1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - How to fix CFB Playoff: December 8, 11:25am

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

How DP would fix the College Football Playoff.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hey, what's up y'all? Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. My favorite thing about the holidays? Decking out my whole house. It's not a competition, but if it was, well, I'd win the season with Wayfair. Outdoor inflatable Santa? Got it on Wayfair. Trees, lights and ornaments? Wayfair. Hosting must-havs, like dining sets, beds, sheets, and towels. Wayfair. For everything in your style delivered with fast and free shipping, visit Wayfair.com or the Wayfair app to win the season. But again, it's not a competition. Welcome back. Let's get it. Nick, what is this? What are you doing? What do you want? Nick Sater? I rue the day, Nick Sater.

Question for you all. Are you craving something warm, sweet, and unforgettable? No, I'm not available. Ah! Insomnia cookies has you covered? Yes, they do. Whether you're hosting a party, planning an event,

or getting ready for the holidays, insomnia cookies delivers fresh-baked goodness right when you need it. Treat your guests to warm, melty classics, deluxe cookies, and even ice cream cookie sandwiches. Perfect for office celebrations, holiday get-togethers, birthday surprises, you name it. Hey, even if it's just for you to watch Huskers by yourself.

treat yourself, spoil yourself, order ahead, or get it delivered, make your next event a little sweeter with insomnia cookies located downtown Lincoln 16th and Q Street. That is insomnia cookies. Can vouch for them personally. I had to walk an additional eight blocks just for the cook. I was like, I felt guilty. The cookie was so good. So good.

So we will have some today. We will share. We will get some to the student athletes a long way. playoffs and college football playoffs. And the idea is to try to get some of this right. I'll read some texts and we'll get through it. Texas says this. I'm excited to see if the conversation, if a big,

if James Madison Tulane win. I asked the question on social media, which higher seeds are at risk in the first round to take a loss. And I think the teams with the higher seeds who are going to play at home have some advantages, but they are at risk. There are absolutely some teams at risk. We'll go through that here to a bit. Ohio Husker says this as to why there's too many teams

should be six conference champions of two wild card or at large. But if you do that, that takes you out of the eight, right? Because the four powerful conferences, the four main conferences that we probably shouldn't agree, we shouldn't assume that every year the Big 12 is going to, to have two of the best eight teams in it. But we also know that if we do not set those parameters

that somehow the check writers in the SEC will get more teams. A quick count of the 12 teams playing this week in the playoffs. How many of them are SEC teams? Five. Five. Five. How many Big Ten?

Three. Are you telling me that that SEC is that much better than Big Ten? death wise they appear to be well but at the top of this thing seeds one two and five are big ten yeah that would tell me that the teams beneath those three teams are pretty good they're pretty good because you have what 10 teams 11 teams in the bowl games USC would like some discussion right part of the consideration it's just weird it's just weird

Texas says you can't be doing anything with conference appearances because the ACC literally had games like this that had two ACC teams playing and didn't count for a conference game. Yeah, here's the, again, it's the, all of this is that the people at the top who make decisions don't think it through. And there's no logic involved because if you're in the room representing a conference, Sometimes they'll tell you, well, you have to remove yourself from the room when we're talking about your conference.

No, you don't. No, you don't, because you get back in the room and you just plant seeds for when you're not in the room. Five SEC teams, five SEC teams are in the playoffs. But we can think of at least four Big Ten teams that would be interesting. Would you, I mean, would you? I mean, I would. I would. You think USC was with the Big Ten player of the year?

Yeah. That quarterback would sell tickets and USC would travel. That's the one thing. Should they play for a national championship at 9 and 3? I don't think anybody should play for a national championship with three losses. I don't either. Right. But that would be,

that would be the Commissioner Pearson rule that, listen, if you have 12 opportunities to play yourself into the playoffs and you lose three of them, because guess what? Every game is a playoff game in college football. And that should be the thinking. For all the teams that are involved in these conspiracies and, you know, we've been snubbed and everything else. No, here's the reality.

At the beginning of the season, each and every program knew what it was going to take for them to get into the playoffs. Win your games. win the game you schedule the games right somebody from your organization from your program scheduled the games and then it's your job to win those games period and if you do not win those games if you don't win all your games all of your games then friends you are back in the dating pool you my friends are in the popularity contest and those people may not like you you may not be their thing.

And it's not their fault that you put yourselves in the pool. You put yourself in the pool. And then, if you lose one game, you should be in the discussion for playing in the playout. If you go a complete season

and you lose one game, you should be in the conversation. If you lose two, you, here's the rule. You lose two games in a year. You can't complain about anything. You can't complain if you're going to get, You got beat twice.

You had two playoff games throughout the course of your year that you lost. You failed. Think about that. BYU, for all intent purposes, passed every test except for their test against Texas Tech. They lost to Texas Tech. Twice. There are teams that lost the teams outside of the top 20. They're teams that lost the teams they had no business losing to.

But you have to go through your season with the full understanding that you can, on any given week in college football, that's why the regular season matters, you can play yourself into or out of the playoffs. Remember, a lot of the scheduling was based on theory and policy from five years ago, six years ago, because there was no playoff. this doesn't exist this was new this is all new and once you realize now that you have to work from this if you want to work from where we currently stand again where the goal poles are currently in the stadium that we're currently in right wind factors involved weather involved right those are a thing remove the control the controllable the controllable on this is you winning your games

and then if you don't win all of your games then losing who you lose to who you lose to matters losing matters and then who you lose to matters and if you lose several times if you lose twice Hey what's up y'all Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair

my favorite thing about the holidays decking out my whole house it's not a competition but if it was well I'd win the season with Wayfair Outdoor inflatable Santa, got it on Wayfair. Trees, lights, and ornaments, Wayfair. Hosting must-havs like dining sets, beds, sheets, and towels, Wayfair. For everything in your style delivered with fast and free shipping, visit Wayfair.com or the Wayfair app to win the season.

But again, it's not a competition. Wayfair, every style, every home. Well, then you open the door. And if you lose three times, I'm sorry. one out of every four games that you played, you lost. One out of every four games you played, you lost. Say it. This is not the NFL.

You can, listen, you can have a power for, you know, football players. And then you can have a, you know, G5, you can have everybody else, right? You can have two different playoffs. I'm okay with that. FCS figured that out. You've got different levels. Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, you've got different levels.

They don't complain. They're not asking to be up with the big boys. They don't have the right resources on the players. They'll tell you that. Now, some financial genius will get out there and go, you know what? That's not a bad idea. We're having everybody else tournament.

Because in basketball, they figured it out and created the National Invitational Tournament and that went so well and has run so long and has so much prestige and still makes money that they created the crown. College World Series has a sequence of events

just to get involved in. You know what we didn't hear complaints about? At least not in the circles that we're in. Bach, who's the last team out? the last team out for women's college volleyball. Any idea? Uh-uh. Not a clue.

Not a clue. You know what? They figured it out. Let's work this out. Let's work it out. Let's work it out. There's a way. So then you can follow success or you can follow tradition, right?

Because the lower bowl football levels, have figured out a way to do it. High schools have figured it out. States have figured it out. The NFL's figured it out. The NFL said, listen, it used to be if you won your conference. Then it became if you won your division. Then it became, well, you win your division and you have to finish second in your division.

But it's not even second in your division. It's the best record. in your conference after the division winners so that if you are from a power division and you still had a great year, you're still in the tournament. Bach, what keeps college football from saying conference champions,

whether it be regular or championship game, right? Because if you say championship, game, then you put it on the conference to get the right people into their conference game, right? And those are member institutions. They're all business partners. So if Miami had said in some way that the ACC had figured out how to get Miami into the championship game with Virginia because they thought they were the better team, none of this conversation will be taking place when it comes to Miami. Because they would have played Virginia.

Simple biz. Texas could have played themselves in. They played themselves out. Notre Dame could have played themselves in. You know how? Get in a conference. Go beat somebody. Be measured like everybody else.

Don't enter the pageant having already won the prelims because you're Notre Dame. Oh, we pick and choose. are we play tough teams. Then get in a conference and play tough. You think, hey, Bob, you think Nebraska would be okay if it didn't have to play in the Big Ten,

it could just pick three or four really tough games a year? Yeah. I don't think they didn't join that. Every Power Four would love that. We'd love that. Are we having the discussion about Navy being in the playoffs? Same rules apply, right? it'll be interesting by the way that's another thing that eventually will

screw up these playoffs army and navy play this week navy was nine and is nine and two i mean they could be in there in the american they i mean that could be another thing that'll happen here in a couple years yeah yeah uh question on the text line before we go to break is it is it is it indiana versus ohio and natty before they invented playoffs or would they bump georgia up um because of the championship game because of the big 10 championship game, they probably would have bumped Georgia out, quite frankly. Yeah. Just to include their business, remember, their business partners, too.

As much as the SEC and the Big Ten like the bump noses, they are still business partners. And there's value in that. There's value in that. Texas says, Bama should not be in. I don't think Bama, well, they were in the championship game. So once again, put it on the SEC. Who do you want in? representing you in the playoffs Georgia and who because the SEC could have said Texas

right they could have picked anybody right but Oklahoma sitting out there chilling right yeah which is and I get it and that's why people I mean those conference championship games are a mess because of this situation Alabama you don't want to penalize them for having played in the SEC championship game but in all fairness, why is the three lost team in there? Right. Right. If you put it, listen, if I tell you, and it would be pretty cool that in the championship,

the way it's scheduled, one, it forces the conferences to do, to force their member institutions and partners to set a schedule that's fair and balanced. And if it's not fair and balanced, then guess what? At the end of every year, the Big Ten would have to answer as to why a team that had to face Oregon, Indiana, Ohio State, didn't have to face Michigan and USC, right? That's within the conference. Within the conference notes, I only get two teams in the playoff.

Right? And then a wild card is that somebody had an exceptional year, a one-loss team, a two-loss team, you know, is in the discussion. But a one-loss team that didn't get in the championship game, because that could happen, but it would force the conferences to get it right before they put it on the national stage. We'll go to break one more segment.