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00:00The big movers, the big surprises.
00:03Indiana going from four to nine, dropping dramatically.
00:08They didn't play.
00:10Notre Dame goes from 11 all the way up to five
00:13with a win over Miami without Malachi Toney.
00:17And Notre Dame is knocking on the door of a first round buy at the moment.
00:22Miami goes from number one after a one-score loss
00:26in which they almost had a game-tying touchdown
00:28if it wasn't for a replay or a review of the end zone.
00:32And the Miami Hurricanes are not going to let that go.
00:35They drop all the way down to seven.
00:38The last team in at large-wise,
00:40because Boise State's got your number 12 group of five locked up,
00:44so there aren't 12 teams.
00:45It was only 11, is Kentucky.
00:50Kentucky.
00:51They got blown out 34 to six against Tennessee.
00:54I couldn't believe this.
00:55When I saw Kentucky being a part of this,
00:57I was blown away.
00:58But the schedule strength for Kentucky is why.
01:01The committee kept on talking about schedule strength.
01:04Schedule strength.
01:05Saying that, look, it's the record is one thing,
01:08but their schedule is the big deal.
01:11This is important.
01:13And so what the committee is saying
01:14is that the schedule strength for the Southeastern Conference,
01:18the SEC, where, quote, it just means more.
01:21The SEC, now, this is going to be where the SEC can flex.
01:28And they're going to get more teams into the bracket
01:31because of their schedule strength.
01:34Not everybody is on board with this.
01:38The college football committee is never beating the SEC bias allegations.
01:42They have a two-loss Alabama team ahead of UCLA.
01:46They have a two-loss Texas team ranked ahead of Miami,
01:49who barely lost to Notre Dame without the best receiver in the country.
01:53A two-loss Kentucky team is ranked above an undefeated Wake Forest team.
01:58Let's just rename the college football playoff the SEC Invitational.
02:05And we're doing the whole notebook thing.
02:08And I can't argue.
02:11I really can't argue.
02:13I'm an SEC guy.
02:15And even I have a hard time when this bracket comes out.
02:18You're looking at this going like, Tennessee is above Indiana.
02:22Like, really?
02:23Okay, UCLA is now the four seed because they're going to win the Big Ten.
02:27No, they're not.
02:28But supposedly, they're going to win the Big Ten.
02:30The Irish would play Boise State.
02:32Anybody want to watch Notre Dame and Boise?
02:34No, thank you.
02:35That's a 25-point ass-kicking.
02:38BYU is down to 10.
02:41Miami is down to 7.
02:43Utah, after beating BYU, now is number 2.
02:46But Alabama at number 3?
02:503.
02:51Crimson Tide have got two losses.
02:53I know they went to LSU and had a really impressive win.
02:55I'll give you that.
02:56But 3?
02:58Texas comes in at 6.
03:00I mean, you have a bracket.
03:01That bottom right side of the bracket is all SEC.
03:05It's Alabama, Texas, Kentucky.
03:07It's all SEC.
03:09It's like, wait.
03:10The top left-hand corner, if you replace Indiana with somebody else,
03:14you would have an all SEC top left of the bracket with Tennessee, Georgia,
03:18and then an SEC team.
03:20But, I mean, look it.
03:22You have number 1, Georgia.
03:26You have number 3, Alabama.
03:28You have number 6, Texas.
03:31You have number 8, Tennessee.
03:33And number 11, Kentucky.
03:34There are only 11 spots, okay?
03:38But 5 of the 11 are SEC schools.
03:41Like, I understand that there's a lot of people who are looking at this.
03:46And, I mean, again, I forget who said this last night on Twitter,
03:51so I apologize for stealing the line.
03:53But the line was, why is everyone getting so upset?
03:58This is not the bracket.
03:59This is just a week 2 bracket, and we should stop having this every week.
04:04They can't stop having this every week.
04:07They need this.
04:08Like, the SEC gets off on this type of controversy
04:12because it makes the Big 10 and the Big 12 lose their mind.
04:15The committee gets off on this type of controversy
04:18because it gets everybody all up in arms,
04:22and it gets everybody talking.
04:24I mean, that's the point.
04:26That's the worry with the 2014 playoff.
04:29The 2014 playoff means no more arguing,
04:32no more conversation.
04:34Like, the SEC could have 10 teams in a 2014 playoff.
04:40Like, that's going to be crazy.
04:43When you stop and think about that, 10 teams.
04:46I mean, again, Nick Saban has said it.
04:47Like, there aren't 24 teams in the country
04:49that can win the national championship.
04:50And, heck, there's not 12 teams in the country
04:52that can win the national championship.
04:54So, 24?
04:56I mean, the kickback for the expansion has been so loud from fans,
05:02and the problem that the fans are, and the way they're voting,
05:07they're voting by putting down the remote.
05:09They're voting by not buying tickets.
05:11They're voting by not supporting their teams.
05:15And that's a huge issue to me.
05:19Apathy is a big worry.
05:21And when you're competing against the NFL and Major League Baseball
05:26and the NHL in the fall and the NBA, college basketball,
05:30you're competing.
05:32People can go and do other things.
05:34If they don't like what you're doing, they can go do other things.
05:37The 12-team playoff wasn't perfect.
05:41I would have preferred 16.
05:42But I'll take 12 because of the controversy in the conversation.
05:46I don't think this is wrong.
05:48Mike says, gives the media something to argue about.
05:51It's pointless.
05:52It's not pointless, okay?
05:54Because if it was pointless, nobody at the bar would argue
05:58who's the best team in the country.

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