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What Is - And ISN'T - Changing About The College Football Playoff This Year · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, January twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 1: are anywhere around Columbus. This is not time for weather
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  Speaker 1: chat though. This is time for college football playoff check
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  Speaker 1: and Walcome in our buddy, Tony Gerdaman of bucke Huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Tony, Great news. The minds, the sharpest minds
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  Speaker 1: in the college football world. The leaders of the sport
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  Speaker 1: have gathered together. They have cast their vision. The decision
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  Speaker 1: is in great News. There is no agreement whatsoever on
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  Speaker 1: what everyone wants to do, and they have run the
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  Speaker 1: clock out. So the college football playoff is going to
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  Speaker 1: be kind of the same, except not exactly. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: into sort of that in a minute, but first, can
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  Speaker 1: you explain it's really there are only two people who
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  Speaker 1: are really in charge of this at this point. It's
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  Speaker 1: Tony Petitti. Tony Petiti on the Big ten side, and
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  Speaker 1: I keep wanting to say Mike's Live, which no, it
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  Speaker 1: is not Mike's Live on the SEC side. It is
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  Speaker 1: Greg Sanke on the SEC side. There are only two
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  Speaker 1: people who have to agree on this, and yet here
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  Speaker 1: we are, so Tony, what is the disagreement between Greg
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  Speaker 1: Sanke and Tony Pettiti right now?
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  Speaker 2: It's a matter of math, like a lot of times,
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  Speaker 2: putting the North in the south. That's all math gets
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  Speaker 2: disagreed upon. Tony Pettiti wants twenty four teams. Greg Sanki
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  Speaker 2: is okay with sixteen, and while sixteen is more than twelve,
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  Speaker 2: just like twenty four is more than twelve, Tony Petiti's
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  Speaker 2: not ready to acquiesce to the sixteen. And so if
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  Speaker 2: there's no agreement that can come to a head, then
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  Speaker 2: they just go back to the original agreement with some
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  Speaker 2: tweaks and so yes, Greg Sninky and the majority, like
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  Speaker 2: apparently nobody else wants twenty four teams. Only Tony Pettiti
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  Speaker 2: and some of his coaches for obvious reasons, and yet
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  Speaker 2: Tony Pettiti is not happy enough with the sixteen. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like, I don't know, is it, because boy,
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  Speaker 2: i'd be I'd be like showing that the SEC is
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  Speaker 2: more powerful, or like you're just giving up some the
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  Speaker 2: high ground if you agree to their demands rather than
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  Speaker 2: like nobody's going to agree. That's how I will show
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  Speaker 2: my strength. I will force her, force everybody's hands, and
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  Speaker 2: we will stick at twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the situation is that it feels like
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  Speaker 1: sixteen is a compromise. But if sixteen is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: one side is asking for, then you're just then it's
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  Speaker 1: not a compromise. It's just you're getting what you want.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, if there's not a guarantee built in
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  Speaker 1: there that and then at some point it's going to
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  Speaker 1: get further than that. It feels like then it's just well,
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  Speaker 1: it might just stay there and the other person might
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  Speaker 1: just get exactly what they want rather than reaching a compromise.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, it feels like that's sort of where
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  Speaker 1: this disconnect is coming in. And so we can you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can certainly litigate and we should probably do a
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  Speaker 1: show at some point on what is the ideal format
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  Speaker 1: for the college football playoff? Because I have lots of
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that, and I'm sure many of them will
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  Speaker 1: not come to fruition because I am not looking out
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  Speaker 1: for the correct stakeholders. I'm thinking what would be good
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  Speaker 1: for the fans and who cares about them? Tony? We
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  Speaker 1: have people in ugly colored blazers. But that's not the
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  Speaker 1: point right now. We need to talk about what is
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  Speaker 1: actually going to happen, because because they couldn't reach a
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  Speaker 1: new agreement, they're staying at twelve. But it's not the
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  Speaker 1: same twelve that it was for the college football plaoff
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  Speaker 1: that was just concluded because there was a memory kind
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  Speaker 1: of an understanding signed about a year ago with all
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  Speaker 1: these different stakeholders that that news came out about a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, like here's what might happen, and everyone immediately
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  Speaker 1: then forgot about it. And then when news leaked about that,
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  Speaker 1: everyone whoa, wait, what what? What did? What did we
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  Speaker 1: agree to last year? So, Tony, why don't you tell
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  Speaker 1: the people in charge of college football what they agreed
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  Speaker 1: to last year?
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  Speaker 2: They agreed to that to have the four Power four
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  Speaker 2: champions in no matter what, regardless of ranking, and a
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  Speaker 2: year ago when this happens, like well, of course, like
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  Speaker 2: as as if this could possibly not happen. And then
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  Speaker 2: also as long as Notre Dame is in the top twelve,
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  Speaker 2: they are also in by the committee's rankings. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: so these are all things like glad we don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about that, like we could just that's that's automatic,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to happen. And of course dude goes on
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  Speaker 2: and shocks the world and gets left out of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And now should they do the same thing, and the
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  Speaker 2: amount of craziness and tiebreaker shenanigans that happened last year
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  Speaker 2: should happen again. You could see a seven and five
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  Speaker 2: duke or eight and five duke or whatever in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Tom I am of the opinion that I wouldn't mind
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  Speaker 2: seeing in that final ranking. Boy, imagine if the committee
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  Speaker 2: just keeps Notre Dame around eleven twelve the entire time,
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  Speaker 2: and then just that last one like pops down to thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: because say Alabama, they sure it's a third loss, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a hell of a loss.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you can't leave the tide out. If
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  Speaker 1: we've learned anything over the years, Tony you can't leave
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  Speaker 1: the tide out.
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  Speaker 2: So always comes back in.
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  Speaker 1: It sure does. And so yeah, the two changes, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: as you said a year ago, would have seemed like, well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they seem like very easy, obvious solutions. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have a season where both of them would have completely
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  Speaker 1: changed the outcome of the season because with the four
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  Speaker 1: Power conference champions getting in, that would have put five
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  Speaker 1: loss Duke in over James Madison. So James Madison would
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  Speaker 1: have been out. Five loss Duke would have been in.
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  Speaker 1: And then Notre Dame because they finished number eleven in
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  Speaker 1: the final College Football Playoff rankings, they would have gotten
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  Speaker 1: in ahead of Miami, who went on to nearly win
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  Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff Championship. It is remarkable. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this goes for people who don't remember the BCS. This
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  Speaker 1: was how it was with the BCS. Every year they
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  Speaker 1: would go in and they would say, Okay, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to put the perfect system. We just have to change
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  Speaker 1: a couple little things. We're just going to tweak a
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  Speaker 1: couple little things here, nothing complicated. We're just going to
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  Speaker 1: solve a couple problems, and then it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the perfect system. And then next year it was like,
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  Speaker 1: how did a basketball team make it into the right
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't that doesn't even make sense, and you'd have
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  Speaker 1: these sort of wild outcomes and then well, we just
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  Speaker 1: got to fix this a little more so. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: the solution was, Okay, we're going to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the four conference champions of the top four teams. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got great, we got that solved. Now we've got
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  Speaker 1: the We've got okay, now it's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: four Power four conference championship. We can't have those dirty
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  Speaker 1: G five teams dealing more than on more than one bid.
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  Speaker 1: And then now Notre Dame. We can't leave Notre Dame out,
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  Speaker 1: so we got to keep them in even though and
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  Speaker 1: it's just on and on and on. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: This doesn't this is not okay. Well, now this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be this for the next six years of
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  Speaker 1: this this existing contract. No, the new contract starts this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's a six year contract. What is the college Football
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  Speaker 1: Playoff going to look like twenty four months from now?
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  Speaker 1: It could be literally anything.
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  Speaker 2: That's that because we're in a year from now is
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  Speaker 2: like the deadline to change it for the following year.
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  Speaker 2: To get to the sixteen or the twenty or the
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. I feel like another year where the teams
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  Speaker 2: with the buys go one to three or zero to
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  Speaker 2: four might convince Tony Petiti maybe it's just time to
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  Speaker 2: go to sixteen so that there are no buys and
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  Speaker 2: everybody gets a home game and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see how that whole situation continues
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  Speaker 2: to shake out. But like, is this a bad thing?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think twelve twelve team playoffs
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  Speaker 2: have been pretty cool the last couple of years. Do
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  Speaker 2: I think sixteen will be better? I think more home
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  Speaker 2: games is. You're gonna have a hard time convincing me
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  Speaker 2: that more home games in the playoffs is a bad thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's what a sixteen team playoff would
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  Speaker 2: bring us. But it's hard to find a whole bunch
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  Speaker 2: of fault with the way the twelve teams twelve team
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  Speaker 2: playoff has gone the first two years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this felt a little like the college football powers
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  Speaker 1: that be landed on the right the right general answer here,
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  Speaker 1: even though they only did it because they were fighting
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  Speaker 1: like children and couldn't come to you know, no one
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  Speaker 1: could agree where where we were going for dinner? Tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So mom and dad are just saying, fine, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do microwave pizza at home, like that's you know that, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that's fine. That's fine. If that's the
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  Speaker 1: if that's the right answer, then that's if that you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you can't agree, then we're just gonna stay home
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  Speaker 1: and that's fine. So there you go. So that's that
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  Speaker 1: is the latest on the college football playoff. And don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: we will get to do this all over again next
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  Speaker 1: year as we fight out over you know, fight it
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  Speaker 1: all out over who got left out, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the seventh SEC team will get left out next year
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  Speaker 1: and it will be the greatest tragedy in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the world. And you will not believe how sad
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  Speaker 1: kirkirk Street will be. But then they'll win one game
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  Speaker 1: in the playoff again and then it'll be, uh, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do this all over again this time next year.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the the latest on the
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  Speaker 1: college foot ballplayoff. We'll be talking about what this might
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  Speaker 1: mean for Ohio State and a whole bunch of other
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  Speaker 1: teams in the coming days and weeks at bucke huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Hope to see you there and hope to
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  Speaker 1: them all there. That will do it for today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.