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How Have Early Season Upsets Shaken Up The College Football Playoff Picture? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Tuesday, September tenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the Marshall game in eleven days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in eighty one days, and now
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  Speaker 1: we know what time that game against Marshall is going
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  Speaker 1: to kick off. Friends, you're never going to believe it.
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  Speaker 1: It is not a great weekend of football. The Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State Marshall game is the big noon kickoff game on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Yes say twelve o'clock kickoff. The prayers of all media
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  Speaker 1: members have been answered. Fans maybe not so much. Joined
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  Speaker 1: by Tony Gerderman a Buckehdle dot com. Tony, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about a bunch of other stuff on this show.
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  Speaker 1: We're not just going to do fifteen or twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: on the Ohio State Marshall kickoff time. But this was
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  Speaker 1: one where people always ask us what time is this
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  Speaker 1: game to kick off? And sometimes we can figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: And this was a week where I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: threw my hands up and went, yeah, all these games
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  Speaker 1: are kind of crap, so this could go just about anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And here we are, Yeah, here we are. The one
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  Speaker 2: thing you can guarantee, is it won't be the best
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  Speaker 2: game on the best choice for Fox. Oh boom, there
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  Speaker 2: it is. It's the best choice for Fox, like you,
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  Speaker 2: just with so many options now and so many variables
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  Speaker 2: with the other teams, and yet Ohio State is still
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  Speaker 2: the draw that it is, especially after looking like they
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  Speaker 2: have the first couple of weeks. So the prediction of
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  Speaker 2: this tom has not gotten any easier.
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  Speaker 1: No, it has not. And we generally will tell you
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  Speaker 1: if we don't know, we generally will tell you like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of shooting in the dark here, and this
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  Speaker 1: is one where we're sort of shooting in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: We certainly talked about it as potentially a noon game,
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  Speaker 1: but it was really you could go. You could have
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  Speaker 1: gone any number of different directions there. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't like the fact that it's a new game, well
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  Speaker 1: blame all the Ohio State fans who will watch all
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  Speaker 1: of these games, because there are not If there's not
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  Speaker 1: a great game on the team, the network that gets
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  Speaker 1: the first pick is going to take the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: eyeballs one way or the other. So there you go,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Marshall kicking off at noon on Fox a
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  Speaker 1: week from Saturday. Now on to the main topic at
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  Speaker 1: today's show, and I wanted to do so. We had
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  Speaker 1: a conversation on our board about people being a little
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  Speaker 1: bit annoyed about the fact that Ohio State hit one
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  Speaker 1: fifty six nothing, really dominant against the team from Western
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  Speaker 1: Michigan that looked pretty decent in Week one, and then
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes dropped in the polls Now, they only dropped
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  Speaker 1: from dropped one spot the ap pole. They dropped from
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  Speaker 1: number two to number three, But you know, the general
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  Speaker 1: sentiment was only Ohio State could win fifty six nothing
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  Speaker 1: and still fall in the poll. So I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about that, why that doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: matter as much now as it maybe could have theoretically
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  Speaker 1: in previous years. And let's just run through real quick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to run down the whole top twenty five
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  Speaker 1: because this is all going to be relevant to the
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  Speaker 1: conversation we're about to have about the college football playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So bear with me here if you've already know this information.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry if you're not hitch pencils out. Here we go
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  Speaker 1: Number one, Georgia, number two, Texas number three, Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: number four, Alabama number five, Ole miss number six, Missouri
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  Speaker 1: number seven, Tennessee. Can a pause for number one, A
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  Speaker 1: breath ah, and number two to tell you, that's six
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  Speaker 1: the seven top seven teams from the Southeastern Conference. This
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  Speaker 1: is probably not going to hold throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Some of those teams are going to lose
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  Speaker 1: because they're playing other teams from the Southeastern Conference. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go, moving on number eight, Penn State, number nine, Oregon. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: now we're through nine teams and it's all SEC and
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  Speaker 1: all Big ten. Number ten, Miami number eleven, USC number twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Utah number thirteen, Oklahoma State number fourteen, Kansas State number fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma number sixteen, LSU number seventeen, Michigan number eighteen, Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame number nineteen, Louisville number twenty, Arizona number twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa State number twenty two clubs and number twenty three, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: number twenty four, Boston College, number twenty five, Northern Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: So only some of those numbers are really going to matter.
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  Speaker 1: Because here's what that mood mean. If the season ended today,
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  Speaker 1: and of course we know it's not going to here's
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  Speaker 1: what the college football Playoff would look like. Number one Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: number two Ohio State. It doesn't matter if there are
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  Speaker 1: two SEC teams ahead of them in the College Football
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  Speaker 1: and the AP pole. If the Buckeyes are the second
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  Speaker 1: highest ranked conference champion, they are going to be the
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  Speaker 1: number two seed in the College Football Playoff. Number three Miami,
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  Speaker 1: number four, Utah. Yeah, they get to jump a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of SEC teams as well, because the top four teams
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  Speaker 1: are all conference champions. Then number five would be Texas
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  Speaker 1: number six, Alabama number seven, Ole Miss number eight, Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: number nine, Tennessee. I will remind you again, you know
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  Speaker 1: there were not going to be this many SEC teams
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  Speaker 1: in the top ten before you know when the College
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  Speaker 1: Football Playoff is actually doing this for real. Number ten,
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  Speaker 1: Penn State, number eleven, Oregon number twelve, just as we
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  Speaker 1: all predicted a couple of weeks ago, Northern Illinois. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: the would be the group of five representative if you're
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  Speaker 1: using the rankings from the AP poll, which of course
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  Speaker 1: they are not going to. This is just a thought exercise.
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  Speaker 1: Hang in there with us, and then the first team
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  Speaker 1: out would be USC from the Big ten. So tony
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  Speaker 1: when you look at that, other than hey, there aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to be that many SEC teams in there. Does
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  Speaker 1: anything jump out to you.
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  Speaker 2: I think one of the things I looked at was
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  Speaker 2: Northern Illinois and who could push for that spot, and
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  Speaker 2: in Boise State becomes the the easy one based on
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  Speaker 2: the difficult loss they had at Oregon, which is going
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  Speaker 2: to look as much like a win, a quality win,
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  Speaker 2: as any Group of five team will have this year,
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  Speaker 2: except for the fact that Northern Illinois actually has a
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  Speaker 2: quality win, and they also have a road game coming
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  Speaker 2: up in a couple of weeks at North Carolina State.
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  Speaker 2: So if they can get a win at Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 2: a win at North Carolina State, and then run the
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  Speaker 2: table in the MAC, that's going to be better than
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  Speaker 2: anything Boise State does this season. So there is a
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  Speaker 2: chance to hold them off, and I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 2: else in the group of five will have wins like
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  Speaker 2: that pretty much guarantee it, so it would be it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be interesting to watch Illinois. But like with all
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  Speaker 2: MAC teams, they're MAC teams, which means their definitely goes
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  Speaker 2: so far. Anything can happen, whether it is weather is
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  Speaker 2: always an issue in November, especially where they play, so
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  Speaker 2: like you can lose to any given MAC team on
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  Speaker 2: any given Tuesday or Wednesday or SAT. So it's difficult
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  Speaker 2: to say they're going to make it all the way through,
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  Speaker 2: especially with that game at North Carolina State. But I
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  Speaker 2: think it's it's going to be interesting to watch who
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  Speaker 2: that team is because, as we've been saying for a
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  Speaker 2: while now, that number five team has got a I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of benefits to being that number
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  Speaker 2: five team. The only non benefit, the only attraction is
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  Speaker 2: maybe having to play an extra game, but you get
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  Speaker 2: to do it at home against the number twelve team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the number twelve team is going to almost certainly,
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  Speaker 1: it's not guaranteed to be, but almost certainly be the
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  Speaker 1: Group of five conference champion. That is the highest rank
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  Speaker 1: by the College Footballlayoff Committee. Northern Illinois. With that win
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  Speaker 1: over Notre Dame, you would certainly think even if they
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  Speaker 1: lose to NC State and they run the table in
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  Speaker 1: the back and they're an eleven and one MAC champion
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  Speaker 1: with a win over Notre Dame, it would be very
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  Speaker 1: hard to leave them out, maybe even ten and two,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how Boise State looks the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: year and whether they lose any more games the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the year. I know people had been talking about
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  Speaker 1: UTSA as a possibility. I'm not sure if you saw
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  Speaker 1: a Texas State did UCSA, but probably probably safe to
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  Speaker 1: cross UTSA off of the College Football Playoff contenders for
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  Speaker 1: this year. So just a reminder again, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: run through this real quick. The first round games this
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  Speaker 1: year are on campus. Those are the five through twelve
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  Speaker 1: ranked teams in the final rankings Friday, December twentieth, There's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be one game in the evening Saturday, December twenty
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  Speaker 1: first three games, one in the early afternoon time slot,
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  Speaker 1: one in the late afternoon, and one of the evening.
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  Speaker 1: Then the quarterfinals are going to be Tuesday, December thirty,
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  Speaker 1: first in the Fiesta Bowl, the night of New Year's Eve, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: January first, the Peach Bowl in the early afternoon, Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: in the late afternoon in the Sugar Bowl, in the
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  Speaker 1: evening semi finals, Thursday, January ninth in the Orange Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Friday January tenth in the Cotton Bowl, and then the
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  Speaker 1: national championship on Monday, January twentieth in Atlanta. So looking
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  Speaker 1: at how this would play out now, December twentieth, December
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  Speaker 1: twenty first be number five Northern Illinois at number sorry,
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  Speaker 1: number twelve, Northern Illinois at number five, Texas number nine,
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee at number eight, Missouri number eleven, Oregon at six,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama number ten, Penn State at number seven ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's four SEC teams hosting that first weekend. That
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  Speaker 1: is not going to happen. That's definitely not how that's
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  Speaker 1: going to play out. But still every time we look
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  Speaker 1: at these, Tony, I just I look at the matchups
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  Speaker 1: and think even the ones, you know, Tennessee at Missouri, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: their their conference rivals, so that you know, that's probably
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  Speaker 1: not going to happen. They'll probably see it to not
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  Speaker 1: be that way. But Oregon and Alabama going head to
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  Speaker 1: head on campus, pen State at ole Miss going head
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  Speaker 1: to head on campus. Those are just really interesting, really
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  Speaker 1: intriguing matchups that I you know, I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fascinated to see what a crowd is like for
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  Speaker 2: a playoff game at any of these venues, because we
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  Speaker 2: know there have been big games obviously, and the crowds
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  Speaker 2: are great in the regular season, but there are ebbs
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  Speaker 2: and flows. I just wonder what a crowd is like
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  Speaker 2: for a playoff game Saturday night, Friday night, what have
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  Speaker 2: you where It's like, this is the season is riding
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  Speaker 2: on this right now. And I swear I'd say like
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  Speaker 2: seventy percent of the brackets that we've looked at since
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  Speaker 2: the summer, Ole miss and Penn State are always popping
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  Speaker 2: up against each other. I don't know what it is
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  Speaker 2: about those two schools, but it's always like one or
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  Speaker 2: the other at the other's venue. So I've kind of
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  Speaker 2: grown attached to that one, which means it won't happen.
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  Speaker 2: But any of these because these are all helmet games,
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  Speaker 2: these are all big I you know you're talking about, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they would adjust this Missouri versus Tennessee. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: what other SEC team are you going to put in
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  Speaker 2: there instead?
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  Speaker 1: Tom?
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  Speaker 2: There's five of them there and they're all hosting somebody,
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  Speaker 2: so you can only move around so much. But I
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  Speaker 2: know we've talked about it. I do wonder how much
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  Speaker 2: the committee is going to move stuff around to avoid that,
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  Speaker 2: because even if it's five teams, you're still you still
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  Speaker 2: have a good chance of running into a an SEC
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  Speaker 2: first round matchup all SEC first round matchup. And is
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  Speaker 2: that where they just move Let's move to want to
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  Speaker 2: see from nine to ten, will move Penn State from
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  Speaker 2: ten to nine, and we'll just avoid this whole thing
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  Speaker 2: and make it a little less, little less SEC heavy.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still all SEC because now they're in another game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be hard to just even things
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  Speaker 2: out when you it is so top heavy with just
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  Speaker 2: two conferences commanding the bulk of these slots.
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  Speaker 1: Right in this projection, the SEC has six teams. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way the SEC is actually getting six teams in,
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  Speaker 1: but it's six teams for the SEC, three for the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten, one for the Big Twelve, one for the ACC,
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  Speaker 1: and one for the Group of five. Realistically, I can't
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  Speaker 1: really see more than four. Almost certainly five would be
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  Speaker 1: a real outlier year, I think under this format. But
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  Speaker 1: if it's four from the SEC and three or four
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  Speaker 1: from the Big Ten, you can probably avoid those rematches.
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  Speaker 1: And even if you know if these teams haven't played
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season, Let's say it's Penn State and Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Penn State Michigan don't play in the regular season this year,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe then you could have a first round matchup
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  Speaker 1: and it's not a rematch even if it is the
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  Speaker 1: same conference. Just knowing how this works, though, and the
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  Speaker 1: way that the networks kind of bang the drum for
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  Speaker 1: conference pride and all that kind of stuff. You're probably
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  Speaker 1: going to get more people in more different parts of
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  Speaker 1: the country watching if they are inter conference matchups instead
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  Speaker 1: of intruck conference matchups. I'm sure the committee knows that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure the Committee will probably take that into account
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  Speaker 1: to whatever degree they can. So all right, onto the
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  Speaker 1: quarterfinals New Year's Eve. The winner of Northern Illinois and
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  Speaker 1: Texas and no disrespect to the Huskies, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go hud and pencil to Longhorns in to this one
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  Speaker 1: facing Utah in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Eve,
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  Speaker 1: and then the winner of Tennessee and Missouri facing Georgia
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  Speaker 1: in the Sugar Bowl that would be the night of
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Day, Oregon and Alabama winner facing Florida State
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  Speaker 1: in the Peach Bowl that would be noon on New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Day. And then Penn State and Ole miss winner
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  Speaker 1: playing Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. Those are I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is an other thing where this is where I
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  Speaker 1: think you're gonna maybe see where things get maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little more interesting. To think it might be pretty chalky
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  Speaker 1: week one, and I think it might be pretty chalky
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  Speaker 1: Week three. But when you've got Utah and Miami who
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  Speaker 1: are kind of jumping up the I'm sorry I said,
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  Speaker 1: I said Florida State. It would be Miami in the
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  Speaker 1: Peach Bowl. Sorry, Uh yeah. If you've got a Utah
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  Speaker 1: and you've got a Miami in there, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: Alabama going against Miami, and you've got Texas going ast Utah,
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  Speaker 1: that feels like that might be games where the higher
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  Speaker 1: ranked team is maybe a significant underdog.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're there. The way this is gonna feed into
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  Speaker 2: this whole these automatic stations and these these brackets. I'm
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  Speaker 2: wondering you mentioned Ohio State in the rows. Is there
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  Speaker 2: a chance that would they go to the Fiesta instead?
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  Speaker 2: Or are they definitely locked in there? You know, they're
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  Speaker 2: definitely locked into the Rose because of the Big Ten
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  Speaker 2: championship game based on or the Big Ten title based
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  Speaker 2: on what you've You've spoke with the CFP director before.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I spoke with the CFP executive director at
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Media Days and he's confirmed to me that
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  Speaker 1: the conference tie ins, the existing TV contracts are still
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  Speaker 1: in effect. They kind of cut the they cut the
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  Speaker 1: line a little bit. There were still a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years left on the previous CFP contract. So the Big
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  Speaker 1: ten champion is going to go to the Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: the SEC champion is going to go to the Sugar Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: There there are some there is a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: wiggle room. They're not gonna, you know, even if they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to exercise some wiggle room. I don't think they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna want to put Ohio State on New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 1: when TV ratings have typically not been tremendous. Anyway, that's
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  Speaker 1: where you stick Utah at. You know, the Utah Texas game,
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  Speaker 1: which should be good, but is not an Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: Penn State or Ohio State Ole miss or Georgia Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: like those are those are games that they're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to have in prime in prime time or on New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Day rather than on New Year's Eve. So so
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the quarterfinals, semi finals. Then if you
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  Speaker 1: take the higher ranked teams, it would be Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: versus Miami in the Cotton Bowl, Georgia versus Utah in
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  Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl. We'll see. That's probably that's probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to be exactly how it plays out. You may
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  Speaker 1: have you may have an upset there you may have
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  Speaker 1: Alabama instead of Miami, for example. But again, this is
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  Speaker 1: one where I looked at We've looked at a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of these scenarios over the over the last few months
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  Speaker 1: where Ohio State is stuck playing Texas in the Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: If you can avoid that and you're playing you know,
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  Speaker 1: Miami or whoever it is Miami or Alabama or whoever
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  Speaker 1: it is in the in the Cotton Bowl instead, that
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  Speaker 1: feels like, just from a location and opponent perspective, like
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  Speaker 1: a big upgrade for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, overall, this looks like a pretty good road for
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, and the lack of road games quote unquote
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  Speaker 2: road games would be a benefit now playing Miami at Miami.
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  Speaker 2: I mean in the say, if you're playing Miami and
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  Speaker 2: the Orange Bowl, are those six thousand Hurricane fans really
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  Speaker 2: going to impact you're you're trying to get the plays in?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not, But it is still interesting that if we
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  Speaker 2: assume it's and I know you said Utah, but if
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  Speaker 2: we assume Texas comes out of there, Texas and against Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way they're putting Georgia in the Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's no way that that they would. They
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  Speaker 2: don't want to put the number one seed at a disadvantage.
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  Speaker 2: So it really works out well for both Georgia and
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State when it could work out very poorly or
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  Speaker 2: or or at least poorly if they were to just
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  Speaker 2: switch those two venues. And now you've got Georgia playing
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  Speaker 2: Texas and the Cotton Bowl, which is something that we've
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  Speaker 2: talked about Ohio State having to do because they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily be that one seed. But here I think I
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  Speaker 2: think both Georgia and Ohio State would take this road
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  Speaker 2: pretty quickly. Although I will say two, being the second
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  Speaker 2: seed in the scenario, you're avoiding Texas, and based on
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  Speaker 2: what we've seen, Texas look pretty good. So I think
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  Speaker 2: being number two in the scenario is maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more beneficial than being number one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like if you can avoid and you
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  Speaker 1: know this is we're two weeks into the season, so
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  Speaker 1: let's draw some real firm conclusions on what the season
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: is going to end up like probably not probably a
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: little early for that, but you know, as of right now,
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  Speaker 1: if you can avoid Texas, who looked pretty darn good
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  Speaker 1: against Michigan, it's probably not a bad thing. But if
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: you can put off facing Texas and Georgia until January twentieth,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: that is probably win because at that point you only
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: need to face one of them. So we'll see how
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that all goes. Then, of course, January twentieth, you said
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: no road games for Ohio State, Tony Well, I have
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: bad news January twentieth, Ohio State, if they make it there,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: we'll be playing in Atlanta, Georgia famously close to the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: campus of the University of Georgia. Could be a little
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: more of a road game. Could have to play the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs in their own backyard for the second time
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: in three seasons. But if you could, you know, when
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: you get to that point, what are you going to do.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: That's where the National Championship game is, so you're going
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: to have to play someone there. That team is going
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: to be pretty good, is going to have won a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: couple of college football playoff games at least already, so
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you're going to have a challenge there at some point.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: But as you said, looking at this, even knowing that
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: you could potentially have a versus Georgia at you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: in Georgia game at the end of it, that's still
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: not a terrible path.
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  Speaker 2: No, overall, I think they would take this and feel
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: pretty good about things. And the way that Ohio State
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: is playing offensively and defensively right now, they're certainly feeling
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: good about themselves. And the standard being the standard. They
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: would take that standard into any of these games and
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: certainly be favored. I think throughout I would I'm go
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: ahead and throw the line to get have somebody throw
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: a Miami versus Ohio State line on this one right
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: now and watch a bunch of people jump on and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: watch the Buckeye fans jump on Ohio State and the
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Miami fans jump on Miami. But I think overall, you're
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: looking at Ohio State being favored all the way through
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: until that championship game against Georgia. And you say the
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: same thing about Georgia, But I think that line against
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Texas would be a little bit closer than anything Ohio
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: State would have.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, those are, though, I think getting into danger games
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: potentially for both of those schools, you're not going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: have an easy path to the national championship, which is
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: one of those reasons why you keep hearing people say
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Naty your bust and I understand the team saying that
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that's kind of that has to be the mindset as
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: a fan. You have to sort of recognize, Yeah, there
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: are going to be some challenging games, and this is
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: not a two thousand and two you just win all
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: your regular season games and boom ah, you're in the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: national championship game. That's got a big ten championship game.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: You got potentially two to three college football playoff games
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: between now and between the end of the regular season
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and the national championship game. So whoever wins this is
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: going to have the best resume in the history of
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: college football, just having knocked off all of these highly
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: ranked teams and probably one a big one, a conference
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: championship game, plus whatever they did in the regular season.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it is going to be a grueling road
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: between now and January twentieth, but we will be there
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: for every step of the way. Kevin, Tony and I
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: cover the team at bucke huddle dot com, Mark covering
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: recruiting our whole team of x's and os guruz there
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: making you a smarter football fan. We'll have a couple,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: maybe one or two of them on later in this
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: week to talk some x's and o's for you on
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the morning show. I'm going to get a chance to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: talk to Ryan Day and Jim Knowles on Tuesday at
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Ohio State. It's going to be around noon that press conference.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: We streaming that live at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle.
• 19:48
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• 19:50
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• 19:53
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• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So that will do it for today. Thank you guys
• 19:57
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