00:00You know, usually on this program, you get big sales bashing all over Lane Kiffin and rightfully so for some
00:08of the things that he said and he's done.
00:10I couldn't stand a whole scenario a year ago where he ended up leaving his team high and dry, that
00:15Ole Miss team, as they were prepping for an opportunity to play for a national championship.
00:19I would never play for a guy like this.
00:22However, in this light, I may actually have to agree with Lane Kiffin.
00:28He's at the Southeastern Conference meetings, and he made a comment, and he thinks the nine-game SEC schedule that
00:36has been proposed here by Greg Sankey, the commissioner, is a bad idea.
00:41My concern is that college football and the playoff selection process is not fixed until it's truly fixed to reward
00:49strength of schedule.
00:50If we keep playing each other, we don't prove we're better than anyone else.
00:57I happen to agree with this.
01:00Believe it or not, he's right.
01:03Listen, the Big Ten is without a doubt right now the number one conference in all of college sports.
01:10Three straight national championships with three different teams in football.
01:14You've got the men and the women in the college basketball that have won national titles.
01:19My friends, the Big Ten is taking the lead here.
01:23Lane's right.
01:24How are you going to find out how good you are if you're not playing Ohio State, if you're not
01:30playing Clemson?
01:32This is a money grab by the Southeastern Conference.
01:34The more they play themselves, the less they have to share with opposing programs.
01:41Remember, when you pay for a team to come into your barn in Baton Rouge, you pay that team to
01:47come down and play LSU.
01:49And vice versa, when LSU goes and plays at a non-conference place like Ohio State or goes into a
01:56place like Miami, you pay each other for coming and playing in your own barn.
02:01It's a home and a way.
02:02That's what it's called.
02:03Well, the SEC believes the more we play one another, the money stays within the conference.
02:11Dude, that's not going to tell you who the best conference is and who the best team in the country
02:16is.
02:17I was always a fan of strength of schedule, and I am a fan of strength of schedule.
02:23That's why I believe one day you'll see a three-loss team play for the national championship, and you should.
02:29But listen, going undefeated in today's college football, that doesn't necessarily mean you're the best team in the country.
02:37Who do you play?
02:39When do you play?
02:40We see this in the National Football League.
02:42The team traditionally with the best record in the NFL doesn't always win the Super Bowl.
02:48We saw that play out one year with Tom Brady's football team when they ended up the regular season unbeaten.
02:54They beat that New York Giants team in the final regular season game, and when they got that team in
02:59the Super Bowl, they ended up getting beaten, and it was the one loss on that schedule that would have
03:05stopped them from equaling what the Miami Dolphins did back in the early 70s.
03:09They would have been undefeated.
03:10You're not going to see that, folks.
03:13Strength of schedule matters.
03:15And also, too, with the process, he's talking.
03:18I happen to agree with Lane.
03:19The James Madisons in the two lanes of the world, what are you doing in the playoff?
03:27There's no reason to have those programs playing for a national championship.
03:33And just to give the fans, well, guess what?
03:37We have to open it up for everyone for it to be fair.
03:41Dude, life is not fair, and so is playing in a sport like this.
03:46There's haves and have-nots.
03:48Tulane and James Madison have no right playing in that tournament unless they play strength of schedule.
03:56How in God's name do you sit there and look at James Madison's schedule and then turn around and look
04:04at a schedule like Ohio State or LSU or Alabama or Georgia and say, hey, this is fair.
04:11You've got different metrics for this playoff system.
04:14Look, I'm looking for the 12 best teams.
04:17Hey, and as Lane said, too, here, I'm not for expanding.
04:21I like the 12 teams.
04:23I like that teams get left out.
04:26I like that there's a debate.
04:28You actually make the college football postseason now interesting.
04:33Look, these bowl games, like going to the fruitloop.com bowl, nobody watches these games, and nobody cares about those
04:41games anymore.
04:42The college football playoffs and the college football system right now at 12, I think it's fabulous.
04:49Because you have a debate at the end of the year, and you're talking what three teams got left out.
04:55Last year, Texas, you're talking Notre Dame was two of the teams that ended up getting left out, and it
05:00made for great water cooler talk.
05:03Look, he's right.
05:04This is a bad move by the Southeastern Conference.
05:07I think places like Florida, LSU, Georgia, you've got to play out of conference.
05:14Because when you play out of conference, you're showing your strength of schedule.
05:18We'll go anywhere and play.
05:20That's the mantra that many of the great programs have.
05:23I don't care who you are.
05:24We'll play you anywhere.
05:26We'll play you anywhere.
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