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How will the group of 5 shape college football playoffs · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let me ask you this because and this is something that we just don't know,
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  and I'm just fascinated by this. What I'm fixing to bring up is
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  because you know, Liberty has a really good shot to run the table this
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  year, bring back a really good quarterback, you know, one of the
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  better ones I think in the group of five, Jimmy Chadwell has done an
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  amazing job wherever he's been. So you got Liberty that's sitting there, and
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  then potentially Memphis in South Florida. If one of those teams run the table,
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  I mean, you could theoretically have two undefeated group of five teams.
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  But the playoff committee, you know, the whole five plus seven model,
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  which means one will they rank the other one high enough? If that makes
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  sense? Because what happens if there's two group of five? Do you get
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  two group of five teams in? Does that take a position away from maybe
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  a ten and two Ole miss team or a ten and two a Missouri team
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  or a ten and two Penn State team. I will be interested to see
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  how the group of five kind of shapes this college football playoff. Yeah,
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  Jake, completely agree, And it's a fair question. And I've just I
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  just pulled up Liberty schedule here in front of me as well. Looks like
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  maybe there's slightly more meat on the bone this year. Last year, Liberty
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  played the easiest schedule in all of FBS. Of course they did very well
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  against that schedule. But strength of schedule, you know, the difficulty of
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  your record, difficult to achieve your record, those are things that the committee's
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  going to be discussing. I would be I said, I'd be surprised that
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  the G five representative was not from the Sun Belt or the American Jake,
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  I'll say it right now. I'd be even more surprised if we had two
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  G five programs in the collegewall playoffs here in twenty twenty four. I just
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  I've grown skeptical of the committee a little bit over time. I just don't
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  think that they would put two G five programs in there. I mean,
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  I think it would take a really special and unique set of circumstances for that
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  that happened. You'd really have to have, you know, a Cincinnati type
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  team from the twenty twenty year and almost another one just like them to really
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  be in consideration. Because even when you're looking at you know, numbers ten,
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  eleven, twelve in the play off. The committee is going to be
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  evaluating those teams, their records, and their schedules against what, you know,
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  a nine and three team from the SDC and nine and three teams from
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  the Big Pen. I don't see the committee leaving out that you know,
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  nine and three power five team for even an undefeated G five team that really
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  hasn't played a difficult schedule. In the event that there are two G five
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  teams, of course, one spot will be taken. As we've talked about