College Football Playoff Expansion

Hour 3 begins with a look at possible college football playoff expansion. Plus, what if you ranked every single CFP team? Well, ESPN did. Here's the list...

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. We're with the
up till five o'clock. A reminder Texas Women's basketball tonight
on one O three point one FM, Austin's eighty station
as the Longhorns will be an action to Texas women
to host Southern University tonight at Moody Center, Texas, right

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in that thick of the fight where they've had all
of these road games, had the three games in Florida
over the Thanksgiving weekend, won all three games. They're lost
at Notre Dame last Thursday, came back on flew home
and then on Sunday took care of James Madison and

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then they have a home game to night against Southern
and then back on the road to play Richmond on
Sunday afternoon. We heard from Vick Schaeffer last hour. Sum up.
We're going to hear some more from the log Horns
head coach about what there the grind that they're going
through and then getting ready for this weekend with Southern
and then the trip to Richmond, and then they've got

(01:01):
one more challenging game before Christmas when they take on
South Dakota State, who is perennially ranked and a tough team,
So we'll do on that. When you were on the
trip with them to James Madison, did you I mean,
I would say judge them from the way they played
in the first half, they didn't look fatigued. You look
a little Maybe that that trip home kind of will

(01:23):
wear everybody download bit because you guys had to wait a while,
didn't you.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, well, well, even then in overtime against utter Damon
Fick Schaeffer said this that the girls were gassed. They
were gassed, and when you missed ten consecutive shots and overtime,
that tells you it's fatigue, especially because those were wide
open looks for Maddy Booker and Roy Harmon. So I
was interested in, you know, what will the level energy
be like in this game? And they look fine, They're fine,

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Now how will it be You know, we return late
Sunday night, but you've had, you know, two days of
full rest, so we'll catch up to them the night
maybe against Richmond, but for the most part, like I thought,
they looked energized against James Madison.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
And some of them had to navigate final exams and
get through all of that kind of stuff. As well.
But semester drawing to its close, all right, so we'll
hear from Vic coming up again, some more from him
coming up in the next segment. There was something that's
wanted to get to, you know what, all season long,
Throughout the course of the season, we have gone through

(02:22):
a lot of different machinations and incarnations of things related
to the College Football Playoff, weekly rankings, power rankings, projections,
all of those things week by week. We've done it
because we knew in this new expanded college football Playoff
era of twelve teams making it, there were going to

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be a lot of nuances and a lot of differences.
And certainly that is the case, and none more so
talked about than the SMU versus Alabama. You know, who belonged,
who didn't belong, blah blah blah. And let me just
say this. People have heard me say that I am
a more is more guy. I think they should ex
expand the playoff. I know there's going to be some conversations.

(03:07):
Rich Clark, the executive director who was on with us
a few weeks ago, had said a little bit about this,
but he said more about it in the last couple
of days. Yes, they will look at the possibility of
expanding the fourteen teams next year or twenty six, I
think is what he was talking about. I think this
is two years going to be in the twelve team format.

(03:28):
Doesn't mean they wouldn't adjust or tweak some of the
criteria by which they judge the available teams, but they
could look at possibly expanding to fourteen. I think sixteen
would be a good number. I think they could go
to sixteen. There are those who say that every Division
one FBS conference champion should be allowed ast spot in

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the field. Now that's going to go counter to the
people say no, you just take the twelve best teams period,
regardless of conference. But the NCAA Basketball Tournament is much
more a goat militarian and how they invite the I
think it's thirty four conference or thirty four at large
bits and thirty four conference champions. By the way, they're
looking at possibly expanding again to seventy two or seventy

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six from sixty eight teams. And we'll have more on
that later. But the but anyway, the you know college
from if you did there there are ten now that
the well, the PAC twelve will be back, I guess extra.
So you could say there'd be eleven Division one FBS
conferences if you took all eleven conference champions even like

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Marshall winning the Sun Belt, you know, was it Jacksonville
State winning Conference USA. Every Division one FBS conference championship
winner gets a bid, that would be eleven out of sixteen.
You'd still have room for five more at large is
if you did it that way. But that's not going
to please everybody one thing. That is. So we have
followed this trail throughout the course of the season and

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the latest incarnation of things, and I would say that
the Services of the Athletic did a similar thing like this.
SI has done some stuff at ESPN ranked all fifty
two teams who have taken a part taken apart taken
who have taken part of the College Football Playoff, who

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have played in the College Football Playoff. So like twenty
twenty three Texas is ranked in here, twenty twenty what
was it, twenty twenty two CCU is ranked in here.
Every team that ever played in the College Football Playoff
in the seven years is ranked here, all fifty two teams.
So I'm not going to run through all fifty two,

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but I'm just going to highlight a couple for you,
and that includes this year's field, which I think is
kind of interesting. They're ranking them before they have him played,
because I can tell you right now, you know who
Number fifty two is Arizona State, this year's Arizona State League. Yeah,
they ranked fifty two.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know, I've seen some people projecting them to beat
Texas in a quarter five.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Possible, it said. As late as week twelve, Arizona State's
playoff odds were two point nine percent, according to the
All State Playoff Predictor. But Kitty Dellingham Sun Devil's beat
three of the Big Twelve's four best teams is part
of a six game winning streak, charging into and capturing
the Big Twelve championship game. With running back Camp Scataboo
leading the way. The Sun Devils are physical and confident,

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but they will be underdogs from here, so we'll see,
we'll see. So they've got them ranked fifty two. They
got this year's Boise State team ranked fifty first. Interesting,
then they have this year's Clemson team fiftieth. Number forty
nine is a twenty fifteen Michigan State team that lost
in the Cotton Bowl to Alabama when they got blown out.

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There's a lot of Oklahoma teams that are toward the
back end of this. Number forty eight is twenty nineteen Oklahoma,
it's got blown out by LSU. SMU this year is
number four, forty seven. Scrolling on down the list, Indiana
this year is number forty three. Remember when Cincinnati got
in three years ago, they're number forty two. Oklahoma twenty

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eighteen is forty one. Oklahoma twenty fifteen is number thirty nine.
So just rolling back through this and last year's Texas
team is number thirty three, team that lost to Washington.
Just ahead them in number thirty two is the TCU
team from twenty twenty two. They reached the National Championship.

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They're in there for that. So number twenty nine is
the twenty seventeen OU team that had Baker Mayfield that
lost to Georgia and the Rose Bowl. This year's twenty
twenty four Texas team currently ranks twenty eighth twenty eight
all time. He said, the only thing we don't know
whether Texas can do is beat Georgia. Blah blah blah.

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They're ohing too against the Bulldogs and then eleven and
zer against everyone else, and they've got both the best
linebacking court, overall pass defense and the CFP where when
there's a question mark it comes on the offensive side
of the ball. But in theory, a couple of weeks
off could make a big difference for both hobbled star
tackle Calvin Banks Junior and quarterback Quinn Yours. So anyway,
that's that's whereas the Washington team that beat Texas last

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year and then lost to Michigan in the National Championship
is ranked twenty six. Obviously, it's going to be pretty
Alabama and SEC heavy as you get all the way
down toward the final. The number one team out of
this deal if one of them's number one and one
of them is number two. So I'm gonna give them
both to and you guess one of the ones is

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LSU then one in twenty nineteen. The other one is
the twenty twenty Alabama team that went thirteen in oh
and beat Ohio State in the final. Which would you
guess would be number two? In which number one?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I would say Alabama one because of their defense, LSU two.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
You're spot on, You're spot on, yep, talk about that
at the defense there it is so anyway, it was
some entertaining reading anyway to see what their thought was
on all level. All right, up next, we're gonna hear
more from long orange Head basketball coach Vick Schaeffer of
the Texas women's team. We'll hear that coming up when
we continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone

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