Andy & Ari On3 - College Football Playoff REVEAL LIVE | Reacting to the 12-Team CFP Bracket: Who's IN?

Episode Date: December 7, 2025

It's time for the College Football Playoff field to be announced. Follow along LIVE with Andy & Ari as the two instantly break down the playoff reveal. Does Alabama get punished for losing? Will it be Duke or James Madison in the field? Is Notre Dame or Miami in? Find out here LIVE as Andy & Ari break down the bracket. (0:00) Intro: CFP Reveal, presented by Modelo(12:25) Alabama's case to be in(15:17) Miami's case to be in(19:49) Modelo(23:40) Rankings Start: Indiana at 1(32:44) Miami is IN(35:30) Closing out the CFP Rankings(37:27) The Bracket(49:30) Closing Out(53:28) Conclusion  This show is presented by Modelo! Some things in life are just made for each other. Peanut Butter and jelly. Macaroni and cheese. Modelo and college football. If you’re watching this, it means you live and breathe football. All season long. You know what that makes you? A Full-Time Fan. Which means you deserve a Modelo. Because football wouldn’t be the same without you. Modelo is the official beer sponsor of The College Football Playoff. Drink responsibly. Beer imported by Crown Imports, Chicago, IL Our show is also presented by BetMGM! If you haven’t signed up for BetMGM yet, use bonus code CFB and you will get up to a $1500 First Bet Offer on your first wager with BetMGM! Here’s how it works: 1. Download the BetMGM app and sign-up using bonus code CFB.2. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game.3. You will receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your bet loses! Just make sureyou use bonus code CFB when you sign up! Make this college football season one for the history books. Make it legendary. See BetMGM.com for Terms. 21+ only. US promotional offers not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US). Call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR). First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Rewards are non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in 7 days. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. Watch our show on YouTube! https://youtube.com/live/qhvTbK0vuoY Hosts: Andy Staples, Ari WassermanProducer: River Bailey Interested in partnering with the show? Email [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Annie and Ari on three, it is the instant reaction, well, the concurrent reaction to the playoff reveal, the college football playoff selection committee will be revealing the actual field right now. We are presented by Modelo and we are wondering who's going to need some Madellos after this because somebody's getting left out, Ari. Yeah. It's either Notre Dame or Miami or Alabama. Two of them are going to make it and one of them is not going to make it.

Yeah, this is like we were discussing this on the way in, Andy, but this is kind of, you know, the feature of the sport, right? We got to the end of the road here. Yep. There are a bunch of worthy teams that have their own specific, compelling cases. And some are going to get in and some are going to get out. So we have intrigue. We have debate and we also have a result, whatever that is,

that's going to leave someone disappointed, but it's important to remember. And I've had to tell myself this a lot the last few weeks because I've gotten wound up about the Miami Notre Dame thing, as you're all aware, that whoever does feel disappointment today can go find the nearest mirror and look directly into it. Right. We talked about this earlier today. If you're left out, it is because you were flawed. You lost games you shouldn't have lost, and you could have won those games and you'd be in.

Like, if it's Notre Dame, you could have beaten Miami. If it's, if it's Miami, you could have beaten Louisville or SMU. If it's Alabama, you could have not gotten beat by Florida State Week 1. If you do not. We would not even be talking about this. If you do not want to be involved in the dysfunctional things that happen at the end of the season, and you don't want to be punished by the committee, have an excellent regular season. It would be a nice, wonderful ode to the old system of five years ago,

where they demanded excellence to be involved in the... Except for the time they left that undefeated team out. Yeah, that other time, except that time. But, you know, the old system that demanded excellence during the regular season that existed for, I don't know, the entirety of its existence, right? I mean, it didn't really demand. It demanded you gain the system to have the fewest losses. Yeah, maybe you could do that. You could try that.

And on Monday, make sure to tune into our show about the best way to avoid playing in your conference championship games and hard teams at the beginning of the year. I'm afraid that's where we're headed. It is, there will be massive. I mean, one of the things that it's going to come out of this is, whoever the aggrieved party is is going to demand changes immediately. Uh-huh. So we'll see what that. They might get some. There might be some changes next year.

But, yeah, I don't fear that we're going to ever get to a point where we're not playing big-time non-conference games because big-time non-conference games are some of the sexiest properties in the deals that get billions of dollars from television executives that then funnel into the programs in the coach's pocket. So what you're saying is money, money doesn't solve. everything, but there are a few things that money does solve. And the whining about we're not going to play hard non-conference games is going to get solved by money. Yes, that's one of them. But yeah, Andy, you did your bracket last night, your projected bracket. And you and I, besides one team, agreed completely.

Yes. And the one team that we disagreed on. You know who agreed with us on that part? Who? AP poll voters. Okay. The AP poll is out as of Sunday morning. They had Alabama 11.

They had, did they have Miami over? to Notre Dame or Notre Dame? I think Notre Dame was still over Miami. So they're not respecting the heck ahead. But they would both be in if the AP poll voters did it. We'll see what happens. Yes, I had Duke in. You had James Madison. I think James Madison probably will get in. I think if the committee asked itself, who would you rather send Oregon and maybe get a decent game, you would pick Duke? Because I'm thinking about it. And it's also the same reason why I had Miami and Notre Dame in and not Alabama. This goes back to my old, during the 14th playoff, I had a foolproof method for choosing the fourth team.

If you had two teams at four and five and you couldn't figure out who to pick for number four between them, you kidnap the head coach of the number one seed and you inject him with truce serum with sodium pentothal and there's like a word for it. What is that word? Sodium pentothal. Is that like a real thing? It's a real thing. I don't think it actually works as truth serum though.

Okay. But that is the wife's tale that we believe. So you inject, you know, whoever it is, Dabo, Kirby, Smart, who, whoever it was, and say, who would you like to play? And they'll be like, I'd like to play big state. And you put tech you in. Because, of course, if they say they want to play big state while under the influence of truth serum, it means big state is not as good.

So that's what you do. If you kidnap Kurt Signetti and said, who would you least like to play as the winner of the eight nine game, which I realize this is an imperfect one because I think Oklahoma is going to be eight. but who would you least like to play or who would you most like to play i'm sorry most like to play between Notre Dame Miami and Alabama i think Notre Dame or Miami would be not the team he would select i think he would select Alabama as the team he'd most like to play yeah and so you'd take the other two yeah and it's like i think that we also get trapped too

in the lore of what Alabama is uh or has been in the past and like they're just not that good this year I mean, period. They're a talented team. They've got really good players, but, you know, they're not like the beast that some of the spurned Alabama teams of yesterday were, you know. So, but I was going to ask you this because you had a night to sleep on it last night when we were doing our projections and having our show. It was almost midnight and a lot of it happened that day. Nothing like a good night's sleep to, you know, refresh your brain and you wake up feeling new things. I fell asleep last night to listening to people talk about this. Is there anything else? And to remind people, our projected bracket is the same at the top, one through eight, right? You had nine, Miami, 10, Notre Dame. Yep. Who was your 11? 11 was Tulane. Two lane.

And then 12, you had Duke. I had Duke, but I think the committee will pick James Madison. Is there any second thought? If you were assigned right now to redo your projection as we head into this show, would you make any changes or do you feel at peace with what your last thought was? I feel very at peace with it. Okay. Because I don't think they're going to change Oregon, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, Texas, A&M. I don't think they're going to change.

Yeah, I think that the top half of the bracket, outside of the intrigue of where Ohio State falls, would that be two or three or I don't know, maybe there's an outside chance at four. Probably not, though. The middle part of it is pretty set because nobody played and nothing happened that would impact those rankings. But have you, I saw Heather Dinnich's, the ESPN reporters on TV. Yep. And her projection was the. only projection that would make me like violently angry today and that's Notre Dame and

Alabama both get into Miami's out yeah but I wouldn't be surprised if that happened and I think that there's a large that one shot me at all but I think that there's a large segment of fans who are watching this right now who are anticipating that it's entirely possible it can happen yeah that's the thing any iteration of that any iteration of two of those three getting in I can see the committee doing so whether it's Alabama and Notre Dame get in Alabama and Miami get in or Notre Dame in Miami get in, I can see them doing any of those. It's really just what I put out there is how I would do it, but I'm one person. There's 12 people in that room.

They may all disagree, and I don't know which one they're going to come up with. And again, this is the feature, not the bug. This is what they want. They want us all in a tizzy as we wait for these things to get revealed. While we wait, by the way, let's go through the top of the bracket because I think that's, I think that feels very settled. Okay. Indiana is going to be the number one seat. Best season of anybody in the country.

They beat Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game. They'll be the one seat. Number two seed should be Georgia. They won the SEC, one loss. Very impressive winning against Alabama on Saturday. Just kicked crap out. And they possess wins that that Ohio State, frankly, just does not have them now. Correct.

Okay. Number three, Ohio State, they look like the most talented team. But as Indiana showed us, that doesn't mean they're invincible. So put them at three. Texas Tech at four, unlike the other big 12 teams, I look at Texas Tech's roster and say, this is a team that can hang with these other teams that we're talking about. Yeah. And I think that that's fairly certain, right?

Like, I don't know if that's the 100% order of it, but I think those are your four by teams, like as a fact at this point. I don't know that there's anything that can change. Yeah. And then I'm just going based on what the committee's told us the past couple weeks for the next couple. Oregon at five. Ole Miss at six.

Texas A&M at 7 Oklahoma at 8 The committee seems like They've fairly set on that I don't see them moving those around Yeah You know what I love about college football Andy What's that?

We've gone live like three times In the last four days And all of the people are just saying The same stuff Of course And it's like the same talking point And I'm like happy to get to the end It's like you know

Who cares about who Miami lost to They beat Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame fans are like Miami you lost the two unranked Don't you know they lost SMU and Google? Everybody knows the information now. And now it's a matter of what they're going to do.

And Andy, I just want to say, because you didn't ask me back and I'm kind of offended by it, what I think, because I didn't get to do this. I agree with you. Just so you know, see how efficient that was. But I think that you and I have a differing opinion about how we got there. I actually truly believe, and I don't think we could ever prove it. Maybe you can put this on the history channel with the dude with the ancient aliens here. What's his name? He has a name.

Georgio, whatever. aliens. I actually think that Alabama is going to be out because then it rescues the human beings in that room from having to make a decision that's indefensible. I think the only is the that's the path that's easiest to least. I actually think that they think that. If Notre Dame, if Notre Dame winds up ahead of Miami, they're still making the indefensible decision. They're just making it in a palatable way if they're both in the field. No, and I actually think that you could put Miami below Notre Dame because I'm sure Miami fans will gladly take the lower seat. They got a negotiation. They just want to get in. Yeah, they don't care. The reason why, like, I wouldn't be like losing my mind for a month straight if the stakes were eight and nine. The stakes are in and out. I think that in order to avoid making that decision, they're going to use a third party that's not involved in this as the scapego. Whether you agree with that or not, that's what I think is going to happen today. And I think it happened in 2014, whether anybody wants to.

wants to agree with that or not. I think that the reason why Ohio State even got in to begin with us, so they didn't have to pick between TCU and Baylor. I think it's the same thing. The choice was obvious between those two. And the choice is obvious on the game. The choice is obvious now and it's been a struggle for a month. So we'll see what happens today. But my official prediction is committee makes the decision that is most defensible. Like how much of that do you think do you buy like hunter your check goes on the tv like is also a good way of doing this to create a field or a system that you can defend the best is that a thought like they don't think that but do you think that's a good thought no because if you can defend it the best that makes it's

the most rational the thing is my my method of picking the best teams probably differs from other people because i'm looking at this like who can actually win the freaking tournament like who do i think is the best chance of winning the tournament That's also why I put Duke in at 12 instead of JMU. Who could actually give Oregon a game? Yeah, that makes sense. Rivers over here like, yep. He's like, Ty.

Hey, River, pop yourself up here. Just go, yep, every time Andy makes the point you agree with. I'm over here in the echo chamber, man. Am I, am I an enemy at the gates? There's also a retired media member on the committee who can't pick games any better than me and you can. Like, I don't think anybody else on the on the, everybody's bad at picking games. That's what I'm saying. So like, who do you think?

There are very tall buildings in Las Vegas. I thought Ohio State was going to beat Indiana by two touchdowns yesterday. Yeah. If I was in charge of putting the playoff field, Ohio State would have been one, and Indiana would have been three. And guess what? I would have been wrong. We all are wrong all the time.

Hey, River, we've got some Kalin-de-Bore audio. Let's hear Kalin-de-Bore last night after the Georgia game stating his case for Alabama to make the field. Kalan, what is your pitch for why you're still a playoff team? Well, I think you look at the games that we played throughout the season, But if you're really looking at this game, I mean, it was a 14-point game with seven and a half minutes to go. We had the ball. I mean, you know, you can look at things that didn't go well. We gave him four short fields.

And again, I don't want to take anything away from what Georgia did, right? The field position battle is part of it. But giving four short fields, I mean, that's a testament to our defense of being resilient. You know, one of those touchdowns. I mean, if we're really worried about the score, then probably punt it on your own 11, right? but I'm here to win an SEC championship. I'm not here to, if you lose by one or you lose by more, it's still a loss. And that's what I was caring about.

We're here to win an SEC championship. We can't get worried about how much do we lose by? That was what it was about. And we're here to win. That's how we play. And again, it was a 14-point game. We have the ball with seven and a half minutes to go, you know, against a really good team that knows us well and we know them well.

I thought our defense did a heck of a job going against them. One thing that we didn't really do was take the ball off them, and the one turnover they got helps help. Again, a short field. So, again, that's football. But that's the way I looked at this game. And if this game applies to and takes away from our resume, I don't think that's right.

I really don't. I think the precedent's been set, and I don't know how you can go into a conference playoff game when you're the number one seed and did all these things throughout the year. and, you know, playing in this game against one of the top teams in the country as well, how that can hurt you and keep you out of the playoff when, again, we've done what we've done all year. All right, all right. So that is Alabama's case, which Alabama has the clear best win of the three teams we're talking about going to Georgia and winning.

It's not even close. Alabama probably has the hardest schedule of those teams. Alabama also has the clear worst loss to Florida State. So. Yeah, I mean, there's some people in the chat right now saying, like, Alabama's going to get it and it's a beauty pageant. Well, if it's a beauty pageant, then Alabama's heel is broken. Yeah, if it's eye test, it's not actually going to be Alabama. Like, Notre Dame is probably the best eye test team of these three.

Right. So if it's eye test, it's Alabama is probably in trouble. Like, it's weird because we're used to Alabama being the team that, With the I test. That passes the I test better than anybody else. Well, wins. Yeah. Yeah.

So they would get in on resume more than they went on I test. Notre Dame in Miami hoping for the eye test. We also had Mario Cristobal on the show last night. We did. He gave a few of his final points before Selection Sunday. But where will you be when you take the field next? Where is this team competitively? This team is a playoff team.

Not only a playoff team, but a team that can, go deep and actually play for a national championship because of our depth, because of how balance we are. And look, and I know we've been compared to Notre Dame, we've been going back and forth, and that's the big discussion. And I think they're a heck of a team. And they did get a lot better. But, you know, that 10-game win streak, that's two group of fives, right? Then eight power fours were six of those eight. Your defenses are ranked, 105, 117, 121, 123, 127, 129. And resume building against that is different than playing Miami, where your top player

rushes for 33 yards, right? Where the defensive line gives the offensive line all they can handle. And if you look at us down the stretch right here, common opponents, we certainly were significantly better against those common opponents. And our scoring defense is two. Our scoring offense is eight. We're number one in sacks. We're number one in TFLs.

number two in turnover margin like we're playing significantly better than we were when we were number two in the country so that is something I think has been overlooked a little bit I mean it's in all that information in the hands of the committee but that is like as clear and as strong as anything that we have done and needs to be brought to the table because um I think everyone needs to see that and hear that that is Mario Cristobal we did reach out to Notre Dame did not get a response, but I do think if Marcus Freeman were joining us, he would point out that Notre Dame has gotten better as the years gone on. They're one of the hottest teams in the country right now. Their two losses are by three on the road with the first time starting

quarterback. Then in overtime against a playoff team that, well, let's be real, we all saw the holding call. Everybody missed. Yeah. That is the argument that he would make. So they've all got a case and they all can present their case with all the positives and then we can we can throw the negatives at them i don't think there's an easy choice here i think the committee is going to have to make a difficult choice and they're going to piss somebody off well and i don't know who it's going to be you know there's a third uh combination of those three teams that i haven't seen anybody project that's on the table what if alabama and miami go well that that would be them honoring the head to head and

and Notre Dame is just out. Right. That seems to be highly unlikely. From a political standpoint, based on how the playoff works, remember it is the, you know, the conferences and Notre Dame all getting together, like, pissing off Notre Dame and not pissing off a conference. Easier? Probably easier for them.

Well, here's the other thing, too. Last year when we made all these scheduling arguments about, you know, playing in the SEC and how their strength of schedule is harder and living in the SEC is more difficult on a weekend and week out basis. I always used to say, playing in the SEC, you get a benefit of that, which is your strength the schedule is harder and you can lose an extra game as long as you cancel out those losses with wins. So if you're an Alabama fan and you're looking at your resume as opposed or compared to Notre Dame,

you can say, hey, we have one more loss. Right. But we have also played a much more difficult schedule and have wins against the SEC champion and maybe the best win in the sport. If that third loss wasn't to Florida State, then again, we're probably not having this conversation. But if you want to look at it the other way, though, and say, well, their third loss is actually in a game they shouldn't have been, or not everybody had to play, and against the team they had already beaten. Yeah. Like, I think that, I mean, honestly, if I had to pick two of the three, I would probably pick Notre Dame, I mean, I'd pick Alabama and Miami over Notre Dame based on resume.

Now, like, I think that the committee is going to take Miami and Notre Dame. That's my gut feeling. But Notre Dame, I think, is probably the third, if you're going resume only. Notre Dame is the ultimate eye test team. They are. And again, they've done it before. They've done eye test before. Alabama over Florida State in 2023 was eye test.

You know what passes the eye test every time? A crisp cold medello. And listen, if ESPN keeps running commercials during this thing and dragging this out anymore, I'm going to start cracking into these. Yeah. I'm going to dive into that case right now. I mean, the second we come off the air, I'm going to crack into them anyway. So grab yourself, Medellas, say game day ready all season long, the official beer of the college football playoff.

And many Medellos will be consumed in celebration, I think, in the next few minutes, because there are some fan bases that have been waiting and waiting and waiting to see if they can get their team in the playoff. And it's not just these teams that we're worried about on the bubble that we're trying to figure out who gets in. you know, this is Ole Miss making the college football playoff for the first time. Texas Tech making the college football playoff for the first time. Indiana being deemed number one and the best team in the country right now going into the playoff. Oklahoma, which had a horrific season last year and is now going to the college football playoff.

There's going to be a lot of celebration. And I feel pretty good because one of my bold offseason predictions in August was that Oklahoma would make the playoff. Yeah, you did? And didn't you say that either Alabama or Georgia wouldn't? I did. That was wrong about that. But they might, Alabama might not.

Yeah. I don't know. We'll see. I'm kind of skeptical of everything. You've boomeranged back. Do you think Alabama's in? No, I don't think. I actually, my, my final prediction.

Final, final, final, final. I don't know, dude. I mean, we have 40 more minutes to talk before they started availing this thing. Maybe I'll, maybe we'll start doing. in next year's projected bracket. But I think that Miami and Notre Dame will be in. They will solve that debate by not having it and the team with three losses.

That loss in their conference championship game to get that third loss will not be kept. They will go backward. And unlike last year, there are teams waiting on the bubble that have two losses and quality wins that did not exist last year. And that's the way they're going to go, I think.

We'll see. I'm actually fairly confident. in that. Oh, wow. Do we need to make a bet or anything? Yeah, how about this? I mean, that matches what I said, so it doesn't really matter. If I win the bet, you never can make a bet with me again about with the stakes of running. Oh, no, we're going to make you run. One way or the other, we're going to make you run. I need to get some new shoes. He gets out of running if James Madison gets in because I felt sorry for him. I feel like I need to let him tune up a little bit because he was going to have to run five miles. And I don't run. It was just going to be, it was just going

to be a dry hack at it. It's going to be, like, he'd be fine if he practiced a little bit, but we've got to get him off his lazy ass. Yeah. I actually had a plan to practice a little bit before I started because I don't want to get you. You have a beautiful lake across from your house with running trails that are like eight miles of running trails. Please don't tell people where I live. I didn't. You kind of did. I live in Dallas and I live by a beautiful lake. Well, now you've told everybody. God dang, what's wrong with you? I didn't mention the city. I didn't do anything. Hey, you know what? You can catch me over at that.

jack in the box at the corner of Mockingbird and Abrams once every week. If you want to find me, come get me. But it's really exciting, Andy. Hold on. I'm going to answer this question from Paves. Didn't the committee already say conference championship games aren't held against your regular season rank? Well, no, they've never said

that. I think last year people got confused because nobody dropped out of the playoff from losing their conference championship games. But Texas lost to Georgia in the SEC championship game and dropped one spot. Penn State lost Oregon in the Big Ten championship game and dropped one spot.

SMU dropped two spots after losing Clemson in the ACC championship game. And here's the thing. If Alabama drops one spot, they're still in the field. If Alabama drops two spots, they're out. So I think it's starting. Is it starting? Maybe. Or are they teasing me?

They're teasing you. But they're going to, they're going to Indiana's number one. They started. They started. Indiana's number one. Yay. We made it boys and girls. We finally did it.

Indiana's number one. That's the, uh, the least intriguing thing of this bracket. but we finally did it. We're here. No more vamping, all information, no hurt feelings, just fast. Well, we got the highlight package. Here's Fernando Mendoza dicing people up. So, Fernando Mendoza will be the first Heisman winner that I would ask for help on my, like, math homework, though, right?

Like, he is like a brainiac. He is a brainiac, but yeah, he looks like a brainiac. I don't actually. Is he going to win the Heisman, do you think? I do, yeah. I saw the odds last night. Yeah, I feel like he's the overwhelming favorite now. All right, what else we got?

Where are we going, are we just going to go to two? We're going to go to two here, and it's got to be Georgia, right? got to be watching this with no volume and just like sitting on the edge of your seat is kind of crazy ohio state is number two what what okay well we can just rip up the the brackets we are we is that an indication yeah yeah uh well i guess i can understand this it was 13 to 10 ohio state had two 80 plus yard drives in the second half then just didn't make a fuel goal and didn't get it on a fourth and one um it was about as even of a game as you possibly could have had you know if indiana's clearly number if they do this and and george's three and they leave

alabama out the greg sanky rage today is going to be the question too is that like in doing this andy they've disregarded wins they've gone purely with okay so circumstance and i wonder if that tells us anything about the bracket tom in the chat says ohio state at two means Alabama is in, and I tend to agree with that. Why? What's the thought process there? Because it's them not doing anything based on the conference championship games. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a good point. It's them saying the body of work, the total body of work outweighs what happened in the conference championship. Yeah, I guess. Ohio State's total body of work was was not great either.

Georgia number three. Okay. Yeah, that's a interesting thought. I love like trying to pick up like the clues along the way. Yeah, the little red crumbs. Yeah. So Georgia looks like a team right now that can win the national title. The way Georgia has been playing towards the end of the season. Now, the Georgia Tech game is not good, but they did lose their starting center in the middle of the game. They looked very physical, fast, and athletic in the Alabama game. They did. And they look like that against Texas, too.

They impose their will in a way that they haven't done every week, but I'm assuming they'll do that more often than not in the playoff. Because when you're playing in the playoff in a dome, things tend to ramp up a little bit. All right. Show us Texas Tech. I feel like I'm a game show. Show me Texas Tech. You're not joking. There it is.

Texas Tech Red Raiders, your fourth buy. So we're out of the buys now. Texas Tech is the last buy. They will be sitting and waiting for the winner of the 512 game. Okay. And now, like, I feel like the 5 through 8 isn't as intriguing, right? Like we should be.

Definitely not. Well, we probably won't be because we don't think they're going to move it. Yeah, so I guess we could sing for a little bit. These eyes. Here's the thing. Let's give the people their shine, though, who've worked to get here. Texas Tech, this is the first college football playoff appearance for Texas Tech. The best Texas Tech team since the Michael Crabtree team in 2008 that was in the three-way tie in the Big 12 South.

And Oklahoma wound up getting into the Big 12 championship game and playing for the national championship that. year. And Texas and Texas Tech just, you know, got left out. But Texas Tech is in the tournament now. And Texas Tech has a roster that can hang with these other teams that we're talking about. Oregon is your number five. So Oregon will play the 12 seed in Eugene and the winner of that game will play against Texas Tech. Yeah. Which will be a pretty cool game, I think, too. I think Texas Tech could hang with Oregon. So if that push comes a show. We've actually seen, they played two years ago and played a pretty competitive game. Obviously, the rosters are different now. But yeah, I think that would be a very fun semifinal. Yeah. And you notice I'm not envisioning that Oregon might lose because it's either

going to be James Madison or Duke. And I'm just, I'm sorry, you're not going to get me there. Yeah. Andy, do you have the information on top of your head of like where these teams will funnel into we don't know yet. Okay. We don't know yet because I will say like with Ohio State and Georgia and the bowl situation. So Indiana will go to the Rose Bowl. Yeah. But Ohio State and Georgia, so Dallas is closer to Ohio State than Miami Gardens. Not

by much. Ole Miss number six. Yeah. So the winner of Tulane Ole Miss, which I think we can be pretty certain that that's the game. Yeah. That Tulane will be the 11 seed. We've actually seen Tulane Ole Miss this year. It happened in Oxford earlier this season. Tulane

had beaten Duke And they had, they'd beaten Northwestern. They had a couple of power four wins already. And then they went up to Oxford and just got destroyed. So we have seen this game, but now we're going to see it without Lane Kiffin. So 45 to 10 was the result of that first game. The winner of that game goes to play Georgia, and this is what we're talking about.

We're not entirely sure of bowl yet. They'll tell us today, and they'll tell us in the next hour or so. Texas A&M is your seven seat. So there will be a playoff game in college station at Kyle Field. Yeah. Now, Texas A&M is one that they're probably sitting there going, who we're going to play. Yeah. Like I think Ole Miss knows exactly who they're going to play.

I think Oregon is pretty sure who they're going to play. Yeah. A&M's like, we got no clue who we're going to play. Yeah. You know, we're clapping hands. We're in the play. And you know what? That's another thing, too.

A&M has kind of been down in the dumps. But I don't remind A&M that you're in the playoff. Yeah. This is a really big opportunity. And, like, if you, this is what I said to my friends who were A&M fans. There was like a two-minute period during the Texas game where it felt like Marcel Reed's season was over. Like, of all the bad things are going to happen that night, Oklahoma is your number eight.

But your things are not, you know, you still have a chance to define your season the way you want to. And Oklahoma, meanwhile, feels like they've had two different seasons because they had the part in the middle where John Mottier was coming off surgery and they lose. in they were just dominated by Texas in the cotton bowl you and I were at that game this is time are they going to do like a commercial break they're definitely going to do a commercial break I mean that's how I would do it my balls are in my throat right now

they're definitely going to do a commercial break so yeah Oklahoma they overcome the swoon where they lose to Texas and lose to Ole Miss they go beat Alabama and Tuscaloosa and they are 10 and 2 they are in the field yeah so the John Mateer Ben Arbuckle combination here we go Yeah, we're getting to the resume comparison, Alabama, Notre Dame. Alabama's strength of schedule significantly better than Notre Dame and Miami's. Yeah.

Oh, boy. It's happening. It's happening. Oh, Craig. It's happening. It is going to be, uh, look, somebody's going to go ape shit here. Yeah. Somebody.

Somebody's going to be really mad. The thing is, they'll reveal a team here. Now, if they reveal Alabama, do you think that means Miami's out? Yes. And if they reveal. it's alabama oh my god alabama's number nine wow wow i got it wrong why did they not go to commercial oh my god oh my god wow wow Alabama is number nine coming off the horrific loss to georgia so we think that means oh wait this means that miami and notre dame are now side by side yeah i mean there is some

intrigue but i think i know how this is going to end you think it'll be noturday yeah well this is going to be this is the only let's talk alabama though in the playoff. Alabama has has not looked great down the stretch. Now, I do think when they get Jam Miller back, which they should have Jam Miller back for that first game, that it's going to be considerably better. Alabama, Oklahoma is a rematch, by the way, in the other stadium. So that's a pretty significant, I think, a big deal for Kalin Abor, too, because missing the playoff. By the way, Kaylon Bore's 0 against Oklahoma as Alabama's coach. Yeah. Hey, but like, it would been bad optically to not make it this year.

So at least he can say they made the playoff. Well, and they also, we don't have, they played a two point game against Oklahoma. Their, their kicker missed a field goal right before the half, the one were yelled at the long snapper. Like, it was a very tight game. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

This is the one, this is, they're going to milk this for all it's worth. You know what's really tough about watching this with no volume two is that you have no idea if we're like even coming close to it. We're just staring at the screen, like waiting for something to happen. Well, you can put the close captioning. on that would that would probably help yeah so but i don't know i'm not good at reading and talking do you know this uh river miami miami wow they honored the head to head hold on ari go make sure you're on camera make sure are he's on camera hurricanes you're welcome you didn't do this they did it

they did it right they did it because they beat notre dame on the field nother dames out and And Notre Dame's out. And Notre Dame people, I'm sure, are pissed. And I don't blame them. We would think JM is going to get in. I think that's as far as the drama goes. I think we've seen the drama. Miami is in.

Did Mario Cristobal's campaign work? Or is this just they finally saw Miami and Notre Dame side by side together and said, oh, wait, maybe we should pick the team that actually won the game. Yeah. because they really their records are identical their resumes are almost identical this should have been easy

the committee didn't have to make this hard and this is what I was talking about all week where if they flipped them it will be the right thing and the committee will still look stupid for doing it yeah if the committee just did it right from the beginning like you said there would be no they wouldn't feel like somebody got screwed here this is the this is the just

this is the just outcome now if you want to have a Notre Dame Alabama discussion certainly but like I think that Alabama has but Alabama has a better resume than Notre Dame and so at the end of the day discussion at the end of the day college football again was about who you beat we took a we took a long course around about talking about losses and all this other bullshit for for a month and then at the end of the road it's who you beat we all got what did you say the one no one I was talking about was Alabama and Miami

get in and that's the one that actually happened but we we we said it this week where it was if they got side by side and i didn't think they would flip them i did not think even if they got miami side by side with notre dame that they would flip miami and notre dame but clearly they did so notre dame is the first team out i would assume bi use the second team out uh we're waiting i don't know why we're waiting for them to flip toulain over we know that's toulain and 11 so now i'm actually nervous for the real first time which is am i going to have to run five miles like around like at Orgeron's neighborhood or am I going to get to just relax? Oh, we're definitely doing it in order at Orgeron's neighborhood.

In fact, I'm going to text Coach O and get the running trail. Yeah. If we see Duke pop up, which I still don't think is going to happen. But if we see Duke pop up, I will text Coach O and I will get him to send me the map of his running trail. Yeah. He says he'll enjoy it. Yep. They're not going to flip.

They're not flipping Tulane's card, but Tulane will be the 11th scene unless. something crazy happens. Yeah. There's Tulane. Tulane's number, so now this is the last intrigue. And Tulane was number 20. So we get that little piece of information.

Tulane finished number 20. The fact that they ranked JMU on Tuesday, I think is why there is really no question about what they'll do. Yep. Because if it was a mystery, like if JMU had not been ranked on Tuesday, and you didn't know where JMU was ranked

and you didn't know where Duke was ranked, then they could just, pick one. Yeah. But now I think they can't just pick one of the two. I think they got to they got to go with the one. Because we said this last night, was Duke 26 or was Duke 49? And with five losses, you're probably closer to 49 than you're out of 26. Yeah. This is, this is the, uh, this is a just bracket. I feel good about that. It's just. And I know that like I, James Madison is your 12. Yes. And they finished at number 24. Yeah. Ari does not have to run.

And I will never. You know what? Maybe we'll run together three miles leisurely, though, just because it's good for us. Down South Beach? Yeah, I'm in. Okay. All for it. But yeah, so I think that the committee told you on, on Keith in the chat says Duke winning got Miami in.

I don't know if that's the case, but. Yeah, we went from zero ACC teams to two pretty quickly, didn't we? Yeah. So Stephen in the chest This Big Ten and the SEC Finally put the screws on Notre Dame I don't think that's what happened here I think it was them looking and saying

Notre Dame's best win is USC And everybody else has better best wins Yeah But and that Miami won the game Yep But I don't think this was The Big Ten in the SEC This will be a talking point

know, should Notre Dame join a conference now? Does Notre Dame have to join a conference now? Notre Dame does not have to join a conference now. Notre Dame just needs to win the marquee games it plays. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to, like, when USC lost to Illinois, we went live and I expressed how important that loss would be for them later on in the season. When Notre Dame lost their second game, I got into it about not controlling their own destiny,

although they tend into it. And who you beat matters, dude. It's the king of the sport. And I'm happy that it's still the king. of the sport. That means scheduling hard games is actually the route in and veering off of that, not that Notre Dame did, but others teams that will complain about extra games that they lost.

I want to help. The property of having a big win is always going to be important. I want to help everybody out here. So TechMetak says, Andy, it wasn't the big 10 of the SEC. It was Disney and Fox. Guys, if you like a highly rated tournament, you don't kick Notre Dame out of it. So it wasn't any TV. network that did that. I promise you they would have rather had Notre Dame in. Yes. And like them playing

anybody automatically bruce up there. You know, like that's. Yeah, that's that. I think everybody wants there always to be a huge conspiracy theory as to why something happened. Here's the conspiracy theory. They didn't play anybody good. And the two teams that they did, they lost to. That's it. It's not a TV executive. It's not a puppeteer moving. They didn't have the resume. You could have, you know, you get fooled in this like chamber of information all year of like, propped up debates and you know and by the way Vegas doesn't know anything about who's going to get in yeah I don't care if there are minus 1,000 we went to sleep last night they're not in that room Notre Dame was an even bigger lock according to to Vegas before we came in here

that was the craziest part so you know I am going to write this I'm happy that whatever happened here today or what did happen here today at least as a defensible model where resume and who you beat and what you did is factored into what people think. Alabama and Miami have proven more than Notre Dame against quality opponents that they can play at that level and emphasizing the results of the games won out. And I'm happy we don't live in a fantasy world where our eye test or our preconceived or our notions in general guide the ship because our notions are stupid. The people on the committee, their notions, they don't know anything more than we do,

more than I do more than you do. what happened has to take priority and it did today and I think that's a positive. All right, are we got games now. Okay. We have matchups. Which one of you,

and I'm not even going to pretend to be excited about Tulane Ole Miss or JMU, Oregon, because I'm not. But what are you excited about of the two games that deserve excitement in the first round? Which do you think will be better? Alabama at Oklahoma, a rematch of a game that we saw in Tuscaloosa less than a month ago. Okay.

Or. Miami at Texas A&M. I think Miami at Texas A&M. I think so too. I'm just always more intrigued at seeing games I haven't seen. Well, I think Alabama, Oklahoma is going to be intriguing too because it was a two-point game the first time. It could be crazy.

Yeah. And Miami, Texas A&M is kind of like the matchup that's like the stepbrother of like the debate. Because Notre Dame- It's the teams that beat Notre Dame. It's crazy because Miami and Texas A&M had a home-and-home. home not long ago they got home and home a couple years ago but that was during the jimbo fisher era at a and m so this is miami's chance all that stuff so we had mario christopher on the show monday we had mario christopher on the show last night all that stuff he said now's your chance to back it up

yeah because that's the thing with miami the knock against miami is they don't show up at times yeah they have all the talent in the world they don't show up you better show up at kyle field yeah uh i think they will and like i also think too that like a and m a lot of people went to like fraud land a little bit got a really easy draw on the SEC didn't play anybody good played a team that's pretty good lost like a and m has a chance too to make a statement and to do something there um you know and like that to me is two teams that we have thought at points in the season are equipped to make a deep run playing each other in the first round going on the road is going to be insane it's going to be fun. I'm very intrigued by that matchup. Those are going to be fun. The other two, I think

that will be the next takeaway. So whoever's angry is going to be mad. We'll probably get a strongly worded letter from Pete Bivok with the Notre Dame AD. Yeah, sure. Go for it. The next reaction is going to be wait a second. Why are they seating half of the first round for games that don't seem competitive at all. Yeah. Well, what does your take on it, man? Let's just talk about it. Like, let's be real about it. Do you think they should be in or not? Well, you want everyone to feel included because one, you don't want them to sue. And, but here's the thing. They're not playing the same sport. And it might be time to admit that. And if we do that, then let's just give them their own title game. Well, right, but they don't want to do that because they would not get as much

money from that. Yeah. And so they would fight that legally. So do you want, do you want the money or do you want the competitive? I don't think you get both. I think, I think that the group of five is lucky to be able to sit at the table. And you have to decide what's more important to you, sitting at the table and eating the high quality food or being your own chef.

Yeah. Now, I would love if one of these teams goes in and upset somebody. I think it would be awesome if one of these teams goes in and upset somebody. I just, we, we've already seen one of the games in 45 to 10. like Tulane's a good team. Tulane was the best team in the American in maybe the best year the American has had in terms of quality depth at the top

and they went to Oxford earlier this year and got smoked. Now, again, you're playing the game again. It's hard to beat a team twice. Maybe it's more competitive this time. Oregon JMU is not going to be competitive. I would love if it was. I would love if it was, but it's not going to be.

Yeah. And then like Oregon's, you know, some of the teams that are facing these teams that are overmatched in the first round. basically have a built-in-by. You get up by, you know, 20 in the second quarter and you start working some of your younger players in getting experience.

And I actually think there's something to be said. And I wonder if you asked Dan Lanning, what's the truth serum? Sodium pentothal? Sodium pentothal, if like, hey, would you rather play a warm-up game against a team that can't beat you? You know, get your guys out there,

hit, get the pads going on. Or would you rather sit out for another two weeks and take your rest after what happened last year? I think he might take the- Dan Lanning of all people will be like, yes, please, give us JMU. That's perfect. actually think that there's a column to be written or a point to be made about how Oregon

actually got a pretty advantageous path. And it could be the inverse of what happened last year. Oregon flew high all year during the last season. What went undefeated, won the Big Ten. All that stuff was the unequivocal number one seed, all that stuff. And then they got a long layoff before playing Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. And Ohio State was, you know, running on all cylinders after what they did to Rivers Tennessee Volunteers in Columbus. And then there was just a buzzsaw. Like, I wonder if Oregon is going to do the opposite of that. If they're going to be in that situation where they're playing well, they're feeling good, everybody, love everybody,

and they show up to one of these teams that doesn't buy and beats the crap out of them. I don't know. It'll be interesting. Yeah, and we're waiting on BetMGM to release the spreads on these games. We'll talk about that when that happens. We should get those fairly soon as well. I am curious. Let's check with our friend Parker Fleming's website,

since we are waiting on the pros at BedmGM to. to give us the matchups. But let's do Miami at Texas A&M. What is the spread on that game? I am very curious. I bet you Miami would be, well, that's a really tough road environment.

It is very loud. Miami will be a three and a half point favorite or a four point favorite in that game. Miami would be a two and a half point favorite. Okay, so kind of right, right? All right. Let's now put Alabama in Norman. We've seen it once.

I think Alabama's going to wind up being in favor. in this one by by two and a half yeah Alabama uh you know Oklahoma's offense needs the you know Alabama by half a point so it's essentially a pick him pick them yep okay which is I got to say that's what you want in your eight nine game eight nine is supposed to be a pickam yep so yeah I'll take that do we want do we dare do we want to do James Madison and Oregon wonder if it's like 22 and a half or something like that 23 and a half I think I did this a few days ago, and it was not as bad as you would have thought. Yeah.

We'll see. Oh, did you? Was that 10? It's only 10. Yeah. So, Oregon by 10. That isn't bad. And then we'll do Tulane and Ole Miss as well, just because I'm curious. Now, I think having seen that game, it's going to be hard to believe a low spread if it is. Yeah. It's a 13 point spread. Yeah. So almost by 13.

Yeah. Which makes sense. Yeah. But, so, how do you feel i'm not super mad about it and my thing was they were going to have to leave out somebody good and this again is why you don't move past 12 i know the leagues want to go to 16 they're probably going to go to 16 but it's okay if you leave out somebody good that has flaws that didn't get everything done that you know here's here's an important thing too the cc was pissed last year on this day yeah the SEC while when within one game in the loss column of another team that does not play in the SEC was rewarded for their schedule this year so all the crap that they said last year about not playing tough games and all that stuff Alabama's tough schedule and their 40 winning streak it got them against good teams got them in the field playing tough games matters well and just as disgusting hypocrisy with Bama and BYU

No. Bama's better than BYU. Like that's why they put them in the field. And Alabama has more wins, right? Yeah. So, I mean, it's resume I test. Well, no, they don't have more wins. They don't have more ones. No, no, more quality.

Quality wins. Yes, yes, correct. But yeah, it's going to be a great. And I'm excited to break this stuff down. And I think that you have a lot of the traditional powers. I'm curious. Lou, Lee says cry, Andy, what am I crying about? This don't.

That they put James Madison and over Duke? I'm not crying about that. I'm not crying about that. Yeah, I think I'm fine with the way they did it. Yeah. Because I don't have a rooting interest. I don't really care if Alabama, Miami, or Notre Dame got in. I just was interested in how they were going to arrange it.

And this was the arrangement that actually when you break it down makes the most sense. But it's the one that none of us were really touting going into the morning. But actually, now that I zoom out, I think it makes the most sense. It does. I think, and I think it's the most defensible. And it's interesting, and I'll say I was wrong, because everybody, like, I had people texting me Tuesday night after the rankings, oh, they're going to flip Miami, Notre Dame. They're going to flip Miami, Notre Dame.

And I was like, no, they've already told us how they feel about that. Yeah. But everybody else was right. As soon as they got them together, they flipped them. Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's a weird method, but they did it. And I'm happy they did. I'm happy they did the right thing.

I feel like doing the right thing is a good thing. Doing the right thing is a good thing. Yeah. All the time. We got a bracket. We'll, of course, be talking a ton about this as we get more toward the games. The games are Friday of next week, Saturday of next week. It is going to be so much fun this college football playoff.

The second round looking very fun. Yeah, can't wait. Very fun. This is where the seating not being all per quacky like it was last year. Because like Tulane would be the four. Yeah, Andy. The cool thing about this bracket is. is you have traditional powers, Ohio State, Alabama, and Georgia.

Yep. You have powers of the past who haven't gotten to the mountain top. Miami, Oregon, Oklahoma, although Oregon's probably closer to Ohio State. Yeah, I think Oregon's kind of a power. You've got your new blood, Indiana and Texas, Tech. Yep. You've got your group of five flavor, Tulane, James Madison. In terms of a well-rounded bracket, like this looks like the sport.

Yeah, this looks like the sport. So I don't know how it's going to play out, but I think there's some. intrigue between you know old money new money we have some intrigue with big and small we have some intrigues some controversy of teams that believe they should get in and i think that this is this is the system like i honestly with the way that today went this is the perfect system don't change it yeah don't change it but they're going to change it unfortunately but 12 is the right number i'm telling you right now you have a good team sitting or left out that could have played better in one game and would be in like that that's really all it is and that's okay

you don't want to just be grabbing from the bottom of the barrel or not the bottom of the barrel but the you don't want to be grabbing from the mid and just throwing him in to populate a bracket like it should be good teams and that's fine yeah that's fine that's enough so i'm sorry for notre dame and and look if notary dame had gotten in this bracket i think notre dame could have won games in this bracket yeah but again i'm all right with that i don't think you go to 16 just because of that Yeah, it's a tough. Notre Dame is a very good team. I'm not celebrating in Notre Dame's.

I like this better than last year when it felt like at the end of the at-larges, you just didn't feel like there were a lot of teams that were going to have much success. We're not celebrating in Notre Dame's disappointment. And I want to make that clear. No, it's not cool. A very good team. Yeah. A team that I think literally could win the national title.

I am taking celebration in the fact that the system is operating in the way that it's supposed to. Yeah. Is that a fair? Yes. okay yeah so whether or not they had a bad break or you know they got that holding call torpedo the season like there's things to feel remorseful about there are things to yeah i mean be upset about on an extra point like all of those different things that you know but the winning the margins in winning a national championship in college football is that you know they say it's a game of

inches it really is so um you know yeah but i i think that we you know we have bowls we have bowls Tech versus the Oregon James Madison winner in the Orange Bowl. Indiana versus the Alabama, Oklahoma winner in the Rose Bowl, Georgia versus the Ole Miss Tulane winner in the Sugar Bowl, Ohio State versus the Miami A&M winner in the Cotton Bowl. Yeah. So this is the semis look really good. Yeah. Bama, Oklahoma is your Friday night game. Your noon game on Saturday is Miami, Texas A&M.

So you can tell which games got sold to TNT. Like we didn't even need to know which games were going to be on TNT. James Madison, Oregon's on T&T, 730 Eastern on December 20th. And then Tulane Ole Miss is on T&T, 3.30 Eastern on December 20th. Ari, you know what this means? We're probably going to try to do. Yeah, yeah. We're driving all night, baby.

Okay, help me out here. We're going to Norman on Friday night. And then we're getting that. We're going down I-35. We're going to Arbuckle Mountain, Friday. fried pies if they're still open. Do we go to my house on the way? Your house is on the way.

Okay. That's probably where we're sleeping. I don't want you to like push me past that. I'm going to be tired. We're going to sleep for like an hour, but. Okay. I know. And then we're headed to college station.

Well, you can say hello to the little livy. I can. Okay. Yeah. That's great. All right. Double dippers. Let's go.

We got a playoff. We got Modelo. Crack open a Modelo. It's been a long hard season, everybody. So whether your team made the playoff or didn't make the playoff. Crack a medello. Enjoy your Sunday. we have a lot of college football

playoff matchups to talk about and we will talk to you again very soon.