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Where Will Ohio State Be In The Initial College Football Playoff Rankings? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, November fifth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom Or. The Perdue game is in
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  Speaker 1: four days, the game against Michigan in twenty five days.
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  Speaker 1: One little piece of housekeeping to let you know about
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  Speaker 1: before we get into the meat of today's show. The
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes game against Northwestern being played at Wrigley Field next Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: not this Saturday, but next Saturday. That we play a
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  Speaker 1: noon kickoff on Big ten Network, so we can look
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  Speaker 1: forward to that early and early day at Wrigley Field.
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  Speaker 1: So that will be that is now official, So go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and mark your calendars for that all right now,
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  Speaker 1: coming up before the Perdue game. Coming up before the
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  Speaker 1: Northwestern game. Coming up before the game against Michigan is
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  Speaker 1: the first college football playoff rankings reveal. That is coming
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  Speaker 1: up tonight at seven pm Eastern. Tony Kevin and I
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  Speaker 1: will have our usual live show for that, breaking down
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  Speaker 1: what we learned from the committee, what it might mean
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. Today, we're going to do one last projection
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  Speaker 1: of what the field might look like before we find
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  Speaker 1: out for real where where things truly stand on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be using the ap pole to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing that with our buddy Tony Gurnaman
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  Speaker 1: if Bucky Huddle dot com, Tony. I'll just run through
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  Speaker 1: the rankings right now. The top twelve teams based on
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  Speaker 1: that ap pole. Number one Oregon, the projected Big ten
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  Speaker 1: champ right now, number two Georgia. They projected SEC champ
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  Speaker 1: right now. Number three with the seed would be Miami,
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  Speaker 1: the projected ACC champ right now, Number four would be BYU,
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  Speaker 1: the projected Big twelve champ. Five seed would be Ohio State, six,
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  Speaker 1: Texas seven, Penn State eight, India at eight, Tennessee nine, Indiana, ten,
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame eleven Alabama twelve Boise State. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: know there's going to be a lot of talk about where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether Ohio State would be better off winning
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  Speaker 1: or losing the Big Ten championship game, because that's a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting conversation, and we'll get into why in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think more than anything else, my
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  Speaker 1: takeaway is, holy crap, Indiana is in the projected college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff field right now.
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  Speaker 2: That to me, just thinking about that today and is
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  Speaker 2: amazing because that's something that you know, all of the
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  Speaker 2: names that we're seeing that could be in this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean if SMU is not far from being part
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  Speaker 2: of this thing, like if they win the ACC Championship.
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  Speaker 2: I mean just imagine, you know, army or whatever, like
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  Speaker 2: all of these teams that are still in it, Like
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  Speaker 2: what if they do get in it and you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at it like here there's Indiana, there's SMU, there's an army,
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  Speaker 2: Like what kind of world are we living in? And
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  Speaker 2: it's like that's pretty interesting. It's not something that any
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  Speaker 2: of us expected. It's not something that could be predicted,
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  Speaker 2: which means you can't predict it next year, you can't
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  Speaker 2: predict it the year after. And I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: such a bad thing when we have years past where
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  Speaker 2: it's like I'm going to give you these three teams,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the field. You know, how do you
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  Speaker 2: feel about your situation? I'm like, I'll stick with these
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  Speaker 2: three teams, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It is definitely a wild, wild race for this
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff field. Right now. SMU is the first
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  Speaker 1: team out right now, they are they would be thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: in the AP poll. We'll see where they actually are.
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  Speaker 1: Any college football playoff rankings followed by LSU, Texas A,
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  Speaker 1: and m ole miss Iowa State the fifth team out there.
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  Speaker 1: So with that team, with that field as it is,
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  Speaker 1: that would set up number twelve Boise State at number
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  Speaker 1: five Ohio State in the first round, Number eleven Alabama
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  Speaker 1: at number six Texas, number ten Notre Dame at number seven,
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  Speaker 1: Penn State, and number nine Indiana at number eight Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Ohio State going in and having Boise State
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  Speaker 1: as its first round game. Again, We've talked about this
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  Speaker 1: on and off a bunch this year about you know, boy,
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  Speaker 1: the five seed might not be a bad place to be.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're number five Ohio State and you get
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  Speaker 1: Boise State in the first round and then you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at a second round matchup against BYU, you gotta figure
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  Speaker 1: you're probably about a three touchdown favorite in both of
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  Speaker 1: those games. That's not a bad path to the semi finals.
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  Speaker 2: And all you have to do is beat Indiana and
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  Speaker 2: lose to Oregon. All I have to do is lose
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  Speaker 2: and I get this this path. I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: the losing part. You're gonna have to have a conversation
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  Speaker 2: with Buckeye fans. Would you are you okay losing to
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  Speaker 2: Oregon and getting these two positions or you know, because
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  Speaker 2: I think they'd take certainly anybody would take the twelve
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  Speaker 2: and the four, and then even after that, if you
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  Speaker 2: get past that, the number one seed would be a
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  Speaker 2: team that you have faced two times already in Oregon
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  Speaker 2: ideally theoretically, and you sure like the third crack at him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming Oregon, I think would even more so be
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  Speaker 1: pretty comfortable with if you win, if you win out
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  Speaker 1: and then you lose the Big Ten championship game and
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  Speaker 1: you're the number one team going into championship weekend, you're
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  Speaker 1: not falling any further than five. So they are even
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  Speaker 1: more in a spot where if you think that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the path. A loss in Indianapolis is not the
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  Speaker 1: worst thing you got to get there, but it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be the worst thing. One thing I thought was interesting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the talk about the Big two conferences
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  Speaker 1: this year, this first round field, this field overall twelve teams,
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  Speaker 1: four from the SEC, four from the Big Ten, one
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  Speaker 1: independent Notre Dame, one from the ACC, one from the
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  Speaker 1: Big twelve, one from the Mountain West. So the the
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  Speaker 1: Big two get four each, the rest of college football
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  Speaker 1: gets four teams. So that is how the field would
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  Speaker 1: shake out how the first round would shake out, Now
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  Speaker 1: the second round, the quarterfinals. These are the traditional bowl matchups.
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  Speaker 1: So the Ohio State Boise State winner would play BYU
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  Speaker 1: in the Fiesta Bowl that is the New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 1: game this year. Then the Alabama Texas winner would play
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  Speaker 1: Miami in the Peach Bowl that's the one that kicks
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  Speaker 1: off for on noon on New Year's Day. And the
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee Indiana winner against Oregon, and the Rose Bowl Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame penn State winner against Georgia, and the Sugar Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: But just in terms of the matchups themselves, you look
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  Speaker 1: at you know, you look at Oregon, you look at Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: those teams probably win those games. Ohio State versus BYU,
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  Speaker 1: you're taking Ohio State, Texas against Miami, you're probably taking Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Although Miami is ranked ahead of Texas right now. So
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  Speaker 1: for the next next round, we're going to advance teams
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  Speaker 1: based on who's the higher ranked team, not the higher
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  Speaker 1: seeded team. So Miami is technically higher seated than Texas,
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  Speaker 1: will advance Miami out of that. But boy that might
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Texas game is the one I think that
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  Speaker 1: is the most intriguing to me just in terms of
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  Speaker 1: just the pure on field matchup there.
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  Speaker 2: And that one feels like take the over on that
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  Speaker 2: just because Miami can seemingly score on anyone because they
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  Speaker 2: have to because they're giving up points, and that they
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  Speaker 2: never stop trying to score. And Texas has all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of offensive weaponry as well, and not that you often
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  Speaker 2: need it against Miami, so what they do have would
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  Speaker 2: be even better. I'm looking at this and these are
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of entertaining and fun possibilities. Even back around
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  Speaker 2: Hens State getting Notre Dame at home, Like, I know
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  Speaker 2: you're upset about losing to Ohio State, but if you
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  Speaker 2: can get to host like a Notre Dame in your
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  Speaker 2: place for a playoff game, I mean, that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be okay now now it go with it.
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  Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, that's that's a winnable first round game for
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  Speaker 1: Penn State. But it's also a winnable first round game
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  Speaker 1: for Notre Dame. So that looks like a you know
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  Speaker 1: the opposite of the irresistible force and the immovable object.
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  Speaker 1: That is the resistible force and the movable object Penn
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  Speaker 1: State in a big game and Notre Dame in a
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  Speaker 1: big bowl game. One of them has to win. One
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  Speaker 1: of those narratives will have to die in that game.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know which one it is, but it will
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  Speaker 1: be one of them. Next up the semi final games,
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  Speaker 1: and based on what we were told last week on
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  Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff Call, it is just based on geography.
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  Speaker 1: So the number one team, Oregon is closer to the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl, so they would go to the Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 1: to face Ohio State slash Boise State slash BYU. Georgia
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  Speaker 1: would go to the Orange Bowl, where could conceivably have
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  Speaker 1: to play Miami in their home stadium, the Georgia versus
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  Speaker 1: the Miami slash Texas slash Alabama winner there and then
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  Speaker 1: the winners of those would go to the National Championship
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  Speaker 1: game in Atlanta. But you know, it's interesting. We've had
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  Speaker 1: all this upheaval all season, and if you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: the four teams that we looked at before the season
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  Speaker 1: and thought it's going to be Ohio State and Oregon
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  Speaker 1: and Georgia and Texas and those are going to be
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  Speaker 1: the four teams in the semi finals. And they've had
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  Speaker 1: this great, crazy, fun season and we could be looking
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  Speaker 1: at those four teams that we all expected in the
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  Speaker 1: semi finals meeting in the semi finals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Still, it was a fun season, right, I mean
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  Speaker 2: we got to see plenty of upsets and including all
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  Speaker 2: of these teams playing against each other. So now, I
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  Speaker 2: had somebody tell me before the season NFL person say
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  Speaker 2: that the three most talented teams were Georgia, Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and Oregon. And you know, frankly, those three teams should
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  Speaker 2: end up where they where you Tom have them projected
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  Speaker 2: or where the AP has them projected. But it was
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  Speaker 2: still a fun, fun way of getting there. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean there's still over a month ago before we figure
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  Speaker 2: out where everybody is ends up. But if it ends
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  Speaker 2: up with the normal teams, but we got there in
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  Speaker 2: a different way, I think that's still okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think this turns into the first couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks of this looked like the start of March Madness,
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  Speaker 1: where everyone's incredibly excited and you've got these wild potential
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  Speaker 1: upsets and you have you know, the Cinderella stories. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a tweet that it was Indiana, SMU, Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: and Vanderbilt are four of the worst teams in terms
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  Speaker 1: of winning percentage in the twenty first century in terms
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  Speaker 1: of powerfol conference teams, all of them are ranked this week.
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  Speaker 1: That is Nuts and Indiana potentially in the College Football
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  Speaker 1: Playoff SMU potentially Big twelve Sorry no ACC Sorry goodness,
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  Speaker 1: you got to remember which conference everyone's in? SMU, Why
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  Speaker 1: would I think they belong in the Big twelve? County?
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  Speaker 1: Who's to say? Anyway? If SMU wins the ACC conference
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  Speaker 1: championship game there in the playoff, I mean that is
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  Speaker 1: it is gonna be different. It is going to be exciting, though.
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  Speaker 1: It should be a lot of fun. So we will
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  Speaker 1: be back on Tuesday night with our live instant reaction show,
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  Speaker 1: sharing some insights, sharing some analysis as we sort of
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  Speaker 1: all learn together what the College Football Playoff Committee thinks
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  Speaker 1: they might want to do this week. All subject to
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  Speaker 1: change seven days from now, of course, but it'll be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see them kind of work through their process,
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  Speaker 1: get some answers potentially in terms of how this is
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  Speaker 1: all going to work, because boy, we could be headed
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow