October 30, 2024 • 18 mins
Craig Way recaps the College Football Playoff webinar with director Rich Clark. Takeaways include the committee not shying away from potential rematches in the playoff, bowl site breakdowns, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I mentioned there was a webinar this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
That was conducted by the College Football Playoff Committee, and
on the webinar, the chief keynote speaker was the new
executive director of the CFP. That's Richard Clark or rich
Clark as he went by and folks call him, and
was also kind of administered by Brett Daniels, who had
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been I've known him a long time. He was in
media relations at SMU and then was on the Cowboys
media relations staff for years during the Jerry and Jimmy
Super Bowl thing and years after that as well. But
he works now with the CFP, and so they did
this webinar to basically introduce what this twelve team playoff
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is all about from the perspective of the executive director
and to let me to hear and ask questions. I
did not ask any questions of rich Clark because and
I wanted to give other It's for the same reason
that I don't ask questions at Sark's weekly news conference,
because I know I'll get my opportunity on Wednesday nights
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along warn weekly where I get to ask all of
the questions other than the ones that are submitted on
a card. But all the other questions are ones that
I ask, So it's only fair to let other people
to have their opportunity to ask Sark questions. And they do,
and we'll hear some more by the way, on the
SEC teleconference coming up the next segment. But it was
the same thing with this because Rich Clark is coming
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on our show to arm so he'll be on with
us to talk in large measure kind of recapping what
this was all about today. But I did find some
interesting elements out of this. First of all, as everybody knows,
if you followed the college football playoff situation at all,
you know with the twelve team playoff in the bracket,
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what it's going to be is the five highest ranked
conference champions draw automatic bids into the playoff. The five
highest ranked of the five, the four highest rank will
receive first round byes. It's a pretty safe bet that
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the Power four leagues, the Big Ten, the SEC, the ACC,
the Big twelve, that they're going to get those four
buys the group of five highest ranked conference champion right now,
if you were to do it, it would be Boise State,
but Army still has a shot, and this is an
outside shot. They could also accrue a spot, but probably
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will not break into the top four where they would
get a buy. They would just they would automatically slot in.
And Rich Clark made a point to point out that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
If you were to.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Look at it, let's say, uh and they used last
year as a model, which made it kind of weird
CAAM because you had Michigan Texas was number two off
of that deal, So it was it was kind of
weird the way they used the model from last year.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well last year they.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Had you know, there were other teams that were getting
in that were being slotted into the top five or
top four because they were a conference champion, like Arizona,
even though Arizona was not ranked in the top four,
but they got in there because it was the highest
ranked conference champion.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And it is mathematically possible.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That you could have, like say, an ACC champion if
Miami were to stumble that the ACC champion or the
Big twelve champion, say if BYU and or I always
say were to stumble a time or two were to
go ahead and win their conference championship but not actually
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be ranked in the top four, but they automatically get
slotted in there, especially if they're still ahead of that
G five champion.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Did they say, like what specific ranking or is it
just depending?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, they were using that specific example, but they said,
did you just depend they know that they would they
would land in the top four. I would imagine they'd
be slotted into the four spot at that point among
the others. Sorry, that was one thing he talked about.
He pointed out rich Clark did some other things, and
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he did mention there was one guy that asked for
I was really kind of surprised that he asked the question,
but he did. He'd tried to frame it in a
very respectful way, but I thought it was a little
bit goofy. He asked rich Clark if the committee would
consider manipulating the rankings, like, say, especially two that are
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real close together, like four and five or five and six,
because top four is going to get a bye anyway,
but five and six just to avoid rematches like in
Ohio State Michigan rematch. And the guy goes which I'm
sure nobody wants to see. I'm like, who are you
to speak for everybody? This reporter said this, and rich
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Clark said, now, the Committee's not going to do that. Okay,
So if Texas gets it's been seating here. So they're
saying that they won't take into account that Texas and
Georgia I've already played this season when they make their theirs.
In fact, Rich Clark said they could play two teams,
could play as many as three times, could play in
the regular season, could play in a conference championship, and then, then,
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to use his words, could meet somewhere in the playoff.
So no, they said, once the bracket is set, the
bracket is set.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You can't reset the bracket or go back.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And this led into another wrinkle, And this was something
I didn't know, And I was looking at that Stewart
Mandel's tweet about it because he has questions on this.
He said, Clark confirms that the committee will not manipulate
rankings in any way to avoid rematches. Schools could theoretically
play each other three times. That I kind of figured.
But here's something I didn't know. I had not even
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heard this brought up. Ridge Clark brought this up. He
was talking about the first round matchups five verses twelve,
six verses eleven, seven verses ten, and eight verses nine.
As we know, those games will be on campus sites
at the higher seeds. The five seed, the six seed,
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the seven seed, and the eight seed will host those games.
What I did not know what Ridge Clark said was
and he said it almost kind of as a matter
of he said it very matter of factly, almost in passing.
He said, well, in the schools that will host these
playoff games, they will host in their stadiums, unless they
want to host, like say, in an alternate site like
an NFL stadium or something, if they want to do that,
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And everybody was I think it was like really so
then there were follow up questions about that.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So Texas could technically host at eight and T Stadium.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
If they want it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and everybody was like what, so, hey, give bad
your Texas A and M hosting a playoff game at NRG.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I think A and M fans will lose their mind yeah, right,
like any fan base would lose their minds. So folks ask,
we're asking because then you allow, sorry, then you allow
the opposing team to possibly have more of their fans
show up, right.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Which gets into another thing.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But he said, he said, there are many factors that
we're not thinking about that might.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Prevent a team from being able to host on the campus. Site.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I'm thinking, like what, And then he said, hotel space.
If there's not enough hotel space. Listen, if you have
a home football game in Athens, Georgia, or Austin, Texas
or Columbus, Ohio, and you've got one hundred thousand fans.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
There, they're on their own hotels, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So that's the whole point about home field advantage exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
He said he expected it. Everybody that the feat because
then guys were asking have you gotten feedback from up
from some school saying hey, if we wanted to host
somewhere else, and he was like no, but there will
be more conversations down the road.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What was the college baseball team that couldn't host the
regional because there's Indiana State.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Indiana State couldn't host the super regal. TC, you got
to host him because Indiana Special Olympics and they said
they didn't have enough staff to do it or whatever
with everything, and so he went to fourth and probably
lost two games, and TC, you got a College World Series.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So it would have to be a group of five
team that lives that's in a much smaller but a.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
G five, But a G five wouldn't be seated high
enough to host.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Unless they were just they're going to be twelve, eleven,
ten or nine probably just exactly yeah, yeahs anything.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Boys, He's not going to host in their stadium on
that blue terms.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They got a shot to do it, of course not
of course they're going to do it well anyway. So
there was that and then one other point that he
that that he pointed out that was it was it
somebody said, uh, you know what will happen if you
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get teams that Uh, I'm want to think this through.
I'll tell you what we're up against a break, let
me let me take it, and I'm gonna and I'm
going to stretch it out exactly the way it was
posed to him. So I give a better example. And
we're going to hear more from Long Orn's head coach
Steve Sarkisian as well when we continue on sports Radio
Ave and thirteen under the Zonne. I now have it
(09:32):
phrased out in my mind the way I want to
present this. There was one other question that I wanted
to present and let folks know that was asked of
Rich Clark, the executive director of the College Football Playoff.
And again Rich is going to be on with us
tomorrow afternoon at the four o'clock hour, and I will
ask a couple of these questions because as it pertains
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to the possibility of including Texas, Uh, it's important for
LongRun fans to no one was the thing about the rematches, Yeah,
it's conceivable that Texas and A and M could play.
Both could wind up getting the playoffs and playing each
other again. Yeah, they could even wind up playing each
other in back to back weeks into the regular season
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in the SEC Championship game. Mathematically, yeah, possible could have
a rematch between Texas and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You could.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There are possible rematches that could happen out of that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The other thing that came up.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Was where these games are going to be played after
the first round. Now, I just went into some length
and talked about the first round sites. Of course, we'll
be at the home of the higher seeded teams. The
five seed will host the twelve, the sixth seed will
host the eleven, the seventh seed will host a ten seed,
and the eight seed will host the nine. It is
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expected that these four higher seeded teams, the five to
six to seven eight wall all play on campus sites.
Although Riz Clark did bring it up as a possibility
that if a team for whatever reason, maybe there is
a construction issue, maybe there's a weather is whatever, did
not want to play that game on their home site,
that they could play it, move it to like say
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an NFL stadium since they get to host the game
as the higher seeded team.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Part that was one thing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Here's the other thing, and this surprised me, and it
cleared up. It may clear up a misnomer for long
worn fans who may be projecting down the road where
Texas might be playing, say if they either get a
buy into the quarterfinals, or even if they play in
the first round and win and advance to the quarterfinals
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and then to the semifinals where they might be going.
It has been a kit a given among a lot
of long worn fans that they could play because of
projections that we saw early on, that they could play
to maybe even three games in Atlanta. If they got
to the SEC championship game, they could play in Atlanta
and then in the Peach Bowl in the quarterfinal. Then
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if they events all the way in to the National
Championship game, which is definitely at Mercedes Benz Stadium, it
could be there a third time. Here's the way it
was explained by rich Clark. The way they have I
think they said this year and next year they have
two years of agreements still in place with certain bowls
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as they are tied into conferences.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So in their.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Sample bracket they used last year's teams, which meant that
Michigan was the one seed, in Texas was the two seed.
What they do is those top four seeds get a buye.
Then after that when they go to the quarterfinals, the
next thing they go to is where the schools if
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they have a conference tie into a certain bowl, which
bowl would it be?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Okay, So in the case of Michigan, we know what
that would be. That'd be the Rose Bowl for the quarterfinal.
The Big Ten, you know, tie in with the Rose
bul the two seed, and the example he used from
last year was Texas. It would not be Atlanta because
of the SEC tie in with the Sugar Bowl, so
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it would be New Orleans. And I started to read
something about that last week. I'm like, okay, all right,
and then you have the three seed, you're the Peach Bowl,
and then you have the Fiesta Bowl. That's exactly right.
So what they did was Florida State, believe it or not,
was the sample as the three seed last year would
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have been then slotted to the Peach Bowl and then
Arizona to the Fiesta. So then you get to the semifinals,
and when you get to the semi finals, and this
is the part I did not know, the highest remaining
seed then expresses its preference.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
No, no, no, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Then at that point, the highest remaining seed is slotted
to go where they are geographically closer. So when the
example he used Michigan because Dallas is closer than Miami,
the two semifinals of the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl,
Michigan would go to Dallas Arlington to Jerry World. If
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Texas under that example were to advance the semifinal, they
would not play in the Cotton Bowl. Texas would be
in the Orange Bowl as the two seeds because of
the two seed. Interesting, yeah, that was and so it
threw some people off them were like, well wait a minute.
They were asking rich Clark, what is any pre made
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in play made in place? Is being put in place
to prevent a lower seeded team from having a home
field advantage, And he said no, Once the bracket is set.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's set.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So you know what, I'm thinking, that's got Miami written
all over it. If Miami, let's just say Miami is
a three seed, the three seed or even the four seed,
not the one, and they get to play in the
Orange Bowl.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That's a home game. That's where they play their home.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Games in what is it, hard Rock Stadium might go
So that's what went into my mind. But they said,
once the bracket is set, they can't go back in
and say, okay, well this team. If Michigan gets knocked
out by so and so, then the number two seed
instead of going to Orange Bowl because they're closer, Texas
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would get to play in the Copon Bowl.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Once the bracket is set, the bracket is set not
only for the seeding but also the sights.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So that's just something to keep in mind.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
For folks who are thinking, oh, yeah, well it would
be New Orleans and Dallas or Atlanta in Dallas. Not necessarily,
not necessarily, especially if you don't get a buy in
the first round.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So that's just something to keep in mind about that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Again, We're gonna have Rich Clark on tomorrow and I'll
get him to reiterate that piece of it, but there's
some other things to talk about with him when he
joins us tomorrow to talk about the college football play
or now, I know what.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Many of you are thinking. Ooo, they're not even there yet.
We know all that. We know that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
These are just some of the things that are in
place to give you a better idea of what's going
into this. Here's another big thing that came out of
this camp was two or three reporters asked the exact
same question in a slightly different way.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
What are the metrics involved here? How transparent are these metrics?
What are they using?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, when we always talk about basketball kimpom, which
the NCAA is tossed out by the way, Now no
more kim pom really yep, thought about a week ago.
Kim pom will not be used because of mistakes made
in it that actually favored some teams over others. They
were legitimate mistakes, they were unintentional, but they were errors.
Kim pom will no longer be used by NCAA as
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a metric. So there were several guys asking on this
webinar what is the metric? And they used I think
it's called sports Services data or something. I'll pull it up,
but anyway, it's the one they used last year. It's
the one that the College Football Playoff Committee uses anyway,
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and what they've been using. And that was part of
Richard Clark's point. The way and the duty and the
responsibility of the CFP committee. The College Football Playoff Committee
is unchanged from last year.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's just they're picking more.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Teams, and not only that, all the way until December,
it's identical. In other words, you rank twenty five teams.
Next Tuesday, when the first ranking comes out, there's twenty
five teams, and there's going to be twenty five teams
all the way to the end. Now, at the end
following the conference championship Saturday, there'll be a twelve team
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bracket instead of a four team bracket, and that's obviously
the big seismic difference. But until then, it's identical to
last year. It's twenty five teams, and we all know that.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We'll be back to wrap up Power number two on
Sportsradio AM thirteen under the Zone
I mentioned there was a webinar this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
That was conducted by the College Football Playoff Committee, and
on the webinar, the chief keynote speaker was the new
executive director of the CFP. That's Richard Clark or rich
Clark as he went by and folks call him, and
was also kind of administered by Brett Daniels, who had
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been I've known him a long time. He was in
media relations at SMU and then was on the Cowboys
media relations staff for years during the Jerry and Jimmy
Super Bowl thing and years after that as well. But
he works now with the CFP, and so they did
this webinar to basically introduce what this twelve team playoff
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is all about from the perspective of the executive director
and to let me to hear and ask questions. I
did not ask any questions of rich Clark because and
I wanted to give other It's for the same reason
that I don't ask questions at Sark's weekly news conference,
because I know I'll get my opportunity on Wednesday nights
(01:10):
along warn weekly where I get to ask all of
the questions other than the ones that are submitted on
a card. But all the other questions are ones that
I ask, So it's only fair to let other people
to have their opportunity to ask Sark questions. And they do,
and we'll hear some more by the way, on the
SEC teleconference coming up the next segment. But it was
the same thing with this because Rich Clark is coming
(01:32):
on our show to arm so he'll be on with
us to talk in large measure kind of recapping what
this was all about today. But I did find some
interesting elements out of this. First of all, as everybody knows,
if you followed the college football playoff situation at all,
you know with the twelve team playoff in the bracket,
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what it's going to be is the five highest ranked
conference champions draw automatic bids into the playoff. The five
highest ranked of the five, the four highest rank will
receive first round byes. It's a pretty safe bet that
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the Power four leagues, the Big Ten, the SEC, the ACC,
the Big twelve, that they're going to get those four
buys the group of five highest ranked conference champion right now,
if you were to do it, it would be Boise State,
but Army still has a shot, and this is an
outside shot. They could also accrue a spot, but probably
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will not break into the top four where they would
get a buy. They would just they would automatically slot in.
And Rich Clark made a point to point out that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
If you were to.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Look at it, let's say, uh and they used last
year as a model, which made it kind of weird
CAAM because you had Michigan Texas was number two off
of that deal, So it was it was kind of
weird the way they used the model from last year.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well last year they.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Had you know, there were other teams that were getting
in that were being slotted into the top five or
top four because they were a conference champion, like Arizona,
even though Arizona was not ranked in the top four,
but they got in there because it was the highest
ranked conference champion.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And it is mathematically possible.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That you could have, like say, an ACC champion if
Miami were to stumble that the ACC champion or the
Big twelve champion, say if BYU and or I always
say were to stumble a time or two were to
go ahead and win their conference championship but not actually
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be ranked in the top four, but they automatically get
slotted in there, especially if they're still ahead of that
G five champion.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Did they say, like what specific ranking or is it
just depending?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, they were using that specific example, but they said,
did you just depend they know that they would they
would land in the top four. I would imagine they'd
be slotted into the four spot at that point among
the others. Sorry, that was one thing he talked about.
He pointed out rich Clark did some other things, and
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he did mention there was one guy that asked for
I was really kind of surprised that he asked the question,
but he did. He'd tried to frame it in a
very respectful way, but I thought it was a little
bit goofy. He asked rich Clark if the committee would
consider manipulating the rankings, like, say, especially two that are
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real close together, like four and five or five and six,
because top four is going to get a bye anyway,
but five and six just to avoid rematches like in
Ohio State Michigan rematch. And the guy goes which I'm
sure nobody wants to see. I'm like, who are you
to speak for everybody? This reporter said this, and rich
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Clark said, now, the Committee's not going to do that. Okay,
So if Texas gets it's been seating here. So they're
saying that they won't take into account that Texas and
Georgia I've already played this season when they make their theirs.
In fact, Rich Clark said they could play two teams,
could play as many as three times, could play in
the regular season, could play in a conference championship, and then, then,
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to use his words, could meet somewhere in the playoff.
So no, they said, once the bracket is set, the
bracket is set.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You can't reset the bracket or go back.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And this led into another wrinkle, And this was something
I didn't know, And I was looking at that Stewart
Mandel's tweet about it because he has questions on this.
He said, Clark confirms that the committee will not manipulate
rankings in any way to avoid rematches. Schools could theoretically
play each other three times. That I kind of figured.
But here's something I didn't know. I had not even
(06:06):
heard this brought up. Ridge Clark brought this up. He
was talking about the first round matchups five verses twelve,
six verses eleven, seven verses ten, and eight verses nine.
As we know, those games will be on campus sites
at the higher seeds. The five seed, the six seed,
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the seven seed, and the eight seed will host those games.
What I did not know what Ridge Clark said was
and he said it almost kind of as a matter
of he said it very matter of factly, almost in passing.
He said, well, in the schools that will host these
playoff games, they will host in their stadiums, unless they
want to host, like say, in an alternate site like
an NFL stadium or something, if they want to do that,
(06:49):
And everybody was I think it was like really so
then there were follow up questions about that.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So Texas could technically host at eight and T Stadium.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
If they want it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and everybody was like what, so, hey, give bad
your Texas A and M hosting a playoff game at NRG.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I think A and M fans will lose their mind yeah, right,
like any fan base would lose their minds. So folks ask,
we're asking because then you allow, sorry, then you allow
the opposing team to possibly have more of their fans
show up, right.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Which gets into another thing.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But he said, he said, there are many factors that
we're not thinking about that might.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Prevent a team from being able to host on the campus. Site.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I'm thinking, like what, And then he said, hotel space.
If there's not enough hotel space. Listen, if you have
a home football game in Athens, Georgia, or Austin, Texas
or Columbus, Ohio, and you've got one hundred thousand fans.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
There, they're on their own hotels, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So that's the whole point about home field advantage exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
He said he expected it. Everybody that the feat because
then guys were asking have you gotten feedback from up
from some school saying hey, if we wanted to host
somewhere else, and he was like no, but there will
be more conversations down the road.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What was the college baseball team that couldn't host the
regional because there's Indiana State.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Indiana State couldn't host the super regal. TC, you got
to host him because Indiana Special Olympics and they said
they didn't have enough staff to do it or whatever
with everything, and so he went to fourth and probably
lost two games, and TC, you got a College World Series.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So it would have to be a group of five
team that lives that's in a much smaller but a.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
G five, But a G five wouldn't be seated high
enough to host.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Unless they were just they're going to be twelve, eleven,
ten or nine probably just exactly yeah, yeahs anything.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Boys, He's not going to host in their stadium on
that blue terms.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They got a shot to do it, of course not
of course they're going to do it well anyway. So
there was that and then one other point that he
that that he pointed out that was it was it
somebody said, uh, you know what will happen if you
(09:10):
get teams that Uh, I'm want to think this through.
I'll tell you what we're up against a break, let
me let me take it, and I'm gonna and I'm
going to stretch it out exactly the way it was
posed to him. So I give a better example. And
we're going to hear more from Long Orn's head coach
Steve Sarkisian as well when we continue on sports Radio
Ave and thirteen under the Zonne. I now have it
(09:32):
phrased out in my mind the way I want to
present this. There was one other question that I wanted
to present and let folks know that was asked of
Rich Clark, the executive director of the College Football Playoff.
And again Rich is going to be on with us
tomorrow afternoon at the four o'clock hour, and I will
ask a couple of these questions because as it pertains
(09:56):
to the possibility of including Texas, Uh, it's important for
LongRun fans to no one was the thing about the rematches, Yeah,
it's conceivable that Texas and A and M could play.
Both could wind up getting the playoffs and playing each
other again. Yeah, they could even wind up playing each
other in back to back weeks into the regular season
(10:17):
in the SEC Championship game. Mathematically, yeah, possible could have
a rematch between Texas and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You could.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There are possible rematches that could happen out of that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The other thing that came up.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Was where these games are going to be played after
the first round. Now, I just went into some length
and talked about the first round sites. Of course, we'll
be at the home of the higher seeded teams. The
five seed will host the twelve, the sixth seed will
host the eleven, the seventh seed will host a ten seed,
and the eight seed will host the nine. It is
(10:58):
expected that these four higher seeded teams, the five to
six to seven eight wall all play on campus sites.
Although Riz Clark did bring it up as a possibility
that if a team for whatever reason, maybe there is
a construction issue, maybe there's a weather is whatever, did
not want to play that game on their home site,
that they could play it, move it to like say
(11:21):
an NFL stadium since they get to host the game
as the higher seeded team.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Part that was one thing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Here's the other thing, and this surprised me, and it
cleared up. It may clear up a misnomer for long
worn fans who may be projecting down the road where
Texas might be playing, say if they either get a
buy into the quarterfinals, or even if they play in
the first round and win and advance to the quarterfinals
(11:48):
and then to the semifinals where they might be going.
It has been a kit a given among a lot
of long worn fans that they could play because of
projections that we saw early on, that they could play
to maybe even three games in Atlanta. If they got
to the SEC championship game, they could play in Atlanta
and then in the Peach Bowl in the quarterfinal. Then
(12:09):
if they events all the way in to the National
Championship game, which is definitely at Mercedes Benz Stadium, it
could be there a third time. Here's the way it
was explained by rich Clark. The way they have I
think they said this year and next year they have
two years of agreements still in place with certain bowls
(12:33):
as they are tied into conferences.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So in their.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Sample bracket they used last year's teams, which meant that
Michigan was the one seed, in Texas was the two seed.
What they do is those top four seeds get a buye.
Then after that when they go to the quarterfinals, the
next thing they go to is where the schools if
(13:03):
they have a conference tie into a certain bowl, which
bowl would it be?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Okay, So in the case of Michigan, we know what
that would be. That'd be the Rose Bowl for the quarterfinal.
The Big Ten, you know, tie in with the Rose
bul the two seed, and the example he used from
last year was Texas. It would not be Atlanta because
of the SEC tie in with the Sugar Bowl, so
(13:29):
it would be New Orleans. And I started to read
something about that last week. I'm like, okay, all right,
and then you have the three seed, you're the Peach Bowl,
and then you have the Fiesta Bowl. That's exactly right.
So what they did was Florida State, believe it or not,
was the sample as the three seed last year would
(13:50):
have been then slotted to the Peach Bowl and then
Arizona to the Fiesta. So then you get to the semifinals,
and when you get to the semi finals, and this
is the part I did not know, the highest remaining
seed then expresses its preference.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
No, no, no, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Then at that point, the highest remaining seed is slotted
to go where they are geographically closer. So when the
example he used Michigan because Dallas is closer than Miami,
the two semifinals of the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl,
Michigan would go to Dallas Arlington to Jerry World. If
(14:40):
Texas under that example were to advance the semifinal, they
would not play in the Cotton Bowl. Texas would be
in the Orange Bowl as the two seeds because of
the two seed. Interesting, yeah, that was and so it
threw some people off them were like, well wait a minute.
They were asking rich Clark, what is any pre made
(15:01):
in play made in place? Is being put in place
to prevent a lower seeded team from having a home
field advantage, And he said no, Once the bracket is set.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's set.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So you know what, I'm thinking, that's got Miami written
all over it. If Miami, let's just say Miami is
a three seed, the three seed or even the four seed,
not the one, and they get to play in the
Orange Bowl.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That's a home game. That's where they play their home.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Games in what is it, hard Rock Stadium might go
So that's what went into my mind. But they said,
once the bracket is set, they can't go back in
and say, okay, well this team. If Michigan gets knocked
out by so and so, then the number two seed
instead of going to Orange Bowl because they're closer, Texas
(15:52):
would get to play in the Copon Bowl.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Once the bracket is set, the bracket is set not
only for the seeding but also the sights.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So that's just something to keep in mind.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
For folks who are thinking, oh, yeah, well it would
be New Orleans and Dallas or Atlanta in Dallas. Not necessarily,
not necessarily, especially if you don't get a buy in
the first round.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So that's just something to keep in mind about that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Again, We're gonna have Rich Clark on tomorrow and I'll
get him to reiterate that piece of it, but there's
some other things to talk about with him when he
joins us tomorrow to talk about the college football play
or now, I know what.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Many of you are thinking. Ooo, they're not even there yet.
We know all that. We know that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
These are just some of the things that are in
place to give you a better idea of what's going
into this. Here's another big thing that came out of
this camp was two or three reporters asked the exact
same question in a slightly different way.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
What are the metrics involved here? How transparent are these metrics?
What are they using?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, when we always talk about basketball kimpom, which
the NCAA is tossed out by the way, Now no
more kim pom really yep, thought about a week ago.
Kim pom will not be used because of mistakes made
in it that actually favored some teams over others. They
were legitimate mistakes, they were unintentional, but they were errors.
Kim pom will no longer be used by NCAA as
(17:20):
a metric. So there were several guys asking on this
webinar what is the metric? And they used I think
it's called sports Services data or something. I'll pull it up,
but anyway, it's the one they used last year. It's
the one that the College Football Playoff Committee uses anyway,
(17:41):
and what they've been using. And that was part of
Richard Clark's point. The way and the duty and the
responsibility of the CFP committee. The College Football Playoff Committee
is unchanged from last year.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's just they're picking more.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Teams, and not only that, all the way until December,
it's identical. In other words, you rank twenty five teams.
Next Tuesday, when the first ranking comes out, there's twenty
five teams, and there's going to be twenty five teams
all the way to the end. Now, at the end
following the conference championship Saturday, there'll be a twelve team
(18:17):
bracket instead of a four team bracket, and that's obviously
the big seismic difference. But until then, it's identical to
last year. It's twenty five teams, and we all know that.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We'll be back to wrap up Power number two on
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