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CFP and Bowl Projections entering Week 8 · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way and the producer Cameron Parker alongside. Glad to
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  have you with us as well as we bring you
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  the program up until five o'clock this afternoon. Coming up
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  in a few minutes, we'll hear more from Longgrn's head
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  football coach Steve Sarcasian from that final media availability of
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  the week, the Thursday media zoom that he conducts with local,
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  regional and national media. So that's coming up in a
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  few moments where I've have some more conversation about that.
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  As we mentioned baseball, it's getting underway. What a little
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  over an hour from now, I guess it is will
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  be Yankees and Guardians Game three. The series has shifted
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  to Cleveland in the ALCS and must win time for
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  the Guardians. If they don't, they falled behind three to nothing.
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  Yet it has only happened one time in Major League
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  Baseball history that a team came back from a three
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  to zero deficit to win a series.
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  Speaker 2: And we know what that was. That was twenty More
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  was twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox down three games to none and looking
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  to be swept late in Game four when a stolen
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  base by an unheralded Red Sox player flipped the script,
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  turned the.
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  Speaker 2: Tide, and they rallied back to win.
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  Speaker 1: That unheralded player was Dave Roberts, and won that game
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  went on when the next three won the ALCS over
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  the Yankees, and then ended the eighty six year curse
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  by winning the World Series that year in four straight
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  over the same Lois Cardinals. It's the same Dave Roberts
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  who's now the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who
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  last night took Game three of the NLCS of the
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  New York Mets eight to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that thing on the carl this one and.
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  Speaker 1: Said, Mets second worst shutout loss in postseason history, eight
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  to nothing. The worst one happened three days prior to
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  nine to nothing in Game one. But Game four and
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  the Mets do have Canana on the mound to night.
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  The Dodgers try to cat with Yamamoto, and so we'll
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  see how that goes. That's Game four of that series
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  that's in New York tonight. Game five will be tomorrow
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  afternoon in New York, and then if there is a
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  Game six, and if there is a Game seven, both
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  of those games would be back in Los Angeles at
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  Dodger Stadium. All right, remember, yes, it was just yesterday.
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  I guess it was the thing when I told you, Cameron,
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  we were going over playoff projections, and I said, you know,
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  here's here's the playoff projections from ESPN add some, and
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  then the Athletic had some. And the guy who does
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  them for the Athletic when we were talking about his yesterday,
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  Scott Doctorman, and we went over his playoff projections. And
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  remember how I kind of joked a little bit and said, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  we're not talking about bowl projects. It's less I got
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  bowl projections for you. But it folds in to the
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  whole playoff thing as well. So that's why it's that's
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  why it's pertinent. Okay, he did this with Stuart Mandel
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  and a couple of things to keep in mind about
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  these playoffs, because I've also been asked about the possibility
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  of where the long runs might play in the playoffs,
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  say in a quarterfinal. Well, here's some particulars to know
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  about all this. Of course, the Playoff Selection Committee ranks
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  the top twenty five teams in order, and the twelve
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  team playoff field will consist of the five highest ranked
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  conference champions and seven at large teams. The top four
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  conference champions earn a first round by now you've heard
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  me say this, you've heard say this that if you're
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  in one of those powerfour leagues, you're going to get
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  a buy few in the league. That's not official, but
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  is presumptive because the powerfour conferences are going to have
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  better resumes than they G five. The G five would
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  have to be unbeaten, and it'd have to be a
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  conference champion, it had kind of stumbled and bubbled along
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  and found a way despite losing maybe three or even
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  four games and won the conference championship. That would be
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  the only way you could upset that apple card. So
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  pretty much you can feel pretty safe in saying if
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  you are the champion of the ACC, the Big Ten,
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  the Big twelve, or the SEC, you're going to get
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  a buy in the first round. And then the fifth
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  highest ranked conference champion, which would be a G five
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  at that point, would make the playoff. Even if they
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  were say rated twenty first in the College Football Playoff rankings,
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  they would be slotted in at the number twelve spot.
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  Speaker 2: So then.
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  Speaker 1: The fifth champion and the seven at large teams would
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  compete on four campuses December twentieth and twenty. First, there's
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  one Friday game and then three on Saturday, and the
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  Seeds five through eight will host the Seeds nine through
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  twelve those are the ones on home sites. Then you
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  have four bowl games will host the quarterfinals, New Year's even,
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  the Fiesta and January first for the Peach, the Rose,
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  and the Sugar, while the Orange Bowl and the Cotton
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  Bowl would host the summi finals on January ninth and tenth, respectively,
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  and the championship gain January twentieth in Atlanta. Now, the
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  playoff is, as they point out, one component of the postseason.
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  The other system consists of thirty four bowls with locations
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  ranging from the Bahamas to Boise, Idaho. The Power Conferences
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  have deals with bowls for its non playoff teams, while
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  the Group of Five conferences have a mix of bowl
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  contracts and ESPN events marking making the matchups. So here's
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  what they've got right now. We mentioned these playoff projections
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  yesterday and right now. If it was just going on
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  it right now, Texas would be the one seed as
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  the SEC champion, Ohio State would be the two seed,
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  Miami would be the three seed. And Iowa State winning
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  the Big Twelve would be the four seed. According to
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  the Athletic, the five seed would be Oregon. Remember, Oregon
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  beat Ohio State, but they're expecting Ohio State maybe to
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  beat Oregon in a rematch in the Big Ten championship.
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  So remember we're talking about after the conference championship games.
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  So that's why they're projecting that Oregon would be the
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  five seed, Penn State would be the sixth, Georgia would
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  be the seven, Clemson would be the eight. So what
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  you would have would be first round playoff matchups in
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  State College Pennsylvania between the sixth seed Penn State and
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  the eleven seed they project LSU.
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  Speaker 2: That would be on December twentieth.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying on December twenty first in Clemson, South Carolina,
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  you'd have an eight to nine matchup of Clemson the
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  eight seed in Alabama the nine seed in Eugene, Oregon.
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  On December twenty first, a five versus twelve matchup Oregon
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  Boise State that would bring a rematch of their big high.
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  Speaker 2: Scoring affair early this season.
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  Speaker 1: And also on December twenty first in Athens, seven seed
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  Georgia hosting the ten seed Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: That's where that is.
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  Speaker 1: So you'd have four winners come out of that, and
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  then you would get to what they are projecting would
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  be these matchups. On New Year's Eve, December thirty first,
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  in Glendale, Arizona, you'd have the four seed Iowa State
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  against the Oregon Boise State winner. In the Rose Bowl,
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  you would have the two seed Ohio State against the
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  Georgia Notre Dame winner. In Miami, you would have or
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  excuse me, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In what did I miss? Miami playing their quarterfinal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they've got Texas against the Clemson. Oh here it
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  is in Atlanta on January first in the Peach Bowl
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  Miami the three seedgainst the Penn State LSU winner, and
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  they have the Long Horns in New Orleans on January
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  first in the Sugar Bowl. Now I know some early
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  projections and magazines and stuff had Texas playing in the
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  Peach Bowl, and it was theorized the possibility of Texas
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  playing three times in five weeks in Atlanta SEC Championship,
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  a quarterfinal in the Peach Bowl, and if they advanced
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  all the way to the National Championship, then playing in
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  Atlanta where the site is for the National championship game.
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  But lately, not only these projections from the Athletic but
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  also ESPN, CBS, and a couple others. All point all
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  signs are pointing to New Orleans. If Texas wins out
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  and wins the SEC, that they would indeed wind up
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  in New Orleans playing the winner of Clemson in Alabama.
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  How about that for a quarterfinal Texas against either Clemson Alabama,
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  and then you would get to the semifinals. One of
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  those would be in Miami quarterfinal win against quarterfinal winner,
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  and the other one would be in Arlington in the
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  Cotton Bowl. The one in Miami be the Orange Bowl.
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  And according if its seeded out where the higher seeds
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  would win, you'd have the one seed against the four seed.
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  You'd have a Texas Iowa State semifinal in the Cotton Bowl,
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  and you'd have an Ohio State Miami semifinal in the
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  Orange Bowl. And then of course the winners advanced the
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  national championship in Atlanta on January twentieth. So that's where
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  it is where their projections are. Texas to win the SEC,
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  Ohio State to win the Big Ten, Miami to win
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  the ACC. Iowa stated the Big twelve earning first round
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  bys Boise State from the Mountain West, the fifth conference
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  champion seed a twelfth. The at large teams qualifying in
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  order are Oregon, Penn State, Georgia, Clemson, Alabama, Notre Dame
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  in LSU. That'd be pretty exciting stuff. I mean, it's
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  the kind of stuff we've been talking about for some time,
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  the possibility of these big time matchups in a playoff.
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  And I will tell you this, for my money, I'm
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  okay with the thing going to sixteen and eliminating the
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  buys starting next year.
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  Speaker 2: If they do that, I'd be okay with that as well.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been a more is more guide when it
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  came to the playoff, but this is a great improvement
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  over the four, which was in great improvement over the two,
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  which was an improvement over just the polls picking it.
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  It has gradually gotten to that point and now we're
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  going to get to a twelve team playoff coming up
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  a few weeks. The long run, certainly hope to be a.
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  Speaker 2: Part of that.
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  Speaker 1: To do that, they need to stay on course. They
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  need to stay on track, which would mean beating a
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  really good Georgia team on Saturday night in Austin, we'll
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