January 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike recap the National Championship. They debate if any changes will be made to the playoffs next season. Plus, next seasons CFB Playoff Title odds!
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
We want to know?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
How are Michigan fans reacting to we want to know
the Ohio State National Championship?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, I'm glad you asked. I'll tell you so. I'm like,
how do they feel?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Because I know they were rooting for notre Dame when
they had to like like the big line this week,
and I think it was a New Yorker or The
Atlantic that said Michigan fans hoping for a meteor on
Monday night? What I got because I texted my wife's
whole family everybody, Okay, they're all in one group text.
I said, Okay, how do you guys feel? And there's
(01:29):
like nine people I put on this text? Right, And
what do you think I get back? I get back
a link that I click on that that's just how
many days since Ohio State has beaten Michigan now, eighteen
hundred and seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Is that a website? Yeah, it's pretty simple. Yeah, how
many days on Earth? And it's one another one, yeah,
another one another one, eighteen seventy eight days. I love that,
which I don't think it's quite that long, because that's,
you know, you're talking about the three sixty five, three
sixty five, three sixty five. It's a little bit. So
(02:08):
I don't think it's right, but it seemed, you know,
it seems it seems that way. So that's how Michigan
fans are feeling right now. How many days? How many days?
How many days now? Ohio State wins and the national champions.
They're the most talented team in all of college football.
We told you last year they should come in number one,
overwhelming team, number one team overwhelmingly, and they prove they won. Now.
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They were seeded seventh coming into this right, or seated eight.
Notre Dame was seeded seventh.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
First thing, these aren't real seeds because you're talking about
two teams getting seated third and fourth that just happened
to win down conferences.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Ohio State should have been more of a five seed,
right and Notre Dame should have been more of a
six seed or a four seed than that. But here's
why the college Football Playoff worked, right, not because you
had Ohio State win, but because the reason we pushed
to twelve teams. Right now, we can look back and say, Okay,
how did this go? Did it work?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It worked because letting four teams in, the difference between
the team that's getting in at four and the team
that's getting in at five or didn't five or six
is really close. You could sit there, you could split
hairs between the teams and make an argument that you
can make it for either way. Right, Florida State got
left out last year being unbleep and defeated because Jordan
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Travis got hurt. So you want to make sure those
top five or six teams are getting in, because if
you're talking about a snub from four to five, that's
a really big deal. When you're talking about a snub
from twelve to thirteen, not so much. Right, because you
saw some of the teams get in, you saw some
of the blots in the first round, okay, which I
think was actually good for the college football playof because
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this showed everybody see the teams at the end, but
they're not They're the teams that are really ranked where
they should be. They're not that good. So the bloats
weren't that big a deal because there was really no
argument for Hey, Alabama gets left out, Miami gets left out,
right if but if Ohio State gets left out number
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five seat in the country, it's well, you're telling me
Notre Dame is better than Ohio State. And as we
saw tonight, clearly they're not. But they would have been
left out most likely if we're getting to the point
of just four teams. So the point of the whole
point of the playoff is, let's get the best five
or sixties. Let's get the conference champions of all the
big conferences in. Let's get the next couple of really
good teams in. And whoever is seven through twelve. It
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could be anybody, could be a look, we don't care.
It could be Syracuse. It could be Northwestern.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
We don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
We're lunatics. No one really cares.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Last year, we still talked about Florida State not getting
in after the National Championship was over. Did we see
the best four teams? How does an undefeated Florida State
team not not allowed to get in just because their
quarterback got hurt? We still debated that after the National
Championship game? How long did we debate Miami and Alabama
for the next day? The day after the seedings came out,
we debated that in the end, those teams getting left
(05:03):
out are the snubs of the NCAA basketball Tournament. Yes,
there's a couple of snub that's a big deal for
a day, But eventually we're getting to the games. Because
it's really hard.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
To sit here and say, well, yeah, were they better
than the team than the sixty six or sixty set.
You're talking about a team that's that you're saying, hey,
this could be could be the sixty fifth best team
of the sixty sixth best team. We don't really have
enough energy for that anymore. And it's not it's not
a bit Oh, how do you leave them out there? Well, okay,
we're talking about there's sixty eight teams to get in now, right,
and there's gonna be more. I don't have a lot
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of energy for it because of the number of teams
that are getting in, and you're not gonna go from
hey we got left in. We're not winning the national championship.
And I think you kind of see that a little
bit here with that. Well, okay, if you let Alabama
and Miami in, how are they really gonna do? You
watched Alabama, they showed up, they were just Michigan just
destroyed them defensively. Jalen Miller looked like, I've never seen
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them play like that before, not that you know that
was a Bama team that would have showed up in
the playoff, because you never know. You're playing, yes, several weeks,
you're not playing for any thing more than just here's
another game we're playing. But there's not enough energy and
there's not enough oxygen to say, hey, I can't believe
these two teams didn't get Alabama and and and and
Miami didn't get it. No, that was a one day story,
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and that's what it's going to be. The teams that
don't get in are one day stories and then we're
moving on. But that's well for some schools, for for
some conferences and schools, they it lives on.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Uh, well, Miami's always going to be mad, Alabama's going
to be mad. But in the end, but overall, nationally,
it's not the outcry of dude, Florida State was undefeated
and they weren't one of the top four undefeated, and
they weren't one of the top four teams.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Come on, no, but that's just it, right, it's you've
got to have the the ultimate of arguments. And even
then you didn't get picked, you got left out of
the dance. And you know, rules and and procedural things
are subject to change and consideration, whether you have your quarterback,
whether you have your your full compliment of players that
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will be available for said Bowl season, that those have
to be part of the rationale. As much as it
offended people at the time, because you're not the same
team defending it, and now you're at the twelve team,
you're not gonna have that. You're right if we're arguing
over the twelfth or thirteenth much like your basketball analysis,
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I mean, once we get down to that point, okay,
it lives. And are you ever gonna say they would
have gone on a majestic seventeam you know, seven game run.
They're gonna wait to play in and then they're gonna
run through from there. Likewise, for this college football playoff,
we're always gonna have the You're saying there's a puncher's chance,
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but it's gonna take the world to move those mountains
on Ohio State. Like I started seeing, it's like, well,
I won't recognize a two loss champion. I would, they
wouldn't have been in. It's not recognizing it as much.
The rules changed, it's a different rules of engaging.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Look at this way, how many two loss teams might
have won the national championship in years past if they
were allowed into the right If you.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Get you get hot, you got the right squad. You
just happen to have you caught the wrong part of
the schedule. And this goes back to the Indiana arguments
and everything everybody wanted to have, Jason of You know,
sometimes the schedule is going to work out and the
stars aligned to where you don't play the other heavyweights
or you miss perhaps the best of them, which allows
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you to go through your schedule. And Notre Dame got
beat tonight, and I'm glad it ended up not being
a blowout because we would have the same thing. Well,
that lost to Northern Illinois should have kept them from
ever blah blah blah. So the fact that they made
Ryan Day and all Ohio State buck as fans and
the college football love and world sweat is a good thing.
(08:50):
But yeah, going forward, we'll have tweaks. We're already seeing
some creative math by some of the conferences as to
how they can try to work and game the system.
And as long as the ratings are good and the
money keeps flowing, it'll keep expanding. Now, there's gonna be
changes to the college football playoff, right. We already saw
today that there's a couple of quotes from the College
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Football Playoff Committee. They're gonna look into changes for next year.
I mean not the crazy acc story today where well
we might have the regular season champion just clinched the
conference and then have the number two and three teams
they just get to take a victory mark do they.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Become the conference chan Only one team could be the
conference champion, like the AEC is gonna pull the wool
over everybody's eyes, going, Well, the team that won regular
season gets in and then then the conference championship winner
gets in. Wait, but they're not the conference champion. If
there's a team better that gets in. I mean, this
is just being stupid. But one change absolutely for next year.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I guarantee.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I guarantee, I would say I go to Vegas put
my money on this. They will change how they do
the seedings. You will still see the winners of all
the power for conferences get in, right, which I disagree
with because look, you're talking about the big twelve Mountain West,
come on, really, But okay, you want to let them in,
they will get in. However, they're not going to automatically
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be one of the top four seeds and host a
home game, right, You're not gonna have that. You will
have if you win your conference, you will get in,
but you can be seated anywhere in the top twelve.
Because yes, they do want to not have blogs in
the first round, and by having the boise States of
the world playing, hey, you're gonna get closer games, and
that's more viewership. It's also not fair, like really like
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Ohio State is ranked lower than that. I mean, come on,
So I think you're gonna see that because there was
a big outcry for it. And also the home games
are really you see how much they're important they are,
especially in the early rounds. So I think that's one
change absolutely for next year is that all the conference
and as long as there's four, I mean, we still
have a ways to go before the season. We could
be down to two conferences by then, I don't know.
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But as long as that whatever, whoever, whatever conferences there are,
the top four will get in. But they will maneuver
the system to say, hey, yes, here's you're the winner
of the Mountain West, but you're the eleven seed, right,
Or you're the twelve seed and you're the winner of
the Big Twelve, but you're the ten seed. You're not
gonna be the three seed. Even though we saw those
teams kind of acquit themselves all right, you can tell
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they're just not at the capability and the level of
these powerhouse teams, so you will have them seated more accordingly,
and that will make for a better a better played playoff,
and and and less complaining about hey we gotta change,
because really you should. You should change the way you can.
You can't just have just because you want a conference. Mean,
you're you're a top seed.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
But I thought winning trumped everything. Yeah, right, isn't this
you know what we're Unless you're Kirk kurb Street. Of course,
winning then really doesn't matter quite the same. We need
to get rid of those outdated ways of thinking about
our sporting guess what what are we talking about? But
it's like the the argument folks make for the the
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NFL world. Yeah, let's get rid of divisions. It's the
same thing like if you if you want a conference,
that should matter, right, Yeah, but it's but think about
it this, Think about like this. It's like doing this
for the NCAA Tournament in basketball and saying, hey, if
you win the Horizon, you're getting a top six seed.
Wait I am yeah, because you're a conference champion. Oh okay,
I think it's worked pretty well with seedings for the
(12:15):
NACA tournament. Hey you would, because I always say what
do I say mid majors shouldn't be in. You don't
play the edge's right, And that's why teams that win
twenty games. Power five teams that win twenty games now
aren't guaranteed to get in the tournament because there's such
this love for the mid majors. You know what, No
mid major should have their own tournament because they don't play.
If you took a mid major team and put them
in the ACC or the Big Ten, maybe they're five
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hundred maybe at best, but we're all under the same umbrella.
But until you relegate them to another league. But it
works to put you in. And you complain about your
seating book, go on it, But what's the whole thing?
Go on and win, right, So this complaining of the
seedings is gone. You get a lot of complaining about
the seedings after this year, and I get it because
you elevated teams you probably shouldn't have elevated. So now
going into next year, I don't like my seed. Well
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we'll go win.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You're in, Go win, right, Yeah, sorry, you gotta play
your first game at Texas, but go win, right that.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That's that's how it is. So I think you take
you take care of that controversy right away.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And I would say that's gonna be the first thing
because that's probably number one in everybody's mind because that, honestly,
it just makes sense to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But then you get pushed up. You didn't win anything.
That's the the non conference winner, and you may be
high enough to get a home game if you're one
of the time.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No no, but but likely the top four teams are
going to be the winner of the Big Ten legit,
winner of the SEC legit, and then okay, maybe.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Weed to have a second maybe we have a second ring.
Then then if if you have two undefeated SEC teams played,
because now with unbalanced scheduling, the best teams aren't going
to play. You're not always going to see Alabama and watch.
That's how you headed potentially make make their way in. Right,
so you're gonna have the the two teams playing for
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the conference title that maybe the next best team is
not there just because so if you have two teams
coming in, let's or let's just say you have let's
say you use a Big Ten for example like this
year with Indiana being going in and Ohio State not
being well, Okay, that would that would fix next year
because you would have Ohio State being a higher seat.
But if you have an undefeated Michigan and an undefeated
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Ohio State next year and then Michigan beats Ohio State,
Michigan goes in the playoffs as the Big Ten champion,
they probably get the one seed. Ohio State goes in
at twelve and one. Guess what they should get one
of the top four seeds. Maybe they get the three
seed of the four seed because they're clearly better than
a three loss AC seed. Maybe with the rest of
their schedule they didn't play anybody and then they lost
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to Michigan. So but again with the imbalance and the
Big Ten being that would be that would be the
fairest way to do it, to say, all right, we
still have it. We're not saying you're not getting in.
You're getting in. You're just not automatically gonna get a
top four seed conference. We have to change the laws.
What do I get for getting bought out of this
(15:02):
system you created? That's what I want to know. If
I'm one of these secondary conferences.
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Speaker 4 (16:46):
Great pause.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
This is uh, they use this in almost Famous? What
scene is it? It's in almost famous where they use this.
I think this is a song. No, that's the wind
is when she's dancing in the But they use this
in almost Famous somewhere. It's been a minute since I've
watched maybe one of those one of those scenes where
he's staring at Kate Hudson. They're staring at each other
and the big Cameron Crow eye shots where we're just
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gonna have been really close on their eyes. That do
it yeah, last time I saw it it had no sound. No,
so I that it's not a good Sometimes watching movies
with no sound is the best way to go. Yeah,
but it doesn't help the answering of this trivia question. Oh,
that is true. That is true. Yeah, So Ohio State
wins a national title.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They beat Notre Dame thirty four to twenty three. And
you know, looking back now at this year, you see
how the college football Playoff worked. It's all about getting
the top five or six teams in. And hey, if
we're we're not really going to be debating teams twelve
and thirteen because it's just being snubbed to get in.
And that's a one day story. You want to get
the top five or six teams in because clearly that's
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who you needed to get in. Because if you're doing
it the old way, Notre Dame Ohio State would have
been four to five ish, right, so you get the
right teams in. One change they need to have for
next year, right now, he told you the one that's
absolutely going to happen, which is they'll change the seedings.
If you win your conference, you'll get in. You just
won't be guaranteed of a top four seed. The teams
will be ranked more.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
According to strength and how good they are, because you
can't come in and say, next year, hey, Boise State
in Arizona State or ranked higher than Ohio State Notre Dame,
let's get those algorithms. It's somewhat ridiculous. So that's absolutely
gonna have ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You can't, you can't, you can't.
You're telling me you have Ohio.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
State and Notre Dame who ran rough shot over everybody
coming in there, and yet Boise State and Arizona State
or ranked higher.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Champions of that. Man can't have that. Champions have a
lesson want ah.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So that's going to be a change for next year
because the College Football Playoff Committee is already talking about
tweaks to next year. One that needs to happen to
And I know it's crazy if we just had one year.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Of this, but you probably need to get to sixteen
teams into the tournament. Oh, you're diving another four or
at least or.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
At least a couple more to get to fourteen, and
maybe the buys change a little bit because you saw
how how much of a controversy it was this year.
SMU and Clemson both get in. Obviously, you know one's
a champion one second, and you have a three loss
Alabama in the SEC, who doesn't get it. And yes,
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the SEC is way tougher than the ACC. And in
the end, what are the College Football Playoff comtee boaud
to come come back to? We can't penalize a team
for making its conference championship and lose while you're supposed
to take the whole season. When when you're looking at it,
it's really tough to say, well, this team gets to
play an extra game that Alabama did not, and just
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because you lose, oh well now you're out because you
played that. Well wait a minute, we still made it
to our conference championship. So that's gonna be a big
sticky wicket. Is hey, how do we deal with this?
So I think what you need to see, and I
think I'm sure this will be debated, is that, Okay,
the two teams that make the conference championship are guaranteed
to get in, because you're still going to see teams
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that want to beat the crap out of each other
because you're talking about a buying a home game, right,
It's still what is at stake for you or buys
a home games. Right you said, okay, great, so there's
still a lot out there. But if you go to
sixteen teams, then you can let or or at least
a couple more teams, and then you can at least say, well,
the AC, the Big ten, and the SEC. You're letting
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in both of those teams. Now you want to argue
with the ACC, you could, but add do you really
want to? So let's you know what, so let's.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Just say this.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Then let's go to sixteen and the top two teams
from each conference get in. So now you're talking about
eight spots and eight eight spots that are guaranteed, and
then you're talking about the eight wild cards. Okay, then
I'm good if you want to do that, that's good.
You still have eight wild cards in, right, So the
eight wild cards because that number doesn't change. But now
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you're letting in the teams that finished. Because that's a
really tough thing to say, is that, hey, here's a
really good team, they make it to the conference championship,
they lose. Their record Now is ten and three instead
of ten and two, where you let a ten and
two team from another conference get in. It's really not fair.
So to solve that, go to sixteen, and then I
think you can stay. You can stay at sixteen for
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a while, figure out however you want to do with
the buys and teams. You can figure out sixteen, and
then you can go from there. I appreciate you. You're
trying to go to fair. Yeah, I mean that's fair.
I mean because it's never you're the first person to
ever say, let's make this fair, let's pay what is
this children? What about children? Well that's kind of where
you're headed to. Well, because no one's ever gonna love
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all of it. There's always gonna just like with the
BCS or the fourteen playoff, there's gonna be questions. But
you wanna you want to. You want to be able
to eliminate the ones that you can fix. And the
seedings and the teams make it to the conference championship.
Those are two one. And then obviously you're trying to
play kate your biggest moneymakers, the SEC and the big ten.
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Back to the Alabama thing really quick. Don't lose three games,
including one where you get it handed to you after
you take a bye week against Mercer. Sorry for the
players of mercer, but those bye weeks, uh, lesser games
on the SEC schedule at that time of the year
have never made any sense. And then you go out
and lose the next week. Yeah, that you kind of
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lost any any potential to win that argument with me
at that point. But when we look at this going forward, yeah,
you're going to get to sixteen pretty fast. It's like
we keep talking about, you know, expanding playoffs, right, it's
good for the money involved, obviously the television deals, but
then clearly we've seen it for baseball the NFL as well.
(22:32):
You know, that final month of the season matters because
you still have teams that are vying for that final
playoff spot, that second wild card spot, all of those
kind of things that play into it. The modest proposal
or immodest proposal as well as you know, let's think
about the student athlete. Still got to put it out there.
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But we need to change when we're playing these games too, well,
we should not be the part. We should not be
playing the championship game. On January twentieth, as you begin
another semester of school after you took six basically six
weeks off from the last time. I mean, you've had
playoff games, but the regular season ended when beginning of December.
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That's how I got got on our look ahead kind
of thing. But it's just the idea of that is
a long ass time to get to an end end
game with several weeks of inactivity mixed therein. And dare
I say, I mean you got college football fans, and
I'm sure this one did pretty good ratings because it's
Ohio State and Notre Dame. You know, hate watching certainly
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would be a thing for both these squads and schools,
as well as their robust alumni basis, But that long
layoff to get things started, I don't think is good
for the game overall. Yeah, look, I'm glad you brought
that up because even today, like just having a regular
conversation with some of my friends and my wife were
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talking about it and she goes, it's the middle of January.
We're still playing college football, And I'm like, yeah, and
I get it because it is long. It is a
long season, and it's long that they shouldn't be playing
this late now. Granted it's about ten days later than
you normally because now we get the national champion game
anywhere from January fourth to January eighth, but now in
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the doubt now here we are later in the month
and we're seeing it on the twentieth, Right, we played
the national title game. But that's an easy fix because
it's it's and I think it seemed long because you
can't go ten days in between games all the time.
You can do it for the Super Bowl when it's
the NFL and there's superstars and there's debates and who's
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gonna win, and we're talking about guys like Mahomes and
Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson of fame gets announced like
you got all sorts of like build up to it.
But college football, there's not enough to sustain you all
the way through to play every ten days. You finish
the regular season, you take a week where everybody is
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off and Army Navy plays, you know, Okay, you know,
keep that, keep the the integrity of that. Then the
next weekend you start the playoff and then you play
again the next weekend, right, I mean, then then you're
getting down. Now if you want to take a little
bit of time in between the semifi to play the
semifinals in the finals, okay, great, And that's easy to
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shave at least ten days off of this schedule, because
I mean you can't. You can't play every ten days. Play.
I know the NFL plays on a Saturday, but you know,
play your games, then play Friday Saturday, whatever it is,
and then you play the next week. Right, if you
want to do it on a on a Thursday Friday
and then play the next game starts, don't go Thursday
Friday and then the following Wednesday, following third. You know,
it's it's too long. That way, You get the first
(25:44):
two rounds of the playoffs done, then you're figuring out
Christmas the holiday. Then okay, January first, you want to
do those semifinal games. Awesome, and then you can get
to the semifinals by the first and then you're into
the national championship game somewhere around between the eighth and
the And that's okay, because I will admit, even for me,
it got a little long because there's just not enough.
(26:06):
There's not enough star power. There's not enough firepower for
a month plus of playoffs when you're playing every to
play ten or eleven days in between games. There just
is it. Not for college football. I mean, there barely
is enough for regular and no team. You know, you
can't really take that much time between games and keep
momentum going. So I get where it's kind of stalled.
(26:27):
But it's easy. It's easy to cut ten days or
so off of this schedule, and I'm sure they'll do
that next year. Yeah, which is you know, always the
two weeks between the NFL championship games in the Super
Bowl and sometimes seems long as well, but you know
that that's part of the marketing and merchandising. And again,
there's plenty of storylines to fill through with this. It's
(26:49):
it's been a long build, all right. We finally got
to it, and we got we got a game late, right,
It's close. Late is what we always want. But there
was a potential that this was when it was what
thirty four to seven that the people were diving off
of their TV sets, you know, or thirty one seven,
(27:09):
I should say that people just looked at it and said,
all right, what else premiered on the Monday? Hey, as
my showback on? Is that showback on? That I like
with new episodes? Because this game got out of story
you never finished shrinking.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
There's a lot of that, but we never finished Let's
go back and finished shrinking.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
But ultimately coming into this game. Right, the presumptive presumption
was that Ohio State, as we talked about a little
bit earlier, and it's up and out there wherever you
get your interwebs news and information, that you had too
robust a squad right from top to bottom of Ohio State.
(27:49):
That this was like the Fano snap, inevitable. But those
long gaps trying to push storylines, narratives. I mean, Marcus
Freeman a great story playing again is Alma Mater, Ryan Day,
Willy Eary won't e the lunatic fringe as it were.
But we've been talking about those for a while, right,
We've been talking about the run up. Those stories did
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not change during during the playoffs. It now became the
all right, here we go. It's now just the next
the final game, and it's a big deal. Take nothing
away from what Ohiowa State accomplished and Notre Dame's run,
but trying to do that for six weeks. Love it,
but the casual fan probably dived off. Yeah, I mean
(28:32):
a while ago, just waiting when's the next game? Monday? Yeah,
we were going through the like if you want to
go through the holiday that's fine. But like, if you're
playing the conference that like Army Navy is playing the
week after the first weekend December, Okay, play the next
two weekends, right, And I get that it's around christ
but okay, if you don't want to play around the
(28:52):
Christmas holiday, there's one hundred other teams. It'll come take
your spot if it wants the other day. Right, We've
already talked about the schedule, and I use the term
student athlete, and I had the giant sarcasm bucket underneath
my my chair because we've been talking about whatever the
amount of money was spent to. Shouldn't it be athlete student?
Shouldn't it say? I mean, should shouldn't this athlete? Student?
(29:14):
We're gonna do it. Should be athletes student? But the
point even saying it to with the way guys are
transferring all over the place. And you know, we were
talking in Joko with Pete Futech before he goes, yeah,
every day, I'm gonna have to make updates. It's not
gonna look the same tomorrow as it did yesterday. So
you know, it keeps me moving. But it's just that
(29:35):
idea of you know, you've got this constantly evolving organism
as it is with this that you've got to not
get caught in the switches. But like those long layoffs
just just make it tough. Yeah, it's it. It does
get a little bit long for the viewer. So I
understand and the student athlete part athletes. Sorry, if we're
(29:58):
gonna if we're gonna lead that at momentum, like we're
talking about how much in nil money everybody's getting. Right,
is he gonna come back to college? He might, but
he's gonna be over there because they're gonna give eight
million dollars. Like, so the student has gone to a
lower case S at best. It's it's it's could be
one word athlete student, but it's one he is capitalized
(30:19):
athlete student that'll be in rolls off. What's a dictionary company?
I forget what Webster is? Urban dictionary? No, no, no, no,
the real dictionary, the one that like they put you
here are the new words that peer at our lexicon
this year. Yeah, I think that's it. Camberley The art
of us screwing up your team season h first Bob
by Dan cam Uh. So there's some changes that are
(30:41):
going to happen, SCE you can get that in man,
that's huge. Some changes that could happen and should happen
in college football for next year time. How to find
out what's trending from a guy who would be the
best commissioner of college football in bizarre because he would
make decisions and conferences would say, no, we're not doing that.
It's Steve the Sager. He's got what's trending. Well, see,
the has been set so high that it into that.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
By the way, you remember when the Florida State Seminoles
were ranked number ten in the country and they lost
to Georgia Tech. That was August twenty fourth. August twenty fourth,
This Friday is January twenty fourth, five month college football season,
and yes it ended tonight. Ohio State national champion after
beating Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Soon another game next week. Ohio State has to beat
Michigan again. Yeah, if they're going to win.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
The Bahamas Bowl is next week. There's something else that's
coming up. It's Liberty and somebody. I'm not sure about that.
Check your local listings. Ohio State beating Notre Dame thirty
four twenty three in in honor of the Irish. We
now move ahead.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Further action in tonight's game because the buck Guys.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Were ahead of them thirty one to seven in the
third quarter and then a game broke out, but the
buck Guys had scored points on their first five drives
this evening, eventually three total touchdowns for Quinn Schawn Judkins.
Ohio State was ten until somehow losing at home laying
an egg against rival Michigan largely dominated since by the
way in the last college football playoff ranking not the seedings.
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In the last rankings, Notre Dame was number five after
being preseason number seven in the polls. This year, Ohio
State was number six after being preseason number two. The
Buckeyes finish number one. The Chicago Bears new head coach
is Ben Johnson, who was Detroit's offensive coordinator. In the
past three years, Lions were the league's top scoring offense.
Former Saints coach Dennis Allen as a candidate to be
(32:32):
his defensive coordinator. The Colts new defensive coordinator as lou
Anarumo ex of the Bengals. Cincinnati will now speak to
Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden. According to NFL Network,
Tennessee Titans new special teams coordinator is John Fossil from Dallas.
Number three seed Cocoa Golf lost her quarterfinal at the
Australian Open. The Blue Jays are signing outfielder Anthony Santander.
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In college hoops, Georgetown won at Villanova on a last
second layup sixty four to sixty three, and in a
late game in the NBA under five minutes to go
in LA, the Bulls are leading the Clippers ninety five
eighty four twenty seven points for Zach Levine, and the
TV ratings are out, or at least the fast Nationals
as they call the initial Nielsen ratings for Saturday's Fox
(33:14):
TV Playoff Commanders at Lions in the divisional rounds just
over thirty three million viewers for that and just under
thirty three million for Texans Chiefs in the day game Saturday.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
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The early odds are already out what teams are favored
to make it to the college football.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Playoff next year. Last hour, Mike and I gave you
our picture who we expect to win it all. Let's
see how they stack up. Who are the favorites coming
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Speaker 1 (34:06):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. So the odds for the college football
playoff for teams for next year have already come out.
You know, Vegas not gonna waste any time. Will come
here now that right after the game is over, ready
to go.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Now there they want your money back if you if
you'd lost it to them on Ohio State, there are
they wont or you won it. Yeah, because you pick
one of the favors. Right now. There's still gonna be changes,
It's still gonna be moving around.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
There's still lots of things that could happen as we
get closer, and so there are gonna be changes. But
here's where teams are right now headed to next year. Frostburg,
you have all of the top team selected. We made
our picks last hour for who we think we're going
to see in the playoff in the championship game next year.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I do shockingly, you know, come on, USC's there, right,
it gotta be the favorite. They got to be on
the list somewhere, USC and Queen yours right, they're there.
I have the top of the list, Mike. And oh okay,
oh so you have UCLA is on that list? No, okay,
no they're not.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Really, that's surprising. I'm gonna say right away, Texas is
probably number one.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
You are incorrect.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
No, come on, man, someone with that dumb someone has
better odds in Texas who.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Won the national champions State? Oh stop five to Ohio
State are the favorite.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Steve Sarkejian is gonna walk around, go and see they
already don't think you can do it. Arch Way, Wait,
but that's you two coach. No, no, no, we're the
only are the only change. They don't think. We were
number one going into last season. You gotta find motivation
wherever you can. We were number one, and I was
the coach. Right now now we're not number one and
you're the quarterback. This is on you, Arch They don't
think you can do it.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
And then two teams outside of Ohio State sit on
top of Texas.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Can you guess who?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Wait, Texas is behind.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Texas State, Texas fourth, that's crazy, what I means Georgia
is in That's insane.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Georgia six to one.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
George's got to replace everybody on offense. Maybe they decided
they liked them more than Carson Back and everybody else.
Matthew Stafford's going to go back and play quarterback next year.
Well rams to want him anymore. I mean, he's got
a year left, he's still got a contract, whether he
wants to come back. I think Buck Blue can play
quarterback in another year for Georgia. Blue.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Georgia and Oregon sit between Ohio State and Texas.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yeah, okay Oregon. Oregon has a big, strong team coming
back to Yeah, so I could see Oregon up there.
But Texas should still be. Texas has a lot of guys.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
They got Arch Manning.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I know, how are they not number one?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I mean maybe it's a favor for Ohio State, but
Ohio State should be the long corn seven to one
seven That that's too low. That that's too low right
now now? With Arch some value potentially year fastest man
in the world, Arch Manning fastest man. All right, so
that's your why was the game?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
No? All right?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
So god, so what's the that's the top four?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Number five? Penn State?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Okay, that's one of my teams I picked for the
national time one. Okay, I like Penn State. I like
Penn State because, as we've seen this year, especially with
the longer playoff, veteran teams with older quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And have a lot of experience. In yes, Drew Aller
was good, but then he wasn't. But coming back they
should be really strong again in the Big ten. I
got Penn State my national championship game. I want to
guess who's after Penn State. Notre Dame. Oh no, not
Notre Dame. Is it?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Penn State is after this team?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Penn State is after this I met.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Notre Dame is after this team? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Who was coming in next?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Between Penn State and Notre Dame?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Is it the team? Is it Clemson? It is not
because that's my other team? Is stat White are?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Like?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Who else? I think? Iowa State?
Speaker 6 (37:44):
I really shouldn't even have to use your brain for this.
We talked about Oh, Michigan, Alabama, Alabama? Okay, okay, Alabama
who is also going to be starting over a quarterbacks. Okay,
and we had Notre Dame in seventeen to one. Okay, wow,
Notre Dame seventeen to one. Clemson next see Clemson two.
I like Clemson even more than Penn State because they
(38:05):
should win a very easy conference. And again, they bring
a lot of players back, and Kate Klubnick is even
more dynamic. He might wind up being the most dynamic
quarterback pocket passer next year. He really came on strong.
They were a hair's breadth away from from moving on
in the playoff. It's going to be a conference they
should dominate, and they are going to roll up a
lot of points in the playoff. That's why I got Clemson.
(38:26):
That's why I got Clemson. Penn stated twenty one right now?
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Love them? What else are we going to? Who's next?
Who's finishing us? Where are we at now? Eight? Was
at eight? Or nine?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
That was eight? Clemson was eight?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Clemson twenty one of eight?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
Okay, Tennessee, it's a three way tie.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Oh oh oh wait, wait, Ole Miss Ole Miss is
one of them, Ole Miss Okay, Tennessee's good one too.
Michigan LSU LSU is the other kay see who congratulations
Brian Kelly. And then one boy still have his quarterback
right unless he left two.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
So it's so it's Ole miss missu and this team
twenty five to one.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Still not Michigan. Huh no, wow, okay, twenty five to
one Washington, it's gonna be Tennessee. Oh it is so Tennessee.
All right, that makes sense. Yeah. I was a little
further down the one of the lists that I've seen, right,
because you know, I picked a quarterback who's left, uh school,
(39:26):
but he might come back. It's okay, he's gone. He
might he went, he went to the planet. Who's come back.
He's hanging out with Superman two Villaine every now never
coming back. You might come because I went deep with
a price shout for Texas A and m obviously yeah
that's not terrible, right, squad around him. But Marcel Reed,
who played a couple of games down the stretch, he's
now the guy. And then the Gators with Lagway, who's
(39:48):
got a lot of juice. Whether the team does, I
don't know. Look at Florida, Florida, Marna, we were so bad,
but then things weren't as bad, and now look at
us for next year.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Here Michigan forty to one.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Forty to one.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh, I like those odds on Michigan. There's their defense
is still going to be really good. And bryce on
you talk of the number one recruit in the country
coming in forty to one.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
This is just to make the playoff. This is to
win it all, to win it all. Oh, to win
it all? Yeah? Yeah, no, to make the know if
they were forty to one to make the playoff, please,
I might go one and make that bet. FETs you
think we're wasting our time with that. I might go
Michigan Clemson national title game. I get to twenty to one,
forty to one. You want to get that parlay in
or like this? We're so big here yo, suh, that's it?
Sure at Syracuse's what twenty five to one? Only twenty
(40:32):
thousand to two? Twin Yeah they don't. They don't appear
off the ten thousand to one. Okay, they don't appear
on that short list. That's good waste of a dollar.
N If only Kyle McCord was coming back.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
He can't.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
He can't petition for another year.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
He might be the number one quarterback pick now he's
rising up everybody's draft boards.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
So why he went to the NFL. I could come back,
But wow, these guys, they all stink. I was great.
What do we always talk about? Right by the time
we get to the draft, there's gonna be five guys
picked by the end of the first round just because.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Me and Jackson Dart are gonna go one too. This
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
We want to know?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
How are Michigan fans reacting to we want to know
the Ohio State National Championship?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, I'm glad you asked. I'll tell you so. I'm like,
how do they feel?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Because I know they were rooting for notre Dame when
they had to like like the big line this week,
and I think it was a New Yorker or The
Atlantic that said Michigan fans hoping for a meteor on
Monday night? What I got because I texted my wife's
whole family everybody, Okay, they're all in one group text.
I said, Okay, how do you guys feel? And there's
(01:29):
like nine people I put on this text? Right, And
what do you think I get back? I get back
a link that I click on that that's just how
many days since Ohio State has beaten Michigan now, eighteen
hundred and seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Is that a website? Yeah, it's pretty simple. Yeah, how
many days on Earth? And it's one another one, yeah,
another one another one, eighteen seventy eight days. I love that,
which I don't think it's quite that long, because that's,
you know, you're talking about the three sixty five, three
sixty five, three sixty five. It's a little bit. So
(02:08):
I don't think it's right, but it seemed, you know,
it seems it seems that way. So that's how Michigan
fans are feeling right now. How many days? How many days?
How many days now? Ohio State wins and the national champions.
They're the most talented team in all of college football.
We told you last year they should come in number one,
overwhelming team, number one team overwhelmingly, and they prove they won. Now.
(02:31):
They were seeded seventh coming into this right, or seated eight.
Notre Dame was seeded seventh.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
First thing, these aren't real seeds because you're talking about
two teams getting seated third and fourth that just happened
to win down conferences.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Ohio State should have been more of a five seed,
right and Notre Dame should have been more of a
six seed or a four seed than that. But here's
why the college Football Playoff worked, right, not because you
had Ohio State win, but because the reason we pushed
to twelve teams. Right now, we can look back and say, Okay,
how did this go? Did it work?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It worked because letting four teams in, the difference between
the team that's getting in at four and the team
that's getting in at five or didn't five or six
is really close. You could sit there, you could split
hairs between the teams and make an argument that you
can make it for either way. Right, Florida State got
left out last year being unbleep and defeated because Jordan
(03:25):
Travis got hurt. So you want to make sure those
top five or six teams are getting in, because if
you're talking about a snub from four to five, that's
a really big deal. When you're talking about a snub
from twelve to thirteen, not so much. Right, because you
saw some of the teams get in, you saw some
of the blots in the first round, okay, which I
think was actually good for the college football playof because
(03:47):
this showed everybody see the teams at the end, but
they're not They're the teams that are really ranked where
they should be. They're not that good. So the bloats
weren't that big a deal because there was really no
argument for Hey, Alabama gets left out, Miami gets left out,
right if but if Ohio State gets left out number
(04:08):
five seat in the country, it's well, you're telling me
Notre Dame is better than Ohio State. And as we
saw tonight, clearly they're not. But they would have been
left out most likely if we're getting to the point
of just four teams. So the point of the whole
point of the playoff is, let's get the best five
or sixties. Let's get the conference champions of all the
big conferences in. Let's get the next couple of really
good teams in. And whoever is seven through twelve. It
(04:30):
could be anybody, could be a look, we don't care.
It could be Syracuse. It could be Northwestern.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
We don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
We're lunatics. No one really cares.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Last year, we still talked about Florida State not getting
in after the National Championship was over. Did we see
the best four teams? How does an undefeated Florida State
team not not allowed to get in just because their
quarterback got hurt? We still debated that after the National
Championship game? How long did we debate Miami and Alabama
for the next day? The day after the seedings came out,
we debated that in the end, those teams getting left
(05:03):
out are the snubs of the NCAA basketball Tournament. Yes,
there's a couple of snub that's a big deal for
a day, But eventually we're getting to the games. Because
it's really hard.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
To sit here and say, well, yeah, were they better
than the team than the sixty six or sixty set.
You're talking about a team that's that you're saying, hey,
this could be could be the sixty fifth best team
of the sixty sixth best team. We don't really have
enough energy for that anymore. And it's not it's not
a bit Oh, how do you leave them out there? Well, okay,
we're talking about there's sixty eight teams to get in now, right,
and there's gonna be more. I don't have a lot
(05:34):
of energy for it because of the number of teams
that are getting in, and you're not gonna go from
hey we got left in. We're not winning the national championship.
And I think you kind of see that a little
bit here with that. Well, okay, if you let Alabama
and Miami in, how are they really gonna do? You
watched Alabama, they showed up, they were just Michigan just
destroyed them defensively. Jalen Miller looked like, I've never seen
(05:56):
them play like that before, not that you know that
was a Bama team that would have showed up in
the playoff, because you never know. You're playing, yes, several weeks,
you're not playing for any thing more than just here's
another game we're playing. But there's not enough energy and
there's not enough oxygen to say, hey, I can't believe
these two teams didn't get Alabama and and and and
Miami didn't get it. No, that was a one day story,
(06:18):
and that's what it's going to be. The teams that
don't get in are one day stories and then we're
moving on. But that's well for some schools, for for
some conferences and schools, they it lives on.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Uh, well, Miami's always going to be mad, Alabama's going
to be mad. But in the end, but overall, nationally,
it's not the outcry of dude, Florida State was undefeated
and they weren't one of the top four undefeated, and
they weren't one of the top four teams.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Come on, no, but that's just it, right, it's you've
got to have the the ultimate of arguments. And even
then you didn't get picked, you got left out of
the dance. And you know, rules and and procedural things
are subject to change and consideration, whether you have your quarterback,
whether you have your your full compliment of players that
(07:05):
will be available for said Bowl season, that those have
to be part of the rationale. As much as it
offended people at the time, because you're not the same
team defending it, and now you're at the twelve team,
you're not gonna have that. You're right if we're arguing
over the twelfth or thirteenth much like your basketball analysis,
(07:27):
I mean, once we get down to that point, okay,
it lives. And are you ever gonna say they would
have gone on a majestic seventeam you know, seven game run.
They're gonna wait to play in and then they're gonna
run through from there. Likewise, for this college football playoff,
we're always gonna have the You're saying there's a puncher's chance,
(07:47):
but it's gonna take the world to move those mountains
on Ohio State. Like I started seeing, it's like, well,
I won't recognize a two loss champion. I would, they
wouldn't have been in. It's not recognizing it as much.
The rules changed, it's a different rules of engaging.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Look at this way, how many two loss teams might
have won the national championship in years past if they
were allowed into the right If you.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Get you get hot, you got the right squad. You
just happen to have you caught the wrong part of
the schedule. And this goes back to the Indiana arguments
and everything everybody wanted to have, Jason of You know,
sometimes the schedule is going to work out and the
stars aligned to where you don't play the other heavyweights
or you miss perhaps the best of them, which allows
(08:29):
you to go through your schedule. And Notre Dame got
beat tonight, and I'm glad it ended up not being
a blowout because we would have the same thing. Well,
that lost to Northern Illinois should have kept them from
ever blah blah blah. So the fact that they made
Ryan Day and all Ohio State buck as fans and
the college football love and world sweat is a good thing.
(08:50):
But yeah, going forward, we'll have tweaks. We're already seeing
some creative math by some of the conferences as to
how they can try to work and game the system.
And as long as the ratings are good and the
money keeps flowing, it'll keep expanding. Now, there's gonna be
changes to the college football playoff, right. We already saw
today that there's a couple of quotes from the College
(09:13):
Football Playoff Committee. They're gonna look into changes for next year.
I mean not the crazy acc story today where well
we might have the regular season champion just clinched the
conference and then have the number two and three teams
they just get to take a victory mark do they.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Become the conference chan Only one team could be the
conference champion, like the AEC is gonna pull the wool
over everybody's eyes, going, Well, the team that won regular
season gets in and then then the conference championship winner
gets in. Wait, but they're not the conference champion. If
there's a team better that gets in. I mean, this
is just being stupid. But one change absolutely for next year.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I guarantee.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I guarantee, I would say I go to Vegas put
my money on this. They will change how they do
the seedings. You will still see the winners of all
the power for conferences get in, right, which I disagree
with because look, you're talking about the big twelve Mountain West,
come on, really, But okay, you want to let them in,
they will get in. However, they're not going to automatically
(10:09):
be one of the top four seeds and host a
home game, right, You're not gonna have that. You will
have if you win your conference, you will get in,
but you can be seated anywhere in the top twelve.
Because yes, they do want to not have blogs in
the first round, and by having the boise States of
the world playing, hey, you're gonna get closer games, and
that's more viewership. It's also not fair, like really like
(10:32):
Ohio State is ranked lower than that. I mean, come on,
So I think you're gonna see that because there was
a big outcry for it. And also the home games
are really you see how much they're important they are,
especially in the early rounds. So I think that's one
change absolutely for next year is that all the conference
and as long as there's four, I mean, we still
have a ways to go before the season. We could
be down to two conferences by then, I don't know.
(10:53):
But as long as that whatever, whoever, whatever conferences there are,
the top four will get in. But they will maneuver
the system to say, hey, yes, here's you're the winner
of the Mountain West, but you're the eleven seed, right,
Or you're the twelve seed and you're the winner of
the Big Twelve, but you're the ten seed. You're not
gonna be the three seed. Even though we saw those
teams kind of acquit themselves all right, you can tell
(11:13):
they're just not at the capability and the level of
these powerhouse teams, so you will have them seated more accordingly,
and that will make for a better a better played playoff,
and and and less complaining about hey we gotta change,
because really you should. You should change the way you can.
You can't just have just because you want a conference. Mean,
you're you're a top seed.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
But I thought winning trumped everything. Yeah, right, isn't this
you know what we're Unless you're Kirk kurb Street. Of course,
winning then really doesn't matter quite the same. We need
to get rid of those outdated ways of thinking about
our sporting guess what what are we talking about? But
it's like the the argument folks make for the the
(11:53):
NFL world. Yeah, let's get rid of divisions. It's the
same thing like if you if you want a conference,
that should matter, right, Yeah, but it's but think about
it this, Think about like this. It's like doing this
for the NCAA Tournament in basketball and saying, hey, if
you win the Horizon, you're getting a top six seed.
Wait I am yeah, because you're a conference champion. Oh okay,
I think it's worked pretty well with seedings for the
(12:15):
NACA tournament. Hey you would, because I always say what
do I say mid majors shouldn't be in. You don't
play the edge's right, And that's why teams that win
twenty games. Power five teams that win twenty games now
aren't guaranteed to get in the tournament because there's such
this love for the mid majors. You know what, No
mid major should have their own tournament because they don't play.
If you took a mid major team and put them
in the ACC or the Big Ten, maybe they're five
(12:36):
hundred maybe at best, but we're all under the same umbrella.
But until you relegate them to another league. But it
works to put you in. And you complain about your
seating book, go on it, But what's the whole thing?
Go on and win, right, So this complaining of the
seedings is gone. You get a lot of complaining about
the seedings after this year, and I get it because
you elevated teams you probably shouldn't have elevated. So now
going into next year, I don't like my seed. Well
(12:56):
we'll go win.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You're in, Go win, right, Yeah, sorry, you gotta play
your first game at Texas, but go win, right that.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That's that's how it is. So I think you take
you take care of that controversy right away.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And I would say that's gonna be the first thing
because that's probably number one in everybody's mind because that, honestly,
it just makes sense to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But then you get pushed up. You didn't win anything.
That's the the non conference winner, and you may be
high enough to get a home game if you're one
of the time.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No no, but but likely the top four teams are
going to be the winner of the Big Ten legit,
winner of the SEC legit, and then okay, maybe.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Weed to have a second maybe we have a second ring.
Then then if if you have two undefeated SEC teams played,
because now with unbalanced scheduling, the best teams aren't going
to play. You're not always going to see Alabama and watch.
That's how you headed potentially make make their way in. Right,
so you're gonna have the the two teams playing for
(13:56):
the conference title that maybe the next best team is
not there just because so if you have two teams
coming in, let's or let's just say you have let's
say you use a Big Ten for example like this
year with Indiana being going in and Ohio State not
being well, Okay, that would that would fix next year
because you would have Ohio State being a higher seat.
But if you have an undefeated Michigan and an undefeated
(14:20):
Ohio State next year and then Michigan beats Ohio State,
Michigan goes in the playoffs as the Big Ten champion,
they probably get the one seed. Ohio State goes in
at twelve and one. Guess what they should get one
of the top four seeds. Maybe they get the three
seed of the four seed because they're clearly better than
a three loss AC seed. Maybe with the rest of
their schedule they didn't play anybody and then they lost
(14:41):
to Michigan. So but again with the imbalance and the
Big Ten being that would be that would be the
fairest way to do it, to say, all right, we
still have it. We're not saying you're not getting in.
You're getting in. You're just not automatically gonna get a
top four seed conference. We have to change the laws.
What do I get for getting bought out of this
(15:02):
system you created? That's what I want to know. If
I'm one of these secondary conferences.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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Speaker 4 (16:46):
Great pause.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
This is uh, they use this in almost Famous? What
scene is it? It's in almost famous where they use this.
I think this is a song. No, that's the wind
is when she's dancing in the But they use this
in almost Famous somewhere. It's been a minute since I've
watched maybe one of those one of those scenes where
he's staring at Kate Hudson. They're staring at each other
and the big Cameron Crow eye shots where we're just
(17:09):
gonna have been really close on their eyes. That do
it yeah, last time I saw it it had no sound. No,
so I that it's not a good Sometimes watching movies
with no sound is the best way to go. Yeah,
but it doesn't help the answering of this trivia question. Oh,
that is true. That is true. Yeah, So Ohio State
wins a national title.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They beat Notre Dame thirty four to twenty three. And
you know, looking back now at this year, you see
how the college football Playoff worked. It's all about getting
the top five or six teams in. And hey, if
we're we're not really going to be debating teams twelve
and thirteen because it's just being snubbed to get in.
And that's a one day story. You want to get
the top five or six teams in because clearly that's
(17:46):
who you needed to get in. Because if you're doing
it the old way, Notre Dame Ohio State would have
been four to five ish, right, so you get the
right teams in. One change they need to have for
next year, right now, he told you the one that's
absolutely going to happen, which is they'll change the seedings.
If you win your conference, you'll get in. You just
won't be guaranteed of a top four seed. The teams
will be ranked more.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
According to strength and how good they are, because you
can't come in and say, next year, hey, Boise State
in Arizona State or ranked higher than Ohio State Notre Dame,
let's get those algorithms. It's somewhat ridiculous. So that's absolutely
gonna have ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You can't, you can't, you can't.
You're telling me you have Ohio.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
State and Notre Dame who ran rough shot over everybody
coming in there, and yet Boise State and Arizona State
or ranked higher.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Champions of that. Man can't have that. Champions have a
lesson want ah.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So that's going to be a change for next year
because the College Football Playoff Committee is already talking about
tweaks to next year. One that needs to happen to
And I know it's crazy if we just had one year.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Of this, but you probably need to get to sixteen
teams into the tournament. Oh, you're diving another four or
at least or.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
At least a couple more to get to fourteen, and
maybe the buys change a little bit because you saw
how how much of a controversy it was this year.
SMU and Clemson both get in. Obviously, you know one's
a champion one second, and you have a three loss
Alabama in the SEC, who doesn't get it. And yes,
(19:12):
the SEC is way tougher than the ACC. And in
the end, what are the College Football Playoff comtee boaud
to come come back to? We can't penalize a team
for making its conference championship and lose while you're supposed
to take the whole season. When when you're looking at it,
it's really tough to say, well, this team gets to
play an extra game that Alabama did not, and just
(19:34):
because you lose, oh well now you're out because you
played that. Well wait a minute, we still made it
to our conference championship. So that's gonna be a big
sticky wicket. Is hey, how do we deal with this?
So I think what you need to see, and I
think I'm sure this will be debated, is that, Okay,
the two teams that make the conference championship are guaranteed
to get in, because you're still going to see teams
(19:56):
that want to beat the crap out of each other
because you're talking about a buying a home game, right,
It's still what is at stake for you or buys
a home games. Right you said, okay, great, so there's
still a lot out there. But if you go to
sixteen teams, then you can let or or at least
a couple more teams, and then you can at least say, well,
the AC, the Big ten, and the SEC. You're letting
(20:16):
in both of those teams. Now you want to argue
with the ACC, you could, but add do you really
want to? So let's you know what, so let's.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Just say this.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Then let's go to sixteen and the top two teams
from each conference get in. So now you're talking about
eight spots and eight eight spots that are guaranteed, and
then you're talking about the eight wild cards. Okay, then
I'm good if you want to do that, that's good.
You still have eight wild cards in, right, So the
eight wild cards because that number doesn't change. But now
(20:45):
you're letting in the teams that finished. Because that's a
really tough thing to say, is that, hey, here's a
really good team, they make it to the conference championship,
they lose. Their record Now is ten and three instead
of ten and two, where you let a ten and
two team from another conference get in. It's really not fair.
So to solve that, go to sixteen, and then I
think you can stay. You can stay at sixteen for
(21:07):
a while, figure out however you want to do with
the buys and teams. You can figure out sixteen, and
then you can go from there. I appreciate you. You're
trying to go to fair. Yeah, I mean that's fair.
I mean because it's never you're the first person to
ever say, let's make this fair, let's pay what is
this children? What about children? Well that's kind of where
you're headed to. Well, because no one's ever gonna love
(21:28):
all of it. There's always gonna just like with the
BCS or the fourteen playoff, there's gonna be questions. But
you wanna you want to. You want to be able
to eliminate the ones that you can fix. And the
seedings and the teams make it to the conference championship.
Those are two one. And then obviously you're trying to
play kate your biggest moneymakers, the SEC and the big ten.
(21:48):
Back to the Alabama thing really quick. Don't lose three games,
including one where you get it handed to you after
you take a bye week against Mercer. Sorry for the
players of mercer, but those bye weeks, uh, lesser games
on the SEC schedule at that time of the year
have never made any sense. And then you go out
and lose the next week. Yeah, that you kind of
(22:09):
lost any any potential to win that argument with me
at that point. But when we look at this going forward, yeah,
you're going to get to sixteen pretty fast. It's like
we keep talking about, you know, expanding playoffs, right, it's
good for the money involved, obviously the television deals, but
then clearly we've seen it for baseball the NFL as well.
(22:32):
You know, that final month of the season matters because
you still have teams that are vying for that final
playoff spot, that second wild card spot, all of those
kind of things that play into it. The modest proposal
or immodest proposal as well as you know, let's think
about the student athlete. Still got to put it out there.
(22:53):
But we need to change when we're playing these games too, well,
we should not be the part. We should not be
playing the championship game. On January twentieth, as you begin
another semester of school after you took six basically six
weeks off from the last time. I mean, you've had
playoff games, but the regular season ended when beginning of December.
(23:13):
That's how I got got on our look ahead kind
of thing. But it's just the idea of that is
a long ass time to get to an end end
game with several weeks of inactivity mixed therein. And dare
I say, I mean you got college football fans, and
I'm sure this one did pretty good ratings because it's
Ohio State and Notre Dame. You know, hate watching certainly
(23:36):
would be a thing for both these squads and schools,
as well as their robust alumni basis, But that long
layoff to get things started, I don't think is good
for the game overall. Yeah, look, I'm glad you brought
that up because even today, like just having a regular
conversation with some of my friends and my wife were
(23:57):
talking about it and she goes, it's the middle of January.
We're still playing college football, And I'm like, yeah, and
I get it because it is long. It is a
long season, and it's long that they shouldn't be playing
this late now. Granted it's about ten days later than
you normally because now we get the national champion game
anywhere from January fourth to January eighth, but now in
(24:19):
the doubt now here we are later in the month
and we're seeing it on the twentieth, Right, we played
the national title game. But that's an easy fix because
it's it's and I think it seemed long because you
can't go ten days in between games all the time.
You can do it for the Super Bowl when it's
the NFL and there's superstars and there's debates and who's
(24:41):
gonna win, and we're talking about guys like Mahomes and
Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson of fame gets announced like
you got all sorts of like build up to it.
But college football, there's not enough to sustain you all
the way through to play every ten days. You finish
the regular season, you take a week where everybody is
(25:02):
off and Army Navy plays, you know, Okay, you know,
keep that, keep the the integrity of that. Then the
next weekend you start the playoff and then you play
again the next weekend, right, I mean, then then you're
getting down. Now if you want to take a little
bit of time in between the semifi to play the
semifinals in the finals, okay, great, And that's easy to
(25:24):
shave at least ten days off of this schedule, because
I mean you can't. You can't play every ten days. Play.
I know the NFL plays on a Saturday, but you know,
play your games, then play Friday Saturday, whatever it is,
and then you play the next week. Right, if you
want to do it on a on a Thursday Friday
and then play the next game starts, don't go Thursday
Friday and then the following Wednesday, following third. You know,
it's it's too long. That way, You get the first
(25:44):
two rounds of the playoffs done, then you're figuring out
Christmas the holiday. Then okay, January first, you want to
do those semifinal games. Awesome, and then you can get
to the semifinals by the first and then you're into
the national championship game somewhere around between the eighth and
the And that's okay, because I will admit, even for me,
it got a little long because there's just not enough.
(26:06):
There's not enough star power. There's not enough firepower for
a month plus of playoffs when you're playing every to
play ten or eleven days in between games. There just
is it. Not for college football. I mean, there barely
is enough for regular and no team. You know, you
can't really take that much time between games and keep
momentum going. So I get where it's kind of stalled.
(26:27):
But it's easy. It's easy to cut ten days or
so off of this schedule, and I'm sure they'll do
that next year. Yeah, which is you know, always the
two weeks between the NFL championship games in the Super
Bowl and sometimes seems long as well, but you know
that that's part of the marketing and merchandising. And again,
there's plenty of storylines to fill through with this. It's
(26:49):
it's been a long build, all right. We finally got
to it, and we got we got a game late, right,
It's close. Late is what we always want. But there
was a potential that this was when it was what
thirty four to seven that the people were diving off
of their TV sets, you know, or thirty one seven,
(27:09):
I should say that people just looked at it and said,
all right, what else premiered on the Monday? Hey, as
my showback on? Is that showback on? That I like
with new episodes? Because this game got out of story
you never finished shrinking.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
There's a lot of that, but we never finished Let's
go back and finished shrinking.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
But ultimately coming into this game. Right, the presumptive presumption
was that Ohio State, as we talked about a little
bit earlier, and it's up and out there wherever you
get your interwebs news and information, that you had too
robust a squad right from top to bottom of Ohio State.
(27:49):
That this was like the Fano snap, inevitable. But those
long gaps trying to push storylines, narratives. I mean, Marcus
Freeman a great story playing again is Alma Mater, Ryan Day,
Willy Eary won't e the lunatic fringe as it were.
But we've been talking about those for a while, right,
We've been talking about the run up. Those stories did
(28:10):
not change during during the playoffs. It now became the
all right, here we go. It's now just the next
the final game, and it's a big deal. Take nothing
away from what Ohiowa State accomplished and Notre Dame's run,
but trying to do that for six weeks. Love it,
but the casual fan probably dived off. Yeah, I mean
(28:32):
a while ago, just waiting when's the next game? Monday? Yeah,
we were going through the like if you want to
go through the holiday that's fine. But like, if you're
playing the conference that like Army Navy is playing the
week after the first weekend December, Okay, play the next
two weekends, right, And I get that it's around christ
but okay, if you don't want to play around the
(28:52):
Christmas holiday, there's one hundred other teams. It'll come take
your spot if it wants the other day. Right, We've
already talked about the schedule, and I use the term
student athlete, and I had the giant sarcasm bucket underneath
my my chair because we've been talking about whatever the
amount of money was spent to. Shouldn't it be athlete student?
Shouldn't it say? I mean, should shouldn't this athlete? Student?
(29:14):
We're gonna do it. Should be athletes student? But the
point even saying it to with the way guys are
transferring all over the place. And you know, we were
talking in Joko with Pete Futech before he goes, yeah,
every day, I'm gonna have to make updates. It's not
gonna look the same tomorrow as it did yesterday. So
you know, it keeps me moving. But it's just that
(29:35):
idea of you know, you've got this constantly evolving organism
as it is with this that you've got to not
get caught in the switches. But like those long layoffs
just just make it tough. Yeah, it's it. It does
get a little bit long for the viewer. So I
understand and the student athlete part athletes. Sorry, if we're
(29:58):
gonna if we're gonna lead that at momentum, like we're
talking about how much in nil money everybody's getting. Right,
is he gonna come back to college? He might, but
he's gonna be over there because they're gonna give eight
million dollars. Like, so the student has gone to a
lower case S at best. It's it's it's could be
one word athlete student, but it's one he is capitalized
(30:19):
athlete student that'll be in rolls off. What's a dictionary company?
I forget what Webster is? Urban dictionary? No, no, no, no,
the real dictionary, the one that like they put you
here are the new words that peer at our lexicon
this year. Yeah, I think that's it. Camberley The art
of us screwing up your team season h first Bob
by Dan cam Uh. So there's some changes that are
(30:41):
going to happen, SCE you can get that in man,
that's huge. Some changes that could happen and should happen
in college football for next year time. How to find
out what's trending from a guy who would be the
best commissioner of college football in bizarre because he would
make decisions and conferences would say, no, we're not doing that.
It's Steve the Sager. He's got what's trending. Well, see,
the has been set so high that it into that.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
By the way, you remember when the Florida State Seminoles
were ranked number ten in the country and they lost
to Georgia Tech. That was August twenty fourth. August twenty fourth,
This Friday is January twenty fourth, five month college football season,
and yes it ended tonight. Ohio State national champion after
beating Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Soon another game next week. Ohio State has to beat
Michigan again. Yeah, if they're going to win.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
The Bahamas Bowl is next week. There's something else that's
coming up. It's Liberty and somebody. I'm not sure about that.
Check your local listings. Ohio State beating Notre Dame thirty
four twenty three in in honor of the Irish. We
now move ahead.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Further action in tonight's game because the buck Guys.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Were ahead of them thirty one to seven in the
third quarter and then a game broke out, but the
buck Guys had scored points on their first five drives
this evening, eventually three total touchdowns for Quinn Schawn Judkins.
Ohio State was ten until somehow losing at home laying
an egg against rival Michigan largely dominated since by the
way in the last college football playoff ranking not the seedings.
(32:10):
In the last rankings, Notre Dame was number five after
being preseason number seven in the polls. This year, Ohio
State was number six after being preseason number two. The
Buckeyes finish number one. The Chicago Bears new head coach
is Ben Johnson, who was Detroit's offensive coordinator. In the
past three years, Lions were the league's top scoring offense.
Former Saints coach Dennis Allen as a candidate to be
(32:32):
his defensive coordinator. The Colts new defensive coordinator as lou
Anarumo ex of the Bengals. Cincinnati will now speak to
Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden. According to NFL Network,
Tennessee Titans new special teams coordinator is John Fossil from Dallas.
Number three seed Cocoa Golf lost her quarterfinal at the
Australian Open. The Blue Jays are signing outfielder Anthony Santander.
(32:53):
In college hoops, Georgetown won at Villanova on a last
second layup sixty four to sixty three, and in a
late game in the NBA under five minutes to go
in LA, the Bulls are leading the Clippers ninety five
eighty four twenty seven points for Zach Levine, and the
TV ratings are out, or at least the fast Nationals
as they call the initial Nielsen ratings for Saturday's Fox
(33:14):
TV Playoff Commanders at Lions in the divisional rounds just
over thirty three million viewers for that and just under
thirty three million for Texans Chiefs in the day game Saturday.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Live for the Tirack dot Com studios coming up next.
The early odds are already out what teams are favored
to make it to the college football.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Playoff next year. Last hour, Mike and I gave you
our picture who we expect to win it all. Let's
see how they stack up. Who are the favorites coming
up next? And his arch Manning already won the Heisman Trophy.
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
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Speaker 1 (34:06):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. So the odds for the college football
playoff for teams for next year have already come out.
You know, Vegas not gonna waste any time. Will come
here now that right after the game is over, ready
to go.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Now there they want your money back if you if
you'd lost it to them on Ohio State, there are
they wont or you won it. Yeah, because you pick
one of the favors. Right now. There's still gonna be changes,
It's still gonna be moving around.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
There's still lots of things that could happen as we
get closer, and so there are gonna be changes. But
here's where teams are right now headed to next year. Frostburg,
you have all of the top team selected. We made
our picks last hour for who we think we're going
to see in the playoff in the championship game next year.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I do shockingly, you know, come on, USC's there, right,
it gotta be the favorite. They got to be on
the list somewhere, USC and Queen yours right, they're there.
I have the top of the list, Mike. And oh okay,
oh so you have UCLA is on that list? No, okay,
no they're not.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Really, that's surprising. I'm gonna say right away, Texas is
probably number one.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
You are incorrect.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
No, come on, man, someone with that dumb someone has
better odds in Texas who.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Won the national champions State? Oh stop five to Ohio
State are the favorite.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Steve Sarkejian is gonna walk around, go and see they
already don't think you can do it. Arch Way, Wait,
but that's you two coach. No, no, no, we're the
only are the only change. They don't think. We were
number one going into last season. You gotta find motivation
wherever you can. We were number one, and I was
the coach. Right now now we're not number one and
you're the quarterback. This is on you, Arch They don't
think you can do it.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
And then two teams outside of Ohio State sit on
top of Texas.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Can you guess who?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Wait, Texas is behind.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Texas State, Texas fourth, that's crazy, what I means Georgia
is in That's insane.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Georgia six to one.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
George's got to replace everybody on offense. Maybe they decided
they liked them more than Carson Back and everybody else.
Matthew Stafford's going to go back and play quarterback next year.
Well rams to want him anymore. I mean, he's got
a year left, he's still got a contract, whether he
wants to come back. I think Buck Blue can play
quarterback in another year for Georgia. Blue.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Georgia and Oregon sit between Ohio State and Texas.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yeah, okay Oregon. Oregon has a big, strong team coming
back to Yeah, so I could see Oregon up there.
But Texas should still be. Texas has a lot of guys.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
They got Arch Manning.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I know, how are they not number one?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I mean maybe it's a favor for Ohio State, but
Ohio State should be the long corn seven to one
seven That that's too low. That that's too low right
now now? With Arch some value potentially year fastest man
in the world, Arch Manning fastest man. All right, so
that's your why was the game?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
No? All right?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
So god, so what's the that's the top four?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Number five? Penn State?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Okay, that's one of my teams I picked for the
national time one. Okay, I like Penn State. I like
Penn State because, as we've seen this year, especially with
the longer playoff, veteran teams with older quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And have a lot of experience. In yes, Drew Aller
was good, but then he wasn't. But coming back they
should be really strong again in the Big ten. I
got Penn State my national championship game. I want to
guess who's after Penn State. Notre Dame. Oh no, not
Notre Dame. Is it?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Penn State is after this team?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Penn State is after this I met.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Notre Dame is after this team? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Who was coming in next?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Between Penn State and Notre Dame?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Is it the team? Is it Clemson? It is not
because that's my other team? Is stat White are?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Like?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Who else? I think? Iowa State?
Speaker 6 (37:44):
I really shouldn't even have to use your brain for this.
We talked about Oh, Michigan, Alabama, Alabama? Okay, okay, Alabama
who is also going to be starting over a quarterbacks. Okay,
and we had Notre Dame in seventeen to one. Okay, wow,
Notre Dame seventeen to one. Clemson next see Clemson two.
I like Clemson even more than Penn State because they
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should win a very easy conference. And again, they bring
a lot of players back, and Kate Klubnick is even
more dynamic. He might wind up being the most dynamic
quarterback pocket passer next year. He really came on strong.
They were a hair's breadth away from from moving on
in the playoff. It's going to be a conference they
should dominate, and they are going to roll up a
lot of points in the playoff. That's why I got Clemson.
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That's why I got Clemson. Penn stated twenty one right now?
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Love them? What else are we going to? Who's next?
Who's finishing us? Where are we at now? Eight? Was
at eight? Or nine?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
That was eight? Clemson was eight?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Clemson twenty one of eight?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
Okay, Tennessee, it's a three way tie.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Oh oh oh wait, wait, Ole Miss Ole Miss is
one of them, Ole Miss Okay, Tennessee's good one too.
Michigan LSU LSU is the other kay see who congratulations
Brian Kelly. And then one boy still have his quarterback
right unless he left two.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
So it's so it's Ole miss missu and this team
twenty five to one.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Still not Michigan. Huh no, wow, okay, twenty five to
one Washington, it's gonna be Tennessee. Oh it is so Tennessee.
All right, that makes sense. Yeah. I was a little
further down the one of the lists that I've seen, right,
because you know, I picked a quarterback who's left, uh school,
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but he might come back. It's okay, he's gone. He
might he went, he went to the planet. Who's come back.
He's hanging out with Superman two Villaine every now never
coming back. You might come because I went deep with
a price shout for Texas A and m obviously yeah
that's not terrible, right, squad around him. But Marcel Reed,
who played a couple of games down the stretch, he's
now the guy. And then the Gators with Lagway, who's
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got a lot of juice. Whether the team does, I
don't know. Look at Florida, Florida, Marna, we were so bad,
but then things weren't as bad, and now look at
us for next year.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Here Michigan forty to one.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Forty to one.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh, I like those odds on Michigan. There's their defense
is still going to be really good. And bryce on
you talk of the number one recruit in the country
coming in forty to one.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
This is just to make the playoff. This is to
win it all, to win it all. Oh, to win
it all? Yeah? Yeah, no, to make the know if
they were forty to one to make the playoff, please,
I might go one and make that bet. FETs you
think we're wasting our time with that. I might go
Michigan Clemson national title game. I get to twenty to one,
forty to one. You want to get that parlay in
or like this? We're so big here yo, suh, that's it?
Sure at Syracuse's what twenty five to one? Only twenty
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thousand to two? Twin Yeah they don't. They don't appear
off the ten thousand to one. Okay, they don't appear
on that short list. That's good waste of a dollar.
N If only Kyle McCord was coming back.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
He can't.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
He can't petition for another year.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
He might be the number one quarterback pick now he's
rising up everybody's draft boards.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
So why he went to the NFL. I could come back,
But wow, these guys, they all stink. I was great.
What do we always talk about? Right by the time
we get to the draft, there's gonna be five guys
picked by the end of the first round just because.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Me and Jackson Dart are gonna go one too. This
is fantastic, aren't you coming up next? Something we told
you about a few weeks ago that really came home
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