Andy & Ari On3 - Let's COMPLAIN live as the College Football Playoff rankings are revealed

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

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Welcome to Andy and Ariane 3 presented by Wendy's. It is a special college football playoff selection. The rankings edition. This is the weird week where they squeeze the rankings announcement between a couple of basketball games. So basically we have already the amount of time it takes Duke and Kentucky players to warm up to find out who's in the top 25. It'll go faster than last week.

Yeah, I know. It's always a nice reminder of how much fouling occurs at the end of basketball games, especially at the college level. It's like, what is the score that you have to get to before you just lost? Like you have to get down 11? Tom Izzo decided it was eight. Down eight with with nine seconds to go was when he decided to concede down eight with nine seconds to go was when he decided to concede. Down six with about 15 seconds to go, not time yet. Andy, I think that the shooting percentage from three on the team that's losing in the game leading into the playoff reveal is shooting 100%.

So I don't think anyone's ever missed a shot if it keeps the score close. But I'm happy we're here. I'm excited to be outraged. I don't know what that's gonna look like tonight. Who are we looking at in terms of this is gonna be the rage? The rage. I don't know about rage.

I think the two I'm most curious about are how far do Georgia and Miami drop? Because they were Georgia was three in Miami was four both of them lost it's obviously Georgia second loss, but they also have a Texas win to buoy them and Miami doesn't have a great win to buoy them, but they lost to Georgia Tech. So my suspicion is Georgia will still be ranked higher than Miami. I just don't know how much higher and how far away like I think Georgia might still be in an at-large type spot. I don't think Miami will be.

Yeah, I think that it's interesting because the thing that was propping up Alabama was beating Georgia and then Alabama gets hot and now the thing that's going to prop up Georgia is Texas. You know, like it's like it goes around and you know, I have this theory and I think it's true, but if there are no teams like 2020 Alabama and 2021 Georgia in the SEC, like there is no team that is up in a way. And I don't think there are. I think, I think we've established that. What you're doing here, Andy, is you're cultivating a scenario where everybody is pretty good. And when everybody is pretty good and nobody is elite, it makes it much harder for somebody to get separation because it's such a daunting schedule. And what you're seeing here is you have seven SEC teams that could finish the season with two losses in conference play, and then

it's impossible to decipher who is what, and they're all propping each other up at the same time. And maybe the truth is that none of them have a elite win that should buoy you over teams from another conference, but we'll never find that out because of the non-conference schedule and how little we found out in terms of how good the S like my suspicion is the SEC is the best conference in college football. But do we know that? Like, do we know that beyond the shadow of a doubt? Apparently has never watched the NFL playoffs.

He says after conference championships in any sport, there should never be buys. No excuse for giving top seeds one fewer game to win the title. Actually, the excuses they were the best in the regular season and therefore earned the right to have the easier path to the title. Yeah, they do that in the NFL too. So I don't know if you want to change that one. I mean, there's a reason the one seeds in the NFL too. So I don't know. If you want to change that one, I mean, there's a reason the one seeds in the basketball tournament get to play the 16 seeds. Yeah.

It is it is an interesting concept because. You want to reward the teams that do it to make sure that the regular season matters, but at the same time, too, having to buy in college football doesn't guarantee the easiest path. So it's kind of like a weird dynamic. Yeah, it is a strange situation because the way, and look, we've not seen this actually happen yet. They haven't actually played one of these.

We're already saying what five's gonna look like, what, you know, so kind of, I would like to see this play out because we've talked about five may not be the catbird seed. Six may be, or six may be the worst spot. Like we just don't know yet. And I still already wanna see if Boise State, if they move up from 12,

and I don't know if they're going to, but if they move up from 12, and I don't know if they're going to, but if they move up from 12, things get very interesting. If Army beats Notre Dame next week, things get interesting. Yeah, BYU is nine. I don't know if you meant to say Boise. Boise is 12. No, I said Boise State. If Boise State is not 12, if Boise State is 11 or 10 and they went out, that's where they're going to be seated. And everybody has always assumed they'll just be 12. Right. Right. I'm also curious too about what's done with BYU because I think a lot of people

felt like they were under ranked last week because they actually have some quality wins that I don't think are accounted for and we did see a lot of the brand bias stuff a week ago and I think Joel Klatt had this and we were going to talk about it on the show we didn't get around to doing it yet but you know he compared Indiana's resume to Georgia's resume a year ago and they're almost identical and Georgia checked in at number two. Um, because being a big time team that we expect to be good is confirmation bias, regardless of the schedule that you play in smaller teams or, or less. Big brand teams who do the same exact thing, don't get that same benefit of the

doubt. So I'm interested to see what they do with BYU and Indiana after another week of wins. And both of those wins were ugly. So that is kind of an interesting thing. Yeah. And like, honestly, like what you do with the SEC is going to be the most fascinating because they've all kind of beaten each other and they all have the same record basically. So like, how do you how do you order that? basically. So like, how do you how do you order that? Mm hmm. Well, and, you know, the SEC bias thing, because you're like, people like your guy, Douglas Maurice are going to say, well, there's nothing that says the SEC is actually good. You're just saying these teams are good because they've beaten other SEC teams, which doesn't necessarily prove anything. Now, I think you can watch the games and look at the athletes on the field and go,

yeah, those are pretty good teams, but. They didn't have any great non-conference wins. Yeah, Jordan Clemson is the best non-conference win the SEC had. Yeah, with the SEC, Andy, in the past, they had unquestionably better rosters. So I don't even know if I would use the word bias because it's just factual. You know, it used to be factual and that is becoming more and more not the case. As we talk about the sport flattening.

Yes. So as SEC continues to get the benefit of the doubt of the way that we perceived them two years ago, we have to, I mean, I'm having the biggest, hardest time of anybody trying to figure out. Texas blowing out Michigan is a big SEC non-conference win. Zach, have you watched Michigan play the rest of the season? They're not very good. Yeah. And then you also have a team in A&M who lost at home in the opener to Notre Dame, which is a team that people like to, you know, pile on. So, you know, I'm not saying they're not at best. They lost to the team that lost to Northern Illinois the next week. You know, the thing, Andy, is, is that I'll let it slide this year. But if we're still doing the SEC is the best without

the results in five years, then I think we have to catch up to that. Yeah, I mean, but the thing is, like, if there's four years of the SEC teams just kick the crap out of everybody in the playoff Sure, sure then but I think you're right. Don't you feel like they have to re-earn it though? You should it should be based on what you do this season And now if they do this SEC big ten challenge that they're talking about doing where they're playing You know trying to match up good on good between the SEC and the Big 10 every year. That would be awesome because it would give us

a little basis for comparison. Okay, we've got rankings. Tulane 25, Army is 24. Army 24, I wouldn't worry about where they are now. They will either beat Notre Dame or not. I don't know that they will beat Notre Dame. We saw Navy against Notre Dame. It's going to be very hard for a service academy to beat Notre Dame.

LSU checking in one spot ahead of Mizzou, 22 and 23. And South Carolina checking in at 21 might be a tough call for a liability. Which helps the SEC's arguments. Yes, right, right. LSU's win over Ole Miss, obviously propping them up in South Carolina is just like, I was talking to Mitch Light, my old editor, who's a Vanderbilt guy. And he said of all the teams that Vandy has played this year, if he took the helmet off, he felt that South Carolina was the best team they played this year, which, you

know, I'm not saying he's the... And they just played Texas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's the chief person of identifying that, but I thought it was an interesting comment. He made Clemson's number 20 at seven and two. Well, and here's the thing. Somebody asked in the chat, Josh asked in the chat, should Missouri be ranked? Missouri and South Carolina play this weekend.

One of them is not going to be ranked after this. Yeah, don't worry about that. And Louisville now jumps into the top 20, which props up some resumes in the EPC. And you could see the Cardinals keep moving up too. That's, they're the interesting one. Cause if they settle at like 16 or 15, that affects Notre Dame, that affects Miami, that affects SMU. I've been doing the list, Andy,

of teams still technically alive to make the playoff. And I've had Washington State there. They're moved up three spots to 18. I don't know if they're actually alive. If there's a way they could be an at large or not. If they keep winning, that's interesting. And then Colorado jumped up to 17 here, Andy. Yeah, and Colorado's in control of its own destiny. Like Colorado's not going to be an at large if they win the Big 12 they're in. They have to keep winning and they'll play for the Big 12 title. So they're in good shape. Yeah, the outrage usually comes with teams that don't control their own destiny. And it's like, you can get outraged about Indiana, but they're not going to control their own destiny if they lose to Ohio State. Colorado has everything ahead of it. Kansas State number 16. They because they beat Colorado. They had to put him one spot ahead. Yeah, and they have the same record. So that the farmageddon game for Kansas

State will be interesting, but I would think even at 7, let's say Kansas State loses. You know one of the next three and it's farmageddon. I think there's still a top 25 team but yeah Texas A&M at 15 down one that now they didn't they didn't play uh but they they lost to South Carolina the week before they're still old miss jumping into the top 15 though I think you're right because Ole Miss was 16 week. And Texas A&M is in control of everything in front of it because Texas A&M plays Texas.

And each one only has one SEC loss. SMU was the second team out, which means they are 14, right? Uh, that would be how I did that. This is a good at math. Also, also there's a number 14 next to them on the TV. I'm watching on my iPad and I just got some. Okay, got some ointment from my daughter's. So they've got boys. He stayed at 13 this week. So that that moving Ole Miss up, dropped Boise State down. So Boise State would still be in

the bracket. But remember, I was talking about maybe they moved up from 12, they actually moved down one. First team out, Georgia. Okay, that's what I said in bracketology. I'm surprised they went there. We, me and you, we're on it. Yeah, look at us. would have thought not me I

Am surprised they went there I really am I didn't think that was gonna happen Yes, it'll be this is interesting here war manual talk, Georgia Yeah, and you know like everybody in the SEC with two or few losses like they could jump back up to seven next week if they will be. Oh, I have to beat Tennessee. Yeah, they beat Tennessee. They're safely in. They're feeling good. Now I will say about us nailing that though.

Are we are we worried about Georgia against Georgia Tech? Or not yet. I think I'm worried about Georgia against Tennessee, but like I definitely worried about Georgia against Tennessee, but also Nikolay, you know, E.M. Ali Abbas in concussion protocol. So, yeah, okay. They, Josh Heiple seems to think he's, he's good Ole Miss. Okay.

Is number 11 and they'd be your 11 seed. And I think it makes sense that they're behind Alabama because Alabama has a similar resume with better results, right? Right. They, Alabama's beaten Georgia, Alabama beat LSU in Tiger Stadium at night, Ole Miss lost to LSU in Tiger Stadium at night. I'm on Alabama in the top seven right now, I don't know if you are. I can see that.

I'm curious to see where they put Alabama relative to Penn State and Indiana, because I struggled with that in bracketology. But this also means Miami Miami still in, right? Yep, Alabama is 10, so that's how on it I was. So Miami didn't drop far at all. No. Wow. I think we were seeing that turn the ACC into one big league.

Maybe it didn't. Because you would think Andy that Miami would have been the first team out in Georgia would have been like 11 and 10. And if Miami found itself at 12, Georgia was 12 or Georgia was 11 and Alabama was 10, that would have made sense to me. But Miami, they have at number nine and slotted as the ACC champion at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. So they got them as the ACC. So they're still calling the ACC a one bid league. The question is, would they just flip flop Miami and SMU if SMU wins that game? If they play each other in the ACC championship, or would Miami not

drop? Well, I guess Miami would have to only drop two spots. Notre Dame checks in at number eight. So Notre Dame would get a, Notre Dame would have to go on the road because Boise State is grabbing a spot and Miami is moved up. So Notre Dame would be going to Knoxville. And again, Tennessee's moving one way or another this week. We don't know if they're going up or down. But Tennessee either solidifies a home game, but also solidifies a chance to get a buy because if they win, they

have a chance to make the SEC Championship game they would. They would need to beat Vanderbilt, which is not not the easiest thing in the world. But that is that's really interesting. I mean, that would be a hell of a matchup to you. Why you up to number six Andy? I think that's a. That's a nice significant move there. I think that's three spots higher than last week and I think that's a deserve. Why are they up? They didn't look that good. Yeah, I think that they were misranked last week. Well, this means Penn State and Indiana are your next, I think the next, well, we're gonna see

Texas somewhere in here, but Penn State and Indiana are probably your next two that we're gonna see. Yeah. How do you feel about that? I'm excited to see. I'm excited to see if the committee like read my column last week. You think it was just you? Yeah. You don't think I'm taking credit if Indiana is ranked ahead of Penn State in Texas? I don't think they'll be ranked ahead of Penn State, but I think I think it'll be Indiana next and then Penn State. Yeah. We shall see there. They're hustling through these today. Already they got. They got do Kentucky to play.

It's just kind of the way that they should do it every week. If we're being honest, just like let's get through it. Let us analyze it, but. Now that we said that now they're they're having a long conversation. I'm gonna chat for a little while

because they know Indiana. They know everybody's waiting. Indiana is 5. I told you they weren't a little while, because they know everybody's waiting. Indiana's five. I told you they weren't gonna be ahead, but they're five. Yeah, I'm not gonna get remat over the same thing. Like we, they've already, if you'll make a decision, that's the thing that the committee-

Alabama would be going to Bloomington for God's sake. Yeah. Wow. Andy. What a world. When it comes to decisions that the committee makes, you rarely see them change their mind for no reason, right? Like you wouldn't see them ranked ahead of Penn State this week all of a sudden because it's like they put their line in the sand and then that line in the sand exists and there's no such thing as precedent from previous years, but I think there's precedent from previous rankings. Does that make sense? Yeah. Producer River asked a really good question. What is the spread with Alabama playing in Bloomington? He says Bama minus three and a half. I say Bama minus eight and a half.

Yeah, I think Alabama will be closer to a 10-point favorite. Yeah, I think Alabama will be closer to a 10 point favorite. Penn State for be much. I don't think they'd be over. I don't think they'd be a double digit favorite because I think Indiana does have the respect of the committee. So for Penn State, which puts them in the six to Ohio State one, Oregon should be the way that this ends because there's no reason this would be headed to State College.

That'd be that's weird. Is there a way that we could determine what the Friday game is or do they do that later? They do that later, but I would suspect there's a good chance it's a West Coast game. Because it's at night. And the other now there's only one time slot you couldn't use on the West Coast and that's at that noon Eastern. OK, so they got Texas number three and is the SEC champ. So they'd be the two seed, which

means Ohio State's number two and the five seed. And just so you guys understand this, because it took me a second to figure it out. But the committee isn't projecting forward. They're just slotting the highest ranked team from the conference as the conference champion right now. So don't be confused that they're like that as a understand that Ohio state and Indiana could move if Indiana would have to win. Uh, but like, like I said about lower in the rankings with, with South Carolina and Missouri, where they're right next to each other, one of them is moving when they lose this week.

The committee isn't saying they think Miami will beat BYU. They're just putting them there because they're the highest ranked ACC team at the moment, but I guess in theory, if you rank somebody higher, it means you think you'd beat, they'd beat them. But like, it's not a projection. It's just a slot for now. Ohio State two, Oregon one. Okay.

Is there anything here that makes you upset? I'm pretty subdued right now. I'm not super upset. And look, if the SEC wants to prove its dominance, it can go, it can have two teams go on the road and prove that. Like you, if this were the actual bracket, which it won't be because some of these teams have to play each other. Alabama going to Indiana and Ole Miss going to Penn State would be a great, like that would be the thing everybody's wanted to see. Because the, the, the Douglas Marissa's of the world have always said, well, what would

happen if an SEC team had to come up and play in the cold? And the SEC guys are like, we have jackets. So I would love to see it. We would know. I think Indiana could win that game. I do too. I absolutely do. If Indiana can beat Ohio State, Indiana can beat Alabama. Yeah.

I think that this is all very rational. Like I don't know that I feel fired up because I already got fired up about the thing that I got fired up last week. Well, your grand bias thing like Indiana and Penn State being one spot apart. Like you don't have to worry, you don't you shouldn't feel too worried about the grand. Here's here's what bothers me, though, Andy, is that Penn State already has a loss to Ohio State at home baked in, and if Indiana loses to Ohio State, they will now fall to number nine, 10 or 11.

They won't be in the same place when they would like, oh, let's say Indiana loses by a touchdown to Ohio State and doesn't score an offensive touchdown. They should be ranked the same as Penn State. They shouldn't move in theory, right? But like the strength of schedule for Penn State is carrying a lot of weight. And there isn't a really big marquee win there. So it's like, I guess that's like threading the needle of scheduling. Like schedule a, a bunch of teams or get lucky enough to have a bunch of teams on your schedule that aren't elite, but pretty good, and then fool everybody into thinking you have some sort of hard path to get here, which isn't the case for them. So yeah. Tennessee better have Nico fully ready to play on Saturday. That

would be such a Oh, I'll do respect to Gaston more. But yeah, we would like to see Nico in this game. They're showing that. George's got 28 consecutive home wins. Tennessee has lost seven in a row to Georgia all by 14 or more. My other favorite stat going into this game Ari. You know that Dylan Sampson has 12 more rushing yards than

George's entire team. It doesn't surprise me. But I don't know that non running team are doing a lot of rushing washing carries. If Gaston Moore has to play. Will you repeat that? Sorry. How many Gaston gifts from Beauty and the Beast are we gonna get if Gaston Moore has to play? Oh, man, you got a you got a three-year-old daughter, dude

You're gonna you're gonna be all up in Beauty and the Beast. We haven't Gotten into that yet. She's into the new animation We haven't done the the classics yet. Like I think the only one we've watched is Lion King and she's not interested She's into like Moana and the yeah, she's she's a Pixar movies. She's gonna love them. Just telling you right now and Gaston he's not he's not that dude. Does a lot of one-handed push-ups though. She has a rash on the back of her leg and I put cream on it and I put that cream in my eye and I'm like my eye is burning right now. This is like when you took the death chip, when you ate the death chip and put the dust in your eye. I have a problem.

You just need to wear gloves at all times. I thought there was two. I touch my face a lot for no reason. And I don't know if it's a nervous tick or whatever, but I do touch my face quite a bit, which is remarkable because I have such great skin, you would think I'd break out more. Oh, Ari.

I mean, you said you're feeling pretty subdued about this. Like what question would you want to ask? I'm thinking the one question I'd want to ask Ward-Manuel, and I actually would rather ask the entire committee because I realize that they have disagreements, but Ward-Manuel will come out and act like they all agreed on this stuff. I think my question would be, what made you think Miami didn't need to drop farther? What made you think Georgia needed to drop as far as they did? Because I don't necessarily have a problem with them dropping Georgia the way they did, but I kind of think they probably needed to

drop Miami in a similar fashion. I just, I, yeah, that's a good question. I have another one and I don't want people to feel like I'm picking on Penn State. So let's use Texas. In the lower portion of the poll, you have teams that have a more impressive resume, ranked with, but with an extra loss ranked ahead of teams with fewer losses, right? Like in the SEC, you have South Carolina, who's a 3-loss team ranked ahead of Mizzou, for instance. So obviously, the losses aren't the only thing that you take into account. But my question is, SMU is a 2-loss team, and they have one fewer loss than both Texas and Penn State. But SMU also has more quality wins. So it's not about whether SMU should be ranked ahead of Penn State or Texas. I think that it's fine that they're not, but why is SMU 11 spots behind them? And it's like the strength of schedule thing is important. And I get it. The ACC isn't as deep as the Big Ten and the SEC.

A better question. Why is SMU below Miami? They play in the same conference. SMU's loss is to a better question why is SMU below Miami they play in the same conference Yes, you lost SMU's losses to a better team. They've both beaten the same Good team that's kind of booing them. That's Louisville The Duke game for SMU is It looks good. I'm Miami's beaten Duke as well But yeah, I don't like what, what's the difference between

Miami and FSMU at this point? So my assumption is that SMU strength of schedule metric is probably pretty low. Um, right. So they're not rewarding for anything. How is Florida holding up Miami that much? Yeah. And you know, the hardest thing about this, Andy, year over year, is that they don't rank teams with consistent thinking. Like, I feel like if you value a metric for one team, you have to value that same metric for every team. And they don't hold everybody in the same regard when it comes to those things that they value. And that's what makes it inconsistent and difficult.

Jefferson in the chat says, SMU has more quality wins than Texas. Are you effing high? Can we see Texas's schedule? Jefferson, feel free to chime in in the chat. I'd like you to tell me what Texas's best win is here. It's Vanderbilt. Where's Texas's where when? Oh, it doesn't exist. So SMU has a win over the 19 team. So that's more right ones more than zero. One is more than zero. That is correct. Yeah. So that a math show, but I wasn't sure. But but this is this is the thing.

Like, he's just assuming that Texas has a quality win, because Texas plays in the SEC, and all these other SEC schools have quality wins. But Texas, because of the quirks of the schedule, they haven't played anybody that good except Georgia, and they lost to them. Yeah. And again, we came into the season believing that Texas was going to be a

national championship contender and they haven't done anything yet, maybe outside of losing to Georgia by a million or what felt like a million to change that. So they're still pre-season baked in notions about Texas that do not, that exist for them that do not exist for other teams. And they're not even get credit for Arkansas if they win there just because like Arkansas has gotten shelled by LSU and Ole Miss now. You know what would be electric is if Texas and SMU played in the playoff. Oh my God, that would be amazing or A& M and SMU either one and M and SMU like if they play in the playoff That they both need to have a different colored trans am on on their side of the field. Can we make that happen?

Is that possible? Yeah, you know the SMU disrespect SMU is the most under ranked team here Right SMU in. SMU is the most under ranked team here. Right. SMU and Miami are the same, but one is five spots lower than the other. More people know who Cam Orders and Kevin Jennings. That's your answer. Correct. Yeah. Correct. And so I'm not convinced that Miami would beat SMU.

I think they would, but I think they could definitely lose. The good thing about that one is we're probably going to get to see it. So that's that takes care of itself. The Texas Texas A&M thing is going to be amazing. As long as A&M doesn't spit the bit against Auburn or Texas doesn't lose to Arkansas. Yeah, Kentucky, I guess. Yeah. I asked you this before.

We didn't have time to get to it because the teams are coming out. Do you think Washington state has any path to the field as an at large? No, because of who they're lost to and how, how they lost it. They're going to be behind Boise state. No, but I'm saying, do you think it's possible that both get it? Is there any road? Absolutely not. Yeah.

Cause they keep climbing up three. Yeah. And there's too many teams in the sec that still have it. Okay. So Eli Drinkwood said at the end of the, uh, dramatic win over Oklahoma, I'm happy because we stayed alive in the playoff. What's Missouri's route in your mind? Everybody loses for your games and they, they need like total chaos, right?

They need total chaos. They obviously have to win out. Winning this weekend would certainly help. Like South Carolina is a good team and I think the committee recognizes that. What's interesting is they beat South Carolina. They probably knocked South Carolina out of the rank out of the top 25. Yeah. And then the other two, the next two are winnable, you know, Mississippi state, Arkansas, though again, the way Missouri is playing and if, if Brady cook can't play that Arkansas game is not a sure thing at all, but they are a 13 and a half point underdog to South Carolina for a reason, like even if Brady cook plays, I think South Carolina's

going to beat him. So again, some of this stuff takes care of itself. Yeah. And if they beat him, then great. Then we that that helps legitimize him. But the thing about it is if Missouri is 10 and two, the two losses will be 41 10 to Texas A&M and 34 nothing to Alabama. And that will that will be an issue. The blowouts will be 41 10 to Texas A&M and 34 nothing to Alabama. And that will that will be an issue. The blowouts will be an issue. I really, really wish that South Carolina had one more game on their schedule against one of the teams. That's a two lost team.

I want to see South Texas. Like I think South Carolina, Texas would be such a fun game period. Just the matchup itself. I wish these, you know what I wish Ari? That these leagues would leave one spot open at the end of the season before the championship games. Wild card.

And just match teams up that everybody wants to see. Have like a bracket buster situation. Because South Carolina, now they wouldn't match up South Carolina Texas probably but that would be so much fun. Yeah. I want to play the game. River, can you put the graphic up of the College Football Playoff rankings? Which team do you think in the top 15 South Carolina could not be if they played well right now while playing well, like there is not a single team on there. They can beat all of them. Yeah, they could beat all. But you know what, that's part of it though, man. Like that's we still have to have some semblance of losing costs you like costs you like right and I also I also think they should not have lost that LSU game you go back there were that yes Lenore Sellers got hurt and I know they

think that interception getting called back is you know is what killed them they had chances to win the game they had chances like they if they hadn't lost LSU they'd be very much in the thick of this. Yeah. But I'm actually fine with this. I mean, this is the thing you and I got an argument about a few weeks ago, where you said it doesn't actually settle on the field because there will be people with legitimate beefs who get left out. I'm fine with that.

I'm fine with that many people legitimately having a chance to win the national title because it means this, that when the playoff is set, it won't be a fraud where there's only two teams at the top that actually have a chance. Like there will be probably nine, 10 teams that have a legitimate chance to win. I saw there was and we're doing disaster scenarios guys. So be sure to send them to us.

Oh, yes. Let's talk about that tomorrow's show tomorrow morning show we're doing disaster scenarios so you can hit me up at andy underscore staples on x or on instagram he's at ari wasserman if you want to do a long one that doesn't fit in social like a social media post email me at andy staples on three at gmail.com. It's andy staples on three at gmail.com. We're doing, we normally do Wendy Wendy's saucy take Wednesday. We're doing Wendy's saucy disaster scenario. So this could be for a team, like how a team that's comfortably in the playoff gets knocked out by the end of the season. It could be for a league, how a league either goes from a multi-bid league to a one-bid league or gets its bid taken away completely.

So send those in, be as creative as humanly possible, because I think there's probably one or two that are gonna come true. Yeah, for sure. And I've got to think through that because there's a lot happening here. This Cooper flag kids incredible main event. He's the only person that I know I can name in college basketball and he's awesome. Yeah, the disaster scenarios episode be fun. I want to see them. I want

to hear what you guys have to say and I will let you carry the weight. If you have a bunch of them that are really good, we'll just bring yours off. So like, yeah, I don't really know if we're going to be reinventing the wheel here, but you know, I think that we are going to have a lot to choose from. So, um, and who doesn't love a good disaster scenario? Yeah, Brandon in the chat says Arkansas lost to Oklahoma State. Let's not forget about that. I don't think Arkansas is in the mix for the playoff, but that really matters to anyone. So it's like holding it's like holding up a sign at game at just like game day of just like just the nonsense signs that like have you know what? Saw loss to Oklahoma State which looking back now is pretty terrible, but it doesn't matter Does suck it will not affect anything ultimately but Scott in the chat says the SAA SEC eight-way ties been spelled out so much Anything I send is just regurgitating someone else's material. The SECA way tie we will certainly get into. But just you can pick one team and decide to create

disaster for them. I mean, I'll give everybody the easiest one. Texas or Texas A&M. Let's say Texas were to lose to Arkansas or to Kentucky. And Texas and Texas A&M is a battle of two lost teams in college station. One of them is getting in and one of them is not. Oh my God. Can you even imagine? Like losing one of those losing to the other to be knocked out of the playoff so the other one can go to the playoff is as mentally debilitating as either of those two fan bases can can imagine. Yeah. There's nothing better

than that. That game is going to be insane. I think the question on Sunday, I can't wait. Oh yeah. Did you put mine in? No, you can't go. Of course I have them send the parking pass to your house. Okay. I'm just making sure that I'm because like I'll go pay a ticket and I'm not going to be on the show that night.

I'm going to be there. I don't care. You know, fire. Yeah, that's incredible. Well, everybody get your disaster scenarios up, get them together. We're going to see you at 9 30 AM Eastern time tomorrow morning. So you get those in tonight. We'll be talking about them on the show tomorrow and Ari and I are

going to be coming up with our own disaster scenarios. It is Wendy's disaster scenario Wednesday on the show. 930 a.m. Eastern time right here on the On3sports YouTube channel. We also broadcast it on my Twitter feed, on Ari's Twitter feed, and it'll be on demand later anytime you want it. It's also in podcast form anywhere you get your podcast. So please subscribe. Please leave a review. It's going to be a very, very fun week. We'll talk to you in your podcasts. So please subscribe, please leave a review. It's gonna be a very, very fun week. We'll talk to you in the morning.

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