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Texas moves up to No. 3 in latest College Football Playoff Rankings · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: My name is Craig Way. Thanks so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us this afternoon. US, of course,
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  Speaker 1: includes the producer of this radio program.
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  Speaker 2: That would be Cameron D. Parker.
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  Speaker 1: The dean on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
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  Speaker 1: in his father's favorite professional football team, for whom Cam
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  Speaker 1: was given the middle name. It's Cam's favorite team as well,
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  Speaker 1: but he refuses to watch them out of the disgust
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  Speaker 1: that continues to permeate all of Cowboys' Nation. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: other than your friends in your congregation, how do you
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  Speaker 1: spend your Sundays?
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  Speaker 3: I still watched I mean last Sunday we were at
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  Speaker 3: Moody Center, right so, and the women watching Texas women's
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  Speaker 3: basketball put the whip in their home openers. So you
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  Speaker 3: know it's Austin, Texas. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: great ways to spend your Sunday besides watching Cooper Rush
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  Speaker 3: throw for fourteen passing yards in the first half. And
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  Speaker 3: then Drey Lance come in and did something I don't
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  Speaker 3: know exactly. It wasn't football. From what I was told,
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  Speaker 3: he was playing something that wasn't football.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have an opinion on that? Who should be
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  Speaker 2: playing quarterback right now. No, I don't care. You can.
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  Speaker 2: You can.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Jones should go out there for all I care.
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  Speaker 3: What's Steven out there? Let him get sacked nine times again?
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  Speaker 1: No, let John Stephen Joe his son the quarterback at
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  Speaker 1: Highland Park. Let him state championship and went to Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: to walk off.
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  Speaker 2: Suit up JSJ. Hey.
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  Speaker 3: They signed Will Greer from Davidson, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in West Virginia, the practice squad, but will back
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  Speaker 1: out there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So when Will Greer the one went in and
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  Speaker 2: did horns down at the end he did. That was
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  Speaker 2: the overtime game. That was. Yeah, it was a tough game.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I remember that overtime right yeap? Or no?
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  Speaker 2: They went for two right and he ran it in? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you were a student then, weren't you? Were you already out?
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  Speaker 3: I was a student and actually that day it was
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  Speaker 3: the only home game I missed because we had a
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  Speaker 3: lab who schedules a lab on a day subject it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of my journalism classes. We had some
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  Speaker 3: lab and it was a requirement to be there.
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  Speaker 2: And why would they do that on a sack a
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  Speaker 2: gain day, a home game day Saturday for Heaven?
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  Speaker 3: I had a professor we didn't really care too much
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  Speaker 3: about football, and he knew that there was a football
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  Speaker 3: game going on, so he was like mandatory, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: out a spide or something like that. So me and
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  Speaker 3: and my buddies, and you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: sports journalism majors in my classes, and we're sitting there watching,
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  Speaker 3: watching the game, doing this stupid lab and an assignment
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  Speaker 3: that easily could have been done during the week, and
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  Speaker 3: tough ending to end because I like Worl Greer a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I knew his family and all that crap.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, horns down that that was at the peak
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  Speaker 3: of horns down too, And it was like, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: don't care, and then he does horns down after the
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  Speaker 3: two point conversion.
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  Speaker 2: Actually we do care. We'll gret you.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't realize I was going to touch a nerve bringing
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  Speaker 1: that up.
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  Speaker 2: My goodness.
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  Speaker 3: It can be the only Texas fan that remembers that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, oh, I just didn't memory him in the
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  Speaker 3: corner of the end zone with both.
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  Speaker 2: The horns down. I thought, I remember that, Okay, who.
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  Speaker 3: Was the receiver who was white who absolutely tore stuffs
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  Speaker 3: too that game. Keep saying we as if I played
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  Speaker 3: for the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Really, it's twenty eighteen, righte Texas. But you're you're
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  Speaker 2: a graduate, so you get to say that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm kind of in the media, So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Hey, we didn't look good on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: He'd be like, excuse me, I don't. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he would take to that kindly too much. Yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine that would be the case.
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  Speaker 1: Uh there, Speaking of Sark coming up and sALS the fifth,
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  Speaker 1: David stills the fifth, I think he was ram briefly,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he was.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's been, he'd been with a couple of
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  Speaker 2: NFL teams. What a game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of Sark, we're gonna bring you the SEC
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  Speaker 1: teleconference here in a few minutes that Sark was on
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  Speaker 1: just a little while ago. And you know, I like
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  Speaker 1: being able to bring it to you the listener to
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  Speaker 1: where you actually hear the reporters questions and hearing it
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  Speaker 1: going down and the moderator and all that kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff kind opens the door a little bit and pulls
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  Speaker 1: the curtain back a little bit and lets you get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to hear from the head coach as he
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  Speaker 1: responds to questions from the media, and we'll do that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's coming up in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We do have inconceivable this hour in the three o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Barrett good Dude, play by play voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas Razorbacks, joins us in the three o'clock hour, so
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  Speaker 1: we have that coming up as well, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conversation about college football. We can dive right in,
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  Speaker 1: obviously with the College Football Playoff rankings. Those came out
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  Speaker 1: when the Texas basketball game that we were at last
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  Speaker 1: night was going down the stretch of the first half
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  Speaker 1: and then at halftime when it was still coming down
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  Speaker 1: at that point. And I've seen a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: action reaction on social media about with regard to Texas
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  Speaker 1: schedule and another team schedule, and that's sort of thing
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  Speaker 1: as well. Here's here's something that's that I always kind
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  Speaker 1: of get an appreciation for.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I was never a big fan
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  Speaker 1: of the BCS, but it was better than what was
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  Speaker 1: before that. But Bill Connley from ESPN does the comparison
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  Speaker 1: with what the College Football Playoff Committee does with that
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  Speaker 1: BCS formula. He learned that combine combining the poll averages
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  Speaker 1: the AP and the coaches polls with a computer average
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  Speaker 1: derived from both power ratings the sp plus and the
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  Speaker 1: FPI and resume ratings resume sp plus and strength the
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  Speaker 1: record that they could approximate the College Football Playoff Committee's
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  Speaker 1: thinking pretty well. And it said if it's almost BCS
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  Speaker 1: style rating, and it lined up with what the committee
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  Speaker 1: produces most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: So here's here's here's what it produced this week.
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  Speaker 1: It said where the committee disagreed, He says they disagreed
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  Speaker 1: a lot. The first three spots in the rankings are
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  Speaker 1: and would be identical. You're listening to those of you
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  Speaker 1: who sayre carping about the Texas schedule identical to the
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  Speaker 1: BCS formula. Oregon number one, Ohio State number two, Texas
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  Speaker 1: number three, those are identical. Now below that is when
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  Speaker 1: things start getting really weird. All the way down to
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  Speaker 1: number eleven. From spots four through ten, there's a difference
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  Speaker 1: in what that formula would be as opposed to the
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  Speaker 1: College Football Playoff ranking. Ole Miss at eleven lined up
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  Speaker 1: in both slots like Texas, Oregon, Ohio State in their slot.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with Texas A and M at fifteen. Everything else,
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  Speaker 1: there was a difference in how the College Football Playoff
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  Speaker 1: rankings would be.
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  Speaker 2: For example, when.
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  Speaker 1: These BCS style rankings, Tennessee would be fourth, but they're
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  Speaker 1: seventh in the CFP rankings.
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  Speaker 2: Penn State would be fifth.
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  Speaker 1: They're fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, Indiana sixth,
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  Speaker 1: they're fifth in the CPP's pretty close, but there is
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  Speaker 1: a differentiation. Notre Dame seventh, eighth in the CFP rankings,
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  Speaker 1: BYU eighth, sixth in the CFP rankings, Alabama ninth, tenth
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  Speaker 1: in the CFP rankings, Georgia tenth, twelfth in the CFP rankings.
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  Speaker 1: That's important to note because at twelve in the CFP rankings,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia would be out because remember the slots that have
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  Speaker 1: to go to the five highest rated conference champions, and
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  Speaker 1: that would include Boise State, who by the way, is
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  Speaker 1: fourteenth in that BCS style rating but thirteenth in the
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  Speaker 1: College Football Playoff rankings. At this point, Boise would be
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  Speaker 1: the highest G five school or the highest remaining fifth
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  Speaker 1: conference champions, so they would get slotted into twelve. And
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  Speaker 1: that went not the twelve to the first one out. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that would be Georgia right now. The rest of that
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  Speaker 1: ole miss eleven, Like I said, Miami twelfth, ninth in
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  Speaker 1: the CFP rankings, SMU thirteenth, fourteenth in the CFP rankings.
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  Speaker 1: So and then Boise fourteen, they're thirteen in the rankings.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of it's close, but there is some differentiation.
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  Speaker 1: My point about all of this is is that when
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  Speaker 1: folks point out this business of well they would be
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  Speaker 1: more punished for their schedule in the College Football Playoff rankings, No,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't. Looking at that with the formula that the
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  Speaker 1: formula that goes into that, that's what comes out. Texas
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  Speaker 1: would be number three if it were the old BCS
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  Speaker 1: formula or the current College Football Playoff format. And and
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  Speaker 1: I was explaining this to Linda because she was asking,
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  Speaker 1: why are they number two at number three? I said,
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  Speaker 1: they're number three, but if this were the end of
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  Speaker 1: the regular season in the conference championship games, they would
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  Speaker 1: be slotted in to the two slot. That's the important
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  Speaker 1: thing to continue to point out there. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's just something to know.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Sark will be the first to tell you it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: don't amount to an awful lot right now, And we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about it more tonight on Long Worn Weekly, which
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  Speaker 1: we record the show Wednesday evenings at six at Pluckers,
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  Speaker 1: the West Campus location.
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  Speaker 2: If you're planning come over, I would suggest get there
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  Speaker 2: a little early.
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  Speaker 1: Our guest is Ricky Williams, so Ricky will be with
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  Speaker 1: us tonight and we're going to take a couple extra
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  Speaker 1: segments with Ricky. So we'll be there with Ricky Williams
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  Speaker 1: the ninety eight Heisman Trophy Winter obviously to talk to
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  Speaker 1: some long worn football and we'll have long wrn football
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  Speaker 1: coach Sark, So that's coming away. The recording of it
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  Speaker 1: is at six o'clock tonight. It'll air here on the
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  Speaker 1: SNE tomorrow night at seven, preceded by a live edition
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  Speaker 1: of Long Worn Weekly with Rodney Terry, the long one
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  Speaker 1: men's basketball coach, that comes with at six o'clock, so
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  Speaker 1: to be live at six, and then at seven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: the recorded show that we're doing today with Sark will air.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll hear from Sark, Long WARN's head
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  Speaker 1: coach from the SEC teleconference here on Sports Radio Am
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  Speaker 1: thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app