Andy & Ari On3 - ON CAMPUS: When will the College Football Playoff have MORE home games instead of bowl sites?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Merry Christmas from Andy and Ari on three on today's show. It's an Andy and Ari mailbag segment. Dear Andy, dear Ari, and we have a question about will the college football playoff ever move the quarterfinals to campus? Boy, that would be the greatest Christmas present I think college football could get. I could also do it with the semis, too. Little known secret. Also, will Miami's play calling look different in the Cotton Bowl against Ohio

Starting point is 00:00:29 State than it did in the initial first round win against Texas A&M because I think there's some questions about whether it will work against Ohio State and they are legitimate questions. Plus an update on our guy in Marshall, that's the Texas A&M fan who had to go to the future in-laws house on Saturday for Christmas dinner during the Texas A&M Miami game. We had a lot of questions. We were very worried about Marshall. an update. Marshall has written back in. He has surfaced. He gives us an update and I think it's going to make you smile. It's a Christmas edition of Andy and Ari on 3 presented by BedMGM.

Starting point is 00:01:17 We are proud to be sponsored by BedMGM. All the lines and totals we use on the show come from the folks at BedMGM. Here's how you get started. You download the BedMGM app. Sign up using the code CFB, that's CFB, as in college football, and you'll get up to a $1,500 first bet offer on your first wager with BetMGM. Here's how that works. Download the app, you sign up using the code CFB. You deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game. You receive up to $1,500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses. Just make sure you use the bonus code CFB when you sign up. And of course, we haven't forgotten the folks who've been signed up and who've been playing with bed MGM. This week, your gift, this is coming in your stocking, on Wednesday and Thursday,

Starting point is 00:02:05 Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a pro football no sweat token. So get ready to holiday cheer with a pro football no sweat token. You get a stake back in bonus bets if you don't win. There's also a pro football odds boost token. You can boost your Christmas spirit with a pro football odds boost token. Use your token to net a bigger payout on a winning holiday football bet. So you've got game on Christmas Day, you've got a no sweat token and an odds boost token that you can use for those games. They will be valid on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So, sign up for BedMGM, use the code CFB, and make this one legendary with BedmGM. See BetMGM.com for terms. 21 plus only U.S. promotional offers are not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico.

Starting point is 00:02:52 So gambling problem. Call 1-800 gambler in the U.S. Call 8778 Hope N.Y or text Hope N.Y. 4673369 in New York. Call 1-800 next step in Arizona. Call 1-800-3-5-0-5-0-0-0 in Massachusetts. Call 1-800-off in Iowa or 1-800-9-1-0-23 in Puerto Rico. First bet offer for new customers only, subject to eligibility requirements, rewards are non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in seven days. in partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. Don't forget, if you haven't signed up for Bed-MGM yet, use the bonus code CFB and get your $1,500 first bet offer today. Welcome to a Christmas edition of Andy and Ari on 3 presented by BedMGM. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good, I don't know if you're listening to this in the afternoon or at night

Starting point is 00:03:51 or whenever you're listening to this. But, Ari, I am very happy, very thankful. Glad that you and River are with me every day. Glad that we get to do this for a living. And it's just one of those days. I want to say thanks to everybody. Yeah, well, I appreciate that. I feel the same way.

Starting point is 00:04:11 And ho, ho, ho. I just, I mean, did it sound like it? Did I sound like it? Oh, ho. I remember we are we talking about Lane Kiffin leaving Ole Miss? Is that? Oh, you went there. I was talking about the little pastries with the, with the, uh,

Starting point is 00:04:27 Oh, hoos. Yeah. Not a big treats guy, but not my favorite. Not a big treats guy, but Christmas time is a treats time. You mean a sweets time? Yeah. Treats can be meat. You can have a meat treat, but you could also have a sweet treat.

Starting point is 00:04:44 I've never had a meat treat before, but, uh, yeah, you have. You just don't know it. we call sweets treats in my house and maybe we're we're messing that up a little bit you're right yeah i think you need a little more cigarette could be a treat yes true there's a lot of things that can be a treat that aren't necessarily sweet so yeah yeah now sweet question from troy this is all this is an all mailbag show all dear indy dear rari and this is a question that would make the right answer to this question would be a great Christmas present, I think, for all of college football and all of the fans who enjoy watching the sport. So this is for Troy and Cincinnati. Dear Ari and Andy, why does the SEC get to have such a big potential location advantage for quote-unquote neutral site playoff games?

Starting point is 00:05:36 Texas teams, Cotton Bowl, LSU, Sugar Bowl, Georgia, Peach Bowl, and Florida in the Orange Bowl. Do you think this is actually a factor on the field or is this affecting fans up north who have to travel further? Will this ever change? If so, would it change to on-campus games or would they sprinkle in more neutral locations like Las Vegas, San Francisco, maybe domes, and Indy, Detroit, Minneapolis, or even big boy cold weather football in New York City or Chicago? There are no big time quarterfinal playoff games in the Midwest,

Starting point is 00:06:01 northeast, or northwest. I am an Ohio State fan who bought tickets to the Cotton Bowl, and we just barely avoided playing A&M in Texas, despite Ohio State being the two-seed and A&M being the seven-seed. Funny enough, we weren't too far off from a world where we played Miami in the Orange Bowl either. Maybe they just need to wait one more week to assign the quarterfinal game so this doesn't happen. I know that there's a history of these New Year's Six Bulls and the weather is better in these cities in the winter, but I don't want to hear the warmer excuses.

Starting point is 00:06:26 Last year it's snowed in both Dallas and Atlanta around the Ohio State playoff games. But let's be honest, nobody would complain about going to Miami, Phoenix, or L.A. in January. All right, Troy, here's the thing. You're right. And the Ohio State thing's a great jumping off point for this conversation because Ohio is a media. Yeah, Ohio State guessed right. Like, here's what happened this year. So Ohio State's the two seed.

Starting point is 00:06:51 We know that Indiana is going to the Rose Bowl is the Big Ten champ. Ohio State's the two seed, and basically it's a hundred miles difference in distance between Columbus and Arlington, Texas, and Columbus and Miami Gardens, Florida. So basically they went to Ohio State and said, which one do you want? And Ohio State had to kind of guess at who was going to win that first round game and see who they. wanted to. What would they rather not do? And they decided they would rather not play Miami in Miami and they could live with maybe playing Texas A&M in Dallas. And they got locked out and they're going to get to play Miami in Dallas. Miami didn't have winning a game. But it shouldn't have to be like that. This game should be in Columbus. The teams that are really good

Starting point is 00:07:39 that have earned buys should also have earned home games. So Indiana should be playing in Bloomington, like Alabama should have to go to Bloomington, Miami should have to go to Columbus, Ole Miss should have to go back to Athens, and Oregon should have to go to Lubbock. And Dan Lannning even said that this week. Do we have that clip, producer, River?

Starting point is 00:08:04 I don't know if there's a side advantage. I think it's just more of an indicator that the way we do playoffs and college football is messed up. Right. I mean, in my opinion, we're really excited to be going to the Orange Bowl, but this game should be played at Texas Tech, right? The higher-seated team, we should play a week like right after the last game. The next playoff game should be the next Saturday. The next playoff game should be the next Saturday. The next playoff game should be the next Saturday and the championship game. But we're trying to fit a lot of things in, you know, different

Starting point is 00:08:31 sequence. But in my opinion, this game should be played at Tech. There should be a home field advantage for them. But I know their fans will travel. Our fans will travel. And we're really excited to be playing in the Orange Bowl. So I could talk about what ifs and all those pieces. There is a, there's definitely a skill and an art to making sure that your team's prepared when you have long breaks. And I think that was clear last year. Certainly it'll be clear now. You got a little bit more time to prepare for this game, but a little bit different than the last one. And that's the other part that doesn't make really a lot of sense is the sequence of days in between each game and each playoff. There's just not really a rhythm. And for us as a coach,

Starting point is 00:09:03 it's about how do you create that rhythm? How do you challenge yourself to say, okay, how can we keep things the same as much as possible for our players. And it's tough when you have big gaps and big breaks like that. But I don't know that it's a cited advantage for one team of the other. You're dealing with different. You don't have that clip. But Dan Lanning said it. The Oregon coach said, Texas Tech earned the right to have a home game here. They shouldn't have to play this game in Miami. It's stupid. It's incredibly stupid to make all these fans travel. Make the regular season mean a little more by letting them earn home games, have home games in the quarter finals. You should have home games in the semifinals, too. I don't care if they use the

Starting point is 00:09:42 bowls at all. If you're obsessed with the only bowl that actually means anything is the Rose Bowl, then fine, make the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl the permanent semifinals. Or make the Rose Bowl the permanent national championship site. Like Omaha is for baseball, make Pasadena for football. Well, I've got a lot to unpack with everything you just said. And, you know, having covered Ohio state. I don't think that they picked their destination based on who they may be playing and how close they are to that team's campus. I think they wanted to play inside. Ohio State always prefers to play in a dome. And I don't know like what the weather usually is like. I'm sure it would be a perfect night in Miami, but they would rather be able to throw it cleanly inside. Right. It could also

Starting point is 00:10:27 rain in Miami. Like that's always a possibility. I don't think that Ohio State feels like if it is playing inside it has an advantage over who they're playing because they're big or stronger and faster than most teams. And I think that's the calculus there. Um, but yeah, if Texas A&M would have won, that would have been pandemonium in Dallas. Right. The secondary market would have exploded. The tickets would have been super expensive. Yeah. And it would have been a lot of Texas A&M fans. And you have a fan base that's large, robust and for an SEC team that has tasted none of And they all live there. They all live within a few hours drive.

Starting point is 00:11:06 Yeah. I mean, or Houston or Austin or San Antonio, and they all can get in the car the day of the game and make it. So that would have been a tough. But Andy, just to answer his question, though, when you go to these neutral site bowl games, do you ever feel like I've never been to a neutral site game? Well, there was one I went to. I was at the 06 LSU Ohio State National Championship game in New Orleans. Oh, in Louisiana with LSU playing?

Starting point is 00:11:34 Yeah. That was, I think that's the only bowl game national title neutral site game that I've ever been to where it felt like a team had a major crowd advantage. Have you ever been to one where it felt like the- Well, I've been to multiple LSU games like that. I've been to, I've been to two LSU national title games that were played in the Superdome. But I lost one of them and they won one of them. I've been to a lot of cotton bowls, been to a lot of Rose Bulls, been to a lot of Fiesta Bowls.

Starting point is 00:12:02 been to a few sugar bowls it never feels like well if this game was played at the other bowl game instead of this game it's not even that it's it's the elements it's having because here's the thing it's not supposed to be 50 50 like you earned home field advantage that's how it works in all these other sports it's not supposed to be 50 50 it's supposed to be 90 10 your fans yeah and i would have been very interested to see because ohio state also travels very well too so like a lot of teams in Ohio State has such a large fan base and they're a ton of Ohio State fans in Texas. You know, like, it's not like it would, but it would have been cool to see like what A&M, Ohio State, like the fan breakdown would have been.

Starting point is 00:12:44 But here's the other thing, too. I think that like the bowls being used as semifinals and quarterfinal sites actually hurt bowl season a lot too because if Notre Dame would have been invited to the sugar bowl. Yeah, or the Rose Bowl, or one of those games, they probably would have played. They just didn't want Pop-Tart stripe on their helmet. And I get it. So if you had extra games where, like, BYU winning the Rose Bowl would mean something that winning the Pop-Tarts Bowl doesn't. And, like, I want the Rose Bowl to be a part of the National Championship Conversations because I think that game, in general, sets itself apart from the others.

Starting point is 00:13:25 And I know some people resent that notion, but I just think it's true. I don't think that we need to have the Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Peach Bowl, and all the other ones, like as part of the system. I think we should reward teams that had good seasons that didn't make the playoff with those games. Well, and here's the thing. Look, the Bulls were a really nice scam for a long time.

Starting point is 00:13:45 They don't need any power in the sport. They don't deserve any power in sport. And look, bowls existed initially because these warm weather cities wanted to have an event that would increase tourism that time of year. and draw people from northern cities or places where it was cold to these nice, warm weather cities, and it gave them a tourist destination.

Starting point is 00:14:09 I don't need that anymore. The need for them has ceased. The bowls are television inventory. They are TV shows. Like on Tuesday night, or Tuesday afternoon, they played the Bush's Boca Raton Bowl of Bake Beans. I haven't seen the radio. yet, but I'm going to guess they probably got about 2 million viewers at 2 p.m. Eastern

Starting point is 00:14:34 time on a Tuesday. That's why they play those games. No other reason now. I didn't see a Louisville fan post. We paid Miller Moss two million dollars and we got a trophy with baked beans in it. N. I.L. was a scam. And I thought that was just funny. Yeah. Bowls are a scam too. And so like the reason that the bowls have wielded outsized power, even as their need for having power has dissipated, is the people who run the sport, the older version of the older generation, they grew up in an environment where they were getting greased by the bowls for decades. Like, here's some free golf. Here's some free this, free that. And I remember I was with an athletic director and his wife, and this was like 10 years

Starting point is 00:15:17 ago. So this is when it was already really changing. And this is someone from the younger generation. But the athletic director said his wife was complaining because they weren't taking the stuff from the Bulls anymore. And he goes, he goes, Andy, explain why. And I said, because you're rich now. And he just started laughing. But that's really what it is. I mean, athletic directors back in the day,

Starting point is 00:15:45 they made good money, but they didn't make obscene money. They weren't making seven figures. They were making, a lot of them were making very low six figures, which was, again, a good living for the time, but they weren't really rich. And so a free round of golf or a bunch of free clothes and all that stuff, the stuff that the bowls greased them with strip club visits if you're the fiesta bowl back in the day. That meant something. It doesn't mean anything anymore. And so this younger generation is going to cut them out. But I do remember when they, and I told this story on the show the other day, when they announced.

Starting point is 00:16:21 the plan for the 12 team playoff this is like three years before they actually approved it bob bolsby the then big 12 commissioner was one of the the people who designed it and it was he was on the call answering questions about it and i said guys why are you putting the quarterfinals in bowls why don't you just put those games on campus like you're doing the first round and bolzby acted like i was insane like how could you cut the bowls out of this the balls don't need to be there now i also get this is another case of them trying to graft the NCAA tournament onto the football tournament because it works great in the basketball tournament.

Starting point is 00:17:00 But here's why it works great where you have to travel three times. The first time your team plays in the NCAA basketball tournament, it's at an NBA arena, so 15,000 to 20,000 seats, and there are eight schools there. So you don't have to sell many tickets. You don't have to have that many tickets.

Starting point is 00:17:19 You don't have to have that many people travel, and you've got a full arena. The second weekend, you're also playing in either an NBA arena or the dome where the final four is going to be next year, but they don't have it set up as the full dome. It's cut in half usually. So at the most, you've got to sell like 25,000 tickets, and there's four teams there. It's not so you get to the final four where there's also four teams that you have a 70,000 stadium. In this case, you have two teams, and you're filling a. a 65 to 90,000 seat stadium.

Starting point is 00:17:53 It's a big difference. Yeah, yeah. And I think when you buy NCAA tournaments, tickets, too, you buy it for the whole session. So even if you're a Texas tech fan who wants to watch their team, you get the ticket for the entire day.

Starting point is 00:18:03 Or, you know, they have it in Orlando. People in Orlando just want to go see the teams play. Like, that's going to be like a quarter of the crowd of, hey, this is in town. Let's go see it. That's not what they're doing with the college football playoff. Yeah. Yeah. And like you said, if you had the games on the campuses on the second round, and like, I know everybody gets precious about, oh, this is awesome. I have them on campus. Like, everyone does it. I'll do it too. It is awesome. Everyone likes it.

Starting point is 00:18:32 When the sooner scooter came out Friday night, there's nothing at a bowl site that compares to that. Nothing. Nothing. But then if you reallocated these bowls to the second round. I don't care where the bowls go, Ari. like that's that's the difference between you and me i don't care where you put them well they can just go away i don't care about the bowls i think the bowls could be used as a mechanism to keep teams that don't make the playoff bought in for another month that's fine that's fine i think you should care about that like i think you should want notre dame to be playing right now i don't know if nondon would have played i don't know if it would have been i mean i'm making a leap there rose bowl the sugar Bowl, yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:16 I'm making a leap there, and maybe I'm completely off on that. Sugar Bowl, Peach Bowl didn't matter to teams before the college football playoff, before the 12th team. If BYU were to play Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl this year, just in this off example, that would be a game I would really want to tune in for. Why? What's the difference between that and the Pop-Tarts Bowl if they played in that? I'd actually rather watch the Pop-Tarts Bowl because then they're going to ritually sacrifice

Starting point is 00:19:43 the mascot. the sugar bowl doesn't richly sacrifice any mascot i mean i don't know maybe i'm a sheep but it's just been indoctrinated into my dna as a college football fan for 30 years that those games are special why is the superdome i say it as someone who's who was on a team that won a national title in the super dome but what's special about the superdome it looks like it's a giant sewage treatment plant like it does special about that it's not i don't think it's the location i think it's like saying sugar bowl champs because like that like it's a prestigious bowl and if you win it You'd have the same number of opt-outs, whether it's the Sugar Bowl or the Pop-Tarts Bowl is what I'm telling you.

Starting point is 00:20:19 I don't think it matters. If that helps people cope, I don't care, great. Put the games on campus. Yeah, no, it's a byproduct of me agreeing with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, and my theory could be wrong, but this is a podcast, we're talking it out. And what if the Rose Bowl wasn't involved in it? Like Notre Dame would have been playing in the Rose Bowl.

Starting point is 00:20:41 I'd die on that hill. I think you're probably right. probably maybe people would have opted out like maybe jeremiah love would have opted out because i understand he definitely would have opted out i'm not saying that people wouldn't have opted out but you know you don't think that be why you would rather win the rose bowl or the sugar bowl than the pop-tarts bowl producer rivers like what about the question for northern host cities yes northern host cities bloomington indiana Columbus ohio and arbor michigan when michigan's in the playoff eugene oregon seattle washington

Starting point is 00:21:14 Those are the host cities in the north. When a northern team makes it, they should get home field advantage and you play at their stadium. That's it. To answer the original question, too, I just don't think that the home field advantage in most neutral sites actually has an impact on how the teams perform. I don't, but I also think it's helpful to the regular season.

Starting point is 00:21:40 It's helpful for a lot of reasons to just, get let the people who earned a high seed get to play at home it's not complicated congratulations texas tech you had the best season you've ever had now you get to go play organ in miami like think about that sentence think about how stupid that sounds that's this sport like they keep coming up with these Frankenstein ideas and you end up with a really stupid sentence like Texas Tech had the best season you've ever had and now you get to play Oregon in Miami. Yeah. Should be playing in Lubbock. Tortillas should be flying. That's the hill I'll die on. All right, all right. Let's rip a path. It's time to talk

Starting point is 00:22:32 for Neal. Well, hey, they have until January 23rd to decide the format for the next college football playoff, the next set of games, next set of years. Just do that, okay? If the bowl people are mad about it, who cares? There's nothing they can do for you anymore. Pay for your own golf. Good God. All right. Let's talk Panini.

Starting point is 00:22:58 I got Prism draft picks right here. Beautiful cards. These are the NFL guys in their college uniforms or some of them still in college. We got a Thailand Williams from Ohio State. Luke Lachey playing for Iowa. This guy's pretty damn good. Micah Parsons, we're in that number 11 at Penn State. Our guy, Quinn Ewers, who kind of forgettable first NFL start the other day.

Starting point is 00:23:29 But, ooh, Charles Woodson playing in Michigan. What about? One more pack? You want to do one more pack, Ari? Yeah. We're looking for those color blasts. Can we? Bruce River has.

Starting point is 00:23:43 has the color blast. Let's see what that looks like. Let's see what I'm looking for here. And anything that is pink out of the box that you're opening is going to be number to 15. So look for the color pink too. They're harder to find. I have the color green.

Starting point is 00:23:55 I have the color green. So I've got Ryan Fitzgerald at Florida State. Got Zai Alexander at LSU. Got a green Daniel Jackson from Minnesota. Gunner Helm from Texas. And Jerome Bettis with John. giant shoulder pads playing in the sugar bowl for Notre Dame. That's back in.

Starting point is 00:24:17 I believe he was destroying Florida in that game. How appropriate. I'm trying to remember. Florida played West Virginia in a sugar bowl in that era. But I think they also played Notre Dame. But yeah, those are giant shoulder pieces. Let me show us those color blasts again, producer river. So these are the ones that we're looking for right here.

Starting point is 00:24:36 And those are gorgeous. That's a Jeremiah Smith. And then you've got a Riley, or Joe Montana. Um, those are the best looking cards, I think, in the entire hobby. And the, and you can get them out of these, these prism draft picks boxes. So, uh, we are, we got a few more to rip on the air over the next few weeks. So, uh, we will, we will keep trying. We will keep trying. Because I got faith. I got faith. I'm going to pull a nuke. You can visit Panini, America.net to collect your favorite college in NFL stars. They've got the Ohio State blaster boxes now. Uh, they've got the Texas blaster boxes now. I love that. they're doing specific schools. Ari, that's a, that's your Quinn Ewers booklet that you got.

Starting point is 00:25:20 That's not, that's not in the Texas box. You've got, you've got to, you got to go hunting for that one. Yeah, that one's, uh, in national treasures, but that's also a draft picks college uniforms product too. Yeah. And the other campus, that's from the Texas, that arch manning on campus is from the Texas box. If you can pull one of those out of a pack if you get those Texas blaster boxes.

Starting point is 00:25:38 And I think you can get those also in the prism draft picks, too. So look out for them. All right. Panini, America.net, to collect your favorite college and NFL stars. This next question, near and dear to Ari's heart, because he spent the entirety of the game Saturday when we were in college station watching Miami, Texas, A&M, just making up plays. Like, making up ever more complicated ways to get the ball to Malachi, Tony, because he figured he needed to one-up Shannon Dawson, who was doing that for real on the field.

Starting point is 00:26:08 Shannon Dawson, Miami's offensive coordinator. This is from Nick. Dear Andy and dear Ari, after watching Miami's third miss field goal of the game, and has become obvious they end up losing this game. If they end up losing this game, their play calling is the reason why. Every time they break off a 10 plus yard run, it's like their play caller thinks to himself, this is a little too easy. Let's run Wildcat.

Starting point is 00:26:26 Stop calling plays like a 12-year-old on Madden and run the ball. Love this show. I want to keep calling it. I want them to keep calling them because it makes it fun. But yeah, I think that, you know, know, if your theory is that that helped them run the ball later, you can stick to that. Maybe the, I do, I think it forced Texas Adams defense to spread out and to, to think about the periphery and the perimeter, and it did make the box lighter for Mark Fletcher Jr.

Starting point is 00:27:00 Up the middle. Now, the question I have, though, I don't think you can do that against Ohio State, can you? I think Ohio State's too fast and reacts too well. I wouldn't do, and take some lessons from your brethren in Austin, Texas, is don't run to the perimeter on critical downs against Ohio State because they have some safeties back there that can, you know, be in the right place at the right time and caution you're seeing them. So, yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:27:31 And they have two linebackers that are, they have two defensive in size linebackers in Sunny Stiles and Arvel Reese who are as fast as safeties. and that's that's another giant problem i don't think i've seen a lot of teams running laterally successful against ohio state in the last 15 years so yeah you know but hey maybe he'll draw up something i still haven't uh given up on the thought that malachi tony could somehow snap the ball and then also be the last to touch it on the play like i think there's just something there but i'm pretty sure penn state did that with tyler warren against usc yeah he snapped the ball

Starting point is 00:28:05 yeah yeah he snapped it because they had the they had the they had him where he was he was the end man on the line of scrimmage so he was eligible but he was the snapper yeah a long time before the game you got a whole other week now here's something i think that they've got to figure out and i i don't know that this is possible because i think it would have been done against texas a&m if it were possible because texas an m's defense obviously very good ohio state's defense is better they got to get more downfield passing from carson back They have got to take some shots down field, which Miami seemed fairly reluctant to do on Saturday. So Carson Beck was 14 to 20, not a bad completions percentage, but he only had 103 yards, 5.2 yards per attempt.

Starting point is 00:28:52 Remember that 11-yard Malachi Tony touchdown run was considered a pass because it's that little touch pass on a jet sweep. A little jet sweep pass. Yeah. So, I mean, they really didn't throw the ball well at all. and they've got to get more out of that. Their most successful passing plays were a little kind of dump-offs to Keel and Marion where he was in space and he could run. But you've got to get the ball down the field of C.J. Daniels.

Starting point is 00:29:18 Tony is a very good receiver, a good conventional receiver. Like you don't have to gadget him the ball, but if they felt like they couldn't get him the ball any other way, I think that's a problem when you're playing Ohio State. Yeah. Also, fun stat. I think Ohio State's the first team since night. 1935 SMU to not allow 17 points once the entire season. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:29:42 So they're pretty scary. Yeah, it's hard to score on them. So maybe, maybe grab asses necessary. I don't know. Well, I do think Miami wins this in a low-scoring game. That's the way Miami wins this. Now, maybe that this is going to be a low-scoring game no matter what, because of the level of athlete that Miami has on defense.

Starting point is 00:30:05 because we've seen Ohio State not score against, I mean, they scored 14 against Texas. They scored 10 against Indiana. Like, that's the only time they've played teams with this level of athlete on defense. So it may be a low scoring game. And you know what? Maybe that's the game playing again.

Starting point is 00:30:24 Like tell Carson, hey, don't chuck it deep because we don't want interceptions. You know, there were zero interceptions in that game. They won the game and the offense didn't mess it up for him. The only thing that happened bad on offense was that you had that Malachi Tony fumble in the fourth quarter, but he redeemed himself. And the defense bailed you out. So, and maybe that they're looking at this game as we think Ohio states maybe only score in 14, 15 points, we can't take too many risks. Because that was the game planning against A&M, and it worked.

Starting point is 00:31:01 Yeah. And I think if they can disrupt Ohio State's offensive line, Rattleman. say in and keep Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate from 50-yard touchdown explosives. I think it could be in that situation. Ohio State has been in two games like that already, three games like that, really, against really good teams. And I wonder if that is an indication of this is just going to fall in line with that. So, yeah, I can't wait to watch this game.

Starting point is 00:31:25 I can't wait to get there. I'm fascinated, but I do think, yeah, Shannon Dawson does have some time in the lab to create more insane ways to get Malachi Tony the ball. so are he's like designing the game mouse trap while we're watching the game he's like okay so you put him at center and then you snap it to the quarterback and then he runs behind the quarterback

Starting point is 00:31:46 and you pitch it to him and then he throws it to a receiver and then runs behind that receiver and that receiver laterals it to him did they not run that against A&M I thought they did I think they they didn't do all those steps they were close

Starting point is 00:32:00 just close it's like but what could go what could possibly go wrong all right one more and then we're letting you go and it's the one you've been waiting for it's from marshall for those you don't remember marshall wrote into us last week said he was going to the the girlfriend's parents house the girlfriend's parents were having the family christmas dinner on the day of the texasana and miami game marshall is a diehard aggie marshall of course had never seen the aggies He's playing the playoff before, and so he's a little worried because dinner was scheduled for 2 p.m.

Starting point is 00:32:38 Dinner, when dinner started it, there was set to start at 2 p.m. Ari, there were 12 minutes left in the A&M. Miami game. It was tied 3-3. Marshall was probably in an incredible state of agitation at this point. I mean, during the game, while we were there, we looked at the clock, and I looked at the time. and I was like, Marshall is like getting to the house or at the house right now, and it was three, three. And I was like, this is like the worst, worst time to get there.

Starting point is 00:33:11 And we were basically saying, like, how this relationship progresses will depend on how all of this is handled. Well, I have very good news. Marshall wrote in, my girlfriend's wonderful family was kind enough to delay meeting until three o'clock so that my girlfriend here could watch the game in peace before gathering with everyone. I truly wish they hadn't because that game was straight from the deepest pits of battered Aggie syndrome. Hell. Still love the show. Marshall, if you haven't bought a ring, if you're not, if you're Christmas present to your girlfriend isn't an engagement ring,

Starting point is 00:33:46 what are you even doing? Marry this girl right now. Her family's awesome. These are the people you want to be involved with. These are, these are the kind of people you want to have as your children's grandparents. How awesome is this? I appreciate and respect Marshall's girlfriend's parents because they know what matters. Yeah, and Marshall's girlfriend for knowing what matters. Because Marshall's girlfriend be like, we're not asking them that.

Starting point is 00:34:15 We're not doing that for a football game. No, she gets it. She's an Aggie. And I wanted to give A&M fans a Christmas gift. And I don't know if this will help because it's really shitty right now. Say it. Say it. anybody what am i i thought you're going to say no no i i will at the end of this one of my uh

Starting point is 00:34:39 wife's friends who's a huge a and m fan and listens to the show whitney what's going on uh texted me you know i'm i'm upset and uh you know next year it's going to be kind of a rebuilding year and you know i don't know we we had a shot and she was down on it and i said Whitney there's no such thing as a rebuilding year when you're rich go get them eggs

Starting point is 00:35:00 and with that we're going to leave you Merry Christmas we love you thank you so much for all the time you spend with us all year

Starting point is 00:35:10 we will see you on Monday we got some big big games to talk about plus the Pop Tarts Bowl will have been played and we've got to talk

Starting point is 00:35:20 about that love that protein pop top tart. Got a feeling that protein pop tart gets eaten after the game. We love you. Merry Christmas. We'll talk you soon.

Andy & Ari On3 - ON CAMPUS: When will the College Football Playoff have MORE home games instead of bowl sites?

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.