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00:00Now we're number two. We're underway right here on the early line. The place to be. It's the Sports Grid Network. Setting the table for your Sports Grid day. All the hottest topics, all the handicaps that you need to sort of that brainstorm in the morning. Get the brain kicked in. They said you're supposed to like wake up, go outside, get some sunlight. It recharges the brain. But how about this? Wake up, get your laptop out, turn on the television, go to the Sports Grid app and get your brainwaves cooking right now because the energy is here because it is week zero.
00:27There are football games on this Saturday that are live in your living room. College Football Today edition. Joe Lisi, Donnie Wrightside, 10 a.m. this Saturday. Be there or be square. I've got to make sure I don't run. Joe, I've got to make sure I don't run energy by Saturday, by the way, though. So I do have to pace myself a little bit.
00:44Oh, the start of football season. Energy is not an issue, Donnie. You will be able to to get it going here as we why I am excited. There is a lot of questions that need to be answered before we get to week one of the college football season, by the way.
01:02I think a lot of them will be answered early in week zero. So I'm looking very forward to it.
01:08Like, you know, like if I really run down by the end of the week and then it turns out like Saturday, it's just Lisi live for two hours on college football, the mayhem that would ensue.
01:16So I got to do the people's work out here. Stay calm. Keep the energy high. Get through the week.
01:21And now is the time that we say to ourselves, like, yes, you're watching the show. We enjoy it. But you know what else we enjoy even more?
01:27The people reaching out to us. Here's the Fade the Public Poll.
01:32Fade the people love this topic. I love this topic. Doesn't have Taylor Swift in there. It doesn't have Miami Vice and Don Johnson. You know, it doesn't like you have you like to play battlefield or call a duty better at this point. Let's get down to the nitty gritty. If you go to at sports grid on our X account, a question was answered this morning or asked to you, I should say, should the college football playoff field expand beyond 12 teams? Yes versus no.
02:01There are a lot of dunces in this world that don't like change. So I'll chalk it up to that at times. I voted yes, which every single person should vote yes.
02:09But we have a nice extended segment to have some fun with this Joe Ranieri. I know you voted yes because you're a smart man.
02:16Oh, I think there should have been a third choice here.
02:22No, no escape. No escape.
02:25I just think there should have been a third choice.
02:27Steel Cage comes down. No escape.
02:28And that third choice should have been, or is this just a money grab? Because that would have been my vote here, Donnie.
02:38If we're considering this from the context of we're adding teams because we believe there are a bunch of teams that are being overlooked that really have a chance at winning a national championship that should be included.
02:52Yeah, no, this is all about the money. The more teams, the more money. It's the same thing in March Madness. You want to keep adding to you want 90 teams.
03:01Is it? Yeah, that's great. But nobody, you know, ranked number 80 is winning a national championship and nobody ranked 12th out of the top 12 is going to win a national championship in football either.
03:15So, yes, by all means, go for it. As long as we're all under the same page that this is all about the money. That is all this expansion is about.
03:25It's always about money. I do agree with that here.
03:28But when we get into the arguments where I just want to understand the psychology of why we don't want more meaningful football games.
03:35And when I heard we were expanding to 12 last year, I knew, Joe, we'd have the best college football season we've ever seen.
03:41And I believe we had that last year because you don't lose a game in September and write off your entire fan base and your team for the rest of the season because football doesn't matter.
03:50We had more meaningful games on a week to week basis than we ever had in the history of college football.
03:56That is a good thing. And if anybody's watched any program on Sports Grid or anything that I put out on social media myself, the thing that angers me the most in sports are meaningless games that don't actually matter.
04:07It's why I get mad at the NBA. The NBA players will tell you, I don't give a damn about the regular season.
04:11Just give me to the playoffs. That shows in the ratings and that shows in the play.
04:15But in college football, we're at the point now where you have the transfer portal.
04:19You have the NILs coming in. Bowl season, Joe, used to be a really big deal in the 70s, 80s, and 1990s.
04:26But now what do you see here? Alabama made a bowl. 68 opt-outs.
04:31You remember a bowl game in a championship-level Orange Bowl where Florida State benched their entire football team because they knew it didn't matter and got rolled up by the Georgia Bulldogs.
04:42When you have teams that make a playoff, Florida State would have played all of their guys because playoffs matter and teams want to win.
04:50So if you give me 12, and understand this, this isn't some radical theory.
04:54Division I college football has always been the worst of the sport for decades upon decades,
04:59saying we're the only sport that has mythical national championships that don't get decided on the football field.
05:05Division I, AA, as it used to be with FCS now, 24-plus teams.
05:10Division II, 24-plus teams.
05:12Division III goes into the 30s in the playoffs.
05:16Win the championship on the field where everybody's going to play.
05:20We don't have opt-outs in a championship round of the college football playoff.
05:24You don't make the playoffs, everybody opts out.
05:26Why? Because the game doesn't mean anything.
05:29More meaningful football, Joe, at the end of the season.
05:32That's why we're expanding.
05:33It's better for business, and it's better for the consumer, and it's better for the player.
05:39Well, you know, meaningful to who, though, Donnie?
05:43Because let me play devil's advocate.
05:45I'm a senior, right?
05:47And I'm not going to the NFL.
05:49I'm not going to the USFL.
05:51And here I am.
05:52I'm not competing for a world, you know, national championship.
05:56But what?
05:57Because the game doesn't mean anything to you, the viewer.
06:01Or it's going to mean something to me and my family is I get to play one more football game
06:05before I have to start paying back the student loans that I just took out in order to even be here.
06:11So, you know, meaningful to who?
06:13Who's that student loans playing as a senior in college football as a starter in a bowl game?
06:16To who, though?
06:17That's a student loan.
06:18That's a free ride.
06:19That are playing meaningful football in those bowl games.
06:21There's a lot of dudes that aren't part of that upper echelon that playing one more ridiculously stupid bowl game.
06:31That's the last of their football career.
06:33So, why should they be penalized?
06:35Because we think, like, who wants to watch this?
06:38Like, this is awful.
06:40Yes, it is.
06:40From a viewing standpoint.
06:42Put him in the playoff.
06:43Who gets to play his last football games?
06:45No.
06:45Yeah, he can play in the playoffs and try to win a championship.
06:48Who cares?
06:49Who would they be in March Madness?
06:51Like, my always argument, too, because I like to always flip it on its head.
06:54If it expands or not, it doesn't matter to me.
06:56But I love 12 teams.
06:57I think it's fantastic.
06:58And the more the merrier for me because it just means more meaningful football games.
07:01But if you out there are looking at this argument and getting mad at me, start with this.
07:06You hate March Madness.
07:07If you hate expansion in college football, you hate March Madness.
07:11Just tell me, and I will agree and say, you know what, I can't even argue with you.
07:14If you come on and say, I don't want expansion in college football, I don't even watch the tournament.
07:18Because when I grew up, there was 24 teams that made the college basketball March Madness, and that was much better.
07:24No, it's not.
07:25March Madness is fantastic.
07:26But understand this.
07:27There are 50 out of the 64 or so teams that get in now, whoever plays in the first five, that have zero shot to compete and win a championship.
07:36So, have that same energy.
07:37We're talking about, if you expanded to 24, number 24 can't win.
07:41Nobody wins in college basketball except the Blue Bloods.
07:44One time in 40 years did an eighth seed win it.
07:47It was Villanova before we even had the shot clock.
07:5040-plus years of Blue Blood championship caliber teams where we play.
07:55I love the pageantry and the March Madness upsets.
07:58Those teams don't win anything.
08:00And when they do win, they smash ratings in the next game because nobody wants to see Murray State.
08:05They wanted to see Kentucky, Joe.
08:07There's only so many George Mason crazy runs to the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight that you're going to get, but you're not going to build an entire tournament around that concept.
08:21And listen, there's even fewer college football teams that can actually win a national championship every year.
08:27So, you know, it's give everyone the idea they have a shot when in reality they don't have much of a shot.
08:35Come on, Joe.
08:37Get over to my sideline.
08:38We'll have meaningful football.
08:39We'll watch it.
08:40We'll enjoy it.
08:40We'll drink.
08:41We'll relax and we'll eat.
08:43Week zero in effect here.
08:45It is a football week.
08:46It will be a football Friday this weekend.
08:47And also on Sunday or Saturday, excuse me, you don't have to wait too long at 12 o'clock start for a top 25 tilt that is over in Dublin.
08:54We can't wait to get there.
08:55But before we make it there, a lot of big decisions, Joe Ranieri, have to be made in the college football landscape.
09:00And we got one yesterday.
09:02Pete Thamel tweeted out.
09:03Number three, Ohio State has named redshirt freshman Julian Sain, the starting quarterback per coach Ryan Day, who will make his first career start against number one Texas on August 30th.
09:15Sain is a former top 10 overall recruit who transferred to Ohio State from Alabama.
09:21Starters in the building, it is Julian Sain getting the nod for the Bucs.
09:27Yeah, and I mean, he was the supposed front runner backing up Will Howard a year ago.
09:33The kid was, what, a five-star, I believe, five-star recruit coming out of high school.
09:39So they had always anticipated that at some point he would be the next guy.
09:44But, all right, well, he is the next guy now.
09:48But it took this long to figure out that he was the next guy, Ryan Day?
09:53You know, I'm not quite sure what that means.
09:56But I think we're going to learn rather quickly in week zero if, in fact, Julian Sain is the guy that – forget about national championships.
10:04You're not getting back-to-back national championships, right, Donnie?
10:08The question is, can you beat Michigan, Julian?
10:12Because that is what's going to determine your future at the SHU.
10:16You either beat Michigan because you haven't the last four tries, that is what's going to matter, and that is what's going to determine if he is the future of Ohio State football.
10:26Yeah, there's something to be said about what Joe Ranieri is talking about because, you know, sometimes you like to head into the offseason and anoint a starter.
10:34Now, they are kids, and you want them to work hard.
10:36I understand that.
10:37But there has to be a clear lead dog that says, all right, you're the starter.
10:40You separate yourself.
10:41You're the starter in game number one.
10:42And I think Ryan Day actually came out this past week and was like, yeah, he played good in practice this week, so we gave him the nod.
10:48Does that really mean, like, either you have the best quarterback room in the history of college football or you're worried about starters and be like, man, somebody better just show me something in the final week.
10:56Oh, it was Julian Sain.
10:57Now, granted, these aren't walk-ons that have just came out of a small high school in Iowa that played eight-man football.
11:03Like, this kid was a top recruit, and big things are expected of him.
11:06But I always get a kick out of him.
11:07This might have been a decade ago.
11:08There was a game I want to say off the top of my head.
11:11It was Ohio State and maybe Virginia Tech who opened the season.
11:14And Urban Meyer was still the coach for Ohio State.
11:16And he didn't tell anybody his quarterback, didn't tell the team itself until they got to game day, and after kickoff, had the two starting quarterbacks lined up and tapped one on the shoulder pad, and they ran out for the first series of the year.
11:30Now, I don't advocate that, but I am a little bit worried about Ohio State.
11:33That is a massive game to open up, and you told us you didn't have a quarterback that was clear-cut from spring practice to be a starter?
11:40That's kind of odd to me.
11:42It very much is.
11:44I mean, it was a good competition.
11:46I mean, they have legit choices.
11:49It's Ohio State.
11:50You're always going to have options.
11:51But the fact that it took you this long to figure it out means that you've got three studs at quarterback here, or that maybe if you got three, Donnie, you don't have one, which, again, we're going to find out rather early this season.
12:09In fact, in less than a couple of weeks here in the shoe, in fact, when Texas comes to town.
12:17Yeah, it's going to be a fun game.
12:20It's going to be a fun game to watch.
12:21Everybody will enjoy it.
12:22But there are some pundits out there like, hey, you know what?
12:25It might be the biggest game of the year, but I don't know if I'm going to enjoy it because I don't know if it means anything.
12:29Are you kidding me at this point?
12:30Like, let's get off this tangent for a second.
12:32I'm going to hit the college football odds in a moment.
12:34But the fact that college football is giving you this game this early in the season, and some people are saying, oh, I don't know if it means as much because in the – you know what was better, Joe, in the past?
12:43Apparently, 15-14 game, Ohio State wins.
12:46You go, tap!
12:47Texas is done for the year.
12:48They can't win a national championship.
12:50That was obviously better than what we're going to get now.
12:53Stop the madness.
12:54Yeah, no.
12:55Stop the madness is correct here.
12:57Listen, this is not going to be the end-all, be-all for either of these teams.
13:02A lot of teams, in fact, in week zero, you can't win a – you can't lose a national championship in week zero.
13:08And you know what, Donnie, you can't win it in week zero either.
13:12So, you'll learn a little something about your players.
13:15We'll learn a little something about these teams.
13:17But ultimately, it's not what they do here at the end of August.
13:21It's what are they going to be doing in October and November that matters the most.
13:26Yeah, price points moving around all the time for these odds here.
13:29Texas hit a plus 550 to win it all, and then a bunch of teams stacked up at plus 650 or so, Georgia, Ohio State, and Penn State.
13:35So, there you go, two of the top three teams in the odds market right now, Joe, Texas and Ohio State.
13:40But some people don't like that game.
13:42Stop it!
13:44Yeah, I don't know why you don't like that.
13:46There's a lot of games that we should be very interested to see how they come out here over the next couple of weeks.
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