The Playoff is Killing College Football

Arky is pissed at the College Football Playoff Committee and thinks it's think you should be too

Episode Transcript

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Welcome back into the experience. Myname is Archie. This is what we
call the experience. I'm really gladto talk to you here today because I'm
fired up, I'm pissed off,and I don't understand why we can't have
the things that we want to have, the nice things. And I'm talking
about the college football playoff and Iget it. I get it. It

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is a TV show. When thisthing debuted back in two thousand and fourteen,
I was on terrestrial radio and Isaid to my co host at the
time, co Cublic of the SECNetwork and beyond, I said to him,
listen, this is purely for TV. The fact that they're doing an

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initial ranking show and updating them everyweek. We don't need that, but
they're doing this for TV, andI get it. But what I've grown
to understand over the last seven yearsis that not only is this thing for
TV and college football is the ultimate. Hey man, we just like the

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debate. We just we just liketo embrace the debate, right, that's
this era. We just we justlike being talked about. We don't like
standings or rankings to mean anything.We want controversy. That's garbage, by
the way, just wanting to betalked about, Hey, should you be

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in the Sugar Bowl? Maybe,but guess what you're not. So now
you guys can talk about it,and guess what we'll jump into next year
and we'll talk about the same damnthing. Because the college football higher ups
won't get off the butts and fixit. There's not an altruistic bone in

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their body, not just to say, hey, let's do something that's for
the greater good of the sport,but something that's also gonna selfishly make you
a whole bunch of fucking money.Because you can have it both ways college
football, you can have it absolutelyboth ways. Do you have the bigger
pecker? Can you beat all themid major group of five teams and then

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let them in? Let them in? The big thing that pisses me off
about this is not the playoff structurein general. I'm sure I'm gonna get
to that at some point in mylife again, probably before December, maybe
in December, when there's some typeof decision hopefully made on the expansion of
this. But the thing that reallybucked my rear end is when the chair

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of the fricking committee is on nationalTV and he's asked point blank, brother,
why would you have Michigan ahead ofMichigan State. These two teams literally
have one loss a piece, andthey literally played each other on the field.
Why would you have the team thatlost to the team that one reversed?

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Why would you have the losing teamon top of the winning team?
And I can't you not when thechair of the committee said, well,
if you put watching the games aside, every other metric works out in favor

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of Michigan. I don't know whywe allow ourselves to be okay with this
committee. It's dog trash, it'sgarbage, thirteen dudes and dudes that just

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go into a room and start rankingteams. And I won't even get into
the fact that UTSA is twenty secondfor some godforsaken reason. Oh, I
don't know. I guess winning gamesdoesn't count anymore. I guess it's just
super easy when all the games.That's why an undefeated team could be twenty
second. Oh, it's it's abad conference. Interesting, so there are
thirty five undefeated teams or there's oneout of those groups. It's just super

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easy to do because you got abad conference. Oh okay, pieces of
filth I'm mad. I am Iam beyond mad at this thing. I'm
mad at you who are listening,who supports it. I am mad at
the committee itself for being as blatantlydumb and as arrogant and as reprehensibly irresponsible

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to the sports. And I'm madat myself for loving the sports so much.
I can go into the equity ofthis fricking sport for hours, and
who knows, I'm gonna have alot of time in the holidays, maybe
I do it. But what Idon't understand is how this committee can look

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at you with a straight face onnational television and say something like they said
about Michigan and Michigan State, yetliterally two spots above them, they have
Ohio State fourth, and guess who'sthird, the team that beat them on
the field. That's right, Oregonis ahead of Ohio State, so it

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matters out of conference, but notanti conference. Are the metrics so much
better for Oregon that they get tobe ahead of Ohio State? Every week?
This committee tells on itself and movesthe goalpost and gives you every reason
to think that you should have nofaith in it whatsoever. We as humans

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screwed up the BCS because we putin our flawed to metrics. How do
I know, because at one pointpoint deferential was a metric in the BCS,
and we had to take that outbecause we didn't think a sportsman like
to ask teams to win a hundredto nothing. We didn't think that was
very fair that teams are trying tobeat teams they were better than by two

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million to get a couple of decimalplaces in the rankings. So yeah,
the b HE has had a coupleof good things about it, But we,
the creators of the BCS, areflawed because we put the garbage in.
You ever heard of geygo garbage in, garbage out? I O,
That's what the BCS was. AndI knew the college Football Playoff would be

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great if we got the playoff wedeserved. And we don't get the playoff
we deserved. We get the playoffthat the people want to give us.
As if you and I, whospend hundreds and thousands and thousands of dollars
on these teams every single year,don't deserve something better. We deserve so

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much better than what this trash is. And the solution is something that we'll
never be able to talk about we'llnever be able to debate it because the
College Football Playoff and the college footballlords out there just want there to be
controversy in the air as opposed togiving us a product that we actually want

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to watch. You tell me howI'm supposed to decide if Michigan State or
I don't know, Cincinnati deserves tobe in the top four. Thirteen guys
and gals in a room that's thedecision makers. I'd much rather it give

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a fan vote for the top fourthan to let these nimrods give it.
And I think that's a very flawedidea, by the way, in and
of itself. But when they tellyou every single week, listen, they've

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told you from the beginning. Rememberwhen Stanford went to Northwestern a few seasons
ago and lost, but Stanford keptwinning games, and all of a sudden,
the playoff committee comes out and hadto explain why Stanford was so high
up and even though they had thatlost in the Northwestern about north Western team,
by the way, and they hadto give us the term body clock

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because Stanford lost that game at elevenam Central time, their body clock being
a West Coast team early in theseason, was off body clock. Every
week, we just push the goalposts into a different direction, and you

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can't argue it because there's no oneto answer our questions and there's no one
to hold accountable. Who do youhold accountable? Do you go march on
Greg Sankey's lawn in Birmingham? Doyou go to Indianapolis and say, hey,

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Ncuba, how about trying something withthis, maybe figuring out maybe not
let the richest dudes and all ofthe sports dictate who your champion is in
the richest division of your sports.Maybe you guys should have looked at that
earlier. Who do you go screamat? ESPN? ESPENS just a TV

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network? They don't care. Whowere we supposed to get answers from when
this constant garbage happens? And Ihonestly can't believe people who might be listening
to this, both of you ifyou defend the playoff, especially if you

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go back and say, well,you could haved the BCS. No,
the BCS wasn't better. Please,the BCS was at least a step in
the right direction. What else doyou want figured out by a computer for
you? Besides which Taylor Swift songare you? What other parts of your

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life you want dictated, especially whenyour hard work and your accomplishment means something
to you. You want to tellundefeated teams that are in the Mountain West
or the Whack or or the SunBelt or whatever, you want to tell
them that, hey, nice,but not quite nice enough. Or hell,

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if you even want to tell onelast teams or undefeated teams that are
in Power five conferences, hey good, good tribe. But you know,
yeah, college football is the wackiestsports out there as far as the major's
it is. It is not necessarilymost equitable as far as results. Good

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teams get built up and could bereally good for a long time. But
if you're telling me that there's onlya few teams that deserve to be in
consideration for the national championship every year, I can tell you you're given half
of those away at the beginning ofthe year already, and you just want

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to sit there and let the wholeseason play out for two max Three spots.
I mean, you're gonna tell meat the end of the season,
Ohio State and Alabama aren't going tobe two of the teams that are in
that four. Yeah, they've feelgreat programs, but They've had it for
decades. And I'm not saying ifthey don't win things in the field,

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they don't deserve a shot at it, because they do. But do we
just concede championships to them. It'ssuch a short, narrow minded view of
this sport. It's my favorite sport. I've said it a thousand times on
this podcast, in said one thousandtimes in one in my life. It's

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the greatest sport of all of them. I love the pageantry and the traditions
and the weirdness of college football fromeleven am my time until one thirty am
the next day of my time.But this is unconscionable because what you're doing

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is you're literally listening to politicians tellyou things that you cannot affect, and
you have to deal with it everyday like you're listening to them lie to
you about very simple things you seein front of your face, and you're
just supposed to be okay with it. Why because we just continue getting it.

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I'll never understand why people just wantto be in the in the the
field of yea for it's plenty.First of all, why would you want
more football? Secondly, why wouldyou want more meaningful football at the end

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of the season. And third,why wouldn't you want a chance if your
team isn't the two teams I justnamed or Oklahoma. For the maturity of
this playoff run, you're literally givingaway two spots probably max every year that
can be one throughout the season.Why would you want that to always be

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the status quo? Because they wintheir conference, good, then they get
two spots. Give other people spots, not just willy nilly, but if
ut s A goes the defeated,give them a spot. But they don't
play in the conference. Good,Shut up, Shut up with that garbage.

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They'll never get to play in yourconference. They'll never get to prove
it to you in that conference.Cincinnati will never get to play in the
Big Ten every single season and haveevery single week mean what the Big Ten
week was? So what do youjust stop playing football? Stop trying The
gargument is lazy and it's stupid.What do you want from them to win

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their conference which will inevitably have ahandful of bad teams in it, and
then schedule teams that will be rankedone, two, three, and four
at the time they play them,and that are one, two, three,
and four at the end of theseason and then beat them interested how
ridiculous you sound. And then whenthose teams have difficult games inside their conference,

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because again there's still a member ofa conference you meet, they want
to peel on their legs and say, hey, why didn't you win this
game by thirty? You were supposedto Alabama was supposed to be LSU by
thirty. The one by six LSUsucks? Okay, period? What do

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you want? Do you just wantyour team to be the only team in
consideration for the championship every year youget a spot, good, go beat
them. I don't care. Whydon't you get to the dance play them?
I don't care. It'd be nicefor a couple of episodes happened,
would they happen? I don't know. We won't get to see it.

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You acting like this point spread meansshit. It doesn't. It's for betting,
okay, it's for gamblers like me, because if it was as meaningful
and it was a fair metric thatmaybe we'd see a lot more of these

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games hit right on the number.But they're pretty often wrong. Good teams
are very often beat by bad teams. We've had a record number of upsets
this season, not pointspread covers.Upsets could have happened in the playoff.

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It sure could if you allowed itto happen. Playoffs are already getting blow
us good. Add some more,add some more. What do you not
want to watch football? Do youhate football? Do you hate football?
I swear listen. I like youguys for listening. I think the argument's

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dumb and it's stupid. It's shortsighted. It's not great for college football.
It may be good for your teamto have two games to go through,
but if you're just gonna keep stackingarguments against it, I'm gonna keep stacking
the arguments against those arguments. Butthe point is it isn't just the fact
that the college football playoff is justfour teams and it needs expanding. But

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the point is is that this Playoffcommittee comes on TV every single week and
shows you something stupid, and weall say, hey, that's kind of
dumb, and then we go aboutour lives. There's nothing we can do.
Maybe if we are a little morefurious, maybe if we call it

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the sec A Big ten offices afew more times, maybe you know,
we organize a protest several thousands ofus go and say, hey, listen,
um, you know that thing wherewe want more teams, saying how
about you do that? And alsoyou get money too. It's called win

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win. Sports is the most democratic, great thing in the world because it
literally is mano a mano, ladyv lady team versus team best ones with
the best coaching win on that day. Yet here we are negotiating for teams

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to get into a playoff. Wedidn't have a real way to crown a
national champion until nineteen Think about that. And now we just sit here and
continuing negotiate our way because they everyonethink they can get more money, and

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they could, and they could havegotten a lot more money a lot sooner.
But you know, we got todebate it. ESPN, ABC,
Fox, they'll pay out the wazooto get these games. They're live TV.
There's what people want, So whywouldn't you give them what they want,
me what I want, the groupof five teams what they want,

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and you what you want, andstop all of this negotiating, and stop
all this college football playoff weekly nonsense. Next week someone's gonna sneeze and it's
gonna be oh hey, you knowsomeone had to Kobe Sneezy. I mean,

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we created this committee to say,hey, injuries can mean something,
right, Injuries in the game here, the game there can mean something.
Sure, right, how about wetake this committee and shove it up its
button and do it the right way. Tired of every single week being lied
to by my sports when my sportscan literally literally just solve it on the

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field, and you won't let themdo it. That last part was for
the commissioners and the presidents. Youwon't let them do it. You won't
let them give you more money.Why not