College Football Playoff Rankings Drama & Strategy

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00:00All right. We might need the rest of the hour and a half of this program, Joe, to go over the

00:03important information. That's the college football playoff show. I can't stand this show. I didn't

00:08watch or pay attention one second in the past couple of weeks. But now we get down to where

00:12it actually makes sense. And before championship week, you want to see teams jockeying for position

00:17and the committee last night from painting themselves into a corner for weeks prior,

00:22I think you're giving themselves a little bit of breathing room. If we look at the college

00:25football playoff rankings from last night, again, top 10, Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia, Texas Tech,

00:31Oregon, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma. They are in. The question marks now start at 9, 10,

00:3811, and 12. That's Alabama, Notre Dame, BYU, and Miami. The only move of interest yesterday was

00:45where was Miami going to go if they're pulverizing a ranked team on the road? Would they move up?

00:51They didn't. However, Alabama, struggling with a poor Auburn team who needed a late drive to win

01:00that football game, was rewarded from the 10th seed into the ninth seed currently now in the

01:06rankings, dropping Notre Dame to 10. But also the opposite side of the coin there is Notre Dame

01:12going to back to 10, which means if BYU loses, they will drop, Miami will move up, and Notre Dame,

01:20which would have Notre Dame and Miami side by side. An absolute nightmare scenario that now the

01:28committee is saying, now we have an out. Because if they're side by side, they can go, well, what did

01:34you want us to do? We never thought they would be side by side. Now the only advantage is they played

01:39on the football field. We must put Miami over Notre Dame. Or Joe, are there other hijinks out there

01:45that you're saying? Well, it's funny what they did here. And maybe more than anything else,

01:52Donnie, last night was a great lesson in exit strategy. And that is exactly what the committee

01:59gave themselves last night is a absolute exit strategy, depending. And because we know,

02:07you know, this character, Yannick, who doesn't feel like he has any idea what's going on,

02:13though. It's hysterical. And yet somehow he's the, what, the AD at Arkansas? They pushed him

02:19on the issue with Miami and Notre Dame. And his answer was, there has been no stronger debate,

02:26not between Notre Dame and Miami, but Notre Dame and Alabama. He said it was one of the fiercest

02:31debates for the last three weeks. And he said it has really split the committee room. So that tells me

02:38that whoever was on the side of Alabama, well, they won, Donnie. They won. And the other side

02:45is giving Miami a chance to push Notre Dame out if only one thing happens. And that thing that happened

02:51is BYU has to lose. And then that's the only way you can get Miami and Notre Dame side by side and

02:58then have to pick it. He did say in that show last night that nothing is set in stone for teams that are

03:04not playing this week. So there is a lot, everything is going to be reseeded and reshuffled depending on

03:12the results of the conference championships. If BYU wins, then you got two big 12 teams in there.

03:19But if they lose, then the committee gave themselves an exit strategy to then use the head-to-head and put

03:25Miami at Miami yet.