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The guys react to the latest College Football Playoff rankings, questioning how two-loss Alabama and Texas are ranked ahead of one-loss Indiana, and whether Notre Dame is already being gifted a playoff berth.
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00:00Typically, we flip a coin, or Doug has the app on his phone that flips the coin for him,
00:05but instead, because Mark Ryan is in for Doug Karsh, I'm just giving Mark the winning of
00:10the coin toss, and it's up to you to accept the kick or to defer.
00:15This would be my strategy in every football game.
00:17I'm taking the football.
00:18Okay.
00:19First question goes to Mark.
00:20All right, Mark, here we go.
00:21Question number one.
00:22The college football playoff rankings came out last night.
00:25What did the committee get right, and what did they get wrong?
00:27They got the number one team right in Georgia, looks to be the best team in football,
00:32had the one clunker against Auburn.
00:34Here's what they got wrong.
00:35Alabama number three with two losses.
00:37You've got to be kidding me, man.
00:38At some point, what you do on the field has to matter.
00:41They have back-to-back Ls.
00:43They got blown out at number 16, Tennessee.
00:46How about two-loss Texas being the highest-ranked two-loss team?
00:49They're ahead of one loss Indiana as well.
00:52Texas has two losses to four-loss teams.
00:56How about that?
00:57They lost to Oklahoma, lost to Florida.
00:59That's unacceptable.
01:00They shouldn't be ahead of Indiana.
01:01The CFP is fun because it creates debate each and every week,
01:04and it's so stupid that they even have the CFP this early in the season.
01:09But what they got right, I agree with you.
01:11I think they got Georgia right.
01:12They're the best team in the country, and they're playing like it after a hiccup against Auburn
01:15that they corrected.
01:16I think what they've gotten wrong is they screwed up initially by having Indiana ranked too high
01:21to begin with, so they overcorrected that, and they dropped them down five spots
01:25for not playing this week.
01:26That doesn't make sense.
01:28Man, do they love themselves some Alabama.
01:30I'm not sure why they need to.
01:32It's a two-loss team.
01:33They're ranked number three because why?
01:34They beat LSU.
01:35I think the SEC, some of those teams are way overrated, and because of the SEC, well,
01:40if you beat an SEC team, it must be good.
01:42I mean, that's just too high.
01:43And I think they've also over-rewarded Notre Dame by guaranteeing now that they're going
01:48to make the playoff after they beat Miami last week without their best player, mind you.
01:52Notre Dame's not going to lose the rest of the way.
01:54Mark, I'm just going to really regurgitate everything you said.
01:57I agree.
01:57Georgia, number one, we all agree on that one.
01:59But yeah, the two-loss Alabama and two-loss Texas being ranked so high, I'm just not impressed
02:05by Texas.
02:05I mean, those back-to-back losses to unranked teams during the season, I can't get over that.
02:09And Arch Manning, maybe it's because of all the hype that came in with him, he really just
02:13hasn't lived up to it.
02:14I kind of think Miami should be ranked ahead of Texas as well.
02:19All right, who's going to end up playing in the Big Ten title game?
02:23Well, I'm not sure if this is even possible with tiebreakers and whatnot, but it might
02:28actually be.
02:29I think UCLA and USC are going to run it back after the season finale.
02:34Right now, UCLA is undefeated and USC has a couple of losses.
02:39But I think, or I should say one-loss, but I think they're going to be the only one-loss
02:42teams in the conference.
02:43And oh joy, we're going to have two Pac-12 teams that are defectors and end up representing
02:50the Big Ten in the Big Ten championship game, which will be the last Big Ten championship
02:54game we have in a long time.
02:56Not so fast, my friend.
02:58Not so fast.
02:59Indiana gets USC at home.
03:02They're losing to that team at home.
03:04The remaining schedule for Indiana is Washington and Perdon't.
03:08It's going to be Indiana and UCLA in the Big Ten championship game.
03:12Mark, the newcomer, I agree with you again.
03:14I get Indiana-UCLA as well.
03:16We cannot agree on all these questions, by the way.
03:18That'd just be weird.
03:19Cut it out.
03:19Yeah, right?
03:20But I agree with you, Mark.
03:21Indiana-UCLA is the play here, and that's at least what I'm sticking with.
03:25I'll say it to you, Gator.
03:26Not so fast, my friend, as well.
03:28Wow.
03:28I'm just going to copy Mark.
03:30A former Indiana coach, Lee Corso, saying.
03:32Yeah, exactly.
03:33All right, question number three.
03:34In Maction last night, Miami of Ohio, they were penalized for an unsportsmanlike conduct
03:39penalty for putting up images of multiple field goal posts on the jumbotron behind a field
03:45goal when the other team was trying to attempt a field goal kick.
03:48Your thoughts on this?
03:50Ridiculous.
03:51Come on.
03:52That's part of home field advantage.
03:53Hey, when a player takes a free throw, what goes on behind the basket?
03:57You got a pinwheel spinning, you got all sorts of distractions, you have women in bikinis
04:03trying to make the guy miss.
04:04This is part of the home field advantage, man.
04:07Come on.
04:07What are we doing?
04:09Yeah, it was justifiable to give them the penalty because fans can bring signs all they
04:15want.
04:15The fans can do that, right?
04:17They can move and shake all they want, but in the house, the game conditions, they shouldn't
04:21change.
04:22That means no piping in extra crowd noise, no activating massive fans, no displaying
04:28compromising pictures or videos on the big screens, and no multiple moving goal posts
04:33directly behind the actual goal posts.
04:36I applaud the effort.
04:37I think it's funny as hell, but it's also a bit much.
04:40I mean, last night after the Red Wings scored in St. Louis, they played directly the Edmund
04:44Fitzgerald over the speakers, totally trolling during breaks is fine, but you can't do it
04:50actually during the game.
04:52All right.
04:52I finally disagree with you, Mark Gator.
04:54You're spot on here.
04:55It's definitely a penalty.
04:57Just like if you pipe in artificial crowd noise or play music for too long or too loud
05:01when you're not supposed to, because there are rules against this.
05:04It is unsportsmanlike conduct.
05:05All the other stuff is organic from the fans, whether they bring the stuff or they have the
05:10thunder sticks or do whatever.
05:12You can't do it with the video screen from the team itself.
05:16That is definitely a penalty.
05:17I think the New England Patriots actually got penalized earlier this year for that.
05:20And so in matchup, apparently they didn't think it applied to them for some reason, but
05:24it does and they got penalized.
05:25Oh, but how funny was it though?
05:26It was hilarious.
05:27You're laughing now.
05:28It can be funny and still penalized.
05:31All right.
05:32A lot of intriguing games this weekend.
05:34Who should be on upset alert?
05:37So this is why I said what I said earlier.
05:40I think Indiana is going to be on upset alert.
05:42They host a very talented USC team.
05:44They can see light at the end of the tunnel and actually have an opportunity to finally
05:47make it to the CFP.
05:49USC, the Hoosiers have only scored 17 points a game over the last four.
05:53They've gotten shaky play from the quarterback.
05:55I think they're ripe for an upset in Bloomington and USC.
05:59They've got all this talent.
06:00They just need to put it together.
06:01And at some point they put together a stretch of games and maybe it starts here in Bloomington.
06:08Tennessee travels to Texas A&M where they get an angry Aggies team after almost upsetting
06:13South Carolina.
06:15What do we see?
06:16You cannot get up the two weeks in a row.
06:18Tennessee's in trouble.
06:19How about Texas going to LSU?
06:22Furious LSU team after blowing the game against Alabama.
06:25Those two for me.
06:27All right.
06:27If we're just going by rankings, Texas LSU, because obviously Texas is ranked higher than
06:31LSU, but LSU is actually favored in that.
06:33But if you want an actual Las Vegas upset alert, like betting line, I would take Florida
06:38State plus three and a half against Pittsburgh on the road.
06:41I know, but it's against a backup quarterback.
06:42And I think Florida State's got it in them still to beat teams and be good.
06:45So I would take Florida State plus the points.
06:48Pittsburgh, you're on upset alert.
06:53All right.
06:54It was announced that next year the playoff format will expand to 24 teams.
06:58How long will it remain at 24 teams?
07:00And when does it change?
07:01How many teams will it be involved if it does change?
07:03I reject the question on principle.
07:05I am so offended by this.
07:07I can't even put into words how offended I am by this.
07:10You know, when does the greed stop?
07:13I'm going to go with it stays at 24 teams for five years until they realize they've already
07:18ruined college football.
07:19We've already taken the one sport that was a regular season sport, made it a postseason
07:24sport, just like they did to college basketball.
07:26You're going to say, we love the playoffs, so why not make it bigger?
07:30Let's make it more inclusive.
07:31Everyone gets a trophy in this society.
07:33Can't stand it.
07:34Yeah.
07:35Nobody on this show is in favor of a 2014 playoff.
07:38I think this has a six-year shelf life before things get really itchy.
07:42It's going to be discussed whether they went too big, too fast, or not big enough.
07:47Teams always feel left out.
07:49That's just how it is.
07:49And ultimately, the shift in conference alignments and money disbursement, that's going to bring
07:54back conference championship games that everybody loves because those games bring in a lot of
07:58money as well.
07:59So I think they're going to drop it back from 24 to 16, with 12 still being a possibility,
08:04but it's going to be years down the line like six.
08:07That's an improvement.
08:07So it's a five-year contract, and unfortunately, I think they run at least the whole five years.
08:12They won't bail on this in the middle of it or anything.
08:14They've ruined the best regular season in sports, and the only way to stop it, people, is to
08:19stop watching.
08:20So that's your action if you want to take it.
08:27All right.
08:27With Michigan State's surprise dominance at Michigan, did the Spartans jar something loose
08:31here, Tiger?
08:32Will they be able to ride that momentum through the end of the season?
08:35Well, I think State wins two of their last three games with a loss against Oregon.
08:42However, I think that they have a real chance to be competitive against Oregon and the Ducks
08:47because that's what Michigan State has been this year.
08:49They've been competitive in most of these games.
08:51Coach Fitz has been building up to the win over Michigan.
08:56They've been preaching to the team the importance of effort and accountability, and it's a message
09:00that has gotten through with strong efforts against Northwestern and Illinois.
09:04They both ended up in losses that could have been wins.
09:06They had a great half against Notre Dame early in the season, and to some extent, the same
09:10thing against UCLA.
09:12Keep proving the concept, but I think that they're going to go in the right direction.
09:16Now they just need to spend money on the players in the offseason.
09:18Think about where this team was heading into the Michigan again.
09:21No one giving them a chance.
09:23Two touchdown underdog.
09:24You look up.
09:25You still have a chance to make a bowl game.
09:27You're three and six.
09:28Three games to go.
09:29Calling my shot.
09:30Michigan State goes three and oh.
09:31The rest of the way, they make a bowl game.
09:34Washington has licked the stamp on this season.
09:36They've mailed it in.
09:37Rutgers is a win on paper anyway.
09:40Oregon at home is the one you got to get, but you get them in front of the home fans.
09:44They get it done.
09:46Sparty to the Bulls.
09:47I'm going to disagree.
09:49Every year, they always get up for the Michigan game.
09:52It's just what Michigan State does.
09:54Although, you're right, Gator.
09:55They have been competitive in a lot of games.
09:57They've lost those games.
09:58I think the losing continues right after this.
10:00There's going to be an adrenaline dump, as there always is.
10:03And this is not a good Michigan State team.
10:05Don't get it twisted, people.
10:06They beat Michigan, but Michigan is not a good Michigan team either.
10:10Good win for Michigan State, of course.
10:11Like I said, they always get up for that game, but it goes downhill from here.
10:15And that'll do it for our college football questions this week.
10:21All right, Scott Harris made some comments yesterday, kind of interesting, uh, regarding the Tigers
10:25and, uh, one of their star players.
10:28And maybe we're going to read too much into it or not.
10:31We'll get your opinion on it as we talk some Tigers next year on 97.
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