Sean Callahan Breaks Down Nebraska's Bowl Bid & CFB Playoff

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Big weekend as the Nebraska corn Huskers found out which
ball game they're going to go to for the first
time in eight years, getting to play in a bowl game,
and it's the Pinstripe Bowl, the Bad Boy Mower's Pinstripe
Bowl to be exact, being played at Yankee Stadium later
this month. Joining us on the phone line to talk
about that and plenty more in the landscape of the
Huskers is our Husker insider Sean Callahan. Sean, thanks for

(00:22):
coming back on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, good afternoon. It's been quite a week since.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
We last talked, Yah, something like that.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
First of all, before I get too deep into the Huskers,
we talked a bit about what this college football playoff
system was going to look like, in what our fears
were of potentially allowing a three loss Alabama in ahead
of two loss other Power conference teams and whatnot. But
I felt like the committee got the right teams in
pretty close to the right seating. From my opinion, what
say you.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, I think if you're at Alabama, it's just so
hard for me to give you much of an argument
when you lose the six and six banner Bilt and
you lose the six and six Oklahoma, and say what
you want, those are not good losses for a playoff team. Yes,
they beat Georgia and had some other impressive moments this year,
but no other teams really in the field had losses

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like that. Say what you want. I mean Vanderbilt was
they were huge favorites and they lost that game for
the first time of the decades. And they were huge
favorites against Oklahoma. You know, it would have almost been
like Ohio State losing to Nebraska. Nebraska is a twenty
four twenty five point dog in Columbus and they almost
beat Ohio State this year. Then Ohio State figured out
how to pull it out at the end. But it

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was I think that's the challenge when you do this
twelve team playoff and have the auto bids worked in,
it really is not the twelve best teams. And we
learned that. And when all this was put together, you know,
college football was a lot different. The Big Twelve was
a different league, you know, the Big the Pack, the
Big Ten was a different league in terms of the
membership and what these leagues looked like. And there's been

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such a consolidation of talent, money and power to these
two leagues that naturally there is going to be some
teams that just beat each other up like we've seen
this year. And you know, I think the only solution
moving forward will be to create auto bids. And if
they expand to fourteen teams, I think it could be
set up to give the Big Ten and the SEC

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four auto bids at that point.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, and I'm not here to say that Alabama wouldn't
be favored or have a chance to beat a team
like SMU, who was kind of the battle between those
two for the last at large spot. My biggest beef
is at what point do we actually care about the games?
Because and they talk about their whining and cry and
Sean pardon to be so crass about this, but the
non conference schedule for Alabama that they're complaining about, like, oh,

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we shouldn't schedule any hard opponents, we should just schedule
the easiest opponents to try to win. Their non conference
was Western Kentucky, South Florida and a bad non Bowl
eligible Wisconsin team early in the season, and then they
got the gift of getting to play a team like
Mercer in November. The SEC has these stupid non con
cupcake games a couple of weeks before the end of
the season and they're crying about there the schedule not

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mattering or whatever. I don't know, man, I just I
feel like college football now, like, do you think we're
further away from the regular season games mattering?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
What's the what's the what's the blowback?

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Which way do they go to these schedule harder games
to try to improve the resume or do they try
to schedule weaker games to try to win as many
as they can.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Here's the challenge, though, what is college football driven on.
It's driven on three or four television windows on Fox, NBC,
and CBS and ABC. And you know you have to have,
you know, a lot of inventory to offer these networks
to draw the ratings. And that's why everyone's making all
this money from college football. And if you don't put
good on good matchups in your lineup, you don't have

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as good of a television product. And the SEC has
been able to get a get away with it playing
eight games, and ESPN at least right now has said
that they won't be compensated more by adding the ninth games.
So that's what the hold up has been. If they
can compensated to add the ninth conference game and get
the insurances that they're going to probably get four bids.

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I think that's that's the best solution, because you know,
I would like to see the good on good SEC
games versus you know, only having eight, because you know,
the Big Ten would look a lot different if everybody
only played eight. But if Indiana only played eight conference games,
they may not have made the playoffs. I think having
a nine game conference schedule helped the Hoosiers because they
didn't play a power for non con game and they

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didn't have a ranked win, but they were dominant and
all their wins this year the way they beat most
of their opponents, and Penn State, you know, still had
some quality wins on there. So yeah, it's a tough
and everyone played nine verse eight, and I don't think
the common fan quite understands that is a huge difference.
I mean, look at USC, they played nine conference games
and they played Notre Dame and they played LSU to

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give them eleven games of power for significance. That is
a really tough schedule. Clemson plays eight conference games plus
Georgia plus South Carolina. Yeah, they played ten really really
hard games. You know, you don't see a lot of
SEC teams though, do that some do but not maybe
just Georgia and Alabama. I normally would play a lot

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of extra games. But yeah, I don't know how you
fix this, because it's going to be there's gonna be
a situation like this almost every year where at eleven
one or ten and two, Big twelve or a SEC
team is not going to have the talent of an
SEC team and they're going to get the bump.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Still, Yeah, it's going to be interesting. Sean callahanter Husker
insider joining us. Let's go ahead and talk Huskers. The
Pinchtripe Bowl ends up where they land, indeed, the Tampa Bowl,
the RelA Quest Bowl takes Michigan, Iowa goes to Nashville
for the Music City Bowl. And you mentioned this weird thing.
The Pinchtripe Bowl just taken different Big Ten teams every
single year. I think this is eight years in a

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row with a new new team. But it's an interesting trip,
one of the colder bowl games that you can get into,
but also one of the more interesting backdrops. Tell me
about how this all came about.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, this will be the tenth Big Ten team in
eleven years to play in the game. Twenty twenty didn't
play a game, So there's been ten different teams and
ten pen Stripe Bowl games from the Big Ten. The
Big Ten currently holds an eight and one record in
those nine games previously played. Nebraska and Michigan coincidentally are
two of the teams that have never played in this
game before, and it was one thought that Michigan would

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be going to the Pinstripe Bowl. Then they beat Ohio
State and that kind of changed the tune of where
the Wolverines landed now there in Tampa versus Alabama, which,
by the way, I think Nebraska might have dodged a
bullet having to say if they would have won that
game to go to Tampa, Nebraska, if you playing Alabama
and Tampa, I don't know how many Husker fans would
feel real great about that matchup in Tampa to play Alabama.

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But this game in New York, it's a unique trip.
It's a very tough trip though for fans, you know,
in terms of flying into the city on the week
of Christmas, in New Year's Eve, on the weekend before
New Year's even the city there are people going, but
it's going to be a really hard trip to kind
of figure out because direct flights are very limited. You

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got to connect, you got to pay a lot of
money in the hotels. But I do still think you'll
see probably more Nebraska fans there than almost any other
fan base would travel. Maybe Penn State, being with their location,
would travel well there. But Nebraska will travel well for
this game. And their opponent Boston College, they've never played
in the history of Nebraska football. This could be a

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really hard game. I look at Boston College and what
they did. They're seven and five. They beat Syracuse, they
beat Michigan State, they nearly beat Missouri on the road.
They smoked Florida State in Week one from Florida State
was still a ranked team. I mean, they're not a
bad team. Twenty four touchdowns of seven interceptions. They have
the nation's leader in sacks with sixteen and a half sacks.

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So they are going to present a lot of challenges,
especially now Nebraska and some of the transfer portal entries
they're suffering on the defensive side of the football.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, bost College is played the Pens Trible twice before.
It's kind of funny Boston team in Yankee Stadium for football,
but this game historically, a lot of these games have
been really close and really exciting. Only a couple of
games in the last decade have not been a one
score game for this game though, in the current bowl scenario.
Over the last few years, it's really just a matter

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of who is or who isn't playing in the bowl game,
because if it's not for the national champion, you've really
seen a huge number of opt outs and that's I guess,
fairly predictable. With the current transfer porter rules, do you
have kind of a grasp on you know what players
will or will not be available that are high profile
for the Huskers.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, transfer portals already hit, you know with Jamari Butler,
Keona Davis today, James Williams. Those are frontline players Nebraska's
lost up their defensive line among others. But in terms
of guys opting out for like the NFL, there's been
none yet. Now Tomorrow, I think it's a really big
day because they'll practice tomorrow and usually practice is kind

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of a tell the tellaw at that point, you know
if what a guy's doing, whether it's the portal or
opting out, if they're at a practice round, if you're
not going to go to practice. You're done, right, So
I think tomorrow, if anything happens, we'll know some more
things tomorrow. And look, there's a lot of rumors out
there about other things, like Dylan Rayola. He's still here.
He's got the Chiefs game with Husker players. Last night.

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We talked to a lot of people in his camp
and we've been assured there's nothing with Dylan Royola, even
though there's been some kind of bogus, loose reports put
out there today by some media outlets from a national
level that weren't accurate for what we know, and we've
confirmed them directly with sources in the RILA circles. So
you just never know where this stuff all goes. But
there's been nothing big today in the portal other than

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Keon Davis.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
All Right, well, and I guess Tyle, like you said,
time's going to tell. Within the next few days, we'll
see who is or isn't active. Last thing here for
you mentioned the trip and it just kind of being
a very interesting bawl. Also the timing December the twenty eighth,
is that for some fans, is there a way that
you think that some of Nebraska fans will be like
this a great way to you know, spend New Year's

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in New York City or do you think it's just
a little too too many days in between. How do
you think people are going to approach this trip.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I think most people leave on Sunday or Monday after
the game. It just I think the cost to stay
in New York City and the number of people that
will be there. You know, you'd really have to want
to be a part of that to deal with that.
On New Year's Eve. I mean I'm speaking as an
old man here, but I think you'll see a lot
of fans either leave the night of the twenty fifth,
because there are some evening options to get out there,

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or on the twenty sixth, and then you know, the
game is on the twenty eighth, and then you'll see
fans go home on Sunday or Monday. Would be my guest,
but yeah, the nice thing if Nashville or Orlando would
have been the Bulls, you know, you would have way
more people going because the dates were better. The thirtieth
and the thirty first are much better dates for fans
kind of digest their Christmas before they get on the

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road for a bull trip. This is an exciting trip.
People are interested in want to go. Just the pricing
of a room and flights and the timing and it's
a tough trip for a lot of fans to be
able to make.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, this is what I was afraid of, is that
this was possibly a good possibility when they first got
to Bowl eligibility because of how many teams were already there,
and you know, you just sit there and you're just
like praying to the Bowl committees and whatnot, like Tampa, Phoenix, Nashville, No,
how about Yankee Stadium.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
But you know what, it's okay. It's a postseason game.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Plenty of additional practices for the Huskers, which is good
to see. Maybe we get to see some fun stuff
and maybe a nice win on a national television audience.
Sean Callahan, our Husker insider, as always, thanks for the information,
my friend.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
We will talk very soon. I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Hey. Thanks all right?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, are you planning to going? Are you going to
go on a trip?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Nice?

Speaker 1 (11:48):
A guy who goes by coach on our phone line
four two, five, five, eight eleven ten, coach, you got
some thoughts on this Bowl game?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Here?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Emory don't overrate me, and I appreciate that. I've just
a longtime Northeast Browska coach. In fact, that was hit
football at Carter and Nelson's high school many years ago.
So I got to see Carters this weekend and news
is great. By the way, I got to talk to
them if I rest them all through high school. But
I do want to share with you really quick. Yankee
Stadium is not that hard. Our daughter threw me out

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there two years ago for three Yankee games against Boston.
I was blessed to have been there.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
All I did was.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Ball and yes we're going. So I just want to
share it with you. At the flight to Chicago, it's
a flight to New York and then get on the
subway and where do you go? That's all I got.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
So hey, coach, before you go. But coach coach he left.
I wanted to ask him, like how it ranks with
some other Like a guy like that's probably seen a
bunch of stadiums. I wonder how Yankee Stadium ranks because
there are some people that are just kind of like me.
It's it's legendary because it's called Yankee Stadium, but the
original Yankee stadium had the aura and the size, and

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you know, I don't know, just like everybody, like if
you've gone to Pittsburgh, gone to San Diego, even gone
to a place like Fenway or Wrigley, those really old stadiums
that are still functional, Bob Baltimore's really good, Like those
are real awesome baseball stadiums. Yankee Stadium doesn't have a
lot of that vibe.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
I feel like that tends to happen. You hear that
a lot with new stadiums, especially in baseball. You get
a new stadium and it just doesn't feel the same.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, Finway, Finnway has a bowl game too, and Wriglely
hosted a couple of Northwestern home games this year. Yeah,
they don't have a bowl game, But yeah, what do
you think though, Like that's it's an interesting conversation, right,
Nebraska fan, you were kind of hoping to go to
a warm weather spot for this bowl game and enjoy
a big basically three day, four day vacation with a

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bunch of your favorite Big Red supporters and go down
there and have this football game be kind of what's
you sent through the.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Entire trip around.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
But there's kind of this added thing of like, hey,
you know, the stadium in Tampa, you're not going down
to see that. The stadium in Arizona, you're not going
to see that. But the idea that you get to
watch a football game in Yankee Stadium is kind of cool,
Like it's pretty to me. That would be like you'll
have to bring or like like cold weather clothes and
like be bungled up potentially, But it's kind of cool
to get to watch a football game of Yankee Stadium. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I think for the people. Okay, So this is where
I look at it. If you are a die hard
and also relatively person of means well off person who
loves the Huskers, who's been too many bowls in the past,
and you've been on a drought here for a while
eight years, I gotta believe unless you just hate cold weather,
you got to see this and think, oh cool, this

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is bucket list stuff. I get back to a Nebraska
Bowl and I get to go to a really cool place,
you know, and that's one for the scrapbook kind of deal.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Are you okay? So Sean said, you know, he's not sure.
He thinks a lot of people probably get out of
there on Sunday or Monday. The game's on Saturday. You
sticking around for New Year's Eve. You fly down on
the Friday.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Let's say, if I had sets to and the time to,
absolutely how could you not be You're gonna tell me
that you went to New York City and you're that
close to New York nears years and.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
You're like twenty ninth or thirtieth and you're getting out
of town. What's another couple grand come on? Or what's
another like the time, Like everybody says New Year's Eve
in Times Square, but I think it's probably New Year's
Eve anywhere in New York anywhere in the proxy the
approximate area I would imagine would probably be an attractive
spot for people to uh to run to anybody.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I don't know. You're going down to this Bowl game.
You're going for the experience, right.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
And you'd like to see the Huskers win. But yeah,
you're going to the game. You're gonna see Yankee Stadium.
You're going to be in New York City right before
the New Year, and you get to deal with a
bunch of your big red pals.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I'll tell you this, I'll guarantee you this that New York,
New York. That New Year's Eve celebration in New York
City is going to be definitely be more red than
it has been in the past. There's no way that
those Husker fans are going to that game and that
a good portion of them isn't sticking around. That's just
bonkers to think they wouldn't. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I guess it depends on like, like you and me,
we're in our thirties, like, of course we would do that.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Somebody who's sixty five years old is like, they give
me out of here. Yeah, but there'll be plenty of
in their thirties that are down there, up there, over there.
Whatever you say, oh, I would say over there, But yeah, yeah,
I'm trying to think of of an equivalent here. Okay,
this is not a perfect equivalent, but let's say that.
Let's say that, like, Okay, let's say Emory that you
had a close friend who had a wedding, a destination
wedding in Spain. You're probably out, just knowing you, you're

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probably out on this generally, and I think I probably
would be too. But this is the only thing I
could think of at the time. Let's say like right
there the wedding, and then like a day or two
later is the running with the bulls and you're not
sticking around. No, screw those guys. Yeah, you don't like that.
I'm trying to think of a better example. But I'm saying,
like something that's historic, that is is an event.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
I would build a vacation around it. Yeah, that's what
I'm trying to say. I would personally.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
I understand Shawn's take on it, right, but I'm just
saying I would be shocked. In fact, I feel very
confident that the New Year's Eve already in Times Square
is going to be more red than it normally is
over fifty over under.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Fifty percent of the people that are going to the
ball games stick around for New Year's.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Under but it's a decent amount. I would say, twenty
to thirty percent. I agree one hundred percent of that number.
And I don't think everybody's down on Times Square. I
think plenty of people are just getting the experience of
being there, saying they did tweeting about it.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, I agree more on the way Emory Songer, mattckay Son,
News Radio eleven ten kfab Emri Sunger, the College football
playoff rankings come out a lot of good games, I
mean really good games, overtime for Texas and Georgia. Georgia
ends up winning. Both teams are in the playoff. One
score game between Penn State and Oregon for the Big
Ten Championship. That was pretty nice to see. The Big

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Twelve Championship game, Iowa State got the doors blown off
of them. Arizona State, a team picked last by the
media in the Big Twelve before the season their first
year in the conference. They go on and they end
up rolling in the championship game. They got a first
round by and everything good for them. SMU otherwise would
have been in line for a first round by, but

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fumbled the bag, going down seventeen to Clempson before making
an insane rally only to get beat by a fifty
seven yard field goal. And Clemson jumps from seventeen into
the bracket, but they left SMU in left and put
Alabama on the outside looking in with three losses. I was,

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for one, incredibly relieved for this, not because I'm a
hater of Alabama, although I definitely am, but they lost
to two six and six teams and SMU's two losses
are to a team in the playoff in Clemson, and
the other loss a non conference game a BYU team
that finished in the top.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Twenty in the rankings. Yeah, that's true. It was ranked
as high at six at one point this season. I
would push back on what they're called quality wins were.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
What matters more winning the games that are on your
schedule or losing games you shouldn't be losing if you're
a top twelve team.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
SMU lost none of those games. The two losses they
have were two two good teams. Alabama lost three games,
two of which six and six opponents. One of those
six and six teams they only three points in the game.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, but if we're gonna put if we're going to
remove the penalty for not having very many quality wins,
what about Army. Army went eleven and one and guess
what happened and the only loss that they had was
to the fourth best team in the whole country, Notre Dame. Yes, indeed,
so why aren't they even being looked at?

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Because the American Athletic Conference is quite literally a group
of five conferences that no one lost less than three
games in except for them. With all of them having
strength of schedules well below the Mendoza line. Now we
can say that Indiana and SMU didn't play anybody, and
that's why their records were inflated to eleven win seasons.

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But my biggest beef with that is the idea that they,
first off, Indiana smoked everybody pretty much. I mean, they
beat everybody you know who. They also beat Michigan, a
Michigan team that beat Ohio State. Yes, Ohio State handled
Indiana and trounced them. In the one game that they
had that was challenging on the road, they got beat handily,

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but they also had quality wins against teams like Michigan,
who then went on to beat Ohio State in that area.
You can't tell me in a Big Ten schedule a
team that wins their games and won them as convincingly
as Indiana did doesn't deserve some play, even if they
have the one loss against the one good team that
they actually played. Same goes for SMU, who most of
their schedule not the cream of the crop. In a

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down year for the ACC they got to dodge in Miami.
They got to dodge Clemson until the very end of
the season, and they lost an opportunity to beat a
ranked opponent in Clemson. But they lost by three points
at the Buzzer in a game they didn't play very
well in the first half, came all the way back,
looked like they were at least equal to Clemson. How
could you penalize them for losing a game they earned

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the right to play in while Alabama was sitting at
home on the couch. Dangerous precedent to set there if
you would have excluded them. I'm glad they didn't. I'm
glad they didn't. There are a lot of questions and
a lot of things we need to fix about this
playoff system, but I think the right twelve teams based
on the rules that we currently have, I think that
was the right move. I don't like the idea that
Boise in Arizona State, compared to where the ranking is,

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they are seeded third and fourth, yeah, and they get
a bye.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I don't like that either.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
I also don't like the idea that Notre Dame was
ranked in the top five and they're going to be
operating as the seventh seed in the bracket. It's kind
of their own fault because they refuse to join a
conference for football. But you know, I don't know. I
thought everything. It was a big deal over the weekend
for anybody who follows sports. And of course, next hour
we'll talk to Sean Callahan about Nebraska's piece and all
of this when they're going to the Pinstripe Bowl in

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New York. But if you're looking at trying to crown
a national champion with the rules the way that they
are spelled out, I think that they did a pretty.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Good job with what they had to work with. I
hate to bring this up, but I did want to
just get your thoughts Iowa State fan. They go down
in the Big Twelve championship game. They've never won the
Big Twelve? Is that correct? That is correct? What's kind
of the post mortem on this season?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, first ten win season in the history of the program. Wow,
that's nice. A couple of unfortunate loss. Lost at home
to Texas Tech by one that was a deflator. They
were ranked in the top ten when that happened, which
is super deflator. And then they went to Arrowhead, where
Kansas is playing their home games this year, and lost
to them the next week, which really was a kick
to the gut. Fall out of the rankings. Basically with

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just the two losses back to back, had to rally
enough and get help with teams like Kansas also beating
teams like BYU and Colorado to play them back into
the mix to even play for the conference title. Game.
Didn't have it. It was a mess. Didn't work out.
Arizona State destroyed them. They turned the ball over three
times to start the third quarter, and that was pretty
much the end of the game. But the pop Tarchs

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Bowl against a high profile opponent in Miami. They were
the first team left out not named Alabama. This was
a It's a good season. Orlando, Florida is the bowl game.
It's a good trip for the fans who will travel
to that game, a good opportunity to get a win
against a good, high profile opponent. And I know there's
gonna be a ton of opt outs on both sides,

(23:05):
especially for Miami who have a lot of NFL caliber players,
especially on offense that are probably not going to play.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
In the game. I think cam Ward might opt out.
I don't think he'll play.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Wow, he's going to be first round pick probably, I mean,
why would he, like, why would you play a meaningless
game when all you can gain is just getting hurt
and hurting your draft pro stock. Like, if he throws
for four point fifty and six touchdowns, it's still not
really going to change how people in the NFL view him.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
But didn't he lose his last game? Yeah, out of Syracuse? Like,
isn't there isn't there a motivation there to want to
go out a winner? You think these kids care about
winning these days? I mean, do you say that? And
it just makes me bummed? But that's college football these days.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of guys that
are just in the transfer portal that aren't going to
play any games. They're just looking for the next school
that they can go get money from an nil right,
which is really stupid. Which sucks because how often do
the fans have to be on the hook for making
sure that their programs succeed. The fans are paying the tickets,
the fans are buying the concessions, the fans are buying
the merch. The fans are also expecting to donate to
these collectives. While the school makes hundreds of millions of

(24:03):
dollars a year in media rights deals and all they
spend their money on is just paying for ten million
dollars a year for a head coach or to buy
out the previous coach, and to build a new building
every once in a while on campus. Yet, we the
fans have to make sure that we're donating enough into
the NIL funds to make sure that we get the
right players that can keep good players like Dylan Royola

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in Lincoln for his collegiate career, because if this payment
stopped coming and we the fans stop pooning up our
dollar amounts, he's just going to go to where the
biggest paycheck is. Theoretically that's not every single college player,
but that's the landscape that you're working with right now.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
So you don't think I'm cheering for Arizona State, Boise State,
SMU and some of these non brands Indiana in this
college football playoff to recavoc and make some noise. Heck yeah,
I am give me that Arizona State Boise State national
championship game. Unfortunately, I just feel like we've seen this
picture before and it's going to be big ten sec
in the semi finals, and that's going to pretty much
be that. It's my fear, But I think that that's

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the most likely scenario.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, man, I I like Arizona State's path, or maybe
it's Boise State. I need to look again. It's one
of those two that actually has where you're kind of
like Boise. They potentially either Penn State or SMU in
this in the quarterfinal. I don't hate that for Boise.
It could have been worse.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
And it's a neutral site there at the Fiesta Bowl
the first round. The teams that have home games, that's
gonna be electric. Columbus, Ohio State College, Pennsylvania, Austin, Texas.
And what's the other one. The other one's there's another Oh,
South Bend, Ah, Notre Dame, Oh, Notre Dame in Indiana.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
So good. How about that for an insight. I love
that matchup. I love it. It's gonna be fun, it's exciting.
Emery Sunger