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Speaker 1: Night Football. It'll be justin Jefferson and the Vikings against
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Speaker 1: NBC and Peacock. I mentioned with the NFL, it was
Speaker 1: more about the teams that lost over the weekend. Certainly
Speaker 1: the Colts losing and losing their quarterback. Chiefs lose last night,
Speaker 1: Bengals lose in Buffalo, the Buccaneers lost at home, the
Speaker 1: Ravens lost at home as well. You know, the Bears
Speaker 1: had the best record in the NFC. They ended up
Speaker 1: losing to Green Bay. And Green Bay is kind of
Speaker 1: quietly becoming a very good team, if not great team.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think we focus usually on the
Speaker 1: offense and Jordan Love and is Jordan Love holding them back?
Speaker 1: And the defense is playing well. But that's a big
Speaker 1: You know that you're at home, Yes you're supposed to win,
Speaker 1: it's against the Bears, and you end up winning. Because
Speaker 1: when we look back on this season, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a couple of teams where you're going to single
Speaker 1: out one game, maybe two games, where you go, how
Speaker 1: did you lose to them? Take care of the business
Speaker 1: that's in front of you, and then you hope that
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to get into the postseason.
Speaker 1: You know the Steelers. Steelers aren't great, They're a little
Speaker 1: better than average, it feels like, but that's a desperate
Speaker 1: Ravens team. You're at home. You got to win that game.
Speaker 1: You have to win that game. And what I have
Speaker 1: given Isaiah likely a touchdown. I would have because it
Speaker 1: felt like it was one step, two steps control of
Speaker 1: the ball. Football moved to keep the ball away from
Speaker 1: the defender and they decided to overturn that. But as
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said, maybe this will keep us idiots in
Speaker 1: the media off Mike Tomlin for a week, maybe nationally
Speaker 1: not locally. It'll be like, ruggled. We maybe shouldn't have
Speaker 1: won that game, but that's a big win. But it
Speaker 1: sounded like the Ravens are out of it in that division.
Speaker 1: They're still in it. You went too in a row.
Speaker 1: Did you see Ben Johnson, the Bear's head coach, and
Speaker 1: Matt leafleour at the end of the game with their handshake.
Speaker 1: Frosty is the word that I would use. Keep in mind,
Speaker 1: when Ben Johnson was sworn in as the Bear's head coach,
Speaker 1: he was like, oh yeah, I always like beating the
Speaker 1: Packers twice a year. That was when he was an
Speaker 1: assistant coach in Detroit. Well, now you're the head coach here,
Speaker 1: And I think that's why it was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a frosty handshake at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: And they play each other in two weeks. But I
Speaker 1: was kind of surprised that when Ben got sworn in.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, he's buying into that rivalry. Now
Speaker 1: you've got to go out there and win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Paul, that barely counts as a postgame handshake. They
Speaker 2: didn't even break stride or slow down. It was like,
Speaker 2: in real time, a grab and go and they didn't
Speaker 2: even give the good game turn in you just throw away.
Speaker 1: I did like it, though, yes, because you know it
Speaker 1: feels like, hey, everybody loves everybody. Every quarterback loves every quarterback,
Speaker 1: every coach loves every that's not the keys. But I
Speaker 1: like it when you don't like each other. I like
Speaker 1: it when there's a little bit of a frosty nature
Speaker 1: added to that. Packers' next game in Denver. In Denver, Nah,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to see Jordan Love against that
Speaker 1: Broncos defense. Is that Broncos defense. I think they're up
Speaker 1: to like fifty five sacks something like that. This year.
Speaker 1: They've been great, and they roughed up the Raiders yesterday
Speaker 1: as well. All right, eight seven seven three DP show
Speaker 1: more phone calls best and worst to the weekend, uh Seaton,
Speaker 1: You got a poll question for the final hour, and
Speaker 1: then we will talk to Rick Newheisel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got three of them up there right now.
Speaker 3: Notre Dame either your options are got hosed, will change
Speaker 3: the playoffs as being petty or all of the above?
Speaker 3: Right now, being petty has about thirty six percent, followed
Speaker 3: by all of the above, which is thirty four. We
Speaker 3: also have up there the Chiefs playoff chances are dead,
Speaker 3: on life support or alive, and well fifty four percent
Speaker 3: of the audience have them as dead. And the worst
Speaker 3: loss this weekend Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens. It's in that order. Actually,
Speaker 3: Bucks and Chiefs almost tied for the top.
Speaker 1: Fritchie just reminded me The late field goal by the
Speaker 1: Raiders put the game total over by a half. The
Speaker 1: total was forty and a half. The field goal got
Speaker 1: it to forty one, and the points spread was seven
Speaker 1: and a half. They were down ten, they kick a
Speaker 1: field goal and they lose by seven. This is where
Speaker 1: Todd comes in. He goes, how did they do that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: How did I do that?
Speaker 5: Crazy?
Speaker 1: Well, it's their job, Todd.
Speaker 6: The last second, meaningless field goal somehow gets involved with.
Speaker 1: I just can't. This is what they do. They have
Speaker 1: to do this so they can make money. New Heisel
Speaker 1: college football analyst works for CBS, joining us on the program.
Speaker 1: All right, do we talk about what the committee got
Speaker 1: right or what the committee got wrong?
Speaker 7: I think the answer is we're all kind of lost
Speaker 7: in a world that for six weeks we were told
Speaker 7: that Notre Dame was better than Miami. We all made
Speaker 7: our proclamations about how that game went on the field
Speaker 7: to play in week one, but to do it for
Speaker 7: six weeks and then choose the week after neither one played,
Speaker 7: to make the adjustment. That to me is time for
Speaker 7: a change. And I don't blame anybody, but all of
Speaker 7: a sudden, you've teased Notre Dame for too long to
Speaker 7: do this to them, And I see now they're taking
Speaker 7: their ball and going home. They're not going to play
Speaker 7: in a bowl game. This is bad for college football.
Speaker 1: Well what do you make of that decision to not
Speaker 1: play in the bowl game against BYU.
Speaker 5: I think it's a sign of the times.
Speaker 7: We saw Iowa State, we saw Kansas State also make
Speaker 7: similar decisions. Obviously coaching changes there as part of it.
Speaker 7: But I think bowl games are going to end up
Speaker 7: being the first game of the year. Dan, I think
Speaker 7: we're going to see a bunch of these bulls go
Speaker 7: by way of the whales. And I also think the
Speaker 7: college football playoff is going to go. As they extended
Speaker 7: that deadline to January twenty third, I think we're going
Speaker 7: to go right past sixteen all the way to twenty four.
Speaker 1: Well, wait a minute, we're going to get rid of
Speaker 1: bowl games. What do you mean by bowl games will
Speaker 1: be the first game of the year.
Speaker 7: I think we're going to have a hard time talking
Speaker 7: a bunch of teams into playing in the postseason. Maybe
Speaker 7: I'm wrong, and I hope I am, because I remember
Speaker 7: vividly how much I enjoyed them both as a player,
Speaker 7: and as coach. But I just think in this day
Speaker 7: of transaction football, where people are coming and going, that
Speaker 7: there are going to be a lot of teams and
Speaker 7: we're going to see a lot of players that aren't
Speaker 7: going to participate, and I think that's a shame. So
Speaker 7: I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of these
Speaker 7: bowl games get moved to the front end of a
Speaker 7: college football season.
Speaker 1: Does Alabama deserve to be in not?
Speaker 7: Based on the eye test? They were not themselves. Give
Speaker 7: Georgia a lot of credit for that, but that was
Speaker 7: not a good looking football team. And you know those
Speaker 7: two conference championship games, the Acid excuse me, the SEC
Speaker 7: and the Big Ten. For there to be that little
Speaker 7: movement in the CFP rankings meant that they were basically
Speaker 7: not important enough to make changes.
Speaker 5: That to me signals of time.
Speaker 7: We're going to change those out, We're not going to
Speaker 7: have those, We're going to end up having play in
Speaker 7: games to replace the money.
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering about these weekly ranking shows that ESPN
Speaker 1: has right, and I think it puts the College Football
Speaker 1: Committee in a really precarious position because they have to
Speaker 1: explain themselves and they don't do a very good job
Speaker 1: explaining themselves.
Speaker 7: No they don't, and the poor communicator in this case,
Speaker 7: Hunter Yrchek, the CFP chairman, has to try to make
Speaker 7: sense of things. And I mean, for the for six weeks,
Speaker 7: you basically said that Miami is not as good as
Speaker 7: Notre Dame because Notre Dame's on this fabulous run. Notre
Speaker 7: Dame finishes the run, Miami finishes the season, and.
Speaker 5: Then you flip them.
Speaker 7: Uh. It brings into question all sorts of things, which
Speaker 7: isn't fair to the committee, but ultimately they have to answer.
Speaker 7: So these shows to me ought to be one show,
Speaker 7: the last one. And I understand how television works. We
Speaker 7: like our cake and eat it too. We like people's
Speaker 7: eyeballs and commercials and all that stuff. But that was
Speaker 7: that was difficult. I knew the committee was in trouble
Speaker 7: when bou Corrigan, as the committee chaired, Dan said, as
Speaker 7: you know, we like wins and we value wins. When
Speaker 7: he came up with that, Pearl, I said, now that's
Speaker 7: common sense.
Speaker 1: He's Rick new Heisl, CBS college football analyst, former college
Speaker 1: football head coach. If I would have told you five
Speaker 1: months ago, Indiana is going to be undefeated, number one
Speaker 1: team in the country and they're going to have the
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner and Notre Dame is not going to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs.
Speaker 7: You would have said, where's the statue of Signetti? The
Speaker 7: guy has pulled a rabbit out of his hat.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that's comparable to what he's accomplished, because
Speaker 1: I do think it's being underrated what he did growing
Speaker 1: up in the Midwest, knowing what Indiana football was and
Speaker 1: they want to be a basketball school and what he's
Speaker 1: done in two years time is working.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we're working so hard to figure out
Speaker 7: how it could have happened. And obviously with a transfer
Speaker 7: poral in his experience at James Madison and a lot
Speaker 7: of really good players, the sarat kid and others that
Speaker 7: came with him from James Madison. But at the end
Speaker 7: of the day, let's just stop and admire the work done.
Speaker 7: It is phenomenal. It is out of this world. This
Speaker 7: is a program that was the losingest program in all
Speaker 7: of college football. No one had lost more games, and
Speaker 7: for them to go and have this run that they
Speaker 7: have enjoyed eleven and two last year and now sitting
Speaker 7: there at thirteen and zero and the number one team
Speaker 7: in the land going to a Rose Bowl. If you're
Speaker 7: a Hoosier fan, you're going just don't wake me up.
Speaker 7: Just keep this thing rolling. And now you know we're
Speaker 7: going to be listening to Abba played Fernando for on
Speaker 7: and on and on.
Speaker 1: How many teams can win the title?
Speaker 5: I think seven. I think I like maybe maybe eight.
Speaker 7: I think the top seven teams are all absolutely good
Speaker 7: enough to do it. And as we saw over the weekend,
Speaker 7: defense plays right that those were games I think all
Speaker 7: went under. So if you have the top seven, and
Speaker 7: I think, if I'm looking, that's the seventh team, I
Speaker 7: kind of like Miami. I think Miami is dangerous if
Speaker 7: Carson Beck gets on a heater.
Speaker 1: How did Penn State do in the big picture here?
Speaker 7: A whole lot of a whole lot of you know, consternation,
Speaker 7: and a whole lot of time and money spent to
Speaker 7: get the same coach. I mean, Matt Campbell's a fine coach,
Speaker 7: but he has no better resume than James Franklin when
Speaker 7: he got there, and James Franklin had a great run.
Speaker 7: I understand the whiplash of the three games and why
Speaker 7: it happened, but Matt Campbell's going to have to go
Speaker 7: aways to be better than what James Franklin is And
Speaker 7: right now, if you're looking at Virginia Tech and Penn State,
Speaker 7: the momentum is clearly with Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1: I was told over the weekend that we're going to
Speaker 1: sixteen teams with the playoff next year.
Speaker 7: I think I think, you know, as the old saying goes,
Speaker 7: the answers money Now what was the question?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 7: But but you know, given the noted Aime situation, I
Speaker 7: wouldn't be shocked if we go right through it. I
Speaker 7: really wouldn't because to get to twenty four. Now you
Speaker 7: can start supplanning some of these conference championship games, which
Speaker 7: right now after the weekend we saw even with Alabama
Speaker 7: looking that terrible, didn't move a spot. Ohio State lost
Speaker 7: the game, but is the two seed and nothing really matters.
Speaker 7: All they did is risk players. I think we're going
Speaker 7: to look for games to supplant those, and in so doing,
Speaker 7: we're going to end up at a number that's larger
Speaker 7: than sixteen. Why would we stop knowing that we're probably
Speaker 7: going to get there anyway?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the conference championships have always been a
Speaker 1: money grab sure, right, that's all. That's why they were
Speaker 1: just like basketball.
Speaker 7: Just like basketball, conference tournaments are a money grab. They
Speaker 7: don't really mean that much when you're in the power
Speaker 7: for structure.
Speaker 5: Now for the ACC.
Speaker 7: And the Big Twelve, they're important games because loser is out.
Speaker 5: Uh and in this game even winner was out. Uh.
Speaker 7: I wonder if they might make a deal with the
Speaker 7: Notre Dame in the ACC. If the ACC doesn't have
Speaker 7: a champion as as Duke was, that Notre Dame can
Speaker 7: be their champion. Remember Notre Dame went as there as
Speaker 7: an ACC team back in the COVID year.
Speaker 1: Who would you make the commissioner of college football? Oh goodness,
Speaker 1: is there somebody who can do that?
Speaker 7: Jobs as big as it is, it's all it is
Speaker 7: is given the bad news, right, It's it's the guy
Speaker 7: who can come up and tell people, or or the
Speaker 7: the woman who can come up and tell people things
Speaker 7: that they.
Speaker 1: Don't necessarily do. Exact their commissioner like somebody like Goodell,
Speaker 1: like scheduling. You know he's running or they are running
Speaker 1: everything here.
Speaker 7: I'm available, Dan, I just want to make you you
Speaker 7: got a great life.
Speaker 1: You don't want this.
Speaker 5: I got, I got my I'm working on my grip.
Speaker 1: Okay, enough people hate you. You don't need more people
Speaker 1: to hate you. It's an excellent point. D It's an
Speaker 1: excellent point. I don't need that nonsense. Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
Speaker 7: Jo always wonderful to be with you. Happy holidays, and
Speaker 7: I'll have a song for you the next time we talk.
Speaker 1: Rick new Isiel CBS Sports analyst. Okay, he brings up
Speaker 1: something interesting from the standpoint of expanding the playoffs. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a break and then we'll come back.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this because there's also going
Speaker 1: to be a push for something that has to do
Speaker 1: with bowl games, and we might flip the script of
Speaker 1: having bowl games to start seasons. They want to make
Speaker 1: sure that these players are going to play in the
Speaker 1: bowl games. Rick is talk about expanding the playoffs to
Speaker 1: twenty four and I understand you may not like it
Speaker 1: his logic, but I do understand it. We'll take a break,
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame athletic director uh Pete Bavaqua joined us and
Speaker 1: he talked about his relationship Notre Dame's relationship with the
Speaker 1: ACC and where it stands now after the college football
Speaker 1: playoff snub. What role do the ACC play in any
Speaker 1: of this in your opinion?
Speaker 9: Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have
Speaker 9: tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team school,
Speaker 9: their athletic director Dan Radikovich is a good friend, and
Speaker 9: all the teams in the ACC great wonderful universities. We
Speaker 9: have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC.
Speaker 9: But we were mystified by the actions of the conference
Speaker 9: to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in
Speaker 9: football and a member of their conference in twenty four
Speaker 9: of our other sports. And I would tell you, Dan,
Speaker 9: I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say
Speaker 9: that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship
Speaker 9: between the conference and Notre Dame. What do you mean,
Speaker 9: just we didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled
Speaker 9: out repeatedly and compared to Miami.
Speaker 5: Not by Miami.
Speaker 9: Miami has every right to do that, but it raised
Speaker 9: a lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking
Speaker 9: shots at us, and you know, that's just not something
Speaker 9: we chose to do.
Speaker 8: We wouldn't choose to do that in the future.
Speaker 9: People might disagree with us, but that's just not something
Speaker 9: that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we have no
Speaker 9: problem with any of these teams. These are all great teams.
Speaker 9: You look at those teams, Miami, like I said, great season,
Speaker 9: they beat us. You think about Alabama, and nobody's had
Speaker 9: more success in college football over the last decade than Alabama.
Speaker 9: But Dan, you know, I mean, you follow the sport
Speaker 9: so closely everybody was saying that we were one of
Speaker 9: a handful of teams that could win this whole thing,
Speaker 9: and that we have zero percent chance. Even Nick Saban,
Speaker 9: you know, nobody knows more about college football maybe in
Speaker 9: the history of the world than Nick Saban, you know,
Speaker 9: and he said it yesterday, like, how is Notre Dame
Speaker 9: not in this? I mean, everybody's just kind of confused
Speaker 9: and perplexed, and we don't have good answers for the
Speaker 9: kids on our team, for our student athletes.
Speaker 1: Are you going to reevaluate your relationship with the ACC
Speaker 1: the overall relationship.
Speaker 8: I would just say it's been strained.
Speaker 1: That is going to go viral there with that comment. Now,
Speaker 1: I did ask Pete to explain the decision name is
Speaker 1: going to sit out their bowl game.
Speaker 9: You know, we made the decision not to play in
Speaker 9: a bowl game, as I know you're you're well aware,
Speaker 9: and a lot of people have asked me about that.
Speaker 9: And you know, when Marcus, we watched the presentation show,
Speaker 9: the selection show with the team, and then Marcus, like
Speaker 9: he always does, was wonderful, got up and for somebody
Speaker 9: that always has great answers, he was brutally honest with
Speaker 9: the team and said he didn't have a lot of answers.
Speaker 9: Doesn't understand how this happened, Why this happened, Why a
Speaker 9: team that thought it was doing what it needed to
Speaker 9: do all of a sudden kind of woke up on
Speaker 9: kind of the wrong side of this. And then just
Speaker 9: as you're kind of dealing with that, you start getting
Speaker 9: these calls from other bowls.
Speaker 8: And you know that the.
Speaker 9: Role of a captain on the Notre Dame football team
Speaker 9: is a role that that the program and Marcus takes
Speaker 9: very very seriously. And he talked to all the captains,
Speaker 9: you know, I said, hey, what are you guys thinking,
Speaker 9: What's what does the team thinking.
Speaker 8: Let's talk about this, And you know.
Speaker 9: To a person, the captains and some of the other
Speaker 9: you know, underclassmen on the team said, listen, we are
Speaker 9: such a close knit team.
Speaker 8: We've done so much this season.
Speaker 9: We overcame those two opening losses, we rallied, we dominated
Speaker 9: in the last ten games. We can't imagine taking the
Speaker 9: field not as that team. And it's reality, Dan, you
Speaker 9: know that certain players wouldn't participate in that game. You
Speaker 9: think about somebody with the future that he has, like
Speaker 9: a Jeremiah Love, a Jadarian Price Eli Rared and you
Speaker 9: know Emil Wagner, who's one of the most impressive people
Speaker 9: I've met in my life, who hopefully after he's done
Speaker 9: playing football, I hope he runs for president one day.
Speaker 8: It just wouldn't be the same.
Speaker 9: And you know, made the decision that it was time
Speaker 9: to start thinking about next season. Give these these student
Speaker 9: athletes a break. They have exams coming up, and then
Speaker 9: you know, really hopefully they'll go home and spend Christmas
Speaker 9: in the holidays with their family.
Speaker 1: And so that's Pete Babakway. He's the athletic director at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. And whether you agree with him or not,
Speaker 1: I wish they would have played in the ball game.
Speaker 1: I do understand what he's saying. If you're not playing
Speaker 1: for anything, then why are you playing in the bowl game,
Speaker 1: Especially if you're Jeremiah Love and you're going to be
Speaker 1: a top fifteen pick and some of these other players
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame, why are you playing? This is why
Speaker 1: what Rick Newheiser was saying. If you expanded to twenty
Speaker 1: four schools, now you have and they'll still be playing
Speaker 1: in bowl games, they'll be playoff games. But now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're relevant now I have more teams,
Speaker 1: more players, and better games. Now, is that too many
Speaker 1: twenty four teams instead of twelve or going to fourteen?
Speaker 1: But this is what Rick Newhaisa was saying. I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if we get to the point where we need to
Speaker 1: schedule bowl games at the beginning of the season to
Speaker 1: ensure that you get a good game site and you're
Speaker 1: going to get players who are going to play. Now,
Speaker 1: you know it's not during the winter time, and a
Speaker 1: lot of these fans want to go to a nice
Speaker 1: place weatherwise. Well, the weather would be nice in September
Speaker 1: everywhere in the country, and then you could get them
Speaker 1: to play in a bowl game as opposed to the
Speaker 1: future of the bowl games might be in jeopardy here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Marvin, Yeah, you could do the same thing college
Speaker 10: basketball does every single year they have the Preeces Nit
Speaker 10: Duke plays North Carolina or Kansas places Michigan State at
Speaker 10: the beginning of every single season Madis Square Garden. They
Speaker 10: always have a big college basketball game. So you can
Speaker 10: kind of do the same thing to make sure you
Speaker 10: have a big time matchup and put the name of
Speaker 10: the bowl on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think college football's changing and what happens.
Speaker 1: It usually takes something that you know calls about change.
Speaker 1: If you believe this call is about change, it's Notre
Speaker 1: Dame and it's a controversy. And I think you can
Speaker 1: actually understand Notre Dame's side of this, just from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of Miami didn't do anything, but they jumped Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Why wasn't Notre Dame in front of them for the
Speaker 1: last month? Alabama loses and really was never competitive in
Speaker 1: the SEC title game and they don't drop. Why not?
Speaker 1: Because history shows teams that lose in those conference title
Speaker 1: games almost always drop. Twenty out of the last twenty
Speaker 1: two have dropped in the rankings. The only two that
Speaker 1: didn't Alabama. And then I think you can go back
Speaker 1: to TCU a couple of years ago. That's it, but
Speaker 1: they didn't drop. I'm going to go back to what
Speaker 1: my source said, and he said it during the week
Speaker 1: it felt like the committee was setting Notre Dame up
Speaker 1: for disappointment. That was the quote, and it stayed with
Speaker 1: me the entire weekend, and when I realized Notre Dame
Speaker 1: wasn't in, it just felt like ACC was against Notre
Speaker 1: Dame and maybe the college Football Playoff Committee to a
Speaker 1: certain degree was but put Miami ahead of them, then
Speaker 1: we don't have that controvert Alabama shoot a drop down. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're in the SEC title game and that's the most
Speaker 1: demanding conference and to do that is quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 1: But you were not competitive in that game. You should
Speaker 1: have dropped at least a little bit there. Yeah, see agree,
Speaker 1: full stop, Paulie.
Speaker 2: You know the other thing you could do if you
Speaker 2: wanted to make a sixteen team playoff, you could remove
Speaker 2: the conference championship weekend and make those into a series
Speaker 2: of play in games for the last two spots and
Speaker 2: those could be called bowl games or something like that,
Speaker 2: because right now the conference playoff weekend is becoming semi relevant,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't really matter in your rankings. You could
Speaker 2: lose and still stay where you are.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 2: What used to be a great weekend and impactful weekend
Speaker 2: is kind of like high end exhibitions.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hate the conference championship games.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 1: Some conferences have a conference championship game, some don't. Can
Speaker 1: you schedule another game? You know, Vandy tried to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if Notre Dame tried to do that. It
Speaker 1: just make it all equal. There's millions and millions and
Speaker 1: millions of dollars at stake here.
Speaker 3: Yes, all that's really being highlighted, though essentially on an
Speaker 3: annual basis, is how stupid this whole setup is. Okay,
Speaker 3: the idea that we've just gotten to a point where
Speaker 3: you said, you know, I actually hate the conference title games?
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I've hated him for years? What are we doing years?
Speaker 3: It is the dumbest thing in the world. But it
Speaker 3: generates money, and that's all they care about. That's all
Speaker 3: the playoff is about. It's about money. Yes, it's generating money.
Speaker 3: It's not no one actually cares who is the real winner.
Speaker 3: It's how much money can we make it till we decide, Well,
Speaker 3: you're the winner, then okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody're gonna get a nice shiny trophy at the
Speaker 1: end of this. But then all these schools are going
Speaker 1: to make millions of dollars because they're in, you know,
Speaker 1: the playoffs, And you're right. I mean, they went kicking
Speaker 1: and screaming from four to twelve, remember that.
Speaker 3: Four to twelve, getting to four and they screened the
Speaker 3: entire existence of college football.
Speaker 1: Percy Lean, when I go, wait a minute. When we
Speaker 1: went from two to four, I did say on on
Speaker 1: the radio show, all right, I'm good, like I'm we
Speaker 1: accomplished something. And then all of a sudden it was
Speaker 1: four to twelve, and I go, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is awesome. I don't want us to go to twenty four,
Speaker 1: but I do want these games to mean something. And
Speaker 1: college football has so many games that don't mean anything.
Speaker 1: But maybe you put a bowl game at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year. Maybe that's your bowl, your bowl month
Speaker 1: celebrated espnos sell it.
Speaker 10: Yes, Marvin, Yeah, the a SEC championship meant nothing. Duke
Speaker 10: won great. You want in front of fifteen thousand people,
Speaker 10: you won a trophy. You're still not even.
Speaker 1: They should have put him in the playoffs. You won
Speaker 1: the ACC playoffs. I thought that's how we usually go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not used to, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 2: But conference championship and could also be a double standard.
Speaker 2: It doesn't hurt Alabama to lose poorly, but it does
Speaker 2: hurt BYU to lose poorly. Both were right there in
Speaker 2: the thick of things. But BYU getting beat thirty four
Speaker 2: to seven by Texas deck, you wipe your hands a
Speaker 2: BYU there out of the mix.
Speaker 5: That's what the committee did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Seaton.
Speaker 3: Just the fact that we sit here year after year
Speaker 3: and debate why he can't expand the playoffs?
Speaker 1: I mean, how would that even work.
Speaker 3: There's a whole other group of schools that have a
Speaker 3: twenty fourteenth playoffs since forever and it works just fine there.
Speaker 3: How in the world can we honestly sit here and be.
Speaker 12: Like, how would that even work? I mean, how could
Speaker 12: you possibly expand it? I what twelve sixty, what's next?
Speaker 1: Twenty four? Yeah, they've been doing it since I don't
Speaker 1: even know how long.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Yes, what the hell? What is this a debate for?
Speaker 12: I wo, how would we do that? H Adam in
Speaker 12: La Hi Adam. Best and Worst of the weekend?
Speaker 13: Happy Monday, DP. I have two best and a quick
Speaker 13: two worst of the weekend. My best was that I
Speaker 13: got the opportunity to be the head coach for my
Speaker 13: two oldest daughters in their versus varsity basketball tournament.
Speaker 4: They both did really well. Couldn't be more proud of
Speaker 4: as a dad and a coach. Second best with my
Speaker 4: Los Angeles Rams with the bounce back dominating performance over
Speaker 4: the Cardinals back on top of the NFC Matthew Stafford
Speaker 4: again another flawless performance. Definitely right now front runner to
Speaker 4: win NFL MVP.
Speaker 13: Two quick words.
Speaker 4: Nobody should be crying about not making the college football playoffs.
Speaker 4: The top four is more than enough for me to
Speaker 4: make it this year. The second worst Purdue suffering their
Speaker 4: worst loss at home in over a decade at the
Speaker 4: hands of a really good Iowa State team.
Speaker 1: You all have a great week.
Speaker 5: Thanks DP, You're the best.
Speaker 1: Thank you Adam, Thank you, Zach and Noggsville. Welcome back, Zachy.
Speaker 5: Zach.
Speaker 1: Dorsey in North Carolina, Hi, dors, Hi.
Speaker 11: Dan, how are you great?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 11: My best say the week was hands down to Indiana
Speaker 11: Hoosiers winning meeting Ohio State, being number one in the
Speaker 11: country and finally getting some respect. Signetti is the greatest
Speaker 11: story in the history of college football.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's the greatest, Like, is
Speaker 1: it better than Rudy?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, is that the great? Are they going to
Speaker 1: do a movie on Kurt Signetti? But he's done a
Speaker 1: great job. Dorsey just just adding a lot levity there.
Speaker 11: Well, I got three kids that graduated from IU, so
Speaker 11: I'm obviously favorite.
Speaker 1: Okay, that clears it up. That clears it up.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that does. But I want to know one thing
Speaker 11: about Notre Dame. Who was on that selection committee? And
Speaker 11: were anybody on the selection committee from the SEC?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody's represented. I just think from what I'm told,
Speaker 1: the ACC took up about three hours and they have
Speaker 1: too many people with too many different too many agendas
Speaker 1: in there. But there's going to be more that'll come
Speaker 1: out here. There'll be more information about this. And was
Speaker 1: there an agenda against Notre Dame? Maybe we'll find out.
Speaker 1: Let's see Matt in Nashville. I'm Matt. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5: Hey Matt, good morning.
Speaker 1: How are you good, sir? What's on your mind? Oh?
Speaker 14: Not too much long suffering. As to your resident University
Speaker 14: of Virginia sports fan, here got a best and worst.
Speaker 14: I'm gonna go ahead and rip off the band aid.
Speaker 14: Worst is what it is, man, No excuses. We lost
Speaker 14: it on the field. Terrible, terrible game, just all the
Speaker 14: way around. I told a buddy of mine, the only
Speaker 14: good thing about being a Virginia football fan is you
Speaker 14: never expect to win the big games, so when you lose,
Speaker 14: it's never shot. On the flip side of that, the
Speaker 14: best I don't know if you guys are paying attention
Speaker 14: to college basketball yet, but my Virginia Cavaliers on Saturday morning,
Speaker 14: Saint City, Sat. And Charlotte played your Dayton Flyers, and
Speaker 14: Jacari White, the seventh man off the bench, went at
Speaker 14: a stat line. He went nine for nine from the field,
Speaker 14: seven for seven from three. He is currently thirteen for
Speaker 14: thirteen in his last three games from three. He's got
Speaker 14: a crowd or a group of students that are called
Speaker 14: the CHICARMI if you're not paying attention to the Jacory
Speaker 14: White over Virginia. So I've never seen the state line
Speaker 14: stat line like that in my life.
Speaker 5: Dan.
Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you, Matt, and congratulations with your
Speaker 1: Virginia Cavaliers against my Dayton Flyers. Stephen in Bismarck, North Dakota, Hi, Steven.
Speaker 6: Well, hello Dan, second time, long time five nine one
Speaker 6: sixty five and I'm sixty six years old. I'm closer
Speaker 6: to you, okay, guest.
Speaker 14: And worst.
Speaker 6: The best of the weekend, and this is from an
Speaker 6: NBSU fan, is that we lost our game. The worst
Speaker 6: is that Notre Dame got voted out. Here's why. Best
Speaker 6: is North Sacota State losing football in all sports is
Speaker 6: a merit sport. It means the end of the game.
Speaker 6: It's no different than you losing or winning a three
Speaker 6: point contest. To Fritzy Bali, we're seating. The score is
Speaker 6: the score. We lost the game. And as hard as
Speaker 6: it is to lose a game, you lose by a score,
Speaker 6: to get beat out by a committee of some sort
Speaker 6: that goes has different political feelings to me is just wrong.
Speaker 6: And that's why I love sports because of I love merit.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you, Steven, all right, getting some
Speaker 1: morals there, understanding the sportsmanship and what you prove it
Speaker 1: on the field.
Speaker 2: Yes, Paul, I saw some people on social media compared
Speaker 2: to imagine you're up for a job and you do
Speaker 2: the final interview, and the other person who's up for
Speaker 2: it does the final interview, and they tell you a
Speaker 2: couple of days before, well it's yours. We had to
Speaker 2: wait till Sunday morning to announce it. But it's yours,
Speaker 2: and nobody else has any more in interaction, and nowhere
Speaker 2: more else has any more interviews, and they give it
Speaker 2: to the other guy.
Speaker 1: That's the feel Yeah, like you know, just as long
Speaker 1: as it's not transparent. I guess that's the thing that
Speaker 1: bothers Notre Dame. They just wanted to know. Wait, what
Speaker 1: happened here? We didn't play Miami, didn't play Miami's in
Speaker 1: front of us. Alabama got roughed up. They didn't drop, Like,
Speaker 1: help us understand this here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: See, yeah, it is weird when you look at like
Speaker 3: the rankings right now, Notre Dame is eleventh, except that
Speaker 3: really they're not.
Speaker 1: No. Yeah, eleventh in real life, but not eleventh in
Speaker 1: college football life yeah life, Yeah, all right, last call
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Speaker 1: Search FSR to listen live. Satan, would you give us
Speaker 1: the final results of the poll question today? Please?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a few of them up there. Things
Speaker 3: not going well for not to day. Most of a
Speaker 3: vast majority of the audience think they're just being petty
Speaker 3: over being things like screwed, etc.
Speaker 1: Etc. Etc.
Speaker 3: Also, the Chiefs playoff chances, according to that same audience,
Speaker 3: are mostly dead or on life support, and the worst
Speaker 3: loss of the weekend right now, Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens
Speaker 3: in that order.
Speaker 1: Okay, Joe and Orlando, Hi Joe, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 13: And Dennetz? Hope you guys are having a blessed start
Speaker 13: to the week. First caller, longtime list First time caller,
Speaker 13: longtime listener eighteen.
Speaker 8: I'm five.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to ask you, if we do move
Speaker 6: to a twenty fourteen format, would there be any sort
Speaker 6: of conference tie in at all? Would we have to
Speaker 6: look at the mid majors?
Speaker 13: What would be the deal there?
Speaker 1: Once again, I don't even want to dive into that
Speaker 1: deep end of the pool because I don't know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Once again, we're dealing with a fluid topic
Speaker 1: in the college football Playoff committee, So I don't want
Speaker 1: to throw out, you know, possible scenarios here until we
Speaker 1: get to that and it's in the formulative stage of
Speaker 1: this where we're actually trying to do something like this.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go, well, you could have a
Speaker 1: AQ and then you could have the highest and that,
Speaker 1: you know, then all of a sudden, that's not good radio.
Speaker 1: But I do think if we got to make the
Speaker 1: bowl games mean something, the players will play in those
Speaker 1: Bowl games if it means that they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But I don't even know. The other bowl games won't
Speaker 1: matter for a lot of these kids. I just worry
Speaker 1: that these bowl games will become obsolete. And that's why
Speaker 1: I'm saying, why not do something like college basketball does
Speaker 1: and they have these matchups. It'll be the Big Ten
Speaker 1: in SEC. They'll meet at the Garden, they'll meet in
Speaker 1: random sites. Okay, nothing's really accomplished there. But if it
Speaker 1: means I can have the Rose Bowl and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have Oregon play throw out a team at Miami and
Speaker 1: they're going to play in the Rose Bowl, and that's
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl, and you get a good matchup against
Speaker 1: two teams that wouldn't normally play each other. That's what
Speaker 1: we want. We don't want these games where you go,
Speaker 1: who are you playing? You know, we're playing Tennessee Valley
Speaker 1: State University, you know Northeast. It doesn't help now, it
Speaker 1: helps those schools because that's their big payday. But we're
Speaker 1: talking about big boy football here and a lot of
Speaker 1: money at stake, So play quality opponents here, yes, Marvin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and a lot.
Speaker 10: Of those smaller bulls. You can just turn it into
Speaker 10: the pop Tart Classic, the Pinstrike Classic. You don't have
Speaker 10: to put even a bowl and you just have two
Speaker 10: pretty good teams just play each other.
Speaker 1: Let's see Ted and Nevada.
Speaker 6: Ted, Hey dad, how are you doing this morning? Pay
Speaker 6: quickly with the.
Speaker 15: Whole Notre Dame Miami. Does anybody really think that Alabama
Speaker 15: with one more loss and neither one of those two
Speaker 15: teams should be in the playoffs? I mean, you can
Speaker 15: argue all day long who had the better loss, who
Speaker 15: had the better schedule, who had it's another loss, one
Speaker 15: more than the other two teams?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 1: Why are we playing the games? If wins and losses
Speaker 1: don't matter? These are all good topics, they're relevant topics,
Speaker 1: And it becomes we don't know what goes on behind
Speaker 1: those closed doors. I mean, i'd I'd love to make
Speaker 1: it transparent, but it's never gonna happen. But you know,
Speaker 1: you're just trying to understand exactly what is what are
Speaker 1: there formulas for this? Just help us understand that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us have a problem if
Speaker 1: we at least understand what the rules of the game.
Speaker 1: You can't play monopoly, but you're you know, using shoots
Speaker 1: and ladders rules like it doesn't make sense here, and
Speaker 1: it feels like college football is shoots and ladders. It's like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, how did we end up down there?
Speaker 1: And how did they end up up there? Paul in
Speaker 1: North Dakota. Hi, Paul, Wood's on your mind? Hey Dan,
Speaker 1: This is Paul and Boseman. Actually, first time caller, longtime
Speaker 1: listener since the Dibble and Salisbury Days. Best of the
Speaker 1: weekend Montana State Bobcats over Yale and the FCS playoffs.
Speaker 1: I don't know why FBS can't go to FCS. Other
Speaker 1: best North Dakota State, South Dakota State going down, which
Speaker 1: means there's going to be a new champion. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: another best. I'm sitting here in the new member df
Speaker 1: Nations twelve point six pound fox red labrador, eight week old.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Paul, good luck, good luck. We got a
Speaker 1: onesie for your your dog.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Brian in Indiana, Hi, Brian, WIT's on your mind?
Speaker 16: Hey Dan, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1: Just calling in.
Speaker 16: This is a five nine, one sixty two retired looking
Speaker 16: over the lake right now. I think the elephant in
Speaker 16: the room is Alabama and part that's the pun on
Speaker 16: the whole thing too. They lost to Florida State early
Speaker 16: in the year, and nobody's factoring that in. They're sitting
Speaker 16: there saying Notre Dame, you know, and lost to Miami
Speaker 16: and that's why they're out. And they lost two games
Speaker 16: by total of four point Yet Alabama got hammered by
Speaker 16: Florida State, they lost his home to Oklahoma, and they
Speaker 16: looked terrible in the championship game. And they are the
Speaker 16: elephant in the room as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Brian. Yeah, all I can go
Speaker 1: on is, you know, last week, a week ago at
Speaker 1: this time, and that's when my college source said, you know,
Speaker 1: the Alabama placement is drew his attention because he said
Speaker 1: it feels like they're setting Notre Dame up to be disappointed.
Speaker 1: Those were his words. And he's a great college source here,
Speaker 1: Josh and Iowa, Josh, what's on your mind?
Speaker 17: Hey guys, thanks for having me. Shout out to the
Speaker 17: guy who repped his dog just a second ago, five eleven.
Speaker 17: Thank you. Best and worse. I got a best, which
Speaker 17: is the annual snow game in Buffalo. I always love
Speaker 17: those games. Worst of the weekend is we still suffering
Speaker 17: snow Mgeddon here and Iowa a lot of hurtbacks around here.
Speaker 17: Thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker 1: Bye, PAULI this day in sports history, I just got
Speaker 1: one for you.
Speaker 2: Dan Tom King of England won over John Heaton of
Speaker 2: America in eighteen sixty three to be the first world
Speaker 2: heavyweight champion.
Speaker 5: I've ever heard that before. Hm hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay. Earl Campbell won the Heisman on this date in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven. Kyler Murray, friend of the Show, won
Speaker 1: the Heisman on this date twenty eighteen. That career in
Speaker 1: Arizona is over. It feels like a healthy scratch for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season for Kyler Murray. All right, Todd?
Speaker 1: Would you learn today?
Speaker 9: Rick Newhausel thinks the selection committee tease Notre Dame for
Speaker 9: too long, ranking them ahead of Miami for the last
Speaker 9: possible moment.
Speaker 1: Satan, would you learn today? Permanent damage? Irreparable d yeh Marvin,
Speaker 1: you owe Pritzy, You owe Fritzy a pie and I
Speaker 1: owe Pitsy of fry. Paulie, what did you learn?
Speaker 2: The best ballgame would be Notre Dame versus.
Speaker 1: The ACC Todd? What did I learn.
Speaker 10: Notre Dame ad pee Pavakua says the relationship between Notre
Speaker 10: Dame and ACC is now being strained.
Speaker 1: Have a great day, everybody. We look forward to chatting
Speaker 1: with you tomorrow.