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Notre Dame, Iowa State potential playoff teams? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Glad to be
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  with you and you know what we always do, like
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  to be here in case there are breaking stories.
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  Speaker 2: How about this? Did you see this? Tony Bennett?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, has retired three weeks for the season starts three.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks before the start of the college basketball season. The
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  head coach at Virginia, Tony Bennett is retired effective immediately.
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  Stunning turn of events. He was at the ACC basketball
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  tip off last week and was trying to get the
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  offense you know, ramped up again after losing to Colorado
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  State in the first four. Who of course Colorado State
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  then went on to play Texas after that. So remember
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  he won the National Championship twenty nineteen, beat Texas Tech
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  and overtime to win the National championship. Three hundred and
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  sixty four career wins in a fifteen year run at Virginia. Also,
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  it is noteworthy that Virginia players have a thirty day
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  window to enter the transfer portal. The season opener against
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  Campbell is coming in less than three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, talk about I mean, there could be a lot
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  of factors that play there we just don't know about.
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  But that's going to put that basketball program in such
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  a bad position going forward. Now, maybe the assistant coach
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  steps up and they don't lose any players, but if
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  it's a mass exodust Craig, Oh boy, Virginia could be
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  in a lot of trouble. Yeah, a lot of trouble. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It could be a difficult season coming up for them
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  in the ACC. In SMU's first year in the ACC
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  as well. Yeah, coming up in that. So something to
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  keep an eye on. Will certainly see how it is
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  all right. Thursday Night NFL Football Tonight features the Denver
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  Broncos and the New Orleans Saints. It is a return
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  to New Orleans for Sean Payton as head coaches. They
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  try to get back on track after you know, they
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  started off well enough, including a win of the Cowboys,
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  and so we're saying, it's not like that win is
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  aging that well given given h what's happened to the
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  Cowboys since then.
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  Speaker 2: But that's that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: But there is other college football action, or there's other
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  pro football actions we get in. There's college football, big
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  college foot all games this week, and here's some updated news.
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  Colorado is expecting Travis Hunter, their Heisman Trophy contender, to
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  be ready to go. Also, Jimmy Horn who had been
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  banged up, expected to be able to play. He said
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  Travis should play for certain, is what Dion Sanders said
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  on that So big game with Arizona coming up for
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  Colorado on that one, and Hunter had got injured in
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  the loss to Kansas State, so that's one thing to
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  keep in mind. Also, the Arizona State is having to
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  do without Sam Levit. They're outstanding quarterback who led them
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  to that big win theyhead over Utah, but he is
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  out for their game against Cincinnati, and Cincinnati's quietly starting
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  to emerge as a contender Ciderfield, Yeah, it's starting to
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  get it turned there a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a big, big game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Another and Jeff SIPPs, who's a former starter at both
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  Nebraska and Georgia Tech, who competed with Levitt for the
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  starting job, will be the starting quarterback on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where that is right now. Big twelve was
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  quietly a fun year.
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  Speaker 3: Now. I know Texas fans, you know, they're kind of
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  like the ex girlfriend, where's like, I don't care how
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  she's doing, I don't care if she's happy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, who cares?
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  Speaker 3: Big Toe's actually kind of a fun season this year, Yeah,
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  BYU and Iowa State both at six and oh, both
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  on the feet and the conference play. You have Texas Tech, who,
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  after a weird start to the season it felt like
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  Joey McGuire was on the hot seat. Well there you
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  have one four in a row. They're quietly five and one,
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  three and ozer in conference play. And then a handful
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  of two and one teams in the conference, including Kansas
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  State who had a big win over Colorado who's also
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  two and one, Arizona State you just mentioned Cincinnati, and
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  then West Virginia who was two and one, and I
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  think their fans are having fun, right, Craig, I mean
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  that's the sentiment. And then you have a pair rather
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  a trio oh in three teams. I know this is
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  just really going to upset Texas fans, Oklahoma State, Baylor
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  in Kansas. Remember at the beginning of the season, Craig,
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  we hit the ESPN Playoff projector and had Kansas in
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  the College Football Playoff as the two seeds. Yeah, yeah,
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  one in five oh and three. Don't think that's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Well, by the way of the unbeaten teams, BYU plays
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  neither Iowa State, North Texas Tech Tech and I we
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  was State playing three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And that that obviously will be a big game.
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  Speaker 1: And the game is in Ames, and that's a marked
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  difference for Texas Tech, who's been really good at home,
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  so that game will be in Ames. Satanki was on
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  the hot seat going into this season too, and he's
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  turned it around as well. So U fun season in
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  the Big Twelve. And there's a chance there is a chance, folks,
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  depending on what happens the season with Texas that you know,
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  maybe they don't end up with that first round by
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  you could be welcoming BYU or Iowa State, or how.
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  Speaker 2: About this, maybe Texas Tech to de Kyarma. That would
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  be fun, right.
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  Speaker 1: If Texas didn't get to buy in the College Football
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  playoff that might seem inconceivable to some folks, it could be.
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  I would say that based on the scheduling, Iowa State's.
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  Speaker 2: Probably in the driver's seat.
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  Speaker 1: But they still have to play Cincinnati, they still have
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  to go to Utah, and they get Kansas State in
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  the final game of the regular season. So there's still
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  a lot to be sorted out in the Big Twelve conference,
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  let alone the SEC, the ACC and some of the
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  other leagues, and as we pointed out, also the the
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  the Group of five schools.
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  Speaker 2: The derby for that continues.
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  Speaker 1: Although Boise State probably is still in the league, but
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  I think that's because most folks are expecting both both
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  Army and Navy to lose to Notre Dame, and if
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  that happens, that would probably make the path much clearer
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  for for Boise State, whose only loss is to been
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  to Oregon, a very respectful loss, and they played them
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  really tough in that game.
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  Speaker 3: So as well, what does Notre Dame have to do
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  to make the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Just don't lose one more time.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta feel like they're probably gonna have to win out
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  and maybe get a little bump, a little bit of help.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not.
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  Speaker 3: They don't take away the Group of five spots. No,
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  they don't.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you know, we were talking about Heather Dnich,
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  the who really does the deep dive always into the
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  college football playoff, and she had on her bracket Notre
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  Dame out of the mix because of the the five
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  conference champions, the five highest rated conference champions would include
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  Boise State. But then she has it loaded up with
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  more SEC and Big Ten teams, so that Notre Dame
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  kind of gets nudged out. Has Notre Dame just on
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  the outside of Texas A and M just on the outside.
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  But there's still a lot of football. There's an entire
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  second half of the season ago, so there's things still
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  to be decided. Speaking of which, coming up next, we're
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  gonna hear from Long One, said coach Steve Sarkisi when
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