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Will Ohio State Get A First-Round Playoff Game In Columbus? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, December third.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The game against Michigan in
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty one days. Perhaps more relevant to
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  Speaker 1: everyone's interest today, next round of the college football playoff
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  Speaker 1: rankings will be revealed later on tonight. Tony Gerdaman of
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  Speaker 1: pucke huddle dot Com joints that we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing a look at what that might look like, because
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  Speaker 1: there's was quite a bit of a shake up over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend in the rankings. We're going to be doing
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  Speaker 1: that using the Associated Press Top twenty five. That has
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  Speaker 1: not been exactly what the College Football Playoff Committe has
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  Speaker 1: laid out the last couple of weeks, but it's been
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  Speaker 1: close enough that we can kind of use it as
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a ballpark example of what you
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  Speaker 1: might be able to expect. Tony, I'm just gonna pull
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  Speaker 1: this graphic up right now, and we're just going to
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  Speaker 1: have everyone just be able to look at that, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be don't worry, we'll be over in the side.
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  Speaker 1: If you wanted to look at our smiling faces, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be over there. I'll just run down the AP Top
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  Speaker 1: twenty five right now, And if you're looking in the
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  Speaker 1: left hand side of wondering what are the asterisks for
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  Speaker 1: those are teams who I don't feel deserved. No, I' kidding, kidding, kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the teams that are playing in the conference
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  Speaker 1: championship games this weekend and therefore potentially have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to move up, could theoretically move down everyone else you
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  Speaker 1: sort of figure they're probably more or less in stuck
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  Speaker 1: in their place without another chance to make a mega
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  Speaker 1: statement this weekend. So the top twenty five again, this
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  Speaker 1: is just the AP not the College Football Playoff Committee
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  Speaker 1: number one, Oregon number two, Texas number three, Penn State
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  Speaker 1: number four, Notre Dame number five, Georgia number six, Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: number seven, Ohio state number eight, SMU number nine, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: number ten, Boise State number eleven, Alabama number twelve, Arizona
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  Speaker 1: State number thirteen, South Carolina number fourteen, Miami number fifteen, Ole,
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  Speaker 1: miss number sixteen, Iowa state number seventeen, BYU number eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Columbs and number nineteen, UNLV number twenty, Colorado number twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Illinois number twenty two, Missouri illanopole. Good for Missouri. What
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  Speaker 1: an incredible season, they've had number twenty three Kyle mcgordon Syracuse,
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  Speaker 1: number twenty four Army, and number twenty five Memphis. So
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  Speaker 1: mapping that on to the college Football playoff bracket. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten champion Oregon, number two, the SEC champion Texas,
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  Speaker 1: number three, the ACC champion potentially SMU Mustang's Boy, that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: I keep wanting to put them in the Big twelve
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  Speaker 1: every time we talk about this. Number four, the Boise
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  Speaker 1: State Broncos Mountain West champions assuming they win this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and the number five Penn State taking on Arizona State
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  Speaker 1: in Happy Valley. That would be a quite a trip, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the folks from Tempe Arizona have to go to
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  Speaker 1: Happy Valley in mid December. This this is one of
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  Speaker 1: these great things that we've been waiting for for years
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  Speaker 1: and years and years. This is just the first game
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  Speaker 1: on this list, and I'm already like officially intrigued on
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  Speaker 1: what this is going to look like round one.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we've always wanted. We're always like when we
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  Speaker 2: talk about the playoffs, we want to see Arizona State
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  Speaker 2: play in the North. We want to see them play
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  Speaker 2: in the cold, and I think back to one of
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  Speaker 2: the recent Fiesta balls. You know, it'd been late December,
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  Speaker 2: early January. Being out there and it's probably like forty
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  Speaker 2: five degrees in the morning and watching a jogger. She's
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  Speaker 2: all like bundled up like winter coat and gloves and scarf,
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  Speaker 2: and she's out there jog and then it's like, this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of nice out here. I don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what's so I just imagine then that team
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  Speaker 2: having to play in what would probably be something similar
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  Speaker 2: to what the Buckeyes played in this past weekend. Have
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  Speaker 2: fun with that.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. All right, So the rest of the first
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  Speaker 1: round matchups, again, this is just based on the AP.
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  Speaker 1: It would have number nine Ohio State going to number
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  Speaker 1: eight Tennessee, and we're going to talk about why. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's probably the order of those teams are
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  Speaker 1: going to be in when the CFP Committee puts it
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  Speaker 1: out later on on Tuesday. Number eleven Alabama going to
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame to play in South Bend. There is one
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  Speaker 1: that you probably have been hoping. Boy, I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: see Alabama play in the North. You might get to
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  Speaker 1: see your wish. It might get your wish in about
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  Speaker 1: a month and Indiana going to Georgia in the ten
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  Speaker 1: to seven matchup. You know, I look at this and regardless,
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  Speaker 1: I think probably Ohio State is going to be number eight.
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  Speaker 1: And again I'll show my work on that a little
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  Speaker 1: later on. But if you look at where they are
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  Speaker 1: right now, assuming they're eight in Tennessee's nine, and you
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  Speaker 1: get Tennessee coming to Columbus, and then you have a
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  Speaker 1: round two game where you're playing Oregon in the Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to beat good teams at some point.
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  Speaker 1: That is, that's a winnable first game for you, and
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  Speaker 1: then you're going across the country and yeah, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a challenge your Oregon's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: good team, but you also have the possibility there if
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  Speaker 1: Penn State beats Oregon indian in Indianapolis, then you're going
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  Speaker 1: across the country and you're potentially playing Penn State in
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  Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. And boy, you want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a winnable game, that feels like a pretty winnable second
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  Speaker 1: game for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, either way, if you win in the Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: look what you've got waiting for you to play in
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  Speaker 2: a national championship. You're talking Arizona, Penn State or Boise State.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's between you and the national Championship game. So,
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  Speaker 2: I yes, you can't a good team forever, but it
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  Speaker 2: sure seems like you'd rather maybe be at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the bracket then perhaps the bottom of the bracket maybe,
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, if you can, you're gonna eventually play organ
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  Speaker 2: So if you get them when you're at as as
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  Speaker 2: healthy as you can be, you know, would you rather
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  Speaker 2: play them in game two or game four or something
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  Speaker 2: like that when you're like, we don't have another game
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  Speaker 2: in US and so you're still I still think there's
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  Speaker 2: plenty of pain from that game. And if you know,
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  Speaker 2: like if Ohio State knows, yeah, they're frustrated right now,
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  Speaker 2: but if they know once they see the actual rankings
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  Speaker 2: and what less than a week now that if you
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  Speaker 2: win this first round game, you have Oregon in the
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  Speaker 2: Rose Bowl. I think that might be something that would
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  Speaker 2: you know, get their juices flowing.
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  Speaker 1: You would think, I mean, the chance to get revenge
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  Speaker 1: for a very very narrow loss on the road. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch has changed about the Ohio State team since then,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, if you're playing Oregon on the road,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the Rose Bowl, any of the anything
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  Speaker 1: after that first round. If you're worried about boy, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State can they can they? You know, how well are
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  Speaker 1: they gonna be able to throw if it's snowing in
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  Speaker 1: December twenty first or whatever. You're set Your next round
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  Speaker 1: is either in a dome in Arizona Pasadena where it
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  Speaker 1: almost never rains, in the Sugar the Sugar Bowl in
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  Speaker 1: the in the Dome in New Orleans, or in the
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  Speaker 1: Dome in Atlanta, so you're going to have probably a
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  Speaker 1: good weather fast track game in the quarterfinals, and then
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  Speaker 1: the semi finals you're in the Dome in Arlington or
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  Speaker 1: the in Miami where you could theoretically rain, but and
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  Speaker 1: then in your championship game you're in Atlanta, so you
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  Speaker 1: have one potential bad weather game. And then how often
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  Speaker 1: do we hear people talk about boy, if Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: can only play in a fast dry track, you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at nothing but fast dry tracks probably every you know,
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  Speaker 1: after you get that first one, it's nothing but fast
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  Speaker 1: drive tracks after that. So you know, let's let's real quickly.
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  Speaker 1: You know which teams are you do? You do? You
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  Speaker 1: look at and go, boy, I hope Ohio State. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're an Ohio State fan, you really are hoping
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  Speaker 1: they will avoid who Who's who's unbeatable this year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody. But you're gonna take a look at Georgia
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  Speaker 2: and Texas because that's just human nature, that's just I
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  Speaker 2: think the natural reaction, and so here that you know
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  Speaker 2: one of them is going to take out the other.
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  Speaker 2: And really you look at Texas and they've they've got potential,
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  Speaker 2: but you've seen issues like I don't know, how can
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  Speaker 2: anybody be afraid of Georgia right now? After watching Georgia
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  Speaker 2: Tech do what they did, we saw what Alabama has done,
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  Speaker 2: so like right now, you're more afraid I think of
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  Speaker 2: of logos than anything else because there's nobody here that
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State should be concerned about or should be like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to play them. I think
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  Speaker 2: if you look over this, I think the most the
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  Speaker 2: organ Ducks is the are the team that if you
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  Speaker 2: could avoid, you'd want to. But also you know how
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  Speaker 2: well you played against them and how close you came
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  Speaker 2: to beating them, So there's some sort of a proof
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  Speaker 2: of concept there and you know exactly what you're getting.
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  Speaker 2: But nobody here, there's a world where you'd like look
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  Speaker 2: at Notre Dame and be like, I don't really want
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  Speaker 2: to deal with their defense. I don't want to deal
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  Speaker 2: with Riley Leonard. And it's like what the team the
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  Speaker 2: US Northern Illinois. This is what we're talking about, and
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  Speaker 2: this is what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not that juggernaut twenty nineteen LSU team, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty Alabama team that really just they're not there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Texas just beat Texas A and M seventeen to seven,
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  Speaker 1: and they've had they really have not put up a
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  Speaker 1: huge game at any point. And the other fact that
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  Speaker 1: we're not talking about yet in this is the between
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  Speaker 1: the first round and the second round. You have seen
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  Speaker 1: in other sports. You have seen at times in college
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  Speaker 1: football the long wayoff. If you're kind of in the
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  Speaker 1: rhythm of okay, you play a game and then you
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  Speaker 1: play another game about seven ten days later, sometimes you're
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  Speaker 1: in better shape coming in. Even if you are a
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  Speaker 1: little bit beaten up, you are you potentially are a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more in rhythm and ready to go. You've
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  Speaker 1: seen Ohio State after off that bye week look a
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  Speaker 1: little little rust to eat several times in the past
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  Speaker 1: few years. Perhaps you'll run into that with teams looking
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  Speaker 1: a little rusty. After that, after that week off your
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  Speaker 1: first four out right now based on the AP pole. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this is not official South Carolina at Miami, ole Miss,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa State. So you know, we'll we'll see where you
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  Speaker 1: know that you're you're in. You're in a spot where
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be some really interesting conversations around Alabama versus
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina and maybe ole Miss. I mean, you get
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  Speaker 1: into a spot where, well, how can you leave us out?
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  Speaker 1: They have you know, we have a better record than them,
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  Speaker 1: or we beat them head to head or whatever. Someone
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  Speaker 1: someone's going to be mad, Tony. The one thing that
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  Speaker 1: is the only, the only guarantee in all of this,
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  Speaker 1: someone's going to be big mad. So all right, So
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of a lot of people talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Tennessee and Ohio State. One of them is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the eight, one of them is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the nine. So I went in. I just thought, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna look at resumes. I'm gonna try we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna try and figure out what the committee does. Because
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  Speaker 1: the ape pole has Tennessee ahead of Ohio State which
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  Speaker 1: in this case would make them the eight seed and
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  Speaker 1: mean that Ohio State has to go down to play
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  Speaker 1: a game in neil And Stadium. I'm not sure Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State would love that. I would frankly love to cover
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  Speaker 1: a game in neil And Stadium, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio State would prefer that. So though, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna put together a resume. We're going to see
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  Speaker 1: because you know, to me, I feel like Ohio State's
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  Speaker 1: got a pretty decent body of work, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm not looking at Tennessee's resume. Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna put it up. Ready, go all right, both
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  Speaker 1: teams ten and two. Okay, so you can cross that
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  Speaker 1: line off. Best win Ohio State by seven points on
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  Speaker 1: the road at AP number two Penn State. Tennessee their
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  Speaker 1: best win by seven points at home against AP number
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  Speaker 1: eleven Alabama. So okay, you can put the check mark
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio State's column there. Second best win Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: by twenty three points at home against number nine in
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  Speaker 1: the AP pole Indiana. Second best win for Tennessee. And
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna go no, no, no, no, no, he can't, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's wrong. That can't be right, twenty three to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: in overtime against Florida. That's their second best win. Take
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  Speaker 1: a moment you're saying no, that can't be. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the teams that Tennessee has played. They played eight conference games.
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  Speaker 1: They finished third in the SEC. They lost to second
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  Speaker 1: place Georgia. They beat fourth place Alabama. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: their conference schedule, they played the tenth place team in
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen team league, the eleventh place team that what
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  Speaker 1: is lost to Arkansas, the twelfth place team, the fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: place team, the fifteenth place team, and the sixteenth place
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  Speaker 1: team in a sixteen team league. They played ten, eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: five of the six worst teams in the SEC. That
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  Speaker 1: was five of their conference Sorry, excuse me, six of
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  Speaker 1: the seven worst teams in the SEC. That was three
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  Speaker 1: quarters of their conference schedule. Their four non conference opponents certainly, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: they must have played. Ha ha haa not so fast,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, Tony. How many FBS wins did their four
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  Speaker 1: non conference opponents total this year? Total? Four non conference
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  Speaker 1: opponents FBS wins?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, let's say six.
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  Speaker 1: I will remind you those four teams played a total
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  Speaker 1: of forty eight games. Okay, how many of them were
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  Speaker 1: wins over FBS opponents.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to up. I'm going to say ten and
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Well they didn't play all FBS teams, because
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  Speaker 1: they did play those forty eight games through all against
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  Speaker 1: FBS teams. They played Chatanoga, who is an FCS team.
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  Speaker 1: That team beat zero FBS teams. They played Kent State
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  Speaker 1: went zero to twelve, so we're you're you're still sitting
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  Speaker 1: on zero. U TEP UTEP went three and nine this year,
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  Speaker 1: so there's three. North Carolina State. Well they went six
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  Speaker 1: and six, but that includes a win over an FBFCS team.
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  Speaker 1: So the total tony eight eight wins for non conference
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  Speaker 1: teams none conference opponents against FBS opponents.
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  Speaker 2: I did say six, and then they changed my answer
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  Speaker 2: to ten. So if we average those, I was exactly correct.
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  Speaker 2: Good job on me, you know, from I just want
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  Speaker 2: to the resume comparison. That's great, now, but what you
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  Speaker 2: don't have here is number of SEC wins. And I
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  Speaker 2: believe Tennessee has six six of those.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's true.
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  Speaker 2: That's zero.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're wondering why I picked these things like
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  Speaker 1: this is the stuff that the committee tends to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't put a game control stat in here,
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  Speaker 1: but Ohio State's game control has been better than Tennessee's,
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  Speaker 1: just done the fact they've generally won by bigger margins.
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  Speaker 1: Top twenty five record two and one for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: one and one for Tennessee. You want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the best loss, the best loss Ohio State by one
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  Speaker 1: on the road at the number one team. Tennessee's is
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  Speaker 1: by fourteen at the number five team. Worst loss, which
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  Speaker 1: is just the other loss, both of them against unranked teams,
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  Speaker 1: So those are both considered bad losses by the committee.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee by five at Arkansas, which finished six and six,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State by three against Michigan, which finished seven and five.
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  Speaker 1: So really, unless the committee does say the only metric
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  Speaker 1: that matters is wins against SEC opponents or most recent loss,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a it's going to be hard
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  Speaker 1: for the committee to justify putting Tennessee over Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see crazier things have happened. But I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to sort of show my work there because I've been
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  Speaker 1: pretty insistent on our board when people have asked about
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  Speaker 1: you know, is Ohio State going to have a home games?
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  Speaker 1: Ohiostik gonna have a road game. It feels to me
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  Speaker 1: like it would be pretty hard for the committee to
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  Speaker 1: put Tennessee over Ohio State. It's possible you have other
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  Speaker 1: teams in the mix there, but it just Tennessee and
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. It feels like Ohio State's realistic floor is
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  Speaker 1: probably eight because I don't think you can justify getting
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee over them. And you know, the Ohio State has
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  Speaker 1: a home a head to head win over Indiana. Alabama
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  Speaker 1: is not you know, Alabama has not had a really
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  Speaker 1: remarkable season. I think it's probably more likely that you
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  Speaker 1: see Ohio State higher. You know, you could you could
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  Speaker 1: justify putting Ohio State over Georgia in a way that
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  Speaker 1: you know that that's more likely to me than Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State being behind Tennessee. So then you know, then you're
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  Speaker 1: putting Ohio State at seven, and then you're maybe looking
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  Speaker 1: at Texas in the second round. And there are different
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  Speaker 1: paths here, and we're going to know a lot more
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night, and don't worry, we'll have a live
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  Speaker 1: show to break it all down for you. But now,
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  Speaker 1: when I look at this Tony, I just I find
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  Speaker 1: it difficult to believe that unless you have some kind
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  Speaker 1: of weird sequence of events this weekend where you have
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of big upsets. Now, if Georgia beats Texas,
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  Speaker 1: then sure, George is definitely gonna be all. You know,
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  Speaker 1: George is gonna be ahead, Texas is gonna be ahead.
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  Speaker 1: You would assume of Ohio State at that point. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you know, if Penn State beats Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: those two teams are definitely gonna be ahead of Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it just feels to me like it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty likely that Ohio State's looking at a home
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  Speaker 1: game in the first round of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that. I do wonder what
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  Speaker 2: happens if what happens with SMU, if Clempson wins in
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  Speaker 2: the the ACC championship game, have they done enough to
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  Speaker 2: get in? And even looking at the Tennessee comparison, You're
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: talking about their schedule and it's like, even Kurt Signetti says,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: that's a soft schedule. I'm just going to say that.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: So I think Ohio State orga made ahead of Tennessee.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: But I mean to expect no chaos at this point,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I think would be a fool's Errand I think we've
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: learned enough now you've gotten down to the nitty gritty
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: where the chaos is kind of limited because the better
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: teams are playing and you know, the more sure footing
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: is there. But we will see and and what kind
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: of kind of kind of fight at the end is
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: they're going to be for these last three SEC teams
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: getting these last spot or two when this is all
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: said and done, because it's going to get vicious.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would love Greg Sankey has weighed in
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: on so many pieces of this. I feel like I'd
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: like to see Greg Sanki rank the SEC teams in
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: order of who should get in. And you can't put
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: everyone at number one. You can't put everyone together side
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: for number one. Like you've got Alabama and South Carolina
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and Ole miss closely closely ranked together. Tell us which
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: one you'd like to see put in there, and you know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: maybe the committee will even honor it. But I would
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: just be like, be fascinated to see him show his work.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I'm also man if SMU loses close to Clemson, I
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: wonder I wonder where SMU is If SMU stays number
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: eight and they lose close to Clemson, it would be
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: very hard for Alabama, you know, for them to fall
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: three spots and fall behind Alabama. So then you get
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Alabama left out, and then you've got just Texas and
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Georgia and Tennessee and three SEC teams and four Big
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: ten teams, and oh boy, Greg Sankee may not be
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: willing to share his opinion on which team should get in,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: but I bet Greg Sankey will have opinions if three
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: SEC teams get in and four Big ten teams get in.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I'm starting to imagine like an Ocean's eleven type of
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: thing where you've got some SEC officials who infiltrate the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: a CEC Championship game and end up calling that game
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: somehow and making sure nothing nothing goes awry with the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Clemson stealing a bid from the SEC.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Oh name name one time when in the last week,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: when perhaps SEC officials may have, you know, stepped in
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to prevent the ACC from stealing a bid from I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: don't know, a team from like the state of Georgia.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Listen, I can't think of a single time.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I'm sure nothing nothing untoward Tony has ever happened in
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that nature. So we will have plenty more coverage of
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: this coming up on Tuesday night. Why don't you just
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: kind of run through this and give you a cents
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: because this was a scenario that we have not talked
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a whole lot about. Everyone has sort of focused on
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: widow Hio State be better off being the one seed
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: or the five seed. Well, they might still end up
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: higher than that. We'll see. We'll see where Old House
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: it is as compared to Penn State in the big
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: in the committee rankings on Tuesday night, because you could
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: theoretically be higher than that. You could be the five seed,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you could be the sixth seed. We'll see, and then
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that could all change depending on what happens this weekend.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a lot of interesting stuff to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: talk about Tuesday night. I hope you will join us
• 19:31
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• 19:34
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• 19:37
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• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and analysis, discussing the mighty SEC teams and they're extraordinarily
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: difficult schedules. All that and more coming up Tuesday night
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. We hope to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: see you there. That will do it for today. Thank
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow