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CFP First Round & Full Bracket Predictions | Conference Champ Reactions, Which Teams Can Win It All, Bowl Games to Watch and more · The Extra Point

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  What's up y'all? You were listening to the Extra
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  Point College Football podcast. I'm your host Jacob Carnage,
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  joined as always by my Co host Daniel Hammock.
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  Daniel, we have made it through the best part of the season, the
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  regular season. We have made it through
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  conference championship weekend. We have crowned conference
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  champions. We got the committee's rankings.
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  We have a playoff set on this episode, Daniel.
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  We're going to react to our conference champions, react to
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  those games, what happened, what we learned from those teams,
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  College Football Playoff rankings reaction.
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  Did the committee get it right? What do they do?
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  What do we think about it? Bowl games to keep an eye on.
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  Bowl season is happening, happening still.
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  Despite what Notre Dame would like you to believe, bowl games
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  are still happening and they're still fun.
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  Which teams in this field can actually win the whole thing?
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  How many and which ones? You'll get our interest to that
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  be thinking about that as you're listening.
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  We'll go ahead and do our first round picks against the spread,
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  not just straight up, but against the spread because I
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  think two of those games it gets a spread will be more fun to
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  pick than just straight up. And then lastly, Daniel, our
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  full bracket breakdown. Who do we think at the beginning
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  is going to win it all now that we have the final bracket?
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  And we'll give you a chance. And if you're watching or
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  listening, you can go ahead and click this link in the episode
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  Fill out a bracket compete against us I think there's at
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  least 10 or 15 people in there already before we even record
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  join that compete against us if you think you're smarter than us
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  as you're listening prove it join our bracket group and we
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  haven't talked about this Daniel maybe we'll do a prize I know
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  net like we're teasing stuff next year we're going to do some
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  more pick stuff during the season we're going to offer some
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  more prizes I will consider it this year I don't think
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  anybody's going to beat me but you know if.
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  Had people ask for hats for next year.
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  So I know that they, they have really, you know, liked the
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  extra point hat. But yeah, I don't know what else
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  we could we could provide other than our expert analysis.
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  But yeah, we'll certainly, we'll certainly see if there's
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  something we could do. Yeah, for the fans as as we get
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  started with that. Daniel, before we get into the
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  playoff, we did just have some conference championship games.
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  Look, I feel like an old man at heart.
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  I I still like conference championship games, although I
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  know they're not that old. They're older than me.
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  So they've been around for as long as I've been around.
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  Look, let's just start here. We, we, we don't hide this
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  Daniel, you and I are Georgia fans.
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  We, I'll start with the SEC championship.
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  Georgia dominates Alabama and it it was the most statistically
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  the most dominating performance of the weekend.
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  You know, friend of the show Parker Fleming, stats of war on
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  Twitter has the did we really get beat that bad graphic he
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  posts on Mondays. That's just the net success rate
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  Georgia over Alabama, worst one on their highest post game win
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  expectancy from Bill Conley. You know, highest one was
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  Georgia over Alabama. And then Daniel, if you, if you
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  watch the game, 'cause I know you might be saying shut up,
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  nerd. Who cares about stats, man?
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  The difference in physicality was stark compared to that first
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  game. That first game, I thought that
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  Alabama matched Georgia's physicality.
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  This one, whether it was Georgia was that much more physical or
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  Alabama didn't want any of it. Regardless, the the difference
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  in physicality was astounding. And yeah, I'm not going to, you
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  know what, we'll save the can Georgia win it all?
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  And if you want to nitpick Georgia, all that kind of stuff.
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  But in this game, Daniel, that was an old, Yeah, someone who's
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  an old school guy. That was an old school game, a
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  field position and impressive. Georgia, you know, in the first
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  two years without divisions has now gone back-to-back and won
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  the SEC back-to-back years. So I think the SEC still runs
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  through Athens, GA SEC still goes through Kirby Smart and
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  again, old school. I love anytime Kirby Smart gets
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  a microphone in front of him 'cause he's just an old school
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  ball coach and love listening to him.
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  But really, really impressive 1 from Georgia.
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  They get a top four seed in the by and they win the SEC and it's
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  really, really impressive win. Yeah, I think this is one that
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  before the game everybody just had an asterisk by because what
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  should happen was Georgia win based on, you know, Alabama was
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  trending down, Georgia's trending up this last month of
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  the season. And it just so happened that,
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  you know, they were meeting each other.
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  But, you know, I mean, Georgia has had problems with Alabama.
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  They've never beaten Alabama in the SEC championship.
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  Alabama had never lost a game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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  You know, obviously Kirby Smart, his record against Nick Saban
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  and then now just Alabama as a whole has, you know, become a
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  national talking point. So it was one of those things
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  like, is this truly an issue? Is this going to last forever?
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  You know, what should we make of this?
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  This Kaylin Nabor have Kirby Smart's number as well.
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  Is the black hoodie, you know, of death the greatest?
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  You know, is it better than when Florida State used to wear the
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  unconquered jersey? Like what?
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  What do we make of all of it? And it turned out that no, you
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  could trust your eyes. Kirby Smart and this Georgia
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  team are in fact physical. The streak was going to end at
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  some point and it kind of got exercised on that night.
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  I mean, you and I are both obviously Georgia fans.
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  We've been that, you know, for our whole life.
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  We we've been, you know, in the middle of this fan base for so
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  long. We kind of know what the vibe
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  is. I don't know how you feel Jacob,
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  but the vibe for me kind of felt like when Georgia won the
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  national championship against Alabama in 2021 season, you
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  know, 2020 to January of 2022 where it almost was like a sigh
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  of relief. And finally, you know, I was
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  watching intently, not believing it was true until honestly,
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  until Chauncey Bowens broke that run on 3rd and 12 with two
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  minutes left in the game. And especially.
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  Clinched the game at that point, you know, I was like, oh, OK, I
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  think Georgia officially has won this game.
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  Up 3 touchdowns with two minutes left in the fourth quarter.
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  I think you can say Georgia won, yeah.
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  But you look back on it once as soon as it's over and you start
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  to think Georgia dominated. Like you were talking about
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  offense, you know, defensively just, you know, suffocating line
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  of scrimmage, special teams, obviously the punt block,
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  starting field position, all of that.
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  Georgia had more penalties. So if you think about it, they
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  were actually, you know, they had six more penalties and more
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  penalty yardage. So it kind of held them back a
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  little bit. And then, you know, you throw in
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  the fact that the touchdown that Alabama had, you know, again,
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  I'm not here to legitimize anything.
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  Alabama scored that touchdown, but Georgia was going to get off
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  the field on 3rd down and they had a player throw a punch.
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  And then, yeah, then there was AAPI call and then a referee
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  ended up setting a pick for the receiver that ultimately scored
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  and Jeremy Bernard. So again, you don't have to make
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  excuses because they scored a touchdown.
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  Georgia still won by plenty, but and they covered, thank
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  goodness, because they made that pick.
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  But yeah, it's one of those things where you can almost say
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  this was almost a shutout at one point, if that.
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  Those things all didn't line up for Alabama to score.
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  Yeah, I think it was impressive thing for Georgia.
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  If you're a Georgia fan is and if you're trying to pick the
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  playoff is, you know, early in the season, you and I said, OK,
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  if Georgia's issue is the defense after the Tennessee game
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  and boy, do they have a coaching staff to get that fixed by the
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  end of the year because this is two seasons, right?
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  I mean, whole new season now, three more games that got to go
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  in man. The last month, George's defense
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  has started off like George's defense again.
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  And the the statistical profile, Daniel, I don't think they're
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  ever going to touch that 21 defense ever again.
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  Yeah, I'm I'm just telling you what the numbers are saying.
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  The numbers have matched the 22 defense the last month and that
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  one was good enough to win a title 2.
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  So good win for Georgia felt like they did what they should
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  have done, but I think it was impressive the way they
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  physically dominated and the way I mean they got it seemed like
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  they were in the backfield every play again, you know, getting
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  going after Simpson. They got 3 sacked, but it seemed
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  like they were in the backfield every play, which is something
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  that was not happening early in the year.
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  And again, if if you're looking at teams that are getting hot at
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  the right time for this playoff, honestly, like Ohio State before
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  they tried to win a game a different way last year against
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  Michigan. George is fitting that profile.
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  Which Speaking of Ohio State, Daniel, when is first Congrats
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  to Indiana? I, I keep saying this to you and
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  to to others, which is I'm having a hard time trusting my
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  eyes with Indiana because I'm a nerd.
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  I love recruiting, I love the sport, I love stats.
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  And it's just it's not I'm watching them play.
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  Their stats are great and I'm looking at the roster and it
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  does not make any sense. Right.
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  S2 plus they're a top four offense.
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  Top two? I mean they're 4th on offense,
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  second on defense. They looked like physically
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  equal with Ohio State the other night.
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  So huge Congrats to Indiana. You could argue Kurt Cignetti
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  has done the best coaching job of all time the last two years,
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  considering Indiana when he took over had the FBS worst winning
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  percentage of all time as a program and he's now gone 11 and
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  112 and O 13 and O Big 10 championship.
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  So I'm not being hyperbolic when you could say Kurt Cignetti has
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  done the greatest coaching job of all time over the last two
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  seasons. I want to start there.
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  I want to get to Ohio State, but I want to give Indiana all their
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  flowers. This is really, really
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  impressive, and it's not fluky. Yeah, they had to beat Ohio
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  State. And this Ohio State team, we
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  everybody knows the names. They've got Bo Jackson in the
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  backfield, for goodness sake. I mean, and they're saying he's
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  a freshman for some reason. This.
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  Is Ultimate Team, you know, on, on NCAA, on college football, EA
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  college football. But yeah, no Indiana.
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  It's so weird because prior to the Oregon game this year, we're
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  going to hit that nail on the head every time we're beat that
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  beat the Dead horses. Yeah, before that game.
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  Not to illegitimize anything, but the Big 10, as respectful as
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  I can say, it is a joke. The bottom half is just, you
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  know, hot dog water, as the kids say.
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  So it's not, you know, very competitive.
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  And if you have a pulse and if you have a good coach, which
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  I'll say this, even before the Oregon game, I was like, no, no,
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  no, Signetti's a great coach. I just think that Indiana is a
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  fraud of the team because of they're held together with like,
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  you know, stick, you know, some gum and like a rubber band and a
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  paper clip. Like they're not there's no
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  depth there. They'd haven't recruited.
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  You know, they have a good quarterback, but outside of
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  that, what do you really have? Then they beat Oregon, who
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  everybody you and I both, you know, respect immensely and at
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  one point were saying maybe the best team in the country the way
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  they had played and they're still one of the best teams in
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  the country when they beat them, immediately legitimized
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  everything that Signetti had done up to that point.
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  And we really had to start taking notice.
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  Almost lose to a Penn State team that's a very talented team,
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  come back and win that game. And then all eyes are on this
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  one. Now.
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  For some people, you're watching this game and it's like a punt
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  fest. It's 13 to 10 as the final
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  missed, you know, close field goal at the end.
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  We're both teams as passionate. This isn't, you know, you come
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  from watching the SEC championship where every inch
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  matters. And this game is kind of like,
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  you know, is more of a professional crowd, almost more
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  corporate. But, you know, that being said,
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  it was a good game. These two are close the whole
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  time. Good coaches win games.
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  Last week, Sig Nettie did. It is tough for me.
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  We'll get to our playoff picks and stuff in a little while.
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  It's still tough for me, man, to put respect on them, but I
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  watched it with my eyes. They covered those receivers.
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  They stopped them on 3rd down. They forced, you know, this
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  great Ohio State team to punt. The Indiana's defense is
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  legitimate. Just like you said, they play
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  good team defense. I do wonder, I know this is, you
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  know, Signet. He's just going to love this,
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  that we're doubting him because he listens to the show.
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  He does. I do wonder if you know, as
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  three-year Letterman would say on Twitter, can they handle the
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  grind of an SEC schedule? Could they handle playing every
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  week a tough game? I do think that's where you
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  would see this shine kind of rub off.
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  I think the Indiana's type of team that's well coached enough
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  and that can get up. They get up for every game.
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  But you know, when you know that you're going to be able to
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  outmatch your opponent, that's great.
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  Indiana has not been, like you said, historically, one of those
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  programs that can just outmatch even the lower half, the Big 10.
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  So still have to be impressed by them.
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  Will we be crowning them the champion come season's end?
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  We'll see. With the playoff.
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  They're going to have to earn it with, you know, three more
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  victories. But huge, huge win in the Big 10
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  championship. Ohio State, not Big 10 champions
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  yet again. A position they like to be in,
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  by the way. Yeah, that they're setting up
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  fine for a title run. Quick mention because they're,
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  you know, Duke wins the ACC Congrats to Manny Diaz for
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  making and winning an ACC championship before Miami ever
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  did. Miami's never made the ACC
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  championship. Absolutely crazy.
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  They joined the conference in what, 2003?
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  Insane. They make the playoff though
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  which So we'll have a chance to talk about Miami today and
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  Texas. Under Mark Richt.
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  No remember they they were 10 to no and lost the last two games.
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  That's right, they were. Set.
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  Yeah, like the last week of the season.
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  That's right. Insane.
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  And Texas Tech does exactly what they did to BYU the first time.
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  Solidify their spot in the playoff, knockout their
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  conference brethren brethren from playoff consideration, and
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  get a top four seed. We broke down the Texas Tech BYU
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  game the first time. Look, that game went exactly the
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  way it did the first time. BYU is way over matched Texas
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  Tech. This has a different caliber of
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  body than the rest of the conference in the Big 12, so.
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  Texas Tech, again, I mean, we kind of expected it.
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  We've actually both got this pick, right?
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  It was a blowout. It is what it is.
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  Quarterback got hurt. I'm sorry BYU didn't make it,
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  but they got beat by the one good team they played twice this
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  year. So it was good run.
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  Enjoy the Pop Tarts Bowl since Notre Dame is not going to be
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  there either. Yeah, let's, let's just jump in
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  a rankings reaction because we get the playoff field, Daniel,
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  we get the I'm pulling the rankings now.
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  We get the top 12 for the playoff.
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  Of course, two of those were not in the top 12.
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  This was, you know, you get Notre Dame at 11, they get
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  knocked out. Miami moves up.
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  Alabama does not move at all for getting blown out by Georgia.
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  That was surprising to me. Georgia didn't.
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  It seemed like the conference championships didn't affect
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  anyone at all minus Ohio State, Indiana swapping, Texas Tech
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  stay exactly where they were. Georgia said exactly where they
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  were for a blowout win. Alabama said exactly where they
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  were for a blowout loss. Well, he gets blown out.
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  They were affected. Basically, it seems like they
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  bumped BYU down and then were forced to finally consider head
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  to head between Miami and Notre Dame.
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  My reaction is they they finally got the right result.
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  If I were handpicking the 12 teams giving given the current
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  system and the parameters, who deserves to be the top 12?
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  I think they got the final result right.
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  But once again, it's like I say this every year, I have a huge
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  problem with the process despite getting the right result.
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  And I don't know that the answer is to do away with the weekly
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  ranking show. But I think you have to because
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  if you're not going to reference your previous week to week stuff
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  at all, which we've said time and again on this podcast, which
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  is the weekly rankings do not matter.
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  They don't use the same logic now that they will use at the
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  end of the season. Like Miami was 9 spots different
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  than Notre Dame 4 weeks ago. You all of a sudden think them
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  beating up on bad teams makes them close?
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  No, it's just they got the result they needed to do.
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  In the end they did the right thing.
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  Miami should have never been that many spots behind Notre
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  Dame. The only thing I'll say to the
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  Notre Dame side Daniel is, and it sucks to suck, you lost two
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  games. So again this is with expansion.
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  We're going to argue over which 2, two or three lost team
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  deserves to get in. It's who cares, but I do think
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  this is this only second year, the 12 team playoff.
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  This is the first time a team has been left out of the 12 team
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  playoff that I think could have won the whole thing.
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  And when we go to our next section of like which teams can
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  actually win the national championship, this is a team
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  that I would have had on my list of can win the whole thing.
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  And they got left out. But you know where they get left
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  out, Daniel, because they lost to the two best teams they
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  played. They went ten and two and they
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  don't have a chance to show that they're elite in the conference
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  championship game. And I do think this is the first
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  time Notre Dame's been punished for not being in a conference.
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  The committee get the right result.
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  I don't love the process still. I kind of think do away with the
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  weekly rankings and think about how amazing that review would be
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  on Sunday. If you actually have no idea
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  which teams are locked in or not, like think about Alabama.
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  If you have no idea where they are and you're like, are they in
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  or are they out? And it's not like, Oh well, they
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  were at 9:00 so they drop one they're at if you have no idea
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  and you're like BYU, Vandy, Texas, like.
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  But then I think the people who think it's all conspiracy just
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  fuel their fire of the committee's doing whatever they
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  want. Spoiler alert, they're doing
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  whatever they want anyway. Yeah.
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  It's which 12 teams can we justify the easiest?
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  I think that is the formula for the playoff committee.
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  I think they got it right. Hate the process, don't feel bad
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  for Notre Dame, but I think they could have won the whole thing.
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  There's my thoughts. I think it's very well said.
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  It's it's funny because there's a college football world for the
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  most part is divided on so many things.
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  Yet I think that there's one thing that everybody can agree
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  on is that they think that the committee is a bunch of idiots
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  and that their process is wrong. They might even all and I'll say
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  this, I've listened to someone that I think had, you know, Josh
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  paid for another show. He was on ESPN yesterday on
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  their get up show that they do in the morning.
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  Jordan Rogers was on there with him.
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  They're not normal guests necessarily.
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  They're, you know, occasional guests.
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  They had them on specifically the top college football
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  rankings and they both and pay very eloquently.
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  He's really good with how he sets things up.
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  But he was like the exactly like you said, the problem is, is
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  that across the board, if you asked like this is what should
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  have been, you know, it's like, well, why are you upset?
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  This is exactly what it should have been.
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  It's because they lied to us for all this time.
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  Like they told us the wrong process.
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  They told us, you know, you really expect us to believe that
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  you can't like look at Miami and Notre Dame and that head to head
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  game doesn't matter until like this last week because BYU
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  officially is out of the way. Like, no, you can definitely
• 19:00
  have done this, you know, four or five weeks ago when all the
• 19:04
  hay was in the barn. So I it's it's illegitimate the
• 19:08
  way that they do it. I think that they're purely on
• 19:12
  vibes until the last couple weeks and then they do what they
• 19:15
  have to do, which is just not a good way to do it.
• 19:18
  And the fact that, you know, I don't know if you saw the
• 19:22
  pettiness of the ACC Network, but they showed Miami's win over
• 19:26
  Notre Dame this whole week. So they were like, maybe this is
• 19:29
  the first time that the committee got to watch this
• 19:31
  game, but they showed it for the.
• 19:33
  There's a good chance that did happen all the way back in Week
• 19:35
  1, so yeah. So that's.
• 19:38
  A long time ago for the committee.
• 19:40
  They don't start until November. The calendar turns to November.
• 19:44
  So it's just frustrating. You know, you and I are, you
• 19:47
  know, it just seems like the committee is a bunch of casuals
• 19:51
  and it's the most important thing you could be doing.
• 19:53
  And why are casual fans, which of course, these aren't fans.
• 19:57
  These are outside not fans. So, you know, of course you have
• 20:01
  the the changing of the chair in the middle of all of it.
• 20:05
  So all of that kind of going on, I just felt like neither chair
• 20:09
  gave us a good explanation. Last year's chair.
• 20:13
  Gave us terrible explanations on stuff.
• 20:15
  I don't think we've ever had a chair of the committee going
• 20:19
  back to 2014 that I remember feeling confident in what
• 20:24
  they've said. I remember usually coming away
• 20:26
  confused and it just gets more convoluted.
• 20:31
  So I just feel like there's a bunch of group think and then
• 20:34
  they just get something out. And then the chair gets up there
• 20:38
  and doesn't really have his talking points down and just
• 20:42
  tries to exist in the, you know, 2 minutes that he's going to be
• 20:46
  grilled with questions by softball, questions by Reese
• 20:49
  Davis, and then goes on about his merry way.
• 20:53
  So, you know, it's a broken system.
• 20:56
  It worked again, miraculously. But we'll see.
• 21:00
  We will see. They're going to keep doing this
• 21:02
  until they add 16 teams because that's the solution.
• 21:07
  Then we'll argue about 3 and 4 lost teams that should get in
• 21:10
  that are not going to win at all.
• 21:11
  We got a 24. It'll be four and five lost
• 21:13
  teams. Yeah, what a shame.
• 21:16
  All right? It's not a shame.
• 21:17
  Both. Two losses, Ohio State and
• 21:20
  Georgia, and their third loss, of course, on the road at
• 21:22
  Florida, they're eliminated and then half the teams on the
• 21:25
  schedule didn't have to play anything close to those teams.
• 21:28
  So it just seems kind of ridiculous, but.
• 21:32
  Once again, I don't feel bad for Texas either beat Florida, you
• 21:35
  know, beat Florida in your tenancy when you're in the
• 21:37
  playoff. Well, those two losses.
• 21:38
  So yeah, I we're we're arguing over mediocrity.
• 21:41
  Yeah. Don't fall out for Notre Dame.
• 21:43
  Excited to watch the Pop Tarts Bowl though, Daniel.
• 21:45
  Both season is still happening and Daniel, I just have
• 21:49
  extremely fond memories. I mean, as recent as last year
• 21:53
  and every year of my life before that of like being out of school
• 21:57
  and it being like Tuesday, December 21st and having bowl
• 22:01
  games on TV, like it's like 1:00 and you're like, yes, like,
• 22:05
  dude, the Birmingham Bowl, you know, like.
• 22:08
  The Capital One Bowl week. Yeah, dude.
• 22:10
  I mean, like the Sun Bowl and then of course, I mean, as
• 22:15
  college ball fans and you're fearless of this podcast, you
• 22:17
  probably feel the same way. Like the New Year's Eve and New
• 22:20
  Year's Day is what it is as far as it being the new year, but
• 22:23
  it's a football holiday, man. Like college football gets to
• 22:26
  own New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
• 22:28
  And those are typically when there's not just your playoff
• 22:31
  games and not just in New Year 6, but also like did the Citrus
• 22:35
  Bowl and the Gator Bowl and the Outback Bowl.
• 22:37
  And like these big New Year's Day bowl games were growing up a
• 22:40
  a fan of Georgia and an SEC team.
• 22:42
  It's like all three of those were an accomplishment.
• 22:44
  It's like you didn't get the Sugar Bowl.
• 22:46
  You know, if you're playing in the Outback Citrus or or Gator
• 22:49
  Bowl, that's a big deal. I mean, even did the Liberty
• 22:52
  Bowl, Music City Bowl like so I, I love bowl season, Daniel,
• 22:55
  we're not going to pick all these games, but how about we go
• 22:58
  back and forth? What's a bowl game that you're
• 23:00
  excited to watch this bowl season?
• 23:03
  Yeah, I I feel bad because we talked about conference
• 23:06
  championship week. I didn't mention Kennesaw State,
• 23:08
  so I'm mentioning. Dude, thanks.
• 23:10
  So that was a huge win on Friday night.
• 23:13
  We're jacked up about that. Yes, they were leading, they
• 23:17
  were controlling the game. The refs tried to steal it from
• 23:19
  them. They came back and scored on the
• 23:21
  last second. Dr. Omari Odom threw a touchdown
• 23:23
  in the end zone to avenge their their conference loss to
• 23:27
  Jacksonville State by winning the conference championship.
• 23:30
  So yes, naturally I am excited about the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
• 23:35
  The first time the state will play in a bowl game, it's going
• 23:38
  to be Friday, December 19th at 11 AM.
• 23:41
  I'll probably be working, so I'll probably be watching while
• 23:45
  I work because it's just a Friday at 11 AM But it's on
• 23:49
  ESPN. They're playing Western
• 23:50
  Michigan. Yeah, that's awesome.
• 23:53
  I love it. You shout out to the owls.
• 23:55
  They tried to steal it from us, Daniel, but you know that they
• 23:59
  couldn't take it. I want to you.
• 24:02
  Don't. Want to go to war with the Owls?
• 24:03
  That's right. I'll go to the bucked up LA
• 24:06
  Bowl. Daniel.
• 24:07
  We're calling this the Chris Peterson Bowl between Boise
• 24:10
  State and Washington. So just fun because it's the
• 24:13
  Chris Peterson Bowl and 8:00 PM on this, this is Saturday.
• 24:18
  It's the recording this on December 9th, December 13th.
• 24:21
  So if you listen to this before then, this game is Saturday at
• 24:23
  8:00 PM on ABC. So they're getting a prime time
• 24:26
  slot there in Sofi Stadium. Yeah, I mean, we still have
• 24:31
  regular season games this Saturday.
• 24:32
  Technically it's Army Navy, so I don't even know if we can.
• 24:35
  We're not going to call that a bowl game, but I am watching
• 24:37
  that game on Saturday. Love it.
• 24:42
  All right, I had a few written down.
• 24:43
  I'm scrolling through here. Let's just go to the Bad Boy
• 24:46
  Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, we. That name gets me.
• 24:51
  Every I know. Me too.
• 24:53
  Penn State and Clemson shout out to Ben team member here at the
• 24:58
  extra point. He's running our social media
• 25:00
  marketing for the extra point go Tigers.
• 25:02
  Look, I mean, if you told me before the season, hey, Penn
• 25:05
  State and Clemson will be meeting for a post season get
• 25:08
  bowl game. What do you think it is?
• 25:10
  I would I guess I don't know like the the Peach Bowl, the
• 25:14
  Fiesta Bowl. Both of those are semi final
• 25:15
  games. Man, we got a noon on December
• 25:19
  27th in the Yankee Stadium in the Bad boy mowers Pinstripe
• 25:22
  Bowl. So I, I'm legitimately excited
• 25:24
  to watch it cause both teams showed effort down the stretch
• 25:28
  in the season and I think they'll, they'll show some
• 25:31
  effort in this game. So they're playing should be a
• 25:33
  game. That's right.
• 25:34
  Yeah, it's on ABC. I like that if you asked the
• 25:38
  people of the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl at the beginning
• 25:41
  of the season, hey, do you know that you'll have a chance to
• 25:44
  have Penn State and Clemson and they're looking and they're
• 25:48
  like, did we just become a New Year 6 bowl?
• 25:51
  That's right. Are we a?
• 25:52
  Playoff are we a playoff bowl are.
• 25:54
  We a playoff game. They would start and people are
• 25:57
  asking questions. So yeah, that's a great one.
• 26:00
  Yeah, I love that we already mentioned the Pop Tart Bowl, but
• 26:03
  just for our dude, shout out to our Georgia Tech listeners.
• 26:06
  This has been. I know how the season ended.
• 26:09
  There's still a way to play for pride.
• 26:11
  You're playing against the team that's ranked in the College
• 26:13
  Football Playoff top 12 in BYUBYU is coming into this game.
• 26:18
  They're still proud to. Play and they've lost the one
• 26:21
  team this season. Yeah, just lost him twice pretty
• 26:24
  badly. BYU is a 4 1/2 point favorite,
• 26:26
  at least right now. But that one's in the, you know,
• 26:29
  Camping World Stadium in Orlando.
• 26:30
  That's a fun trip, man. That's a fun trip.
• 26:33
  BYU people will not be able to partake in anything, but the
• 26:35
  George Tech people will have fun.
• 26:36
  But then you basically get to, you know, eat a mascot at the
• 26:40
  end of the game. And it's not cannibalism, it's
• 26:42
  just a huge pop tart. So that's awesome.
• 26:46
  I would love Jacob. Just really quick, since you're
• 26:50
  a connoisseur of, you know, uniforms and all things, you
• 26:54
  know, match up, would it not be awesome for the Pop Tarts bowl,
• 26:59
  the teams to just have special Pop Tarts branded or not branded
• 27:02
  but themed uniforms like, I don't know, sprinkles on their
• 27:07
  helmet or. The that means.
• 27:10
  That on there. The easiest thing would be I saw
• 27:12
  someone mock this up of like sprinkles inside the logo
• 27:16
  because that at that point you're just you're just adding
• 27:18
  stickers like a little. Thing.
• 27:23
  Yeah, because And that's easy to order, you know what I mean?
• 27:25
  That's not going to mess up your uniform.
• 27:26
  Yes, that'd be fun. That's like every team that
• 27:28
  plays in the Rose Bowl should add a rose in their uniform
• 27:31
  somewhere. You know?
• 27:32
  Dude, that'd be cool. Like Ohio State did, like the
• 27:34
  roses inside the red stripe of the helmet.
• 27:37
  Of course, Utah and TCU and Wisconsin, there's been a lot of
• 27:41
  teams who have done this. The full rose through the logo
• 27:44
  on the side. It looks awesome.
• 27:45
  Yeah, I'm all about especially just like something as simple as
• 27:48
  a helmet sticker to add a little spice to the uniform for the
• 27:52
  bowl game. Absolutely.
• 27:53
  I'm especially something like the Pop Tarts bowl, dude.
• 27:55
  Yeah, just do the sprinkles, man.
• 27:57
  It's awesome. They'll sell itself man.
• 27:59
  I mean it's a merch if that's the case.
• 28:01
  It's all I'm saying if they can make merch with that logo.
• 28:04
  I almost bought bought the Pop Tarts bowl polo last year.
• 28:07
  I might buy it this year because it was almost like the Robach
• 28:09
  look of like the print. It was just like a sprinkle.
• 28:11
  Polo elite pop tart. There's two bowl games.
• 28:16
  That get you fired up and that's one of them.
• 28:18
  You know, you think about like the Dukes Mayo bowl.
• 28:21
  I'm just kidding. No, that's.
• 28:24
  Why I I missed the Outback? Bowl.
• 28:25
  It's so fun, dude. Outback Bowl.
• 28:28
  I'll get out of here. They.
• 28:31
  Respect you. I'll add another one, the Gator
• 28:34
  Bowl. Virginia, Missouri.
• 28:37
  This is a class this. I love the Gator.
• 28:38
  Bowl. That one's good.
• 28:39
  Because it's always like the ACC 2 and this is exactly what it is
• 28:44
  this year. It's the ACC two against the SEC
• 28:47
  8. It it all in like regardless
• 28:50
  the. Results favored by a touchdown.
• 28:52
  Yeah, yeah. So it's, you know, for people
• 28:56
  who hate people talk about the depth of conferences, you're
• 28:59
  going to hate bowl season. It typically is like this
• 29:01
  outside of like the Capital One Bowl or whatever the Citrus Bowl
• 29:04
  is usually like the, you know, SEC 3 versus Big 10 three,
• 29:09
  somewhere in there that's pretty even.
• 29:10
  Outback Bowl is usually about the same, but you get a few of
• 29:13
  these bowl games where it's like Seca versus ACC 2.
• 29:16
  Anyway, it always is. Can I?
• 29:17
  I'm looking forward to watching that one.
• 29:19
  Right, I've got one. It's off the radar.
• 29:22
  This one's not on the radar for folks.
• 29:25
  We got a rivalry game in a bowl game.
• 29:28
  Yes, yes, yes. The J Lab.
• 29:31
  Birmingham. That's right.
• 29:33
  OK, App State and Georgia Southern, OK.
• 29:36
  These are two hated rivals way back into their Big South
• 29:40
  Conference days. So Con, they've been rivals for
• 29:44
  a long time. They battled up in FCS.
• 29:47
  They were swapping championships back in the day before North
• 29:51
  Dakota State basically took hold of that.
• 29:53
  Then they both moved up to the FBS together.
• 29:56
  They're both in the Sunbelt. They've already played this year
• 29:59
  and yes, they're playing again in the Birmingham Bowl.
• 30:03
  This is awesome. These teams hate each other.
• 30:06
  App State is not qualified, but they got qualified because some
• 30:09
  teams did not play. So they're five and seven.
• 30:12
  They got the invite. They said sure, we'll come play.
• 30:15
  Checks notes, the Georgia Southern Eagles.
• 30:18
  So this was going to be awesome, man.
• 30:21
  George Southern favored by 2 1/2.
• 30:23
  I mean, if you love ball, there's going to be two teams
• 30:26
  that hate each other in a bowl game.
• 30:28
  They're going to be on vacation hating each other.
• 30:31
  What's better than that? I love it.
• 30:34
  I got two more. I'll let you mention one of
• 30:37
  them. If if I don't mention it, I'll
• 30:39
  start with the Alamo Bowl. The Alamo Bowl is always a fun
• 30:42
  game. It seems like I'm actually
• 30:44
  looking up to see, like, game history.
• 30:46
  I mean, the one that sticks out is that TCU comeback where Gary
• 30:51
  Patterson changed his polo. Was it TCU?
• 30:54
  Yeah, it was Oregon. It was 2016.
• 30:56
  It was 4741. They were down, I think they
• 31:00
  were down like 31 points. I'm not kidding.
• 31:02
  And he changes polo at half time and they come out and complete
• 31:05
  the comeback. One of the best games you'll
• 31:07
  ever watch. But I mean I'm.
• 31:08
  Expect fans to not be superstitious after a coach
• 31:11
  changes his polo and they complete the game.
• 31:14
  How are fans ever supposed to be like I nothing I do matters.
• 31:18
  It's like, no, I'm wearing the wrong socks.
• 31:20
  Doggone it. That's right.
• 31:24
  See Alamo Bowl. That'll be a good one between
• 31:26
  USC and TCU, you know, TCU back in the game.
• 31:30
  But yeah, that'll be a really fun game in the Alamo Bowl, 9:00
• 31:33
  PM on December 30th. So that's always a fun one and a
• 31:37
  fun little bowl, you know, Forever bowl venue.
• 31:39
  My last one is you probably were going to mention this one, but
• 31:43
  cheese at Citrus Bowl. Yeah, that's the one.
• 31:45
  Texas, Michigan, both 9:00 and 3:00, both had, you know, lofty
• 31:50
  expectations. You know, Texas more so than
• 31:52
  Michigan, both had good season, still considering and two fun
• 31:56
  quarterbacks that should be back next year.
• 31:59
  So maybe a good launching point for whoever wins.
• 32:02
  And this is a Citrus Bowl is a big bowl.
• 32:04
  So I don't care what you say, you know, with the new Year 6
• 32:07
  and all that kind of stuff or the playoff and everything,
• 32:09
  Citrus Bowl is a big bowl. It's important also in Orlando.
• 32:13
  So yeah, that one. Michigan, Texas.
• 32:16
  Yeah, give me that one every day of the week.
• 32:18
  I love it. All right, Daniel, we've got our
• 32:22
  playoff bracket. We've got 12 teams.
• 32:24
  I don't think all 12 teams can win the national championship.
• 32:29
  How many teams do you think can win the national championships
• 32:32
  and which ones are they? I've got 234.
• 32:38
  Sorry I did do this before but I changed something later. 234
• 32:46
  5:00 I've got 5 teams. OK, I've got 4.
• 32:50
  I started with six and I took two off.
• 32:52
  We've got 4. OK.
• 32:53
  Yeah, I've addressed a couple times as well, OK.
• 32:56
  Or give me one and I'll I'll save.
• 32:57
  It's on my list. We'll, we'll go that way.
• 32:59
  OK, let's knock out the big hitters, Ohio State.
• 33:02
  Yes, yes. Georgia.
• 33:05
  Also yes. OK, I've also got Oregon.
• 33:10
  Yes. OK.
• 33:12
  And let's see if I go 4 for four here.
• 33:15
  Your 4th 1 is crap. Oh, Indiana.
• 33:19
  I do not have AS in Indiana as a team.
• 33:21
  I think can win the whole thing. What's your other one?
• 33:24
  My other one is I have Alabama. OK, Alabama was on my 6th and I
• 33:29
  took them off. Miami is my last one.
• 33:32
  Dude, that is sneaky. And I have some stuff to say
• 33:36
  about them as far as when we get to our picks.
• 33:38
  But I agree as far as I can see the vision where you're going
• 33:44
  with that. Let me ask you this, Daniel, we
• 33:47
  don't have to dive into the like Ohio State we agree on, Georgia
• 33:49
  we agree on Oregon we agree on I don't think it's hard to see why
• 33:53
  these are talented rosters. They show the you know, 2 losses
• 33:58
  between the three of the nut three loss from three of them.
• 34:00
  They show they can win championships level of coaching,
• 34:03
  all that stuff. Here's where I started was I
• 34:05
  start with a blue chip ratio, which is why I eliminated
• 34:07
  Indiana and Texas like it because I just I told David, I
• 34:13
  told David Cobb, this friend of the show CBS writer, until it
• 34:16
  happens, I'm not going to pick. It's like picking a 16 to be the
• 34:18
  one in the NCAA tournament for basketball.
• 34:21
  It's like, yeah, you can pick it and it's happened one time.
• 34:25
  But like until it happens, now it's I guess it's happened
• 34:27
  there, but I'm not going to pick it because now it's an
• 34:31
  interesting dichotomy. Now you have to win more games,
• 34:33
  which I would say that let's that's not going to allow non
• 34:37
  blue chip teams to win it because now you get a good beat
• 34:40
  probably three other blue chip teams.
• 34:42
  It lowers your percentages for sure.
• 34:45
  Except I do think that rosters talent is more spread out than
• 34:50
  it was four years ago. So does that cancel that out?
• 34:53
  I don't know. But I'm still I'm still in the
• 34:55
  camp of I am going to have to see in Indiana go and win the
• 34:59
  whole thing for me to have them on the list and say a non blue
• 35:02
  chip team can go win it all. I'm just not going to pick it
• 35:05
  nor am I going to believe it until I see it.
• 35:07
  Maybe that's on me. But that's that's my first line
• 35:10
  is are you a blue chip team? And that eliminated, I think
• 35:14
  there's 8 blue chip teams in the field.
• 35:16
  I then went, if you remember this, Daniel, before the season,
• 35:19
  I had my little formula for what makes a national champion.
• 35:22
  You've got to be at the end of the season, top 6 and defense on
• 35:27
  SP plus top 10 on offense or number one in the opposite
• 35:31
  category. So if you don't have a six
• 35:33
  defense, you've got to be the best offense in the field.
• 35:36
  And if you don't have a top ten offense, you've got to be the
• 35:38
  number one defense right now, Daniel, there are only, sorry,
• 35:44
  let me double check this real quick.
• 35:45
  There are only two schools that are in the top ten and top 6
• 35:49
  right now. But it's not the end of the
• 35:51
  year. You're going to play three more
• 35:52
  games. There's six teams that are
• 35:54
  within striking distance. One of those is Texas Tech Texas
• 35:58
  Tech is one of the two teams that qualify for that right now,
• 36:00
  but they're not a blue chip team.
• 36:01
  The other one's Indiana, they qualify for that right now, but
• 36:03
  not a blue chip team. The teams that are within
• 36:05
  striking distance are Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia and
• 36:07
  Miami. There's my 4:00 and I initially
• 36:09
  had Alabama and Oakland and Texas A&N on that list because
• 36:13
  some of my other parameters are do you have obviously a blue
• 36:16
  chip roster, but on the line of scrimmage, do you have the size
• 36:21
  and speed to go win three or four of these games?
• 36:24
  So Texas A and IT in Alabama were initially on my list.
• 36:28
  But like Alabama's offense, Daniel makes 26th MSP, plus
• 36:32
  they're not in striking distance of historically what has made-up
• 36:36
  a national championship contender.
• 36:38
  Same thing with Texas A&M, their defense is 21st, so they're not
• 36:42
  in striking distance of having a top 6 defense.
• 36:46
  So those are teams that like on eye test, I just wrote down
• 36:48
  those six. I eliminated Alabama and Texas
• 36:51
  Santa because of that and I'm left with those four.
• 36:54
  Miami is my sneaky one. We'll we'll get to them, but at
• 36:57
  their peak they've shown they can do it.
• 36:59
  Now do I really think they can be at their peak for the full
• 37:02
  playoff? We'll get to my picks, but I
• 37:06
  wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't be like shocked, shocked if they
• 37:08
  wanted. I'll be surprised.
• 37:10
  I will say if you gave me the top 4 seeds versus the field, I
• 37:13
  would take the top 4 seeds versus the field.
• 37:15
  Yeah, that's fair. What I mean, you get Georgia and
• 37:19
  Ohio State in that. In Indiana, if you really
• 37:21
  believe the best team in the country which they played like
• 37:23
  it, you get Indiana too. That is true, yeah.
• 37:26
  For me, I mean, you know, similar, but I, you know, I just
• 37:30
  for Indiana purposes, I feel like Indiana and Alabama both
• 37:35
  have that, you know, from the the side of the bracket that
• 37:39
  they're coming. I think certain matchups could
• 37:41
  work out for both of them. I just think Ohio State,
• 37:46
  Georgia, of course, we don't have to argue those.
• 37:48
  Oregon, you know, these teams have been resting.
• 37:52
  I'm I'm curious how the teams that haven't had to play
• 37:55
  championship games are going to pan out.
• 37:58
  So I'm interested to see like Oregon and Texas A&M and how
• 38:01
  those teams will, you know, show up on, you know, their that week
• 38:06
  1 or, excuse me, the first round, not week 1.
• 38:08
  But yeah, I, I don't think that there's I Miami, I'll say this
• 38:13
  for Miami, a team that thought they were dead, being
• 38:18
  resurrected. There's something about a second
• 38:21
  chance at life. So Miami knowing that they've
• 38:24
  got a second chance that, you know, think about BYU, Notre
• 38:28
  Dame, Miami, they're all saying just give us a shot.
• 38:31
  Think about Vanderbilt. They're trying to play a game
• 38:34
  last weekend. Give us a shot and let us show
• 38:37
  you what we can do. If Miami was in the ACC
• 38:40
  championship, they would have pummeled either one of those
• 38:42
  teams. They would have pummeled them.
• 38:43
  We think we we think, I think that given the opportunity,
• 38:48
  Miami, I mean, just looking at what they did to Pittsburgh kind
• 38:51
  of gives me that vibe of like, Nah, they're they're ready.
• 38:55
  Like they're trending back up for the playoff.
• 38:58
  And I think they're a tough draw.
• 38:59
  That's a tough like Ohio State being the two seed, I think is
• 39:03
  actually worse than being the three seed because they're going
• 39:05
  to either play Texas A&M or Miami and I think they're going
• 39:07
  to play Miami. And I think that like you're,
• 39:09
  you're right, that is a tough one.
• 39:11
  I yeah, I was back and forth on Miami, so put me down for for
• 39:15
  Miami as well. How about that?
• 39:17
  All right, Daniel, let's get to picks against the spread.
• 39:21
  We've got our first four games, got our first round on college
• 39:25
  campuses, which is a lot of fun. And we have two rematches in the
• 39:28
  first round, which, hey, I will say credit to the committee for
• 39:30
  saying they're not going to consider rematches when they're
• 39:33
  making the rankings because I thought for sure, oh, they're
• 39:36
  going to say that. But you know, they'll do a
• 39:37
  little. We have Alabama at 9 and Miami
• 39:40
  at 10. We'll just move those to avoid a
• 39:42
  rematch. You know, not a huge difference.
• 39:45
  They they didn't, we got 2 rematches in the first round.
• 39:48
  Let's start with one of them, Oklahoma versus Alabama.
• 39:51
  Oklahoma one round one in Tuscaloosa.
• 39:53
  We get round two in Norman, Alabama 1 1/2 point favorite on
• 39:58
  the road in Norman. You might ask how could this be?
• 40:01
  If you look at how that first game played out, I mean.
• 40:03
  But Ellie said this right after the game of Alabama would be
• 40:05
  favored by moreover Oklahoma than they were yesterday and
• 40:08
  doubled them up in yardage. Turnovers are considered a
• 40:11
  random stat. I would argue for these elite
• 40:14
  defenses. They create way more
• 40:15
  opportunities for turnovers and Oklahoma's is one of those that
• 40:18
  does that and capitalizes. But Alabama 1 1/2 point
• 40:22
  favorite. First round of the playoff, they
• 40:24
  get their chance still Oklahoma gets a chance to show the
• 40:27
  defence wins championships. Man.
• 40:29
  Who do you like in this first game in Norman?
• 40:30
  And for the record, we are picking against the spread, so
• 40:33
  give me your pick. But we are picking against the
• 40:35
  spread for for this. Yes, so Kaylin Bohr went to so
• 40:40
  far in his young Alabama career against Oklahoma.
• 40:45
  Both of them seemed like pretty big upsets, last year's
• 40:48
  especially because that one was an Oklahoma team that really
• 40:51
  wasn't going anywhere. That one was at least in Norman
• 40:54
  where it was like, OK, it's tough to go on the road this
• 40:57
  year. Alabama losing at home to
• 41:00
  Oklahoma was surprising. I think I did pick that game
• 41:02
  correctly, but you were on the right side of it because like
• 41:06
  you said, Alabama just doubled them up.
• 41:08
  And really you look at the post game win expectancy, Oklahoma
• 41:12
  stole that game. That was one that they should
• 41:15
  not quote UN quote should not have one.
• 41:17
  I do think Alabama is the better team.
• 41:19
  I get really worried offensively for Oklahoma.
• 41:23
  I feel like they're, you know, so taking their bust.
• 41:26
  If he has a big game, great. You know, if he scores 2
• 41:30
  touchdowns, awesome. He's got 7 touchdowns on the
• 41:32
  year. Just drive 1000 yards.
• 41:35
  He he's got half the production For John Matier.
• 41:38
  The offense has just, you know, I know Matier was injured for a
• 41:41
  little bit. He seemed like he was getting
• 41:43
  better as the year went on. As far as recovering from the
• 41:46
  injury, the 10 interceptions, I mean, he missed the game was a
• 41:50
  two. He missed one game it.
• 41:53
  Was one or two, yeah. So a game and a half, we'll say
• 41:57
  whatever. 10 interceptions for a full 12 game season though is
• 42:01
  still a ton. 10 interceptions, man, that really worries me.
• 42:05
  They don't really have a running game.
• 42:06
  The good news for them is they're going against Alabama,
• 42:08
  team that doesn't really have a great running game.
• 42:09
  Of course, they're coming off their -3 yards against Georgia,
• 42:12
  the SEC championship. Jim Miller's been hurt for
• 42:16
  multiple stints this year. It's unclear whether he'll be
• 42:19
  back for this. Of course, it's not, you know, a
• 42:22
  month off. It's just like a, you know, a
• 42:24
  bye week essentially, and then they're back at it.
• 42:27
  We'll see, though. I just the thing I trust most.
• 42:31
  I think Caitlin De Boer can get it done as a coach.
• 42:34
  I think Alabama has a better roster and when it comes down to
• 42:39
  it, I think Ty Simpson will make more plays than John Metier and
• 42:42
  he'll take care of the ball. If I'm adding all of that up,
• 42:46
  it's got me at an Alabama win on the road.
• 42:49
  I also think there's something to be said about playing a team
• 42:52
  twice and knowing that you had one stolen from you the first
• 42:55
  time and being able to go right that wrong.
• 42:58
  I think that would be really big.
• 43:00
  And it's a big point of, you know, encouragement, you know,
• 43:04
  for the for the Alabama team. I think a lot of those players
• 43:08
  can get motivated for this game. Not that you're not going to be
• 43:11
  motivated for a playoff game, but there's something personal
• 43:14
  about it. So these rematches have
• 43:15
  something to say. Give me Alabama.
• 43:17
  Let me lay this 1 1/2 points. I think they went close.
• 43:20
  I think it's a four to six point game.
• 43:23
  But yeah, give me the tide in the game and covering with the 1
• 43:27
  1/2 point spread. I'm with you.
• 43:29
  Give me the tide to win and it's 1 1/2.
• 43:31
  I think they cover too. The best unit on the field is
• 43:34
  Oklahoma's defense. And we kind of said this going
• 43:36
  to the Georgia game of Alabama's run game is not going to make a
• 43:39
  difference in this, in that Oklahoma can stop the run, but
• 43:43
  Alabama's not been trying to run the ball a year.
• 43:44
  They just it's just kind of a mute point at this point.
• 43:47
  If they get a run game back, that's very good.
• 43:49
  But I am banking on Alabama getting a little healthier in
• 43:53
  the next couple weeks, which we've got a couple weeks before
• 43:55
  this. But sounds like they're going to
• 43:57
  get Cuevas back. Sounds like they're going to get
• 43:59
  Jim Miller back. Ty Simpson will have a few weeks
• 44:02
  to recover. I mean, Brailsford's been
• 44:04
  playing her on the offensive line.
• 44:07
  They're beat up. They need to get healthy and
• 44:08
  fast. And I also think giving Kaylin
• 44:10
  de Boer extra time to prep for a rematch.
• 44:14
  Kaylin de Boer and Ryan Grubb, I think they can, but we'll see.
• 44:18
  I think they can outcome. They I think they can scheme
• 44:20
  some points up against Oklahoma's defense.
• 44:23
  They've got to fix Reds red zone scoring.
• 44:26
  I mean, they, they doubled up Oklahoma in the yards in round
• 44:29
  one. The three turnovers killed them.
• 44:32
  It it can absolutely go that way.
• 44:33
  I mean, Oklahoma credited them opportunistic like all their
• 44:36
  scoring drives are very short. They had short fields because of
• 44:39
  turnovers. Again, I I'm a stat nerd.
• 44:41
  Turnover. There is a bit of rain in the
• 44:43
  turnovers and I'm just going to count on the game playing out
• 44:47
  very similar to what it did the first time.
• 44:49
  I like Alabama to win 20 to 13 in this one.
• 44:53
  So give me Alabama in a low scoring game tied over Oklahoma,
• 44:57
  which will be the first Rd. team to win.
• 45:01
  I believe the home teams at four and a yeah.
• 45:02
  Penn State. No Penn State didn't have a home
• 45:05
  game, it was Notre Dame. Ohio State.
• 45:09
  Who else had a home game last year was in Oregon?
• 45:12
  Notre Dame, Ohio. State.
• 45:15
  SMU, Texas. Texas.
• 45:18
  It was Penn State then. Penn State and Clemson played at
• 45:21
  Texas. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:23
  OK, OK. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
• 45:24
  Boise State had a first round bye.
• 45:25
  Wow. That was Penn State.
• 45:26
  OK. And then Clemson we.
• 45:27
  Didn't mention that, but this year that would put that would
• 45:30
  have put Tulane having a first round bye.
• 45:32
  They didn't change that, so it. Would have put Ohio State the 5C
• 45:36
  playing James Madison around 1 and Tulane in Round 2 again.
• 45:40
  This is why they good change after one year because then
• 45:43
  people would be doing the math and going huh, so the five seed.
• 45:49
  Right. OK, Daniel, let's go to Texas AM
• 45:55
  in Miami. This is this matchup's a lot of
• 45:58
  fun because these teams line up very similar.
• 46:01
  If you look at the build up of these teams, the makeup's very
• 46:04
  similar. The coaching Staffs are very
• 46:06
  similar as far as what they want to do in the style of play.
• 46:08
  They want to have Texas A and it a four point favorite at home
• 46:14
  against Miami. Who do you like in this game in
• 46:16
  College Station? Yeah, I think sometimes we're
• 46:19
  just victims of recency bias. I think that's, you know, me,
• 46:23
  absolutely. A lot of times this game, just
• 46:28
  the vibe of it just feels, you know, I mentioned earlier my
• 46:31
  point about Miami, like they were a team that was dead and
• 46:36
  now they're back to life. There's got to be some sense of
• 46:40
  renewed faith. You know, I just harped on John
• 46:43
  Metier having 10 interceptions. How about two quarterbacks with
• 46:46
  10 interceptions? Now Carson Beck and Marcel Reed
• 46:50
  are going toe to toe. So I do think this game will
• 46:53
  have turnovers. I think that defense is going to
• 46:55
  matter in this game. I like both defenses.
• 46:59
  I think that Miami has a better defensive front.
• 47:02
  They've got some dudes that are going to be in the NFL.
• 47:04
  That being said, I mean, this one's, this was very fun.
• 47:07
  I kind of, I mean, the vibes of the last game, obviously Texas
• 47:13
  A&M losing to Texas, you know, at Texas, that's a tough one.
• 47:18
  And then Miami going to Pitt and throttling Pitt.
• 47:24
  Pitt playing for a spot in the ACC Championship.
• 47:28
  Pitt trying to win the game, according to Pat and Artuzzi.
• 47:31
  Pitt trying to go to the ACC Championship and have a spot
• 47:34
  potentially at the playoff. Miami, I mean, that game was
• 47:39
  never close. They had their hand on their
• 47:42
  head the whole time and they just completely dominated them.
• 47:45
  Dominated, you know, their last several games at, you know,
• 47:48
  Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, Syracuse, they lost SMU
• 47:53
  in overtime. So, you know, it is what it is.
• 47:56
  That was tough. If they didn't do that, then
• 47:59
  they would have obviously been in the ACC championship.
• 48:01
  We wouldn't had all this craziness going on.
• 48:05
  I mean, just the way the game, the season ended for both of
• 48:07
  these teams. I just think there's going to
• 48:10
  there's this you need if they if Texanem uses at motivation,
• 48:16
  great. I just think they were kind of a
• 48:18
  flawed team. It kind of got exposed by Texas
• 48:22
  and I think that Miami was like kind of realizing some of their
• 48:26
  potential at the end of the year.
• 48:28
  It can work opposite of that. A&M gets motivated from their
• 48:30
  loss. They could actually go out there
• 48:32
  and and beat Miami. I'm not feeling that.
• 48:35
  I think Miami wins outright. They get 4 points, so I'm going
• 48:38
  to take the four points, but I think Miami wins this game by 4
• 48:41
  points. I think it's like a, you know,
• 48:44
  3531 kind of a game down the stretch with some big
• 48:47
  situational defense at the end. I said give me the Hurricanes
• 48:50
  plus the. Four, we're going to get 2 for
• 48:52
  two, give me Miami. If you look at the profile of
• 48:54
  these teams like OK, EPA per rush, Miami's offense against
• 48:59
  Tex. A&M's defense 26th versus 25th
• 49:01
  very even EPA per drop back Miami offense 10th, Tex A&M
• 49:05
  defense eighth, other side of the ball, Miami's defense 7th
• 49:09
  and EPA per rush Tex. A&M's offense 7th.
• 49:12
  EPA per rush, EPA per drop back, Miami's defense 12th, Tex A&M is
• 49:16
  offense 14th. They just they line up that
• 49:19
  strength on strength across the board, weakness on weakness
• 49:22
  across the board, but not really a weakness with either of these
• 49:24
  teams. It's it's very relative.
• 49:26
  These are two very good football teams.
• 49:27
  I mean, I, I know I said my daddy teams, but they know this
• 49:29
  seems like an elimination game between two teams that can win
• 49:31
  the national championship. It's in College Station, but
• 49:35
  give me Miami. I think they've got a few more
• 49:36
  difference makers that I think can change the game, like Texas
• 49:39
  A&M has Casey Concepcion, Miami, If if they get good.
• 49:43
  Carson Beck, when he's dialed in, he's lethal.
• 49:46
  I'm going to forget the the name of the receiver now #10 is it
• 49:51
  Tony? Yeah, the fresh, yeah, yeah.
• 49:53
  I'm like, I'm going to he, he is a different Tony Malachi.
• 49:56
  Tony, thank you. I'm like Cadarius Tony's.
• 49:58
  And I was like, I know that's not right, but I'm pretty sure
• 50:00
  that's not it. I was.
• 50:01
  Like it's not it. He's almost got 1000.
• 50:02
  Yards for the year, yeah. He's had a big year.
• 50:05
  And I think I mean Ruben Bayne on defense, you get in the red
• 50:08
  zone again. This is the one like Texas A&M
• 50:12
  as far as points in the red zone could be better, and then
• 50:15
  they're giving up a lot of touchdowns in the red zone on
• 50:17
  the other side of the ball. So I do think this is a close
• 50:19
  game. Give me 2724 Miami to win
• 50:22
  outright. I get 4 points.
• 50:24
  So I think they cover, but I think they won the game outright
• 50:26
  in College Station. That's just we picked 2 road
• 50:29
  teams, which didn't happen last year, Daniel.
• 50:30
  So you and I in lockstep, all right, I don't think either of
• 50:35
  us are going to pick underdogs to win straight up in this one.
• 50:37
  So we'll pick against the spread here.
• 50:38
  Like what's not pretend, man? Ole Miss, first Tulane, we
• 50:41
  watched this game. It was 4510 early in the year.
• 50:44
  Now neither one have a head cut. Well, I know technically Ole
• 50:47
  Miss has a head coach. Ole Miss is 16 1/2, my favorite
• 50:50
  at home after a 35 point blowout.
• 50:53
  Who do you like in this game in Oxford Ms. Yeah, man, I there's
• 50:58
  a lot of layers to this because of what's happened with the
• 51:02
  coaches. If both teams just had their
• 51:05
  full complement and the coaches and everything like that.
• 51:08
  I actually I'm picking Tulane to cover all miss to win.
• 51:13
  I think that there's like Tulane has a good team.
• 51:16
  I've been picking them all year. I didn't pick them the last
• 51:18
  week. I should have that they they
• 51:22
  had, you know, Rets laugh at QB. He's a dual threat.
• 51:27
  He's got 16 touchdowns rushing this year.
• 51:31
  I mean, I did say that, right? 16 touchdowns rushing, 14
• 51:35
  through the air. So 30 touchdowns.
• 51:36
  I mean, nobody's, you know, not not that he should be in the
• 51:39
  Heisman necessarily, but I mean, my goodness, he's a playoff
• 51:43
  team. He's got, you know, 3500 yards
• 51:46
  total and 30 touchdowns. Like this guy can play ball.
• 51:50
  He's had a Goodyear. He's kept them in in these
• 51:53
  games. Ole Miss is just better.
• 51:55
  They're going to be better. I think you see an inspired Ole
• 51:59
  Miss team in the face of all of this stuff.
• 52:03
  They're playing at home, Vaught Hemingway.
• 52:06
  I think you're going to see them come out and really try to
• 52:10
  emphatically answer that they're meant for the playoffs.
• 52:13
  Even without Lane Kiffin, you're going to see these players play
• 52:16
  their hardest. I was really worried that they
• 52:18
  weren't going to have any offensive coaches.
• 52:20
  The fact that Charlie Wise junior coming back is I can't
• 52:24
  like, that's just monumental him being able to come back and
• 52:27
  coach just so that they don't have grad assistance trying to
• 52:31
  call offensive game plans or they're bringing in someone from
• 52:35
  outside. It's a familiar face, familiar
• 52:38
  with the style, familiar with Trinidad Chambliss, familiar
• 52:41
  with Kyron Lacey, like Kiwan Lacey, excuse me, I think that
• 52:45
  that's huge. So give me Ole Miss.
• 52:48
  Let's lay these points to 16 1/2.
• 52:51
  I think it's a big blowout win for new permanent head coach
• 52:55
  Pete Goulding and I think they they get an emphatic first round
• 52:58
  win at home. This is my first home team I'm
• 53:01
  picking. Give me the Rebels.
• 53:03
  I'm with you, give me the rebels to win and cover to then also I
• 53:06
  think Lane put out yesterday. The rest of the offensive staff
• 53:09
  is all that left for. LSU is also coming back to coach
• 53:11
  the playoff minus Lane. So they get everybody back
• 53:13
  coaching staff wise, yeah, if they play their game.
• 53:16
  And again, they they got the they've had a couple weeks off.
• 53:20
  I think in this kind of game, you need to win like 16 1/2.
• 53:24
  You need to win and cover to get the rhythm to go play Georgia
• 53:26
  again. So I don't think you're going to
• 53:28
  be like a let's set our players in the four.
• 53:31
  Like maybe if you're up 35 late, but I think if it's within 17,
• 53:36
  you're keeping your starters in and like getting more rhythm to
• 53:39
  go and get ready to play Georgia next week.
• 53:42
  So I like how many. Times Do you think these teams
• 53:44
  have played each other? In my head, I think it's a lot
• 53:47
  because Tulane needs to be in the SEC and they're very close
• 53:50
  geographically. I would guess at least 40 times.
• 53:53
  70 times. Wow.
• 53:55
  OK, I was like, I don't know if this is that high, but.
• 53:57
  It's a big time this is a rivalry back in the old days
• 54:01
  first matchup 1893 wow, just just throw that in there.
• 54:07
  These these players have no idea about that.
• 54:09
  But some of these fans, you know, this is a geographically
• 54:13
  close. The winner of this gets to play
• 54:15
  in the Sugar Bowl. Tulane would be a home game.
• 54:18
  Ole Miss can be very close. So keep that kind of stuff in
• 54:21
  mind, Dude, for the pageantry that they're stripping away from
• 54:24
  the game. This is an old rivalry.
• 54:26
  Ole Miss should kill him. Old rivalry.
• 54:28
  And Ole Miss does own the all time record, 44 to 28.
• 54:32
  So they're on a current 13 game-winning streak.
• 54:34
  But yeah, this is old SEC rivalry.
• 54:36
  I've got some, you know, love for that and yeah, it's going to
• 54:40
  be fun. I think these fans are going to
• 54:41
  have fun with it. I think you're going to see a
• 54:42
  good amount of Two Lane fans at about him in the stadium as
• 54:45
  well. But yeah, Ole Miss dude lay
• 54:47
  those points. I'm with you there.
• 54:49
  We're 3 for three. Let's see if we go 4 for four.
• 54:51
  Ole Miss and James Madison. James Madison, a 20 1/2 point
• 54:57
  underdog on the excuse me, I thought I said Ole Miss thought
• 55:00
  I said Oregon. He did Oregon first.
• 55:02
  James Madison starting to sever. I was about to say Eugene and I
• 55:05
  was like, it doesn't make any sense.
• 55:07
  Let's start over Oregon. That's right, Oregon and James
• 55:12
  Madison. Oregon, a 20 1/2 point favorite.
• 55:15
  They get the five seed this year.
• 55:18
  You know, seeding might have streamed them last year, but
• 55:20
  hey, they get this home game against James Madison after
• 55:23
  going 11 and one only lost to Indiana.
• 55:25
  James Madison wins the Sunbelt. They get the pleasure of
• 55:28
  traveling across the country. Eugene gets a home game, 20 1/2
• 55:31
  point line. Daniel, are you picking a cover
• 55:34
  in this one? I'm assuming you're picking
• 55:35
  Oregon to win. Who are you picking the cover
• 55:37
  between Oregon and James Madison?
• 55:39
  Yeah, another coach that's leaving Bob Chesney, I mean, is
• 55:42
  James Madison the kingmaker. Signetti goes to Indiana now.
• 55:46
  You got Chesney about to leave. I mean, this is a great job.
• 55:50
  You would say they're not throwing away their shot.
• 55:52
  I definitely think that I I did Alexander Hamilton for James
• 55:56
  Madison. That was definitely a a reach.
• 56:00
  Oregon, though, is Dante Moore for Oregon.
• 56:05
  You and I both said at the beginning of the year, we
• 56:08
  thought we were, you know, setting the trend by saying
• 56:11
  Dante Moore, Heisman contender early in the year.
• 56:15
  We felt really good about it 'cause he had a couple really
• 56:17
  good games and then just kind of fell off the off the radar.
• 56:21
  I think people are forgetting how good he is.
• 56:23
  He is going to show up in this game and I think it's going to
• 56:27
  be a nice reminder for everybody that Oregon is one of those
• 56:31
  teams. Just because they lost Indiana
• 56:33
  doesn't mean that they're not going to be ready for the
• 56:36
  international championship push. This is the spot that you know
• 56:40
  is a prime spot to be in. 20 1/2 points.
• 56:45
  It's a lot, but you've got a head coach on the other side
• 56:48
  who's not one foot out the door. But he's going to give his best
• 56:51
  effort. But he knows what the deal is.
• 56:54
  He's about to go to his new his new job.
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  And then Oregon, they've got their sights set on the national
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  championship two different ways. They're trending 20 1/2.
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  That's that's important. All I need is a three touchdown
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  victory to get this cover. I think that Oregon does that
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  handily. So give me the Ducks, lay the
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  points. Let's just do this thing.
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  Austin Stadium is going to be rocking for a playoff home game.
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  Yeah, man, lay the points here. I like Oregon to win like 4113.
• 57:25
  I just, I don't think this is going to be very close to James
• 57:28
  Madison is severely outmatched. I think Oregon will put up
• 57:31
  however many points they want to put up on offense.
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  I don't know how many James Madison's going to score.
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  It's 20 1/2. I think it's at least a three
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  touchdown game. This is like James Madison, but
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  Elliot mentioned this. They might have, they might set
• 57:43
  the record for worst ever, shrink their schedule to make
• 57:46
  the College Football Playoff. Their shrink the schedule was
• 57:48
  123rd in the country. They've played no one like this.
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  They've not seen bodies like this.
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  It's hard to prep for that when you haven't seen it.
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  Everybody's got a plan. So they get punched in the
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  mouth. I think James Madison's going to
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  get punched in the mouth again and again and again.
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  Give me Oregon big in round one and get them prepped to go go
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  face off against Texas Tech in the quarters.
• 58:11
  Daniel, let's let's get to our brackets.
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  Let's start. We already have a round one
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  games. You and I both have Oregon over
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  James Madison, AL over Oklahoma almost over 2 lane Miami over
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  Texas A&M. So we're in lockstep there.
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  Let's start with and I believe is the Cotton Bowl.
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  Texas Tech, they get the cotton. I'm going to look it up but.
• 58:34
  No, it's the Orange Bowl for. Texas Orange Bowl.
• 58:36
  That's right. So Texas Tech hosting Oregon in
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  the Orange Bowl, who you got in that match up since we got the
• 58:44
  same match up there, right? Yeah, I've so good.
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  I've got Oregon, so that's, you know, for me, it's clean and
• 58:51
  simple. I think you're going to have a
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  team that's being able to be hot because they just played.
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  And then I also just think Oregon's better.
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  You know, it may be closer. I'm excited to see what the line
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  is whenever that gets revealed. But I've got Oregon straight up.
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  All right, I do as well coming Oregon in that game.
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  So this is my challenge with Texas Tech is I think their
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  defense is very good, very good. And I think they've got
• 59:15
  athletes. What's the best not what's the
• 59:18
  best offense they play. What's the best defense Texas
• 59:20
  Tech has played? Because I don't think they're
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  they're, you know, they they've beaten them ready by 20 points
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  minus the game they lost without the starting quarterback.
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  But what's the best defense they've played statistically,
• 59:28
  like SE plus or? Like what number or what team?
• 59:32
  Or what team? What team?
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  The best? The Texas Tech is faced.
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  Texas Tech is faced, man. Did they play Iowa State?
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  No, but it's it's, it's BYU. At BYU, they beat him twice,
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  ranks 23rd on SU. Plus your defense I think is
• 59:48
  going to play with anybody. I wonder about what their
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  offense are going to do against a defense like Oregon's a top
• 59:52
  five defense. We'll we'll get to the rest of
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  the thing. But I'm with you.
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  Give me Oregon over Texas Tech. We've both got Alabama versus
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  Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Who do you like in that game,
• 1:00:04
  Daniel? Signetti against his former
• 1:00:07
  employer Alabama. Not Nick Saban, but Alabama.
• 1:00:11
  Signetti talked a big game early in the year about the SEC.
• 1:00:17
  He also has backed up everything that he's done so far because
• 1:00:21
  they're undefeated. He's a guy that doesn't run from
• 1:00:23
  those kinds of things. This game, I'll just be straight
• 1:00:26
  up with you. I really don't know, but if I
• 1:00:29
  think that Alabama is going to win their first round game, then
• 1:00:33
  I think that the vibes will be up for the Tide.
• 1:00:36
  And I kind of think that mentally they could break the
• 1:00:41
  other team across the field from them.
• 1:00:43
  They are more talented, severely more talented as well.
• 1:00:45
  I've got Alabama in that game. Give me Indiana.
• 1:00:48
  Give me Indiana. I I've seen Alabama enough to
• 1:00:52
  know they can beat Oklahoma. Look, I'm trying to trust my
• 1:00:55
  eyes here. Daniel Indiana's wouldn't beat
• 1:00:56
  Ohio State. Straight up not fluky beat
• 1:00:58
  Oregon on the road. I think they can beat Alabama in
• 1:01:01
  on a neutral site on some nice grass in the Rose Bowl and give
• 1:01:04
  me, give me Indiana. They've looked like a top two
• 1:01:05
  team all year, Georgia and Ole Miss.
• 1:01:08
  I've got the dogs. Who you got?
• 1:01:11
  Yeah, rinse, repeat. I think this is where not having
• 1:01:14
  Lane Kiffin shows up. Yeah.
• 1:01:18
  For them, and I think it's just as simple as that, you know,
• 1:01:21
  rematch game. But I think George's defense is
• 1:01:23
  so much further along. And if you're telling me you
• 1:01:25
  don't have lane for the offense to continue humming, then it is
• 1:01:29
  what it is. Georgia's very physical and
• 1:01:31
  they're just going to they're just going to overpower them at
• 1:01:34
  this point. Yeah, I'm with you there.
• 1:01:38
  I've got Ohio State over Miami. How do you like in that quarter
• 1:01:42
  final match up? Yeah, same for me, keeping it
• 1:01:44
  simple. I do.
• 1:01:45
  I think Miami's got plenty of, you know, ability.
• 1:01:49
  That's one where I could see them dropping, you know, being a
• 1:01:52
  big upset. But yeah, Ohio State, they're
• 1:01:55
  may be the best team out there. So we'll see.
• 1:01:58
  All right, I've got Oregon and Indiana in one of my semi finals
• 1:02:01
  and that'll be the Peach Bowl. This is where I say I got to I
• 1:02:04
  got to I got to see it to believe it.
• 1:02:06
  Give me Oregon over Indiana in the rematch.
• 1:02:09
  Oregon's got better bodies going to do this multiple times.
• 1:02:11
  I would not be surprised to see Indiana win this game and find
• 1:02:14
  themselves in the national championship.
• 1:02:15
  I wouldn't I'd be surprised if they won the whole thing, but it
• 1:02:20
  it's hard for me to look at these rosters and pick Indiana.
• 1:02:22
  It's just I'm I'm just I'm showing my bias.
• 1:02:24
  I'm a tie about I'm a talent bias person.
• 1:02:27
  It's hard for me to look at these rosters and trust that
• 1:02:28
  Indiana's going to go do it again.
• 1:02:31
  Give me org over Indiana in that semi final game.
• 1:02:34
  You've got Alabama. Excuse me, you've got Oregon and
• 1:02:37
  Alabama in this one in the Peach Bowl.
• 1:02:39
  Who do you like there? A rivalry renewed Caitlyn de
• 1:02:42
  Boer versus Dan Lanning. That's right.
• 1:02:44
  They had had plenty of Kaitlyn de Boer when he was at
• 1:02:49
  Washington. He was like, hey, I'm good,
• 1:02:51
  y'all get out of here, please. That being said, I think Landon
• 1:02:57
  gets his revenge here. I think that he's got the team
• 1:03:00
  that is better and more suited for this spot.
• 1:03:02
  And so I think this is where Oregon would beat Alabama.
• 1:03:06
  There'd be enough for Dan Laning to overtake Kaitlyn de Boer.
• 1:03:09
  There's a little bit of, you know, spice to this rivalry for
• 1:03:13
  coaches. So give me Oregon over Alabama.
• 1:03:16
  All right, Daniel, Fiesta Bowl, Georgia and Ohio State.
• 1:03:20
  They put a classic in the Peach Bowl a couple years ago.
• 1:03:23
  This is the game I had the hardest time with.
• 1:03:26
  I'll save another comment about that for a second, but I said a
• 1:03:28
  few weeks ago, I'm picking Ohio State to win it all.
• 1:03:30
  That just is what it is there. They've looked like the best
• 1:03:33
  team all year. And if you ask me the question,
• 1:03:35
  how many teams can win the natty?
• 1:03:36
  A few weeks ago, I would have said it depends.
• 1:03:38
  Does Ohio State look mortal before the season ends because
• 1:03:43
  if not, I think it's 1. Ohio State not only looked
• 1:03:46
  mortal, they got beat that opened the door for I think 4.
• 1:03:51
  Give me Georgia over Ohio State, Daniel.
• 1:03:53
  This team's trending in the right direction.
• 1:03:55
  The the defense is what has changed my mind on Georgia to,
• 1:03:59
  you know, potential to make it this far at least is I think
• 1:04:02
  Georgia's defense can physically match Ohio State.
• 1:04:05
  And if they can get pressure with four, those young corners
• 1:04:08
  have come along. I'm very excited to see, you
• 1:04:10
  know, if you're a college football go like we are.
• 1:04:16
  You saw the videos of the seven on seven stuff between Jeremiah
• 1:04:19
  Smith and Ellis Robinson and potentially get that in this
• 1:04:22
  game. You know #1 Rider Seaver number
• 1:04:24
  #1 corner of that class. George got the DB.
• 1:04:27
  Is that just like Indiana? They could potentially keep them
• 1:04:31
  in check depending on the game plan for Ohio State.
• 1:04:33
  Give me Give me the dogs over Ohio State and SME should be
• 1:04:35
  another classic if we get it. Yeah, I love that this is a
• 1:04:40
  rematch from a couple years ago where it was.
• 1:04:43
  It's also again a semi final and not the national championship.
• 1:04:46
  When you kind of feel like these may be the two best teams in the
• 1:04:49
  field. And you know, I I think you're
• 1:04:52
  going to you're going to see physicality show up.
• 1:04:55
  I think you're going to see like the mindset of their head coach.
• 1:04:59
  You're going to see, you know, Ryan Day is is free from his
• 1:05:02
  demons. He won his national championship
• 1:05:04
  last year. And beat Michigan.
• 1:05:06
  And he beat Michigan this year. But you also see, so Kirby has,
• 1:05:10
  you know, obviously won his championships and he beat Bama
• 1:05:12
  previously. But beating Alabama, I think is
• 1:05:15
  going to have Georgia very loose in this playoff.
• 1:05:18
  And I really like how they're going to be down the stretch.
• 1:05:21
  So I've also got the dogs. I'm covering up my Georgia
• 1:05:23
  patch. They are a kind of a dog's
• 1:05:25
  podcast. Right now we're both picking the
• 1:05:27
  dogs over Ohio State and I think we have the same national
• 1:05:32
  championship game. We do.
• 1:05:33
  We work at George and Oregon. Give me the dogs.
• 1:05:37
  If they're getting hot at the this is this.
• 1:05:39
  Ohio State last year is the blueprint.
• 1:05:40
  I think right of can you get healthy and hot at the right
• 1:05:45
  time with a roster that is good enough to win it all?
• 1:05:49
  Isn't that what life is all about?
• 1:05:51
  Being hot and healthy? All right, that's all we're
• 1:05:53
  trying to do. And especially true for these
• 1:05:56
  college football teams. Oregon is a team that if if I'm
• 1:05:59
  just like without knowing anything about next year, that
• 1:06:02
  I'm just like, man, Oregon might be my daddy pick for next year.
• 1:06:05
  If I'm just thinking about it. I think they're a year off.
• 1:06:08
  I think Georgia has put the puzzle pieces together.
• 1:06:11
  I could be wrong, but what I was going to say is Daniel, that's
• 1:06:14
  the semi final game between George and Ohio State does feel
• 1:06:16
  like the best two teams in the field.
• 1:06:18
  Yeah. And that's again, I think
• 1:06:20
  Indiana's looked like a top two team all season.
• 1:06:23
  I'm going to have to see it to believe it.
• 1:06:25
  I'm to show my bias there. I think Ohio State and George
• 1:06:27
  are the best two teams in the field.
• 1:06:29
  That feels like the natty. I think the, I think the winner
• 1:06:31
  of that game wins the national championship.
• 1:06:34
  And I'm betting on us getting that game.
• 1:06:36
  So that's where my head's at is the winner of that game wins it.
• 1:06:38
  All right now I'm picking Georgia.
• 1:06:41
  Who you got? Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely not
• 1:06:45
  going to rain on anybody's parade.
• 1:06:46
  This is AI. Keep talking about matchups
• 1:06:49
  because that's kind of you got to think about.
• 1:06:51
  I'm talking about coaching matchups specifically.
• 1:06:53
  But Kirby Smart versus Dan Lanning, if there's been
• 1:06:59
  obviously history there landing on Kirby staff previously, but
• 1:07:03
  they've also played, you know, gone against each other's head
• 1:07:05
  coaches. Of course it was right at the
• 1:07:07
  beginning of Landings head coaching tenure.
• 1:07:09
  That being said, there is something to that of the master
• 1:07:12
  and The Apprentice you saw that was Smart and was Sabin.
• 1:07:14
  And there's a certain level of comfort I think that Kirby Smart
• 1:07:19
  in Georgia would have with playing a team like Oregon
• 1:07:22
  because I feel like they would know who they're up against.
• 1:07:25
  I think it'd be a very physical national championship.
• 1:07:27
  But I agree with you. Ohio State and Georgia I think
• 1:07:30
  are the two best teams in the field.
• 1:07:31
  They play in the semi finals. So whoever emerges from that
• 1:07:36
  group, I think wins the national championship.
• 1:07:39
  So in this case, it's the dogs. So give me the dogs over the
• 1:07:42
  ducks for the national championship.
• 1:07:45
  I don't think this will decide the title, but something to keep
• 1:07:48
  an eye on. How many of these playoff teams
• 1:07:51
  have coaches, especially coordinators that are taking
• 1:07:53
  other jobs? Ohio State's offensive
• 1:07:55
  coordinator coaching to the playoff, but it's taking to the
• 1:07:59
  job with a portal window that opens up January 2nd.
• 1:08:02
  Both of Oregon's coordinators taking other jobs for coaching
• 1:08:06
  through the playoff. Ole Miss, obviously a lot of lot
• 1:08:08
  of coaching changes. Texas Tech, that's not
• 1:08:10
  happening. Indiana, that's not happening.
• 1:08:12
  Texas A&M Colin Klein's leaving to be the head coach.
• 1:08:16
  Just coaching through the playoff.
• 1:08:18
  So as I'm getting to the end here, if I'm splitting hairs, I
• 1:08:21
  am looking at Ohio State and Oregon and going especially
• 1:08:24
  Oregon. Is that going to make a
• 1:08:25
  difference? Did they lose at Texas Tech?
• 1:08:28
  And they and who knows, they might just get beat on the
• 1:08:30
  field. But I do wonder behind the
• 1:08:31
  scenes. I know it's got to be tough to
• 1:08:33
  prep for a game like this. And I know you do your game
• 1:08:35
  prep, you know, in February, prepping for stuff like this
• 1:08:37
  because you work on you and get your team in the right mindset.
• 1:08:40
  But when you start to play good teams and splitting hairs
• 1:08:44
  matters for the result, I do wonder if those head coaches
• 1:08:47
  trying to those coaches trying to be two places at once matters
• 1:08:50
  down the stretch. I don't know the answer to that,
• 1:08:52
  but I'm at least curious and I've at least got it in the back
• 1:08:54
  of my mind as I'm picking these games.
• 1:08:56
  Georgia doesn't have that their their coaches are locked in.
• 1:08:59
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• 1:09:02
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