00:00The 2014 playoff is now going to be a thing.
00:02This is not a shock.
00:03We knew it was happening.
00:06And unfortunately, it does end in a lot of ways.
00:11It ends the controversy, the conversations, and all of the drama that we had last weekend
00:17on Saturday, where so many of those games mattered a ton because of the 12-team playoff.
00:24I mean, heck, you could make a pretty good case that Ohio State next year, if what happened
00:29to Ohio State this year happens next year, that Ohio State would still be in the playoff.
00:36Ohio State does not belong in the playoffs, period.
00:38That football team is not good.
00:39I mean, you can say that Julian Sane went down and that derailed everything, and that is
00:45kind of the problem.
00:47But that defense for the Buckeyes got killed by Oregon at home last week.
00:53So, like, if we're going to talk about resume and who beat whom, I mean, a three-loss Ohio
01:01State team is going to be in a 2014 playoff every year, like every single year.
01:07So that's the problem.
01:09That's why.
01:10And I do think they're going to regret this.
01:12I really do.
01:13I think ESPN, there's just certain things, you know, I'm not trying to get political,
01:20but there are certain things when the federal government does something that everybody knows
01:25is really unpopular, that eventually it's going to come back and bite them in the ass.
01:31And that's what happened last Tuesday, right?
01:33Well, that's kind of what ESPN is doing here.
01:36ESPN is going against the entire fan base.
01:39There's nobody, there's no fan that I know that I've seen in the chat.
01:45There's nobody that wants a 2014 playoff.
01:50So ESPN is doing this because they want the money and the eyeballs and they want the ratings
01:55that will come from a 2014 playoff because of the contract they have with the SEC.
02:02They need to monetize that as much as possible.
02:05And that means they must have a national championship.
02:08And the more games in a playoff, they own it all.
02:11So let's just keep on expanding and expanding and expanding because people are going to watch.
02:16But there is a saturation point.
02:18And there is a point where fans say, you know what?
02:21I'm good.
02:22Wake me up in the semifinal.
02:24And I think that's a real possibility for what the 2014 playoff is going to look like.
02:29The 12 team playoff in week one last year absolutely sucked.
02:34It may suck again this year, and then we're going to expand this.
02:39It's a massive mistake.
02:41It's dumb.
02:42It doesn't make any sense other than money.
02:44And I think when your main goal is money, that's not the right place to be from a heart perspective.
02:52Your motives are wrong.
02:53ESPN's motives are wrong.
02:54And I think eventually they're going to come back to earth and go, yeah, that was wrong.
03:00We shouldn't have done that.
03:01Let's pull this back.
03:03I mean, it's bigger than the NFL.
03:05And the NFL playoffs, I mean, I get it.
03:09It's the NFL.
03:11But even the NFL playoffs feel long.
03:142014 playoff.
03:18Good luck building that bracket to make it interesting.
03:21It's going to stink.
03:22It really is, and fine, so be it.
03:25We knew it was coming, but it really is an unfortunate situation for sure that, again, nobody asked for this.
03:33No one's wanting it.
03:34No one's clamoring for it, and yet they gave it to us.
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