00:00But the committee stepped up after their opening week,
00:04I thought received maybe the most backlash it ever has.
00:07For the most part, everyone agrees with this,
00:11eh, it'll work itself out.
00:13Which again, roughly translates to,
00:15none of this matters, even if it's awful.
00:18And yet it was so rough that opening week.
00:22It seemed like for the first time, maybe ever,
00:26the committee went to the drawing board.
00:27Because the thing I was most interested in
00:32is where the Indiana Hoosiers were going to rank.
00:35The Indiana Hoosiers did not deserve the slot that they were in.
00:39And despite being on a buy, saw their resume take a hit.
00:43And the committee actually agreed and dropped them five spots.
00:49As they absolutely should have.
00:53All this committee did, Kevin,
00:55was proved to us that it really doesn't matter
00:57what you have your initial rankings,
00:59or even this week's rankings, or next week's rankings.
01:02The only rankings that matter are the one at the end of the year.
01:04And if there's anybody who's obsessing
01:05about a week-to-week-to-week move
01:08and what the committee's doing,
01:09just throw it out the window.
01:11They're starting over every single week,
01:12which they should, by all means.
01:14That's what I wish the AP voters,
01:15and I wish the coaches poll used to do,
01:18is start over every single week
01:19and not just move a guy up or a guy down
01:21because they won or lost.
01:22It doesn't really matter if that's what you're doing.
01:25Indiana did not deserve to be fourth.
01:26And we all barked and yelled at that last week,
01:29and they corrected it by moving it ninth.
01:31But it just shows you that, hey,
01:32does it really matter?
01:33Because we're going to post a ranking,
01:35we're going to let everybody yell at us for a week,
01:37and then we're going to course correct.
01:39Why have it at all?
01:40There's no reason for it.
01:41And they just proved that.
01:42Same thing with UCLA,
01:43who we saw win last night.
01:45UCLA should not have been eighth.
01:46And then they move all the way up to the top four
01:49because, well, we screwed up week one.
01:51They do course correct,
01:53and they're going to course correct next week
01:54and the week after,
01:55which is why those that got mad last year
01:57with Notre Dame-Miami,
01:59you got to just throw it out the window.
02:01This is what it is as of today, period.
02:04Yeah, I do think that the committee
02:07is in a very interesting spot moving forward
02:10because of the likelihood that they will have
02:15at least one, if not multiple,
02:20three-loss teams that crash this party.
02:24You know, you and I have joked in the past about Oregon.
02:29You know, can they get in in a 24-team field?
02:32Three-loss Oregon may get in a 12-team field,
02:37quite frankly.
02:38Going to be decent favorites in their remaining games.
02:41Knocked off Ohio State last week,
02:43which completely turned their season around.
02:46The loss to UCLA ages well.
02:49The loss to Oklahoma State has even aged well.
02:53The Illinois one is difficult,
02:55but there are some good wins on the resume here
02:57for the Oregon Ducks.
02:58And if it's not Oregon,
03:00it's going to be maybe a few SEC teams.
03:04Obviously, Alabama and Texas come to mind
03:06already sitting on two losses,
03:09yet still ranked inside the top six from the committee.
03:12Yeah, and you have Tennessee as well,
03:14who plays a big game today,
03:14already has two losses
03:15because the ability of winning out afterwards
03:18and getting in with three.
03:19Not thinking that Kentucky or BYU
03:21would survive another loss,
03:22but there is going to be this case study
03:24where you're going to have a three-loss team,
03:26whether it be the SEC
03:28or an Oregon team
03:29who just got it out of the way early,
03:32lost to teams,
03:33like you just said,
03:34their losses aged very, very well.
03:36When they lost to an Oklahoma State team
03:39that hadn't won in two years,
03:40you're thinking,
03:40all right, this is the end of the end.
03:42And then they lost again,
03:43and you're like,
03:44this is the end of the end.
03:45You go ahead and you crush Ohio State,
03:48who was everyone's darling to begin the year.
03:50This team still has a shot at a Big Ten title.
03:52They could get the automatic bid
03:54as a three-loss team,
03:55which we've seen happen before.
03:57So it's going to be interesting.
03:58And of course, everyone's going to say,
03:59well, that's what the 2014 playoff is for.
04:02I digress.
04:02I don't think that should,
04:04any apples to apples,
04:05because we were talking about an Oregon team
04:06that we thought would have four losses
04:08in talking about
04:09whether they should make a 2014 playoff,
04:11which is ridiculous as well.
04:12I don't mind the conversation about,
04:14can Oregon get in at nine and three
04:17because they played well at the end of the year,
04:19because they beat good teams
04:20at the end of the year,
04:21because they finished high in their conference.
04:23I would want that team in
04:24because they are capable
04:25of winning a national title.
04:27I don't want to have that conversation
04:28about an eight and four Minnesota team.
04:33Listen, here's the thing.
04:34We're going to put a three loss,
04:36we're going to put multiple three loss SEC teams
04:38in a 12-team playoff.
04:39We can deal with four loss teams
04:40in a 2014 playoff.
04:42It just is what it is.
04:44And that's just where we're headed.
