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Speaker 1: The volume. All right, instant reaction. For the first time

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Speaker 1: I can ever remember. I completely agree with the committee,

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Speaker 1: and therefore I believe they got it right. Of course

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Speaker 1: I do. Michigan number one, Washington number two, Texas number three,

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Speaker 1: who beat Bama number four. Now there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: outrage by Florida State fans, but they have multiple things

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Speaker 1: working against them. First of all, the construct of this

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Speaker 1: playoff is four teams and we have five Power conferences,

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Speaker 1: so there could be a year when they all go undefeated,

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Speaker 1: one of them would be left out. So disharmony in

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Speaker 1: angst is part of this, and it also shows when

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Speaker 1: you have only four spots available and five Power five conferences,

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Speaker 1: that strength of schedule new one on matters. It's not

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Speaker 1: just hey, we went undefeated in the conference, because you

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Speaker 1: could potentially have five teams that do that and one

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Speaker 1: would be left out. Otherwise, the playoffs should be five

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Speaker 1: spots and one getting a bye, but it's four. You

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Speaker 1: have to make hard decisions. So the feeling is well,

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Speaker 1: Florida State doesn't have their starting quarterback, so that that's

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Speaker 1: not really fair. It's not about being fair. Remember Kenyon

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Speaker 1: Martin years ago played for Cincinnati broke his leg before

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Speaker 1: they got into the tournament. You know, the Committee's like, well,

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Speaker 1: you're not the same team. Of course you're not. And

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati was quickly extinguished from the tournament. Florida State's not

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Speaker 1: the same team. Louisville is one of the worst teams

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen play in a conference championship, and Florida

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Speaker 1: State struggled to put them away. Louisville got destroyed by

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Speaker 1: That's a bad team, and Florida State struggled to put

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Speaker 1: them away. So last night, Florida State wins sixty to seven.

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Speaker 1: I think the Committee feels differently. But college football's always

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Speaker 1: been a beauty pageant. That's undeniable how you look. I mean,

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Speaker 1: why would Michigan be ahead of Washington. It's a beauty pageant.

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Speaker 1: Ohio State is viewed as bigger and better than Oregon,

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Speaker 1: and they beat them. Even though Washington beat Oregon twice.

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Speaker 1: It's oh Michigan, Harbaugh twenty NFL players lots of dominating wins,

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Speaker 1: whereas Washington won lots of games narrowly. Yes, they beat

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Speaker 1: It matters. When Alabama was a number one seat or Georgia.

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Speaker 1: It's not just winning, it's blowout wins. So what it

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Speaker 1: looks like matters. Florida State struggling to put away Louisville,

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Speaker 1: a mediocre Louisville team, it mattered. I think last night

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Speaker 1: sixty nothing, fifty six seven, forty two ten. It may

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Speaker 1: feel differently, but when you're struggling to put away Louisville,

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Speaker 1: I gave him a shot last night. I watched and

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Speaker 1: I said, let's see what it looks like. It was

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Speaker 1: a dud. You know. The other thing is there's two

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Speaker 1: things we're going to gainst Florida State. Number One, they

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Speaker 1: lost their start quarterback, all right, so they're to a backup,

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Speaker 1: so they would be an underdog substantially to Bama, Texas, Michigan,

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Speaker 1: and Washington substantially like fourteen points or more, especially after

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Speaker 1: what you witnessed last night. But the other thing is

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Speaker 1: their conference is weak or this is as bad as

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Speaker 1: the ACC's been, Like I don't remember it being this bad.

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Speaker 1: When Clemson's down. The conference is bad, right, So you

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Speaker 1: got two things working against you three actually backup quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You're not the same team. You laid a dud on

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Speaker 1: television last night, and your conference this week. Those are

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Speaker 1: three things working against you. The committee has to watch

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Speaker 1: the games, right, You have to watch the games. I

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Speaker 1: didn't think, for instance, Georgia was saying we're going to

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Speaker 1: get in. I didn't think Georgia looked good last night

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Speaker 1: rock Bauers the tied end. Their star is not at

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. It's not the same player. They had

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Speaker 1: other injuries to that team last night. They're not as fluid,

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Speaker 1: they're not as explosive offensively last two years Georgia. Georgia

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Speaker 1: trailed in a half dozen games this year. It's not

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Speaker 1: Georgia of last year. It's not Georgia of the year

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Speaker 1: before watch the games. Can you watch them last night?

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Speaker 1: They were not a very dynamic offensive team. Texas can be,

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Speaker 1: Washington can be, Michigan can be. Even Bama Auburn last

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Speaker 1: play of the game and Bama last night was more dynamic.

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Speaker 1: So you have to watch Georgia. And my takeaway is,

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Speaker 1: can't let you. I don't care about how great the

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Speaker 1: SEC is, and the SEC isn't as good as previous years.

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Speaker 1: How do I know that? Because LSU lost out of

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Speaker 1: I thought the conference came down a bit this year.

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Speaker 1: Still maybe the best conference, but the PAC twelve was

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Speaker 1: very good. Nobody could deny that SEC in Big ten

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Speaker 1: very solid. ACC was a mess. It's a mess, and

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Speaker 1: you watched that mess on TV. So you got a

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Speaker 1: So they got it right, and I just didn't think

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Speaker 1: would be much easier to just say, yeah, put Florida

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Speaker 1: State in. Remember this, We're going to a twelve team

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Speaker 1: playoff next year. Okay, so this is the last time

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Speaker 1: the committee has to worry about this argument. Much much

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Speaker 1: easier to do twelve than four. I mean, if the

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Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament March Madness was eight teams, how ugly would

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Speaker 1: the arguments be. Now you get to sixty four sixty

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Speaker 1: eight teams? You know I'm not going to lose too

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Speaker 1: much sleep over VCU being mad with eight losses they

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Speaker 1: didn't get in. When you go to a twelve team playoff,

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Speaker 1: everybody would have gotten in. It's gonna be a much

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Speaker 1: easier argument. You're gonna be arguing for a four loss

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Speaker 1: a two loss team from a lesser conference getting in.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna lose sleep over that. So this was the

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Speaker 1: last year for you know, to be very combustible in

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Speaker 1: these arguments. And the committee said, you know what, our

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Speaker 1: swan song four best teams Florida State would be a

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Speaker 1: massive underdog to Georgia six team Michigan one, Washington two,

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Speaker 1: Texas three, Bama four. Well, well, well, upsets happened, Yes

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Speaker 1: they do, you know they do. But in the end,

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Speaker 1: can't go in with a second or third string quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You're not the same team. Those Cincinnati teams without Kenyan Martin,

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Speaker 1: they were not the same team. Nuance matters, not just undefeated.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the one thing I'll give Alabama credit

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Speaker 1: this too, is that if it's all about undefeated, then

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Speaker 1: people will be paralyzed and never schedule games out of conference.

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Speaker 1: I give Alabama a ton of credit for scheduling Texas,

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Speaker 1: And what the committee said is if you're willing to

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Speaker 1: play these big boy football games on the biggest stage.

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Speaker 1: And that game was very close until the end. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Texas won by ten in Tuscaloosa and was rated higher

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Speaker 1: than Bama in the in the playoff rankings, as they

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Speaker 1: should be. But I also feel like you have to

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Speaker 1: reward competition. This can all be about going undefeated and

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Speaker 1: scheduling week at a conference. Nonsense. That can't be the sport.

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Speaker 1: And so Texas Bama were both considered kind of elite programs.

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Speaker 1: They said, let's play each other. I like that, and

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Speaker 1: they ended up being elite teams at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year. Not only did they schedule each other, but

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Speaker 1: they ended up being elite teams at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year. So I'm not going to punitively punish Alabama,

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Speaker 1: right I'm not going to. I can't go and drop

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Speaker 1: the hammer on Alabama. They lost the game, then they

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Speaker 1: ran the table and frankly, much like Washington did to Oregon.

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Speaker 1: Alabama was the better team last night. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: Washington was better than Oregon. In fact, the first game

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Speaker 1: I thought Oregon was better than Washington and lost. The

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Speaker 1: second game, Washington took control from the first series. I

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Speaker 1: thought Alabama was absolutely in control of that game last night.

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Speaker 1: There was never a point where I thought Alabama was reeling.

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Speaker 1: So they got it. In my opinion, right, I didn't

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Speaker 1: think they'd have the guts, your courage to do it.

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Speaker 1: But their their final big opinion the committee, we believe

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Speaker 1: these are the four best teams, and I agree with that.

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