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Is Ohio State Ticketed For Another Brutal College Football Playoff Run? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: is it is. You were going to say Fourth of
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  Speaker 1: July war. It is Steel. Miss Phil Steele. The magazine
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  Speaker 1: is out. It is a sure sign that college football
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  Speaker 1: is right around the corner. His magazine got mailed out
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  Speaker 1: to subscribers who got the early VIP bundle, including myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess that Tony Gerderman of Buckeye Insiders
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  Speaker 1: dot com maybe in that club as well. He is
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  Speaker 1: my guest today and what we are going to do
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  Speaker 1: is we're going to go through Phil's rankings of the
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  Speaker 1: top teams in the nation. And we're going to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if Phil is exactly right about everything, what would the
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff field look like this year? So, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: are you ready to start the first of what is
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  Speaker 1: probably many of these exercises over the next few months.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's speculate. Let's look at the helmet matchups,
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  Speaker 2: because I always enjoy that part of the show exactly.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start with, Here's where the preseason rankings.
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  Speaker 1: Here's where Phil has these teams in the preseason rankings.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just run through the top eleven, which are the
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  Speaker 1: teams that will make the field, and then the first
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  Speaker 1: four out, and then the top group of five team.
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  Speaker 1: And if you were if you were looking ahead, you see, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a different and very intriguing group of five team
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  Speaker 1: that we'd be talking about on today's show. Here's how
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  Speaker 1: Phil has him ranked. And he has his power pole,
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  Speaker 1: which is just purely ranking the teams based on how
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  Speaker 1: good they are. And then he has this which is
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  Speaker 1: his rankings based on how good the team is, but
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  Speaker 1: also their schedule, all opponents, where teams fall on their schedule,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Sort of projecting win and
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  Speaker 1: loss records. So he's got Notre Dame number one, Georgia
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  Speaker 1: number two, Ohio State number three, Texas number four. Those
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  Speaker 1: two teams play in week two, so that'll be a
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  Speaker 1: good one Indiana week five. Ohio State plays them as well,
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  Speaker 1: Oregon number six. Ohio State plays them as well, Miami
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  Speaker 1: number seven, Alabama number eight, Texas Tech number nine. And
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  Speaker 1: this was released before the Brendan Sorosby News had officially broken,
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  Speaker 1: or at least the last version of the Brendon Sorosby
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  Speaker 1: News had officially broken. Number ten BYU number eleven USC.
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  Speaker 1: That's another team that Ohio State has to play that
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  Speaker 1: they have got three of those teams that are in
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  Speaker 1: the field on the road and another one at home.
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  Speaker 1: SMU number twelve, Oklahoma number thirteen, Ole Miss number fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan number fifteen. Ohio State has them as well. I
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  Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. What about Lane Kiffin, Yeah, Lankky.
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  Speaker 1: Phil has Lane Kiffen outside of the top fifteen, the
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  Speaker 1: top group of a group of five team in the rankings.
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  Speaker 1: According to Phil, the Midshipman of Navy, who could potentially
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  Speaker 1: have to play Army one Saturday and then go and
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  Speaker 1: play in the first round playoff game the very next week.
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  Speaker 1: That would be quite a turnaround. I We'll see that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if that actually happens, Tony. Any initial thoughts
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  Speaker 1: here on where Phil has folks.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm just imagining Navy playing somewhere on the East
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  Speaker 2: coast against Army this year and then having to go
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  Speaker 2: like way out west the following week for a playoff
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  Speaker 2: game something like that. But you know, overall, I think
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  Speaker 2: the you mentioned Liane Kiffen not having LSU and there
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  Speaker 2: is interesting. But just Ohio State playing four of the
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  Speaker 2: top fifteen teams is daunting and wholly unfair. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: admit it now. But it's going to be a fun schedule,
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  Speaker 2: I'll just say that. And looking at these like you
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  Speaker 2: can put anybody against anybody and I'll watch it. Texas Tech,
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  Speaker 2: I expect them once they get their quarterback healthy and going.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody seems to be very high on what they can be.
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  Speaker 2: We know they had one of the best defenses in
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  Speaker 2: the nation last year and they've paid good money to
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  Speaker 2: have one again.
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  Speaker 1: And I will point out it is five of the
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  Speaker 1: top fifteen for Ohio State because it's Texas, Indiana, Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: USC and Michigan so and three of those on the road.
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  Speaker 1: So we keep talking about Ohio State having a challenging schedule. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: that's what that looks like. So all right, when you
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  Speaker 1: get through all of that, here's what that would translate
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  Speaker 1: to in terms of a college football playoff field. Number
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  Speaker 1: nine Texas Tech visiting Alabama, number number twelve, Navy going
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  Speaker 1: to Bloomington, Indiana, and boy go back in time about
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  Speaker 1: five years and tell yourself, Navy and Indiana are going
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  Speaker 1: to play a college football playoff game. One of them
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the defending national champion, and watch
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  Speaker 1: your mind fall out of your area, leak out of
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  Speaker 1: your years. At number eleven USC taking on number six Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: number ten BYU going to number seven Miami Boy Tony,
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  Speaker 1: the Cougars and the Hurricanes. That is quite a culture
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  Speaker 1: clash in addition to an on field matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Is it just me? Or is it every time we
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  Speaker 2: do these it looks like Ohio State has the worst road,
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  Speaker 2: like the toughest road, and this one again, And now
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  Speaker 2: I'm also thinking about the Indiana Navy game and if
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  Speaker 2: Kurse Signetti starts to talk trash against Navy like that's
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  Speaker 2: do you talking about America now? You want to you
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  Speaker 2: want a bad mouth America, you can get on out.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's gonna be interesting to see what, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it would be interesting to see do they dial it back?
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  Speaker 2: Do they have to dial it back in terms of
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  Speaker 2: putting too many points on the board. But just the
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  Speaker 2: idea of preparing for Navy for the playoffs is just
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  Speaker 2: bad because then you've got to be ready to go
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  Speaker 2: after them. So even though that may be the easiest game,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it would be my first pick
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  Speaker 2: to play in the first round of a playoff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Oregon USC, which would be a rematch for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: I'd kind of like to see something different now. Still,
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  Speaker 2: these are two exciting teams to match up with, and
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  Speaker 2: we've seen some good matchups with Oregon in the past,
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  Speaker 2: and it's always fun to watch Ohio State play these
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  Speaker 2: West Coast teams. But you know, do I want to
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  Speaker 2: see them play a Big ten team in the quarterfinals,
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily unless it's Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And we always say it would not be hard
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  Speaker 1: for the committee to move a team one line on
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  Speaker 1: here to avoid having a rematch, which would seem to
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  Speaker 1: be in everyone's best interest in terms of narrative, in
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  Speaker 1: terms of new and exciting matchups, and then they have
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  Speaker 1: not done that in the past, so that remains something
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  Speaker 1: that would be relatively easy for them to do. Slide
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  Speaker 1: USC up to number ten and BYU down to number eleven,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden boom, you've got a
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  Speaker 1: couple new matchups. But that is not something they have
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  Speaker 1: done in the past. I will say getting Navy on
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  Speaker 1: a relatively short notice where you presumably you would guess
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  Speaker 1: everyone will have scouted Navy like crazy, But that is
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  Speaker 1: such a different offense to have to prep for. I
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  Speaker 1: decided to pull while you were talking, pulled up Navy's
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  Speaker 1: last five bowl games, and they have not played, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fantastic competition in most of these five and zero in
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  Speaker 1: their last five bowl games. They beat Cincinnati in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Liberty Bowl, beat Oklahoma in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four Armed Forces Bowl, beat Kansas State in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty nineteen Liberty Bowl, beat Virginia forty nine to
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  Speaker 1: seven in the twenty seventeen Military Bowl, and they did
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  Speaker 1: lose to louisianat Tack in the twenty sixteen Armed Forces Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: but not a not a real fun offense to prepare
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  Speaker 1: for on short notice. If they do get there.
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  Speaker 2: And this would be much shorter notice.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this would be far shorter notice than even the
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  Speaker 1: normal the normal setup, and they would, presumably if they
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  Speaker 1: do this, have to play in the conference championship game
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  Speaker 1: the first week of December, then the Army game in
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  Speaker 1: the second week, then the first round of the College
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  Speaker 1: Football Playoff in the third week, at which point that's
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  Speaker 1: three incredibly emotional games all in a row. That would
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  Speaker 1: be very, very challenging for them to do, but that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the many challenges of the current setup with
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  Speaker 1: Army Navy. So the potential matchups in the second round here,
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  Speaker 1: you assume Alabama beats Texas Tech. If we just go
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  Speaker 1: the higher ranked team wins Alabama Notre Dame in the quarterfinals, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: Texas in the quarterfinals, Oregon Ohio State in the quarterfinals,
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  Speaker 1: and Miami and Georgia in the Mark Rick Bowl in
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  Speaker 1: the quarterfinals. Then your potential semi finals Ohio State in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, and Texas, and then your national championship game.
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  Speaker 1: If the higher teams advance, Notre Dame and Georgia. But
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  Speaker 1: boyd Notre Dame, those are four teams. If Notre Dame, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, and Georgia are the final four, I think
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  Speaker 1: that every TV execut in the nation is going to
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  Speaker 1: be rubbing their hands together with glee at whatever those
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  Speaker 1: TV numbers are going to look like.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't this work out well for Ohio State in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four? This very same four? Yeh yeah, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it again. But some of these games, like Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: it's fun to see them against new power or other powers,
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  Speaker 2: like them being a new power. Seeing them against Texas
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  Speaker 2: I think would be entertaining because we saw what happened
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  Speaker 2: when they played in Miami, We've seen what happened when
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  Speaker 2: they played Alabama. It's like, all right, let's just just
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  Speaker 2: keep running through some programs and let's see what happens. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: I think Notre Dame is going to be very, very
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  Speaker 2: good this year, but it's still just hard to buy
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  Speaker 2: them as the one running through everything. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how you feel about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think their schedule was quite as difficult
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  Speaker 1: that as it has been in the past. That has
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  Speaker 1: to do a little bit with number eleven, USC backing
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  Speaker 1: out of their longtime series in a real profile of
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  Speaker 1: courage moment out of Lincoln Riley. But yeah, that that
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  Speaker 1: that is a team that could have a relatively shiny
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  Speaker 1: record without having a particularly brutal schedule. As far as
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  Speaker 1: far as I can remember, I can pull it up
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  Speaker 1: real quickly, but I don't remember. I don't remember them
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  Speaker 1: having a particularly challenging schedule this year. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: it feels like a I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Why I'm doing this, and I can just it's okay,
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  Speaker 3: all right, hang on, I can just I can just
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  Speaker 3: find it in the magazine and then I can edit
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  Speaker 3: it out.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, unless I.
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  Speaker 3: Forget though, where do you have the independence.
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  Speaker 2: Right before the MAC like I don't know, towards the
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  Speaker 2: Mountain West then in Yukon. You got to find the
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  Speaker 2: right two pages. This is why Notre Dame needs to
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  Speaker 2: be in a conference.
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  Speaker 3: This is why Notre Dame needs to be in a conference.
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  Speaker 3: Jus bumpus sins.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I asked, and I didn't. I didn't even ask.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't before the AAC, before the Big twelve. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: leave this in absolutely especially the bumpasses.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So I have Notre Dame schedule in front
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  Speaker 1: of me here. They play Wisconsin in Green Bay week one,
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  Speaker 1: than Rice, then Michigan State, then at Purdue, then at
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, then home for Stanford at BYU. That's the
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  Speaker 1: toughest game we've seen so far. Home for Navy, home
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  Speaker 1: for Miami, home for Boston College, home for SMU, and
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  Speaker 1: then at Syracuse. So it's not a brutal slate, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a particularly light slate. You got some top fifteen
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  Speaker 1: teams in there, but not any top five team. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that's you know, sort of the big difference between
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State schedule and the Notre Dame schedule, but
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  Speaker 1: certainly one where they could go eleven and one without
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  Speaker 1: too much difficulty. And if they do, then yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at You're looking at a Notre Dame team that
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  Speaker 1: is right at the top and probably getting a getting
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  Speaker 1: a first round by So there you go. Ay, look
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  Speaker 1: at what the college football Playoff could look like this year.
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  Speaker 1: We will see what it does look like this year,
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