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The Biggest Takeaways On The CFB Playoffs Opening Rounds · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: From Harrow Kay Royal Texas Memorial Ctitium in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: It's the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 1: The Texas long warnings against the Clemson Tigers on third down.
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  Speaker 1: Viewers out of the gun balls on the white hash
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  Speaker 1: two receivers wide left for the warnings asle Stad turns up,
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  Speaker 1: hands it off on third down and standon Wister. The
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  Speaker 1: quarter thirty twenty five had a first down Tredy Wiston.
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  Speaker 2: How about that on board down.
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  Speaker 1: In ten Adon Carron ran him out of bounds, but
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  Speaker 1: the Travan Wister hicks up twenty two yards on a
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  Speaker 1: third and ten running call. One down, the line up
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  Speaker 1: in an eye formation with blues the deed back that
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  Speaker 1: it goes to Gibson straight ahead. He's got the first
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  Speaker 1: down and he pushes forward down inside the pop Hurston
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  Speaker 1: go for the three.
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  Speaker 2: Hand off Wister push his forward. Two's the goal line
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  Speaker 2: West touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Texas just followed the blocks, pushed part and took it
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  Speaker 1: across from three yards out and the lord Ones have
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  Speaker 1: their first playoff touchdown of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: First down in ten Lemson from the Tiger twenty five
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  Speaker 2: shot go.
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  Speaker 1: Step club to cut a pressure in his sacks Barren
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  Speaker 1: Farrell got it Tomson four five yard loss as bluff
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  Speaker 1: that started to move up in the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Surreal peeled off and Moden down four loss of five
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  Speaker 2: out of the pistol with the Trabian wife are directly behind.
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  Speaker 2: When you weres on first down and ten, it's a
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  Speaker 2: handoff to shape food rather right side of Blue breaks
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  Speaker 2: the tap.
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  Speaker 3: Of forty turns down the side.
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  Speaker 2: Bunch you good up to this point.
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  Speaker 1: Take bookin what thirty eight God touch down, rip the
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  Speaker 1: stem back to throw, looking under pressure and he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go down.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't buck.
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  Speaker 1: He holds.
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  Speaker 2: Teammate from west Lake High drags it down for a
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  Speaker 2: loss of six. Who weers out of the shotgun, sending
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  Speaker 2: Jane Blue in motion back to throw his quin looking
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  Speaker 2: he's go looking going deep down field. He's got me
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  Speaker 2: go with Golden open.
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  Speaker 1: Getting hold on what he did now if you go
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  Speaker 1: took a pump and he had to wait on the
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  Speaker 1: ball a little bit, but pulled it end and the
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  Speaker 1: mark Matthew Golden down with the football at the Clintson
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight yard line of forty three yards.
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  Speaker 2: Strike from twin viewers come mate guards from down in
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  Speaker 2: ten Texas. Now Wisner offset to the left side of yours.
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  Speaker 2: Two receivers wide left. They get three now as golden
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  Speaker 2: ships in motion from right to left on the handoffs
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  Speaker 2: right side. Bleister forget it off, touchdown Texas.
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  Speaker 1: The tray van Wisterer started right and then Tredy cut
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  Speaker 1: it back into the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody close to it.
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  Speaker 1: Sixteen yards to the house club the staff back the throw,
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  Speaker 1: pressure coming steps up, pass the flected high in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Minter set the town Simmons, Holland kicks it out his
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  Speaker 1: first colleagues an interception, have one on the tip Drill.
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  Speaker 2: Barons Rail tipped it. Holland.
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  Speaker 1: Simmons put it the long Warns have a turnover and
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  Speaker 1: they'll take over inside that comes to the.
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  Speaker 2: Burden I got stepped back to you or point up the.
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  Speaker 1: Second out Glendi for help, Hey t it touchdowns Texas.
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  Speaker 2: How many times have we seen that this season?
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  Speaker 1: Viewers a laser over the top to gut her Helm
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  Speaker 1: one touchdown, twenty two yard field goal and the kick
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  Speaker 1: from Auburn is good part bangs it home.
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  Speaker 2: Jane Blue directly behind.
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  Speaker 1: When ers second out hand off, Blue comes to the
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  Speaker 1: left side with the tackle thirty thirty five.
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  Speaker 2: Here goes Jamamnfield No. Forty the thirty say good night
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  Speaker 2: to this one. Jay Blue seventy seven.
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  Speaker 1: Yards Paul long Ward touchdown eight, clubbing out of the
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  Speaker 1: shotgun on third down, club Nick has it, rolls to
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  Speaker 1: the right, goes to the end, but he didn't get there.
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  Speaker 1: He got stopped at the one by David Benda. And
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  Speaker 1: now it's fourth and goal at the one. Tigers wrecked
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  Speaker 1: the huddle webson fourth and goal of the Texas one
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  Speaker 1: yard line, pub Vick out of the shotgun, a double
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  Speaker 1: wing set, a powered pistol. He has it, turns, hands
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  Speaker 1: it off.
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  Speaker 2: Bildn get there ward stuff again.
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  Speaker 1: They make the step on Keeth Adams, Bill Norton punks
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  Speaker 1: the gap. The defensive stand of the year was a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks ago in College Station. It's been upgraded. The
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  Speaker 1: defensive stuff of the year is tonight in Austin, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Lob it lay clock down the two down, the one,
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  Speaker 1: hass the snap back to throw over the middle book
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  Speaker 1: Ny good points would have been short of the first down.
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  Speaker 1: Michaels have laying the wood at T. J.
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  Speaker 2: Moore and that will do it.
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  Speaker 1: When you weres under center as the staff puts down
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  Speaker 1: the knee and that will do it.
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  Speaker 2: As you go with a back flip in the.
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  Speaker 1: Backfield, and I to celebrate before the Christmas holiday, the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Longmowns for the first time in school, his street
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  Speaker 1: have one a college football playoff game for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in school street he won a college football All
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  Speaker 1: Playoff game and Little Tours time at school history the
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  Speaker 1: All play at the Chick fil A teach Ball in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta in the quarter finals against Arizona State. Final score
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  Speaker 1: from Darryl tam Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. The Texas Law
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  Speaker 1: Boards thirty eight le Clemson Tigers twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Four and again our thanks to Cameron Parker, despite being
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  Speaker 2: in a sick bed or at least in and out
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  Speaker 2: of it anyway battling the flu, Buck thought enough of
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  Speaker 2: us to go ahead and put together the montage that
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  Speaker 2: he annually creates or annually weekly creates during the course
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  Speaker 2: of the football season.
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  Speaker 3: Did one there, so if Cam's feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Better, on that we begin the third and final hour
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  Speaker 2: of the program. And thanks as well Ronald Savage and
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  Speaker 2: on at the controls today and glad to have him
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  Speaker 2: with us as we bring in the final hole of
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  Speaker 2: the program before we break for a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: for Christmas, and then we'll be back after that and
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  Speaker 2: on the twenty sixth, we'll be back and we'll bring
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  Speaker 2: you shows on Thursday and Friday, twenty sixth and twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 2: There's Longhorn Basketball Men's and women's a double header at
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  Speaker 2: Moody Center on Sunday the twenty ninth. Then it'll be
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  Speaker 2: a quick transport over to the airport to fly to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be reporting in from Atlanta on Monday the thirtieth
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  Speaker 2: when the coaches have their press conference. There's a media
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  Speaker 2: day on Monday and the practices there, so we'll do
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  Speaker 2: all the regular bowl type things that we do for
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  Speaker 2: the Chick fil A Peach Ball for Texas and Arizona State,
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  Speaker 2: and coming up in a few minutes, we're gonna, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: we need to hear a couple more of these just
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  Speaker 2: to make sure we got caught up. Now. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: hear more from Longhrn's head coach, Steve Sarcasha, but also
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  Speaker 2: from Kenny Dillingham, the head coach at Arizona State. They
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  Speaker 2: did the they did the news conference simultaneously, so we
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  Speaker 2: brought to you. Sark's comment last night when Day he
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  Speaker 2: was asked what was something he has seen from Dillingham's
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  Speaker 2: career now from Dillingham, what is something that he has
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  Speaker 2: observed from Steve Sarkisian's coaching career.
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  Speaker 4: In regards to coach Sark, I mean I was a
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  Speaker 4: high school coach when he's started his career as a
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  Speaker 4: head coach, and the way he's evolved offensively. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of good offensive schemes out there, and
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  Speaker 4: then there's offensive coaches who change their scheme and are
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  Speaker 4: constantly getting better. And I think that's something that he's
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  Speaker 4: done as good, if not better than anybody in the country.
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  Speaker 4: Is if you turned on his tape from ten years ago,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be unrecognizable to his tape right now.
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  Speaker 4: And that is very challenging to do when you're successful.
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  Speaker 4: When you're successful, you want to keep doing what got
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  Speaker 4: you successful, and it's very challenging to be challenging, in
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  Speaker 4: my opinion, to be humble enough to constantly continually adapt
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  Speaker 4: to the current landscape of the rules. You can't cuplock
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  Speaker 4: on the perimeter right to RPOs and how they in
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  Speaker 4: terms and changed the game in terms of substitution patterns,
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  Speaker 4: and now you can slow teams down that sub late.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't do that fifteen years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Like, he has always adapted with the game and almost
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  Speaker 4: been ahead of the curve a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And that's really challenging to do.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a testament to one how hard he works,
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  Speaker 4: because you can't adapt unless you study. So he's always studied,
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  Speaker 4: and I've always been able to kind of steal a
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  Speaker 4: few things from him. I mean, I really remember when
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  Speaker 4: he was at Washington and way back when he was
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  Speaker 4: a big FIB guy, and he was one of the
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  Speaker 4: first people to really dive into FIB and challenge.
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  Speaker 3: People with how they played the big nickel and what
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  Speaker 3: to do. And I was like, well, what is he doing?
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  Speaker 3: This makes no sense. I couldn't process it. I was
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  Speaker 3: trying to learn it.
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  Speaker 4: But all of that stuff that he's done, he's just
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  Speaker 4: constantly evolved and evolved and evaulved to get to why
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  Speaker 4: he's where he's at right now, which is the best
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  Speaker 4: offenses in college football. And I think that same philosophy
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  Speaker 4: he carries over as a head coach in terms of
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  Speaker 4: there's no stagnant people aren't stagnant. In that program, and
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  Speaker 4: I think you can see that his office philosophy is
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  Speaker 4: becoming the program philosophy, which is it's pretty impressive when
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  Speaker 4: when you are young, innovative and you continue.
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  Speaker 3: To evolve throughout your entire career, and just got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of respect for him.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, We're going to hear more from both those
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  Speaker 2: head coaches coming up in just a few moments. When
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  Speaker 2: you get something else what's written, we use the word
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  Speaker 2: take away a lot. What's your takeaway from this? What's
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  Speaker 2: your takeaway from that? Even ask Greg Tepper, you take
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  Speaker 2: away from the high school football state championships, that sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing. So they're pretty popular things about because sometimes
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  Speaker 2: takeaways come after you've had a chance to think about
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  Speaker 2: it and reflect on it and review things, especially with
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  Speaker 2: regard in this specific instance, to the four games that
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  Speaker 2: were played over the weekend, the four college football playoff
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  Speaker 2: games that were played over the weekend. So the Athletic
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  Speaker 2: always does a good job with its takeaways, as does
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  Speaker 2: ESPN dot Com and a couple other sports Illustrated I
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  Speaker 2: canvas all of these, but the ones for the Athletic
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  Speaker 2: here were the their takeaways from the opening round of
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  Speaker 2: the college football playoff. And that's another thing. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: we call it the opening round, first round, I think
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  Speaker 2: its first round was actually called but there's some folks saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we should call that something else, you know, whatever, the
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  Speaker 2: wild card round or whatever. But here's some takeaways from
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  Speaker 2: the opening round. Number one says the Athletic that the
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  Speaker 2: home game atmospheres were great, and they were Tennessee fans.
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  Speaker 2: They took almost thirty thousand into the Horseshoe, Indiana had
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  Speaker 2: that historic first of Indiana against Notre Dame, and the
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  Speaker 2: on campus ambiance, he said, is perhaps the best part
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  Speaker 2: of the new playoff format. And so the reporters were
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  Speaker 2: asked by Jana Bardell in the staff of the Athletic
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  Speaker 2: to describe the home game atmosphere, and with regard Sam
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  Speaker 2: con Junior, whom we've seen a lot, he was at
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  Speaker 2: the Texas game, he said, so much better than the
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  Speaker 2: sanitized atmospheres we get from bowl games at NFL stadiums.
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  Speaker 2: Point Number two, the games were lopsided. Any had of
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  Speaker 2: one by ten, I mean Notre Dame beat Indiana by ten,
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  Speaker 2: but we know it really wasn't that close. The pretty
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  Speaker 2: much dominated the game, and of course, right after that,
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  Speaker 2: as the Athletic points out, Dowers and SEC enthusiasts were
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  Speaker 2: quick to question, now qualified the soon Hoosiers really were?
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  Speaker 2: Little did we know that the ten point march in
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  Speaker 2: victory would be the closest of a weekend full of blowouts?
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  Speaker 2: As him you humbled in the thirty eight to ten
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  Speaker 2: loss to Penn State, Clemson lost thirty eight twenty four
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  Speaker 2: to Texas, and Tennessee's fate was determined early in the
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  Speaker 2: forty two to seventeen lost to Ohio State. Point number three.
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  Speaker 2: Strength of schedules should have more weight in the twelve
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  Speaker 2: team that's been debated on that the playoff triple in
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  Speaker 2: size this year, but the Committee kept its evaluation process
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  Speaker 2: mostly the same blowouts are going to happen, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a good chance under Dame, Penn State, Texas, and Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State are all just really good teams. But moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: the Committee needs to prioritize schedule strength as a key
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  Speaker 2: metric in its rankings. There was always going to be
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  Speaker 2: room to evaluate what the expanded Playoff got right and
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  Speaker 2: wrong in this inaugural year, and although the Committee could
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  Speaker 2: very well have gotten this year's twelve team playoff field correct,
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  Speaker 2: does a three loss SEC team really belong. There's room
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  Speaker 2: to acknowledge that schedule strength or lack thereof, can skew
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  Speaker 2: the perceptions of the best teams. So there's some of that.
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  Speaker 2: There's got to be I get all of the thing
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  Speaker 2: of what Alabama fans are saying is about the quality wins.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that, and Kirk kurb Street had a big
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  Speaker 2: ranch about how it's got to be more than just wins.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, but you have to factor in losses, and
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  Speaker 2: if you have ugly losses, it's going to affect it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that Alabama should have been in instead
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  Speaker 2: of SMU or not or vice versa. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: all things have to be evaluated, and the committee says
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  Speaker 2: they do, so we'll see all right. Up next, more
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  Speaker 2: from long WARN's head coach Steve Sarkesian, as well as
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  Speaker 2: from Kenny Dillingham, the head coach at Arizona State, on
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  Speaker 2: sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.