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How The New College Football Playoff Format Could Change Ohio State's Path To A Title · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: bringing back a popular show from last year, would just
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  Speaker 1: sort of take new rankings as they came out and
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  Speaker 1: just sort of let's just see what that might look
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  Speaker 1: like if things played out like that in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the twelve team college football playoff format, and going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing that again this year. Going to take the
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  Speaker 1: Phil Steel rankings the Phil Steel magazine just came out
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  Speaker 1: just in the last week or so. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: take his top group of teams and put them on
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  Speaker 1: the bracket. Let you see, because things are going to
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  Speaker 1: look a little different this year. One thing that does
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  Speaker 1: not look a little different, we're going to be doing
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  Speaker 1: this exercises with Bardie, Tony Gerdamant of buckey Huddle dot com, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: We saw how this went last year worked out just
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  Speaker 1: fine for Ohio State. This year, though, the committee they
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  Speaker 1: made and then the schools and all that, they made
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  Speaker 1: a small change to how the teams are going to
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  Speaker 1: be actually put on the brackets.
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  Speaker 2: So let people know about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the change this year, they've gone away from the
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  Speaker 3: by situation that they ran into last year, and so
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  Speaker 3: this year they've changed some things and the four highest
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  Speaker 3: ranked teams conference champs will have the buys correct time.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm yeah, it's so. The change this year is
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  Speaker 1: that they are getting rid of the top four seeds
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  Speaker 1: must be conference champions, so it'll be just the top
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  Speaker 1: four ranked teams in the rankings. So last year you
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  Speaker 1: had teams like Boise State getting a first round by
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  Speaker 1: even though they were ranked something like tenth or eleventh
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  Speaker 1: in the actual rankings. This year it is just going
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  Speaker 1: to be one, two, three, and four, And theoretically it
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  Speaker 1: could be four Big ten teams or four SEC teams
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  Speaker 1: getting that those first four buys. Probably not going to
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  Speaker 1: be exactly that, but certainly something that addresses one of
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  Speaker 1: the weirder facets of last year's rankings where you'd have
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  Speaker 1: Penn State having to go play, you know, play a
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  Speaker 1: home game, and then they had to go and play
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  Speaker 1: Boise State, a rested Boise State team who had run
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  Speaker 1: the gauntlet of the Mountain West Conference. So definitely a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a different setup this year, probably, you know,
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  Speaker 1: addressing one of the weirder elements of last year where
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  Speaker 1: I think they sort of figured out, hey, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is probably not going to work well, and they
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  Speaker 1: addressed it quickly. So okay, so we'll run through Phil
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  Speaker 1: Steele's top teams, and this is going to just we'll
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  Speaker 1: run straight through the top sixteen teams because that will
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  Speaker 1: get you through all of the teams that are going
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  Speaker 1: on the bracket in just a second. Number one Penn
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  Speaker 1: State they would be the presumptive Big Ten champions. In
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  Speaker 1: this case, Number two Clemson they would be the ACC champions.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, number three Notre Dame they are just
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  Speaker 1: an at large team. Number four Texas they would be
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  Speaker 1: the SEC champion. Number five Ohio State, number six, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: number seven, Alabama, number eight, Oregon number nine, Oklahoma, number ten,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan number eleven, LSU number twelve, SMU number thirteen Baylor.
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  Speaker 1: They are the Big Twelve champion. I'm mentioning that because
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  Speaker 1: the top five conference champions do get in. Just like
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  Speaker 1: last year, they do get in, they just don't get
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  Speaker 1: one of the top four seeds automatically. So number fourteen Miami,
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  Speaker 1: Number fifteen Boise State, they would be the group of
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  Speaker 1: five champion representative. And then number sixteen Illinois. So now
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  Speaker 1: here's what that would look like on the bracket. You've
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  Speaker 1: got number one Penn State, Number two Clemson, number three
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, number four Texas, all having first round bys.
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  Speaker 1: The most interesting stuff here is the stuff at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the bracket. Number eleven Baylor. They would rank
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  Speaker 1: they ranked in Phil Steeles RANKINGSHA LSU, but Baylor's in
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  Speaker 1: and LSU is not because Baylor's in the Big twelve
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  Speaker 1: and they need a Big Twelve representative. And then SMU
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  Speaker 1: ranked ahead of Baylor, SMU ranked ahead of Boise State
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  Speaker 1: as well, Miami ranked ahead of Boise State.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Boise State gets that last spot first four out LSU, SMU, Miami, Illinois. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on how this potential playoff would lay out?
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  Speaker 3: Well, being the five seed doesn't seem as advantageous as
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  Speaker 3: it did a year ago. I'll say that looking at
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  Speaker 3: what that second round matchup leads to and overall like that.
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  Speaker 3: You look at the Penn State being the one seed,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Oklahoma and Oregon maybe wouldn't mind being
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  Speaker 3: in that situation. But that's maybe my own disbelief about
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  Speaker 3: Penn State. But I always love this, although the Baylor
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  Speaker 3: Georgia looks a little like but it's got to be
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  Speaker 3: somebody from the Big twelve, Like somebody's got to be there,
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  Speaker 3: Michigan and Alabama. Feels like we've done that on quite
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  Speaker 3: a lot already.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there there are some rematches on here. The first
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  Speaker 1: round matchups would be Friday, December nineteenth. You'll have one game.
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  Speaker 1: Just like last year, that Friday night game was Indiana
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  Speaker 1: and Notre Dame. This year it'll be one of these games,
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  Speaker 1: but it'll be number five Ohio State versus number twelve
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  Speaker 1: Boise State, Number eight Oregon versus number nine Oklahoma, number
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  Speaker 1: six Georgia versus number eleven Baylor, and number ten Michigan
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  Speaker 1: visiting number seven Alabama. So you've got some really interesting
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  Speaker 1: matchups there. I do look at those matchups and think boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of SEC and Big Ten and you've
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  Speaker 1: got so of the teams in there. The only ones
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  Speaker 1: that are not SEC or Big Ten teams are Boise State, Baylor,
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  Speaker 1: and Clemson. That none of the non Big DO conferences
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  Speaker 1: would under these rankings not have you know, not have
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  Speaker 1: any at large teams.
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  Speaker 2: So it'd be nine.
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  Speaker 1: Teams from the Big Ten and the SEC put together
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, Penn State from the Big Ten, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: and Texas from the from the SEC. I forgot about
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. So it'd be eight of twelve from the
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  Speaker 1: two kind of power conferences. And you know, looking at this,
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  Speaker 1: I think a couple things jump out. As you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the Alabama Michigan rematch from the Rose Bowlders a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. Ohio State would just need to beat
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  Speaker 1: Boise State. You set up a rematch of their Week
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  Speaker 1: one game against Texas, and you know we always talk about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, will the committee try to avoid rematches and
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  Speaker 1: maybe see things to avoid rematches. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: possible that's going to be if eight of the twelve
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  Speaker 1: teams are going to be from two conferences.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I'm looking at this, and if Brett your
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  Speaker 3: Mark would look at this, would he start to wonder
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  Speaker 3: maybe that five plus eleven that he likes is not
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  Speaker 3: all that in favor, not favorable to the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 3: And frankly, I don't know how favorable it is to
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  Speaker 3: the ACC. But you know, you see in the first
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  Speaker 3: four out and a sixteen team playoff, you'd get two
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  Speaker 3: more ACC teams in there, but overall, like the Big
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  Speaker 3: twelve is, again, I don't know that five plus eleven
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  Speaker 3: is going to work out for them as well as
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  Speaker 3: he thinks they will. And maybe maybe two guaranteed spots
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be such a bad thing for the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 3: The ACC may look at it and be like, we
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  Speaker 3: can do better, But you know, I just you look
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  Speaker 3: at this, and personally, I look at the four teams
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  Speaker 3: that are around, thinking, you know, I wouldn't mind seeing them
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  Speaker 3: in some sort of former fashion in this playoff. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm certainly a proponent of the sixteen team, but overall,
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  Speaker 3: and then to see like Notre Dame and Clemson kind
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  Speaker 3: of in these the other teams just waiting in the wings,
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  Speaker 3: I guess maybe it's a little bit better than last year,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in terms of the teams that are waiting
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  Speaker 3: with the buys, but it's going to be fascinating to
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  Speaker 3: see if the buys actually work out for those teams
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still look at the this year.
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  Speaker 1: I look at the five, twelve, and six eleven matchups
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  Speaker 1: and think that those those sure look like these teams
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  Speaker 1: are going to be three touchdown favorites or seventeen point favorites.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Ohio State against Boise State, Georgia against Baylor.
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  Speaker 1: After that you get a little closer in some of
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  Speaker 1: the other ones. Let's just we'll just sort of advanced
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  Speaker 1: people through and we're not going to update the bracket,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll just you know, if the higher seeds all win,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State would play Texas in the quarterfinal five verses
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  Speaker 1: four Oklhollo, Oregon would play Penn State in the quarterfinal
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  Speaker 1: one versus eight. Georgia would play Notre Dame. That would
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  Speaker 1: be a three to six, and then Alabama would play Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a two to seven. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the last year that the first these quarterfinal games are
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  Speaker 1: going to be controlled by the existing Bowl contracts Bowl
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  Speaker 1: TV deals, So Penn State that one versus eight matchup
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  Speaker 1: that would be in the Rose Bowl Texas. The SEC
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  Speaker 1: champion would go to the Sugar Bowl. The Clemson game
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  Speaker 1: that would be a that would be the Orange Bowl
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  Speaker 1: under the ACC's contract, So then Notre Dame would be
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  Speaker 1: sort of the odd man out and they would be
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  Speaker 1: playing in the Cotton Bowl. So that's going to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just like last year, one on New Year's
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  Speaker 1: Eve and three on New Year's Day. The you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl is going to be in that late
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  Speaker 1: afternoon slot. You know the Sugar Bowl is going to
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  Speaker 1: be in that evening slot on New Year's Day. So
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  Speaker 1: I would guess that you're probably going to see, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, they're gonna they're gonna be I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe Notre Dame and Georgia would be a noon game
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  Speaker 1: on New Year's Day. But it's either that or they
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  Speaker 1: put it in the New Year's Eve, which is also
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  Speaker 1: not a great time to have a game on TV necessarily,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: That the game this past season that had to be
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  Speaker 3: pushed a day because of the the So you know,
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  Speaker 3: you've got the Ohio State Texas rematch. Oregon and Penn
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  Speaker 3: State would be a rematch because they play in Happy
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  Speaker 3: Valley this year with the wide out. I believe these
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  Speaker 3: are all very very big games and very big names,
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  Speaker 3: and including Alabama and Clemson and Clempson opens the season
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  Speaker 3: against an SEC team in LSU this year, So I like,
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  Speaker 3: I think that quarterfinals gives you just kind of what
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  Speaker 3: you want in terms of big names. The only problem
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  Speaker 3: is you've seen these games. You've seen half of the
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  Speaker 3: games already this season, but certainly not at the stakes
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  Speaker 3: of these games, and probably not with the crowds in
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  Speaker 3: terms of the atmosphere, but there is there are some
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  Speaker 3: special things about a fifty to fifty crowd, like the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State Georgia game in Atlanta, which wasn't fifty to fifty,
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  Speaker 3: but the Ohio State fans tried to make it fifty
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  Speaker 3: to fifty. Some of those places get really really fun.
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  Speaker 3: But overall, like I guess, as we know, it's difficult
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  Speaker 3: to meet a team twice in the same season, is
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  Speaker 3: that correct?
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  Speaker 1: I heard something about that. I saw something about that
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  Speaker 1: in Pasadena at them the first day of this year
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  Speaker 1: as well, so we'll you know, again, this is just
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  Speaker 1: sort of one possible thing. So I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: get two worked up over rematches, because again there's lots
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  Speaker 1: of different ways this could change, and they can always
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  Speaker 1: slide a person, you know, slide a team one line
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  Speaker 1: one way or the other on the bracket to avoid
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  Speaker 1: those rematches. If you advance everyone again advanced the higher seeds,
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  Speaker 1: you got a Penn State Texas playoff semi final on
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  Speaker 1: one side of the bracket, and a Notre Dame Clemson
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  Speaker 1: playoff semi final on the other side of the bracket.
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  Speaker 1: And based on the way they have traditionally done these,
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  Speaker 1: the top rated seed to the top seed, which in
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  Speaker 1: this case would be Penn State, would get the preference,
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  Speaker 1: so they would get the closer campus, closer site to
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  Speaker 1: their campus. So Penn State and Texas would play in
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  Speaker 1: the Peach Bowl, and Clemson and Notre Dame would play
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  Speaker 1: in the Fiesta Bowl, and then your national championship. Again,
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  Speaker 1: if if we just slot ahead the top two seed
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  Speaker 1: teams Penn State Clemson, boy go back twelve months in
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  Speaker 1: time and say either James Franklin or the guy who
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  Speaker 1: absolutely refuses to use the transfer portal, one of them
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  Speaker 1: is guaranteed to win the national championship, which that would
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  Speaker 1: be the case that game will happen in hard Rock
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  Speaker 1: Stadium down in Miami, so could be you know, someone
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  Speaker 1: could play in that stadium twice in the span of
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  Speaker 1: three weeks. That was the case as well last year
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  Speaker 1: with the game down in Atlanta, could have played in
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  Speaker 1: the Peach Bowl and also the National Championship. This year
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  Speaker 1: could be the Orange Bowl and the National Championship. I
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  Speaker 1: think my biggest takeaway of all of this is just
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  Speaker 1: with the playoff quarterfinals now just being se you know,
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  Speaker 1: the top four seeds just being the top four teams. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: you get a lot more helmet matchups and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the Penn State Boise State quarter final game like
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  Speaker 1: you did last year. It just it feels like those
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  Speaker 1: could be just really Titanic brands, Titanic programs all facing off,
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  Speaker 1: and that could make that New Year's Day in New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Eve feel much more consequential than it did for
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  Speaker 1: you know, long stretches last year.
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  Speaker 3: You would hope that the the off week to buy
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  Speaker 3: a week would be more beneficial, and it's more than
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  Speaker 3: just a week, but would be more beneficial for those
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  Speaker 3: four teams because you're looking and I wonder how many
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  Speaker 3: of them would be favorites in their their their games,
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  Speaker 3: and probably most of them, I would think, whereas you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that that was was anybody favored last
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  Speaker 3: year that had.
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  Speaker 2: The bye week, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: So that that in itself is a very different situation.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's like for an Ohio State, you get
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  Speaker 3: this big win at home and it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: there's no letup as there was last year. But like
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  Speaker 3: for pen State or whoever they had the fortunate run,
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  Speaker 3: it's like there's a lot up the file out a week,
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  Speaker 3: so it's like, you'll be okay, I don't see much
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  Speaker 3: of that in this run. So I kind of I
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  Speaker 3: think we all agreed with the moves, and I thought
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  Speaker 3: it was a good move to eliminate the automatic buyas
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  Speaker 3: or the conference stamps. But they still get in and
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  Speaker 3: the conference will still get the money as if they
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  Speaker 3: got their buys into the quarterfinals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so good news. Everyone's getting their money. So it'll
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  Speaker 1: all work out. So yes, that is that's your sort
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  Speaker 1: of first look at this. We'll do another couple of
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  Speaker 1: these as we go through, as the AP Top twenty
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  Speaker 1: five comes out or whatever, because I'm sure there will
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  Speaker 1: be some different different lists coming out, and I think
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  Speaker 1: the most interesting thing is going to be how little
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  Speaker 1: changes on those could end up with very different looking
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  Speaker 1: results on this bracket. So we'll have a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of that for you coming up a little later on
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  Speaker 1: this summer. But we also have all sorts of coverage
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  Speaker 1: for you coming up at buckey huddle dot com. Busy
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  Speaker 1: recruiting time right now, some and potential commitments announcing very
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  Speaker 1: soon in the coming days. We'll have coverage of all
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  Speaker 1: of that for you bucke huddle dot com, as well
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  Speaker 1: as coverage of heading into the twenty twenty six, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty twenty sixth season. Buck Guys, as you
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  Speaker 1: can see on that bracket, projected to be a strong
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  Speaker 1: national Championship contender at the end.
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  Speaker 2: We will be there for all of those games, bring
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  Speaker 2: it all for you at buckeyehuddle dot com. That'll do
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  Speaker 2: it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.