November 13, 2024 • 10 mins
Craig Way and Cameron Parker get you over the midweek hump on Wednesday's show! They react to the latest College Football Playoff Rankings that saw the Texas Longhorns move to No. 3 in the poll and would be a #2 Seed as things stand...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My name is Craig Way. Thanks so much for joining us.
Glad to have you with us this afternoon. US, of course,
includes the producer of this radio program.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
That would be Cameron D. Parker.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The dean on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
in his father's favorite professional football team, for whom Cam
was given the middle name. It's Cam's favorite team as well,
but he refuses to watch them out of the disgust
that continues to permeate all of Cowboys' Nation. So, I mean,
(00:32):
other than your friends in your congregation, how do you
spend your Sundays?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I still watched I mean last Sunday we were at
Moody Center, right so, and the women watching Texas women's
basketball put the whip in their home openers. So you
know it's Austin, Texas. You know, there's a lot of
great ways to spend your Sunday besides watching Cooper Rush
throw for fourteen passing yards in the first half. And
then Drey Lance come in and did something I don't
(01:01):
know exactly. It wasn't football. From what I was told,
he was playing something that wasn't football.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Do you have an opinion on that? Who should be
playing quarterback right now. No, I don't care. You can.
You can.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Stephen Jones should go out there for all I care.
What's Steven out there? Let him get sacked nine times again?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, let John Stephen Joe his son the quarterback at
Highland Park. Let him state championship and went to Arkansas
to walk off.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Suit up JSJ. Hey.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They signed Will Greer from Davidson, North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, in West Virginia, the practice squad, but will back
out there?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah? So when Will Greer the one went in and
did horns down at the end he did. That was
the overtime game. That was. Yeah, it was a tough game.
I thought, I remember that overtime right yeap? Or no?
They went for two right and he ran it in? Yeah? Yeah,
you were a student then, weren't you? Were you already out?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I was a student and actually that day it was
the only home game I missed because we had a
lab who schedules a lab on a day subject it was.
It was one of my journalism classes. We had some
lab and it was a requirement to be there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And why would they do that on a sack a
gain day, a home game day Saturday for Heaven?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I had a professor we didn't really care too much
about football, and he knew that there was a football
game going on, so he was like mandatory, I don't know,
out a spide or something like that. So me and
and my buddies, and you know, there's a lot of
sports journalism majors in my classes, and we're sitting there watching,
watching the game, doing this stupid lab and an assignment
that easily could have been done during the week, and
(02:26):
tough ending to end because I like Worl Greer a lot.
You know, I knew his family and all that crap.
But yeah, horns down that that was at the peak
of horns down too, And it was like, yeah, we
don't care, and then he does horns down after the
two point conversion.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Actually we do care. We'll gret you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Didn't realize I was going to touch a nerve bringing
that up.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
My goodness.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It can be the only Texas fan that remembers that.
I mean, oh, I just didn't memory him in the
corner of the end zone with both.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The horns down. I thought, I remember that, Okay, who.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Was the receiver who was white who absolutely tore stuffs
too that game. Keep saying we as if I played
for the team.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah. Really, it's twenty eighteen, righte Texas. But you're you're
a graduate, so you get to say that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, but I'm kind of in the media, So yeah,
I was like, Hey, we didn't look good on Saturday.
He'd be like, excuse me, I don't. I don't think
he would take to that kindly too much. Yeah, I would.
I would imagine that would be the case.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh there, Speaking of Sark coming up and sALS the fifth,
David stills the fifth, I think he was ram briefly,
and I think he was.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I know he's been, he'd been with a couple of
NFL teams. What a game.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, speaking of Sark, we're gonna bring you the SEC
teleconference here in a few minutes that Sark was on
just a little while ago. And you know, I like
being able to bring it to you the listener to
where you actually hear the reporters questions and hearing it
going down and the moderator and all that kind of
(03:58):
stuff kind opens the door a little bit and pulls
the curtain back a little bit and lets you get
a chance to hear from the head coach as he
responds to questions from the media, and we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that's coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We do have inconceivable this hour in the three o'clock hour,
Chuck Barrett good Dude, play by play voice of the
Arkansas Razorbacks, joins us in the three o'clock hour, so
we have that coming up as well, and a lot
of conversation about college football. We can dive right in,
obviously with the College Football Playoff rankings. Those came out
(04:39):
when the Texas basketball game that we were at last
night was going down the stretch of the first half
and then at halftime when it was still coming down
at that point. And I've seen a lot of the
action reaction on social media about with regard to Texas
schedule and another team schedule, and that's sort of thing
(05:00):
as well. Here's here's something that's that I always kind
of get an appreciation for.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Don't get me wrong, I was never a big fan
of the BCS, but it was better than what was
before that. But Bill Connley from ESPN does the comparison
with what the College Football Playoff Committee does with that
BCS formula. He learned that combine combining the poll averages
(05:31):
the AP and the coaches polls with a computer average
derived from both power ratings the sp plus and the
FPI and resume ratings resume sp plus and strength the
record that they could approximate the College Football Playoff Committee's
thinking pretty well. And it said if it's almost BCS
style rating, and it lined up with what the committee
(05:53):
produces most of the time.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So here's here's here's what it produced this week.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It said where the committee disagreed, He says they disagreed
a lot. The first three spots in the rankings are
and would be identical. You're listening to those of you
who sayre carping about the Texas schedule identical to the
BCS formula. Oregon number one, Ohio State number two, Texas
(06:24):
number three, those are identical. Now below that is when
things start getting really weird. All the way down to
number eleven. From spots four through ten, there's a difference
in what that formula would be as opposed to the
College Football Playoff ranking. Ole Miss at eleven lined up
in both slots like Texas, Oregon, Ohio State in their slot.
(06:48):
Same thing with Texas A and M at fifteen. Everything else,
there was a difference in how the College Football Playoff
rankings would be.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
For example, when.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
These BCS style rankings, Tennessee would be fourth, but they're
seventh in the CFP rankings.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Penn State would be fifth.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They're fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, Indiana sixth,
they're fifth in the CPP's pretty close, but there is
a differentiation. Notre Dame seventh, eighth in the CFP rankings,
BYU eighth, sixth in the CFP rankings, Alabama ninth, tenth
in the CFP rankings, Georgia tenth, twelfth in the CFP rankings.
(07:26):
That's important to note because at twelve in the CFP rankings,
Georgia would be out because remember the slots that have
to go to the five highest rated conference champions, and
that would include Boise State, who by the way, is
fourteenth in that BCS style rating but thirteenth in the
(07:50):
College Football Playoff rankings. At this point, Boise would be
the highest G five school or the highest remaining fifth
conference champions, so they would get slotted into twelve. And
that went not the twelve to the first one out. Well,
that would be Georgia right now. The rest of that
ole miss eleven, Like I said, Miami twelfth, ninth in
(08:13):
the CFP rankings, SMU thirteenth, fourteenth in the CFP rankings.
So and then Boise fourteen, they're thirteen in the rankings.
So a lot of it's close, but there is some differentiation.
My point about all of this is is that when
folks point out this business of well they would be
more punished for their schedule in the College Football Playoff rankings, No,
(08:36):
they wouldn't. Looking at that with the formula that the
formula that goes into that, that's what comes out. Texas
would be number three if it were the old BCS
formula or the current College Football Playoff format. And and
I was explaining this to Linda because she was asking,
why are they number two at number three? I said,
(08:57):
they're number three, but if this were the end of
the regular season in the conference championship games, they would
be slotted in to the two slot. That's the important
thing to continue to point out there. So you know,
that's just something to know.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Sark will be the first to tell you it doesn't matter,
don't amount to an awful lot right now, And we'll
talk about it more tonight on Long Worn Weekly, which
we record the show Wednesday evenings at six at Pluckers,
the West Campus location.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
If you're planning come over, I would suggest get there
a little early.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Our guest is Ricky Williams, so Ricky will be with
us tonight and we're going to take a couple extra
segments with Ricky. So we'll be there with Ricky Williams
the ninety eight Heisman Trophy Winter obviously to talk to
some long worn football and we'll have long wrn football
coach Sark, So that's coming away. The recording of it
is at six o'clock tonight. It'll air here on the
(09:51):
SNE tomorrow night at seven, preceded by a live edition
of Long Worn Weekly with Rodney Terry, the long one
men's basketball coach, that comes with at six o'clock, so
to be live at six, and then at seven o'clock
the recorded show that we're doing today with Sark will air.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Coming up next, we'll hear from Sark, Long WARN's head
coach from the SEC teleconference here on Sports Radio Am
thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app
My name is Craig Way. Thanks so much for joining us.
Glad to have you with us this afternoon. US, of course,
includes the producer of this radio program.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
That would be Cameron D. Parker.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The dean on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
in his father's favorite professional football team, for whom Cam
was given the middle name. It's Cam's favorite team as well,
but he refuses to watch them out of the disgust
that continues to permeate all of Cowboys' Nation. So, I mean,
(00:32):
other than your friends in your congregation, how do you
spend your Sundays?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I still watched I mean last Sunday we were at
Moody Center, right so, and the women watching Texas women's
basketball put the whip in their home openers. So you
know it's Austin, Texas. You know, there's a lot of
great ways to spend your Sunday besides watching Cooper Rush
throw for fourteen passing yards in the first half. And
then Drey Lance come in and did something I don't
(01:01):
know exactly. It wasn't football. From what I was told,
he was playing something that wasn't football.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Do you have an opinion on that? Who should be
playing quarterback right now. No, I don't care. You can.
You can.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Stephen Jones should go out there for all I care.
What's Steven out there? Let him get sacked nine times again?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, let John Stephen Joe his son the quarterback at
Highland Park. Let him state championship and went to Arkansas
to walk off.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Suit up JSJ. Hey.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They signed Will Greer from Davidson, North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, in West Virginia, the practice squad, but will back
out there?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah? So when Will Greer the one went in and
did horns down at the end he did. That was
the overtime game. That was. Yeah, it was a tough game.
I thought, I remember that overtime right yeap? Or no?
They went for two right and he ran it in? Yeah? Yeah,
you were a student then, weren't you? Were you already out?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I was a student and actually that day it was
the only home game I missed because we had a
lab who schedules a lab on a day subject it was.
It was one of my journalism classes. We had some
lab and it was a requirement to be there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And why would they do that on a sack a
gain day, a home game day Saturday for Heaven?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I had a professor we didn't really care too much
about football, and he knew that there was a football
game going on, so he was like mandatory, I don't know,
out a spide or something like that. So me and
and my buddies, and you know, there's a lot of
sports journalism majors in my classes, and we're sitting there watching,
watching the game, doing this stupid lab and an assignment
that easily could have been done during the week, and
(02:26):
tough ending to end because I like Worl Greer a lot.
You know, I knew his family and all that crap.
But yeah, horns down that that was at the peak
of horns down too, And it was like, yeah, we
don't care, and then he does horns down after the
two point conversion.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Actually we do care. We'll gret you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Didn't realize I was going to touch a nerve bringing
that up.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
My goodness.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It can be the only Texas fan that remembers that.
I mean, oh, I just didn't memory him in the
corner of the end zone with both.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The horns down. I thought, I remember that, Okay, who.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Was the receiver who was white who absolutely tore stuffs
too that game. Keep saying we as if I played
for the team.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah. Really, it's twenty eighteen, righte Texas. But you're you're
a graduate, so you get to say that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, but I'm kind of in the media, So yeah,
I was like, Hey, we didn't look good on Saturday.
He'd be like, excuse me, I don't. I don't think
he would take to that kindly too much. Yeah, I would.
I would imagine that would be the case.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh there, Speaking of Sark coming up and sALS the fifth,
David stills the fifth, I think he was ram briefly,
and I think he was.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I know he's been, he'd been with a couple of
NFL teams. What a game.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, speaking of Sark, we're gonna bring you the SEC
teleconference here in a few minutes that Sark was on
just a little while ago. And you know, I like
being able to bring it to you the listener to
where you actually hear the reporters questions and hearing it
going down and the moderator and all that kind of
(03:58):
stuff kind opens the door a little bit and pulls
the curtain back a little bit and lets you get
a chance to hear from the head coach as he
responds to questions from the media, and we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that's coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We do have inconceivable this hour in the three o'clock hour,
Chuck Barrett good Dude, play by play voice of the
Arkansas Razorbacks, joins us in the three o'clock hour, so
we have that coming up as well, and a lot
of conversation about college football. We can dive right in,
obviously with the College Football Playoff rankings. Those came out
(04:39):
when the Texas basketball game that we were at last
night was going down the stretch of the first half
and then at halftime when it was still coming down
at that point. And I've seen a lot of the
action reaction on social media about with regard to Texas
schedule and another team schedule, and that's sort of thing
(05:00):
as well. Here's here's something that's that I always kind
of get an appreciation for.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Don't get me wrong, I was never a big fan
of the BCS, but it was better than what was
before that. But Bill Connley from ESPN does the comparison
with what the College Football Playoff Committee does with that
BCS formula. He learned that combine combining the poll averages
(05:31):
the AP and the coaches polls with a computer average
derived from both power ratings the sp plus and the
FPI and resume ratings resume sp plus and strength the
record that they could approximate the College Football Playoff Committee's
thinking pretty well. And it said if it's almost BCS
style rating, and it lined up with what the committee
(05:53):
produces most of the time.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So here's here's here's what it produced this week.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It said where the committee disagreed, He says they disagreed
a lot. The first three spots in the rankings are
and would be identical. You're listening to those of you
who sayre carping about the Texas schedule identical to the
BCS formula. Oregon number one, Ohio State number two, Texas
(06:24):
number three, those are identical. Now below that is when
things start getting really weird. All the way down to
number eleven. From spots four through ten, there's a difference
in what that formula would be as opposed to the
College Football Playoff ranking. Ole Miss at eleven lined up
in both slots like Texas, Oregon, Ohio State in their slot.
(06:48):
Same thing with Texas A and M at fifteen. Everything else,
there was a difference in how the College Football Playoff
rankings would be.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
For example, when.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
These BCS style rankings, Tennessee would be fourth, but they're
seventh in the CFP rankings.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Penn State would be fifth.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They're fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, Indiana sixth,
they're fifth in the CPP's pretty close, but there is
a differentiation. Notre Dame seventh, eighth in the CFP rankings,
BYU eighth, sixth in the CFP rankings, Alabama ninth, tenth
in the CFP rankings, Georgia tenth, twelfth in the CFP rankings.
(07:26):
That's important to note because at twelve in the CFP rankings,
Georgia would be out because remember the slots that have
to go to the five highest rated conference champions, and
that would include Boise State, who by the way, is
fourteenth in that BCS style rating but thirteenth in the
(07:50):
College Football Playoff rankings. At this point, Boise would be
the highest G five school or the highest remaining fifth
conference champions, so they would get slotted into twelve. And
that went not the twelve to the first one out. Well,
that would be Georgia right now. The rest of that
ole miss eleven, Like I said, Miami twelfth, ninth in
(08:13):
the CFP rankings, SMU thirteenth, fourteenth in the CFP rankings.
So and then Boise fourteen, they're thirteen in the rankings.
So a lot of it's close, but there is some differentiation.
My point about all of this is is that when
folks point out this business of well they would be
more punished for their schedule in the College Football Playoff rankings, No,
(08:36):
they wouldn't. Looking at that with the formula that the
formula that goes into that, that's what comes out. Texas
would be number three if it were the old BCS
formula or the current College Football Playoff format. And and
I was explaining this to Linda because she was asking,
why are they number two at number three? I said,
(08:57):
they're number three, but if this were the end of
the regular season in the conference championship games, they would
be slotted in to the two slot. That's the important
thing to continue to point out there. So you know,
that's just something to know.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Sark will be the first to tell you it doesn't matter,
don't amount to an awful lot right now, And we'll
talk about it more tonight on Long Worn Weekly, which
we record the show Wednesday evenings at six at Pluckers,
the West Campus location.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
If you're planning come over, I would suggest get there
a little early.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Our guest is Ricky Williams, so Ricky will be with
us tonight and we're going to take a couple extra
segments with Ricky. So we'll be there with Ricky Williams
the ninety eight Heisman Trophy Winter obviously to talk to
some long worn football and we'll have long wrn football
coach Sark, So that's coming away. The recording of it
is at six o'clock tonight. It'll air here on the
(09:51):
SNE tomorrow night at seven, preceded by a live edition
of Long Worn Weekly with Rodney Terry, the long one
men's basketball coach, that comes with at six o'clock, so
to be live at six, and then at seven o'clock
the recorded show that we're doing today with Sark will air.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Coming up next, we'll hear from Sark, Long WARN's head
coach from the SEC teleconference here on Sports Radio Am
thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app
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