December 8, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan and the Danettes recap Week 14 of the NFL including trouble for the Chiefs, Colts and more. Plus, Notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua joins the show and unloads on the ACC and the College Football Playoff Committee after the Irish were snubbed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Monday, Dan and the Dan Ete Dan Patrick
Show come on in stay awhile feeling refreshed after battling
whatever I've battled over the last three weeks. I didn't
realize this, but Seton said, yeah, you would turn your
mic off and then you'd be coughing, so all we
would see is your mouth there. So I got to
(00:27):
see the show back, and the visual is not very good.
You would think that our director, the Eyes and Ears
Mario would spare the nation that look of me hacking
up a lung. But I'm better than ever now. Went
to the doctor's office, Uh not, the emergency room. Just
went in and I got to see the doctor, gave
me some meds and Rarren ready to go. Yes, Todd,
(00:52):
did you ever get.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
An official diagnosis? Is it bronchitis? Just a really bad call?
Do they give it a name or anything?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I hold that it was strap and then it developed
into or kind of morphed into flu like stuff, and
he just said, you know, you're lucky to be alive. Yeah, yeah, warrior,
that's what they were saying. Man as I left. You know,
the doctors all got around and they were like, oh
my god, what a warrior hashtag.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Warrior kept the tonsils in And there's no no.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I thought, you know, I still have my tonsils. But
see that's one of those things like you know, Freddie
Mercury didn't change his teeth because he thought that would
change the way he he sung. And uh, I don't
want I don't want to take my tonsils out because
it may affect my voice. So I mean, not on
the same level as Freddie Mercury. But Freddy never got
(01:42):
his teeth fixed because he didn't want it to change
his voice.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Is there a tonsil vocal cord connection? That's a I'm
not aware of that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But no, doctor, what is right there?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It's in the Sinner. Yeah, I never knew that.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
That is.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I was going to get my tonsils ow when I
was a kid because I would always get strapped through
and I didn't think for a second, you know, I
was can affect my singing voice?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, it was gonna be about me but no, no,
go ahead, go ahead. I was just curious, thank you. Yeah,
so I still have my tonsils there. I didn't want
to get them out.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Yes, yeah, according to WebMD. Inflamed tonsils can directly affect
your voice, both short term and long term, and it's
a byproduct or a side effect of removing your tonsils
can't affect your voice, usually short term, not long term.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, thank you, all right, well.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's got to hold up for at least two and
a half more years after that, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Get Tommy John, get like a Volunteerly get Tommy John
for the throat or something if they have it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Tonsul John until John John. Okay, it's our too, best
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Dan Patrick Show. We'll talk to the Notre Dame Athletic
director Pete Mvaqua. He'll join us and He's probably still
(03:16):
a little heated here as they didn't get in and
they decided to opt out of a bowl game. Rick
Neuheisel covers college football CBS. He'll stop by as well.
You got pro football tonight, Eagles at the Chargers. The
Eagles are favored by two and a half. I thought
it was a weekend of teams that lost, stealing the headlines.
(03:37):
The Colts, certainly with Daniel Jones, I don't think they're
going to make the playoffs because Jacksonville's playing well. And
I look at the final month of the season and
you've got they're at the Seahawks, they host the Niners,
they host the Jags, they're at the Texans, and Riley Leonard,
former Notre Dame quarterback, is your starting quarterback now. And
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even with Daniel Jones, they probably weren't going to make
the playoffs. You also had the Chiefs losing last night.
We had Chris Simms on Chris Simms last hour said
that he thought the Chiefs were done done. Here's Patrick
Mahomes on the Chiefs going forward on fourth down.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Country believes in us. We executed on that in that
same situation several times this season and they did a
good job of passing the crossers. I wish I got
like I said, I wish I got to Rashid a
little bit earlier, or if I could have bought a
little bit more time. In hindsight, probably hit try to
hit trap over the top of the defender. But I
mean he made a good play. They they made good
play today. But I'll never question the decision to go
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for it because I believe in the offense and who
we are.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, I think their chances are like sixteen percent something
like that. But you know that Texans defense is great.
I mean, we throw that word out Texans. Nobody's going
to want to face that defense.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
If the offense and c. J. Stroud was back last night,
if they can prove twenty one points, that feels like
that's enough for that team to win. The Bengals lose,
the Bengals should have won. The Bengals against that Bill's
defense did whatever they wanted to do Burrow back to
back interceptions. The Buccaneers lost. I said this last week.
(05:16):
Usually the team that is the lesser of the two
usually wins these weird games in the NFC sound and
so I wasn't surprised when I tune in and the
Saints were winning and they ended up winning that game
against Tampa. It's just kind of crazy, and it's always
it feels like it's always been that way. The Ravens losing,
I thought to, you know, having control of the ball
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two steps almost a third step called a touchdown, that
would be enough. But it wasn't. And here's John harball
on the Isaiah Likely touchdown wiped off the board.
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Yeah, the explanation was a third foot didn't get down
before the ball came out. That's what they said. I
think to play with. I think the Aaron Rodgers play.
I mean, just coming a rules here. It's not an
officiating issue. It comes from New York. But you know,
when you when you when you're making a catch, you
have to you have to you have to survive the ground.
You know, he didn't survive the ground. He's not he's
not down by contact. He was catching. He was catching
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the ball on the way down with another person. So
you you got to make a catch there and survive
the ground. I don't know why it was the rule
of where it was on that one. So all those things, well,
I'm sure we'll they'll explain to us, but they had
plenty of time to look at and they're the ones
who are the experts on the rules.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
So that's how it works.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, because they called it a touchdown and then I thought, okay,
that's gonna be hard to overturn. At first, I thought, okay,
he's got control, and then it's two steps, and that
it is a football move because the football move is
to keep it away from the defender. That to me
was the football move. But you got the Steelers, they survive,
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picking up the win, and you know, a much needed
win at that. The Dolphins are still kind of hanging
in there. You know, they didn't fire Mike McDaniel. They
won five of six. I know they beat the Jets.
It doesn't matter. You're still winning these games. I don't
know if it's enough for Mike McDaniel to keep his job,
but I do find it interesting to keep an eye
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on the Browns Titans game was probably not on my
bingo card, as they like to say, but I was
certainly entertained by it because I wanted to see how
Cam Wore did against Miles Garrett, and I wanted to
see how Shador Sanders did and in a home game
against a lesser opponent or opponent that's maybe equal to
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them and putting up good numbers. And he did, and
he played well. But you know the avalanche of people
and social media that you know they sending in an
email or a tweet about should or scent. What are
you going to say about Shaud or sending? I don't
have any There's no real opinion, it no negativity. I
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just said, give him a chance to play. I told
you he'd start a game at some point this season. Good.
I don't know what they have. You beat the Titans
at home, but there is progress. It feels like he
gives them more options. They're expanding the playbook from what
I'm told, and good it gives them a boost. It's exciting.
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You still lost the game with a idiotic two point conversion,
So there's positives there now. Deshaun Watson's planning on coming
back next next year. I don't know if he ever
plays for them. And you got to have a top
five draft pick, are you going to take a quarterback?
Are you sold on Shadoor Sanders? And if they are good,
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it's a good story, Yes.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Paulie, that coaching staff for the Browns should be embarrassed
how they finish that game.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
That.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I mean, if there's a worst the coaching staff lost
that your quarterback justic you seven plays eighty yards, you
remove him from the field for your two point conversion,
and you do a direct snap to a rookie running
back on a complicated play. That's irresponsible.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yep, all right, we didn't even do a poll question
for the first hour. At least I didn't acknowledge that.
Todd's here, Seaton, Marv, Paula, yours truly in the back room, guys,
all right, seton what kind of pole question or what
did you put up in the first hour? Yeah, we
got three of them up right now.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Notre dame, your options are got hosed, will change the playoffs?
Being petty or all of the above. Right now, it
is a tie between is being petty and all of
the above.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I wish they would have played in a bowl game,
but I understand why they didn't because they had nothing
to gain.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Here.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Let's say they blow out BYU and the Pop Tart Bowl.
It doesn't mean anything, and I believe that game would
be on ABC. I think that's what I was told.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Long history of ABC and the pop tart powle.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, of course, yes, legendary, legendary tradition. But I get it,
But I wish they would have still played. Now, nobody
is upset that I was State in Kansas State aren't
playing in their bowl games either. They got fined five
hundred thousand dollars each, I believe, But Notre Dame is
not in a conference, so Notre Dame decided we're not playing.
(10:18):
But you know, Iowa State loses their head coach and
maybe they decide. But once again, I would just ask
my players, do you guys want to play? Yes, Todd,
should Notre.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Dame care that this could come across as sow losers
and or afraid of the downside of losing to BYU.
Not that they're afraid of playing BYU, but those are
things that a lot of people feel.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Unless you're a big Notre Dames fan.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I think most people that are neutral think that they
look like they're taking the ball and going home and
they don't want any part of possibly losing to the Cougar.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, we'll talk find out in ten minutes when we
talk to their athletic director on making this decision. What
other pole questions did you have for the first time
re season?
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Yeah, I also got up there the Chiefs playoff chances
are dead on life support or alive.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And well, well you did predict your your wild prediction,
your hot prediction, your crazy prediction, the Chiefs would not
make the playoffs. Closer and closer. Yes, it's pretty incredible.
Seton said the Chiefs would not make the playoffs June third.
I believe not that.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
I'm okay, yeah, somewhere in that vicinity all what was
the other pole question that you had? We just put
this one up there right now. Worst loss this weekend Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'd say the Chiefs because Vegas had them as one
of the favorites to still win the Super Bowl and
now looks like they're done. Buccaneers can still win that division,
Ravens can still win that division. I think the Colts
losing and losing their quarterback and losing one of the
real good stories this year, I mean, that's a that's
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a triple loss there, it feels like. But I would
say the Chiefs because bigger picture, the Chiefs out of
that group could still win the Super Bowl, or at
least they would be viewed as one of the favorites
if they were in the playoff picture.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Yeah, Pauling and Daniel Jones is an unrestricted free agent.
A month ago, he was on the roll and would
probably got one of those mid levels Sam Darnold three years,
one hundred million dollar contracts going forward from the Colts
or other And now his career is completely in flux, completely.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, because he's not going to be ready to go
next season. To start next season. You got the Anthony
Richardson situation. That's a mess. You got Riley Leonard as
your backup now starting quarterback there that was. That was
an expensive injury for Daniel Jones. I mean, that's the
business side of this. If he stays healthy, let's say
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they do get into the playoffs, he's gonna get a
one hundred million dollar deal because they don't want Anthony
Richardson as their starter, at least not now, and Daniel
Jones would have been the de facto Okay, all right,
he played pretty well, which he did, He started out
pretty well, but he's playing with a broken fibula now.
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I don't know if he should be out there with
a broken fibula. Of all my injuries and surgeries. I've
never had a broken fibula or torn achilles, and I
don't know if one can lead the other. But you
would think your quarterback out there with a broken fibula
should not be out there with a broken fibula and
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then he blows out his achilles. But Riley Leonard is
now you're starting quarterback. Now you've got to get a
backup quarterback in there as well, and the schedules really
tough the final month of the season. Chris and Syracuse
Good Morning, Chris, Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Hey, thanks Dan, ye I got a best and a
couple of commis to threats him. My best to one
of the original dan Ciples in Dan Nation on the
Dan Patrick Show, Tillian Bloomington, who is a man Indiana
football fan. He has to be so excited with his Hoosiers,
who are kind of the poster child of the new
age at college football. No real dominant teams, just a
lot of very good teams.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
And in the.
Speaker 12 (14:11):
SEC Title game, Alabama had to cover ninety one yards
for their loan touchdown and Georgia had to only cover
one hundred and thirty yards combined. All four of their
touchdowns and Dan this year is one of the few
years that Notre Dame not being in the ACC conference
came back to bite him. It not only cost him
a berth in the playoffs, but with the ACC so
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week this year, it probably cost him a home first
round playoff game. And I wonder if the committee leaving
Notre Dame out is their way of trying to force
him into a conference.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Uh okay, I got to find this out, and I'm
going to find it out in about five minutes. What
role did the ACC play in Notre Dame getting in
or not getting in? And find out next year on
the Dan pass Trick Show.
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
We'll get some more phone calls. Coming up. Best and
Worst of the weekend, Which you saw that you liked
you didn't like. Rick Neuheisel covers college football. Former head
coach will join us coming up top of the hour.
Pete Bavaqua, Notre Dame athletic director. A couple of months ago,
I said, oh, I look forward to talking to you again.
I didn't know we would be talking about this. How
did we get here? Pete?
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Dan, first of all, yeah, thanks thanks for having me on.
It's good to see you yet yesterday, that's the question.
I don't know how we got here. That's kind of
what we have a problem with. I don't have a
good answer for you, you know, and a lot of
conversations here on campus the last twenty four hours, as
you can imagine, and you know, I want to make
(16:22):
one thing clear, Dan, we have no problems with the
teams that made it in. They're all great teams. You know,
Miami's a great team, Alabama's a great team. If Texas Vanderbilt.
We're a great team. What we're so confused by and
frustrated with is the process. You know, every step along
the way, since the first CFP rankings came out, we
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were led to believe we were in as long as
we took care of business, and we certainly took care
of business with this ten game winning streak. Then you
think about that first ranking. You know, we and Miami
were both six and two. They had obviously already beat
us the first game of the year. They were eighteenth,
We were tenth. You know, the only thing that we
did since that point was win every game by over
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an average of over thirty points. And you know, all
of a sudden, we're eleventh and on the outside looking in.
And you know, when we sit and talk, when I
talked to Marcus, when when we talked to our team,
we don't have any good answers for that. So we're
just we're just really frustrated that we had the rug
pulled out from underneath the stan.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Were you able to lobby at all Sunday morning, you know,
or had the decision been made that you were not
going to make the playoffs?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Yeah, I don't know exactly when the decision was made.
You know, we you know, we made our case. We
stayed at our point of view. But again, if you're us,
we were told from day one of the rankings that
you know, we were in and we were ninth, and
then all of a sudden, you know, we go play
a game against Stanford. I felt like in the middle
of the night, you know, and we we we took
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care of business, and Alabama has a really tough game
against a an Auburn team that's having a tough year.
And we wake up on Tuesday and we fall below
Alabama for the first time. And it was all about
the fierce conversation between Notre Dame and Alabama. And I
heard something to the effect that Alabama went forward on
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fourth down, so that made an impression, and just our
heads were spinning, like where's the logic, where's the rationale?
Why are we being kind of punished and the only
ones that seemed to be moving in the wrong direction
and yet winning and having an unbelievably dominant end to
the season. It's just we're confused, we're sad, and damn
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we're frustrated.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And I was told there's nothing that's secret in those meetings,
it eventually gets out, and I was told during last
week that it felt like where Alabama was ranked that
Notre Dame. In the words of my source, you guys
were being set up for disappointment. So this is somebody
involved in this. And then all of a sudden the
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Miami situation, which if they ranked Miami ahead of you, fine,
I don't have any problem with that. I just didn't
understand the rationale. And then I wondered, did the ACC
lobby at all? Did what role did the ACC play
in any of this? In your opinion?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have
tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team, great school,
their athletic director, Dan Radakovich is a good friend, and
all the teams in the ACC, great wonderful universities. We
have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC,
but we were mystified by the actions of the conference
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to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in
football and a member of their conference in twenty four
of our other sports. And I would tell you, Dan,
I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say
that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship
between the conference and Notre Dame. What do you mean,
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just we didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled
out repeatedly and compared to Miami, not by Miami. Miami
has every right to do that, but it raised a
lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking shots
at us, and you know, that's just not something we
chose to do. We wouldn't choose to do that in
the future. People might disagree with us, but that's just
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not something that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we
have no problem with any of these teams. These are
all great teams. You look at those teams, Miami, like
I said, great season, they beat us. You think about Alabama,
and nobody's had more success in college football over the
last decade than Alabama. But Dan, you know, I mean,
you follow the sport so closely. Everybody was saying that
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we were one of a handful of teams that could
win this whole thing and that we have zero percent chance.
Even Nick Saban, you know, nobody knows more about college
football maybe in the history of the world than Nick Saban,
you know, and he said it yesterday, like, how is
Notre Dame, not in this. I mean, everybody's just kind
of confused and per played, and we don't have good
answers for the kids on our team, for our student athletes.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Are you going to reevaluate your relationship with the ACC
the overall relationship.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I would just say it's been strained, irreparable, Well you
never say irreparable. But it's opened our eyes and you know,
we we it caught our attention. But you know, we'll
we'll we'll move past this like we are, you know,
as you know, we're already focused on next season. Uh,
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you know, we made the decision not to play in
a bowl game, as I know you're you're well aware,
and a lot of a lot of people have asked
me about that. And you know when Marcus, we watched
the presentation show, the selection show with the team, and
then Marcus, like he always does, was wonderful, got up
and for somebody that always has great answers, he was
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brutally honest with the team and said he didn't have
a lot of answers. Doesn't understand how this happened, Why
this happened, Why a team that thought it was doing
what it needed to do all of a sudden kind
of woke up on kind of the wrong side of this.
And then just as you're kind of dealing with that,
you start getting these calls from other bowls. And you know,
the role of a captain on the Notre Dame football
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team is a role that the program and Marcus takes
very very seriously. And he talked to all the captains,
you know, and said, hey, what are you guys thinking,
What's what does the team thinking. Let's talk about this,
and you know, to a person, the captains and some
of the other you know, underclassmen on the team said, listen,
we are such a close knit team. We've done so
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much this season. We overcame those two opening losses, we rallied,
we dominated in the last ten games. We can't imagine
taking the field not as that team. And it's reality, Dan,
you know that certain players wouldn't participate in that game.
You think about some body with the future that he has,
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like a Jeremiah Love, a Jadarian Price, Eli Rarid, and
you know Emil Wagner, who's one of the most impressive
people I've met in my life. Hopefully, after he's done
playing football, I hope he runs for president. One day,
it just wouldn't be the same, and you know, made
the decision that it was time to start thinking about
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next season. Give these these student athletes a break. They
have exams coming up, and then you know, really hopefully
they they'll go home and spend Christmas in the holidays
with their family and friends.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Feels like a message being sent as well, Pete.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Well we're not happy, Dan, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Help me understand this though. So are you guaranteed of
playoff birth if you're twelve or higher next season?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
I don't want to say too much about the memorandum
of understanding, but that's certainly been reported. That's out there,
and what you said is accurate.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It So next year, if you're ranked in the top twelve,
you're automatically in the playoffs. Correct, Okay, And everybody agreed that,
Like this was drawn up my Notre Dame, and then
the college Football Playoff Committee said we'll sign off on that.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Well, it was part of the negotiations as we were
contemplating the various changes that go into the committee and
in preparation for the extension of the ESPN deal.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Are we looking at a sixteen team field next season? Dan?
Speaker 7 (24:31):
I go back to what I said when you were
here on campus for the USC game. I firmly believe
that the right answer is sixteen teams with five automatic
qualifiers and eleven at large. And maybe there's no perfect answers.
You know, think about this year, Dan, say we were
four teams, there wouldn't be any arguments. I mean, those
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four teams. I think that's crystal clear. Those are the
right four teams. I don't think anybody would argue so
for twelve fourteen sixteen. I happened to think sixteen is
the answer. I think the majority of the vast and
overwhelming majority of the people in the college football management
committee room agree with me. I think anything beyond sixteen,
in my opinion, is a mistake because it would interfere
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with the importance of the regular season and all. By
the way, did we feel that this year, right, but
that's important? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
You know, we knew we had two tough games played.
You know, well, we certainly got better over the course
of the season, but we lost the two great teams
by a total of four points. We felt we had
zero wiggle room. We felt we did what we needed
to do. It turns out we didn't have a chance, right,
and that's what's so disappointing. But I think sixteen teams
with the five and eleven format is the way to
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go down.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Pete mcvauqua, Notre Dame Athletic Director joining us. But when
is this voted on? When is this decided or is
it already decided now?
Speaker 7 (25:52):
It's been a series of conversations for the better part
of a year or more. As you saw, it was
reported that we have a bit of an extension from
when we need to inform ESPN of what the format
will be. We'll meet as a group over the National
Championship weekend. I'm not sure if anything's going to get
resolved as it relates to format in that room at
(26:12):
that time, but these conversations are ongoing. If I had
to guess what happens next year, I think there's a
good chance we stay at twelve. I hope we can
keep pushing for sixteen, but Dan, I just don't know
how that's going to end.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
College football is at a crossroads, it feels like, but
it does take something to make change. So maybe what
happened here with Notre Dame brings about change, So it
could be a catalyst, do you see it that way?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Well, again, we're frustrated with the process, not the teams.
They're all great teams, and it's a bunch of team
BYU has a great argument. Texas, Vanderbilt, Miami, Alabama, Notre Dame.
We all have great arguments. It's the process that bothers us.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Ranking shows bother me, Pete, because well.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
They bothered me too, because you know, if we said, well,
if we had assembled as a team on Sunday and
rankings hadn't told us for the previous weeks, we're in.
Speaker 13 (27:10):
We're in, we're in.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Take care of business, take care of business, and hey,
you know what, Notre Dame, you're eleven, and now you're
going to get squeezed out because the conference tie ins
and Miami beat you, And hey, I get it. But
these ranking shows, as I said yesterday, like what's the
point why kind of send these signals and get the
hopes up of these of these teams, these coaches, these
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kids on the team that believe they're doing everything necessary.
And then, like I said, it just felt in that
room a collective sense of the rug being taken out
from under us without any explanation. At that I've heard
Dan that has me feeling better about it.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Casual fan here's this and says it's sour grapes, Notre
Dame trying to be bigger than everybody more important.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
You would say, what, Well, listen, everybody kind of wants
to do right by their team. We felt like we
did what we needed to do this season to earn
a spot in the college football playoffs. We feel that
we have one of the very best teams in the country.
I think the majority of people who follow this sport
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so closely agreed. Every indication we had from that first
ranking suggested that that committee agreed with us. We were
always being compared to Alabama. We couldn't possibly have ended
the year any better than we did. I get why
people think it's sour grapes, but you know it's disappointment.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Dan.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I mean this is we take this seriously, as do
other universities, and you know, the rankings can't just be
musical chairs at some fifth grade birthday party. They have
to mean something, and to me, what happened to us
really kind of was alarming.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Just to get you on record, you're not anti pop tarts, right,
because you guys were reportedly going to the pop Tart
Bowl to play BYU Dan.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
That the irony in that is I love pop tarts,
and I particularly love the brown sugar pop tarts. I
probably need too many of them now, I'm a huge
fan of pop tarts. That's nothing to do with pop tarts, Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I just want to make sure we got that on record.
I would say, great to talk to you again, but
thanks for We appreciate you coming on and giving your
side of the thing. If the people watching on TV
behind you, what are all those numbers behind you?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
So these behind me, these are actual bench seats from
Notre Dame Stadium. So when we did the extension and
the renovation and created crossroads here, there were some of
the original seats left over, so we created a wall
here with some of the original bench seats in Notre
Dame Stadium. So this is the back of my office
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that you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
How old are those seats?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Probably some of them different ages but different panels, but
some of them are over a century old.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Thanks again, Pete, We appreciate your time now.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Thanks for having me on DAN, and good to see
you and hope to see us out.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
That's Pete Mavaqua he's the Notre Dame athletic director. Yeah,
I understand it. You just want to know what the
rules are. And I'm not a Notre Dame apologist. I'm
just saying, let's just look at common sense here, and
I'm not anti Miami. If Miami was ranked ahead of
Notre Dame, fine, just you can't wait a month and
all of a sudden go you know, Miami should be
(30:35):
ranked ahead of Notre Dame put him there to begin with?
Was there something up with the ACC? I think there's
a whole lot more with that story, and Pete I
think would love to have talked about that, but you
could tell what the ACC did and did not do
is going to be there for a little while. But
(30:56):
he did say that rankings can't be musical chairs like
a fifth grade birthday party. And he's right. It's these
hey every Tuesday, the big reveal on the mother Ship.
It's great programming for them, but it puts the college
Football Playoff Committee in a tough situation because you got
to explain, Okay, what happened then, and why is it
(31:17):
different now, and why is it different in three or
four weeks from now? And was Notre Dame being set
up for disappointment. As my source said, this is last week.
They said this, and then you had the Miami situation.
But maybe it brings about change, But it didn't sound
(31:37):
like Pete thought that they were expanding to sixteen teams.
And I had been told that they were going to
first I was told they weren't, and then I was
told that they there's real strong momentum to have a
sixteen team playoff next year. And now Notre Dame is
guaranteed if they're ranked in the top twelve next year.
And we even said that after their first two losses.
(31:57):
I said, if they run the table, they're in two losses,
quality losses beginning of the year losses, and they'll make
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yes, Ton, it's very interesting saying how the relationship with
the AEC is strained. That'll be interesting to follow moving forward.
What's going to happen there.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And that covers a lot of sports here. That's not
just football, because they do have a partial schedule there
with some ACC teams, but now you're talking about all
the other sports they have with the ACC. All right,
we'll take a break. We will give you our best
and worst to the weekend. Right after this.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
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Speaker 14 (32:47):
Hey, David, Dan got a Hey, Dan got a Best
and worst Dealers finally winning against the Ravens last time
we beat them in Baltimore. Kenny Pickett and Tyler Huntley
were the quarterback second best.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Uh.
Speaker 14 (33:02):
Seeing Todd's Broncos succeed in AFC West and looks like
they're gonna get a new possibly a new champ uh
this uh this year, and it's just really good to see.
That's my best.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Thank you, gust In la Hi Gus. Best and Worst
of the weekend.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
Good morning, mister pat Thick. Best of the weekend got
to be Indiana to me, you know, everybody's been kind
of like waiting for them to lose, just so they
could be like see see told you, I told you.
But great for them, for Nanum and those of the
Heisman winner. Can't wait to see that one play out.
Worst of the weekend. Look, you know, to me, it
(33:37):
was flat out just arrogance of Notre Shame to sit
there and be like, well we didn't get in until
we're not gonna go to Bunny Bull game.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
You think Texas is sitting there right now, Texas and
probably could maybe be in there, has maybe a case
or whatever, and he's like, well, we should be in
there too, you know. I mean, like, dude, don't don't
schedule Syracuse blow them out knowingly seventy.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
To seven and be like, see, we're so good.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
See we'd like we should be in there. No, dude,
it's arrogant. You guys, they played like a champion. How
about your show up and just.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Play the game, all right? Thank you, Gus, Michael and
Miami Hi, Mike.
Speaker 13 (34:16):
Hey Dan six to three hundred. That was Miami getting in.
My worst honestly is Notre Dame getting out, and that's
because I thought the committee would have them play each
other again in the semi finals. With the ACC debacle
of how they did their rankings, is I think what
(34:39):
pushed Notre Dame outs.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, I think there's there's another story to tell here,
and I think it has to do with the ACC
because the ACC was going to lobby hard for Miami
and maybe not lobby so hard for Notre Dame at
least from what I'm told and two sources on this,
so I've been trying to get information on it. The
(35:05):
Alabama placing is a little questionable. Prior to the College
Football Playoff Commedye reveal, Miami put him in front of
Notre Dame. Nobody would have had a problem with that.
I wouldn't felt when you let them jump. Alabama is
non competitive in the SEC title game. Yes they got there,
(35:27):
but they were not competitive at all, and then you're
not dropping. I don't know it just it felt a
little nefarious there. Todd Best and worst of the weekend.
My best of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
They lost their football coach, but Ioway State basketball Saly
dominated Number one, produced eighty one fifty eight with the
help of eleven three pointers. Boiler Makers twenty three point loss,
largest non conference home loss by a number one team
in ap POLE history, tied for the largest.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Homeless ever by a number one team.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Wow worst Alabama getting shut out for the first three
quarters against Georgia the game by three touchdowns twenty eight seven.
The Dogs had one hundred and forty one total rushing yards.
Crimson tied negative three.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Seat and best and worst.
Speaker 11 (36:08):
My best of the weekend is Mike Tomlin getting a
huge dove against the Ravens. I guess I'm not any
good at coaching. Why don't I just beat the Ravens.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Then?
Speaker 11 (36:17):
My worst of the weekend Tampa Bay losing that was
an absolute must win. They've lost I think five of
the last seven or something like that. If there was
an NFL playoff selection committee, they would be on the
outside looking in.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Marvin Best and worst.
Speaker 15 (36:33):
Best at the weekend Titans running back Tony Pollard twenty
five carries harness sixty one yards, two touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Worst of the weekend the Commanders. What happened this season?
Speaker 15 (36:43):
After making the NFC Championship game last year, they're now
three and ten and they got shut out. Now harder
is for NFL two and to get shut out.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I'm watching the Broncos and the Raiders. I have this
bet with Todd. I had the Raiders with a better
record than the Broncos, so I got to get a
pie to the face.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I think they're eleven two and two and eleven right
now standing?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
So can we call?
Speaker 9 (37:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We can settle the bet? Now?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Probably, I don't see the Raiders catching up.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
With four games, all right, maybe a double or nothing.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
They're gonna have to make it like a thirty game
schedule or something.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
So you're down by ten, the line is seven and
a half, and the to end the game you kick
a field goal, and then all of a sudden you
lose by seven when the line is seven and a half.
What team goes for a field goal at the end
of the game when you know that you need ten
(37:35):
points so you're gonna get You're not even going for
a touchdown? Oh gues Todd.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The only thing I thought of was that they were
hoping the kick would take less than five seconds, and
then they cut it to seven and an on side
kick with one second left that somehow they pick up
and run in for a touch on something.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Crazier things have happened, I guess.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I guess technically, but you can't advance an onside.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Can't so I don't even know. So would there be
time for one play if they got it?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Probably not, I don't think so. But once again, I
do watch the lines as a former gambler, and I'm
always curious, like, whenever there's a last second, you know,
play one way or another, I go, how did that
affect this spread? And most times it does? PAULI Best
(38:20):
and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
I got two bests, as obvious as it is. The
Indiana Hoosiers beating Ohio State and doing it with defense.
They held them the fifty eight yards rushing two point
two a Carrie if you're from Earth, Indiana being the
number one football team in the country is one of
the wildest stories of my lifetime. Unbelievable and then one
that went under the radar a little bit. This weekend
FCS playoffs, Illinois State Redbirds take down North Dakota State,
(38:43):
previously undefeated, twenty nine to twenty eight in a fantastic game.
Huge day for Illinois State.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I think Illinois State was a twenty two to twenty
three point underdog in that game. Rich and Pittsburgh, Hey Rich,
thanks for holding What's on your mind.
Speaker 16 (38:59):
Was the whole thing for the ACC. The Notre Dame
Miami was created by the ACC. Why was Duke playing
Virginia and not the best second best team? Miami planed Virginia,
then Miami and Virginia, who over won, went right into
the tournament.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Well, there's some kind of like five team tiebreaker that
Duke somehow won. I yeah, I'm with you on that.
I would hope that you had a better ACC title game,
but then Duke ends up winning. Yes he did. Sounded
like Jim Beahon checking in there. Oh well, Jim's not
doing anything now, Aaron and fort Wayne? Hi, Aeron, went's
(39:39):
on your mind today?
Speaker 13 (39:42):
By hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
That's the worst of the weekend.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Uh, definitely my Hoosiers taken down.
Speaker 16 (39:51):
Ohio State and Paully is right.
Speaker 14 (39:54):
I was thinking about this, like, what kind of story
is there ever been of a team rising up like Indiana?
Speaker 13 (39:59):
I mean, and you get it at March Madness.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Well, you know what, we gave Dion so much credit
for what he did at Colorado, right, everybody lauding, Oh
my god, look at what Deon did. They won one
game the previous year or whatever. Then they won four
and it was like game day and you know, everybody's
out there. Kurt Signetti did something that's never been done before,
(40:26):
Like that turnaround is a million times more than what
Dion did at Colorado. Colorado has won a national title before,
Colorado has had a Heisman Trophy winner before. Colorado has
played good football before Indiana has not. What he did
in two years is incredible. He should be the Sports
(40:49):
Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
From eighteen ninety nine until two years ago, Indian never
won ten plus games in a season. The past two
years eleven wins, thirteen wins.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Rick new Heisel from CBS Sports will join us more
of your phone calls as well update the poll results.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Monday, Dan and the Dan Ete Dan Patrick
Show come on in stay awhile feeling refreshed after battling
whatever I've battled over the last three weeks. I didn't
realize this, but Seton said, yeah, you would turn your
mic off and then you'd be coughing, so all we
would see is your mouth there. So I got to
(00:27):
see the show back, and the visual is not very good.
You would think that our director, the Eyes and Ears
Mario would spare the nation that look of me hacking
up a lung. But I'm better than ever now. Went
to the doctor's office, Uh not, the emergency room. Just
went in and I got to see the doctor, gave
me some meds and Rarren ready to go. Yes, Todd,
(00:52):
did you ever get.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
An official diagnosis? Is it bronchitis? Just a really bad call?
Do they give it a name or anything?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I hold that it was strap and then it developed
into or kind of morphed into flu like stuff, and
he just said, you know, you're lucky to be alive. Yeah, yeah, warrior,
that's what they were saying. Man as I left. You know,
the doctors all got around and they were like, oh
my god, what a warrior hashtag.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Warrior kept the tonsils in And there's no no.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I thought, you know, I still have my tonsils. But
see that's one of those things like you know, Freddie
Mercury didn't change his teeth because he thought that would
change the way he he sung. And uh, I don't
want I don't want to take my tonsils out because
it may affect my voice. So I mean, not on
the same level as Freddie Mercury. But Freddy never got
(01:42):
his teeth fixed because he didn't want it to change
his voice.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Is there a tonsil vocal cord connection? That's a I'm
not aware of that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But no, doctor, what is right there?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It's in the Sinner. Yeah, I never knew that.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
That is.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I was going to get my tonsils ow when I
was a kid because I would always get strapped through
and I didn't think for a second, you know, I
was can affect my singing voice?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, it was gonna be about me but no, no,
go ahead, go ahead. I was just curious, thank you. Yeah,
so I still have my tonsils there. I didn't want
to get them out.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Yes, yeah, according to WebMD. Inflamed tonsils can directly affect
your voice, both short term and long term, and it's
a byproduct or a side effect of removing your tonsils
can't affect your voice, usually short term, not long term.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, thank you, all right, well.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's got to hold up for at least two and
a half more years after that, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Get Tommy John, get like a Volunteerly get Tommy John
for the throat or something if they have it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Tonsul John until John John. Okay, it's our too, best
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(03:16):
a little heated here as they didn't get in and
they decided to opt out of a bowl game. Rick
Neuheisel covers college football CBS. He'll stop by as well.
You got pro football tonight, Eagles at the Chargers. The
Eagles are favored by two and a half. I thought
it was a weekend of teams that lost, stealing the headlines.
(03:37):
The Colts, certainly with Daniel Jones, I don't think they're
going to make the playoffs because Jacksonville's playing well. And
I look at the final month of the season and
you've got they're at the Seahawks, they host the Niners,
they host the Jags, they're at the Texans, and Riley Leonard,
former Notre Dame quarterback, is your starting quarterback now. And
(03:58):
even with Daniel Jones, they probably weren't going to make
the playoffs. You also had the Chiefs losing last night.
We had Chris Simms on Chris Simms last hour said
that he thought the Chiefs were done done. Here's Patrick
Mahomes on the Chiefs going forward on fourth down.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Country believes in us. We executed on that in that
same situation several times this season and they did a
good job of passing the crossers. I wish I got
like I said, I wish I got to Rashid a
little bit earlier, or if I could have bought a
little bit more time. In hindsight, probably hit try to
hit trap over the top of the defender. But I
mean he made a good play. They they made good
play today. But I'll never question the decision to go
(04:37):
for it because I believe in the offense and who
we are.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, I think their chances are like sixteen percent something
like that. But you know that Texans defense is great.
I mean, we throw that word out Texans. Nobody's going
to want to face that defense.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
If the offense and c. J. Stroud was back last night,
if they can prove twenty one points, that feels like
that's enough for that team to win. The Bengals lose,
the Bengals should have won. The Bengals against that Bill's
defense did whatever they wanted to do Burrow back to
back interceptions. The Buccaneers lost. I said this last week.
(05:16):
Usually the team that is the lesser of the two
usually wins these weird games in the NFC sound and
so I wasn't surprised when I tune in and the
Saints were winning and they ended up winning that game
against Tampa. It's just kind of crazy, and it's always
it feels like it's always been that way. The Ravens losing,
I thought to, you know, having control of the ball
(05:39):
two steps almost a third step called a touchdown, that
would be enough. But it wasn't. And here's John harball
on the Isaiah Likely touchdown wiped off the board.
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Yeah, the explanation was a third foot didn't get down
before the ball came out. That's what they said. I
think to play with. I think the Aaron Rodgers play.
I mean, just coming a rules here. It's not an
officiating issue. It comes from New York. But you know,
when you when you when you're making a catch, you
have to you have to you have to survive the ground.
You know, he didn't survive the ground. He's not he's
not down by contact. He was catching. He was catching
(06:14):
the ball on the way down with another person. So
you you got to make a catch there and survive
the ground. I don't know why it was the rule
of where it was on that one. So all those things, well,
I'm sure we'll they'll explain to us, but they had
plenty of time to look at and they're the ones
who are the experts on the rules.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
So that's how it works.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, because they called it a touchdown and then I thought, okay,
that's gonna be hard to overturn. At first, I thought, okay,
he's got control, and then it's two steps, and that
it is a football move because the football move is
to keep it away from the defender. That to me
was the football move. But you got the Steelers, they survive,
(06:53):
picking up the win, and you know, a much needed
win at that. The Dolphins are still kind of hanging
in there. You know, they didn't fire Mike McDaniel. They
won five of six. I know they beat the Jets.
It doesn't matter. You're still winning these games. I don't
know if it's enough for Mike McDaniel to keep his job,
but I do find it interesting to keep an eye
(07:15):
on the Browns Titans game was probably not on my
bingo card, as they like to say, but I was
certainly entertained by it because I wanted to see how
Cam Wore did against Miles Garrett, and I wanted to
see how Shador Sanders did and in a home game
against a lesser opponent or opponent that's maybe equal to
(07:36):
them and putting up good numbers. And he did, and
he played well. But you know the avalanche of people
and social media that you know they sending in an
email or a tweet about should or scent. What are
you going to say about Shaud or sending? I don't
have any There's no real opinion, it no negativity. I
(07:58):
just said, give him a chance to play. I told
you he'd start a game at some point this season. Good.
I don't know what they have. You beat the Titans
at home, but there is progress. It feels like he
gives them more options. They're expanding the playbook from what
I'm told, and good it gives them a boost. It's exciting.
(08:23):
You still lost the game with a idiotic two point conversion,
So there's positives there now. Deshaun Watson's planning on coming
back next next year. I don't know if he ever
plays for them. And you got to have a top
five draft pick, are you going to take a quarterback?
Are you sold on Shadoor Sanders? And if they are good,
(08:46):
it's a good story, Yes.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Paulie, that coaching staff for the Browns should be embarrassed
how they finish that game.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
That.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I mean, if there's a worst the coaching staff lost
that your quarterback justic you seven plays eighty yards, you
remove him from the field for your two point conversion,
and you do a direct snap to a rookie running
back on a complicated play. That's irresponsible.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yep, all right, we didn't even do a poll question
for the first hour. At least I didn't acknowledge that.
Todd's here, Seaton, Marv, Paula, yours truly in the back room, guys,
all right, seton what kind of pole question or what
did you put up in the first hour? Yeah, we
got three of them up right now.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Notre dame, your options are got hosed, will change the playoffs?
Being petty or all of the above. Right now, it
is a tie between is being petty and all of
the above.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I wish they would have played in a bowl game,
but I understand why they didn't because they had nothing
to gain.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Here.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Let's say they blow out BYU and the Pop Tart Bowl.
It doesn't mean anything, and I believe that game would
be on ABC. I think that's what I was told.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Long history of ABC and the pop tart powle.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, of course, yes, legendary, legendary tradition. But I get it,
But I wish they would have still played. Now, nobody
is upset that I was State in Kansas State aren't
playing in their bowl games either. They got fined five
hundred thousand dollars each, I believe, But Notre Dame is
not in a conference, so Notre Dame decided we're not playing.
(10:18):
But you know, Iowa State loses their head coach and
maybe they decide. But once again, I would just ask
my players, do you guys want to play? Yes, Todd,
should Notre.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Dame care that this could come across as sow losers
and or afraid of the downside of losing to BYU.
Not that they're afraid of playing BYU, but those are
things that a lot of people feel.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Unless you're a big Notre Dames fan.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I think most people that are neutral think that they
look like they're taking the ball and going home and
they don't want any part of possibly losing to the Cougar.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, we'll talk find out in ten minutes when we
talk to their athletic director on making this decision. What
other pole questions did you have for the first time
re season?
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Yeah, I also got up there the Chiefs playoff chances
are dead on life support or alive.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And well, well you did predict your your wild prediction,
your hot prediction, your crazy prediction, the Chiefs would not
make the playoffs. Closer and closer. Yes, it's pretty incredible.
Seton said the Chiefs would not make the playoffs June third.
I believe not that.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
I'm okay, yeah, somewhere in that vicinity all what was
the other pole question that you had? We just put
this one up there right now. Worst loss this weekend Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'd say the Chiefs because Vegas had them as one
of the favorites to still win the Super Bowl and
now looks like they're done. Buccaneers can still win that division,
Ravens can still win that division. I think the Colts
losing and losing their quarterback and losing one of the
real good stories this year, I mean, that's a that's
(12:00):
a triple loss there, it feels like. But I would
say the Chiefs because bigger picture, the Chiefs out of
that group could still win the Super Bowl, or at
least they would be viewed as one of the favorites
if they were in the playoff picture.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Yeah, Pauling and Daniel Jones is an unrestricted free agent.
A month ago, he was on the roll and would
probably got one of those mid levels Sam Darnold three years,
one hundred million dollar contracts going forward from the Colts
or other And now his career is completely in flux, completely.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, because he's not going to be ready to go
next season. To start next season. You got the Anthony
Richardson situation. That's a mess. You got Riley Leonard as
your backup now starting quarterback there that was. That was
an expensive injury for Daniel Jones. I mean, that's the
business side of this. If he stays healthy, let's say
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they do get into the playoffs, he's gonna get a
one hundred million dollar deal because they don't want Anthony
Richardson as their starter, at least not now, and Daniel
Jones would have been the de facto Okay, all right,
he played pretty well, which he did, He started out
pretty well, but he's playing with a broken fibula now.
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I don't know if he should be out there with
a broken fibula. Of all my injuries and surgeries. I've
never had a broken fibula or torn achilles, and I
don't know if one can lead the other. But you
would think your quarterback out there with a broken fibula
should not be out there with a broken fibula and
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then he blows out his achilles. But Riley Leonard is
now you're starting quarterback. Now you've got to get a
backup quarterback in there as well, and the schedules really
tough the final month of the season. Chris and Syracuse
Good Morning, Chris, Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Hey, thanks Dan, ye I got a best and a
couple of commis to threats him. My best to one
of the original dan Ciples in Dan Nation on the
Dan Patrick Show, Tillian Bloomington, who is a man Indiana
football fan. He has to be so excited with his Hoosiers,
who are kind of the poster child of the new
age at college football. No real dominant teams, just a
lot of very good teams.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
And in the.
Speaker 12 (14:11):
SEC Title game, Alabama had to cover ninety one yards
for their loan touchdown and Georgia had to only cover
one hundred and thirty yards combined. All four of their
touchdowns and Dan this year is one of the few
years that Notre Dame not being in the ACC conference
came back to bite him. It not only cost him
a berth in the playoffs, but with the ACC so
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week this year, it probably cost him a home first
round playoff game. And I wonder if the committee leaving
Notre Dame out is their way of trying to force
him into a conference.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Uh okay, I got to find this out, and I'm
going to find it out in about five minutes. What
role did the ACC play in Notre Dame getting in
or not getting in? And find out next year on
the Dan pass Trick Show.
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
We'll get some more phone calls. Coming up. Best and
Worst of the weekend, Which you saw that you liked
you didn't like. Rick Neuheisel covers college football. Former head
coach will join us coming up top of the hour.
Pete Bavaqua, Notre Dame athletic director. A couple of months ago,
I said, oh, I look forward to talking to you again.
I didn't know we would be talking about this. How
did we get here? Pete?
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Dan, first of all, yeah, thanks thanks for having me on.
It's good to see you yet yesterday, that's the question.
I don't know how we got here. That's kind of
what we have a problem with. I don't have a
good answer for you, you know, and a lot of
conversations here on campus the last twenty four hours, as
you can imagine, and you know, I want to make
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one thing clear, Dan, we have no problems with the
teams that made it in. They're all great teams. You know,
Miami's a great team, Alabama's a great team. If Texas Vanderbilt.
We're a great team. What we're so confused by and
frustrated with is the process. You know, every step along
the way, since the first CFP rankings came out, we
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were led to believe we were in as long as
we took care of business, and we certainly took care
of business with this ten game winning streak. Then you
think about that first ranking. You know, we and Miami
were both six and two. They had obviously already beat
us the first game of the year. They were eighteenth,
We were tenth. You know, the only thing that we
did since that point was win every game by over
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an average of over thirty points. And you know, all
of a sudden, we're eleventh and on the outside looking in.
And you know, when we sit and talk, when I
talked to Marcus, when when we talked to our team,
we don't have any good answers for that. So we're
just we're just really frustrated that we had the rug
pulled out from underneath the stan.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Were you able to lobby at all Sunday morning, you know,
or had the decision been made that you were not
going to make the playoffs?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Yeah, I don't know exactly when the decision was made.
You know, we you know, we made our case. We
stayed at our point of view. But again, if you're us,
we were told from day one of the rankings that
you know, we were in and we were ninth, and
then all of a sudden, you know, we go play
a game against Stanford. I felt like in the middle
of the night, you know, and we we we took
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care of business, and Alabama has a really tough game
against a an Auburn team that's having a tough year.
And we wake up on Tuesday and we fall below
Alabama for the first time. And it was all about
the fierce conversation between Notre Dame and Alabama. And I
heard something to the effect that Alabama went forward on
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fourth down, so that made an impression, and just our
heads were spinning, like where's the logic, where's the rationale?
Why are we being kind of punished and the only
ones that seemed to be moving in the wrong direction
and yet winning and having an unbelievably dominant end to
the season. It's just we're confused, we're sad, and damn
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we're frustrated.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And I was told there's nothing that's secret in those meetings,
it eventually gets out, and I was told during last
week that it felt like where Alabama was ranked that
Notre Dame. In the words of my source, you guys
were being set up for disappointment. So this is somebody
involved in this. And then all of a sudden the
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Miami situation, which if they ranked Miami ahead of you, fine,
I don't have any problem with that. I just didn't
understand the rationale. And then I wondered, did the ACC
lobby at all? Did what role did the ACC play
in any of this? In your opinion?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have
tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team, great school,
their athletic director, Dan Radakovich is a good friend, and
all the teams in the ACC, great wonderful universities. We
have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC,
but we were mystified by the actions of the conference
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to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in
football and a member of their conference in twenty four
of our other sports. And I would tell you, Dan,
I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say
that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship
between the conference and Notre Dame. What do you mean,
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just we didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled
out repeatedly and compared to Miami, not by Miami. Miami
has every right to do that, but it raised a
lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking shots
at us, and you know, that's just not something we
chose to do. We wouldn't choose to do that in
the future. People might disagree with us, but that's just
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not something that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we
have no problem with any of these teams. These are
all great teams. You look at those teams, Miami, like
I said, great season, they beat us. You think about Alabama,
and nobody's had more success in college football over the
last decade than Alabama. But Dan, you know, I mean,
you follow the sport so closely. Everybody was saying that
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we were one of a handful of teams that could
win this whole thing and that we have zero percent chance.
Even Nick Saban, you know, nobody knows more about college
football maybe in the history of the world than Nick Saban,
you know, and he said it yesterday, like, how is
Notre Dame, not in this. I mean, everybody's just kind
of confused and per played, and we don't have good
answers for the kids on our team, for our student athletes.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Are you going to reevaluate your relationship with the ACC
the overall relationship.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I would just say it's been strained, irreparable, Well you
never say irreparable. But it's opened our eyes and you know,
we we it caught our attention. But you know, we'll
we'll we'll move past this like we are, you know,
as you know, we're already focused on next season. Uh,
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you know, we made the decision not to play in
a bowl game, as I know you're you're well aware,
and a lot of a lot of people have asked
me about that. And you know when Marcus, we watched
the presentation show, the selection show with the team, and
then Marcus, like he always does, was wonderful, got up
and for somebody that always has great answers, he was
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brutally honest with the team and said he didn't have
a lot of answers. Doesn't understand how this happened, Why
this happened, Why a team that thought it was doing
what it needed to do all of a sudden kind
of woke up on kind of the wrong side of this.
And then just as you're kind of dealing with that,
you start getting these calls from other bowls. And you know,
the role of a captain on the Notre Dame football
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team is a role that the program and Marcus takes
very very seriously. And he talked to all the captains,
you know, and said, hey, what are you guys thinking,
What's what does the team thinking. Let's talk about this,
and you know, to a person, the captains and some
of the other you know, underclassmen on the team said, listen,
we are such a close knit team. We've done so
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much this season. We overcame those two opening losses, we rallied,
we dominated in the last ten games. We can't imagine
taking the field not as that team. And it's reality, Dan,
you know that certain players wouldn't participate in that game.
You think about some body with the future that he has,
(23:02):
like a Jeremiah Love, a Jadarian Price, Eli Rarid, and
you know Emil Wagner, who's one of the most impressive
people I've met in my life. Hopefully, after he's done
playing football, I hope he runs for president. One day,
it just wouldn't be the same, and you know, made
the decision that it was time to start thinking about
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next season. Give these these student athletes a break. They
have exams coming up, and then you know, really hopefully
they they'll go home and spend Christmas in the holidays
with their family and friends.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Feels like a message being sent as well, Pete.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Well we're not happy, Dan, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Help me understand this though. So are you guaranteed of
playoff birth if you're twelve or higher next season?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
I don't want to say too much about the memorandum
of understanding, but that's certainly been reported. That's out there,
and what you said is accurate.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It So next year, if you're ranked in the top twelve,
you're automatically in the playoffs. Correct, Okay, And everybody agreed that,
Like this was drawn up my Notre Dame, and then
the college Football Playoff Committee said we'll sign off on that.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Well, it was part of the negotiations as we were
contemplating the various changes that go into the committee and
in preparation for the extension of the ESPN deal.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Are we looking at a sixteen team field next season? Dan?
Speaker 7 (24:31):
I go back to what I said when you were
here on campus for the USC game. I firmly believe
that the right answer is sixteen teams with five automatic
qualifiers and eleven at large. And maybe there's no perfect answers.
You know, think about this year, Dan, say we were
four teams, there wouldn't be any arguments. I mean, those
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four teams. I think that's crystal clear. Those are the
right four teams. I don't think anybody would argue so
for twelve fourteen sixteen. I happened to think sixteen is
the answer. I think the majority of the vast and
overwhelming majority of the people in the college football management
committee room agree with me. I think anything beyond sixteen,
in my opinion, is a mistake because it would interfere
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with the importance of the regular season and all. By
the way, did we feel that this year, right, but
that's important? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
You know, we knew we had two tough games played.
You know, well, we certainly got better over the course
of the season, but we lost the two great teams
by a total of four points. We felt we had
zero wiggle room. We felt we did what we needed
to do. It turns out we didn't have a chance, right,
and that's what's so disappointing. But I think sixteen teams
with the five and eleven format is the way to
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go down.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Pete mcvauqua, Notre Dame Athletic Director joining us. But when
is this voted on? When is this decided or is
it already decided now?
Speaker 7 (25:52):
It's been a series of conversations for the better part
of a year or more. As you saw, it was
reported that we have a bit of an extension from
when we need to inform ESPN of what the format
will be. We'll meet as a group over the National
Championship weekend. I'm not sure if anything's going to get
resolved as it relates to format in that room at
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that time, but these conversations are ongoing. If I had
to guess what happens next year, I think there's a
good chance we stay at twelve. I hope we can
keep pushing for sixteen, but Dan, I just don't know
how that's going to end.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
College football is at a crossroads, it feels like, but
it does take something to make change. So maybe what
happened here with Notre Dame brings about change, So it
could be a catalyst, do you see it that way?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Well, again, we're frustrated with the process, not the teams.
They're all great teams, and it's a bunch of team
BYU has a great argument. Texas, Vanderbilt, Miami, Alabama, Notre Dame.
We all have great arguments. It's the process that bothers us.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Ranking shows bother me, Pete, because well.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
They bothered me too, because you know, if we said, well,
if we had assembled as a team on Sunday and
rankings hadn't told us for the previous weeks, we're in.
Speaker 13 (27:10):
We're in, we're in.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Take care of business, take care of business, and hey,
you know what, Notre Dame, you're eleven, and now you're
going to get squeezed out because the conference tie ins
and Miami beat you, And hey, I get it. But
these ranking shows, as I said yesterday, like what's the
point why kind of send these signals and get the
hopes up of these of these teams, these coaches, these
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kids on the team that believe they're doing everything necessary.
And then, like I said, it just felt in that
room a collective sense of the rug being taken out
from under us without any explanation. At that I've heard
Dan that has me feeling better about it.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Casual fan here's this and says it's sour grapes, Notre
Dame trying to be bigger than everybody more important.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
You would say, what, Well, listen, everybody kind of wants
to do right by their team. We felt like we
did what we needed to do this season to earn
a spot in the college football playoffs. We feel that
we have one of the very best teams in the country.
I think the majority of people who follow this sport
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so closely agreed. Every indication we had from that first
ranking suggested that that committee agreed with us. We were
always being compared to Alabama. We couldn't possibly have ended
the year any better than we did. I get why
people think it's sour grapes, but you know it's disappointment.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Dan.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I mean this is we take this seriously, as do
other universities, and you know, the rankings can't just be
musical chairs at some fifth grade birthday party. They have
to mean something, and to me, what happened to us
really kind of was alarming.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Just to get you on record, you're not anti pop tarts, right,
because you guys were reportedly going to the pop Tart
Bowl to play BYU Dan.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
That the irony in that is I love pop tarts,
and I particularly love the brown sugar pop tarts. I
probably need too many of them now, I'm a huge
fan of pop tarts. That's nothing to do with pop tarts, Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I just want to make sure we got that on record.
I would say, great to talk to you again, but
thanks for We appreciate you coming on and giving your
side of the thing. If the people watching on TV
behind you, what are all those numbers behind you?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
So these behind me, these are actual bench seats from
Notre Dame Stadium. So when we did the extension and
the renovation and created crossroads here, there were some of
the original seats left over, so we created a wall
here with some of the original bench seats in Notre
Dame Stadium. So this is the back of my office
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that you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
How old are those seats?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Probably some of them different ages but different panels, but
some of them are over a century old.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Thanks again, Pete, We appreciate your time now.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Thanks for having me on DAN, and good to see
you and hope to see us out.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
That's Pete Mavaqua he's the Notre Dame athletic director. Yeah,
I understand it. You just want to know what the
rules are. And I'm not a Notre Dame apologist. I'm
just saying, let's just look at common sense here, and
I'm not anti Miami. If Miami was ranked ahead of
Notre Dame, fine, just you can't wait a month and
all of a sudden go you know, Miami should be
(30:35):
ranked ahead of Notre Dame put him there to begin with?
Was there something up with the ACC? I think there's
a whole lot more with that story, and Pete I
think would love to have talked about that, but you
could tell what the ACC did and did not do
is going to be there for a little while. But
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he did say that rankings can't be musical chairs like
a fifth grade birthday party. And he's right. It's these
hey every Tuesday, the big reveal on the mother Ship.
It's great programming for them, but it puts the college
Football Playoff Committee in a tough situation because you got
to explain, Okay, what happened then, and why is it
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different now, and why is it different in three or
four weeks from now? And was Notre Dame being set
up for disappointment. As my source said, this is last week.
They said this, and then you had the Miami situation.
But maybe it brings about change, But it didn't sound
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like Pete thought that they were expanding to sixteen teams.
And I had been told that they were going to
first I was told they weren't, and then I was
told that they there's real strong momentum to have a
sixteen team playoff next year. And now Notre Dame is
guaranteed if they're ranked in the top twelve next year.
And we even said that after their first two losses.
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I said, if they run the table, they're in two losses,
quality losses beginning of the year losses, and they'll make
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yes, Ton, it's very interesting saying how the relationship with
the AEC is strained. That'll be interesting to follow moving forward.
What's going to happen there.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And that covers a lot of sports here. That's not
just football, because they do have a partial schedule there
with some ACC teams, but now you're talking about all
the other sports they have with the ACC. All right,
we'll take a break. We will give you our best
and worst to the weekend. Right after this.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
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Speaker 14 (32:47):
Hey, David, Dan got a Hey, Dan got a Best
and worst Dealers finally winning against the Ravens last time
we beat them in Baltimore. Kenny Pickett and Tyler Huntley
were the quarterback second best.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Uh.
Speaker 14 (33:02):
Seeing Todd's Broncos succeed in AFC West and looks like
they're gonna get a new possibly a new champ uh
this uh this year, and it's just really good to see.
That's my best.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Thank you, gust In la Hi Gus. Best and Worst
of the weekend.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
Good morning, mister pat Thick. Best of the weekend got
to be Indiana to me, you know, everybody's been kind
of like waiting for them to lose, just so they
could be like see see told you, I told you.
But great for them, for Nanum and those of the
Heisman winner. Can't wait to see that one play out.
Worst of the weekend. Look, you know, to me, it
(33:37):
was flat out just arrogance of Notre Shame to sit
there and be like, well we didn't get in until
we're not gonna go to Bunny Bull game.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
You think Texas is sitting there right now, Texas and
probably could maybe be in there, has maybe a case
or whatever, and he's like, well, we should be in
there too, you know. I mean, like, dude, don't don't
schedule Syracuse blow them out knowingly seventy.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
To seven and be like, see, we're so good.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
See we'd like we should be in there. No, dude,
it's arrogant. You guys, they played like a champion. How
about your show up and just.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Play the game, all right? Thank you, Gus, Michael and
Miami Hi, Mike.
Speaker 13 (34:16):
Hey Dan six to three hundred. That was Miami getting in.
My worst honestly is Notre Dame getting out, and that's
because I thought the committee would have them play each
other again in the semi finals. With the ACC debacle
of how they did their rankings, is I think what
(34:39):
pushed Notre Dame outs.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, I think there's there's another story to tell here,
and I think it has to do with the ACC
because the ACC was going to lobby hard for Miami
and maybe not lobby so hard for Notre Dame at
least from what I'm told and two sources on this,
so I've been trying to get information on it. The
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Alabama placing is a little questionable. Prior to the College
Football Playoff Commedye reveal, Miami put him in front of
Notre Dame. Nobody would have had a problem with that.
I wouldn't felt when you let them jump. Alabama is
non competitive in the SEC title game. Yes they got there,
(35:27):
but they were not competitive at all, and then you're
not dropping. I don't know it just it felt a
little nefarious there. Todd Best and worst of the weekend.
My best of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
They lost their football coach, but Ioway State basketball Saly
dominated Number one, produced eighty one fifty eight with the
help of eleven three pointers. Boiler Makers twenty three point loss,
largest non conference home loss by a number one team
in ap POLE history, tied for the largest.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Homeless ever by a number one team.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Wow worst Alabama getting shut out for the first three
quarters against Georgia the game by three touchdowns twenty eight seven.
The Dogs had one hundred and forty one total rushing yards.
Crimson tied negative three.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Seat and best and worst.
Speaker 11 (36:08):
My best of the weekend is Mike Tomlin getting a
huge dove against the Ravens. I guess I'm not any
good at coaching. Why don't I just beat the Ravens.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Then?
Speaker 11 (36:17):
My worst of the weekend Tampa Bay losing that was
an absolute must win. They've lost I think five of
the last seven or something like that. If there was
an NFL playoff selection committee, they would be on the
outside looking in.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Marvin Best and worst.
Speaker 15 (36:33):
Best at the weekend Titans running back Tony Pollard twenty
five carries harness sixty one yards, two touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Worst of the weekend the Commanders. What happened this season?
Speaker 15 (36:43):
After making the NFC Championship game last year, they're now
three and ten and they got shut out. Now harder
is for NFL two and to get shut out.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I'm watching the Broncos and the Raiders. I have this
bet with Todd. I had the Raiders with a better
record than the Broncos, so I got to get a
pie to the face.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I think they're eleven two and two and eleven right
now standing?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
So can we call?
Speaker 9 (37:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We can settle the bet? Now?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Probably, I don't see the Raiders catching up.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
With four games, all right, maybe a double or nothing.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
They're gonna have to make it like a thirty game
schedule or something.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
So you're down by ten, the line is seven and
a half, and the to end the game you kick
a field goal, and then all of a sudden you
lose by seven when the line is seven and a half.
What team goes for a field goal at the end
of the game when you know that you need ten
(37:35):
points so you're gonna get You're not even going for
a touchdown? Oh gues Todd.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The only thing I thought of was that they were
hoping the kick would take less than five seconds, and
then they cut it to seven and an on side
kick with one second left that somehow they pick up
and run in for a touch on something.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Crazier things have happened, I guess.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I guess technically, but you can't advance an onside.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Can't so I don't even know. So would there be
time for one play if they got it?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Probably not, I don't think so. But once again, I
do watch the lines as a former gambler, and I'm
always curious, like, whenever there's a last second, you know,
play one way or another, I go, how did that
affect this spread? And most times it does? PAULI Best
(38:20):
and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
I got two bests, as obvious as it is. The
Indiana Hoosiers beating Ohio State and doing it with defense.
They held them the fifty eight yards rushing two point
two a Carrie if you're from Earth, Indiana being the
number one football team in the country is one of
the wildest stories of my lifetime. Unbelievable and then one
that went under the radar a little bit. This weekend
FCS playoffs, Illinois State Redbirds take down North Dakota State,
(38:43):
previously undefeated, twenty nine to twenty eight in a fantastic game.
Huge day for Illinois State.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I think Illinois State was a twenty two to twenty
three point underdog in that game. Rich and Pittsburgh, Hey Rich,
thanks for holding What's on your mind.
Speaker 16 (38:59):
Was the whole thing for the ACC. The Notre Dame
Miami was created by the ACC. Why was Duke playing
Virginia and not the best second best team? Miami planed Virginia,
then Miami and Virginia, who over won, went right into
the tournament.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Well, there's some kind of like five team tiebreaker that
Duke somehow won. I yeah, I'm with you on that.
I would hope that you had a better ACC title game,
but then Duke ends up winning. Yes he did. Sounded
like Jim Beahon checking in there. Oh well, Jim's not
doing anything now, Aaron and fort Wayne? Hi, Aeron, went's
(39:39):
on your mind today?
Speaker 13 (39:42):
By hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
That's the worst of the weekend.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Uh, definitely my Hoosiers taken down.
Speaker 16 (39:51):
Ohio State and Paully is right.
Speaker 14 (39:54):
I was thinking about this, like, what kind of story
is there ever been of a team rising up like Indiana?
Speaker 13 (39:59):
I mean, and you get it at March Madness.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Well, you know what, we gave Dion so much credit
for what he did at Colorado, right, everybody lauding, Oh
my god, look at what Deon did. They won one
game the previous year or whatever. Then they won four
and it was like game day and you know, everybody's
out there. Kurt Signetti did something that's never been done before,
(40:26):
Like that turnaround is a million times more than what
Dion did at Colorado. Colorado has won a national title before,
Colorado has had a Heisman Trophy winner before. Colorado has
played good football before Indiana has not. What he did
in two years is incredible. He should be the Sports
(40:49):
Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
From eighteen ninety nine until two years ago, Indian never
won ten plus games in a season. The past two
years eleven wins, thirteen wins.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Rick new Heisel from CBS Sports will join us more
of your phone calls as well update the poll results.
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