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College Football Playoff Expansion · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. We're with the
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  Speaker 1: up till five o'clock. A reminder Texas Women's basketball tonight
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  Speaker 1: on one O three point one FM, Austin's eighty station
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  Speaker 1: as the Longhorns will be an action to Texas women
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  Speaker 1: to host Southern University tonight at Moody Center, Texas, right
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  Speaker 1: in that thick of the fight where they've had all
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  Speaker 1: of these road games, had the three games in Florida
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  Speaker 1: over the Thanksgiving weekend, won all three games. They're lost
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  Speaker 1: at Notre Dame last Thursday, came back on flew home
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  Speaker 1: and then on Sunday took care of James Madison and
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  Speaker 1: then they have a home game to night against Southern
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  Speaker 1: and then back on the road to play Richmond on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. We heard from Vick Schaeffer last hour. Sum up.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to hear some more from the log Horns
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  Speaker 1: head coach about what there the grind that they're going
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  Speaker 1: through and then getting ready for this weekend with Southern
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  Speaker 1: and then the trip to Richmond, and then they've got
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  Speaker 1: one more challenging game before Christmas when they take on
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  Speaker 1: South Dakota State, who is perennially ranked and a tough team,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll do on that. When you were on the
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  Speaker 1: trip with them to James Madison, did you I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I would say judge them from the way they played
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  Speaker 1: in the first half, they didn't look fatigued. You look
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  Speaker 1: a little Maybe that that trip home kind of will
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  Speaker 1: wear everybody download bit because you guys had to wait a while,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well, even then in overtime against utter Damon
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  Speaker 2: Fick Schaeffer said this that the girls were gassed. They
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  Speaker 2: were gassed, and when you missed ten consecutive shots and overtime,
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  Speaker 2: that tells you it's fatigue, especially because those were wide
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  Speaker 2: open looks for Maddy Booker and Roy Harmon. So I
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  Speaker 2: was interested in, you know, what will the level energy
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  Speaker 2: be like in this game? And they look fine, They're fine,
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  Speaker 2: Now how will it be You know, we return late
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night, but you've had, you know, two days of
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  Speaker 2: full rest, so we'll catch up to them the night
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  Speaker 2: maybe against Richmond, but for the most part, like I thought,
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  Speaker 2: they looked energized against James Madison.
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  Speaker 1: And some of them had to navigate final exams and
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  Speaker 1: get through all of that kind of stuff. As well.
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  Speaker 1: But semester drawing to its close, all right, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: hear from Vic coming up again, some more from him
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  Speaker 1: coming up in the next segment. There was something that's
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get to, you know what, all season long,
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the course of the season, we have gone through
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different machinations and incarnations of things related
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  Speaker 1: to the College Football Playoff, weekly rankings, power rankings, projections,
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  Speaker 1: all of those things week by week. We've done it
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  Speaker 1: because we knew in this new expanded college football Playoff
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  Speaker 1: era of twelve teams making it, there were going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of nuances and a lot of differences.
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  Speaker 1: And certainly that is the case, and none more so
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  Speaker 1: talked about than the SMU versus Alabama. You know, who belonged,
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  Speaker 1: who didn't belong, blah blah blah. And let me just
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  Speaker 1: say this. People have heard me say that I am
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  Speaker 1: a more is more guy. I think they should ex
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  Speaker 1: expand the playoff. I know there's going to be some conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Clark, the executive director who was on with us
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, had said a little bit about this,
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  Speaker 1: but he said more about it in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days. Yes, they will look at the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: expanding the fourteen teams next year or twenty six, I
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  Speaker 1: think is what he was talking about. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is two years going to be in the twelve team format.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean they wouldn't adjust or tweak some of the
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  Speaker 1: criteria by which they judge the available teams, but they
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  Speaker 1: could look at possibly expanding to fourteen. I think sixteen
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  Speaker 1: would be a good number. I think they could go
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen. There are those who say that every Division
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  Speaker 1: one FBS conference champion should be allowed ast spot in
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  Speaker 1: the field. Now that's going to go counter to the
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  Speaker 1: people say no, you just take the twelve best teams period,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of conference. But the NCAA Basketball Tournament is much
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  Speaker 1: more a goat militarian and how they invite the I
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  Speaker 1: think it's thirty four conference or thirty four at large
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  Speaker 1: bits and thirty four conference champions. By the way, they're
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  Speaker 1: looking at possibly expanding again to seventy two or seventy
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  Speaker 1: six from sixty eight teams. And we'll have more on
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  Speaker 1: that later. But the but anyway, the you know college
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  Speaker 1: from if you did there there are ten now that
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  Speaker 1: the well, the PAC twelve will be back, I guess extra.
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  Speaker 1: So you could say there'd be eleven Division one FBS
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  Speaker 1: conferences if you took all eleven conference champions even like
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  Speaker 1: Marshall winning the Sun Belt, you know, was it Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: State winning Conference USA. Every Division one FBS conference championship
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  Speaker 1: winner gets a bid, that would be eleven out of sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: You'd still have room for five more at large is
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  Speaker 1: if you did it that way. But that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to please everybody one thing. That is. So we have
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  Speaker 1: followed this trail throughout the course of the season and
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  Speaker 1: the latest incarnation of things, and I would say that
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  Speaker 1: the Services of the Athletic did a similar thing like this.
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  Speaker 1: SI has done some stuff at ESPN ranked all fifty
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  Speaker 1: two teams who have taken a part taken apart taken
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  Speaker 1: who have taken part of the College Football Playoff, who
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  Speaker 1: have played in the College Football Playoff. So like twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three Texas is ranked in here, twenty twenty what
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  Speaker 1: was it, twenty twenty two CCU is ranked in here.
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  Speaker 1: Every team that ever played in the College Football Playoff
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  Speaker 1: in the seven years is ranked here, all fifty two teams.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to run through all fifty two,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just going to highlight a couple for you,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes this year's field, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: kind of interesting. They're ranking them before they have him played,
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  Speaker 1: because I can tell you right now, you know who
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  Speaker 1: Number fifty two is Arizona State, this year's Arizona State League. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they ranked fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've seen some people projecting them to beat
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  Speaker 2: Texas in a quarter five.
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  Speaker 1: Possible, it said. As late as week twelve, Arizona State's
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  Speaker 1: playoff odds were two point nine percent, according to the
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  Speaker 1: All State Playoff Predictor. But Kitty Dellingham Sun Devil's beat
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  Speaker 1: three of the Big Twelve's four best teams is part
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  Speaker 1: of a six game winning streak, charging into and capturing
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  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve championship game. With running back Camp Scataboo
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  Speaker 1: leading the way. The Sun Devils are physical and confident,
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  Speaker 1: but they will be underdogs from here, so we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. So they've got them ranked fifty two. They
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  Speaker 1: got this year's Boise State team ranked fifty first. Interesting,
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  Speaker 1: then they have this year's Clemson team fiftieth. Number forty
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  Speaker 1: nine is a twenty fifteen Michigan State team that lost
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  Speaker 1: in the Cotton Bowl to Alabama when they got blown out.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of Oklahoma teams that are toward the
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  Speaker 1: back end of this. Number forty eight is twenty nineteen Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: it's got blown out by LSU. SMU this year is
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  Speaker 1: number four, forty seven. Scrolling on down the list, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: this year is number forty three. Remember when Cincinnati got
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  Speaker 1: in three years ago, they're number forty two. Oklahoma twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen is forty one. Oklahoma twenty fifteen is number thirty nine.
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  Speaker 1: So just rolling back through this and last year's Texas
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  Speaker 1: team is number thirty three, team that lost to Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Just ahead them in number thirty two is the TCU
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  Speaker 1: team from twenty twenty two. They reached the National Championship.
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  Speaker 1: They're in there for that. So number twenty nine is
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  Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen OU team that had Baker Mayfield that
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  Speaker 1: lost to Georgia and the Rose Bowl. This year's twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four Texas team currently ranks twenty eighth twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: all time. He said, the only thing we don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether Texas can do is beat Georgia. Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: They're ohing too against the Bulldogs and then eleven and
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  Speaker 1: zer against everyone else, and they've got both the best
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  Speaker 1: linebacking court, overall pass defense and the CFP where when
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  Speaker 1: there's a question mark it comes on the offensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. But in theory, a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: off could make a big difference for both hobbled star
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  Speaker 1: tackle Calvin Banks Junior and quarterback Quinn Yours. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's whereas the Washington team that beat Texas last
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  Speaker 1: year and then lost to Michigan in the National Championship
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  Speaker 1: is ranked twenty six. Obviously, it's going to be pretty
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  Speaker 1: Alabama and SEC heavy as you get all the way
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  Speaker 1: down toward the final. The number one team out of
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  Speaker 1: this deal if one of them's number one and one
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  Speaker 1: of them is number two. So I'm gonna give them
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  Speaker 1: both to and you guess one of the ones is
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  Speaker 1: LSU then one in twenty nineteen. The other one is
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Alabama team that went thirteen in oh
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  Speaker 1: and beat Ohio State in the final. Which would you
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  Speaker 1: guess would be number two? In which number one?
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  Speaker 2: I would say Alabama one because of their defense, LSU two.
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  Speaker 1: You're spot on, You're spot on, yep, talk about that
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  Speaker 1: at the defense there it is so anyway, it was
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  Speaker 1: some entertaining reading anyway to see what their thought was
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  Speaker 1: on all level. All right, up next, we're gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: more from long orange Head basketball coach Vick Schaeffer of
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  Speaker 1: the Texas women's team. We'll hear that coming up when
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  Speaker 1: we continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone
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