September 19, 2025 • 37 mins
College football, the NCAA transfer portal, and the College Football Playoff collide in this 37:53 episode as George Wrighster breaks down the new one-window portal proposal, the fallout for recruiting and roster building, and a fresh Top 25 featuring the Miami Hurricanes, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma Sooners, Oregon Ducks, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, and Penn State Nittany Lions across the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and Big 12. We talk power, money, and control—because the calendar, NIL, and TV contracts are running the sport as much as the bluebloods on Saturdays.
George explains why a single transfer window helps coaches yet still crushes staffs playing deep into the CFP, and why the academic calendar (classes/majors/credits) gets wrecked when movement happens mid-January. He lays out why lawsuits keep landing body blows on the NCAA, and why a real answer requires one negotiating body for the Power 4 + G5 and a players’ association—without turning college sports into chaos. Then we get into league power: Greg Sankey (SEC), Tony Petitti (Big Ten), and conference leaders chasing unequal revenue sharing that tilts the playing field before kickoff.
Next up: the SCORE Act and a proposed United States College Athletics Corporation (USAC). George weighs the upside (uniform rules, protecting Olympic sports, and consolidating media rights) against the scary stuff (federal influence, executive-order whiplash, and lobbyists picking winners). He draws the line on government overreach, then pivots to what fans actually care about—results and rankings. The updated Top 25 rewards quality wins, schedule played, and dominance: Miami’s résumé with Notre Dame and USF, Ohio State’s heavyweight moments, Oklahoma’s defense under Brent Venables, Oregon’s across-the-board control, Georgia’s talent with questions, FSU’s ceiling, LSU’s offense, Utah’s grown-man football, and why Notre Dame still profiles like a top-12 team even at 0–2. Finally, George reveals a brand-new CFP bracket (Miami, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon at the top) and the matchups every fan would pay to see. Subscribe, drop your bracket, and bring receipts—this is where Saturdays get sorted.
Chapters:
00:00 — Welcome & show rundown (NCAA, portal, Top 25, CFP)
00:42 — New transfer-portal window: good, bad, and the calendar mess
01:30 — Coaches’ stance (Dabo Swinney, Kenny Dillingham, Dan Lanning, Dan Mullen)
02:23 — Why January movement collides with bowls, CFP & signing day
03:21 — End the season by Jan 1? The academic/class-registration problem
04:59 — Why lawsuits keep beating the NCAA (and why more are coming)
05:50 — One negotiating body + player representation: the only real fix
06:53 — Commissioners & unequal revenue sharing: competitive balance at risk
08:46 — “Death of college football” if money tilts the field pre-game
09:38 — The SCORE Act: what it is and why fans should care
10:36 — Cody Campbell’s role & the USAC idea explained
11:40 — Federal power, enforcement, tampering & recruiting rules
14:03 — Executive-order risk & government overreach concerns
15:06 — Uniform rules are good—who should write them?
16:12 — Olympic sports, cuts, and why protection matters
18:09 — Realignment, regional rivalries & who’s really in charge
20:01 — TV contracts (Big Ten/SEC/ACC/Big 12) and the money puzzle
22:44 — Consolidated media rights vs parity: who’s for/against
23:44 — “Family court” analogy: settle it privately or get a ruling
25:20 — Method: quality wins, schedule played, dominance
26:13 — Top 25 reveal: Miami at No. 1 and why
27:00 — Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Georgia, FSU, LSU, Utah, Penn State notes
31:33 — Why Notre Dame still grades like a top-12 team
34:10 — New CFP bracket reveal & dream matchups
36:51 — Final word + subscribe/notifications/bring your receipts
#CollegeFootball #ohiostatefootball #CFB #TransferPortal #CFBPlayoff #Top25 #SEC #BigTen #ACC #Big12 #miamihurricanesfootball #NCAA #OhioState #OklahomaSooners #OregonDucks #GeorgiaFootball #lsufootball #PennState #NotreDameFootball #ConferenceRealignment #SCOREAct #NIL #UnafraidShow #GeorgeWrighster #michiganfootball
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the College Football Show. We got a lot
to talk about today. We got to talk about the NCAA.
They've done a bunch of things. Some of it is
good and some of it as a college football fan
you need to be absolutely terrified about. And we got
to talk about the Top twenty five and my revised
college football bracket as of right now. And I'm George Reister,
(00:25):
former NFL player, college football player, college football analysts over
at the CW. And you do not want to miss
today because we're gonna talk about the business of college
football a little bit, and that's gonna come up in
just a minute, because they are absolutely trying to take
over college football. And this should be the scariest thing
(00:45):
that you have seen, especially after this week where people
have been getting fired for things that they are saying
and thinking and all of this stuff. Why this matters
and why this is just so much more amplified in
terms of the world to college sports. So the first
thing that happened that the nc DOUBLEA has done this
(01:06):
week is there's a new well there have been in
college football and the fall sports two transfer portal windows,
one in the winter time, which all the coaches complained
about that goes on during the college football playoff and
after the season is over with, and then the other one, well,
the season's over with for everybody who is not one
(01:28):
of the upper echelon teams, and then a spring transfer window,
which is about fifteen days in the April early May
around there. Well, they have then voted the NC DOUBLEA
committee has voted to only have one transfer window. Now,
mind you, I interviewed Dabo Sweety, Kenny Dillingham, Dan Lanning,
(01:52):
Dan Mullen, a whole bunch of.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Other college football coaches.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
All of them resoundingly said one thing that they with
like one transfer portal window. So, George, how is this
possibly a bad thing? Or is this a good thing?
This is a good thing, and it's also a bad thing.
So the way it is good, one transfer portal window.
(02:16):
So now guys know like where I need to move,
where I don't need to move any of those things.
But the other part about it that's terrible is that
this transfer portal window is going to be going on
still because the original proposed dates were January second to
a few like January seventeenth. Well, how does that make sense?
(02:41):
You're literally right in the middle of you you just
finished the first round of the playoffs and then the quarterfinals,
so you still got the semifinals and the finals to go.
So some of the teams that are that are going
to be playing football still or just finished playing football,
(03:02):
they're now supposed to evaluate players, have players hop in
the portal, and get players out of the portal while
they're trying to have recruiting signing day early signing day
in late December, prepare for bowl games.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
This is absolute madness.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
This is why the college football season, and mind you,
all the coaches have said the same thing as well,
that the college football season needs to.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
End January first.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's got to be the end of the college football
season because then now you are on a calendar that
aligns with school. Because one of the biggest issues with
the transfer portal that people don't always talk about is
school because when you were in college, how hard was
it to get into classes?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
At times? It was difficult.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now for student athletes, it is typically easier because they
get to register early, but the registration happened months prior,
weeks prior, so now you have players who are going
to a new school and now they're not able to
get into classes that align with their majors.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So now you're gonna have less kids graduating. This is
this is horrible.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And then the second thing that is going to happen
with this transfer portal window is that there are going
to be lawsuits because there used to be two windows.
And now you're gonna have lawsuits because the NC double
A unilaterally made this decision. So you're like, George, aren't
they in charge? Can't they make the decisions? Yes, but
why do you think that we keep getting these lawsuits
(04:38):
and the n cuble A keeps getting this ass handed
to it in court Austin versus the NC double A
at Obannon versus the ncuble A, and even the coaches
have sued the n C double A about their wages,
and then schools have sued about television rights in the
eighties as well.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So the issue is, and I've said this about college
sports these entire time, and if you are a college
football fan, this should matter to you, or a college
basketball fan, this should matter to you because the thing
that people hate the most is litigation. Fans are like,
oh my god, transfer a portal. There are no rules,
there are no stability, all can't get attached to players.
(05:23):
All those things are very real and your feelings about
them are extremely real. There is only one single solitary
way to solve this, and the way to solve it
is to put one single negotiating body.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So you right now you've got the Big.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Ten, ACC, Big twelve, SEC, the Big four comperens, and
then you got obviously like the Mountain West, the American,
the sumb Belt and everybody in between, all the way
down to the FCS schools. So there needs to be
for the power for especially and the group of six schools,
one negotiating body period period. So now that one body
(06:04):
can negotiate TV rights, which would be they would get
a three four x higher than what they have now.
They would there would be a uniform body for players
to then negotiate with. So the players could then essentially
unionize them and I know that people, well that makes
some employees whatever. However, they should get a special designation
(06:28):
code if you don't want to make them employees, but
they should be able to sign.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Up with their union and then their union.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Negotiate then with the governing body of college athletics, particularly
college football.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You know what that will stop.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That'll stop the lawsuits from Diego Pavia, that'll stop the
lawsuits from name, image and likeness. And everybody operates under
a uniform set of rules, and then there is a
commissioner who can dole out punishment as it relates to
people breaking and buy elating the rules. How does this
(07:04):
not make any sense? This is clearly the most sensible solution.
But the reason why they don't want to do it
is because that means the Greg Sankie Tony putit, the
Big twelve commissioner and Jim Phillips over in the ACC,
they are all going to have to seceed, give up power,
(07:28):
relinquish their power, and that means that the conference then
no longer has an advantage over the other conference. Because
what the Big ten and the SEC love is having
an advantage over the Big twelve and having an advantage
over the ACC, so having revenue sharing and everybody getting
(07:49):
an equal.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Size of the pie. They don't want that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
In fact, right now they are trying to get unequal
revenue sharing like they're gonna do in the ACC, in
the Big Ten and in the Big twelve, and all
of these conferences are all looking at that as an
option that will be the death of college football. The
death because you are then giving a self fulfilling prophecy
(08:13):
and essentially saying, if you're at the top, if you
are a name brand like Ohio State right now, unless
Cody Campbell comes in like has happened with Texas Tech
and offers you a bailout and is going to spend
his own hundreds of millions of dollars, or like SMU
did spend it our own hundreds of millions of dollars
to get into the ACC and not take revenue money initially,
(08:37):
then you have no shot to be at the top
of the conference because it's going to be based off
TV rights, off TV you know about TV ratings. How
does this make any sense in terms of competitive balance?
That would be like the Dallas Cowboys getting paid more
than hell, the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, actually not n
(08:59):
if you can't City Chiefs cause they're super popular. Right
right now, Let's go to say the LA Chargers, how
about that, or the Seattle Seahawks or the Arizona Cardinals
them getting more revenue from the league because they're talked
about more on television or have more television games. No,
(09:21):
the league is concerned about the actual shield and the
actual brand more. And this is where college football is
failing right now. So this leads to the second thing
that has happened, and what I said is the absolute scariest,
which is the takeover in college football. So the Score
Act right now is in the House of Representatives, has
(09:44):
not been approved. It's going through the whole process, jumping
through the hoops, getting vetted and all this stuff. Now,
all of this goes back to when I testified in
front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in twenty twenty on name,
image and likeness, and we were discussing how it affect
impacts players. I had to write a center, I had
to write letters and all this stuff to the senators
(10:06):
in Nebraska and Corey Booker and everybody else, and then
testify in front of him. Well, here is the issue,
is that now we have reached the point where there
is the Score Act that is literally on their desk
right now. And this is led by the charge of
man I mentioned before, Cody Campbell, who played college football
(10:30):
when I played college football, who's now a multi oil
man billionaire essentially, So Cody Campbell, he is now you
know spearheading this thing, overhauling the college sports model. Now,
on one hand, I plagg Cody Campbell for jumping up
in front of this and everything. But here is the
(10:52):
potential issue. And Ross Dellinger wrote about this very well
on three and and I'll show you the So this
is the article Ross Dellinger rote, and he talks about
in here.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
The essential.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You know, crux of the score Act is and what
they're trying to do because now they have amended the well,
they're making edits to the Score Act. So this would
essentially have a federally commissioned corporation governing college athletics. So
the government. So this would now be a state run thing.
(11:36):
And when I say state, I mean United States, a
state run thing with the power to create rules about
transfer limitations, enforced recruiting policies, prohibitions on tampering, inducements, and
everything else. So with the with the sentiment right now,
(11:59):
think about this with the sentiment about the federal government
right now, whether it's can cook, whether no matter what
side you are on, everybody is generally under the same
impression that there is corruption going on, money's not being
spent well, that the leadership is influx all of these things,
(12:19):
So why would we then want to put something else
on their plate that can be privatized. That's the issue
is that this new entity that they're trying to do
will be able to reorganize conferences, negotiate consolidated media rights
(12:40):
for all schools, and then control the distribution of those revenues.
Look at what is happening right now. You have had
colleges like Harvard, UCLA, anybody else. I mean, liberty has
been under the government's thumb at one point and point
(13:00):
in time.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
All sorts of people.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So then the federal government will be able to essentially say, okay, well, well,
well we don't like what your chair, what the dean
of the school said, so we're gonna cut your funding
for football right now? What what are we being serious
(13:25):
right now? This allows the weaponization of the government in
college sports. This should be an absolute non starter in
terms of college sports, a non starter. So, and Cody
(13:46):
Campbell will will tell you that. And the name of
the entity is the United States College Athletics Corporation, And
it would be a congressionally chartered corporation to govern the industry,
and it will replace the nc DOUBLEA. Now according to them,
(14:06):
what they're proposing is is that it would be a
board of former athletes, school constituents, and they would operate
with quote, limited government oversight. What does that mean? The
word limited is doing a lot of heavy lifting right now.
Limited What does that mean? And this is the issue.
(14:31):
So and because this would fall under the executive branches power,
that means that the president of the United States, whether
it's Donald Trump, whether it is Joe Biden, whether it's
Barack Obama, whether it's George Bush, whoever the next president is,
(14:51):
would then have the power of an executive order to
then wipe out anything that he wants to that he
is then weaponized against that he does not like personally.
And this is the part that should scare you. It's
not the it's not the fact of who is in
government or it is the fact that you should not
(15:14):
that this is a.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Private industry.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And that the government being able to do this should
be a significant problem.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
And and and it is scary. I'm just saying. So.
So here is the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But overall, the idea is not bad because I just
told y'all that there needs to be a single entity
that controls these things.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
That way, there are not.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Policies and state laws that are enacted in California that
conflict with the ones in Georgia. Than the ones in
Georgia are different than the ones in Tennessee, are different
than the ones in Michigan, different than the ones in
New York, different than the ones in Wyoming. That can't be.
Everybody's got to be playing by the same rules. And
(16:06):
that's where the College Sports Commission, the CSC, which is
doing nil go right now. That's what they're trying to
do is to preempt what is happening here.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I don't believe that they're going to be successful because
there's not one negotiating body and they're going to keep
getting lawsuits all over the place. But here is the
thing where the USAC would actually I believe in the
core principles of this. Part of it is that they
are going to be protecting They're saying that they're going
(16:39):
to be protecting women's and Olympic sports. Yes, because you
have schools that are dropping these sports to save money
in other areas, when those sports are the fabric of
winning Olympic medals and getting our doctors, lawyers and other
engineers and all all that stuff through school. Think about
(17:03):
that only one one to two percent of all college
players turn professional in their sport. We're talking about really
one point something percent.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Of all of them.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So that means, like the commercial says, they will be
going pro in something else. So if they are going
pro in something else, that means that they're your doctors.
They're your lawyers, they're your engineers. They are your school teachers.
They are your principles. They are your guidance counselors. They
are your firemen, they are your you know, chief of police,
(17:39):
they are all of those things. Former college athletes, they
are your stockbrokers. There the work at the you know.
You get the point. So that I want one hundred
percent support, But I am worried about the about the
players in this because just stampeding these rules around is
(18:02):
going to lead to more lawsuits. And then if the
federal government is the people running it, that's gonna be
a lot harder, and especially when there is influence, there
will be more lobbying going on and everything in between.
And I don't like it, not even one single bit now.
(18:22):
And then they are also saying that one of the
other things that it would be doing is having a
reorganization plan for conferences while considering regional traditional robberies, parody, travel,
and media exposure. Now, all of that sounds great, right,
that sounds fantastic until you get into the fact of
(18:43):
who are the power brokers, Like, who are the people
that will be controlling that. Will they be doing what's
best for themselves and their university and the people that
they are aligned with, or will they be doing what's
best for college football as a whole, college sports as
a whole.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's the question.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Because because people have, like as much as Nike has
done for college sports and growing the games and the
uniforms and all this stuff, people are still upset they
favor Nike. Look at you know, other other cor corporations,
like with with Adidas now taking Penn State from from Nike. Well,
(19:30):
Penn State's doing more, They're putting more money into their
NIO coffers, and everybody has some advantages and companies are
going to lean certain ways, and it would be the
same exact way if it's under you know, essentially limited
government per purview, just saying so. According to Cody Campbell
(19:51):
and these dudes, he envisions a world where the big
ten in the SEC schools which are earning more money
right now, what earn forty to fifty million dollars more
than they do now in the big ten in the
ACC around thirty million dollars more and a group of
six earning as much as fourteen million dollars more. Yes,
more money is good, but here's the question, what about
(20:13):
those TV rights that are going on right now? Because
you have TV contracts from each conference that they're not
lined up and synced up. And we talked to John
Wilner about this last week, So go back and look
at that interview on the on the show, because he
he our friends. He talked about this as well and
(20:34):
about until that in terms of was there going to
be a super conference or anything else that that that
could potentially happen once these TV contracts get synced up,
and he believes that there will be getting synced up
at some point in time. Now this this USA, this USAC,
(20:55):
there is believed that they're going to consolidate rights into
a package that's two to three times more worth the
current right, which is exactly what I said about the
current consolidation. If they consolidate the media rights, but that
will create parody, so that is another problem that the
conferences don't want. And do you know who's against it,
(21:17):
specifically the Big Ten and the SEC now and this
goes to the Sports Broadcasting Act, which I talked about
on another video.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So make sure that you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Go search search that because the school sued the NC
DOUBLEA about the ability to negotiate TV contracts because they
were trying to suppress the amount of money that and
everything else. And it's suppressed how many games were on
television and everything else. So NC DOUBLEA lost that. That's
one of their earliest losses lost to the coaches lost
(21:50):
that all that, So and then you had Greg Sanky
point out last week about the TV contract.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He's like, see, look, I don't know hu.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And then Cody Kamberling Company came back and said that, okay, cool,
that's a lot. And we're talking about the Big ten
contract which goes through twenty thirty six. That on was
with Fox, SEC through twenty thirty four with ESPN, ACC
through twenty thirty six with ESPN, and then the Big
twelve through twenty thirty one with ESPN and Fox. So
(22:25):
Cody Campbell's like, I got a solution for it. You
just allowed the contracts to expire and then bridge any
other gaps with private equity money. So insummation of this
whole thing. Some of the ideas in this are one
hundred percent valid, and they are real, and they are
(22:47):
actually pointed in the exact right direction that we need
to be going.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
That's one thing.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
The second thing is this is also scary as hell
in terms of how this will then impact the players
and our viewing as fans, because because if you know,
if somebody who is a part of this with the government,
(23:13):
then says, with the stroke of a pen, with an
executive order, says, oh, we're gonna limit this school's funding
or this this this, what the hell you're gonna do nothing?
So it puts too much power in one specific place
when this is something that needs to be privatized. But
(23:37):
the issue with privatizing is that the biggest stakeholders, the
big ten, the SEC, they do not want parody and
the ACC you know, the the top schools which are
now going to get a bigger share uneven revenue sharing,
they don't want that either. That's the problem, and this
is why the federal government is involved because and I'm
(24:01):
a likn this to something that I know some of
you guys have been through. This is like family court.
This is exactly like family court. If you've ever been
through family court. What you don't want to do is
end up in front of the judge. It is way
easier to negotiate what you guys want to do in private.
And both of you guys leave a little bit unhappy
(24:24):
than having the judge rule your schedule. Say, all right,
since y'all can't come come to an agreement, you got
to pick them up on Tuesday at five.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You gotta pick them up on Thursday at six, and.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Y'all exchange at this location and this and this, and
you're like, I didn't want that, but you couldn't come
up with a solution, so I came up with one
for you. That's where we're at right now. So please
the College Sports Commission, the Big Ten, the SEC. You
do not want the government making this decision for you.
(24:54):
Make the decision yourself, all right. Next thing that we
got to talk about is my top twenty five for
week four. Let's go on to Happier News. My top
twenty five for week four. So here is my top
twenty five. And I like to do displaining right, because
a lot of people, when you are looking at the
(25:16):
ap pole and all of that, they don't give you
the explanation.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
As to why.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So every week I'm going to give you guys the
explanation for my top twenty five because it is based
upon three criteria, and those are the three most important
criteria that any pole list rankings should be brought upon
in college football. Quality wins, schedule, play, and dominance.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You can knock anything else up out the way with
those things. So Miami is number one. Miami is being
Notre Dame who still looks like an extremely an extremely
good football team. They have taken care of South Florida,
had already beaten Florida, and they had beaten Boise State.
(26:03):
Now I don't count the Boiser. A lot of people
are gonna give South Florida two ranked wins, and they
should because they would give it to the SEC if
that were so. But Boise State was ranked too high
early at number twenty five.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So is what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
But Miami has looked extremely dominant, and I like it
like they have looked dominant. Their offensive line is good,
their defense has been stout, getting takeaways. They have weapons,
on the outside. So far, they have earned the number
one spot. To me, Ohio State, that Texas win. Oh
it was doing a lot of heavy lifting early. But
(26:42):
how's Texas look now? I got them at number nineteen
right now? How does Texas look right now? If we're
really being honest, they have the ninety first best offense
in college football right now. Arch Manning is suffering from
a confidence issue. He doesn't suck, so don't let's not
do that. He doesn't up. He's suffering from a confidence issue,
(27:02):
which is poor play now with which is exacerbating poor
poor play. So it's not that the kid doesn't have talent,
it's that he's playing nowhere near to the expectations that
are expected of him, and now it's in his brain.
Now are they gonna bench him? Nah, that's a whole
another story that probably ain't happening. So Ohio State, they
(27:23):
still look very good. But and it's not a knock
to be at number two through after three games, Like,
let's let's just relax, Oklahoma. Oklahoma's beating a good Michigan team.
Like I like this Oklahoma team. I like what they've done.
And John Matier, he looks really good. Excited about him
as well. So this is not a situation where I
(27:45):
am in any way, shape, form or fashion discouraged or
dissuaded by Oklahoma at all. And Brett Venables calling the defense, Oh,
they look extremely good. They've also taken care of Temple
and they've taken care of Illinois State, only giving up
nineteen points on the entire season. Good on Oklahoma Oregon,
(28:08):
They've looked dominant from cover to cover. Their their domination
is higher than their schedules so far. They've played Northwestern,
they played Oklahoma State, They've played Montana State. They've been
dominant in every single fashion of the game. Now it's
Oklahoma State good, No, but it's reality Georgia. Now, Georgia
(28:34):
is a team that they gave up way too many
points against Tennessee. They gave up forty one points, but
they dominated Marshall and then that Austin p win. But
the Tennessee win for them is doing a lot of
heavy lifting. I'm not gonna lie fsu fsu beat Bama.
(28:55):
I'm not sure what Bama is completely yet except talented.
What we know, they've taken care of business against Wisconsin,
against ULM, But until we see them stress tested at all,
we don't know. And Florida States only played one other game,
so not high leverage competition. So that's what they're at now.
(29:16):
This is the one that people are concerned about. They're like,
how is LSU at number seven?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
George? They beat Clemson.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
They beat Clemson and they got two AP votes right now,
and they beat Florida. Something is wrong with LSU's offense
right now, and that's why Brian Kelly got defensive about it.
They are having trouble scoring points. That's just the truth.
They got five turnovers from Florida and only we're able
to turn that into thirteen points, and I think two
(29:46):
of them they were already in field goal range when
they got the turnover. So come on, man, there's something
going on with LSU and Clemton's offense is broken right now.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So I'm sorry if you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
See the team that I picked the win the national
chip jif Clemson ain't nowhere to be found in here.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Illinois.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Illinois's got a big test with Indiana this week, who
I don't even have rank right now. I don't even
know what Indiana is. They've played Indiana State and Kennessas
State and somebody else State Tech Divide.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I know nothing about them.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, they do have a nice quarterback, Fernando Mendoza from
Cal But we'll see. If they win this weekend against Illinois,
they will vault up these rankings.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Just say you tak They've looked dominant.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
This team is big, they are physical, and they are quarterbacked.
They're quarterback by Devin Dampiar. I like what I'm saying
out of this team, Penn State. Now, I have debated
where to put Penn State in this rankings. They're number
two in the A people, and I can't figure out
why Nevada, FIU and Villanova. What about those wins when
(30:59):
you watch them and you're looking at how Drew Aller
is playing, leads you to believe that this is the
second best team in the country.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh, people are are living.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Off of off of you know, the the name, the
fact that they won against Boise State and who SMU
in the College Football Playoff last year.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Noah, Sorry, sorry, you ain't gonna fool me. You will.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
We will know everything we need to know about this
Penn State team initially when they play Oregon in Week five.
So they may not even deserve to be in the
top ten right now, if I'm being honest, Iowa State,
Texas Tech, Texas A, and m Georgia Tech. I'm giving
Vanderbilt love. But the next one where people are wondering
about is Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
George. They're zero and too.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You can't say that you are what your record is
because how many other teams have played a schedule of Miami,
who I have number one in Texas Tech so far?
How they lost on the last second field goal, essentially
to Miami. They had a chance to score but did
barely any time left at TEXA and m they were
(32:09):
a holding call of the two holding calls on the
same fourth down play away from a win. So yes,
they are still one of the top twenty five best
teams in the country right now, and in fact, I
think they actually might be one of the top twelve,
but they have not earned it. That's the difference Tennessee.
No problem there Auburn. Nobody's gonna argue. We already talked
(32:31):
about Texas, TCU's.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Doing well, Michigan like Michigan.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And then the last thing is but more in twenty
twenty six than twenty twenty five. But they got a
big test coming up soon. And then you got Washington.
People are not respecting Washington right now. They got the
Apple Cup this weekend with Washington State, They're gonna run
them out of the building. But then it gets sketched
next week against Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
But that game is gonna be on Lake.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I cannot wait to talk about that game because it
is going to go but Nanas and there could be
an upset in that game. I'm just saying. And then
you got number twenty five usc Us. He begged for this, Us,
he begged for this. You can't ignore what they've been doing,
but you can blink at the competition. They finally played
a big power for opponent in Perdue. They beat them. Congratulations,
(33:23):
you're in the top twenty five. Indiana would like a word.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But then that has then shaped my top twenty five. Well,
the top twenty five has then shaped my college football
playoff bracket. So here was my initial college football playoff
bracket to start the season. I had Penn State one,
Texas to Clemson three, Oregon four, Notre Dame five, LSU six,
(33:54):
Kansas State seven, Ohio State eight, Georgia nine, Illinois ten,
UH South Carolina eleven and UNLV twelve. I didn't think
that that was terrible at all, but then I ended
up going with After that, I then took my poll
(34:19):
and I did gave you guys a new playoff prediction.
So my new playoff prediction is revealed here. Boom, there
we go. Some of the teams have changed, some of
the faces have changed, some of them have stayed the same.
I threw Clemson in the trash right right now, at
least ten temporarily. I know Dabbo would be like see
(34:39):
Georgia not all in. That's the problem, listen. My job
needs to be all in. My job is to objectively
say what we got right now. Do I still believe
Clemson at a shot? Yes, it ain't the same shot
as I thought it was. All right, so right now,
I got Miami one. And this comes from the rankings
from the top twenty. This is not George trying to
(35:02):
trying to Jimmy Rigg something. This is just we put
it in the way it came out, and what we
got is what we got. And these dictated some interesting matchups.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That I would love to see.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oregon one, I'm sorry, Miami one, Ohio State two, Oklahoma three,
Oregon four.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
This feels good to me.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And then from there Georgia five, FSU six, Florida State
LSU seven, Illinois eight, Utah nine, Penn State ten, Iowa
State eleven, Memphis number twelve.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Feel great about that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
So then that gave me Illinois versus Utah, got Utah
winning that they played Miami, Miami beat Utah. Now I
got Memphis playing Georgia. Georgia wins, Georgia plays Oregon, Oregon
beach Georgia. Then we got Oregon versus Like think about
how this played out. When I was doing I was
like what. So then I got Dan Lanny playing against
(36:05):
Kirby Smart, who smoked him in his first game as
a head coach in the place that he used to
coach at one a national championship as a defensive coordinator.
And then Oregon plays them and wins. And then they're
then playing in the semifinals against their old head coach,
Mario Cristobal.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
What who get playing this? This was? This was not
user intentionally generated.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Then on the other side, you got Penn State LSU
loved that potential matchup, got LSU winning that one and
then playing Ohio State, and then Ohio State beating LSU.
Then on the bottom half of the bracket, Iowa State
playing FSU. I think that would be a good game,
and then playing Oklahoma, and then Oklahoma beating.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
FSU.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Now this is a This is like an NCAA tournament
bracket where you pick.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
All one seeds. That's what I got.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Where you got one, two, three four advance into the
semifinals and last year you had five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
But I do believe that schools are going. But with
the way the seed is done, now, I think you're
gonna get more top seeds win. Then I got Ohio
State versus Oregon two verses four for the national championship,
and with the Ducks winning getting revenge from last year's
Rose Bowl, y'all hopp in the comments, tell me what
y'all are thinking. But you, guys, though, this has been
(37:30):
George Reiser's college football podcast, make sure that you like, subscribe,
get notifications, tell a friend about the show. Most importantly,
share because this is the stuff that y'all need to see.
This is the stuff that you need to hear because
it matters so much. Peace out, catch you guys later.
Enjoy the games this weekend. And stay on the channel.
More hot Ish coming
Welcome to the College Football Show. We got a lot
to talk about today. We got to talk about the NCAA.
They've done a bunch of things. Some of it is
good and some of it as a college football fan
you need to be absolutely terrified about. And we got
to talk about the Top twenty five and my revised
college football bracket as of right now. And I'm George Reister,
(00:25):
former NFL player, college football player, college football analysts over
at the CW. And you do not want to miss
today because we're gonna talk about the business of college
football a little bit, and that's gonna come up in
just a minute, because they are absolutely trying to take
over college football. And this should be the scariest thing
(00:45):
that you have seen, especially after this week where people
have been getting fired for things that they are saying
and thinking and all of this stuff. Why this matters
and why this is just so much more amplified in
terms of the world to college sports. So the first
thing that happened that the nc DOUBLEA has done this
(01:06):
week is there's a new well there have been in
college football and the fall sports two transfer portal windows,
one in the winter time, which all the coaches complained
about that goes on during the college football playoff and
after the season is over with, and then the other one, well,
the season's over with for everybody who is not one
(01:28):
of the upper echelon teams, and then a spring transfer window,
which is about fifteen days in the April early May
around there. Well, they have then voted the NC DOUBLEA
committee has voted to only have one transfer window. Now,
mind you, I interviewed Dabo Sweety, Kenny Dillingham, Dan Lanning,
(01:52):
Dan Mullen, a whole bunch of.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Other college football coaches.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
All of them resoundingly said one thing that they with
like one transfer portal window. So, George, how is this
possibly a bad thing? Or is this a good thing?
This is a good thing, and it's also a bad thing.
So the way it is good, one transfer portal window.
(02:16):
So now guys know like where I need to move,
where I don't need to move any of those things.
But the other part about it that's terrible is that
this transfer portal window is going to be going on
still because the original proposed dates were January second to
a few like January seventeenth. Well, how does that make sense?
(02:41):
You're literally right in the middle of you you just
finished the first round of the playoffs and then the quarterfinals,
so you still got the semifinals and the finals to go.
So some of the teams that are that are going
to be playing football still or just finished playing football,
(03:02):
they're now supposed to evaluate players, have players hop in
the portal, and get players out of the portal while
they're trying to have recruiting signing day early signing day
in late December, prepare for bowl games.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
This is absolute madness.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
This is why the college football season, and mind you,
all the coaches have said the same thing as well,
that the college football season needs to.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
End January first.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's got to be the end of the college football
season because then now you are on a calendar that
aligns with school. Because one of the biggest issues with
the transfer portal that people don't always talk about is
school because when you were in college, how hard was
it to get into classes?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
At times? It was difficult.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now for student athletes, it is typically easier because they
get to register early, but the registration happened months prior,
weeks prior, so now you have players who are going
to a new school and now they're not able to
get into classes that align with their majors.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So now you're gonna have less kids graduating. This is
this is horrible.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And then the second thing that is going to happen
with this transfer portal window is that there are going
to be lawsuits because there used to be two windows.
And now you're gonna have lawsuits because the NC double
A unilaterally made this decision. So you're like, George, aren't
they in charge? Can't they make the decisions? Yes, but
why do you think that we keep getting these lawsuits
(04:38):
and the n cuble A keeps getting this ass handed
to it in court Austin versus the NC double A
at Obannon versus the ncuble A, and even the coaches
have sued the n C double A about their wages,
and then schools have sued about television rights in the
eighties as well.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So the issue is, and I've said this about college
sports these entire time, and if you are a college
football fan, this should matter to you, or a college
basketball fan, this should matter to you because the thing
that people hate the most is litigation. Fans are like,
oh my god, transfer a portal. There are no rules,
there are no stability, all can't get attached to players.
(05:23):
All those things are very real and your feelings about
them are extremely real. There is only one single solitary
way to solve this, and the way to solve it
is to put one single negotiating body.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So you right now you've got the Big.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Ten, ACC, Big twelve, SEC, the Big four comperens, and
then you got obviously like the Mountain West, the American,
the sumb Belt and everybody in between, all the way
down to the FCS schools. So there needs to be
for the power for especially and the group of six schools,
one negotiating body period period. So now that one body
(06:04):
can negotiate TV rights, which would be they would get
a three four x higher than what they have now.
They would there would be a uniform body for players
to then negotiate with. So the players could then essentially
unionize them and I know that people, well that makes
some employees whatever. However, they should get a special designation
(06:28):
code if you don't want to make them employees, but
they should be able to sign.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Up with their union and then their union.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Negotiate then with the governing body of college athletics, particularly
college football.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You know what that will stop.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That'll stop the lawsuits from Diego Pavia, that'll stop the
lawsuits from name, image and likeness. And everybody operates under
a uniform set of rules, and then there is a
commissioner who can dole out punishment as it relates to
people breaking and buy elating the rules. How does this
(07:04):
not make any sense? This is clearly the most sensible solution.
But the reason why they don't want to do it
is because that means the Greg Sankie Tony putit, the
Big twelve commissioner and Jim Phillips over in the ACC,
they are all going to have to seceed, give up power,
(07:28):
relinquish their power, and that means that the conference then
no longer has an advantage over the other conference. Because
what the Big ten and the SEC love is having
an advantage over the Big twelve and having an advantage
over the ACC, so having revenue sharing and everybody getting
(07:49):
an equal.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Size of the pie. They don't want that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
In fact, right now they are trying to get unequal
revenue sharing like they're gonna do in the ACC, in
the Big Ten and in the Big twelve, and all
of these conferences are all looking at that as an
option that will be the death of college football. The
death because you are then giving a self fulfilling prophecy
(08:13):
and essentially saying, if you're at the top, if you
are a name brand like Ohio State right now, unless
Cody Campbell comes in like has happened with Texas Tech
and offers you a bailout and is going to spend
his own hundreds of millions of dollars, or like SMU
did spend it our own hundreds of millions of dollars
to get into the ACC and not take revenue money initially,
(08:37):
then you have no shot to be at the top
of the conference because it's going to be based off
TV rights, off TV you know about TV ratings. How
does this make any sense in terms of competitive balance?
That would be like the Dallas Cowboys getting paid more
than hell, the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, actually not n
(08:59):
if you can't City Chiefs cause they're super popular. Right
right now, Let's go to say the LA Chargers, how
about that, or the Seattle Seahawks or the Arizona Cardinals
them getting more revenue from the league because they're talked
about more on television or have more television games. No,
(09:21):
the league is concerned about the actual shield and the
actual brand more. And this is where college football is
failing right now. So this leads to the second thing
that has happened, and what I said is the absolute scariest,
which is the takeover in college football. So the Score
Act right now is in the House of Representatives, has
(09:44):
not been approved. It's going through the whole process, jumping
through the hoops, getting vetted and all this stuff. Now,
all of this goes back to when I testified in
front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in twenty twenty on name,
image and likeness, and we were discussing how it affect
impacts players. I had to write a center, I had
to write letters and all this stuff to the senators
(10:06):
in Nebraska and Corey Booker and everybody else, and then
testify in front of him. Well, here is the issue,
is that now we have reached the point where there
is the Score Act that is literally on their desk
right now. And this is led by the charge of
man I mentioned before, Cody Campbell, who played college football
(10:30):
when I played college football, who's now a multi oil
man billionaire essentially, So Cody Campbell, he is now you
know spearheading this thing, overhauling the college sports model. Now,
on one hand, I plagg Cody Campbell for jumping up
in front of this and everything. But here is the
(10:52):
potential issue. And Ross Dellinger wrote about this very well
on three and and I'll show you the So this
is the article Ross Dellinger rote, and he talks about
in here.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
The essential.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You know, crux of the score Act is and what
they're trying to do because now they have amended the well,
they're making edits to the Score Act. So this would
essentially have a federally commissioned corporation governing college athletics. So
the government. So this would now be a state run thing.
(11:36):
And when I say state, I mean United States, a
state run thing with the power to create rules about
transfer limitations, enforced recruiting policies, prohibitions on tampering, inducements, and
everything else. So with the with the sentiment right now,
(11:59):
think about this with the sentiment about the federal government
right now, whether it's can cook, whether no matter what
side you are on, everybody is generally under the same
impression that there is corruption going on, money's not being
spent well, that the leadership is influx all of these things,
(12:19):
So why would we then want to put something else
on their plate that can be privatized. That's the issue
is that this new entity that they're trying to do
will be able to reorganize conferences, negotiate consolidated media rights
(12:40):
for all schools, and then control the distribution of those revenues.
Look at what is happening right now. You have had
colleges like Harvard, UCLA, anybody else. I mean, liberty has
been under the government's thumb at one point and point
(13:00):
in time.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
All sorts of people.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So then the federal government will be able to essentially say, okay, well, well,
well we don't like what your chair, what the dean
of the school said, so we're gonna cut your funding
for football right now? What what are we being serious
(13:25):
right now? This allows the weaponization of the government in
college sports. This should be an absolute non starter in
terms of college sports, a non starter. So, and Cody
(13:46):
Campbell will will tell you that. And the name of
the entity is the United States College Athletics Corporation, And
it would be a congressionally chartered corporation to govern the industry,
and it will replace the nc DOUBLEA. Now according to them,
(14:06):
what they're proposing is is that it would be a
board of former athletes, school constituents, and they would operate
with quote, limited government oversight. What does that mean? The
word limited is doing a lot of heavy lifting right now.
Limited What does that mean? And this is the issue.
(14:31):
So and because this would fall under the executive branches power,
that means that the president of the United States, whether
it's Donald Trump, whether it is Joe Biden, whether it's
Barack Obama, whether it's George Bush, whoever the next president is,
(14:51):
would then have the power of an executive order to
then wipe out anything that he wants to that he
is then weaponized against that he does not like personally.
And this is the part that should scare you. It's
not the it's not the fact of who is in
government or it is the fact that you should not
(15:14):
that this is a.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Private industry.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And that the government being able to do this should
be a significant problem.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
And and and it is scary. I'm just saying. So.
So here is the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But overall, the idea is not bad because I just
told y'all that there needs to be a single entity
that controls these things.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
That way, there are not.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Policies and state laws that are enacted in California that
conflict with the ones in Georgia. Than the ones in
Georgia are different than the ones in Tennessee, are different
than the ones in Michigan, different than the ones in
New York, different than the ones in Wyoming. That can't be.
Everybody's got to be playing by the same rules. And
(16:06):
that's where the College Sports Commission, the CSC, which is
doing nil go right now. That's what they're trying to
do is to preempt what is happening here.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I don't believe that they're going to be successful because
there's not one negotiating body and they're going to keep
getting lawsuits all over the place. But here is the
thing where the USAC would actually I believe in the
core principles of this. Part of it is that they
are going to be protecting They're saying that they're going
(16:39):
to be protecting women's and Olympic sports. Yes, because you
have schools that are dropping these sports to save money
in other areas, when those sports are the fabric of
winning Olympic medals and getting our doctors, lawyers and other
engineers and all all that stuff through school. Think about
(17:03):
that only one one to two percent of all college
players turn professional in their sport. We're talking about really
one point something percent.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Of all of them.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So that means, like the commercial says, they will be
going pro in something else. So if they are going
pro in something else, that means that they're your doctors.
They're your lawyers, they're your engineers. They are your school teachers.
They are your principles. They are your guidance counselors. They
are your firemen, they are your you know, chief of police,
(17:39):
they are all of those things. Former college athletes, they
are your stockbrokers. There the work at the you know.
You get the point. So that I want one hundred
percent support, But I am worried about the about the
players in this because just stampeding these rules around is
(18:02):
going to lead to more lawsuits. And then if the
federal government is the people running it, that's gonna be
a lot harder, and especially when there is influence, there
will be more lobbying going on and everything in between.
And I don't like it, not even one single bit now.
(18:22):
And then they are also saying that one of the
other things that it would be doing is having a
reorganization plan for conferences while considering regional traditional robberies, parody, travel,
and media exposure. Now, all of that sounds great, right,
that sounds fantastic until you get into the fact of
(18:43):
who are the power brokers, Like, who are the people
that will be controlling that. Will they be doing what's
best for themselves and their university and the people that
they are aligned with, or will they be doing what's
best for college football as a whole, college sports as
a whole.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's the question.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Because because people have, like as much as Nike has
done for college sports and growing the games and the
uniforms and all this stuff, people are still upset they
favor Nike. Look at you know, other other cor corporations,
like with with Adidas now taking Penn State from from Nike. Well,
(19:30):
Penn State's doing more, They're putting more money into their
NIO coffers, and everybody has some advantages and companies are
going to lean certain ways, and it would be the
same exact way if it's under you know, essentially limited
government per purview, just saying so. According to Cody Campbell
(19:51):
and these dudes, he envisions a world where the big
ten in the SEC schools which are earning more money
right now, what earn forty to fifty million dollars more
than they do now in the big ten in the
ACC around thirty million dollars more and a group of
six earning as much as fourteen million dollars more. Yes,
more money is good, but here's the question, what about
(20:13):
those TV rights that are going on right now? Because
you have TV contracts from each conference that they're not
lined up and synced up. And we talked to John
Wilner about this last week, So go back and look
at that interview on the on the show, because he
he our friends. He talked about this as well and
(20:34):
about until that in terms of was there going to
be a super conference or anything else that that that
could potentially happen once these TV contracts get synced up,
and he believes that there will be getting synced up
at some point in time. Now this this USA, this USAC,
(20:55):
there is believed that they're going to consolidate rights into
a package that's two to three times more worth the
current right, which is exactly what I said about the
current consolidation. If they consolidate the media rights, but that
will create parody, so that is another problem that the
conferences don't want. And do you know who's against it,
(21:17):
specifically the Big Ten and the SEC now and this
goes to the Sports Broadcasting Act, which I talked about
on another video.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So make sure that you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Go search search that because the school sued the NC
DOUBLEA about the ability to negotiate TV contracts because they
were trying to suppress the amount of money that and
everything else. And it's suppressed how many games were on
television and everything else. So NC DOUBLEA lost that. That's
one of their earliest losses lost to the coaches lost
(21:50):
that all that, So and then you had Greg Sanky
point out last week about the TV contract.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He's like, see, look, I don't know hu.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And then Cody Kamberling Company came back and said that, okay, cool,
that's a lot. And we're talking about the Big ten
contract which goes through twenty thirty six. That on was
with Fox, SEC through twenty thirty four with ESPN, ACC
through twenty thirty six with ESPN, and then the Big
twelve through twenty thirty one with ESPN and Fox. So
(22:25):
Cody Campbell's like, I got a solution for it. You
just allowed the contracts to expire and then bridge any
other gaps with private equity money. So insummation of this
whole thing. Some of the ideas in this are one
hundred percent valid, and they are real, and they are
(22:47):
actually pointed in the exact right direction that we need
to be going.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
That's one thing.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
The second thing is this is also scary as hell
in terms of how this will then impact the players
and our viewing as fans, because because if you know,
if somebody who is a part of this with the government,
(23:13):
then says, with the stroke of a pen, with an
executive order, says, oh, we're gonna limit this school's funding
or this this this, what the hell you're gonna do nothing?
So it puts too much power in one specific place
when this is something that needs to be privatized. But
(23:37):
the issue with privatizing is that the biggest stakeholders, the
big ten, the SEC, they do not want parody and
the ACC you know, the the top schools which are
now going to get a bigger share uneven revenue sharing,
they don't want that either. That's the problem, and this
is why the federal government is involved because and I'm
(24:01):
a likn this to something that I know some of
you guys have been through. This is like family court.
This is exactly like family court. If you've ever been
through family court. What you don't want to do is
end up in front of the judge. It is way
easier to negotiate what you guys want to do in private.
And both of you guys leave a little bit unhappy
(24:24):
than having the judge rule your schedule. Say, all right,
since y'all can't come come to an agreement, you got
to pick them up on Tuesday at five.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You gotta pick them up on Thursday at six, and.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Y'all exchange at this location and this and this, and
you're like, I didn't want that, but you couldn't come
up with a solution, so I came up with one
for you. That's where we're at right now. So please
the College Sports Commission, the Big Ten, the SEC. You
do not want the government making this decision for you.
(24:54):
Make the decision yourself, all right. Next thing that we
got to talk about is my top twenty five for
week four. Let's go on to Happier News. My top
twenty five for week four. So here is my top
twenty five. And I like to do displaining right, because
a lot of people, when you are looking at the
(25:16):
ap pole and all of that, they don't give you
the explanation.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
As to why.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So every week I'm going to give you guys the
explanation for my top twenty five because it is based
upon three criteria, and those are the three most important
criteria that any pole list rankings should be brought upon
in college football. Quality wins, schedule, play, and dominance.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You can knock anything else up out the way with
those things. So Miami is number one. Miami is being
Notre Dame who still looks like an extremely an extremely
good football team. They have taken care of South Florida,
had already beaten Florida, and they had beaten Boise State.
(26:03):
Now I don't count the Boiser. A lot of people
are gonna give South Florida two ranked wins, and they
should because they would give it to the SEC if
that were so. But Boise State was ranked too high
early at number twenty five.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So is what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
But Miami has looked extremely dominant, and I like it
like they have looked dominant. Their offensive line is good,
their defense has been stout, getting takeaways. They have weapons,
on the outside. So far, they have earned the number
one spot. To me, Ohio State, that Texas win. Oh
it was doing a lot of heavy lifting early. But
(26:42):
how's Texas look now? I got them at number nineteen
right now? How does Texas look right now? If we're
really being honest, they have the ninety first best offense
in college football right now. Arch Manning is suffering from
a confidence issue. He doesn't suck, so don't let's not
do that. He doesn't up. He's suffering from a confidence issue,
(27:02):
which is poor play now with which is exacerbating poor
poor play. So it's not that the kid doesn't have talent,
it's that he's playing nowhere near to the expectations that
are expected of him, and now it's in his brain.
Now are they gonna bench him? Nah, that's a whole
another story that probably ain't happening. So Ohio State, they
(27:23):
still look very good. But and it's not a knock
to be at number two through after three games, Like,
let's let's just relax, Oklahoma. Oklahoma's beating a good Michigan team.
Like I like this Oklahoma team. I like what they've done.
And John Matier, he looks really good. Excited about him
as well. So this is not a situation where I
(27:45):
am in any way, shape, form or fashion discouraged or
dissuaded by Oklahoma at all. And Brett Venables calling the defense, Oh,
they look extremely good. They've also taken care of Temple
and they've taken care of Illinois State, only giving up
nineteen points on the entire season. Good on Oklahoma Oregon,
(28:08):
They've looked dominant from cover to cover. Their their domination
is higher than their schedules so far. They've played Northwestern,
they played Oklahoma State, They've played Montana State. They've been
dominant in every single fashion of the game. Now it's
Oklahoma State good, No, but it's reality Georgia. Now, Georgia
(28:34):
is a team that they gave up way too many
points against Tennessee. They gave up forty one points, but
they dominated Marshall and then that Austin p win. But
the Tennessee win for them is doing a lot of
heavy lifting. I'm not gonna lie fsu fsu beat Bama.
(28:55):
I'm not sure what Bama is completely yet except talented.
What we know, they've taken care of business against Wisconsin,
against ULM, But until we see them stress tested at all,
we don't know. And Florida States only played one other game,
so not high leverage competition. So that's what they're at now.
(29:16):
This is the one that people are concerned about. They're like,
how is LSU at number seven?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
George? They beat Clemson.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
They beat Clemson and they got two AP votes right now,
and they beat Florida. Something is wrong with LSU's offense
right now, and that's why Brian Kelly got defensive about it.
They are having trouble scoring points. That's just the truth.
They got five turnovers from Florida and only we're able
to turn that into thirteen points, and I think two
(29:46):
of them they were already in field goal range when
they got the turnover. So come on, man, there's something
going on with LSU and Clemton's offense is broken right now.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So I'm sorry if you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
See the team that I picked the win the national
chip jif Clemson ain't nowhere to be found in here.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Illinois.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Illinois's got a big test with Indiana this week, who
I don't even have rank right now. I don't even
know what Indiana is. They've played Indiana State and Kennessas
State and somebody else State Tech Divide.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I know nothing about them.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, they do have a nice quarterback, Fernando Mendoza from
Cal But we'll see. If they win this weekend against Illinois,
they will vault up these rankings.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Just say you tak They've looked dominant.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
This team is big, they are physical, and they are quarterbacked.
They're quarterback by Devin Dampiar. I like what I'm saying
out of this team, Penn State. Now, I have debated
where to put Penn State in this rankings. They're number
two in the A people, and I can't figure out
why Nevada, FIU and Villanova. What about those wins when
(30:59):
you watch them and you're looking at how Drew Aller
is playing, leads you to believe that this is the
second best team in the country.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh, people are are living.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Off of off of you know, the the name, the
fact that they won against Boise State and who SMU
in the College Football Playoff last year.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Noah, Sorry, sorry, you ain't gonna fool me. You will.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
We will know everything we need to know about this
Penn State team initially when they play Oregon in Week five.
So they may not even deserve to be in the
top ten right now, if I'm being honest, Iowa State,
Texas Tech, Texas A, and m Georgia Tech. I'm giving
Vanderbilt love. But the next one where people are wondering
about is Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
George. They're zero and too.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You can't say that you are what your record is
because how many other teams have played a schedule of Miami,
who I have number one in Texas Tech so far?
How they lost on the last second field goal, essentially
to Miami. They had a chance to score but did
barely any time left at TEXA and m they were
(32:09):
a holding call of the two holding calls on the
same fourth down play away from a win. So yes,
they are still one of the top twenty five best
teams in the country right now, and in fact, I
think they actually might be one of the top twelve,
but they have not earned it. That's the difference Tennessee.
No problem there Auburn. Nobody's gonna argue. We already talked
(32:31):
about Texas, TCU's.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Doing well, Michigan like Michigan.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And then the last thing is but more in twenty
twenty six than twenty twenty five. But they got a
big test coming up soon. And then you got Washington.
People are not respecting Washington right now. They got the
Apple Cup this weekend with Washington State, They're gonna run
them out of the building. But then it gets sketched
next week against Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
But that game is gonna be on Lake.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I cannot wait to talk about that game because it
is going to go but Nanas and there could be
an upset in that game. I'm just saying. And then
you got number twenty five usc Us. He begged for this, Us,
he begged for this. You can't ignore what they've been doing,
but you can blink at the competition. They finally played
a big power for opponent in Perdue. They beat them. Congratulations,
(33:23):
you're in the top twenty five. Indiana would like a word.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But then that has then shaped my top twenty five. Well,
the top twenty five has then shaped my college football
playoff bracket. So here was my initial college football playoff
bracket to start the season. I had Penn State one,
Texas to Clemson three, Oregon four, Notre Dame five, LSU six,
(33:54):
Kansas State seven, Ohio State eight, Georgia nine, Illinois ten,
UH South Carolina eleven and UNLV twelve. I didn't think
that that was terrible at all, but then I ended
up going with After that, I then took my poll
(34:19):
and I did gave you guys a new playoff prediction.
So my new playoff prediction is revealed here. Boom, there
we go. Some of the teams have changed, some of
the faces have changed, some of them have stayed the same.
I threw Clemson in the trash right right now, at
least ten temporarily. I know Dabbo would be like see
(34:39):
Georgia not all in. That's the problem, listen. My job
needs to be all in. My job is to objectively
say what we got right now. Do I still believe
Clemson at a shot? Yes, it ain't the same shot
as I thought it was. All right, so right now,
I got Miami one. And this comes from the rankings
from the top twenty. This is not George trying to
(35:02):
trying to Jimmy Rigg something. This is just we put
it in the way it came out, and what we
got is what we got. And these dictated some interesting matchups.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That I would love to see.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oregon one, I'm sorry, Miami one, Ohio State two, Oklahoma three,
Oregon four.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
This feels good to me.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And then from there Georgia five, FSU six, Florida State
LSU seven, Illinois eight, Utah nine, Penn State ten, Iowa
State eleven, Memphis number twelve.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Feel great about that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
So then that gave me Illinois versus Utah, got Utah
winning that they played Miami, Miami beat Utah. Now I
got Memphis playing Georgia. Georgia wins, Georgia plays Oregon, Oregon
beach Georgia. Then we got Oregon versus Like think about
how this played out. When I was doing I was
like what. So then I got Dan Lanny playing against
(36:05):
Kirby Smart, who smoked him in his first game as
a head coach in the place that he used to
coach at one a national championship as a defensive coordinator.
And then Oregon plays them and wins. And then they're
then playing in the semifinals against their old head coach,
Mario Cristobal.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
What who get playing this? This was? This was not
user intentionally generated.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Then on the other side, you got Penn State LSU
loved that potential matchup, got LSU winning that one and
then playing Ohio State, and then Ohio State beating LSU.
Then on the bottom half of the bracket, Iowa State
playing FSU. I think that would be a good game,
and then playing Oklahoma, and then Oklahoma beating.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
FSU.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Now this is a This is like an NCAA tournament
bracket where you pick.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
All one seeds. That's what I got.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Where you got one, two, three four advance into the
semifinals and last year you had five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
But I do believe that schools are going. But with
the way the seed is done, now, I think you're
gonna get more top seeds win. Then I got Ohio
State versus Oregon two verses four for the national championship,
and with the Ducks winning getting revenge from last year's
Rose Bowl, y'all hopp in the comments, tell me what
y'all are thinking. But you, guys, though, this has been
(37:30):
George Reiser's college football podcast, make sure that you like, subscribe,
get notifications, tell a friend about the show. Most importantly,
share because this is the stuff that y'all need to see.
This is the stuff that you need to hear because
it matters so much. Peace out, catch you guys later.
Enjoy the games this weekend. And stay on the channel.
More hot Ish coming
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
What Are We Even Doing? with Kyle MacLachlan
Join award-winning actor and social media madman Kyle MacLachlan on “What Are We Even Doing,” where he sits down with Millennial and Gen Z actors, musicians, artists, and content creators to share stories about the entertainment industry past, present, and future. Kyle and his guests will talk shop, compare notes on life, and generally be weird together. In a good way. Their conversations will resonate with listeners of any age whose interests lie in television & film, music, art, or pop culture.