College Football Playoff Predictions: Texas primed for 2nd CFP appearance?

Hour 3 of Wednesday's show is here and Craig and Cam look at early College Football Playoff Predictions. Where does Athlon Sports have the Longhorns finishing in their first season in the SEC?

Episode Transcript

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He's a Texas legend, a Hallof Fame broadcaster, the voice of the
Texas Longhorns, and your host ofthe Craigway Show. Here he is now
Craig Way. So we begin thisfinal hour of the program here and ready

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to shock from football coming up ina few minutes. Red Tapper, Managing
editor Dave Camis Texas football Actually thejoints. It is the time of year
when the football publications come out now. I don't think. In fact,
I'm pretty certain that Phil Steele's CollegeFootball Annual has not hit the new stand
yet. I don't think so.I think only the special members get copies,

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like Mike Harges, because he's amember of I think there's like a
certain thing you can hey for.They get advanced copies. So he already
has a copy, I believe,so I think he has one. I'm
sure Chat Hastings is part of thatgroup. Uh athlone as. In fact,
I purchased a copy of Athlines CollegeFootball Preview. UH was reading some

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of that, but but I spenta great deal of time when I was
on vacation. In fact, therewas even an Instagram posted me sitting there
under the shade of a of abeach cabana. Uh reading the latest edition
of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine,and toward that end, like you said,

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Uh, I was as one ofthe subscribers I got. I got
my advanced copy as a subscriber.Now, in addition that they always send
us a whole, they send usa few boxes of copies to give away,
and we will be giving the awaycoming up in the very near future,

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so stay tuned for that. Itwill require a little bit of effort
on your part, other than tryingwith the luck of the draw to be
the fifth caller or the seventh calleror you know whatever. This this will
actually require some effort on your partto do that. So we'll see.
By the way, on the textline, it was revealed in the first

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hour of the program. What withthe US men's Olympic basketball team playing a
friendly tonight if you will, inLas Vegas against Team Canada, Cameron Parker
made it known that he is rootingfor Team Canada in the Olympics because SGA
plays for them. Who else LouDort's loud dohrts and he's any a native

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of Germany. Yeah, it's allweird. I mean he's got Canadian citizenship.
Yeah, like Joel Embiid was bornin Cameroon, he lived in France,
he lived in Canada. He playsfor Team USA. Bam Antebayo,
he was not born in the US. But you know, everybody just kind
of picks and chooses. Okay.Uh. The reason why I said that
is because our man CB said,so Cameron is rooting for Canada. Would

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a boot that? What's that?A boat? He said? USA wins,
Kevin Durant will have a fourth goalmedal to go along with all the
Team USA scoring records he owns.So you get KD. I think CB
just wanted you to say a boota boot that's why you yes. And
I'm not rooting against the US.I'll say that I hope Kevin root against

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them when they play Canada, though, yes I will, but I mean
kind of in the back of mymind, I'll still be the rooting interest
for Kevin Durant. Okay, Imean they're going to they should wipe the
floor. But this should be areally fun Olympic basketball season because the pool
of talent in other countries has neverbeen this deep. Spain's always had a

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fantastic team. But now all acrossthe globe, all these other teams,
including Canada, I have a realchance to you know, pull off an
up. So that's that's why Lebron, James, and Katie and Kawhi for
two weeks all had joined this USAteam Steph Curry, uh, Jason Tim
because they know there's a realistic shotthat the US. I mean in the
Foba Cup last year, the USlost lost to Canada. Yeah, they

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know that if they don't bring theirtheir A game, their best basketball,
they could lose and it could bejust as embarrassing as it was. Was
it the four the six team thatended up losing four team? Yeah,
you cannot have that happen again ifyou're if you're USA men's basketball, no
doubt about it. I was also, like I said, reading the college
football publications as well, and uhDave Campbell's Texas Football magazine. Uh,

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taking a look at that. Sowe will ask Greg Tepper a lot of
the requisite questions about the about themagazine and the publication and all this other
kind of stuff. One of thethings in ATLON is they have a playoff
bracket projected. Remember, the playoffgoes to twelve teams this year, So

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they've got a playoff bracket projected.And here's what they've got. The one
seed and champions of the Southeastern ConferenceGeorgia. The two seed champions of the
Big ten Ohio State. The threeseed champions of the ACC Florida State,

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the four seed champions of the Bigtwelve Utah, the five seed a runner
up from the Big Ten Oregon,the sixth seed runner up in the SEC
Texas, seven seed an SEC atlarge Old Miss eight seed SEC at large

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Alabama, nine seed Big ten atlarge Michigan, the ten seed. Why
does this have? Oh yeah,ten seed Big ten at large, Penn
State, eleven seed Notre Dame atlarge, and the twelve seed you're G

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five representative Liberty Liberty yep. Letme ask you a dumb question here,
because I've not been paying too muchattention. The top four seeds now just
the automatic qualifiers from the Big fromthe Group of four or the powerfol champions
regardless of conference, regardless of conference, the top four, the top four

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seeds, the top four finishers inthe CFP rankings earned those top four seats,
and they airned BIS into the quarterfinals. So under this bracket from Avalon's
What this does is create these firstround matchups. Eight to nine matchup Alabama

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Michigan sound familiar, except this onewould be in Tuscaloosa at the home of
the higher seeded team. They wouldnot be playing in Pasadena as they played
last year in the CFP semifinal.Five to twelve matchup Oregon and Liberty.
That would be in Eugene. Sixversus eleven matchup Texas Notre Dame playing in

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Austin once again almost nine years laterafter the last one, that's exactly right,
and the seven versus ten matchup OleMiss Penn State in Oxford, with
Georgia, Ohio State, Florida State, Utah earning first round bys then the

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quarterfinals. This is again according toNathlon. The playoff bract would have Georgia
against Alabama and the Sugar Bowl.That's the one eight matchup. The two
to seven matchup is Ohio State againstole Miss and the Rose Bowl. The
three to six matchup is Texas FloridaState in the Peach Bowl, and the
four to five matchup would be Utahand Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl. The

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winners of these games would advance tothe semifinals, where they are projecting the
one seed Georgia to advance with awinever Alabama to play the five seed Oregon.
I think Oregon will beat out Utahto get to the semifinals and Georgia
and Oregon would play in the OrangeBowl. They are picking Texas the sixth
seed, to beat the three seedFlorida State in the Peach Bowl and advance

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to a Cotton Bowl semifinal against numbertwo seed Ohio State, whom they project
to beat Ole Miss and in inthe semifinals. They have the one seed
Georgia beating the five seed Oregon toadvance to the National Championship where they would
play the two seed Ohio State.They have Ohio State beating Texas in the
Cotton Bowl in the semifinals, andthey have Georgia and Ohio State playing for
the National championship, with Georgia winningthe national title. So we can actually

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talk in those terms now about allof that. I'm about that. Finally,
twenty twenty four, we got there. We have an actual bracket there,
so anyway that's athlon has that,and they've got other bowl projections.
We'll get to some of those later, but up next we'll visit with Greg
Tapper, Managing editor Dave Campbell's TexasFootball Magazine, talk about the brand new
edition of the publication. Where wecontinue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the

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zone of the iHeartRadio app.