00:00Look, it's a never smooth segue back to the football discussion, but Jack Campbell releases the statement today.
00:07He's got full he's got full movement. Right. And and so we are now going to get to the football
00:15blitz. Let's do it.
00:20So, guys, it is that time of the year, the very first college football playoff rankings were released yesterday.
00:31Yes, they were, David. And if you want a deeper dive, I talked about it on the pod.
00:37I can't wait to hear what you got to say. Well, this is what I'm going to do.
00:41I'm not going to go through what they released yesterday.
00:46I'm going to go through what would have been the first release of the 2014 college football playoff.
00:56Oh, dear God, help us. Why? You jump in. Why? We're going to go through matchups and everything.
01:01I was already like, man, I can't believe that they gave Indiana the four spot and dropped Ohio State to
01:0712.
01:08Everyone gets a trophy in the 2014 playoff.
01:10We can actually start with that, because with the 2014 playoff field, you do have Indiana, who is one of
01:18the teams that get a bye.
01:20Why, therefore? I don't understand that. But whatever.
01:24Then you have Miami at one that gets a bye in this.
01:27UCLA at eight gets a bye.
01:30Alabama's five with a bye. Georgia with a bye.
01:33Texas is number seven with a bye.
01:38Utah at three and Kentucky at six with a bye.
01:41That's all the byes.
01:44Bye. See you later.
01:45Wait, so the top eight teams get the bye.
01:48The top eight teams get a bye.
01:50Okay.
01:51That's a wild list of Kentucky getting a bye, Indiana getting a bye, Texas.
01:56Okay.
01:56Kentucky deserves to bye.
01:58They're the team that nobody talks about, but Kentucky's actually good.
02:02The thing that I hate about college football, and it's not one.
02:07No, no, no.
02:08It's not the portal.
02:09It's not the NIL.
02:10This has been a college football problem that I've had for decades.
02:14College football is the only sport where what you did 10, 15 years ago matters.
02:20Every other sport, you could be the Milwaukee Brewers,
02:23and you could win the World Series.
02:25They don't get punished.
02:26We're like, well, you've never been there before,
02:27so we're going to put all these hurdles in front of you and make you jump.
02:31Oh, but, you know, the Dodgers and Yankees.
02:33Like, if you're one of the elite teams, if you're a half, you're Georgia,
02:38if you're, you know, Alabama, you'll get to go to Texas.
02:41Go to the front of the class.
02:43There are irrefutable rules they are violating here.
02:47One of them is you win the head-to-head.
02:49You have the same number of losses as the other team.
02:52You're ahead of that team.
02:54I'm sorry, Alabama, 5th, Tennessee, 13th.
02:57What happened when these teams just played?
03:00Once again.
03:0026 to 10, Tennessee.
03:02Right, but once again, college football is the only sport.
03:06Well, what you did 10 years ago matters.
03:08Tennessee, you were bad for a long time.
03:11You've got to earn our trust.
03:12That was Indiana.
03:14Think about this, fellas.
03:15And, David, I'm sorry.
03:15I didn't mean to hijack this.
03:17Indiana was that way for the last two years.
03:19You're Indiana.
03:20You're a basketball school, and you're cute.
03:23But you cannot win it all.
03:24Yes, we can.
03:25No, you can't because you're Indiana.
03:27And then they won it all.
03:28And now look at them.
03:29They're sitting at 4.
03:30They shouldn't be at 4.
03:31They shouldn't be at 4.
03:32They've gone to overtime their last two games.
03:34Alabama shouldn't be at 5.
03:36Texas sucks.
03:38Who else is tired of the Texas hype trade?
03:40But what David is saying is these teams all get buys when they expand.
03:44They shouldn't be there, but they're getting a buy in this week.
03:47We have to realize.
03:49Bye-bye.
03:49No, we have to realize.
03:53Guys, let's not get Dr. Rick in here from Progressive to help us out, okay?
03:59We're getting old, and the sport is changing.
04:01We don't need Dr. Rick to help us out with this, okay?
04:04It's changing.
04:05We have to accept it.
04:06We don't like it.
04:08But we're not going to sit in the remote and yell, football game, okay?
04:12It's just how it is.
04:13And, yes, there's going to be a lot of mediocre games being played.
04:17It is.
04:17That's called the Blue Bonnet Bowl.
04:20And let's get to it because you mentioned Tennessee.
04:22So that would be one of the first-round matchups in there.
04:26It would be number 20, USC, who is 7-2, at number 13, Tennessee, 6-2.
04:35I think USC has the potential to be good, but they keep tripping over themselves.
04:41But I would actually watch that game.
04:43Poor David wants to talk about the matchups, and we are derailing this.
04:47No, you're doing it.
04:48But here's the thing, David.
04:49Here's the thing.
04:50The thing that made college football unique and special, it was the only sport that was
04:55a regular season sport, right?
04:56We don't want it to be March Madness.
04:58We don't pay attention to the college basketball regular season.
05:01Why?
05:02March Madness is great.
05:03Regular season sucks.
05:04If our team can't be one of the best 68, we don't care.
05:07They're now making this a postseason sport, which is never what college football was supposed
05:12to be.
05:13But they saw what college basketball can do and all the money.
05:16But, yes, David, I would watch that game.
05:18I would.
05:19I'm a loser.
05:19One of the next matchups here.
05:21Now, this matchup would be a normal matchup in the 2014 because you have to have a group of
05:25five team in, which you have in this one, and then the other team would be in it.
05:31BYU, number nine, they would be in, and you would understand why they're in.
05:35Number 24, Boise State.
05:37That's what it would be because, you know, you have to put a group of five.
05:41So that's a normal matchup.
05:42I don't think we can get too upset with that matchup.
05:45No, you can't.
05:45You can't.
05:46The next matchup, maybe you can't.
05:50Number 21, South Carolina, at five and three currently, would go to number 12, Ohio State
05:59at six and two.
06:00And we all know Ohio State does not look like a playoff team.
06:04South Carolina would win that game today.
06:05I was about to say, David, you know, that's a – I thought you said, Ohio State is not
06:11a gimme.
06:12That – Ohio State is showing you what happens in this new era of the portal.
06:19When you lose a job as the backup QB, you don't sit and wait next man up anymore.
06:23You go and you lead another team, and you're trying to get your draft stock up.
06:28And Ohio State, when the quarterback went down, so did their season.
06:31You just got to hope that you paid Jeremiah Smith enough money that he still gives a damn.
06:36He wants to win – put it this way.
06:38If he wasn't up for a Heisman, I think that he would probably opt out the season.
06:44Inexcusable that Ohio State doesn't have a better option behind him.
06:47No, it's not.
06:47Quite honestly.
06:48No, it's not.
06:48They had Joe Burrow backing up.
06:50That was then.
06:51Oh, I know.
06:52But now, if you lose, I think he's the quarterback of Louisville.
06:56He's starting.
06:57Who was going to be the backup.
06:58So, I could go and play, or I could just sit and watch.
07:02They look so bad.
07:03So.
07:04Saturday.
07:04This game will have interest, though, from Draftniks to see what Lenora Sellers can do against a good defense.
07:09Also true.
07:11All right.
07:11So, let's get through a few more here.
07:13No. 17, Houston at 6-2 would go to No. 16, Wake Forest, 7-1.
07:18Not a single person would watch that game.
07:20I would, actually.
07:21I like Wake Forest this year.
07:22I would watch that game.
07:24I would, too.
07:24That's Miami's quality win.
07:27It is.
07:30The next matchup here, No. 18, Missouri at 6-2 would visit No. 15, Texas Tech.
07:37Missouri would be my dark horse team to go on a run.
07:40They're really good.
07:41Austin Simmons, really freaking good.
07:44Now, the rest of these, well, maybe minus one, legit matchups.
07:48Except teams probably shouldn't be here for one.
07:51But Oregon at No. 23 at 5-3 would go to No. 10, Ole Miss.
07:57Ole Miss should be there.
07:59No. 23, Oregon should not be there.
08:01100%.
08:01And just what you said.
08:03What have you done the last 10 years?
08:04What have you done this year?
08:06You know who they are this year?
08:07They're Nebraska this year.
08:09Right?
08:10Dante Moore.
08:11Well, they do have Raiola, so yeah.
08:12Dante Moore getting hurt and losing both coordinators.
08:17Let's face it, because you found out that Lanning didn't run that team.
08:22The coordinators did.
08:23And he didn't replace them.
08:24I mean, Nick Saban back in the day would lose people to other jobs
08:28and replace them with better people, and they would never fall off.
08:33Lanning is showing his offense is in Kentucky.
08:36That's why Kentucky's winning, and they're not.
08:39And the final two first-round matchups, No. 14, LSU, would host No. 19, Iowa,
08:46and No. 11, Notre Dame, would host No. 22, Arizona.
08:50I would actually watch both of those games, but the LSU-Iowa game I would watch
08:55because that's the one beauty of college football is styles make the fight.
09:00Two totally different styles.
09:03LSU is about to run up against probably the stingiest defense.
09:07A-plus talent, C-minus talent, but C-minus talent can win that game.
09:11Right, but it's the system.
09:13It's like you see it in high school football.
09:15You've got a super team going up against a team that just has a way of doing things,
09:20and that program team always wins.
09:24I would take Iowa in that game.
09:26I'm still waiting to hear the name of a team that actually deserves to be in the playoffs.
09:30None of them do, but it's going to happen.
09:32It's disgusting. Gross.
09:33It is gross.
09:34That's your football blitz.
09:34Thanks.
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09:35Thanks.
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