play Miami's in
front of us. Alabama got roughed up. They didn't drop, Like,
help us understand this here?
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
See, yeah, it is weird when you look at like
the rankings right now, Notre Dame is eleventh, except that
really they're not.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
No. Yeah, eleventh in real life, but not eleventh in
college football life yeah life, Yeah, all right, last call
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Search FSR to listen live. Satan, would you give us
the final results of the poll question today? Please?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, we got a few of them up there. Things
not going well for not to day. Most of a
vast majority of the audience think they're just being petty
over being things like screwed, etc.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Etc. Etc.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Also, the Chiefs playoff chances, according to that same audience,
are mostly dead or on life support, and the worst
loss of the weekend right now, Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens
in that order.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Okay, Joe and Orlando, Hi Joe, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (33:35):
You?
Speaker 13 (33:35):
And Dennetz? Hope you guys are having a blessed start
to the week. First caller, longtime list First time caller,
longtime listener eighteen.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I'm five.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I just wanted to ask you, if we do move
to a twenty fourteen format, would there be any sort
of conference tie in at all? Would we have to
look at the mid majors?
Speaker 13 (33:57):
What would be the deal there?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Once again, I don't even want to dive into that
deep end of the pool because I don't know what
I mean. Once again, we're dealing with a fluid topic
in the college football Playoff committee, So I don't want
to throw out, you know, possible scenarios here until we
get to that and it's in the formulative stage of
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this where we're actually trying to do something like this.
I don't want to go, well, you could have a
AQ and then you could have the highest and that,
you know, then all of a sudden, that's not good radio.
But I do think if we got to make the
bowl games mean something, the players will play in those
Bowl games if it means that they're in the playoffs.
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But I don't even know. The other bowl games won't
matter for a lot of these kids. I just worry
that these bowl games will become obsolete. And that's why
I'm saying, why not do something like college basketball does
and they have these matchups. It'll be the Big Ten
in SEC. They'll meet at the Garden, they'll meet in
random sites. Okay, nothing's really accomplished there. But if it
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means I can have the Rose Bowl and you're gonna
have Oregon play throw out a team at Miami and
they're going to play in the Rose Bowl, and that's
the Rose Bowl, and you get a good matchup against
two teams that wouldn't normally play each other. That's what
we want. We don't want these games where you go,
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who are you playing? You know, we're playing Tennessee Valley
State University, you know Northeast. It doesn't help now, it
helps those schools because that's their big payday. But we're
talking about big boy football here and a lot of
money at stake, So play quality opponents here, yes, Marvin, Yeah,
and a lot.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
Of those smaller bulls. You can just turn it into
the pop Tart Classic, the Pinstrike Classic. You don't have
to put even a bowl and you just have two
pretty good teams just play each other.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Let's see Ted and Nevada.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Ted, Hey dad, how are you doing this morning? Pay
quickly with the.
Speaker 15 (36:05):
Whole Notre Dame Miami. Does anybody really think that Alabama
with one more loss and neither one of those two
teams should be in the playoffs? I mean, you can
argue all day long who had the better loss, who
had the better schedule, who had it's another loss, one
more than the other two teams?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Why are we playing the games? If wins and losses
don't matter? These are all good topics, they're relevant topics,
And it becomes we don't know what goes on behind
those closed doors. I mean, i'd I'd love to make
it transparent, but it's never gonna happen. But you know,
you're just trying to understand exactly what is what are
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there formulas for this? Just help us understand that. I mean,
I don't think any of us have a problem if
we at least understand what the rules of the game.
You can't play monopoly, but you're you know, using shoots
and ladders rules like it doesn't make sense here, and
it feels like college football is shoots and ladders. It's like,
(37:09):
wait a minute, how did we end up down there?
And how did they end up up there? Paul in
North Dakota. Hi, Paul, Wood's on your mind? Hey Dan,
This is Paul and Boseman. Actually, first time caller, longtime
listener since the Dibble and Salisbury Days. Best of the
(37:29):
weekend Montana State Bobcats over Yale and the FCS playoffs.
I don't know why FBS can't go to FCS. Other
best North Dakota State, South Dakota State going down, which
means there's going to be a new champion. Yeah, and
another best. I'm sitting here in the new member df
(37:50):
Nations twelve point six pound fox red labrador, eight week old.
Thank you, Paul, good luck, good luck. We got a
onesie for your your dog.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Brian in Indiana, Hi, Brian, WIT's on your mind?
Speaker 16 (38:08):
Hey Dan, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Just calling in.
Speaker 16 (38:11):
This is a five nine, one sixty two retired looking
over the lake right now. I think the elephant in
the room is Alabama and part that's the pun on
the whole thing too. They lost to Florida State early
in the year, and nobody's factoring that in. They're sitting
(38:32):
there saying Notre Dame, you know, and lost to Miami
and that's why they're out. And they lost two games
by total of four point Yet Alabama got hammered by
Florida State, they lost his home to Oklahoma, and they
looked terrible in the championship game. And they are the
elephant in the room as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
All right, thank you, Brian. Yeah, all I can go
on is, you know, last week, a week ago at
this time, and that's when my college source said, you know,
the Alabama placement is drew his attention because he said
it feels like they're setting Notre Dame up to be disappointed.
(39:15):
Those were his words. And he's a great college source here,
Josh and Iowa, Josh, what's on your mind?
Speaker 17 (39:23):
Hey guys, thanks for having me. Shout out to the
guy who repped his dog just a second ago, five eleven.
Thank you. Best and worse. I got a best, which
is the annual snow game in Buffalo. I always love
those games. Worst of the weekend is we still suffering
(39:45):
snow Mgeddon here and Iowa a lot of hurtbacks around here.
Thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Bye, PAULI this day in sports history, I just got
one for you.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Dan Tom King of England won over John Heaton of
America in eighteen sixty three to be the first world
heavyweight champion.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
I've ever heard that before. Hm hmm.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Okay. Earl Campbell won the Heisman on this date in
nineteen seventy seven. Kyler Murray, friend of the Show, won
the Heisman on this date twenty eighteen. That career in
Arizona is over. It feels like a healthy scratch for
the rest of the season for Kyler Murray. All right, Todd?
(40:25):
Would you learn today?
Speaker 9 (40:26):
Rick Newhausel thinks the selection committee tease Notre Dame for
too long, ranking them ahead of Miami for the last
possible moment.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Satan, would you learn today? Permanent damage? Irreparable d yeh Marvin,
you owe Pritzy, You owe Fritzy a pie and I
owe Pitsy of fry. Paulie, what did you learn?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
The best ballgame would be Notre Dame versus.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The ACC Todd? What did I learn.
Speaker 10 (40:49):
Notre Dame ad pee Pavakua says the relationship between Notre
Dame and ACC is now being strained.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Have a great day, everybody. We look forward to chatting
with you tomorrow.
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Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
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