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Why The College Football Playoff Schedule Is Such A Mess For 2026 And 2027 · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck guys tomorrow morning for Thursday, February fifth.
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  Speaker 1: All right, on today's On today's show, we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking about the college football playoff calendar for this season
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  Speaker 1: and next season, the twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight college football National Championship games, and the playoffs leading
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  Speaker 1: up to them. I'm going to welcome in our buddy
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerderman a Fucky Huddle dot Com. Tony, this is
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  Speaker 1: an email that came out and everyone kind of went
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  Speaker 1: what that can't be what? How that? No, that can't
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  Speaker 1: be right? And yes it's right. We will get into
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  Speaker 1: the why behind all of this, but before we do that,
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  Speaker 1: let's start with the what and the stuff that got
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  Speaker 1: this reaction out of people. We'll start with the quarterfinal rounds.
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  Speaker 1: This is, of course the games that happen on or
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  Speaker 1: around New Year's Day, and they will be happening on
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  Speaker 1: or around ish New Year's Day. But there's like a
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  Speaker 1: little sabbatical in the middle of this upcoming season. It's
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  Speaker 1: getting a little weird. So all right, what are the
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  Speaker 1: quarterfinal locations and dates for the next couple of college
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  Speaker 1: football playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don this is always like the phone book day
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  Speaker 2: phone book gets drapped off. Everybody's excited, take a look
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  Speaker 2: at it. Yeah, So the quarterfinals for this coming season.
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  Speaker 2: The first one, the Verbo Fiesta Baal, will be kicking
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  Speaker 2: off Wednesday, December thirtieth, twenty twenty six, and then the
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  Speaker 2: other quarterfinals will all be New Year's Day, which is Friday,
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  Speaker 2: January first, which would be the Cotton Boll, the Peach Ball,
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  Speaker 2: and the Rose Bowl. And then in twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: the following season, the CFP quarterfinals. You'll have here again
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  Speaker 2: your New Year's Eve, which is a Friday at the
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  Speaker 2: Sugar Bowl, and then the New Year's Day the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the other three, which would be the Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: the Fiesta Bowl, and the Peach Bowl and.
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  Speaker 1: Go. Yeah. I think people probably heard that they weren't
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  Speaker 1: playing on New Year's Eve in this upcoming season and thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they figured it out. They're not doing that. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the thing at all. That's not the lesson. All.
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  Speaker 1: The lesson is that they are not going to play
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  Speaker 1: on the Thursday night because that Thursday night is that's
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  Speaker 1: NFL time. Now the NFL plays on Thursday night, So
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  Speaker 1: now they're not going to do that just this one time.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, so all right, you still have your New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Day Rose bowls. Would a pinon that there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be that's gonna be part of the why for the
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  Speaker 1: conversation that we're going to have later on. But now,
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  Speaker 1: when are the semi finals? Because they're these get ready,
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  Speaker 1: these dates are going to be later than you were thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be ten or eleven days between games.
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  Speaker 2: The CFP semi finals this year will be the January
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  Speaker 2: fourteenth at the Orange Bowl and January fifteenth at the
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  Speaker 2: Sugar Bowl, and then the following season the first semi
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  Speaker 2: final be the January thirteenth at the Orange Bowl and
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  Speaker 2: then January fourteenth, at the Cotton Bowl. So you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: two weeks between games this coming this coming season, a
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  Speaker 2: couple a couple of few days earlier or fewer the
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  Speaker 2: next year, but two weeks to prepare between quarterfinals and
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  Speaker 2: semi finals. Coaches, you know, at that point it's always like,
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  Speaker 2: well do you do you like that? Breaking It's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: how am I playing? If I'm playing? Well, no, I
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  Speaker 2: don't need it, I don't want it. But at that point,
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  Speaker 2: you know, teams are beaten up, and you know you
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  Speaker 2: want as much time as you can to prepare for
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  Speaker 2: the best team that you're going to face at that
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  Speaker 2: point presumable. Please, So two weeks between games, which just
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  Speaker 2: that's a heck of a way to stretch out a season.
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  Speaker 1: And I know everyone at home is going, well, what
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  Speaker 1: do the media people think? And it's like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is our version of how are we playing? How
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  Speaker 1: many media availabilities do we have to have content to
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  Speaker 1: fill those two weeks of media of space between those games.
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  Speaker 1: So then you go to the championship games, and the
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  Speaker 1: championship games people were complaining last year, ohios date won
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  Speaker 1: it on January twentieth. This year, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: the twenty first. Maybe it was the nineteenth, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the people have been complaining, this is too late,
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  Speaker 1: this is too far into January. This should be ending
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  Speaker 1: way closer to New Year's Day, Tony, and they have
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  Speaker 1: fixed that by taking the January twentieth National Championship Game
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  Speaker 1: date and moving it to when.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be Monday, January twenty fifth this season, almost
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  Speaker 2: a full week later, just because of the way all
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  Speaker 2: of the Saturdays of Ligne. One of the reasons why
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  Speaker 2: there's only one off week, one open week during the
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  Speaker 2: regular season, and then presumably and then then the next year,
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  Speaker 2: you'll have the National Championship Game on January twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 2: which is again that Monday following Martin Luther King Junior Day.
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  Speaker 2: So starts about August twenty sixth or so, with the
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  Speaker 2: week zero goes to January twenty fifth or so. It's
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  Speaker 2: America's favorite sport. But man, it feels like it feels
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  Speaker 2: like they could if they wanted to, they thought about it,
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  Speaker 2: they could smush it together a little bit longer and
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  Speaker 2: make it a more I guess, digestible week to week
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  Speaker 2: type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a great stat from Josh Pate that Which week,
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  Speaker 1: Tony of the college football regular season marks the mathematical
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  Speaker 1: halfway point between week one of the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: college football calendar and the college football title game. Which
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  Speaker 1: week of the regular season, an Tony, I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you there are only thirteen weeks of the regular season
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's interesting. I'll say nine or ten.
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  Speaker 1: It is eleven. Week eleven of the college football season
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  Speaker 1: marks the midpoint between Week one and the National Championship game.
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  Speaker 1: That feels like a lot. I have always I always
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  Speaker 1: talked about this being the shortest season of any major
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  Speaker 1: North American sport. It is inching towards not having that
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  Speaker 1: distinction anymore, which you're not going to hear me complain
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  Speaker 1: about too much college football. But it is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a weird schedule. And the why behind this
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  Speaker 1: is kind of complicated, and there's a lot of different directions.
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  Speaker 1: You can point the point the finger, So Tony, I
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  Speaker 1: have compiled the list and you can choose which of
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  Speaker 1: these you would like me to explain their role in it.
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  Speaker 1: The Rose Bowl, the NFL, the people in charge of
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  Speaker 1: college football and ESPN, or Pope Gregory the thirteenth, Which
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  Speaker 1: one would you like to discuss first.
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  Speaker 2: Hold we'll hold his honor the Pope for one sec.
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  Speaker 2: But I do want to hear you, Tom the last
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  Speaker 2: Rose Bull loving truth out there. I want to hear
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  Speaker 2: you say something negative about the Rose Bowl, because I've
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  Speaker 2: said plenty of negative about the Rose bull and their
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  Speaker 2: inability to be mobile except for when they've been mobile before.
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  Speaker 2: But you please, I would like to hear you get
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  Speaker 2: after them a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and this is the Rose Bowl, is the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the granddaddy of them all. You just heard Keith Jackson's
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  Speaker 1: voice when I said that, and it is it has
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  Speaker 1: been a you know, cornerstone of college football, and it
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  Speaker 1: is everything that is wonderful about college football. And they
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  Speaker 1: do not want to change anything about that. They want
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  Speaker 1: to have their parade on the morning of January first.
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  Speaker 1: They want to have their football game on the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: of January first. They want the sun to go down
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  Speaker 1: in the third quarter of that football game. And that's
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  Speaker 1: how they want it to be. And so you noticed
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  Speaker 1: the college the Rose Bowl is always a quarter final.
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  Speaker 1: It's never they have decided, Nope, we don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be a semi final. We want to play on New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Day. And the only exception is when that when
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  Speaker 1: New Year'sday falls on a Sunday, then they do that
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  Speaker 1: on January second. That's the only exception. That's that's what
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  Speaker 1: they want to do. And college football has thus far
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  Speaker 1: been willing to sort of work around that because the
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  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl does hold a special place in the sport.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're not you know, why are they not
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  Speaker 1: able to move the College Football playoff quarter finals off
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  Speaker 1: of New Year's Day? Because they the Rose Bowl will
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  Speaker 1: not move off of New Year's Day and because they
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  Speaker 1: want the Rose Bowl to be a part of that conversation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: changing that either you know, you either have to kind
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  Speaker 1: of do a you know, an offer they can't refuse
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  Speaker 1: to the Rose Bowl if you want to move that
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  Speaker 1: at this point, which it would probably make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense to move that back to sometime a little earlier,
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  Speaker 1: so then you could have your quarterfinals, or maybe you
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  Speaker 1: have your semi finals on New Year's Day and you
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  Speaker 1: have your quarterfinals earlier or whatever. That's that is one
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  Speaker 1: of the impediments here that they have not been able
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  Speaker 1: to work around is if the quarterfinals have to be
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  Speaker 1: on New Year's Day, then that, you know, locks you
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  Speaker 1: into a certain day for those quarterfinals, and then due
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  Speaker 1: to some of the other stuff that we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit that then, you know, you will
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  Speaker 1: sometimes get some weird some weird dates like we're getting.
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  Speaker 2: You know, seventeen times over the last one hundred years,
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  Speaker 2: this game has been played on January second, third, or fourth,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So the idea that it has to be
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  Speaker 2: on January first is a farce. It's it's not true,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lie. It's just something that they want to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's their preference. It doesn't need to be on the first.
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  Speaker 2: It could be any of those days, but they wanted
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  Speaker 2: on the first. And you know, we all want stuff,
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  Speaker 2: But for the good of the game, do we need
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  Speaker 2: to compromise a little? I think it'd be nice that
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  Speaker 2: they when they were able to get the championship game back,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, twenty years ago or whatever, they moved
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  Speaker 2: the game with the BCS. They've played on January fourth
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand and six, they played on January third
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand and two. They will do this and
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  Speaker 2: like you said, every seven years they play on January second.
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  Speaker 2: So the idea that well, we just there's no way
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  Speaker 2: because we have all of these plans and everything. You know,
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  Speaker 2: everything is tied in. You've been able to move it before.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you know in advance, you're able to
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  Speaker 2: do things just fine. Also, like tying everything up, what
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  Speaker 2: about the economy of the Pasadena and they need this,
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, is that all? Is that college football's
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  Speaker 2: responsibility at this point when your entire thing is built
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  Speaker 2: around an annual parade, Like that's great, I'm sorry, but
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  Speaker 2: you know plenty of cities have parades and it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to Their economy is not going to live or
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  Speaker 2: die by it. If your economy will live or die
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  Speaker 2: by a parade, you have invested wrongly, like you have.
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  Speaker 2: You're too tied into this. You should have seen this coming,
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  Speaker 2: especially when it's hard as heck to get to the parade.
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  Speaker 2: That's why there's only one a year. But I just
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  Speaker 2: I always get annoyed by the inability of the Rose
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  Speaker 2: Bowl to move, even though they have moved in the past,
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  Speaker 2: but they just don't want to do it now.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to keep the Rose Bull where
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  Speaker 1: it is and keep the Rose Bowl in its place
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  Speaker 1: in college football, make that the semi finals. You could
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  Speaker 1: do that. Make that the semi finals, and then take
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  Speaker 1: the take the quarterfinals and put them on campus sites,
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  Speaker 1: which they should do anyway, and then take Round one
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  Speaker 1: and keep that on campus sites and play that a
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  Speaker 1: little earlier, which they should do anyway, which would be
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  Speaker 1: better for the fans. But then you get the other
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  Speaker 1: bowls all up in their feelings, which we have been
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  Speaker 1: to all six of the New Year's Day bull sites.
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  Speaker 1: They're all wonderful, the people all do a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Guess guess who others you know, which other economies would
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  Speaker 1: benefit from having football games played there, all those little
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  Speaker 1: local campus campus towns, college towns, cities, all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. There is a way to do that and
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  Speaker 1: just make it. The Rose Bowl is at five o'clock
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  Speaker 1: on New Year's Day and that is always one of
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  Speaker 1: the semi finals, and the Sugar Bowl is always on
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Day at eight o'clock and that is always
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  Speaker 1: one of the semi finals. And then you play your
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  Speaker 1: national championship. You want to rotate that between the other
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Day six bowl sites, fine, whatever like you
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  Speaker 1: could solve it that way, but anyway, that's neither here
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  Speaker 1: nor there. That's a whole tony. That's a whole separate
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  Speaker 1: conversation we can have later on in the offseason. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about how this is actually kind
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL's fault. Do you want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the TV people, Do you want to talk about the Pope?
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  Speaker 1: What do we want to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Let's quickly on the NFL, because I get annoyed at
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  Speaker 2: the whole fact that college football just bows down to
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. And I get super annoyed at the fact
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  Speaker 2: that the NFL has just continued to creep into college football.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was many decades ago when they went
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  Speaker 2: to Saturday football after the regular season, and that's you
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  Speaker 2: start seeing Saturday football for the NFL. When ten years
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  Speaker 2: ago or whatever they started getting to Thursday football, and
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  Speaker 2: then college football is like, well, we can't put any
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  Speaker 2: good games on Thursday. That annoyed me. And then you're
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  Speaker 2: continuing to see not only does the NFL like they
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  Speaker 2: will purposefully put good games against the playoffs, they did
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  Speaker 2: it last year and the year before, like they for
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  Speaker 2: all of the things that college football does for them,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a lot. They give no credence leeway respect
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  Speaker 2: to the college football postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they don't. You're absolutely right, and that is that
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  Speaker 1: is one of those things where and this is where
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  Speaker 1: ESPN kind of comes in because I don't think ESPN
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  Speaker 1: wants to counter program the NFL because ESPN is tied
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  Speaker 1: in pretty closely with the NFL, which is why the
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  Speaker 1: calendar calls for the semi final games currently to be
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  Speaker 1: played on the Thursday and Friday that fall at least
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  Speaker 1: a week after the New Year's Day because we're locked
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  Speaker 1: into New Year's Day because of the Rose Bowl. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So now college football, the folks in church, at college
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  Speaker 1: football and ESPN, they don't want to go against the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't play on a Saturday or a Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to play on a Tuesday or Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: because that's really inconvenient and those aren't good TV nights.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to play on a Thursday and a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: But it's football. You need to have a week to
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  Speaker 1: rest between those. And that's where Pope Gregory the thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: comes in, Tony, do you know what Pope Gregory the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth has to do with things?
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  Speaker 2: The calendar?
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  Speaker 1: The calendar, Yes, the Gregorian calendar, and this is all
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  Speaker 1: fifteen eighty two, Tony it all starts. Then you're thinking,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're not going to go back further than the
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  Speaker 1: first Rose Bowl, No. Fifteen eighty two. I hope Gregory
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth, the Gregorian calendar, he adjusted things. It was
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  Speaker 1: like a ten day error on the Julian calendar before that.
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  Speaker 1: Then he fixed it. The problem is now New Year's
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  Speaker 1: Day falls on a Friday and a Saturday the next
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  Speaker 1: two years. So then if you're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: week after that Friday and after that Saturday, the following
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, no good, don't work. Not enough time.
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  Speaker 1: So then you got to kick it to the following
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, which then instead of being on the
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  Speaker 1: what would that be the seventh, is then on the fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: And instead of being on the eighth, is then on
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  Speaker 1: the fifteenth. So that is why you're going you're getting
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  Speaker 1: these really really late games. It's because they won't move
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  Speaker 1: off the first because of the Rose Bowl. They have
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  Speaker 1: to have a week of rest after the quarterfinals before
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  Speaker 1: you can play the other games. You can't play on
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  Speaker 1: the weekend because the NFL won't move and the ESPN
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  Speaker 1: and the college football folks won't put them on the
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  Speaker 1: weekends against those NFL games, and so then you're playing
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday and Friday, but then you have to
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  Speaker 1: wait an extra six days to get to the second,
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  Speaker 1: to get to a Thursday, that is a full week
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  Speaker 1: of rest after. So there you go. Why is the
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  Speaker 1: entire Why is the entire world against us, Tony? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but it sure seems to be, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And the NFL is also the reason why there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a Wednesday quarterfinal this year because there's
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  Speaker 2: NFL Thursday Night Football. So you've got a Wednesday semi
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  Speaker 2: or Wednesday quarterfinal and then three Friday quarter quarterfinals because
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to put them all in one day,
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  Speaker 2: and then you can't do one on Thursday because that's
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  Speaker 2: the NFL has taken that over and they won't you know,
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  Speaker 2: they won't acquiesce and they don't care and you do
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  Speaker 2: something about it, is what the NFL would say, And
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  Speaker 2: that's why they are the king. But yes, the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: the pope, all that, tom all that.
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  Speaker 1: Not the Chicago pope. This is a much older pope.
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  Speaker 1: The Chicago pope. He's fine. He is Chicago's big ten pope.
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  Speaker 1: He is we know they should put him in the commercial, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: they should put him in the Big ten commercial.
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  Speaker 2: Did you go from like each each campus done to
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  Speaker 2: the Vatican?
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: There's your your explanation as to why things are sort
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  Speaker 1: of a little wonky this the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: That is your explanation as to why things are a
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  Speaker 1: little wonky the next couple of years. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: we've actually said where the college football playoff national championship
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  Speaker 1: games are the next two years, the twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: the one that's happening this upcoming season, that's in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: The one after that is in New Orleans. So two
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  Speaker 1: cities known for clean living and you know, good good
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  Speaker 1: life choices. So you can following a month of college
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  Speaker 1: football making all sorts of good life choices, you can
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  Speaker 1: make some good life choices as well. And if you're wondering,
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  Speaker 1: this is again, this would be a whole great separate
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  Speaker 1: show that we will probably do at some point. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL's anti trust exemption comes with the ruling that they
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  Speaker 1: can't play on Saturdays that within a certain distance from
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  Speaker 1: college campuses. So that's why the NFL has that you know,
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  Speaker 1: they don't play on Saturdays until the college football season's over.
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  Speaker 1: If Congress wanted to do something Tony, and Lord knows,
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  Speaker 1: Congress has been called on to do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things with college football. But if Congress wanted to modify
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  Speaker 1: that anti trust exemption to bump that Saturday thing and
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  Speaker 1: clear the decks for college football for another couple weekends,
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  Speaker 1: they could do that too. But we don't want to
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  Speaker 1: get into that. We're already blaming Pope Gregor the thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of this, so we'll leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you guys all for joining us. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: the college football calendar is a mess. You didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: us blame ourselves. You can't blame us. You can blame
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  Speaker 1: everyone else, not us. But you can find us if
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about how it's everyone else's fault.
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  Speaker 1: You can find us at bucke Huddle dot com or
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  Speaker 1: at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. That'll do it
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  Speaker 1: for today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.