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Speaker 1: our Laura twenty twenty five. I'm not a big rankings guy,

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Speaker 1: seven of you challenged me to release post spring rankings,

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Speaker 1: and I said, what are those? And then I did

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Speaker 1: some research, and apparently that's where you don't use a

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Speaker 1: Not a JP pole, no, no, no. We're going straight

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Speaker 1: up old school rankings, not ratings, and I'm gonna try it.

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Speaker 1: It could in very poorly. It may be a one

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Speaker 1: Those videos have been lightened it up, by the way.

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Speaker 1: to just load the show with Bold Predictions. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: And there's something that's long overdue to be talked about

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Speaker 1: I just mentioned two big trips this week. The State

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Speaker 1: at it, and you know, good and well they want

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Speaker 1: to poach as much as they can, and you know,

430
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: good and well they look at Arizona State saying it's

431
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: just a Big twelve team. So we would be able

432
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,199
Speaker 1: to poach as much as we can. Well, they tried

433
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: and they failed. And I think one day the full

434
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,400
Speaker 1: story may be told about how Kenny Dillingham and Arizona

435
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 1: State was able to keep that staff together. Not my

436
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,919
Speaker 1: story to tell, but it's a good story and it

437
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 1: may go a long way in deciding that conference championship

438
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: race this year. I'm gonna talk about them a little

439
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 1: bit later in the show, but that's a team that

440
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: has potential above and beyond just competing in their conference.

441
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: They're very talented and they are very together as a

442
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: program slash team. It's going to be a really hard

443
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Speaker 1: out this year. Again. Texas A and M I would

444
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: put at number fourteen, could have the best rushing attack

445
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: in the country. They got three tailbacks I think would

446
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: start most places, maybe outside of like Penn State, places

447
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: like that, But running back, offensive line trusted Marcel Reid,

448
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,360
Speaker 1: need him to take the next step as a passer.

449
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you the thing that I'm most excited

450
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 1: to watch is Mike Elko just sort of trashed their

451
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: defensive performance later in the season, and you give that

452
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: guy an entire spring in summer's worth of focus on

453
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: his specialty, which is defense. They'll never look like that

454
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: defensively again, as long as he's around there, I've got

455
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Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in that. So I'm prett high

456
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 1: on A and M. I put them at number fourteen.

457
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: I put Illinois at number fifteen. Illinois is a team

458
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: that personnel wise, is not going to go man for

459
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: man with Ohio State, even if all of Ohio State's

460
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,919
Speaker 1: starters are new. They're not going to go man for

461
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: man with Oregon, even if Oregon's got a lot to replace.

462
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 1: Outside of that, though, right now, because of their returning

463
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: production level which is number three in the country, and

464
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: because of how much you can trust that team, I

465
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: think fifteen may be low. Honestly, we may still need

466
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 1: to bump Illinois a little higher than that. But outside

467
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: of the teams above them, who were just there because

468
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: they recruit at such an extremely higher level than Illinois,

469
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: that's where I'm putting Illinois. That's a top fifteen team

470
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 1: to enter the season, and they've got a chance. They

471
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: got Ohio State at home, they got USC at home,

472
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: they got a chance to do some big things this year.

473
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: I would say I'm going to read eleven through fifteen.

474
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: There Georgia, Miami, Arizona State, Texas, A, and m Illinois

475
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: for the podcast crowd. So that's eleven through fifteen. The

476
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: most agreeous there. Georgia. We're gonna be lower on Georgia

477
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 1: to start the season. I know that Arizona State, maybe

478
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: we're a little higher on them. Illinois probably about right.

479
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: I don't know where in the world people have A

480
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: and M. We continue sixteen through twenty. I felt like

481
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: this was a good responsible place for Old Miss. Very curious.

482
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: I've got Old Miss at number sixteen exiting spring. Now

483
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: we could be very low on them, or we could

484
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: be a tick high on them. Austin Simmons at quarterback.

485
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: They've got full confidence in side note he also already graduated,

486
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: for whatever that's worth to you. But they got twenty

487
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: nine more transfers coming in there, which is not a

488
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: bad thing. It's just a mystery, not a bad thing.

489
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: They wouldn't have taken them if it was a bad thing.

490
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: But since they're disproportionately building through the portal instead of

491
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: building through high school, there's gonna be a lot of

492
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: intriguing and mystery around this team every year, which means

493
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: if I'm tasked with Raking them, I'm gonna rank them

494
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: around here every year, and those defensive losses, I don't

495
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: just blindly or even with somewhat limited vision, depend on

496
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: just backfilling and moving on as usual. I don't just

497
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: count on that. If you get it, great, But there's

498
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: a lot of guesswork right now with ole Miss and

499
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: i'd put him at sixteen because of that. I got one.

500
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: We're really high on here. I'm way higher on Georgia

501
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: Tech than I think most of the country is. I'm

502
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: going to have them top twenty right now, number seventeen

503
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, to enter the season. Haines

504
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: King is a high level competitor. He's back at quarterback.

505
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: But I also respect the competitive character of that team.

506
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: I've just I've watched it the first couple of years

507
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: under Brent Key. I watched him last year. I guarantee

508
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: you if I did nothing more than change the outcome

509
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: of the Georgia game, which was like nineteen overtimes, so

510
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: it was coin flip after coin flip, could have gone

511
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: either way. If I changed that outcome, I guarantee you

512
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: everyone would have Georgia Tech top twenty this year. They lost,

513
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: and you just you are what your record says you are.

514
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: A loss is a loss. Blah blah blah. No one

515
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 1: really understands how good that team is, how good they

516
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: could be. Like, I think they could win the ACC.

517
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: So that's how high I am on them. They get

518
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: Clemson at home pretty early, they get Georgia at home late.

519
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: This is not about schedule projection. I really do think

520
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 1: the caliber of team could be that good. Running game

521
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: is gonna be really good. But just look at how

522
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: they play. Look at the eye. If you know anything

523
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: about Brent Key, watch Georgia Tech play and it's no

524
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: mystery to you. Oh, it makes perfect sense. That's a

525
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: Brent Key team. That's exactly what they should look like.

526
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: I've got South Carolina at eighteen. Lenora Sellers can be

527
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: a Heisman Trophy winner, so they can be that good

528
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: at quarterback. The running back room's kind of up in

529
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: the air because of eligibility. We're still trying to figure

530
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: that out. The wide receiver room, okay, they didn't majorly

531
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: upgrade it through the portal, so is it gonna be

532
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: good enough? Can you backfill the departing players you just

533
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: lost to the NFL draft? Cause South Carolina did really

534
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: good in the draft. I'm going to probably be a

535
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 1: touch lower on them at this point in the season

536
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: because it hasn't started then, I think most but I've

537
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: got South Carolina eighteen. I've put Michigan at nineteen right now.

538
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 1: The quarterback picture, obviously, first and foremost, is still hazy.

539
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: If it's Underwood, how good is he? Immediately they go

540
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma Week two, so if it's him, we'll find out.

541
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: Always love young quarterbacks having to face Brenton Venables on

542
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: the road. That's always a fun recipe. The roster's plenty

543
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: strong enough, so if their quarterback play is B minus

544
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: or better, nineteen is too low. We just don't know

545
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: what it's going to be yet. And I put Texas

546
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: Tech at number twenty. That's a roll of the dice.

547
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: This is totally on potential, vast majority of their starting

548
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: twenty two and really they're too deep will be from

549
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: the portal. It's a different approach. It's an aggressive approach.

550
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: Anything could happen in any year in the Big twelve,

551
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: so that especially goes for a team that hit the

552
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: portal as hard as Texas Tech did. So there you go.

553
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: That's my post. Spring Top twenty. That's how it feels,

554
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: apparently to rank teams. That's not the JP Pole. If

555
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: I were the JP Pole and it saw me put

556
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: Georgia at eleven, the JP Pole would fire me. In

557
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: no world is Georgia outside the top ten and I

558
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: just picked them out of the group. But yeah, they're

559
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: going to be several discrepancies with what I just gave

560
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: to you and what the JP Pole says when it

561
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: finally shows up and it's ready to be featured on

562
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: the show. Academy Sports and Outdoors just brought that to you,

563
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: and they're going to bring the rest of the show

564
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565
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: the show. And then there's a guy or two every

566
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: week that pops in the comment section and says, what

567
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: do you mean keeping the show free? No one's ever

568
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Speaker 1: going to pay for this show. Cool buddy, Cool delete,

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Speaker 1: Cool buddy, Thank you. But nevertheless, whether you'd pay for

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Speaker 1: it or not, it's a moot point because Academy make

571
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Speaker 1: sure that this never goes behind a paywall. That would

572
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Speaker 1: be terrible for us all. So we appreciate them the

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Speaker 1: presenting partner of the show. They have been for a

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Speaker 1: while and not to be overshadowed your home for Jordan

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Speaker 1: not the one I would say, the one that went

577
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Speaker 1: to North Carolina. But we got to be more specific

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Speaker 1: than that these days, don't we. So if on the

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Speaker 1: off chance you find yourself purchasing some Jordan gear from

580
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Speaker 1: Academy and it cost you more than fifty dollars, spoiler alert,

581
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Speaker 1: it will just snap a picture of the receipt, tag

582
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Speaker 1: me tag Academy Academy ex Jordan, that's the hashtag you

583
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Speaker 1: need to use. I'll get you a gift card. Really,

584
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Speaker 1: I will just watch test me on it, and producer

585
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: Jesse will because he's combing the socials for such things.

586
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Speaker 1: But yeah, we try and get you as much money

587
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Speaker 1: back as we can around here. So there you go.

588
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: Let's move on. Yes, I did see what has many

589
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: of you up in arms. Welcome to five years ago

590
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: in my life. So the college football Playoff's going to

591
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: change very soon. We all know that. When does the

592
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: college football Playoff not changing? Right? When's the sport not changing?

593
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: But Ross Dellinger among several others, put out a little

594
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: headline a couple of days ago that had several people

595
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: up in arms, and I didn't get the outrage only

596
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: because I thought we already knew this was happening. However,

597
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: there were some additions here, so Ross basically said, hey,

598
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: there is growing Big Ten and SEC support for a

599
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: sixteen team playoff, most notably a playoff whose format includes

600
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: automatic qualifier spots. Now, if you're listening to this show,

601
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: this is like two years old. I've told you that

602
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: this is coming. In fact, I told you five years

603
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: ago this was coming and everyone didn't want to believe me.

604
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: That's okay, it's not and I told you so segment.

605
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: But Ross is saying he's basically getting you ready for

606
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: news over the next couple of months. This isn't going

607
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: to take forever. This will be decided in the next

608
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: couple of months that they're going to announce for twenty

609
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: twenty six and beyond a new format. It may be

610
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: fourteen teams. It looks more and more likely that it'll

611
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: be sixteen teams, which would mean four guaranteed spots for

612
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: the SEC, four guaranteed spots for the Big Ten. That

613
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: would be two for the ACC, two for the Big twelve,

614
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: one for the G five, three at Larges or if

615
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: Notre Dame makes it, Notre Dame in two at Larges.

616
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: So the first thing is, anytime there's a headline about

617
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: the playoff, my inbox fills up with what do you

618
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: think about this? What do you think about this? Or

619
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: can you believe this? This is an outrage? Am I?

620
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: Am I reading this wrong? No, you're not reading it wrong. Yes,

621
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: they just expanded it to twelve and they're already working

622
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: on expanding it fourteen or sixteen. Why does that surprise you?

623
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: This was one of the easier things in the world

624
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: to see coming. And the way I know that is

625
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: because I can run back footage. I could have Colin

626
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: right now hit the rewind button. We could go back

627
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty or twenty one or twenty two, when the

628
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: rumors were first making their way around about expanding from four,

629
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: and I told you then, we're not going to six

630
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: or eight. They're gonna go well past that. They're gonna

631
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: go to twelve. And once they get to twelve, spoiler alert,

632
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: it won't stay there for long. How many times did

633
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: we do that segment, those of you who've watched for

634
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: a long time, No, I did that segment back then.

635
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: Did I have some inside source? Did I have Greg

636
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: Sank or Ross Petiti or at that time, who in

637
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: the world would it have been, Oh, Kevin Warren? Who

638
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: friend of the program? Kevin Warren. Yeah, I didn't have

639
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: any source. I didn't need it. It was pretty easy

640
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: to see. Still pretty easy to see. So it was

641
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: the easier thing, I think than any of the rest

642
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: of this to see coming. If you know who you're

643
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: talking about. See, here was my big discrepancy with a

644
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: large portion of you guys who wanted Playoff expansion, and

645
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: you knew I didn't want Playoff expansion, and we would

646
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: always butt heads. But remember I used to tell you

647
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: all the time, if you could guarantee me that the

648
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: motivation of the people in charge of expanding the Playoff

649
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: was the same as yours, I'd kind of be okay

650
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: with expanding the Playoff. It's not my personal preference, but

651
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: if I really knew that the people who were in

652
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: charge of the Playoff felt like you and they really

653
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: just wanted to enhance the product while respecting the competitive

654
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: integrity of the game, the stuff that you and I

655
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: care about, I'd be okay with it. That was never

656
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: the case, So my stance was always rooted in knowing

657
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: who was gonna make the decision, and the people making

658
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: the decision never cared about the competitive integrity of anything.

659
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: I know this is going to come as a shock,

660
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: but they just cared about money. They just it's so

661
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: common sensical. I often don't state that, but I think

662
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: I may need to state that, Like it's going to

663
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: be hot in the South in the summer, and the

664
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: motive for these people is really money. Some of the

665
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: most obvious things we have to sometimes reaffirm to ourselves.

666
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: So the big ruse that I think got a lot

667
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: of people is they convinced enough of the public that

668
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: expanding the playoff was in the best interest of the

669
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: overall college football experience. That public sentiment was overwhelmingly in

670
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: favor of college Football Playoff expansion, and you just assumed, oh,

671
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: everyone wants the same thing. Who wants expansion. No, a

672
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: lot of people wanted expansion, but some for very different reasons.

673
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: You wanted it for your reasons. They wanted it because

674
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: it was an ATM to them. It still is an ATM.

675
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: It just has a College Football Playoff logo on the

676
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: side of the machine. But make no mistake it is

677
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: an ATM. And if that ATM didn't exist, if the

678
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: ability to rapidly increase profit off of re engineering this

679
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: sport didn't exist, a lot of people in charge of

680
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: the sport wouldn't even be in the sport. They're not

681
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: here because they love it. A lot of them more

682
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: here cause they love college athletics. I would go as

683
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: to far as to say, some of you who are

684
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: dipping your toe into this show, but you really love

685
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: watching political commentary. It's no different than that. You got

686
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: a few public servants who have their heart in the

687
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: right place, and you got a lot of people who

688
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: got themselves elected because they understand it's a cash cow.

689
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: Doesn't really matter that your salary is two hundred and

690
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: ten grand a year. You're gonna get rich because you

691
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: got elected. Well, likewise, you're gonna make a ton of

692
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: money if you're a stakeholder in college football as you

693
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: look out for the kids. Of course, So here's what

694
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: we have to do. We can't just sit there and

695
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: have that every day. I hate where this is, but

696
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: I can't sit there and dwell on it every day.

697
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: That wouldn't be fun, be a little depressing. So here's

698
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: what I do. I still acknowledge it's the best sport

699
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: in the world, even with its flaws, still the best

700
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: sport in the world. I believe that I'm not lying

701
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: to you. I wouldn't talk about it for a living.

702
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: If I felt any other way, I'd go cover whichever

703
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: other sport I feel is the best in the world.

704
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: But I'm college foot twenty four seven three sixty five calls.

705
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: I love it, grew up loving it, I'll always love it.

706
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: You have to accept that we're here right now. And

707
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: so here was my next point of debate that I've

708
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: had all weekend. We just spent five minutes to bring

709
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 1: it to this point. The next point of contention many

710
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: of you have is, all right, if we're going to

711
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: expand to fourteen or sixteen, that's one thing, But how

712
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: are the teams going to get decided? And there are

713
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: two schools of thought out there. The way I figure

714
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: it best, I can tell most of you prefer that,

715
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: however big the playoff field is fourteen or sixteen or whatever.

716
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: You just think that the sixteen best teams should be

717
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: taken or the fourteen best team should be taken, and

718
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: that should be your playoff field. Why should we ever

719
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: have auto bits, Why should we ever have an automatic

720
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: qualifier structure? Why should any conference know before the season

721
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: starts how many teams they're going to get in? And

722
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: up until about six months ago, I felt the same

723
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: way as you throughout the higher history of all of

724
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 1: this nonsense, it's expanded to six or ten or whatever.

725
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: I've always thought, well, no matter how big you expand

726
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: the playoff, shouldn't you try not to overthink the room.

727
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: Shouldn't you just take however many teams is in the

728
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: playoff one through that number, ten one through ten, twelve

729
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 1: one through twelve, sixteen one through sixteen. Because I always

730
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: thought automatic qualifiers were dumb, but that was back when

731
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: we were talking about going from four to a bigger number,

732
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: but still much smaller than sixteen. But because we have

733
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: gotten to where we are now fourteen teams versus sixteen teams,

734
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: if that's the debate, I've inverted my thinking on all this.

735
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm wholeheartedly. I'm not on the fence on it. I

736
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: mean I'm wholeheartedly for the AQ structure over just straight

737
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: seating structure. And the reason is the same reason that

738
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: I've always argued anything I've argued about the playoff regular

739
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: season matter the most. Now, you don't have to be

740
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: in the room with me right now, I know what

741
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: your pushback is, Josh, that's insane. How could the regular

742
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: season matter any more? Then? If you just know you're

743
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: gonna take the top sixteen teams, if you already know

744
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: how many teams are going to get in from a

745
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: certain conference, doesn't that render the regular season meaningless? Good question, No,

746
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: it does not. It actually does the opposite. The devil

747
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: is in the details. I once thought this, if I'm

748
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: describing you right now, I thought the same thing. So

749
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: I know the stance you have. I know all the

750
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: reasons why you feel the way you feel. But here's

751
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: what I want you to think about for a second. Now.

752
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't share my values about

753
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: this sport, then that's a different conversation. But I'm just

754
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 1: gonna ask you a question right quick. Before I give

755
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: you my reasons why I feel the way I feel,

756
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: which I know will surprise some of you, I want

757
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: to ask you to stop, pause for a second. What

758
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: do you love about college football? Because I'm gonna tell

759
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: you what I love. It's the regular season. By ten Miles,

760
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: I love the regular season. It's the only sport I

761
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: will grant you that where I love the regular season

762
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: more than I love the postseason. Every other sport, including

763
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: college sports, I love the postseason more than the regular season.

764
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: College football is one of one. There's nothing else out there,

765
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 1: pro or college where I love the regular season more

766
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: than the postseason. But for several reasons, I love college

767
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: football's regular season. I especially love conference races. Okay, so

768
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: if we have this kind of structure where we go

769
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: sixteen teams, but the SEC knows they're getting four in

770
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: or the Big Ten knows they're getting four, or the

771
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: ACC and Big twelve, no, they're getting two apiece, You've

772
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: got to understand what that's part of. That's not the

773
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: end of the format. They're making it that way for

774
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: a reason. Those numbers are what they are for a reason.

775
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: So take the Big Ten for example. What's happening here

776
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: is the Big Ten is looking at their conference races.

777
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: As recently as last year. They watched Oregon, you know,

778
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 1: go all the way through the season number one seed,

779
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: and then they play in Indianapolis, and a lot of

780
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: people were asking, is it really in Oregon's best interest

781
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: to even win this thing. You remember in the SEC

782
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: last year, Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss up until they

783
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: stumbled against Florida. They were in the race, like they

784
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: were in the race to go to Atlanta. Laane Kiffin

785
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: said what a lot of other people were thinking, and

786
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: he said, does it even benefit us to go to

787
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: Atlanta to go to the conference championship game? That's horrible

788
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: for the sport. It just sucks. It's terrible for the sport.

789
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: I'm not even blaming Kiffin. I would have felt the

790
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: same way. So what do you do if you run

791
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: the SEC, or you run the Big Ten, or for

792
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: that matter, if I was the commissioner of college football,

793
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: I would look and I would say, you better get

794
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: your postseason system fixed, cause you're not about to sacrifice

795
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: the integrity of these conference races, which I care about

796
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: more than anything, simply because your playoff formats out of whack.

797
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 1: So get your playoff format fixed. Well, they all felt

798
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: that way. So they looked at it and they said

799
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,240
Speaker 1: we're going to expand it. Now, that part I hate.

800
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: But if we're going to accept that, they're going to

801
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: expand it and we can't do anything about it. Once,

802
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: you know, it's getting expanded. How do you emphasize and

803
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: crystallize the conference race is being the focus instead of

804
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: just the rankings and who's in and who's out and

805
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: who's on the bubble. Well, the way you do it

806
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: is to guarantee a certain amount of seats at the

807
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 1: playoff table. The SEC knows they've got four, the Big

808
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: Ten knows they've got four, just as examples, and then

809
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: you hit go on the season and the entire seasons

810
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: about the conference championship race instead of well, Alabama just

811
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: fell to LSU, but don't worry, there's still ranked ninth.

812
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: Forget about that. Alabama just fell to LSU. So they've

813
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 1: got the fourth best record in the SEC. So they've

814
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,359
Speaker 1: still got a shot at one of the top two

815
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: seeds and therefore a buy into the playoff or one

816
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: of the two play in games. But it's about the

817
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: conference race. It's gonna be really convoluted. I would argue,

818
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really really tough to explain this thing

819
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: to anyone, which again was an inevitable byproduct of this.

820
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: It used to just be in the BCS days. Yeah,

821
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: take the top two at the end of the season,

822
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: they play for a championship. That's it. We're gonna take

823
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: the remainder of our time and donate it to someone else.

824
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 1: The speaker from Minnesota, I yield the balance of my time.

825
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: It used to take half a breath to describe how

826
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: the college football postseason works, and now it's like what

827
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: we've been ten fifteen minutes in on this. But here's

828
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: my thinking. A lot of people will disagree with this.

829
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: The way they're probably going to structure this, I've got

830
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: a preference on this. But the way they're probably going

831
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: to structure this is if the SEC and Big Ten

832
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: know they have four apiece, they stop caring so much

833
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: about the playoff rankings for a second and they just

834
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: care about their conference standings all the way through the

835
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: finish line. They care about the conference standings. Now. The

836
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: way I hope they do it is I hope they

837
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: go to sixteen teams because a sixteen team format leaves

838
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,240
Speaker 1: no buys for anyone in the playoff itself. Everybody plays

839
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: in around one and two and three and whatever. But

840
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: I do want there to be buys. I just want

841
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: them to be baked into the conference championship level instead

842
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,280
Speaker 1: of the playoff. So like my personal preference is sixteen

843
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: if they're going to go to that, because here's the

844
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: way I hope it works in the Big Ten or

845
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: the SEC. I hope the top two teams who previously

846
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: would have gone to play in a conference championship game,

847
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: I hope their reward is not playing at all on

848
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: conference championship weekend. Number one gets the crown. Congrats you

849
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: won the regular season. Number two you finished runner up.

850
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: But you guys, go take our first two seats. You

851
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: don't even have to play on this first Saturday in December.

852
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: Number three you're gonna play number six. Number four you're

853
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: gonna play number five, And the winners of those two

854
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: games will get our final two chairs. That means the

855
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: top six teams in each of those conferences are in

856
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 1: theoretically play in situations, or either they're in the playoff.

857
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: But the point is, think about how intense those conference

858
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: races are and how important the conference races are. I

859
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: would much rather focus on that than the playoff Holistically.

860
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: I do know that many of you will disagree on that,

861
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: but I do feel pretty strongly about that. But I

862
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: do want you to just remember one thing. If you

863
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: listen to all that and you said, no, forget about that,

864
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: don't care. I see your point, I disagree with it.

865
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: I still just want one through sixteen. What's so hard

866
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: about that? What's wrong with that? Why should the SEC

867
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: or the Big ten be guaranteed that many spots? You

868
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: can feel that way, I got no problem with it,

869
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: but I want you to remember there's been another cave

870
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: to all of this conversation. It's not getting the headlines,

871
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: but you need to pay attention to this language in

872
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: any of these reports, could be Thamial or Dellinger or

873
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: Zenix or whoever. When they put out these reports, every

874
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 1: one of them mentions something about strength of schedule. Every

875
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: one of them mentions something about changing the definition and

876
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: how we define the strength of schedule metric. Let me

877
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: translate that for you. The Big ten and the SEC

878
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: are tired of their nine and three teams being compared

879
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: to other nine and three teams or even ten and

880
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: two teams. Because the SEC and the Big ten are

881
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: looking at it and saying, do you understand how radically

882
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: more difficult it is to play in our leagues than

883
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: any other league? And they're not wrong about that. Now,

884
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: they're the reason it exists that way. Because they went

885
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,280
Speaker 1: and swallowed up most of the bigger brands and created

886
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: their mega conferences, which I didn't like. I wish we

887
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: could go back in time. But again, if we hit

888
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: start right now, they are right about that. And so

889
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: what they're saying is, since we're in charge really twenty

890
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: twenty six and beyond, the only way we're going to

891
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: agree to any of this is if you give us

892
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: our AQ spots first off, and secondly, you better learn

893
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: in fact you're going to there's any you better anything.

894
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: There's note an ultimatum. You're going to change the way

895
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: we define strength of schedule because there's got to be

896
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 1: room to calibrate for how much more difficult the strength

897
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: the schedule is in the Big ten or especially the SEC,

898
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: than the Big twelve or the ACC or a G

899
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: five conference. That's gonna happen. And what I'm telling you

900
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: that for is because if you recalibrate that and factor

901
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: that into the equation, and you understand how deep the

902
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,240
Speaker 1: Big ten and the SEC are now and moving forward,

903
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: it may be that the ACC or the Big twelve

904
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,720
Speaker 1: are blessed to have two guaranteed spots at the table.

905
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: Whether you're lie and principles and values. Agree with it

906
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 1: or not, I'm just trying to explain the way that

907
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: that could work in the future is instead of having

908
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 1: eight spots at the table, guaranteed you could have a

909
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: playoff with like eleven or twelve sec big ten teams

910
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,479
Speaker 1: in there, and honestly, they could look at it even

911
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: then and say, you know, it's still not enough. We

912
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: still need to go off and do our own thing

913
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: because the gulf between the quality of football we're playing

914
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: and the quality of football everyone else is playing. Blah

915
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: blah blah. You know how that would go. So I

916
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: had a quote written down. We did a segment on

917
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: this four years ago. We might as well have put

918
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,760
Speaker 1: on the Karnak hat. I mean, we were so prophetic

919
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: about it, and we nailed exactly where it was going

920
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: to go. And I said the following in one of

921
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: those videos. If we realize I'm right, it'll be too late, Well,

922
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: here we are. What do we do about it? I

923
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: don't know? Move along? I didn't skip anything, did I know?

924
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: I didn't? Okay, let's move along. Bold Prediction Season is back. Thankfully.

925
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: Bold Prediction Season is back. Bold predictions on this show

926
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 1: are exclusively from you this time of year, and it's

927
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: what you believe in so much that you would honestly

928
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: bet some of your own money on this. Let's dive

929
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: in tonight. We do have a lot of boldness here.

930
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: First up, Florida State. This is ur Wilmer from Clinton Forge, Virginia.

931
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: By the way, he says, FSU goes ten and two,

932
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:37,760
Speaker 1: they make the ACC Championship game. Okay, that alone is bold,

933
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: but he continues, they also make the final four of

934
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff. This one is a nine point

935
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: seventy five on the boldness scale. If this hits, this

936
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: will win a chalice of supremacy, first one we will

937
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: have ever sent to Clinton Forge, Virginia. FSU went minus

938
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 1: eleven wins from twenty three to twenty four. They won

939
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: eleven fewer games one year to the next. That's the

940
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: second biggest drop off of all time, aside from the

941
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: Southern miss disaster of a decade prior. They've got new

942
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: coordinators down there, they've got massive roster churn. They're starting

943
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: a quarterback that got benched by Boston College last year.

944
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: They do, however, play six of the bottom eight teams

945
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 1: in the ACC Odds Board at FanDuel, So that's looking

946
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: up for them. They're not going to turn it around

947
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: that drastically. Florida State's not going to the Final four

948
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 1: this year. So that's a nine point seventy five. I'm sorry,

949
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: that's a nine point seventy five, although I do expect

950
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: improvement next up. This is ridiculous. Jackson from Jackson Tennessee

951
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: said the SEC will go undefeated and out of conference

952
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: playing the regular season. Okay, that's a ten LSU plays

953
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: out of conference in week one and they can't win

954
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: in week one. We all know that that's an established

955
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: fact about the program, So this can't happen. That's kind

956
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: of a joke. But they have struggled, and they do

957
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: play Clemson on the road in week one. So we've

958
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: got Texas at Ohio State in week one, we got

959
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: Auburn at Baylor, we got LSU at Clemson. And if

960
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: you overcome that, you still have I mean, do you

961
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: know Arizona State goes to Mississippi State this year? Do

962
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: you know that? Do you know Tennessee plays Syracuse in

963
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: Atlanta in Week one? Do you know Notre Dame goes

964
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: to Arkansas? If the SEC drops any of these games.

965
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 1: This is toast, so that's a ten. I need not

966
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: say much more about that. Next up, this is harsh

967
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: oh Nick from Westminster, Colorado said, Wisconsin gohest three and nine. Well,

968
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: they're over under win totals five and a half. I

969
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: made this a seven. There's a lot of discrepancy in

970
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: the office about how bold this was. They were seven

971
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: and six and year one under Fickle, they were five

972
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: and seven last year. They could be disastrous this year.

973
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: I would expect them to win six or so. That's

974
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: where i'd have them right now. The Tyler van Dyke

975
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: injury sort of derailed them last year. But this is

976
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: a program that's just having to hit reset Man for

977
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: hiring related reasons. When Fickle first got there, they brought

978
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: in Billy Edwards from Maryland, so he's the quarterback this year.

979
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: High hopes and whatnot. Twenty percent. I want you to

980
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: think about this number. So the way we define strength

981
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: to schedule around here is we do it this time

982
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 1: of year and then we look comparatively. So Wisconsin we've

983
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: got playing a pretty tough schedule. We've got them as

984
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: playing a twenty percent tougher schedule than the average Big

985
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: Ten team plays this year, so it's it's not an

986
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: easy draw. They play at Alabama on top of their

987
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 1: conference schedule. By the way, I've got this as a seven.

988
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: Maybe that's unfair, maybe it should be a seven and

989
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 1: a half. But yeah, three and nine would be at this.

990
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: It's not like overly bold though, they're over under win

991
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: totals five and a half. And lastly, this is bold too.

992
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,760
Speaker 1: This gets a nine and a half. Leo from Princeton,

993
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: New Jersey. He said, Oklahoma State wins the Big Twelve.

994
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: I just don't think so. I don't see it. It

995
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: is the Big Twelve. Remember there are no ten boldness

996
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: predictions in the Big Twelve because anything's possible, So the

997
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: boldest you can gets like nine and a half. They

998
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,479
Speaker 1: got the second worst odds to win the conference. We've

999
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: seen teams like that win it before. Arizona State Baylor.

1000
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: Their last losing record was five and they bottomed out

1001
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: last year. They're one hundred and fourth in returning production.

1002
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: But then again, if you're that bad, do you want

1003
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: those players back. They're one hundred and thirty third last

1004
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: year in yards per game allowed. Defensively, they were one

1005
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:54,879
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteenth in turnover margin. If it improves a lot,

1006
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: they're still not going to win the conference. They go

1007
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,439
Speaker 1: to Oregon in week two out of conference, by the way,

1008
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: so you'll see him pretty early. That's a nine point

1009
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. It would be a big story. Though.

1010
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 1: What do we have here tonight? In the old ZVA

1011
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: can creamy root beer? You know root beer deserves credit

1012
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: root beer, Zvia creamy root beer was once in the

1013
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: position in my flavor Power ratings that Oklahoma State was

1014
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: last year. They were near the bottom relatively speaking, still

1015
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: a solid drink, but I was just not that high

1016
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: on root beer. I have grown to love the creamy

1017
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: root beer zero sugar, of course. So I'm gonna take

1018
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: watch this new record on the show tonight. Not one,

1019
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:51,919
Speaker 1: not two? Could it be? Yes? Three steps? So take

1020
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 1: that Live chat haters, we appreciate Zvia what is my

1021
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: eternal friend here and co host on the desk more

1022
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: bold predictions. I've also got coming up. I've got some

1023
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: things to say about travel. I've actually got a lot

1024
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: of show left, So let's hop through this column. Bold

1025
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: Prediction season continues. What do you believe? What do you

1026
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 1: really believe? Let's take a look at this. We got

1027
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:21,240
Speaker 1: a little SEC flavor here. Our friends in Baton Rouge

1028
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: just the utter hatred and disdain for Alabama while being

1029
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: loyal to the conference on display. One of them said,

1030
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: the SEC will have five teams in the playoff. None

1031
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: of those teams will be Alabama. I'm gonna make this

1032
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: a nine on the boldness scale. Probably should go higher, actually,

1033
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: because if they've got five in, Bama's got to be

1034
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: one of them. But they say no. So at FanDuel.

1035
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: Right now, the SEC has ten of the top twenty

1036
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: one teams in the odds board, so you would think, oh,

1037
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: that's not crazy at all. Yeah, but not all of

1038
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 1: them are gonna be that level. They got to play

1039
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: each other. They got to knock each other out. So

1040
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: what you need here is you need separation, Like you

1041
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: need Texas and Georgia and Bama and Ole Miss and

1042
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: LSU to be really good and they win all their

1043
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: close games and then there's big separations. So they're all

1044
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 1: nine wins or ten, eleven, twelve wins. That's probably gotta happen.

1045
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: And are the other conferences down that's also gonna happen.

1046
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: That's a nine. And I think if look if the

1047
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: sec gets five in that's a huge story. But if

1048
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: Bama's one of them, you still lost, So that may

1049
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: be harsher than a nine. Maybe like a nine point

1050
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:31,879
Speaker 1: twenty five. I mean, I got there's like dust in here.

1051
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: They landed on my nose. Oh we're good, Colin, No

1052
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: sneeze coming next up. This is a good one. Take

1053
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: note at home if you're doing bold predictions. Thomas up

1054
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,760
Speaker 1: in Hutchins and Kansas, this is a solid bold prediction.

1055
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen, but it's solidly constructed. Here,

1056
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: he said, Nebraska, Kansas State, and Georgia Tech will combine

1057
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: for at least twenty eight wins this year. All right,

1058
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: I made this a nine point five on the boldness scale,

1059
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: but I respect it. So we need twenty eight wins total.

1060
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: Nebraska win total seven and a half, Kansas State is

1061
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: eight and a half, Georgia Tech is seven and a half.

1062
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: So you add those three numbers up, it's twenty three

1063
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: and a half. So we need all of them to overachieve.

1064
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: Here's my struggle. If all of them overachieve. And for

1065
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: the record, I am higher on all three of those

1066
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: than the market right now. But If all three of

1067
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: them overachieve and all of them go nine to three,

1068
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: this doesn't hit and that's tough. So I mean someone's

1069
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: got to pop a double digit win season on us

1070
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: here and the other two still need to win at

1071
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: least nine games. I think this is a nine point five. However,

1072
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: all three of them return a quarterback, all three of

1073
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: them are top half of the country in returning production,

1074
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: all three of them have bottom half strength of schedules

1075
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: in their conference. It's a nine point five. It is

1076
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: not impossible, it's just improbable. Next up, we're gonna go

1077
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: nine plus here again. Eric from Warner Robins Georgia said

1078
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: last year's playoff chaos continues to disfavor the rested teams.

1079
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: Conference winners lose in the quarterfinals. So this happened last year.

1080
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: Remember Oregon won the Big Ten, they got put out

1081
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: by Ohio State. Boise won the Mountain West, they got

1082
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: put out by Penn State. Arizona State won the Big Twelve,

1083
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: dumped by Texas. Actually they didn't get dumped it all.

1084
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: It went to overtime. Still a great game, but they

1085
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: got beat and Georgia won the SEC. Notre Dame exposed

1086
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: of them you're saying that's gonna happen again this year.

1087
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: I say that's pretty bold. I say that's a nine

1088
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: point twenty five. And here's what's kind of crazy. So

1089
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: as of now, we've still got this backwards rule where

1090
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: only conference champs can be the top four seeds in

1091
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: the current playoff. So they're about to reconstruct the playoff.

1092
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: Now we assume that that rule is going to be

1093
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: dumped in the future iteration of the playoffs, but whatever

1094
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: format they decide on, it will be decided before this

1095
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: playoff happens. The reason I point that out is if

1096
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: what you just predicted is true, it would be the

1097
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: hottest debate topic in sports because we would have two

1098
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: straight years of glaring examples that prove rest is detrimental

1099
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: to football teams. In December, all the teams that get

1100
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: the buys keep losing. We're eight for eight. What's happening here? Well,

1101
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: whatever the future playoff's going to be, it will be

1102
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: by that point, so you better get it right. And lastly,

1103
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: in the bold prediction department, for tonight, Alex from Newberry, Florida,

1104
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: USC reaches ten wins, Hello, and they make the playoff

1105
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: behind Lincoln Riley's best defense as a head coach. Now,

1106
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: you may be thinking to yourself a few things, but

1107
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: one of them is, well, what has Lincoln Riley's best

1108
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: defense been? Did you know in twenty twenty Oklahoma Lincoln

1109
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: Riley they had the twenty eighth best defense in the country.

1110
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: So what are we looking at here? We're looking at

1111
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: a ten to win USC team or better. They got

1112
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: to be like top twenty five defensively. Basically, it could happen.

1113
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: That's a eight point seventy five from me. That's not

1114
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: the craziest thing in the world. I do think they'll be.

1115
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me if they were top thirty ish

1116
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: defensively this year, So they'll be flirting with that. If

1117
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: that happens, that's heavily correlated with their result. So if

1118
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: they're improved again that much defensively, maybe they win those

1119
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: close games this year and they do get ten wins.

1120
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: Could happen their win total seven and a half right now,

1121
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: So you got to go significantly above that. I didn't think.

1122
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was crazy. Some people in the

1123
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: office thought it was a lot bolder. I don't know.

1124
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what is bold driving a lot and

1125
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: not visiting Quick Trip, not visiting our partners. I got man,

1126
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: I got tagged. I don't know how many times last night.

1127
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: As I'm talking to you, it's May eleventh, so May tenth.

1128
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: Last night, WWE had what used to be called a

1129
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: pay per view now I'm told it's called a premium

1130
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: live event. It was in Saint louis not important. What

1131
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: is important is Quick Trip had ad placement on the

1132
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: lower turn buckle in all four corners. Look at that.

1133
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: We got the Kansas City Royals, we got WWE turnbuckles,

1134
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: and of course we've got our show anyway. So a

1135
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: lot of you hit me up and said, did you

1136
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: have anything to do with this? And I'm not going

1137
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: to deny it. I'm not confirming it because that wouldn't

1138
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: necessarily be ethical or true, but I'm not denying it.

1139
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: So even though I had nothing to do with it,

1140
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: I do want a little credit for it. But I

1141
01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: do also want to tell you it may not be

1142
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: the last major event that Quick Trip has placement as

1143
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: a part of this month, even who knows, I'm not

1144
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: even talking about this show. But we do appreciate them.

1145
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: They fuel us every step of the way, we'll be

1146
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: on the road again this week. Uh, here's a good question, Jesse.

1147
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: This was a question that we put as a graphic. Right, yeah,

1148
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: so Simon up in Portland, he said, in a year

1149
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 1: that seems wide open as of now, which teams have

1150
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: the most to prove in twenty twenty five? All right?

1151
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: So I thought LSU immediately when I saw this question.

1152
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly's in year four, and if you look at

1153
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: the records, they've won ten wins, ten wins, nine wins,

1154
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 1: but it still feels like kind of a prove it

1155
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: year for them because defensively, you were so bad you

1156
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: sort of sort of wasted away the Jaden Daniels year,

1157
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,919
Speaker 1: and now we get to this year where you're two

1158
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: years into a new defensive staff, so you should see

1159
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: big improvement and I expect it. And you've got Garrett

1160
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 1: nus Meyer, who is a proven returning quarterback in a

1161
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:04,920
Speaker 1: conference full of question marks at quarterback, and you haven't

1162
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: made the playoff under Brian Kelly yet they need to

1163
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: do that this year. So I would say LSU has

1164
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: something to prove. I'd say they've got the fifth best

1165
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: odds in the conference, but they're really tired with ole Miss,

1166
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: so they're tied for fourth best odds in the conference.

1167
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: If that's the way the SEC shakes out, then LSU's

1168
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 1: have they underachieved there? Probably? Yeah, I got high, high

1169
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: standards for them this year. Miami's got They still got

1170
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: something to prove. You know, Miami's gone from five to

1171
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 1: seven to seven and five to ten and two. Those

1172
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: are regular season records. That's what they've done on Memorio

1173
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: five wins to seven wins to ten wins, So that's progress,

1174
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: linear progress. You look at the roster, certainly there's progress.

1175
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: The players down there look way different than they did

1176
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 1: when he first got there. They haven't had their arrival

1177
01:03:57,120 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: moment like on the big major scene. They almost had

1178
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: it last year. Defense wasn't good enough let them down,

1179
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: so they went and got Carson Beck out of the

1180
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: transfer portal. Carson Beck at his best is good enough

1181
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,959
Speaker 1: to take Miami to the playoff if the other side

1182
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: of the ball fulfills its end of the bargain, and

1183
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: that's where you should be in year four under Mario Christobal,

1184
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: who's a guy who's known for accumulating talent, which they've

1185
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: been doing. They ought to be a playoff contender this year,

1186
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: and they've still got that to prove, So i'd say them,

1187
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: I'd say Penn State. Now, Penn State's in a little

1188
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:37,439
Speaker 1: different category here. Penn State perennially has been way up there.

1189
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: They've been the best of the very good. They have

1190
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: not been elite, so they don't have anything to prove

1191
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: in terms of are they a high caliber program, none

1192
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 1: of that. Yes, they're a top ten program, so they're

1193
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 1: not trying to validate their existence like that. But the

1194
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: question around them has always been is your ceiling just

1195
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 1: very good? And I've believed it is as long as

1196
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: they don't upgrade at wide receiver. But then they went

1197
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: and upgraded at wide receiver, and they went and got

1198
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: one of, if not the best defensive coordinators in the

1199
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: country as well. But really it's the pass catchers that

1200
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: have me excited. Penn State's been good enough defensively, They've

1201
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: been able to run the ball, they've got returning experience

1202
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: at quarterback. The program has been very solid. But if

1203
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: they're ever gonna approve that that ceiling is above and

1204
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: beyond just very good, this is the year they've got

1205
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: to do that. They are very close to having the

1206
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: best odds to win the Big Ten. They're ahead of Oregon,

1207
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: They're right there behind Ohio State. I'd pick Penn State

1208
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: above Ohio State if I had to handicap that conference today.

1209
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 1: I think Penn State goes to Columbus and that probably

1210
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with that, and if they

1211
01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: played them again, it would be neutral site. But I mean,

1212
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: if it's gonna happen, I feel like that's got to

1213
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: happen this year for them. And Alabama also has a

1214
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 1: lot to prove, different kind of dynamic there. De Boor

1215
01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 1: came in last year, Kaitlyn de bor came in last year,

1216
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: and you could very much categorize twenty twenty four sort off.

1217
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,560
Speaker 1: It was what it was, fell off towards the end,

1218
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: inexplicably ugly losses to Vanderbilt and then Oklahoma I think

1219
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 1: was the big sledgehammer to the face. But if you

1220
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 1: go out and get the offensive coordinator that you originally wanted,

1221
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 1: and you just did that in Ryan Grubb, and you've

1222
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: got a guy in ty Simpson who is a program guy.

1223
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: Nation doesn't know him yet, but he's a former blue

1224
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: chip quarterback who's waited his turn. You Kaylin de Boor

1225
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: and this offensive staff should pride yourself on getting the

1226
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: absolute most possible out of those kinds of guys. If

1227
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: that is the dynamic there, they'll win with him at

1228
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: quarterback this year because they've got a loaded wide receiver room,

1229
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: they've got what they consider to be for returning offensive linemen.

1230
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: They should be able to run the ball better than

1231
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: they did last year, and that secondary could be the

1232
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 1: best one in the conference. So that, above and beyond

1233
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: just having a lot of guys who came back, I

1234
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: think they got a lot to prove this year. I'd

1235
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 1: be really disappointed if Bama we wasn't a prime contender

1236
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 1: for the conference title and a prime playoff team, like

1237
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 1: I'd be disappointed if they weren't that they got the

1238
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: third best odds to win the conference. Right now, we'll

1239
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: see how it goes. They're watching us in Beverly Hills, California, Greenwood, Mississippi,

1240
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: and Daytona Beach, Florida. Thank you, guys, thank you so much.

1241
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: Let's see here. I'll tell you what we'll do. Yeah,

1242
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: let's go with the America's team thing right quick. And

1243
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 1: then I've just got to complain for a second. Ten

1244
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: the show Dave from Oklahoma City. He said, you always

1245
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 1: call the Big twelve America's college football conference. That's true, Dave,

1246
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: He said, do you have a specific team that you

1247
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: would look at as America's college football team? Just use

1248
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 1: whatever criteria you want to. Yes, they're in the Big twelve.

1249
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: It's Arizona State. I called the Big twelve America's college

1250
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 1: football conference because I think the characteristics of that conference

1251
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: most reflect the characteristics that college football fans love about

1252
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 1: the sport. It's very competitively balanced. There's not huge portal

1253
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: churn and coaching staff churn there. Every Saturday is like

1254
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 1: uniquely balanced to just be a season of its own.

1255
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:26,520
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Love the Big twelve, high level, like entertaining

1256
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 1: competitive product every week. Well within that league, I think

1257
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: Arizona State will be my answer here. Number one, it's

1258
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 1: not an SEC or Big ten team. You cannot be

1259
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 1: America's football team and be in one of those conferences

1260
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: because you gotta have a likable quality about you, and

1261
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: those conferences aren't likable right now. The Q ratings of

1262
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 1: those conferences are way down. So not only is it

1263
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 1: not a power to team, it's not Clemson or Notre

1264
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: Dame or like Miami or one of the ACC or independents,

1265
01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: but a powerhouse program. But j was left for dead.

1266
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: I want to remind people it's not all that long

1267
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: ago that Herm Edwards was the head coach there and

1268
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 1: the program was going nowhere fast. And then you've got

1269
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:15,440
Speaker 1: the sanctions and you've got the firings, and the program

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Speaker 1: to that program. Well, Kenny grew up in the shadow

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Speaker 1: cut to stay there, just because So Kenny Dillingham is

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Speaker 1: Arizona State and think about the rest of the world

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Speaker 1: And you go in there and watch them lift and

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Speaker 1: so any good way. Someone asked me about travel, Pet Peeves,

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Speaker 1: One of you asked me about travel, Pet Peeves. It

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Speaker 1: is my opinion, it's my belief, my general stance that

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Speaker 1: I love what I do for a living. Travel is

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Speaker 1: a huge part of it. We got to fly like

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Speaker 1: fifty to seventy five times a year, hotel room seventy

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Speaker 1: plus nights per year. That's part of it, and I

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Speaker 1: love it. But inevitably, if you travel that much, you

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Speaker 1: experience a lot that the transportation industry has to offer you,

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Speaker 1: both the good and the bad. So first travel, Pet Peeve,

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01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:19,839
Speaker 1: is I really wish airlines would just be honest about delays.

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01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 1: They're never fully honest about it. There's always yeah, it

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Speaker 1: says we're delayed until six thirty eight. But did you

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Speaker 1: overhear what he said or what she's Why do I

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01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 1: need to overhear what people are saying. If there's a

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Speaker 1: ground stoppage at Hartsfield because of low ceiling or heavy thunderstorms,

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Speaker 1: and that's holding us here at our origin destiny, just

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01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:45,759
Speaker 1: tell me that I don't need to keep refreshing, refreshing, refreshing,

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Speaker 1: because if I'm going to connect somewhere, every second counts.

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Speaker 1: And if I need to rebook, or if I need

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Speaker 1: to book a hotel for that night, or if I

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01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:55,599
Speaker 1: need to do this or that, or I just want

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01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:57,960
Speaker 1: to know because I paid seven hundred dollars for the ticket,

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01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 1: don't you at least owe me. I'm gonna find out anyway.

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01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 1: If it's reality, it's reality. If we're not going anywhere

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Speaker 1: for two hours, we're not going anywhere for two hours.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm owed that. I don't think

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01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: that's too much to ask. Just they're adults. If anyone

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01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: has purchased a ticket on an airplane, they are an adult.

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01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:21,200
Speaker 1: They can handle being told we're probably gonna be on

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Speaker 1: the ground another forty minutes. They're not gonna like it,

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01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: but it frustrates people a whole lot more if they are,

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Speaker 1: if they are lied to, or the information is withheld

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Speaker 1: from them. I'm dealing with this right now. I've got someone.

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01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: It's Savannah State. She was flying home, so Atlanta's been

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01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 1: a disaster all day. So she took off from Gulfport, Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: I've been monitoring her flight here dutifully, and she landed

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Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes late, and now the flight to the

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Speaker 1: National's delayed another hour. So anyway, point being, this news

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Speaker 1: was known. This news was known, And another thing, while

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Speaker 1: I'm on the subject of air travel, we got a

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Speaker 1: big problem in this country regarding airline WiFi and specifically

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Speaker 1: how easy it is to purchase and how tough it

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Speaker 1: is to make it work. In my humble brain, if

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Speaker 1: it should also be hard for me to purchase it,

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Speaker 1: because am I not using the same connectivity to log

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Speaker 1: and purchase it that I will then be using to

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Speaker 1: surf the interranet. But no, Inevitably, I don't care what

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Speaker 1: airline it is, you will never have connectivity issues when

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Speaker 1: wheel of death for the remainder of your flight, or

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Speaker 1: it may move along just like that. But it's anyone's guess.

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Speaker 1: But I promise you that payment portal, that thing will

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Speaker 1: be working. Inexcusable. In fact, the speed of airline Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi in general I've had a problem with, but I've

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Speaker 1: voiced my concerns there. And also, and this is not

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Speaker 1: an airline issue, this is just more an issue with humanity.

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Speaker 1: We've got to wear headphones, guys. You've just got to

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Speaker 1: what planet are you from? When you're on a metal

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Speaker 1: tube with one hundred and seventy other people on it,

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Speaker 1: and you've got the audio on your laptop or your

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Speaker 1: phone turned up full blast, you're just watching a movie,

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Speaker 1: just to listening to music. There is something called witness.

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Speaker 1: It is just a basic, like a minimum requirement of

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Speaker 1: be able to leave the house. And if you don't

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Speaker 1: turn your volume down on your devices in public in general,

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Speaker 1: but especially on a plane where no one can escape,

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Speaker 1: you don't meet the minimum baseline requirement of witness that

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Speaker 1: is needed to operate in a functioning civil society. We

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Speaker 1: gotta be better. I was on a flight two weeks

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Speaker 1: ago and there's a girl behind us and she's got

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Speaker 1: the volume up full blast. It's a sold out flight,

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01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 1: so there are two other people on her row and

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01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 1: the flight attendants walk by twice and they look at her. Now,

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Speaker 1: normal adults are supposed to take that look to mean,

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Speaker 1: what did she look at me like that? For? Oh, oh,

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Speaker 1: they want me to turn my volume down. This was

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01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:25,639
Speaker 1: not one of those situations. So finally the third passed through,

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01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: they say, you gotta have headphones in or turn the

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Speaker 1: reacted to that, not out of anger, but more out

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Speaker 1: of shock that it was even a policy. She's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I had no idea. Do you need a policy for that?

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01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: You need to be told that. So anyway, aside from

1440
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Speaker 1: the usuals, those are some of my pet peeves in traveling.

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01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: Love what I do for a living, But boy, you

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Speaker 1: see a lot when you fly as often as we do.

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Speaker 1: You see a lot still, though, wouldn't change it for

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Speaker 1: the world. Okay, we got to get out of here.

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