All Episodes

November 20, 2024 • 12 mins
Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
I like football. You like football. We talked about football, Yeah, yeah, football,
Change it up. Nebraska. We'll get to their stuff here
in a half hour. We talked about Indiana when we
played Indiana a month ago. Remember that, remember we you know,
you picked Nebraska to beat Indiana.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Remember that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Do you remember what that score ended up being that
that weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Fifty six to seven?

Speaker 1 (00:19):
That was right, that's right?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Their fifth in the latest Collegeable Playoff rankings. The new
one is going to come out. I can't imagine they're
going to be moved down, but there's a growing sense
that they're going to be potentially moved back, either in
this poll or if they lose to Ohio State, they
could fall out of the top twelve altogether. For contexts,
Ohio State is second. They already have lost their losses

(00:44):
to Pop Quiz Oregon Ducks, who are number one and
also undefeated. So here's here's the conundrum. Let's say Ohio
State beats Indiana by any score. Indiana is now ten
and one. Let's say they win their last game, which,
if you're looking at indiana schedule, what is their last game?
It's Purdue, the worst Big Ten team, So Indiana finishes

(01:05):
eleven and one if Ohio States beats If Ohio State
beats Indiana, it will be Oregon and Ohio State the
rematch in the Big Ten Championship game. Penn State also
lurking there, but Penn State's losses to Ohio State as well,
so they lose the tiebreaker. Based on head to head,
it would be Oregon on Ohio State, and if Indiana

(01:26):
wins out, then of course they'd be undefeated and then
they'd play Oregon in the Big Ten Championship Game. So
I have to ask based on there's a reason I'm
talking about this because we like college football in this state.
If Indiana loses to Ohio State beats Purdue goes eleven
and one does not get to play in the Big
Ten Championship Game. Should they make the College Football Playoff
the twelve team College Football Playoff as the third or

(01:51):
tied for third with Penn State third team out of
the Big Ten.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I'd have to see that liston I'd be very curious
to see who you know, it was kind of the tenth,
the eleventh, twelfth, who got in ahead of them?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's what I'd really like to know. This is a
great question. This is a great question. Okay, So I'm
gonna first we have to talk about this now because
I don't want us to be surprised about it later.
Because we as college football fans, I thought we wanted
the playoff. I thought we.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Wanted it, well, most people did. I still missed the
old days where it was just settled by the bowl games.
I think I'm the only person like that.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, the reason that was tradition, right, but you really
didn't know who the best team was except for the
press would vote on who the best team was. Yeah,
and then it got real hairy when there were more
than like two unbeaten teams that would play each other,
you'd have a third team that was just hanging out there,
potentially going undefeated and wouldn't have a chance to win
the national championship game. That's a problem. It used to
be if you won all your games, you'd have a

(02:42):
chance to winning the national title. Well, now almost no
one wins all the games before the playoff. You know
how many undefeated teams there still are in FBS football?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Is there like two, three, three?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oregon? Who's the unanimous number one team right now? Indiana?
Indiana is Army still Army. Yeah, West Point the Cadets
seat right there. They have a shot of making the
playoff if they win the American Conference championship. Hit playing
Notre Dame this weekend, right, Yeah, they got Notre Dame.
That would help obviously because Notre Dame is ranked six

(03:16):
right now. But anyway, okay, so here's my thing, buddy, Indiana.
Here's their games Florida International, Western Illinois, UCLA, Charlotte, Maryland,
Northwestern Nebraska, Washington, Michigan State, Michigan, and then they have
Ohio State and purdued around out the schedule. You want
to know where the highest ranked team is that they

(03:37):
have beaten in the Big Ten standings is Washington. To
this point, they are four and four in the conference
and six and five overall.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Not so good.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
That's the best team on the schedule based on record.
So they lose to Ohio State, beat Purdue, missed the
Big Ten championship game. Are we okay with them not
making it? In here are the other contenders. A Notre
Dame team that's lost once one loss? Remember who was
who was it? Northern Illinois? Oh that's right, what's a

(04:06):
better loss? Northern Illinois or Ohio State. Right, if those
two teams at the same record, how do you say
that Notre Dame is better than Indiana so went off
the schedule? That's the key, right, So who have they beaten?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Here?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Here's a few of the teams. Texas A and M.
First game of the season. That one holds up pretty decent.
Texas A and M is looming in the rankings right now. Okay,
you vib in me TEXTA A and M. They were
twentieth when they played their fifteenth. Now they beat Louisville,
who at the time was ranked. Louisville no longer ranked,

(04:42):
but was ranked until this past week. They just lost
to Stanford, which knocked him out of the rankings. Okay,
Notre Dame has beaten a ranked Navy who at the
time was unbeaten but obviously has come on hard times.
They just got blowed out by two lane last week.
A quick aside. If Notre Dame takes out in an
unbeaten Navy and then this weekend takes out an unbeaten army,

(05:04):
yeah h what are you saying Notre Dame is the
anti military? I'm just saying, like, is that a declaration
of war?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Do we need to do.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
We need to think about that little school in Indiana potentially.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh yeah, now, and now they're going to say that
you're you're uh, you're trying to take out the Catholics.
You're trying to eradicate Catholics. See, Okay, be careful, you
know what. I gotta be careful here, you gotta be careful.
All I'm saying is is down Jesus is a real
thing for them. All I'm saying is it would have
been a really good look to have an unbeaten Navy
and an unbeaten Army squaring off a couple of weeks
from now, the whole world watching, and we're like they

(05:39):
would have played back to back weeks. They would have
to play in the American Championship too.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, that would have been cool.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Uh anyway, Uh, they have Army this week and then they're
at USC who's not going to be ranked, but a
team that could potentially beat them. But of the teams
that they've played, that's the best. That's the best teams.
Texas A and M. Okay, that's pretty good. Texas A
and M's good team. Yeah, But Louisville Navy and Army
are the best.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Teams better than Indiana.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh, I just but they lost to Northern Illinois at home.
How does that not matter? Okay, So, and then it's
Alabama and Georgia and Ole Miss and Tennessee all right
behind them.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, a whole bunch of sec and.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Then Texas is above them. So you have Texas, Alabama, Georgia,
Ole Miss, Tennessee. And then if you extend that to
a little bit to like Texas, A and M who's
flirting on the outside in South Carolina's lost three games.
They're saying there's somehow a way they could win their
way into the conversation South Carolina. I've heard the argument.

(06:36):
And people are talking Colorado too. The three losses. Well, Colorado,
that would be the Big twelve is like set up
to get one. No matter what, it's either gonna it's
whoever wins the conferences.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do they have an auto bid.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's not an auto bid technically, but there is a chance. Okay,
hear this out. This is twelve team playoff. This was
a stupid idea. I'm gonna tell you why they didn't
say the four power conferences an automatic bid. In an
automatic buy, they said the top four conference champions in
general get an automatic bid and a bye. Okay, a

(07:08):
fifth conference champion makes the tourney, but they are ranked
amongst the other eight and have to play in the
first round. Would you like to hear this little scenario.
The fifth conference, you would think, is like Boise State
in the Mountain West. Yeah, they have one lass, it's
to Oregon. They look very good. However, let's say they
lose a game. Well, they certainly are going to go
some tumbling, aren't they.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Let's say those Army Cadets, even if they drop a
game to a highly ranked Notre Dame team. Let's say
they win the American Championship against Tulane, they beat Navy
in their annual matchup. Should they find themselves high enough
ranked to where they could be ranked higher than say Colorado,
who could be playing BYU and potentially beat BYU for

(07:51):
the championship. You could have a Boise State who's unlike
who's won all their games except an Oregon game. They
should be in, and they might get to buy an
American Champion ranked higher than the Big Twelve champion. They
would have to be an at large. There's no like
the Big Twelve champion. Could be the sixth team, could
be the sixth conference champion. It's an unlikely scenario, but
it's one that exists right now. You mean Colorado or BYU,

(08:15):
BYU probably and if they take care of business. But
they lost a game too. They just lost to Kansas,
so that kills them. Like, I don't know, man, this
system sucks. It actually is. It's worse than I thought
it was gonna be. I hate that we have to
we haven't even played it yet. Yeah, I'm already, like,
I'm already, I'm already, Matt.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
You're proven my point that the way they did it before,
the imperfect way they.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Did it before, was naturally just more enjoyable. When was it?
When did they stop mattering that you had to win games?

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
If Indiana lined up against, say, the South Carolina and
you want to know who, South Carolina's lost to LSU
all Miss in Alabama. Okay, and they've beaten a couple
of top twenty fives along the way as well, it's
never gonna be enough. Okay, they've lost three games. You're
telling me that South Carolina plays Indiana, Yeah, I could
buy that South Carolina might even be favored in that game.

(09:06):
But you want to know what else I think. I
think it's a lot of bs that we're talking about
winning football games, and we have all of a sudden
said a good loss is better than winning them all.
It's better to play a team that's pretty good and
lose to them than it is to win every game
in front of you on your schedule. I inherently have
a problem with that. Well, but I don't want teams
to Don't get me wrong. I don't want teams to

(09:27):
be scheduling the easiest thing. But in the Big Ten,
Indiana got the luck of a draw. Whose fault is that? Yeah,
they got a what turned out to be a week schedule.
I see that. But we're gonna penalize them for dominating
pretty much every team on the schedule except for, say,
maybe Ohio State. Give me a break, brother.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
And it is funny to think that they beat both
of the two teams that played the National Championship game
last year, they beat them both this year. Yeah, either
of those are considered that good wins.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, and that tells you the state of college football
is a coach leaves, or a player leaves or heck,
the college Football Playoff commtee says, even though you won
all your games last year, you can't play in our
playoff Florida State. It could completely tank your entire program.
Look at them, Look what happened to those guys, I know,
having their worst season ever. Just imagine sitting down with
a Florida State fan last time. Yeah, at this time

(10:16):
last year, they were unbeaten and they looked great. Then
their quarterback hurt himself. Didn't matter that they won all
their games. The College bab playf committee said no, you
can't play with those and now look at him. They're horrible.
The president was set right there. I hate it. I
hate it. College football sucks. We should go back to
playing nine game schedules against regional opponents and call it good.

(10:36):
Enjoy your games, because crowning a national champion it's still stupid.
It'll never be enough. No, it's stupid until you give
me sixteen or twenty four teams and then you give
me like legitimate parameters that hey, you know what, it
actually does matter that you win all your games. You
can't make room for an eleven and one Power four

(10:56):
conference team like Indiana, because oh it did anybody this year?
I don't think they'd be favorite in the middle of
the SCC screw you pal four to fifty news Radio
eleven tin kfab if Indiana loses to Ohio State, even
by a couple of scores, even if they lose by
a couple of scores, if they lose to Ohio State

(11:17):
in the Horseshoe by fourteen points because of happenstance and
the quality of the opponents that they've played, miss out
on the Big Ten Championship game, and then are left
out of the College Football Playoff, this new twelve team
college ball Playoff, for going eleven to one and losing
just the wrong game because they're not sure how good

(11:38):
they are. When a team like Notre Dame played a
few middling ranked teams this season and lost at home
to Northern Illinois, and somehow that's better than what Indiana's
been doing, crushing teams all season long and losing to
just one of them, a top two team. I'm gonna

(11:58):
I'm gonna punch somebody, I don't know who it is,
one of these college football Playoff lunatics. I'm gonna go
drive down there and I'm gonna have a filibuster right
in front of them about how stupid they are, and
why they've ruined college sports forever.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
I want you to prepare yourself, and please don't resort
to violence, because that's probably going to happen.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't say that. We'll talk about Nebraska as part
of this coming up on news radio eleven ten kfab
Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

24/7 News: The Latest
True Crime Tonight

True Crime Tonight

If you eat, sleep, and breathe true crime, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT is serving up your nightly fix. Five nights a week, KT STUDIOS & iHEART RADIO invite listeners to pull up a seat for an unfiltered look at the biggest cases making headlines, celebrity scandals, and the trials everyone is watching. With a mix of expert analysis, hot takes, and listener call-ins, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT goes beyond the headlines to uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions that keep us all obsessed—because, at TRUE CRIME TONIGHT, there’s a seat for everyone. Whether breaking down crime scene forensics, scrutinizing serial killers, or debating the most binge-worthy true crime docs, True Crime Tonight is the fresh, fast-paced, and slightly addictive home for true crime lovers.

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.