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Kelley Ford K-Ford Ratings on College Basketball · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Hey, Kelly Ford, talking college football, little NFL in the first segment.
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  We'll talk some more of that as we move along here. As we
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  get time, let's go Kelly into the k Ford Ratings basketball as we really
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  are, you know, kind of gearing up now that final stretch in the
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  conference slate. You have Houston as the number one team in the k Ford
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  Ratings. Purdue follow about Arizona, Yukon, and Auburn in your top five.
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  Yeah, Jake, and I don't know, you know, who are
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  you most confident in this year in college basketball? It's an open field.
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  So you did name the top five teams in my power ratings. Yukon,
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  of course, the defending national champion is probably going to be a pretty popular
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  pick in brackets come March. But I think any of those five teams that
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  you mentioned there, and I'd even extend beyond that. You know, Tennessee's
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  my number six power rated team. Alabama, I know they've got some losses.
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  They're number seven for me in the power ratings. North Carolina, Iowa,
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  SA, Marquette rounding out the top ten. There's really not a team
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  that you know, quote unquote scares you a whole you know, you guys
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  be dangerous. Perdue can be dangerous. Houston if they're playing their a game
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  is dangerous. But all these teams have flawed this year. All these teams
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  have been beaten. It's anna open year in college basketball, and I think
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  that's exciting. It's gonna make for a fun Marsh Mandnet, No, absolutely,
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  and I would say that your ratings parrot. You know what Vegas is
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  saying as well. If you look at what I'm looking at here, Mayor
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  Star Casino, Pen Gaming Property, Perdue right now the favorite to win the
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  whole thing at plus six fifty six and a half to one, Yukon plus
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  six seventy five. Then you go Houston at nine to one, and then
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  it's kind of a smaller sport here, Arizona, Tennessee, Auburn, North
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  Carolina, we go you know, ten to one, fifteen to one,
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  eighteen to one, Alabama twenty to one. And you know, I wouldn't
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  be surprised to see some of these, you know what I consider a value
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  bet picks. You know, Iowa State twenty to one, Kansas twenty to
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  one, Marquette twenty two to one, Kentucky twenty five to one, even
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  Duke thirty to one. You know, if somebody in that kind of layer
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  of odds to win this thing this year, absolutely, And all those teams
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  you just mentioned, if they weren't in my top ten, they're in my
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  top fifteen, my top twenty of the Power ratings. So I do think
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  there's a deep contending pool this year, and there's not necessarily one or two
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  teams that rise to the top, which is gonna make it fun. But
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  yes, this could be the year that you see you know, a four
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  seed five well Yukon just last year, or the four seed, but a
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  five seed, a six seed make not just a run, but win the
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  whole thing. Of course, last year in the National Championship, having San
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  Diego State Florida Atlantic was a nine seed in the champions or in the final
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  four. We've seen it in recent years, and I expect we're going to
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  see it again this year. Speaking of those teams, Florida Atlantic right now
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  number twenty three for me, San Diego State number twenty seven. So two
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  teams again that have a lot of experience, probably gonna be seeded, you
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  know, outside the top four or five lines, but have proven just last
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  year they can make a run from that position,