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Speaker 1: college football. So road teams Tennessee Hammered, Indiana doutless performance. Boy,

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Speaker 1: is that Kurt Signetti talks a big game and doesn't

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Speaker 1: back it up smu Hammered. Clemson did throw it for

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty six yards, but they were outmatched.

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Speaker 1: Texas minus twelve and a half at home, and I

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Speaker 1: thought Clemson played about as well as they could and

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Speaker 1: they still got beat by fourteen. But I want to

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Speaker 1: say this, so this is a twelve team playoff that

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Speaker 1: will become fourteen pretty soon and maybe sixteen. The reason

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Speaker 1: we have the playoff it was negotiated, like, these aren't

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Speaker 1: the twelve best teams in terms of NFL athletes. That's

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Speaker 1: not what it is. The reason this is allowed is

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Speaker 1: because there was a lot of negotiation. The Mountain West

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Speaker 1: gets involved. Everything was negotiated. So it's not going to

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Speaker 1: be seven SEC teams and five Big ten teams. That's

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Speaker 1: not what it's going to be. But the other thing

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Speaker 1: not even sure if I was at Fox or ESPN,

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Speaker 1: but I used to be against the playoff because my

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Speaker 1: life the sixth best team in college football by the

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Speaker 1: end of the year could beat the number one team?

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Speaker 1: And my answer is no. I mean when Nick Saban's

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Speaker 1: two to three teams in the country that could play

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Speaker 1: with the time you would get to like the fifth, sixth,

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Speaker 1: They were going to kick the holy hell out of

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Speaker 1: anybody they played. So the idea that Ohio State or

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Speaker 1: we go to neutral sites, we'll have an upset this weekend.

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Speaker 1: But my take is we're overreacting a little bit. Now. Again,

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Speaker 1: I thought Tennessee in Indiana would play close because I

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Speaker 1: thought weather would be such a factor, but it was

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Speaker 1: just cold and clear. But we've got to be honest

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Speaker 1: about this. When Pete Carroll was rolling at usc or

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Speaker 1: you know again the Nick Saban or Kirby Smart for

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Speaker 1: about a three year run, there weren't five teams that

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Speaker 1: in Ohio State. So I think this was not predictable.

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Speaker 1: But I think we're overreacting because coming up now, John,

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Speaker 1: now we've got neutral sight games. I could I would

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Speaker 1: bet almost anything we're gonna have an upset. One of

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think it's twofold. First, I can't

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Speaker 2: expect it to be perfect year one. This isn't year six,

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Speaker 2: a lot of pushback of everyone complaining that you shouldn't complain,

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Speaker 2: I mean, this all exists because millions upon millions of

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Speaker 2: remember before this year watching Indiana and Indiana and did

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Speaker 2: get the benefit of the doubt right in most people's eyes,

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Speaker 2: because it's like, we don't know you. You don't have

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Speaker 2: any NFL players? Who did you beat this year? In

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Speaker 2: like Tennessee got their asking. If you just watched Tennessee

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Speaker 2: Their talent on the team is immense. And Indiana we

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Speaker 2: So they had three SEC teams Penn State, obviously, Oregon,

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Speaker 1: Right well, and also it's going to get potentially worse

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Speaker 1: I told you it was twenty seven to seventeen and

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Speaker 1: was a game. Indiana was so gutless punting down three

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Speaker 1: it was the way Indiana lost, which was like we

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Speaker 1: really pissed people off. It was like, Okay, if you're

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Speaker 2: I thought of a rule that if you were on

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Speaker 2: Indiana have four guys on their starting twenty two that

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Speaker 2: How many guys on SMUs starting eleven on offensive defense

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Speaker 2: South Carolina and Alabama. Yeah, they might not have won,

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Speaker 2: where it's like I've never watched this program. I've been

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Speaker 2: And then Signetti, I think some of his comments to

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Speaker 2: They go two Penn State, two Oregon to Iowa, and

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Speaker 2: like you said, the Big Ten's going to be better.

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Speaker 2: That game is going to be circled. The Big Ten

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Speaker 2: of him. I will be stunned. Six and six. They

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Speaker 2: be like that moving forward. I'll promise you that.

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Speaker 1: So before we get to the quarterfinal games, I do

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Speaker 1: think we have a potential upset. Listen Tennessee, Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Day. The critics can go back to their reddit boards.

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Speaker 1: But here's what I really took away. Clemson. They deserve credit.

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Speaker 1: They fought to the very end, and they don't have again,

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Speaker 1: they don't have transfer portal guys, and they don't recruit.

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Speaker 1: Even when Dabo was winning a NADDY, they didn't recruit

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Speaker 1: think Dabo's a hell of a coach. But my takeaway

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Speaker 1: how Texas stops them. I mean, Clemson was throwing the

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Speaker 1: when you think of Clemson, you don't think three hundred

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Speaker 1: thirteen and a half point favorite. Maybe that's not an issue,

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Speaker 2: It was startling to me, Well, their quarterbacks really come along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I think Penn State's gonna win. I think

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Speaker 2: mercenaries now. And maybe that's the case. But it does

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Speaker 2: feel like the guy's playing in the game are just

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Speaker 2: that you know the teams is not like ten. None

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Speaker 2: of these teams took their foot off the pedal like pen.

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Speaker 2: Clemson just came back because they got NFL guys. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't like Texas stopped trying.

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Speaker 1: Right John Middlecoff his podcast is three and out.

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Speaker 2: Good job, Buddy, Merry Christmas, going Merry Christmas. The volume