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FSU Gets Snubbed By College Football Playoff Committee · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Well, here we go. It's the third and final hour of the morning
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  show with Preston Scott and Preston. That's Grant. Good to be with you
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  this morning, and I'm wearing black. It's never happened before. And all
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  the apologies for the SEC are writing in, and that's fine. You're welcome
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  to do that. There's a built in bias for the SEC and the College
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  Football Playoff Committee. It was exhibited over the final weeks of the season,
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  it was ushered in in the committee meetings, and for the first time in
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  the history of this ridiculous format, an unbeaten conference champion has not been in
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  the College Football Playoff. And you can try to explain that all you want,
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  and tell me about how much better Alabama is and how their strength of
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  schedule is so much better. And the bottom line is they didn't win all
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  their games and FSU did and that's what's supposed to cat out. But we
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  are joined to talk about this with the managing editor of war Chair dot Com,
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  Irish Chafelle. I'm over it. I am absolutely over it. When
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  you got the news yesterday, when you saw what happened, what was your
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  reaction? You know, it's one of those things where you see something coming.
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  You know, maybe in a relationship, you just have a feeling something's
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  going the wrong way, but you don't know for sure, and you're hoping
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  it's not going to happen, and then it happens, and it's just like
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  you realize you've been living a lie. And I think that that's what this
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  whole system has been. I honestly believe, and I'll write this, I
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  honestly believe that Jordan Travis's day is healthy. Florida State was going to get
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  left out. I think they've been They've been paving the road to this for
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  six weeks with that selection committee, and I think Florida State wasn't gonna end
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  because they knew they were going to have at least one you know, they
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  were gonna have at least one loss SEC team that they wanted to get in.
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  And I think that that was going to happen no matter what. I'm
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  going to say what a lot of people are theorizing for different reasons, but
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  I'm just going to ask, how big of a role do you think ESPN
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  played in this? Oh? There's no question. I mean, the whole
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  process is you know that show is owned by ESPN. The whole processes and
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  really that's what you know, kind of all this goes back to if you
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  look back to the last you know, a few years, especially since the
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  playoff was started, and then also with you know, some of the expansion
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  moves, you know, with the SEC picking up Texas and Oklahoma and the
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  Big Ten going out and getting USC and UCLA. But the whole idea is
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  they're going to assemble these two power conferences and then they're going to stack the
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  deck to where all their teams getting the playoff. And and the people that
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  sit here and say, some people in the media have said, oh,
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  the ACC should have fought to or are gone along with the idea of going
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  to a twelve team playoff earlier, Well, what's that going to look like?
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  There's going to be five SEC teams, five Pig Ten teams, the
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  ACC champion, and maybe the Big twelve champion. I mean, this is
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  I'm not going to say it's a death bload of the sport, but it's
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  a it's a retal, it's a five star alarm that you know, if
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  you're not one of those two conferences, you don't belong in the college football
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  playoffs. I've been talking about the fact ira that, you know, the
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  NFL for what it is, has it right. The teams that have the
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  records that get to the playoffs get to play, and the teams that quote
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  have the eye test administered to them frequently don't win the Super Bowl. That
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  just isn't how it happens. Does college football have to go to that point
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  where we don't have SEC Big ten acc we have East West, North South,
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  and we have divisions and you get relegated and you get it's a little
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  premier league type thing in soccer. Yeah, I mean I think that that's
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  kind of where a lot of people think it man up going in and it
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  has to, you know, I really think it has to. I think
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  this is another sign that that's what's needed, because the way it is right
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  now, you're you know, you're going to have these two power conferences,
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  which is what it's become, that are controlling everything and everybody else is just
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  kind of second class citizen. And unless you have one governing body oversees all
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  of it, you know, you're you're always going to situations like this,
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  and you know it's frustrating. Also, is you know who the whole premise
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  when they went to this premise of we're going to have a committee to pick
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  the best teams because we don't want to be stuck where we have to take
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  a team that's not worthy. Well, the idea behind that is, I
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  get it. If you've got an ACC champion in a year where it's a
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  bad ACC and they don't play anybody, say they played four bad non conference
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  teams, I think it's it's fine to have a committee at the end that
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  says, you know what, you didn't schedule anybody, and you come from
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  not the strongest league, and so we're gonna, you know, we're not
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  going to let you in. Florida State scheduled LSU and Florida out of conference,
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  and they they weren't undefeated, and it wasn't a bad ACC. The
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  ACC actually had a better record against the SEC. The SEC had a bad
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  record against Power five schools. So it's just it's incomprehensible. But again it's
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  just proof that they were going to do with what they wanted to do,
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  Chaffell with us from more chan dot com. We're talking about the obvious,
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  and that is the snub for the first time ever of an undefeated conference champion.
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  And you know, Ira, you listed scheduling two non conference teams.
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  I'd point out that that's why Liberty is ranked in the top twenty five,
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  not in the top ten, because they didn't play anybody. You can't help
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  the conference you're in. But I point to not just that. I point
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  to beating Clemson at Clemson. Nobody else did that this year. And I
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  point to the fact that they have eight teams that are Bowl eligible. I
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  point to Alabama needing a miracle to beat a team that got boat raced by
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  New Mexico State in Auburn. I mean, we could go on and on
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  and on. What do you think are the most compelling reasons FSU should have
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  been in this be on thirteen and oh, I think they're countless. And
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  honestly, this is where you know, and it's not gonna make for a
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  great radio for you, But I don't even I don't even want to make
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  the argument anymore because it's ridiculous. There's no defense for what they did.
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  There's no there's no parsing. Okay, this was this or this was that.
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  This was all about Once they knew they were going to have a one
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  lost Alabama, but they lost to Texas. I think they decided, we're
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  going to do everything we can to beat down every other team that's got a
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  resume, and if they don't lose, the great you know, look,
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  if they lose, then they're out. If Florida State loses, then they're
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  out right. But if they don't, then we've been beating them down publicly
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  for two months and we'll be able to keep them out anyway. And I
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  think that was always going to happen. So, you know, to me,
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  this wasn't I don't believe this was a legitimate decision. This was not
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  where we where we got to go make an argument. This was a choice
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  they made weeks ago. Well and it's and and that is buttressed by the
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  fact that you know, FSU not only did they take care of business,
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  but they would they were going to get left out. If Georgia had beat
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  Alabama, Texas was still going to jump them. It wouldn't have mattered one
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  bit whether Jordan Travis was the quarterback or not. I don't think. No,
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  I agree one hundred percent if Wargan was going to get in, if
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  they could get in or Washing No, I mean, yeah, no,
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  I agree. It was the SEC schools were going to get in. And
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  you know why it is. You know, you can make a couple of
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  different theories there, but I think a big one is, you know they're
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  there. They were not going to let the conferences that they that they can
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  see, that they consider that their partners with that they believe are the top
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  conferences left out of the discussion for a month because the playoff games don't happen
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  until January, so you'd have a month where the SEC would have been left
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  out of the conversation. They weren't going to let that happen. But yeah,
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  no, I agree with you. I think you know that's that's the
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  way it was going to go. I mean, Floridas Day was screwed no
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  matter what. Ira. I'm a I'm a fan of sports. You know
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  that that's where our ven diagram intersects. I live in the political world as
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  well with what I do professionally. I'm gonna drill down deeper on the ESPN
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  thing. How deep do you think this could possibly go. Could this literally
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  go back to ESPNS owned by Disney and Disney hates Governor Rohn de Santas.
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  I mean, I understand that that's out there and some people believe that,
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  and you know, maybe I don't know. I don't think so though.
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  I really think it's more about college football. But but the you know,
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  the bottom line is you mentioned a school like Liberty and they have a you
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  know, those schools in those group of five schools they know the deal,
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  you know, and if a player signs with those schools, they know the
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  deal. They know that something great is going to have to happen for them
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  to get in the playoffs. Their path is very narrow for these Power five
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  schools. If you sign with a Power five school, you believe you've got
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  just as good a chance as anybody. And this is gonna have long term
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  implications on any school that's not in the Big ten of the SEC, because
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  you're gonna feel like, why would I go to that school if there's a
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  very slim chance of competing for a national championship. So I don't know what
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  the motivations are any whether it's intentional or unintentional, but basically, what they've
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  done. Is they're relegating any conference, any school in any conference it's not
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  the SEC or the Big Ten to second tier status, and that's gonna have
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  long term implications. Last question, looking ahead, I don't expect anything less
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  from Mike Norvelle than what he said. This is adversity. We're gonna have
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  to deal with it. What happened was wrong, et cetera. How many
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  of the guys that played in the ACC title game do you think are gonna
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  play against Georgia. That's a great question. You know, if I had
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  to guess, I'd say maybe eighty percent. Eighty five percent. You're gonna
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  have because you're gonna have two different situations. You're gonna have the guys who
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  want to go, you know, they look they the guys who are gonna
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  go to the NFL, the high draft picks, the Jared Versus and Trade
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  Benson's and Kean Colemans, Johnny Wilson's those guys if they're gonna go, if
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  they've already got, if they're getting agents and they're gonna go, the agents
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  a lot of times are going to tell them, look, you can't go
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  play in this college football game because we need to get ready for the NFL
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  Draft, and so even if they want to play, a lot of those
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  guys are gonna be advised to not play. Then you're gonna have a bunch
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  of other guys who who think they're gonna go to a different school. They
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  want to go on the transfer portal because of either opportunities or nil money at
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  other schools. So you're gonna lose those guys as well. So, yeah,
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  I think it's gonna be a very different looking team. George is gonna
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  be the same way. And you know, but the reality is we all
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  this has been happening for a while now. Florida State's been kind of inoculated
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  from it because Florida State was so bad when all this kind of happened with
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  the transfer portal. Yeah, here, Florida State was just happy to get
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  into a bowl game. And then last year you think about all the guys
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  that played in that game against Oklahoma, Well that was because Florida State was
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  on the way up. Well now they're up, and now they're gonna see
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  what these other schools see when when you don't make the playoffs, the ball
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  game is is you know, seen as meaningless ramifications of the decision yesterday.
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  Extend all right, Ira, thanks so very much. I appreciate all the
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  contributions during the season, and we'll talk again post Bowl game. Thanks pressing,
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  Thank you. Irischaffelle with us from warchan dot com seventeen past the hour