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December 22, 2025 11 mins
With Round 1 of the CFPs officially complete, we now move on to the quarterfinals with Oregon set to take on Texas Tech, Alabama matching up with Indiana, Ole Miss facing Georgia, & Miami set to take on Ohio State. Taking a moment looking back on the weekend's slate, SEC Network's Peter Burns joins Dan and Cole to evaluate a few shockers from the weekend mixed with a couple of predictions on which teams have the best chance at rallying themselves to the Miami Gardens for the National Championship in January.    
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The college football Playoff.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I man is going to talk about it right now
because Texas A and M season is over ten to
three loss on Saturday to the Miami Hurricanes. He is
Peter Burns of ESPN and the SEC Network. You can
find him on Twitter at Peter Burns ESPN.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
PB, let's just start with it. I mean, you were
in the building there on Saturday. Just general thousand foot
view thoughts of what we saw in that loss for
Texas A and M.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I mean, listen, I don't know who to blame more,
Johnny Manziel for stiffing college game day or Ted Cruz
being in the building and the crew curse happens again.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I think the number now is when Cruz shows.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Up to a Texas collegiate sporting event, I think the
teams are three and nine at the brutal That's the brutal.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Number, right, that'll get you fired. PB. Well, I mean, yeah,
at least you got to fade him.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
You've got to just figure out what his travel plans are.
Fade him and you can make a whole lot of money.
But dude, it was I mean the environ and you
sit there and it's like eleven am kickoff, and I'm
sitting there eating breakfast tacos and watching you know, people tailgate.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I go, it's still amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
There's one hundred and ten thousand people, you know, biggest
sporting event in Kyle Field since last year of the
Texas night game, and it was kind of that similar result.
And I think that was the big brutal part about
it is that, you know, every part of this year
has been about just crushing the old narrative of the

(01:27):
battered Aggie syndrome.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
And you had an opportunity to do it against Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
You couldn't do it last year, you couldn't do it
against this year against Texas, And sure enough, Miami comes
into town, hard part game and they end up pulling
off the victor Peter.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
When you look at Marcel Read two terrible interceptions, one
on the final drive after leading A and M all
the way down into the red zone, there's gonna be
a lot of speculation on what is going to be
the future of A and M's offense. I hate the
one thing about the new era of college football that
you have teams that will have one bad performance from
a quarterback and people will say, well, in this new
day and age. We're paying a lot of money. We

(02:02):
got to go in the portal, We got to go
out in a new guy, because if he's got to
be able to deliver when you look at the overall
brand of work and what Marcel Reid did this past
year for multi interception games to kind of close out
twenty twenty five, is there going to be a really
hard conversation now with the new offensive coordinator coming on
in on what you do with ten.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
But it's a cold You bring up a great point
in the fact that it's not just you know, you're
not at that point of the college football playoffs without
the play of Marcel read Over the last year as
well too. So I mean I was talking to Roman
Harper's where we were flying back from the game, and
I said, man, my easy take here is that man,
Marcel was late. You know, he was off target at

(02:43):
least nine times, and you know, and he just threw
that last interception like he like he was going to
throw it no matter what. Okay, on that third down
interception and it ended up ending the game. And Rowan
brought up a great point and I agree with it,
and he goes, all right, well, if you take Marcel
read off this team, Are you a college football playoff team?

Speaker 1 (03:01):
And I'm not sure that's the case.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I mean, I saw what he was able to do
throughout the season, and this is how quarterbacks kind of
go out there and take that next step. I saw
that with Carson Beck make mistakes at some point during
his Georgia days, and he's gotten a little bit better
of taking care of the ball. So you know, the
worst thing you do is you sit there and go,
all right, this guy is garbage. Let's go into the
transfer portal. Because I go back and look at other
schools Kentucky being one of them, and others that have

(03:23):
just completely whiffed on the end of transfer portal. This
is a part of it's a learning moment. You figure
out what he can do and try to get a
little bit better. But I mean that's more of a
credit to also to how good Miami's defense was.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I mean that was they tried to run the ball early.
They knew it wasn't working, and Colin Klein had to
adjust and I was just surprised they didn't have more
designed runs for Marcel kind of early and run a
little bit more tempo because that's when he feels a
little bit more comfortable again.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Peter Burns, SEC Network, ESPN, Serious XM join us here
for a few minutes on the morning Drive with Dan
and Cole. Peter, I mean, just talking about the trenches
there and and IM's gonna have a lot to replace
on both sides. And I mean, I know that when
it's a tough loss like that, you have people, oh,
you'll be back, But are we so sure that they're

(04:09):
going to be back at least next season with all
they have to replace up there?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah? I mean, and I think that's a way to couch.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
It is like, did we even think that A and
M was going to be at this point this year?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right? I mean, and again I think going into the season,
you know.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Dani, you and I probably talked to the SEC media
days and if we would have probably predicted what A
and M was going to do, I don't know if
we would have predicted a college football playoff birth or
our home playoff game. I probably predicted ify looking back, it.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Was either eight and four, nine to three. Because of
how tough the SEC.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Is and now going to nine conference games and only
having one buy you have to recalibrate your mind of
going Every team is going to be different.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
This is not program building like it.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Was back in like twenty seventeen twenty eighteen for programs,
so you could stack talent and there was no transfer portal.
So the thing you got going forward is that there's momentum.
It's a hungry fan base and you have a whole
hell of a lot of money in that in brand
and they're proud of it. And then now you get
the momentum of help. You know, Aggie's won a national
championship at volleyball. That's pretty cool. Like there's still a

(05:08):
lot of good things that are going on in the
athletic department. So this is not like a team like
Nebraska that can ever get it in the gear and
him got it in the gear. They just got to
find the way to take that next step.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
You were there in person, And something that drives me crazy, Peter,
is just the way people talk about games when they
think that they know the storyline, but they clearly don't.
Like we're talking about in the Big Ten Championship at ten,
I mean at thirteen to ten finish, where it's one
or two throws from Fernando Mendoza and it's an instant classic. Meanwhile,
we get great defensive play from Ruben Bay he is

(05:38):
a terror coming off of the front seven. You get
seven sacks on Marcel Reid. This is a defensive line
that handled business against Notre Dame earlier in the season.
There's over six hundred total yards of offense put in
this game, one major touchdown from Alchai Tony. But then
people are like, oh, snooze fest because there was only
ten points score, Like, when you're there in person, can
you like explain, like, why is there so many negative

(06:00):
narratives because if it's a slow game.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Offensively, I'm smiling here in the studio before my show
that you brought that up, because.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
That's one of my first takes I'm gonna have is.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I was in the building in twenty eleven for Alabama
versus LSU nine to six, the game of the century,
and I remember people at the end of the day going, God,
what a horrible game. I was like, you were pregnant
with fear with every single snap, and that's what it felt.
It felt like a diet version of that where if
you watch it on television you're like, this is garbage.
You know this team.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Shouldn't be inbot whatever.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
And yet all right, we're not gonna give credit for
how good the defense is played. And again I look
at it as like every single moment in Kyle Field
felt like the entire like your life dependent on it.
And to me, that's what a good football game is.
And I loved Alabama. Oh you like that was great.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
So many storylines back and forth, a lot of points.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
But I'll be honest with you, like when you give
me that only like two different plays can change the
complexion of a game that to me is a well
fought battle. And so yeah, I mean, if you're in
that building and you weren't entertained, you may not be
happy with the result. But if you weren't entertained, then
get the hell out of You're not You're not a
real college football fan.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
The Man last week called the Big Ten a college
football version of a Ponzi scheme. He is SEC Networks
at Peter Burns joining us here that you're not. You're not.
I mean, there's a handful of teams and then pretty
much everybody else. I mean, I'm sure there are SEC
teams who wish they could play Purdue in Iowa and
Wisconsin and teams like that.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Don't say that too loud, boys, because apparently the SEC
is just there's a hypothetical win coming their way despite
Notre Dame sitting at twelve and two this morning, right, it's.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's overrated all of that. You know, we we've all
heard it. But I mean, just for the rest of
the SEC.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, you had two playing against each other Friday night,
Bam are able to get the bounce back win and
move on, and then of course uh ole Miss being
able to do what they did with Pete Golden coaching
his first game.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, I mean, to me, myss thing, it was ren
swash repeat. They just finish off the greatest regular season
home slate in probably maybe college football history, going nine
to zero and winning a college football game. But I'm
gonna flip it to the Alabama ou thing. And remember
a couple of years ago. If you're a college football fan,
you remember remember Elijah Moore in the Egg Bowl and
he did the old Miss player scores a touchdown and

(08:19):
did the dog piece celebration and they end up missing
the extra point and then like nineteen coaches got fired
because of the butterfly effect. Think about that play. Bama
ou OU's up. What's seventeen three or something along those lines,
John Mattier. All he has to do is run for
three yards. He's wide open. He decides to throw it.
The running back misses the catch right like, drops it,

(08:42):
and then all of a sudden, Alabama punts or Oklahoma
punts it.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
It gets blocked and the pick six and it's all over.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I think that's gonna be one of the biggest butterfly
effects of the next decade, because I'm a firm believer.
Had that play not happened, Oklahoma wins it and Kalin
the Bores on the next jet to ann Arbor, Michigan
as their next head coach, and instead Kenny Gillingham gets
a contract extension. Kaylen de Bor is probably going to
get a contract extension.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Out of this.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
So it's one play that can completely change the dynamic
in the landscape of college football.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
And I think that happened in Norman on Friday night.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
You got two coaches going up against each other in Pasadena.
One you got to Google to figure out what his
record is, the other one twenty and five versus ranked
teams ten and four as an underdog four n oh
on the road versus top ten teams, and it's still
not you, Peter and not me naturally, but a lot
of other people would love to say, well, he's not
happy out in Tuscaloosa? Is it finally time to and

(09:38):
the narrative that hey, Kaylen n Bor is actually the
right guy to replace Nick Saban and somebody who is
going to keep Alabama in the in the driver's seat
for an opportunity to still be a favorite to winning
national title year in a year out.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, I mean again, And that's a false narrative that
comes from from from people that don't know kaylnd Bor, Like,
there's nobody that had the stones. A lot of people
an opportunity to take the Alabama job, and nobody had
the stones to replace the goat and the greatest of
all time and Nick Stateman.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
And he's like, I'll do it, and oh what has
he done?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Went nine to three and I mean just a hair
away from a college football playoff from year one and
now he's won a college football playoff game right now.
But again, that's how fickle this industry is. Right now,
they wanted to run him out after the FSU game,
and guess what what happened? They wanted to run him
out of the first quarter of Oklahoma and he just
so resilient, and I thought it was just, you know,
so fitting that they brought out fifty cents in the

(10:31):
fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
And it's like many men with death upon me. And
I'm like, yeah, well, I mean they did, and guess
what happens. He you know, he got the last laugh.
So it's impressive.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
And now I can't wait for Indiana Alabama. I think
Indiana's honestly a better team top to bottom. But buddy,
if klen de Bor wins that one, just I mean,
it's fascinating.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Man. College football always delivers, no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
He's Peter Burns, part of SEC This Morning, also with
the SEC Network as a whole serious XM, ESPN, ESPN Radio.
He's also a bad bunker player, at least from his
college days, hopefully hopefully even improved on that. The short
game is incredibly important. Well, PB, I'm sure that Doring
has already hit back in biceps, so maybe hit some

(11:17):
push ups before you guys hit the air. But it's
always a pleasure to have you on.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Man.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm looking at it right now, he's got he's got
good makeup on.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's a medium shirt.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
You can tune into the SEC network in about fifteen
minutes and watch us.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
It accentuates, accentuate that that's Chris Doring's game right there.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Happy Holiday's boys Met Christmas y'ng
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