November 27, 2024 • 41 mins
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We got some wonderful quotes across the NFL by the
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usual suspects. And we've got our latest college football playoff rankings,
which rankles some you know, rankles some folks and ruffle
some feathers all that. So that means we bring in
Chris Plank in for Jason Smith tonight. Nobody better to
sit and talk about college football in the state of
the sporting universe than my guy, Chris Blank.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What's going on? Chris? What's up? Mike Carmen? How are
you tonight?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Now? I'm just out of curiosity. Yeah, do you move seats?
Do you sit in your same seat when Jason is gone?
How does the seating arrangements go in studio?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I shift to the right, okay, you know, as if
we'll do it as if we're doing the telecast, you know,
the simulcast on radio. You know, have a TV game,
it's like, well, moving from left to right on your screen.
Normally I'm off to the left, but the right hand
chair gives you a better view and you can make
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eye contact, flip tight shirt off, make sure Patrick's awake.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
All of those things as we go through.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It does obscure Low and Crown a little bit, so
he may be up to something nefarious that I don't
necessarily get to see, and that's where that Drake needs
to be drawn so that Patrick and ty Shirt can
keep him honest over the course of the night. But
from the radio right chair gives me a little better
man point of our production.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I didn't know if there was power in that chair.
Sometimes it can be the seat of paranoia because you
can see everyone right. It's like, oh, what are they
talking about in there? But I'll pumped to be in tonight.
I love this time of year. You mention it. Everything
is coming to a head. We got basketball we'll be
watching tonight during the show, College and Pro and yeah, man,
I just every single time we get into the college
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football playoff rankings every week, it's not like the goalposts
are moved. It's just there's something everyone is mad or
outraged about. And I gotta be honest with you, Jason,
I don't care, Mike. I don't get too mad about
these kind of things. I really don't, because inevitably they
play themselves out and we can fight about where three
loss teams are ranked and that's fine, or if Clemson
deserves to be in. But I'm just one of those
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I guess weirdos. It doesn't get too carried away on
any ranking because in my mind, especially this year, I
think it's pretty easy to say they're gonna play themselves
out and we'll see who wins up getting the dubs
they need to make the twelve team playoffs.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well that's just did.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You know, as you know you do your work on
Sunday nights talking with Arnie Spaniard, the show is in
that moment. So yeah, we try to grab everybody's energy
and harness it like we're a I don't know, a
Marvel Cinematic Universe villain and redeploy it for our own purpose.
But that's certainly the case when you get to these
ranking because I'm more like you. It's more the nuanced
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long form approach of let's see if it plays out,
and you know what's great, If it doesn't, then we
can fight about it. Right, we finish all the conference
championship games, we do all that, and then we still
have seven or eight teams that can make legitimate cases.
Then I think we won, right because we have a field.
And then we still have a debate, which if you're
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the people sitting at the head of the table of
each of the respective conferences and the TV networks. You're
sitting around like Montgomery Burns going excellent, which means you're
gonna be able to expand the playoffs and make everybody
even more money. So that's your ultimate best case scenario.
It's not, hey, we had twelve teams and then we're
fighting about one or two more. No no, no, no, no,
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we want it to be another six to eight teams
where it's like, all right, is the three loss here
better than the two loss there? But because of automatic bids,
this team hoopscotch is over there. Like that's the best
case scenario for all of us, and me being the
Big Ten apologist in all of it, it's all good
by me. Northwestern will never be, you know, part of
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this playoff mix, given the thirty seven teams that will
be in the Big Ten before you and I pass
another birthday. But all of that to say, it just
makes fun for fun conversation. And at this point of
the year, isn't it great that you have one other
thing that you can fight and debate your family at
the holiday table about.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
No, no, no, we're just gonna talk about politics. I
don't need anything. Oh yeah, yeah, I know. We were
done with that for a Now, no, you kid, we're
just getting started. But the fun thing about it is
you're right, it's expanded, and no one really knows what
to think because they see a two or three loss
team and it's like, what are they doing there? Well,
let's go back and look at the top twelve in
the last ever, there's always three loss teams that are
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around twelve. We just never had to pay attention to them.
We only paid attention to four or five. We used
to only pay attention to two and barely did that.
Then we got the four. So now you start expanding
it a little bit, and you're kind of telling on
yourself that you haven't been paying attention. And you know what,
you didn't need to because it didn't matter who was twelve, thirteenth,
fourteenth or fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Now, I will.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Say there is a fascinating scenario that played out tonight,
which is there is a chance and one of the
perceived power for conferences could miss the playoffs. And if
Tulane gets ranked ahead of the Big twelve champion, Mike,
you don't realize the Big twelve could be out of
this thing. And if Texas a and m beats Texas
and ends up in the SEC title game. We could
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have a four loss team that ends up making the playoffs.
So I feel like some of the insanity is just starting.
And as a college football life for die hard blue
blood whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I think that's the beauty of it, right, And
obviously you have your projections of where teams are gonna
go and the matchups, and it's great for the philosophical
except for when you get the first round of conference
on conference games and stuff like. All right, I wanted
some variety. I wanted some variations to it all. But
when it all comes down to it, we've got Pete
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futech college Footballnews dot Com joining us in about ten minutes,
our grand puba of the college football world on the show. Here,
Chris is that you know, we we try to go
through and you're making the arguments and we talk strengths
of schedule, and you know, there's a little wishing wanting
go because, let's face it, brand identity matters, because it is,
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after all, much to the chagrin of folks, you know, the.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Purity of things.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's a TV show, so and hate watching is a
very real thing, right, why do you get you know,
I know they're not doing massive numbers for a lot
of NBA games, but tell me there aren't some segment
of the population that want to tune in to watch
Lebron James lose or you.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Say that as he bricks his shot too, but.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You know you got that going on, or you know
watching at this point what we'll talk about it a
little bit later on. But the highlight reel or low
light reel, however you want to do it. For Danny
Hurtley is becoming something incredible, so you celebrate the greatness
of him. It's like Geno Rima was on the women's
side for all those years. Now he's irrelevant because he
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can't win the title despite having superstar players, and his
latest claim to fame is that he thought that Caitlin
Clark wouldn't be able to play in the NBA so WNBA.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I should say.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But all of that to say, you know, Danny Hurley's
now becoming super villain because everybody that we knew other
than Tom Izzo is basically walked away from the game.
So he's the last man standing in the history onics
become a super cut with whatever your favorite song is
under at Swollen Dome at plankhow if you want to
actually give us suggestions for what the track behind Hurley's
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Chaos should be, But like it cuts through, but it
becomes appreciation for the wins. But also now it's like,
all right, let's see what he's going to do next.
And that's where we're at, and certainly for college football,
it's a bit of that as well. And it's great
that these November games, as we get ready for another week,
you know, only a couple of top twenty five games.
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I think there's still just two on the slate, right,
but there's in so many others with implication, which is
really all we can hope for, other than mean meaningless
football saying all right, and it's never meaningless, because that's
the other thing. I threw that out there and immediately
wanted to slap myself in the face, because everybody's still
playing for something, for jobs, for audition tape, for NFL scouts,
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for the next year's scholarship, your idea of getting into
the transfer portal and finding someone who's going to pay
you a giant bag. All of that to say, in November,
we're talking about teams and matchups that most of the
time would have gone way to the rear view mirror.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah, do you think anyone would be really all in
this weekend? Typically in the world of college football? On say,
I don't know the South Carolina Clemson outside of that
area in that region, I think the answer would probably
be no. But that's one of only three ranked matchups
this week and massive playoff implications, especially with Clemson popping
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in a number twelve. Well, most of the most of
the time, USC Notre Dame would be a big time matchup.
It's really not because USC kind of stinks, but then again,
it is because it's in Los Angeles, and if USC
beats Notre Dame, could they knock them out of the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And oh, by the way, speaking of ranked matchups, Mike,
are you familiar with Farmageddon? Please tell me y'all are
familiar with far Mageddon. That's Kansas State and Iowa State,
one of the great rivalries in Big twelve country. It's
one of only three ranked matchups this weekend, and the
winner could find themselves in the playoffs because they could
go to the Big twelve championship game and win. Right, So
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you're right, there's not a lot a bevy of matchups
that we would lose our minds over, but even the
rekindling of Texas Texas A and M. I mean the
winner of that goes to the SEC title game. Well,
I mean you look at that, it's only a and
a half point spread. Right, It's holiday weekend, so a
lot of trip to fan induced comas followed by what
game is on next?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right? Yeah, I know I've seen all the ads, were
the the Ioway game for Friday Night, right, Big ten Friday,
all that fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Gosh, they need to get a refund on that. That's
been a disaster so far. What's the most memorable Big
tim Friday game you remember watching while you're on the air? Mine,
that's a very outside of your alma mater. Of course,
it really does not match up with Pac twelve after Dark.
I'm not gonna lie with you.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You know, we used to get on Friday nights, Smith
and i As we'd be on. But yeah, the Big
Ten matchups have been anything but memorable. And for the
college football season as a whole, we've had a lot
of moments and look, I'm getting old, so they all
just kind of pile on top of each other. So
without a giant notepad in front of me, you know,
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a giant yellow leap the armiad, I.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, I started to twitch a little bit as the
image formed in my head. But you know, it's just
that idea of We've got all these great moments, signature moments.
We got the award nominations and are out and people
are getting they're upset about different stuff. We'll talk about
Dion a little bit later. I mean, all of these
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different things, Chris and you work, you know Oklahoma and
all the work that you do. I mean, this is
the culmination of busting your ass. I mean last week
I had to be a hell of a good time
for you. Oh yeah, I mean I was on the
right side of a field storming. That's never happened to
me before. Every single time I'm in the middle of
a field storming, it's someone storming the field because they
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beat us. I'm running for my life. And I found
out that during a field storming, when your team wins,
you're also running for your life. Just a little bit, yeah,
just a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Especially when you're i don't know, like a fifty year
old and there's a bunch of kids running around. But
let me ask you this, just based on the right
kids tonight, did anything really surprise you? Did anything really
jump out? Because I gotta be honest with you, nothing
did with me tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Nothing.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I didn't come away looking at those top twenty five
are the twelve teams that would be in right now?
Maybe Clemson being at twelve and not explaining that they're
not in. But I don't think anything really shocked me
tonight out of the top twenty five or the twelve
team projection.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, I would say, And I think I saw Pete
tweet about it, so I don't want to, you know,
really jump onto his bandwagon too much.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I'll let him explain it a little bit again.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Big Tan apologists the spokesman saying that they saw some
things they liked out of Indiana.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, that was hilarious. What did middle? They played good
at times, It's like what yeh for.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That one drive down the end and then Ohio State
said here hold my beer and shove the football down
their throats. I mean they doubled their yardage total for
the game on that one drive.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's like, what did you?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
What did you watch, it's like, I get it. You
want to get in there and sell, sell, sell. Indiana
has been a fun, fun topic. Signetti's been a fun
addition to the coaching carousel of characters and great sound
bites over the course of the year. But let's call
it what it is. They came in against a horrible
strength of skill, and yes they bludgeon some teams along
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the way. But guess what everybody with a top twenty
five resume is bludging some teams along the way, right
Notre Dame. How many signature wins do they have up
on that schedule? And then you're right, I mean there's
several teams right at the top. How many near escapes
from Miami?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yeah? There they are? Are they great? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You know, it's the old Caliperi line mixing college sports,
where it was just succeed and proceed, you got the
w move on, smile and figure it out again, and
that's and that's all finally good, except when we go
to a system like this where well you got to
get into the dance and get yourself invited. So yeah,
the key is to have keep yourself from having a
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crooked number in that column so that you end any
debate right boxing matches and everything else. Don't leave it
to the judges because likely unless you have a lot
of Instagram followers, TikTok followers, and a huge national fan base,
you may get your ass left out.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Absolutely you cannot in this case. I love the analogy.
Don't leave it in the judge's hands. Don't leave it
in the committee's hands. Have your resume be one that
they can't question. And how do you do that when
your conference championship game or finish eleven and one when
you didn't make your conference championship game? And there's only
a handful of people that fit in that category right now.
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We don't know who the three or four are going
to be that really assert their dominance in championship Saturday
a week from what is today Wednesday, a week from Saturday.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So we're not to Wednesday yet. We're getting there though.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oh we got two more hours in forty five minutes
in God's time zone. You're right, sorry, there you go.
In God's time we just have Mountain time zone was
the official time zone of our Sunday morning. Do you
know what I like that? I think Mountain time zone
might be number one of my time zone.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Duth Chep Mike, right, Yeah, we'll debate that as we
go to We've got a lot of fun debates and
conversations over the course of the next four hours.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
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keep on the rankings because well, we've got Pete Feutech
stopping by, and maybe he's got some chaos scenario scenario
you and I have yet to uncover beyond that log
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Hey, welcome in.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
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Speaker 4 (18:18):
We appreciate you. Take us with you, and we'll love
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be good to each other.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And if you're gonna fight about the college football playoffs,
perhaps you'd be wise to listen to our next guest,
our body.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Pete Fedtech.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, you hear them every week with us on the
show College Footballnews dot Com. All the previews, all the reviews,
all the handwringing for you, or maybe just to lave
you up a little bit. What's going on, Pete?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I'm getting in a weird spot right now. I hear
the music, I hear your voice. I think, oh crap,
it's Friday, and that's done with all my stuff. Yeah,
I gotta get good, which is true because it's a
short weekend. I'm supposed to eat dinner with people and
stuff and speed night to them. But still it's fun.
You know, this is a good time. We have two
weeks left of this and then you know the abyss.
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But right now it's been a whole lot of fun
with this new expanded college football.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well, but would get a whole month of bowl game projections,
pete and who's in, who's out, who's gonna get paid
a big bag to sit on their butts?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I mean all of those, man.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
This this is gonna be work. I mean, because this
is You're gonna have some big, giant name teams with
nobody playing on them. And so the you show me
a loss by an Alabama or an Ole miss last week,
and I'll show you a team that's just gutted for
whatever big bowl game they're gonna be playing it. Uh
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So it's this is gonna be a weird year of
playoff games that really really matter and a bowl games
at certain bowl games that really really won't Pete.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
How concerned right now is Brett Yormark and the Big twelve?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Should they be worried?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Here's my saying. I don't quite get this one.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Yeah, of course they should be tying to worried if
everybody loses nam a weird But like, here's the problem.
We are the top ten, in the top ten in
this week's rankings, and you see him right now. If
all ten of those teams win this weekend, which we know,
there's gonna be a quirky upset somewhere like maybe Georgia
Tech gets Georgia or something. But let's say all ten
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of those teams win, which they're all I think favored
to do, then they're in. There's just there's no way,
there's no real ways they're gonna be out, because either
you have eleven wins and then the college football playoff
era no eleven Power five now power four win team
would have missed out on an expanded playoffs, or you
get something like, you know, maybe Ohio State loses again
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to Oregon, or maybe you know, something else funky happens
in a capater. So those ten, if they win, they're in.
That means yourself one more conference champion that has to
be in, whether it's from the Mount West or the
Big Twelve, and I think they're probably gonna go with
the Big Twelve, I think the most. The crazier scenario
if you want to come up with something really funky
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here which is actually doable, Let's say Clemson just gets
blasted by South Carolina. South Carolina has it rivalry game,
they come out and they just roll the Tigers. Meanwhile,
Syracuse beats Miami. Then Clemson's in the ACC Championship, and
let's say Clemson beats SMU. Now what you do because
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you've got a bad eighty C champion and can you
imagine the committee leaving out the ACC champion for a
second year in a row. You want to hear the
screaming and yelling that.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Would come with them.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
But at that point, you have a bad Clemson team.
And now let's say you have a worthy Big Twelve
champion and a twelve to one Mountain West champ. Those
two are in, you know, so like this could get
kind of interesting, kind of fast.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I like how suddenly Syracuse and Frian Brown could really
upset the Apple card.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
That's kind it would you be shocked by this.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I mean Syracuse team. It's just that sleaky where you
know McCord throws for four hundred and all of a sudden,
you know they pull it off. This is kind of
a late season thing Syracuse has done over the years.
I know, new team, new players, new coaches, but it
seems like a very Syracusey thing to do.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And certainly the roller coaster that we've watched over the
course of the year, and and those familiar with the
work of McCord, no question about it. Something I saw
that you noted from the broadcast and me being the
Big ten Hank, I am here for Fox Sports Radio
the committee calling out the good things Indiana did against
Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Explain those to me, Pete.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I love the guys who are on that. I know
most of them who are on that panel for the
for the SEC Show night the ESPN College Football that
is the Star Show. Like they know, they're not dumb people,
but they're for some reason peddling all this stuff like
the bracket can't happen the way they have it set up.
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It just I don't know why they take it as
gospel from the rankings. It can't and won't happen, they'll
quit acting like it will, and they won't go with
the possibilities of stuff and they kind of throw stuff
out there. I think part of the problem is this
is actually potentially kind of boring because like I said
that the cake might might be baked in all this.
But the other point, like the other weird part, and again,
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I know the college football playoffs people, I have been
inside the whole thing, and I think the fact that
they don't have a camera in there for a transparency
is just because of what we saw tonight, because explain
yourself and basically the answer to you know when well,
so if Reeve Davis had followed up with the you know,
the thing for more manual, but well, we were impressed by,
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you know, some of the things Indiana did. Basically it's
the equivalent of Yamyamyamiamya mayamyam.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
A personally what the uniforms, the seven to nothing lead,
the fact that they didn't give completely wiped out and
scored a late touchdown just because when you know, while
they kind of was done like what exactly said, Wow,
I'm impressed by this Indiana team. That's a team outside
of just being eleven and one and they're gonna get
into the big ten.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
It was almost eber Flucian Chris as you know, some
of his great sound bites on your Sunday show.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Around here, that's that's that's a big deal around here.
That's crazy talk.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Man.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
There's a problem with that young man here.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Oh obviously we got big games this this week, not
not a massive amount of rank matches, games that have
meaning one of them Notre Dame USC is Notre Dame
men regardless or do they need to take care of us?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Will two loss Notre Dame get in if they get upset?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I keep thinking that this line is is kind of
resonating my head lately for a slewies. But like I
keep thinking of the line at the almost end of
Wolf of Wall Street, I forgot for a moment that
I was rich. Like it's like everyone forgets for a
moment that it's Notre Dame. That like, oh, well, are
they gonna get it? You don't think the committee in somewhere,
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I know they're they're on the up and up. They
don't really think about these things and they don't really
try to do but at the end of the day,
they kind of want Notre game in this thing, right.
I mean, it's like it's it's if we're talking Indiana
or sm you then maybe just maybe you know human
they do this honestly, but think gods can get some
level think you know what, you know what tend to
(25:26):
let's put it, let's get let's go eleven, let's frown
eleven seed or twelve seed bone and just get Notre
Dame in this. I think that because it's there's the
because it's Alabama clause. And I do think that there's
a subset that's because it's Notre Dame. As long as
they don't get annihilated by USC, I think that they're
probably in. But I think the other thing we're kind
(25:47):
of missing is this team is really good. I mean, yes,
the schedule is not great. The Northern Illinois lost a
total blip, but I think they're just that good and
I think they do take care of us. He was
on problem.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I think that is the fun part. Chris and I
were talking about this a little bit earlier.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Pete Futech with this college footballnews dot com where you
find everything he's got going at Pete Futech in the twitterverse. Uh,
Pete just kind of talking about some of these teams
up top to where you're going. I don't know where
the great win is, but I've watched them bludgeon teams
that goes back to Indiana bit and certainly we look
at you know what Notre Name's done, and like, all right,
(26:25):
real paper, it doesn't matter as long as you don't
have a crooked number next to your name, I think.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
So, I mean like, but then we get into that
whole argument, where is your quote great win? Yeah, you know,
like they like it. Basically, if you didn't beat Ohio State,
then nothing, you know what, really what's your great win?
I mean, so really, let's say I think there's probably
off the top of my head's three and part. I
think Georgia going and whacking Texas like it did in Austin.
(26:51):
That's a pretty great win. I think Alabama beating Georgia
is the only reason why we're still doing the ken
Alabama getting the CFP thing, and then that Oregon win
over Ohouse date. Outside of that, I mean, you know, yeah, no,
they don't know how a great win over Notre Dame.
But realistically, here, I mean there's just at some point
you have to get credits for lots of pretty good win.
(27:13):
You're right, and everyone also keeps forgetting that Texas A
and M teams a win over Texas away from playing
the SEC Championship have already walked in there and whin
it was one hundred and ninety sixty degrees and beat
him by double digits. I mean that counts. So the
win over in Texas A and M is a whole
lot better than anything. I don't know if this Texas
kind of has right.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Now, I would be curious, Pete, just to go through
your scenario here for Alabama to get in, because there
is a part of me that thinks and while I
don't disagree with you, here's just if you're not following
Pete on Twitter at Pete Futech is the way to
do it. He says, Number one way for Bama to
get in is for Alabama to destroy Auburn. Now, if
(27:53):
I get any of these wrong, let me know, Pete.
But at least three of the next four half to happen.
Georgia loses a Georgia Tach loses the SEC Championship game,
No Name loses to USC, Ugly Vandy beats Tennessee or
SMU face plants against Cal. There's a part of me,
and I'm not even kidd right now either. If Bama
destroys Auburn, I think that might be enough people to
be like, well, look they beat Georgia. I mean, it
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just really seems as if their losses are excused away.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Unlike anything I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
It's pretty it's pretty impressive considering how like, may me
another team that was that bad against the team that's
that bad like Oklahoma. This year's Oklahoma team is, and
we don't really talk about it's it's otherwise it's under
And I'm actually not joking. They can Pama can lose
by forty to Auburn, and someone somewhere would say, well,
(28:41):
based on these recruiting rankings and NFL things, based on
the twelve best teams, Alabama is still one of the twelve.
But you want to face this team in the playoffs
that kind of thing. The problem is you got the
who's out, you know. I mean, if it's okay, find
a way to put a three loss at Alabama team
in there, then are you kicking out in eleven? One?
(29:02):
Eleven in one Indiana No, yeah, eleven and two SMU
probably not so who's not a Big twelve champion. No,
you know, so it's all of a sudden, you have
a lot of teams in there. It's not just okay,
maybe you can put Alabama in here. Something else bunky
has to happen, and you know, and all of a sudden,
(29:23):
like let's say a Texas A and M beats Texas. Well,
you want to you want to talk about the twisted
things that could happen. Try try the argument that would
be made if Texas A and M beats Texas, because
at that point it becomes, well the Alabama beat Georgia
and Georgia destroyed Texas, and there we go, Kevin Bacon,
there's a let's go exactly exactly. They will find a
(29:45):
way to do it, So I don't think it could happen.
That goes back to the show tonight where Alabama's thirteen
and they're treating it like this in the eight pe
pole or coaches poll, where they'd be like, well, all
they need is one way and they move up the
rankings like that's not how this works, and you people
know this quit making America dummer. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
You Tech.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
There is your perfect line because it's funny as you were,
you know, talking about hey, where's your great win? I
started thinking about it as a graphic and a little
piece for your website with James Franklin's picture atop it.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Nice, Well, that's that goes for his entire But not
enough credits given to to winning lots and lots of games.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
No, that's hard to do.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
It's like, I don't think enough credit. Like it's the
Ryan Day thing. It's there was a Harball thing for
a while. Yeah, absolutely, Like, oh, you want to look
how many coaches out there have are at the same
spot the last four years and have won at least
sixty percent of their games? Just sixty percent. There aren't
that many of them. Now, try the guys who win
the seventy and eighty percent of their games. And now
(30:52):
you're down to like the one word guys like you know,
Dabbo and Kirby and stuff like that. It's hard to do.
But you can ever, ever, ever lose in college football.
It's really that crazy. Not like ever Flus who can
lose a lot and still probably get to exchange it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But you may.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Still have years left on his deal, Pete, and you
know what happens then he don't go anywhere, you know.
Chris also did get to celebrate on the sideline. He
survived the field storming with Oklahoma last week. Pete, I've
never been a part of one where my team storms.
I've always been stormed on, right, and it's it's a
(31:30):
little bit of a different world, but again still dangerous.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
All right, did.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Way back in the day, wouldn't you? They didn't actually
storm back in the day in like a I mean,
I mean, I knew you're a young man, but I
can't remember if looking at video of Game of Century
seventy one, if they would have stormed no game or
no people just trickled. It's more like a trickle than trickling.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, they just walked down on the field.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
And remember I went to the University of Tulsa, and
if it wasn't for Steve Kragthorpe may he read in peace,
I don't know if we would have ever won games.
So we stormed the field one year when we went
to and eight, and I think the goalpost just fell
down because it was so rusted. So I got that.
I felt like a real man on Saturday night being
a part of that. But what a what a wild
(32:15):
time man?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Again.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
I know that this isn't an Oklahoma show, but we're
on in Oklahoma. And of all the games that I
didn't see coming this weekend, that probably had to be
near the top. With what happened to Oklahoma and Missouri
two weeks ago, Pete. And to see them do that
against Bama just unreal job by Brent Vinable.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
You get no gifts for the rest of the Year's right.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
I guess I mean unreal job by Bret Venables. But
then you're in a position where your team needed that
win to you know, get.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Bull Kiboll eligible. Yes, where's it been all year long?
Where's it been? That's what most people last.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
I remember is remember when a couple a couple of
years ago in the whole Oklahoma and Texas to the
SEC thing happened. We were all like, oh, Oklahoma's going
to be fine. They get but Texas, so God the God,
I were gonna win a game again. They go four
and eight, you know in this thing. But apparently now
it's Oklahoma. That's some teams get the tough schedules.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
In this week. Thank you, Pete, Thank you, Pete.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Not everyone gets to play Kentucky and Mississippi state this year.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Now you got to buy it out.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Schedule exactly, exactly missed everybody.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yep, yeah, the inequities of the scheduling. Hey, as we
go to like these eighteen game or eighteen team conferences, miants,
you gotta miss somebody along the way. He's Petefewtech College
Footballnews dot Com. All the previews of this week's games,
all the review coming off of the latest rankings and
selections and everything else. It's our gout, Pete few Tech, Pete,
(33:43):
happy holiday, enjoy the time with the family. I'll drink
one for you as well.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Let's go have a good one.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Go through it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
There you go, eber Flu's drinking game on Thursday, Pete,
and I will get the Bengo board ready for you.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He lives in the Chicago area, so you know he
here's all the eber Flucian talk. So we go back
and forth with some pretty good chuckles when you're defending
throwing challenge flags, you know, because you got hit with
an explosive sixty nine yard pass play. Anyway, now it's
time to go to Isaac Low and Crown ar Man
on the scene. He's got all the news and updates
(34:18):
of all the chaos in our sporting universe while celebrating
orange basketball courts.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Indeed all over the place, although it does have a
psychedelic feel in Phoenix. We'll get to that in a moment.
But of course, the college football playoff rankings being revealed
earlier this evening are not our top story because Oklahoma
has been named.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
The cheese It National Team of the Week. There you go,
climbing up the rankings, islo, what does one get? What
do you get?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Also for do you get like a lifetime supply of
cheese its?
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I went to the cheese At Bowl and didn't get
a damn thing. So chee it's really time. Yeah, so
not even a novelty hat. Nothing, not a thing.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
So sort of a peric victory there, as it were.
Apologize for hitting a nerve anyway. In non in non
snack item related news, the fourth set of the college
football playoff rankings indeed unveiled on Tuesday evening. Top four
stayed the same, Oregon number one, Ohio State, Texas, penn State,
(35:25):
and Notre Dame rounded out the top five. Then he
had Miami at number six, followed by Georgia, Tennessee, SMU,
and Indiana dropped from fifth to tenth, and the latest
college football playoff rankings in the NBA right now the
Utah Jazz of eighty four eighty two over the San
Antonio Spurs. Midway through the third quarter of an NBA
(35:45):
Cup game. Whatever that means Victor wemen Yama already with
thirty points. The Phoenix Suns laid the Los Angeles Lakers
forty two to thirty nine with six fifty five left
to play in the second quarter. Earlier this evening, the
Milwaukee Bucks what at Miami what O six to one
h three, despite being without Giannis Antetokumpo Damian Loward thirty
seven points and twelve assists. The Chicago Bulls victorious at
(36:08):
Washington one twenty seven to one oh eight the Wizards
two and fourteen, and the Houston Rockets in overtime prevailed
at Minnesota one seventeen to one eleven. Houston wins Western
Conference Group ayay, whatever that means.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Means are closer to five hundred k I love.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
You know the great call by uh Russ Hodges. The
Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. Houston
wins Western Conference Group A right up with.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
That guy's back to you, nicely done.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
As for the Bulls taking down the Wizards, giving all
them merchandising in ads in box office the jokes right themselves.
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Speaker 3 (37:12):
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Speaker 4 (37:32):
You're with him tomorrow, are you yes?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Sir?
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Here you go, sir, romanumor Rundown will be in full
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Speaker 5 (37:40):
No man sends a rundown for a show earlier than
Arnie for no reason whatsoever. It's Sunday. Let me ask
you a question, Hey, Mike, on Sundays, don't you want
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Speaker 4 (37:51):
No? Not with Arnie.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
You get the rundown at seven am, regardless of what
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Speaker 3 (37:56):
Do you? And I was theorizing this earlier. Does he
do one every day just in case?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Maybe? I think like he waits up and that's how
he starts his day.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Yeah, Well, I think there's a format. I think you're
onto something. You might be right, because I've had a
show ready to go.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Yeah, because I've had circumstances whereby I find out late,
you know, Jason sick or something like that, and I'll
get a text from from our or from our boss,
Scott spirou uh saying, hey, Jason's out. So you got Arnie,
and like, within ten minutes, I've got four pages of
yellow pad notes and you can't read any of them.
Then you're dumb because you can't read them, right. Well,
(38:36):
that's okay. I'll stipulate to being dumb once in a while,
trying to make sense of those kind of things. But
uh yeah, at Plint show as where you find Chris,
So you'll hear him tomorrow with Arnie. You hear them
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Speaker 4 (38:57):
Here's one that I saw a.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Little bit earlier and I wanted to ask the crew,
let's bring in. We got Ilo, we got Patrick, we
we got Alex Tischer to join us on this one.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Chris.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
The Dodgers have announced a unique experience. I got an
email a little bit earlier and I'm like, Okay, what
do we got here? Forty five minute tour. You get
a walkthrough of the Vinscully press box, okay, covering the
history of the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
One of the bullet.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Points is and more with an exclamation point photo op
with a holiday bobblehead character. And get this a photo
op with the twenty twenty four World Series trophy. Now
it's available for four dates only this December. How much
do you think you would pay for this experience?
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I mean I would hope it'd be like something like
forty bucks, fifty bucks, right, Okay, So you go like
family friendly. When you think you do that, I mean,
don't the Dodgers have enough money make a family friendly
maybe even free up for But I get again, I'll
be the cheap skate. I'll say I'm sorry. I'll say
forty five bucks.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Okay, so forty five from Chris Ilo.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
Twenty five dollars donation to a Dodge related charity.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
There you go. I like that in theory, but we'll
put a pin in that one. Patrick. You know what.
I'm gonna up the stakes. I'm gonna go off islow.
I'm gonna instead of twenty five, I raise you thirty five.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
So thirty five and that's all charitable contribution.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Wow. Alex Teischer, Oh they love money there. That's why
they have all the paintings.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
I'm gonna say one hundred for if you're five and under,
one hundred and fifty for above.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Sixty seven, twenty five per adults, forty seven to twenty
five for fourteen and under, and if you're three for
more under you are free.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
What Raisa in sixty seven twenty.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Five I'm curious. I did not see anything in the notes.
I gotta imagine that matters. Is that part of the
math where they're counting on the number of people that
they can sell that to and then sign Wan Sodo.
Speaker 7 (40:57):
I guess so, but wow, that's right, baby Jan Soto.
We're gonna sign himself.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
We need it forty seven twenty five for a kid.
I mean, come on, Dodgers, what are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Get in there and sell say hey, I'm all about marketing,
merchandising and enterprising. You want a photo op with this trophy.
It ain't coming for.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Free, baby Juan Soo. Go fund me.
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usual suspects. And we've got our latest college football playoff rankings,
which rankles some you know, rankles some folks and ruffle
some feathers all that. So that means we bring in
Chris Plank in for Jason Smith tonight. Nobody better to
sit and talk about college football in the state of
the sporting universe than my guy, Chris Blank.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What's going on? Chris? What's up? Mike Carmen? How are
you tonight?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Now? I'm just out of curiosity. Yeah, do you move seats?
Do you sit in your same seat when Jason is gone?
How does the seating arrangements go in studio?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I shift to the right, okay, you know, as if
we'll do it as if we're doing the telecast, you know,
the simulcast on radio. You know, have a TV game,
it's like, well, moving from left to right on your screen.
Normally I'm off to the left, but the right hand
chair gives you a better view and you can make
(02:08):
eye contact, flip tight shirt off, make sure Patrick's awake.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
All of those things as we go through.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It does obscure Low and Crown a little bit, so
he may be up to something nefarious that I don't
necessarily get to see, and that's where that Drake needs
to be drawn so that Patrick and ty Shirt can
keep him honest over the course of the night. But
from the radio right chair gives me a little better
man point of our production.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I didn't know if there was power in that chair.
Sometimes it can be the seat of paranoia because you
can see everyone right. It's like, oh, what are they
talking about in there? But I'll pumped to be in tonight.
I love this time of year. You mention it. Everything
is coming to a head. We got basketball we'll be
watching tonight during the show, College and Pro and yeah, man,
I just every single time we get into the college
(02:55):
football playoff rankings every week, it's not like the goalposts
are moved. It's just there's something everyone is mad or
outraged about. And I gotta be honest with you, Jason,
I don't care, Mike. I don't get too mad about
these kind of things. I really don't, because inevitably they
play themselves out and we can fight about where three
loss teams are ranked and that's fine, or if Clemson
deserves to be in. But I'm just one of those
(03:16):
I guess weirdos. It doesn't get too carried away on
any ranking because in my mind, especially this year, I
think it's pretty easy to say they're gonna play themselves
out and we'll see who wins up getting the dubs
they need to make the twelve team playoffs.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well that's just did.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You know, as you know you do your work on
Sunday nights talking with Arnie Spaniard, the show is in
that moment. So yeah, we try to grab everybody's energy
and harness it like we're a I don't know, a
Marvel Cinematic Universe villain and redeploy it for our own purpose.
But that's certainly the case when you get to these
ranking because I'm more like you. It's more the nuanced
(03:52):
long form approach of let's see if it plays out,
and you know what's great, If it doesn't, then we
can fight about it. Right, we finish all the conference
championship games, we do all that, and then we still
have seven or eight teams that can make legitimate cases.
Then I think we won, right because we have a field.
And then we still have a debate, which if you're
(04:13):
the people sitting at the head of the table of
each of the respective conferences and the TV networks. You're
sitting around like Montgomery Burns going excellent, which means you're
gonna be able to expand the playoffs and make everybody
even more money. So that's your ultimate best case scenario.
It's not, hey, we had twelve teams and then we're
fighting about one or two more. No no, no, no, no,
(04:36):
we want it to be another six to eight teams
where it's like, all right, is the three loss here
better than the two loss there? But because of automatic bids,
this team hoopscotch is over there. Like that's the best
case scenario for all of us, and me being the
Big Ten apologist in all of it, it's all good
by me. Northwestern will never be, you know, part of
(04:57):
this playoff mix, given the thirty seven teams that will
be in the Big Ten before you and I pass
another birthday. But all of that to say, it just
makes fun for fun conversation. And at this point of
the year, isn't it great that you have one other
thing that you can fight and debate your family at
the holiday table about.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
No, no, no, we're just gonna talk about politics. I
don't need anything. Oh yeah, yeah, I know. We were
done with that for a Now, no, you kid, we're
just getting started. But the fun thing about it is
you're right, it's expanded, and no one really knows what
to think because they see a two or three loss
team and it's like, what are they doing there? Well,
let's go back and look at the top twelve in
the last ever, there's always three loss teams that are
(05:40):
around twelve. We just never had to pay attention to them.
We only paid attention to four or five. We used
to only pay attention to two and barely did that.
Then we got the four. So now you start expanding
it a little bit, and you're kind of telling on
yourself that you haven't been paying attention. And you know what,
you didn't need to because it didn't matter who was twelve, thirteenth,
fourteenth or fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Now, I will.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Say there is a fascinating scenario that played out tonight,
which is there is a chance and one of the
perceived power for conferences could miss the playoffs. And if
Tulane gets ranked ahead of the Big twelve champion, Mike,
you don't realize the Big twelve could be out of
this thing. And if Texas a and m beats Texas
and ends up in the SEC title game. We could
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have a four loss team that ends up making the playoffs.
So I feel like some of the insanity is just starting.
And as a college football life for die hard blue
blood whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I think that's the beauty of it, right, And
obviously you have your projections of where teams are gonna
go and the matchups, and it's great for the philosophical
except for when you get the first round of conference
on conference games and stuff like. All right, I wanted
some variety. I wanted some variations to it all. But
when it all comes down to it, we've got Pete
(06:56):
futech college Footballnews dot Com joining us in about ten minutes,
our grand puba of the college football world on the show. Here,
Chris is that you know, we we try to go
through and you're making the arguments and we talk strengths
of schedule, and you know, there's a little wishing wanting
go because, let's face it, brand identity matters, because it is,
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after all, much to the chagrin of folks, you know, the.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Purity of things.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's a TV show, so and hate watching is a
very real thing, right, why do you get you know,
I know they're not doing massive numbers for a lot
of NBA games, but tell me there aren't some segment
of the population that want to tune in to watch
Lebron James lose or you.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Say that as he bricks his shot too, but.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You know you got that going on, or you know
watching at this point what we'll talk about it a
little bit later on. But the highlight reel or low
light reel, however you want to do it. For Danny
Hurtley is becoming something incredible, so you celebrate the greatness
of him. It's like Geno Rima was on the women's
side for all those years. Now he's irrelevant because he
(08:02):
can't win the title despite having superstar players, and his
latest claim to fame is that he thought that Caitlin
Clark wouldn't be able to play in the NBA so WNBA.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I should say.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But all of that to say, you know, Danny Hurley's
now becoming super villain because everybody that we knew other
than Tom Izzo is basically walked away from the game.
So he's the last man standing in the history onics
become a super cut with whatever your favorite song is
under at Swollen Dome at plankhow if you want to
actually give us suggestions for what the track behind Hurley's
(08:36):
Chaos should be, But like it cuts through, but it
becomes appreciation for the wins. But also now it's like,
all right, let's see what he's going to do next.
And that's where we're at, and certainly for college football,
it's a bit of that as well. And it's great
that these November games, as we get ready for another week,
you know, only a couple of top twenty five games.
(08:57):
I think there's still just two on the slate, right,
but there's in so many others with implication, which is
really all we can hope for, other than mean meaningless
football saying all right, and it's never meaningless, because that's
the other thing. I threw that out there and immediately
wanted to slap myself in the face, because everybody's still
playing for something, for jobs, for audition tape, for NFL scouts,
(09:21):
for the next year's scholarship, your idea of getting into
the transfer portal and finding someone who's going to pay
you a giant bag. All of that to say, in November,
we're talking about teams and matchups that most of the
time would have gone way to the rear view mirror.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah, do you think anyone would be really all in
this weekend? Typically in the world of college football? On say,
I don't know the South Carolina Clemson outside of that
area in that region, I think the answer would probably
be no. But that's one of only three ranked matchups
this week and massive playoff implications, especially with Clemson popping
(09:59):
in a number twelve. Well, most of the most of
the time, USC Notre Dame would be a big time matchup.
It's really not because USC kind of stinks, but then again,
it is because it's in Los Angeles, and if USC
beats Notre Dame, could they knock them out of the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And oh, by the way, speaking of ranked matchups, Mike,
are you familiar with Farmageddon? Please tell me y'all are
familiar with far Mageddon. That's Kansas State and Iowa State,
one of the great rivalries in Big twelve country. It's
one of only three ranked matchups this weekend, and the
winner could find themselves in the playoffs because they could
go to the Big twelve championship game and win. Right, So
(10:36):
you're right, there's not a lot a bevy of matchups
that we would lose our minds over, but even the
rekindling of Texas Texas A and M. I mean the
winner of that goes to the SEC title game. Well,
I mean you look at that, it's only a and
a half point spread. Right, It's holiday weekend, so a
lot of trip to fan induced comas followed by what
game is on next?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right? Yeah, I know I've seen all the ads, were
the the Ioway game for Friday Night, right, Big ten Friday,
all that fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Gosh, they need to get a refund on that. That's
been a disaster so far. What's the most memorable Big
tim Friday game you remember watching while you're on the air? Mine,
that's a very outside of your alma mater. Of course,
it really does not match up with Pac twelve after Dark.
I'm not gonna lie with you.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You know, we used to get on Friday nights, Smith
and i As we'd be on. But yeah, the Big
Ten matchups have been anything but memorable. And for the
college football season as a whole, we've had a lot
of moments and look, I'm getting old, so they all
just kind of pile on top of each other. So
without a giant notepad in front of me, you know,
(11:42):
a giant yellow leap the armiad, I.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, I started to twitch a little bit as the
image formed in my head. But you know, it's just
that idea of We've got all these great moments, signature moments.
We got the award nominations and are out and people
are getting they're upset about different stuff. We'll talk about
Dion a little bit later. I mean, all of these
(12:07):
different things, Chris and you work, you know Oklahoma and
all the work that you do. I mean, this is
the culmination of busting your ass. I mean last week
I had to be a hell of a good time
for you. Oh yeah, I mean I was on the
right side of a field storming. That's never happened to
me before. Every single time I'm in the middle of
a field storming, it's someone storming the field because they
(12:29):
beat us. I'm running for my life. And I found
out that during a field storming, when your team wins,
you're also running for your life. Just a little bit, yeah,
just a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Especially when you're i don't know, like a fifty year
old and there's a bunch of kids running around. But
let me ask you this, just based on the right
kids tonight, did anything really surprise you? Did anything really
jump out? Because I gotta be honest with you, nothing
did with me tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Nothing.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I didn't come away looking at those top twenty five
are the twelve teams that would be in right now?
Maybe Clemson being at twelve and not explaining that they're
not in. But I don't think anything really shocked me
tonight out of the top twenty five or the twelve
team projection.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, I would say, And I think I saw Pete
tweet about it, so I don't want to, you know,
really jump onto his bandwagon too much.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I'll let him explain it a little bit again.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Big Tan apologists the spokesman saying that they saw some
things they liked out of Indiana.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, that was hilarious. What did middle? They played good
at times, It's like what yeh for.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That one drive down the end and then Ohio State
said here hold my beer and shove the football down
their throats. I mean they doubled their yardage total for
the game on that one drive.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's like, what did you?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
What did you watch, it's like, I get it. You
want to get in there and sell, sell, sell. Indiana
has been a fun, fun topic. Signetti's been a fun
addition to the coaching carousel of characters and great sound
bites over the course of the year. But let's call
it what it is. They came in against a horrible
strength of skill, and yes they bludgeon some teams along
(14:03):
the way. But guess what everybody with a top twenty
five resume is bludging some teams along the way, right
Notre Dame. How many signature wins do they have up
on that schedule? And then you're right, I mean there's
several teams right at the top. How many near escapes
from Miami?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yeah? There they are? Are they great? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You know, it's the old Caliperi line mixing college sports,
where it was just succeed and proceed, you got the
w move on, smile and figure it out again, and
that's and that's all finally good, except when we go
to a system like this where well you got to
get into the dance and get yourself invited. So yeah,
the key is to have keep yourself from having a
(14:42):
crooked number in that column so that you end any
debate right boxing matches and everything else. Don't leave it
to the judges because likely unless you have a lot
of Instagram followers, TikTok followers, and a huge national fan base,
you may get your ass left out.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Absolutely you cannot in this case. I love the analogy.
Don't leave it in the judge's hands. Don't leave it
in the committee's hands. Have your resume be one that
they can't question. And how do you do that when
your conference championship game or finish eleven and one when
you didn't make your conference championship game? And there's only
a handful of people that fit in that category right now.
(15:20):
We don't know who the three or four are going
to be that really assert their dominance in championship Saturday
a week from what is today Wednesday, a week from Saturday.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So we're not to Wednesday yet. We're getting there though.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oh we got two more hours in forty five minutes
in God's time zone. You're right, sorry, there you go.
In God's time we just have Mountain time zone was
the official time zone of our Sunday morning. Do you
know what I like that? I think Mountain time zone
might be number one of my time zone.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Duth Chep Mike, right, Yeah, we'll debate that as we
go to We've got a lot of fun debates and
conversations over the course of the next four hours.
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Speaker 3 (18:00):
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Speaker 3 (18:26):
And if you're gonna fight about the college football playoffs,
perhaps you'd be wise to listen to our next guest,
our body.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Pete Fedtech.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, you hear them every week with us on the
show College Footballnews dot Com. All the previews, all the reviews,
all the handwringing for you, or maybe just to lave
you up a little bit. What's going on, Pete?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I'm getting in a weird spot right now. I hear
the music, I hear your voice. I think, oh crap,
it's Friday, and that's done with all my stuff. Yeah,
I gotta get good, which is true because it's a
short weekend. I'm supposed to eat dinner with people and
stuff and speed night to them. But still it's fun.
You know, this is a good time. We have two
weeks left of this and then you know the abyss.
(19:07):
But right now it's been a whole lot of fun
with this new expanded college football.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well, but would get a whole month of bowl game projections,
pete and who's in, who's out, who's gonna get paid
a big bag to sit on their butts?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I mean all of those, man.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
This this is gonna be work. I mean, because this
is You're gonna have some big, giant name teams with
nobody playing on them. And so the you show me
a loss by an Alabama or an Ole miss last week,
and I'll show you a team that's just gutted for
whatever big bowl game they're gonna be playing it. Uh
(19:41):
So it's this is gonna be a weird year of
playoff games that really really matter and a bowl games
at certain bowl games that really really won't Pete.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
How concerned right now is Brett Yormark and the Big twelve?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Should they be worried?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Here's my saying. I don't quite get this one.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Yeah, of course they should be tying to worried if
everybody loses nam a weird But like, here's the problem.
We are the top ten, in the top ten in
this week's rankings, and you see him right now. If
all ten of those teams win this weekend, which we know,
there's gonna be a quirky upset somewhere like maybe Georgia
Tech gets Georgia or something. But let's say all ten
(20:21):
of those teams win, which they're all I think favored
to do, then they're in. There's just there's no way,
there's no real ways they're gonna be out, because either
you have eleven wins and then the college football playoff
era no eleven Power five now power four win team
would have missed out on an expanded playoffs, or you
get something like, you know, maybe Ohio State loses again
(20:43):
to Oregon, or maybe you know, something else funky happens
in a capater. So those ten, if they win, they're in.
That means yourself one more conference champion that has to
be in, whether it's from the Mount West or the
Big Twelve, and I think they're probably gonna go with
the Big Twelve, I think the most. The crazier scenario
if you want to come up with something really funky
(21:04):
here which is actually doable, Let's say Clemson just gets
blasted by South Carolina. South Carolina has it rivalry game,
they come out and they just roll the Tigers. Meanwhile,
Syracuse beats Miami. Then Clemson's in the ACC Championship, and
let's say Clemson beats SMU. Now what you do because
(21:27):
you've got a bad eighty C champion and can you
imagine the committee leaving out the ACC champion for a
second year in a row. You want to hear the
screaming and yelling that.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Would come with them.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
But at that point, you have a bad Clemson team.
And now let's say you have a worthy Big Twelve
champion and a twelve to one Mountain West champ. Those
two are in, you know, so like this could get
kind of interesting, kind of fast.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I like how suddenly Syracuse and Frian Brown could really
upset the Apple card.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
That's kind it would you be shocked by this.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I mean Syracuse team. It's just that sleaky where you
know McCord throws for four hundred and all of a sudden,
you know they pull it off. This is kind of
a late season thing Syracuse has done over the years.
I know, new team, new players, new coaches, but it
seems like a very Syracusey thing to do.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And certainly the roller coaster that we've watched over the
course of the year, and and those familiar with the
work of McCord, no question about it. Something I saw
that you noted from the broadcast and me being the
Big ten Hank, I am here for Fox Sports Radio
the committee calling out the good things Indiana did against
Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Explain those to me, Pete.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I love the guys who are on that. I know
most of them who are on that panel for the
for the SEC Show night the ESPN College Football that
is the Star Show. Like they know, they're not dumb people,
but they're for some reason peddling all this stuff like
the bracket can't happen the way they have it set up.
(22:59):
It just I don't know why they take it as
gospel from the rankings. It can't and won't happen, they'll
quit acting like it will, and they won't go with
the possibilities of stuff and they kind of throw stuff
out there. I think part of the problem is this
is actually potentially kind of boring because like I said
that the cake might might be baked in all this.
But the other point, like the other weird part, and again,
(23:22):
I know the college football playoffs people, I have been
inside the whole thing, and I think the fact that
they don't have a camera in there for a transparency
is just because of what we saw tonight, because explain
yourself and basically the answer to you know when well,
so if Reeve Davis had followed up with the you know,
the thing for more manual, but well, we were impressed by,
(23:43):
you know, some of the things Indiana did. Basically it's
the equivalent of Yamyamyamiamya mayamyam.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
A personally what the uniforms, the seven to nothing lead,
the fact that they didn't give completely wiped out and
scored a late touchdown just because when you know, while
they kind of was done like what exactly said, Wow,
I'm impressed by this Indiana team. That's a team outside
of just being eleven and one and they're gonna get
into the big ten.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
It was almost eber Flucian Chris as you know, some
of his great sound bites on your Sunday show.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Around here, that's that's that's a big deal around here.
That's crazy talk.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Man.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
There's a problem with that young man here.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Oh obviously we got big games this this week, not
not a massive amount of rank matches, games that have
meaning one of them Notre Dame USC is Notre Dame
men regardless or do they need to take care of us?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Will two loss Notre Dame get in if they get upset?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I keep thinking that this line is is kind of
resonating my head lately for a slewies. But like I
keep thinking of the line at the almost end of
Wolf of Wall Street, I forgot for a moment that
I was rich. Like it's like everyone forgets for a
moment that it's Notre Dame. That like, oh, well, are
they gonna get it? You don't think the committee in somewhere,
(25:03):
I know they're they're on the up and up. They
don't really think about these things and they don't really
try to do but at the end of the day,
they kind of want Notre game in this thing, right.
I mean, it's like it's it's if we're talking Indiana
or sm you then maybe just maybe you know human
they do this honestly, but think gods can get some
level think you know what, you know what tend to
(25:26):
let's put it, let's get let's go eleven, let's frown
eleven seed or twelve seed bone and just get Notre
Dame in this. I think that because it's there's the
because it's Alabama clause. And I do think that there's
a subset that's because it's Notre Dame. As long as
they don't get annihilated by USC, I think that they're
probably in. But I think the other thing we're kind
(25:47):
of missing is this team is really good. I mean, yes,
the schedule is not great. The Northern Illinois lost a
total blip, but I think they're just that good and
I think they do take care of us. He was
on problem.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I think that is the fun part. Chris and I
were talking about this a little bit earlier.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Pete Futech with this college footballnews dot com where you
find everything he's got going at Pete Futech in the twitterverse. Uh,
Pete just kind of talking about some of these teams
up top to where you're going. I don't know where
the great win is, but I've watched them bludgeon teams
that goes back to Indiana bit and certainly we look
at you know what Notre Name's done, and like, all right,
(26:25):
real paper, it doesn't matter as long as you don't
have a crooked number next to your name, I think.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
So, I mean like, but then we get into that
whole argument, where is your quote great win? Yeah, you know,
like they like it. Basically, if you didn't beat Ohio State,
then nothing, you know what, really what's your great win?
I mean, so really, let's say I think there's probably
off the top of my head's three and part. I
think Georgia going and whacking Texas like it did in Austin.
(26:51):
That's a pretty great win. I think Alabama beating Georgia
is the only reason why we're still doing the ken
Alabama getting the CFP thing, and then that Oregon win
over Ohouse date. Outside of that, I mean, you know, yeah, no,
they don't know how a great win over Notre Dame.
But realistically, here, I mean there's just at some point
you have to get credits for lots of pretty good win.
(27:13):
You're right, and everyone also keeps forgetting that Texas A
and M teams a win over Texas away from playing
the SEC Championship have already walked in there and whin
it was one hundred and ninety sixty degrees and beat
him by double digits. I mean that counts. So the
win over in Texas A and M is a whole
lot better than anything. I don't know if this Texas
kind of has right.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Now, I would be curious, Pete, just to go through
your scenario here for Alabama to get in, because there
is a part of me that thinks and while I
don't disagree with you, here's just if you're not following
Pete on Twitter at Pete Futech is the way to
do it. He says, Number one way for Bama to
get in is for Alabama to destroy Auburn. Now, if
(27:53):
I get any of these wrong, let me know, Pete.
But at least three of the next four half to happen.
Georgia loses a Georgia Tach loses the SEC Championship game,
No Name loses to USC, Ugly Vandy beats Tennessee or
SMU face plants against Cal. There's a part of me,
and I'm not even kidd right now either. If Bama
destroys Auburn, I think that might be enough people to
be like, well, look they beat Georgia. I mean, it
(28:15):
just really seems as if their losses are excused away.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Unlike anything I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
It's pretty it's pretty impressive considering how like, may me
another team that was that bad against the team that's
that bad like Oklahoma. This year's Oklahoma team is, and
we don't really talk about it's it's otherwise it's under
And I'm actually not joking. They can Pama can lose
by forty to Auburn, and someone somewhere would say, well,
(28:41):
based on these recruiting rankings and NFL things, based on
the twelve best teams, Alabama is still one of the twelve.
But you want to face this team in the playoffs
that kind of thing. The problem is you got the
who's out, you know. I mean, if it's okay, find
a way to put a three loss at Alabama team
in there, then are you kicking out in eleven? One?
(29:02):
Eleven in one Indiana No, yeah, eleven and two SMU
probably not so who's not a Big twelve champion. No,
you know, so it's all of a sudden, you have
a lot of teams in there. It's not just okay,
maybe you can put Alabama in here. Something else bunky
has to happen, and you know, and all of a sudden,
(29:23):
like let's say a Texas A and M beats Texas. Well,
you want to you want to talk about the twisted
things that could happen. Try try the argument that would
be made if Texas A and M beats Texas, because
at that point it becomes, well the Alabama beat Georgia
and Georgia destroyed Texas, and there we go, Kevin Bacon,
there's a let's go exactly exactly. They will find a
(29:45):
way to do it, So I don't think it could happen.
That goes back to the show tonight where Alabama's thirteen
and they're treating it like this in the eight pe
pole or coaches poll, where they'd be like, well, all
they need is one way and they move up the
rankings like that's not how this works, and you people
know this quit making America dummer. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
You Tech.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
There is your perfect line because it's funny as you were,
you know, talking about hey, where's your great win? I
started thinking about it as a graphic and a little
piece for your website with James Franklin's picture atop it.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Nice, Well, that's that goes for his entire But not
enough credits given to to winning lots and lots of games.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
No, that's hard to do.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
It's like, I don't think enough credit. Like it's the
Ryan Day thing. It's there was a Harball thing for
a while. Yeah, absolutely, Like, oh, you want to look
how many coaches out there have are at the same
spot the last four years and have won at least
sixty percent of their games? Just sixty percent. There aren't
that many of them. Now, try the guys who win
the seventy and eighty percent of their games. And now
(30:52):
you're down to like the one word guys like you know,
Dabbo and Kirby and stuff like that. It's hard to do.
But you can ever, ever, ever lose in college football.
It's really that crazy. Not like ever Flus who can
lose a lot and still probably get to exchange it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But you may.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Still have years left on his deal, Pete, and you
know what happens then he don't go anywhere, you know.
Chris also did get to celebrate on the sideline. He
survived the field storming with Oklahoma last week. Pete, I've
never been a part of one where my team storms.
I've always been stormed on, right, and it's it's a
(31:30):
little bit of a different world, but again still dangerous.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
All right, did.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Way back in the day, wouldn't you? They didn't actually
storm back in the day in like a I mean,
I mean, I knew you're a young man, but I
can't remember if looking at video of Game of Century
seventy one, if they would have stormed no game or
no people just trickled. It's more like a trickle than trickling.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, they just walked down on the field.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
And remember I went to the University of Tulsa, and
if it wasn't for Steve Kragthorpe may he read in peace,
I don't know if we would have ever won games.
So we stormed the field one year when we went
to and eight, and I think the goalpost just fell
down because it was so rusted. So I got that.
I felt like a real man on Saturday night being
a part of that. But what a what a wild
(32:15):
time man?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Again.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
I know that this isn't an Oklahoma show, but we're
on in Oklahoma. And of all the games that I
didn't see coming this weekend, that probably had to be
near the top. With what happened to Oklahoma and Missouri
two weeks ago, Pete. And to see them do that
against Bama just unreal job by Brent Vinable.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
You get no gifts for the rest of the Year's right.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
I guess I mean unreal job by Bret Venables. But
then you're in a position where your team needed that
win to you know, get.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Bull Kiboll eligible. Yes, where's it been all year long?
Where's it been? That's what most people last.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
I remember is remember when a couple a couple of
years ago in the whole Oklahoma and Texas to the
SEC thing happened. We were all like, oh, Oklahoma's going
to be fine. They get but Texas, so God the God,
I were gonna win a game again. They go four
and eight, you know in this thing. But apparently now
it's Oklahoma. That's some teams get the tough schedules.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
In this week. Thank you, Pete, Thank you, Pete.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Not everyone gets to play Kentucky and Mississippi state this year.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Now you got to buy it out.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Schedule exactly, exactly missed everybody.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yep, yeah, the inequities of the scheduling. Hey, as we
go to like these eighteen game or eighteen team conferences, miants,
you gotta miss somebody along the way. He's Petefewtech College
Footballnews dot Com. All the previews of this week's games,
all the review coming off of the latest rankings and
selections and everything else. It's our gout, Pete few Tech, Pete,
(33:43):
happy holiday, enjoy the time with the family. I'll drink
one for you as well.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Let's go have a good one.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Go through it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
There you go, eber Flu's drinking game on Thursday, Pete,
and I will get the Bengo board ready for you.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He lives in the Chicago area, so you know he
here's all the eber Flucian talk. So we go back
and forth with some pretty good chuckles when you're defending
throwing challenge flags, you know, because you got hit with
an explosive sixty nine yard pass play. Anyway, now it's
time to go to Isaac Low and Crown ar Man
on the scene. He's got all the news and updates
(34:18):
of all the chaos in our sporting universe while celebrating
orange basketball courts.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Indeed all over the place, although it does have a
psychedelic feel in Phoenix. We'll get to that in a moment.
But of course, the college football playoff rankings being revealed
earlier this evening are not our top story because Oklahoma
has been named.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
The cheese It National Team of the Week. There you go,
climbing up the rankings, islo, what does one get? What
do you get?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Also for do you get like a lifetime supply of
cheese its?
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I went to the cheese At Bowl and didn't get
a damn thing. So chee it's really time. Yeah, so
not even a novelty hat. Nothing, not a thing.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
So sort of a peric victory there, as it were.
Apologize for hitting a nerve anyway. In non in non
snack item related news, the fourth set of the college
football playoff rankings indeed unveiled on Tuesday evening. Top four
stayed the same, Oregon number one, Ohio State, Texas, penn State,
(35:25):
and Notre Dame rounded out the top five. Then he
had Miami at number six, followed by Georgia, Tennessee, SMU,
and Indiana dropped from fifth to tenth, and the latest
college football playoff rankings in the NBA right now the
Utah Jazz of eighty four eighty two over the San
Antonio Spurs. Midway through the third quarter of an NBA
(35:45):
Cup game. Whatever that means Victor wemen Yama already with
thirty points. The Phoenix Suns laid the Los Angeles Lakers
forty two to thirty nine with six fifty five left
to play in the second quarter. Earlier this evening, the
Milwaukee Bucks what at Miami what O six to one
h three, despite being without Giannis Antetokumpo Damian Loward thirty
seven points and twelve assists. The Chicago Bulls victorious at
(36:08):
Washington one twenty seven to one oh eight the Wizards
two and fourteen, and the Houston Rockets in overtime prevailed
at Minnesota one seventeen to one eleven. Houston wins Western
Conference Group ayay, whatever that means.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Means are closer to five hundred k I love.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
You know the great call by uh Russ Hodges. The
Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. Houston
wins Western Conference Group A right up with.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
That guy's back to you, nicely done.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
As for the Bulls taking down the Wizards, giving all
them merchandising in ads in box office the jokes right themselves.
He's Chris Blike in for Jason Smith. The Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Carman live at the tirerac dot
Com Studios. Coming up next, we'll ask the crew, how
about would you pay for a photo op with a trophy?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
The answer Mason sprize you. That's next on Fox.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radios Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Harmon. Jason Off tonight off for the
rest of the week holiday holiday holiday, I too will
be on a red eye, so you'll get the Dulcin tones.
I know Spanier is rolling around these parts for a
little while, so the yellow notepads will be coming out.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
You're with him tomorrow, are you yes?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Here you go, sir, romanumor Rundown will be in full
of fact. I mean you might get it. Before we
get off the air tonight.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
No man sends a rundown for a show earlier than
Arnie for no reason whatsoever. It's Sunday. Let me ask
you a question, Hey, Mike, on Sundays, don't you want
to wait till the games play?
Speaker 4 (37:51):
No? Not with Arnie.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
You get the rundown at seven am, regardless of what
time zone you're in.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Do you? And I was theorizing this earlier. Does he
do one every day just in case?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Maybe? I think like he waits up and that's how
he starts his day.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Yeah, Well, I think there's a format. I think you're
onto something. You might be right, because I've had a
show ready to go.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Yeah, because I've had circumstances whereby I find out late,
you know, Jason sick or something like that, and I'll
get a text from from our or from our boss,
Scott spirou uh saying, hey, Jason's out. So you got Arnie,
and like, within ten minutes, I've got four pages of
yellow pad notes and you can't read any of them.
Then you're dumb because you can't read them, right. Well,
(38:36):
that's okay. I'll stipulate to being dumb once in a while,
trying to make sense of those kind of things. But
uh yeah, at Plint show as where you find Chris,
So you'll hear him tomorrow with Arnie. You hear them
regularly Sunday nights as they break down everything in the
wild Wooly day of the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Here's one that I saw a.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Little bit earlier and I wanted to ask the crew,
let's bring in. We got Ilo, we got Patrick, we
we got Alex Tischer to join us on this one.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Chris.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
The Dodgers have announced a unique experience. I got an
email a little bit earlier and I'm like, Okay, what
do we got here? Forty five minute tour. You get
a walkthrough of the Vinscully press box, okay, covering the
history of the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
One of the bullet.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Points is and more with an exclamation point photo op
with a holiday bobblehead character. And get this a photo
op with the twenty twenty four World Series trophy. Now
it's available for four dates only this December. How much
do you think you would pay for this experience?
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I mean I would hope it'd be like something like
forty bucks, fifty bucks, right, Okay, So you go like
family friendly. When you think you do that, I mean,
don't the Dodgers have enough money make a family friendly
maybe even free up for But I get again, I'll
be the cheap skate. I'll say I'm sorry. I'll say
forty five bucks.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Okay, so forty five from Chris Ilo.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
Twenty five dollars donation to a Dodge related charity.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
There you go. I like that in theory, but we'll
put a pin in that one. Patrick. You know what.
I'm gonna up the stakes. I'm gonna go off islow.
I'm gonna instead of twenty five, I raise you thirty five.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
So thirty five and that's all charitable contribution.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Wow. Alex Teischer, Oh they love money there. That's why
they have all the paintings.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
I'm gonna say one hundred for if you're five and under,
one hundred and fifty for above.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Sixty seven, twenty five per adults, forty seven to twenty
five for fourteen and under, and if you're three for
more under you are free.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
What Raisa in sixty seven twenty.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Five I'm curious. I did not see anything in the notes.
I gotta imagine that matters. Is that part of the
math where they're counting on the number of people that
they can sell that to and then sign Wan Sodo.
Speaker 7 (40:57):
I guess so, but wow, that's right, baby Jan Soto.
We're gonna sign himself.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
We need it forty seven twenty five for a kid.
I mean, come on, Dodgers, what are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Get in there and sell say hey, I'm all about marketing,
merchandising and enterprising. You want a photo op with this trophy.
It ain't coming for.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Free, baby Juan Soo. Go fund me.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Yep, the go fund yourself comes to a whole new
level at Isaac Lohencron where you find him Fine Chris
at Plank Show. Find me over at Swollen Dome. As
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