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Who Could Ohio State Face In The College Football Playoff? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. From Monday, October twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com. We're going to be talking about the
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff and where things stand right now. We're
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  Speaker 1: headed into the first of November, that'll be this Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and just felt like a good time to kind of
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  Speaker 1: do a little bit of a check in as we
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  Speaker 1: head into the final month of the regular season. But Tony,
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  Speaker 1: before we get into that, I wanted to pull up
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  Speaker 1: the graphic from the last time we did this show
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  Speaker 1: before the season. Brace yourself. Some things have changed in
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  Speaker 1: the college football world. And the reason I'm doing this
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  Speaker 1: is I just want to underscore what a crazy and
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  Speaker 1: fun season this has been. Okay, here we go. Preseason.
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  Speaker 1: We did this based off of I think the preseason
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  Speaker 1: Ape Coaches Poll or something like that. Here we go,
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  Speaker 1: Number one Penn State. How's their season going? Is it
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  Speaker 1: going well? Tony? I haven't been following college football closely.
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  Speaker 1: I assume they're still going to be on this next
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  Speaker 1: graphic when we put off the current one.
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  Speaker 2: Their head coach is currently scouting locations now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, good for him. Number two Clemson also a
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  Speaker 1: team whose season is going great, no problem at all.
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  Speaker 1: Number three Notre Dame, Number four Texas, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to spoil something here. None of the top four seeds
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  Speaker 1: from the preseason version of this are currently in the
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  Speaker 1: field at all, period, full stop. So the preseason matchup
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  Speaker 1: for the first round would have been number five Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State versus number twelve Boise State, with the winner taking
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  Speaker 1: on Texas, Number eight Oregon taking on number nine Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: with the winner taking on top ranked Penn State, Number
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  Speaker 1: six Georgia taking on Baylor with the winner taking on
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  Speaker 1: number three No Name, and number ten Alabama taking on
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  Speaker 1: number ten Michigan with the winner taking on number two Clubs. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so there you go, Tony. The first four out will
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  Speaker 1: hit those two. Number thirteen LSU. Is their season going, well,
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  Speaker 1: I assume it must be they have a very good coach.
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  Speaker 1: Number fourteen, SMU, number fifteen, Miami, number sixteen, Illinois other
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  Speaker 1: than Penn State, other than everything, Tony, what there looks
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  Speaker 1: the craziest right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I still think the even throwing Baylor and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: this is the craziest part is how wrong all of
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  Speaker 2: it is and even let's even throw give Miami some
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  Speaker 2: credit theation you know, fifteen, are you crazy? Like they're
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  Speaker 2: easily top twelve. But yeah, just the the direction with
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  Speaker 2: which the reality has run from the preseason rankings is impressive.
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  Speaker 2: It really makes you think about how good those A
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  Speaker 2: peoples are.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure they've gotten a lot better now because
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  Speaker 1: we're using the current ap pole for the updated version
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  Speaker 1: of this, And if I have counted correctly, there are
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  Speaker 1: only four of those twelve teams from the preseason version
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  Speaker 1: of this who are still in the projected field right now.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the current projected field. Number five Georgia taking
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  Speaker 1: on number twelve Memphis Memphis, of course not one of
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  Speaker 1: the top twelve, but that is the group of five
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  Speaker 1: representative Number eight Georgia Tech Tech taking a number nine,
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt number six Oregon taking on number eleven BYU, they
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  Speaker 1: would be the Big twelve representative, one of the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 1: For No, yeah, they would be the Big twelve representative.
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  Speaker 1: And then number seven Ole miss taking on number ten Miami.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, first of all, which of these things and
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  Speaker 1: we can talk about the first four out? You can
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  Speaker 1: include that in this where the first four out are
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Texas Tech, Tennessee, and Virginia as the first
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  Speaker 1: four out right now, based on the ap pole, what
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  Speaker 1: of that is that would have been the most shocking
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  Speaker 1: to you before the season?
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  Speaker 2: Ooh boy, I had Georgia Tech in the playoffs, so
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  Speaker 2: I can't be shocked by my own intelligence, though sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I am. I would have to say, looking at that,
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  Speaker 2: you know you got to go Vandy because there were
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people harping on Vandia early in the season,
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  Speaker 2: and I was pushing back against it just because you know,
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  Speaker 2: people like to find something to prop up on the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: But you know they've done well. Virginia at sixteen is
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  Speaker 2: crazy as well. It's let's let's acknowledge that because there's
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity for them to to get into this thing.
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  Speaker 2: So actually, based on that I would say Virginia is
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  Speaker 2: the craziest. But I do think that you've got such
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  Speaker 2: a clamoring for Notre Dame the two tough losses at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the season. If those two teams keep winning,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to find their way in somehow well.
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  Speaker 1: And this is obviously not a final product by any
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  Speaker 1: So we got a whole other month of college football
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  Speaker 1: to play and a bunch of these teams are going
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  Speaker 1: to pick up losses. And it's not even if this
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  Speaker 1: was right now, you know, this season ended right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the College Football Playoff Committee's version of this.
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  Speaker 1: This is just the AP polls version of this. And
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I have a feeling that Notre Dame would
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  Speaker 1: probably sneak their way into the field, and you'd probably
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  Speaker 1: have some of these teams in a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a different order.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask you? Yeah, which I'm looking at those
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  Speaker 2: first we're out and I think I think Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: and Texas Tech are going to get in. Like, who
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  Speaker 2: do you think is the most likely of those four
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  Speaker 2: to sneak in? And if Texas Tech beats a do
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  Speaker 2: they play by BYU this year? Because I'm wondering if
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  Speaker 2: if if Texas Tech, say beats A twelve and zero BYU,
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  Speaker 2: that's disaster for other conferences because then you've got to
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  Speaker 2: have both those teams.
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  Speaker 1: And I would think, yeah, maybe I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how much. Let's see, Texas Tech will play at
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  Speaker 1: they play BYU at home on Saturday, November eighth, and
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  Speaker 1: then you gotta remember they also are going to probably
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  Speaker 1: they could very well meet in the college but in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve championship game. So then someone picks up
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  Speaker 1: a second loss there. So I would be fairly surprised
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  Speaker 1: if the Big Twelve got more than one team.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, Now with that meeting in the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that Texas Tech will get some
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  Speaker 2: credit for their loss now having their starting quarterback. So
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  Speaker 2: that's also something to keep in mind. But of those
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  Speaker 2: four tom as I run your show for you, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think makes it out of those first.
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  Speaker 1: Four out, I would have Notre Dame in Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: in and I think I think Texas Tech is going
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  Speaker 1: to beat BYU. I think BYUS a very solid team,
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  Speaker 1: but Texas Tech is probably talented enough that they're going
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  Speaker 1: to win. They're going to win at least one of
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  Speaker 1: those two and possibly both of those two. If those
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  Speaker 1: two teams match up and then Notre Dame the remainder
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  Speaker 1: of their schedule is not super difficult, and they should
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  Speaker 1: If they're ten and two, you can very easily sell
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  Speaker 1: the narrative of you know, they lost early and they
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  Speaker 1: were both very close, and they're both against good teams,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we haven't even we haven't even talked
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  Speaker 1: about the top four and Texas A and M, one
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  Speaker 1: of those teams is one of Notre Dame's losses. So
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  Speaker 1: if Texas A and M continues to roll, then that's
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  Speaker 1: a very easy loss to kind of handwave for Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: So I would suspect that they get in. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we are we are in not a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: enough world for Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech to both make
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  Speaker 1: the playoff like that feels that feels like we are
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  Speaker 1: headed for heartbreak one way there or another. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech loses to Georgia and everyone goes, oh, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: not quite well, we'll see I would I would lean
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  Speaker 1: pretty heavily towards the ACC. The ACC and the Big
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  Speaker 1: twelve both only get one team in, but will we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: so just just sort of play this forward a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So the first round matchup of number five Georgia and
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  Speaker 1: number twelve Memphis winner right now would play number at
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  Speaker 1: would play number four Alabama in the would be the
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  Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day. Number eight Georgia Tech,
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  Speaker 1: number nine Vanderbilt, they would play Ohio State in the
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  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Boy, Georgia Tech in
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  Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl or if Georgia Tech and the Rose
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  Speaker 1: Bowl sounds like nineteen twenty, Vanderbilt in the Rose Bowl
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  Speaker 1: sounds like, you know, well, we've moved on past the
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  Speaker 1: zombie apocalypse and five years later we're starting civilization over again.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where those teams would meet Oregon. Oh sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, I guess Texas A and M would technically
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  Speaker 1: be in the Sugar Bowl because they're the higher seeded
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  Speaker 1: team in the SEC right now, so they would be.
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  Speaker 1: They would be in the Sugar Bowl against the winner
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  Speaker 1: of Oregon and BYU. And then, speaking of five years
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  Speaker 1: after the zombie apocalypse, second seeded Indiana, the second seeded
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosiers will play the winner of seventh seed Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss and tenth seed Miami and those games are the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl, the Orange Bowl, or the other two there.
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  Speaker 1: So I would I would certainly assume that Alabama would
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  Speaker 1: play the Georgia and UH and Memphis winner in the
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  Speaker 1: Orange Bowl. Indiana would be the the New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 1: game against Ole Miss or Miami in the Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: But boy, you know, a lot a lot of football
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  Speaker 1: still to go. But I'm going to throw something even
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  Speaker 1: more jarring at you, Tony. If I did this based
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  Speaker 1: on SP plus, Indiana would be the number one seed.
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  Speaker 1: You could have an Indiana Vanderbilt Rose Bowl, Tony, It's
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  Speaker 1: it's almost November. And that is a sentence that is
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent true.
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  Speaker 2: As I look at some of these matchups, even including
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  Speaker 2: in the first round, I can hear the college the
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  Speaker 2: college football like people who are more NFL that that
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  Speaker 2: that the report on the NFL just like talking about, boy,
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  Speaker 2: these these are ratings killers. Who's going to want to
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  Speaker 2: watch Vanderbilt Georgia Tech. Who's going to want to watch
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss Indiana on the New Year's exactly like college
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  Speaker 2: football fans. That's too. I would love to see Ole
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  Speaker 2: Miss Indiana because Lane Kiffin and Churs Signetti like pregame
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  Speaker 2: pressers and things like that. I think that would just
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  Speaker 2: be fun. Georgia Alabama and quarters like, yeah, gimme sure
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  Speaker 2: that might be I don't know, well, that could be
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  Speaker 2: their third matchup of the year, you know, and then
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  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt Ohio against Ohio State and the Rose bull could
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  Speaker 2: legitimately be like the Heisman winner and the Hesman Heisman
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  Speaker 2: runner up playing you know, Oregon Texas A and M
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  Speaker 2: or Texas Tech, oh Texas Tech, Texas A and M
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Uh, these are all The College Football
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  Speaker 2: Player was such a good idea. The expansion was such
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  Speaker 2: a good idea. I'm glad I came up with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is definitely one where you start
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  Speaker 1: you start looking at this and going, oh man, I
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  Speaker 1: would watch the heck out of that game, Like you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about covering a h Alaane Kiffen and Kurt Signetti
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  Speaker 1: press conference, and I'm currently trying to think could I
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  Speaker 1: get out of going to oh cover Ohio State in
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  Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl to go cover that? Like man, oh
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  Speaker 1: man that and you started talking about the press conference,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, what's the over under on that game? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a hundred? Like that could be an incredibly fun game.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just a little daydreaming there, just to move
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  Speaker 1: things forward. And this is kind of also sort of
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  Speaker 1: explaining how this all works and who gets spotted, you know,
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  Speaker 1: who gets located where the semi finals. The two spots
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  Speaker 1: are the the Fiesta Bowl and the Peach Bowl. And
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  Speaker 1: so the number one seed gets spotted gets located in
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  Speaker 1: the location that is closer to its home campus. So
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  Speaker 1: that would be Ohio State. As they're the number one,
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  Speaker 1: they would get seeded into the Peach Bowl and that's
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  Speaker 1: that would just be done on Selection Sunday. That would
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  Speaker 1: not the top half of the bracket would be the
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  Speaker 1: Peach Bowl. The bottom half of the bracket would be
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  Speaker 1: the Fiesta Bowl, period full stop. That would not change
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  Speaker 1: if the number one seed got knocked out. So that
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  Speaker 1: would be number one Ohio State versus number four Alabama
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  Speaker 1: if if the top seeds all went out, which as
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  Speaker 1: we saw last year, far from a guarantee. But number
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  Speaker 1: one Ohio State versus number four Alabama in the Peach Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Number two Indiana versus number three Texas A and M
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  Speaker 1: in the Fiesta Bowl. Two Big Ten teams playing two
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  Speaker 1: SEC teams, the SEC teams both being a little closer
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  Speaker 1: to home in both of those cases. But you know again,
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  Speaker 1: sign me up. You want to have the you know
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  Speaker 1: everyone wants to have the conference slap fight on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: every day. Let's let's have two more Big Ten teams
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  Speaker 1: play two more SEC teams in the semi finals. Like
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  Speaker 1: we saw that with current numbers of the Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: and current numbers of the SEC two seasons ago when
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them were not in their current not
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  Speaker 1: in their current conferences, and the current Big Ten members
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  Speaker 1: went to and zero against the current SEC members. But man,
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  Speaker 1: Oman again, like these are football games. I would watch
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  Speaker 1: the heck out of some of these football games, and
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  Speaker 1: it just the craziness of it all just underscores what
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  Speaker 1: a fun season this has been.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's too bad as we look at this, that
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame is going to ruin it somehow. But the
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  Speaker 2: Indiana Texas A and M Texas A and M giving
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  Speaker 2: up twenty four points a game right now and having
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  Speaker 2: given up over forty to Arkansas and Notre Dame, that
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  Speaker 2: one looks like that would be bad news for the
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  Speaker 2: Texas A and M defensive Indiana comes to town in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion. But yeah, I mean, there's nothing not to
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  Speaker 2: like about this. Ohio State fans would love to get
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  Speaker 2: another shot at Alabama. Alabama fans would love to get
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  Speaker 2: a shot at Ohio State before their regular season series
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  Speaker 2: commences in a couple of years. So yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: all good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I just pulled up the College Football Nerds model and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's been updated yet for this week,
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  Speaker 1: but it would have Indiana beating Ole Miss by seventeen
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  Speaker 1: points thirty nine, thirty nine to twenty two basically, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's I would probably have owned this, scoring a few
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  Speaker 1: more points than that, but yeah, that is that would
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  Speaker 1: be a that would be a fun, fun pregame, a
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  Speaker 1: fun game, a fun postgame, a fun everything. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go, a quick look at the college football Playoff
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  Speaker 1: where things stand right now. Remember, we will start our
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  Speaker 1: shows breaking down the college football Playoff committees rankings live
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  Speaker 1: that will come up on Tuesday nights starting in November.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have our usual breakdown of that and sort of
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  Speaker 1: projecting what this all means looking forward, because we're starting
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  Speaker 1: to get We always try to not get too deep
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  Speaker 1: into the college football Playoff too early in the year
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  Speaker 1: because you want to sort of enjoy the season for
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  Speaker 1: what it is, but you're allowed to start doing a
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  Speaker 1: little scoreboard watching now that once we turn the calendar
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  Speaker 1: into November. So we'll start with those coming up in
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  Speaker 1: about a week or so. Those will be at YouTube
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  Speaker 1: dot com, slash bucke Huddle, and of course you can
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  Speaker 1: find us at bucke hudle dot com talking about this,
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  Speaker 1: talking about all the other fun stuff going on in
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  Speaker 1: football with the Buck guys heading into a game against
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  Speaker 1: Penn State, who again nothing has changed. Everything's fine, no
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  Speaker 1: problems there. They'll be coming to town to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Buck guys noon on Saturday, big noon kickoff. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be there covering it all for you at buckeyhuddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.