Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: 2025 College Football Playoff First Round Preview

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves ... HOWEVER!Since the four first-round CFP games are all on campus and not “really” bowl games, we’re doing a semi-traditional preview episode here. Don’t worry, it’s still mostly stupidNow through December 31, 100% of proceeds from all PTKU merch sales will be donated to Trans Ohio. Visit preownedairboats.com to purchase BRAND-NEW BLUE SHARKS GEAR #EXCLUSIVEThis episode was produced by Michael Ray SurberFullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell PowellFullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by MattDID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s notBefore the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other workTravel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot existCheck out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

Welcome back to 440. This is the playoff first round episode that you are listening to on the Internet's only college football podcast. We have so much to discuss actual football, and we'll do so. in immediate fashion. I am joined, as always, by Jason Kirk, Holly, Anderson, Ryan, Nanny, and Michael Serber on the ones and twos. Game one of this round of the playoffs, Alabama at Oklahoma. A game we have never seen before. Teams have never played each other. Even though they are both longtime SEC rivals. Deep SEC rivals with no experience. Also, their uniforms are different colors. For those of you who enjoy defending the playoff by saying that we'll see matchups we've never seen before,

novel combinations of some of college football's most Titanic powers, skip ahead. How many times? It's not red versus it's not red. How many times do you think Oklahoma and Alabama have played in their entire history? I just looked it up. It's not that many.

Well, okay. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot for not knowing what I was going to do. Oh, I was doing your own thing. I didn't look it up, four. Was it? It's eight. Okay.

Four plus five, almost eight. That's how many points they want to score combined. That is correct. I mean, the rematch thing is one thing that, for all the legitimate criticisms of the committee, one thing that for a decade now, people have said is if you put up projections, they'll say like, oh, no, they wouldn't do that. That's a rematch. No, they'll do that.

They don't give a shit. No. If nothing else, and there is almost nothing else to like about the. committee at this time. Perhaps we can finally put that portion of the argument to rest. Yeah, they rig which teams are in the playoff. I'm fine with that conspiracy theory. They have not defended themselves very well against that one, but they don't give a shit who plays who. I do think that they should have to explain. I don't think they should necessarily avoid rematches, but they should say, we think this is narratively interesting. We should say,

we know Oklahoma already played Alabama. But wouldn't Alabama feel really bad if they lost this Oklahoma team twice in the way that you lose to this Oklahoma team, wouldn't that be fun for the nation? That would be a fine explanation for my sake. There's an argument I can buy because I, for example, would find that hilarious. Yeah. Thank you for pitching a playoff game as fan fiction. Hey, wouldn't it be cool? I ship. I ship Oklahoma and Alabama having a bad time. I'm so glad you mentioned that because there is there is a monster romance coming in one of my game previews. Okay. Very good. It's not my fault. Speaking of monstrous romances, Oklahoma football, Jason Kirk.

I love this team. It's my favorite team of the year that doesn't belong to a university that I attended. They're so hard to watch. And not just in the, as we've mentioned on this program, not just in the usual bad at offense way. No, they're good at offense. They just don't score. The ball will move. It won't reach the end zone.

There's or yours. Like, there's so much pointless action. so much frenzied nothing like it is it is not it's 10 to 9 and nothing happened brother it's 10 to 9 and everything happened do you guys remember that one cocktail party where there was so little happening that the half the stadium cheered when a bird on the field got into the red zone yeah it's like that what if we made both teams out of that and it's a playoff game if we put john matier formerly the dynamic pilot of offenses at washington state he's still a dynamic can be Bill dynamic. Pilots can crash. You remember, hey, girls, you remember that boyfriend back in

your 20s who did a lot, but never really did anything? You're just like, he's doing a lot. He's an entrepreneur. He's an entrepreneur, but he's also an artist and a rapper, but he's also considering getting his MBA. He's also developing an app and he's going to his buddies, he's going to go open his buddy's juice bar. He's right over here. He's also a quarterback at Washington State University. Doing a lot, but not really doing anything. It's extremely full cast, extremely shut down. heck we're in minute nine and it's also very playoff committee i want you to know the last time that these two teams met the disgusting and vile oklahoma sooner's the putrid nergle inspired deathguard of football teams right what had just 12 first downs were out gained by nearly double two hundred and 12

yards to 406 and barely rushed for 74 yards yes sir and yet they bit Alabama and alabama and Alabama got so sick, they died, 2321. But then Alabama came back as a form of Oklahoma. We, we, the Sooners, we, my Sooners, we made you bad. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Oklahoma Sooners 2025. We bite you and you get sick and die. That's this team.

I love them so much. Like they're not a vampire team because vampires are like suave and sophisticated. This ain't that. This is a zombie team. You're going to be nasty. This is like season five true blood playoff. There's a wear panther in here somewhere. That's not a good thing.

We made you yucky. I love this team. Vampire Brent. You know? Suki, I don't feel so good. Vampire Carl. Can't smell Suki, but okay. Woo!

Woo! Yeah, just an awesome defense. You'll love the man. They're just. mean and confusing. Oklahoma fans, not you. That's not who we're talking to. The last 30 seconds of Drag Me to Hell is every single down for this football team.

On both sides of the ball. On both sides. Exactly. Like for the OU fan, there has to be a lot of fuck. Now we have to play offense going on. This is why this game got put on the same day as the Myrtle Beach and Gasparallible. This is why, Ryan, why do you think they're playing this game when they're playing? This shit is very much.

All right, let's come down from all that fun. The band before us, that was the good times band. It's time to have a bad time. Nasty synthesizer. Yeah, they're putting this at 8 p.m. so that it is medically safe for everybody on both teams to come out. Yeah, a lot of normal sports fans are going to assume. It's college football playoff.

Of course, it starts on Saturday. That's the day when the sport is played. I guess we didn't miss anything. No, you sure a shit didn't because nothing happened. You missed the cauliflower ear bowl, buddy. Can I tell you guys my favorite part of this game And this is the first time that this portion of the game Has been my favorite anything

It's December 16th as we're recording this This game is November 19th The line on this game is currently Alabama by one and a half On the road Will there be one and a half points Will there be yeah will we get to that many points in regulation Here's my favorite part My favorite statistical comparison of the two

We have spent the entire year talking about How Alabama can't run the ball for shit. An anemic rushing attack that cannot move the ball on the ground has been a serious hindrance towards them being any better than... They did that great in some games. It's true. But usually

they did not. Right now, right now, the leading rusher, the leading rusher, thank you for playing swampy top. The leading rusher for Alabama is Jan Miller 493 yards on the season. Oklahoma's leading

rusher is 444. The total for this game is 40.5 points. Yes, that's the lowest. That's the lowest of any bowl game. That is two more than Army Navy. That is two more than Army Navy. The legendary Never Take the Over game. This is how beautiful a version of football we are playing.

Not only is that bigger than Army Navy. I looked at that and I was like, that's still way too fucking much. 40 is about as low as a normal football game gets. Do you know how long it's been? since Alabama put 30 points on a power conference opponent? Two years. About two months. Okay.

The Tennessee game was in. God, fucking! I'm sorry. It's just how it happened to work. They hadn't been corrupted by Oklahoma yet. Just, that's true. They were far away from that. By the way, the forecast for the eight people.

I was in a small. Yeah. That was retaliatory. I get it. It will be 37 degrees as a low that evening. It will probably be in the 40s at game time. I am really looking forward to this portion of the forecast, though, which is this. Areas Apache fog developing.

What would make Oklahoma football even more disgusting? Individual players playing in their own fog cones. John Mateer's struggling against both the defense and the fog. What if John Mateer can't see not only his receipts? Siever's hands, but his own. It won't make any difference. That man's from... That man's from Pullman.

He's going to be as active as ever while everyone else is frozen. This shit is going to be so awesome. Is this his name? John Mateer's whole brain, it's John Mateer time. Is this his version of switching off the targeting computer? It is. You switched off your targeting. That's right.

what's wrong look you switched off your target computer what's wrong nothing careens into surface of star destroyer i think maters's whole thing would be to just do trench runs right like that's your fourth time going through yep you're having a great time yeah trench run is actually what they diagnosed his blood with yeah somehow he 9-11 the death star he's palpatine Yeah, this is, I love this game. Oklahoma's going to win, and you know it. You know it.

I don't give a fuck. Run from it. You have to watch this team again. You must. By the way, Oklahoma, I believe, favored by one. Favored by one at this point. Unfortunately, we haven't said anything about that. Oh, no, I'm sorry.

They're actually, Alabama is somehow favored by one. Oh, Oklahoma is definitely winning. The line is swinging wildly. Folks, the line is swinging wildly. A lot of money coming in on both sides. If you put money on Oklahoma, come closer, come closer. We should fuck. Oh, come on.

No. You're not allowed to use the podcast for that purpose. No, you shouldn't be allowed to whisper that. Because you'll do anything. If you were worried that gambling had ruined society enough, now Spencer is using it to find sexual partners. This is not a dating app. Next game, please. Still better than price picks.

Unfortunately, speaking of dating apps, the next game. is the cocaine bowl of the season Miami at Texas A&M oh speaking of we'll do anything I love the volatility of this I love a snow game that for once we can say that the more recent cocaine related news is not with the Miami Hurricanes yeah this game isn't until this game isn't for four days is this the most oh man they're gonna fuck it up mutual matchup of both teams we've had in any 12-team playoff game? It might be the most, like, conceivable. Yeah, it's up there.

Like... Notre Dame used to be in this role, but Notre Dame has kind of gotten off of that. Did something happen to Notre Dame? They don't play football anymore. They're right. They don't play postseason football. They call it a day after Thanksgiving.

Because Notre Dame's in the Ivy League. No, wait, the Ivy League actually makes the playoff. The Ivy League wins playoff games. Yeah, this is the ultimate, like, first team to score the other team is like, oh, I knew it. Other team scores Not even score

First team that doesn't convert on third down We're fucked We're so fucked This is where I look at So much whining This is where like I know both teams are going to commit a lot of Turnovers because both teams are very good at that

At the quarterback position Marcel Reed is good for that When he is off Carson Beck is the most pickworthy Of all quarterbacks Not named DJ Lagway like in college football he throws them in bunches

and they're just going to keep coming because I don't know they get good to him this is by theory I have no science behind it other than watch a quarterback who throws two picks and he's going to throw three

because I don't know he just likes to throw him in batches this is the game where I look at Malachi Tony and Casey Concepcion and they're looking at each other across the sidelines being like let's go make our own team

let's go do it just you and me actual dynamic offenses let's go I think it's pretty good that this is like kind of objectively the quote unquote best game of the first round i listen oh you bama you know i'm actually talking to you but like for normal people this is the best uh best game of the first round

and it's still going to look like a total mess like you said 20 combined interceptions from the starting quarterbacks uh so far this season that number's going up we're at rookie numbers baby we might get five we might get six in this game between the two of them And these are, these are extremely mean defenses that they're each facing as well. It's not like, Jesus, how are you falling apart against this like mid tier defense is like, uh, oh, oh, oh, you make King Kong very bad. Yeah, you know how we love, you know how we love bromances? There's a real like Godzilla, King Kong, bromance potential between between Elko and Mario.

Yeah. That we haven't really gotten to see before. I'm excited to see how they get along. I think they'll, I say this like they're going to be dumped into a terrarium like scorpions, but kind of. I mean, you know, 8th O-T, I think that's what happens. You dump both coaches into the Terrarium and whoever comes out alive, your team wins. My money would be on Mario because Elko spends a lot of time in the film room. Also, if you come out alive, you have to go play Ohio State.

So are you really alive? You're really all that alive. OU. Bama, the winner, gets Indiana Rose Bowl. I do like that in the hubbub of everything that was hopping with the ACC championship game and Bama melting down against Georgia and everyone fighting about Notre Dame, I feel like we all just pushed to the side A&M the last time we saw A&M play football

against Texas. Like, don't worry about it. What? Yeah, that's kind of where we're at with them, right? Yeah, it's not important. Don't worry about it. It got subsumed, yeah. He's not wrong, yeah.

Like, it's, they fell like four spots for losing to a borderline, almost playoff team on the road. By 10, sure, but, like, Bama got the fuck beaten out of them by more and just held steady. Is the college football playoff committee too emotional to lead? The committee fucking hates the Aggies is what I'm seeing here. Also, like, and the spot mattered a lot.

Like, you know, if you're seventh, you got to play Miami, you're barely favorite at all. If you had been six instead of Ole Miss, which is quite arguable, Ole Miss is favored by a thousand. So the committee hates the Aggies, again, as noted. I know who I want to watch the game with. But the Aggies hate themselves, so it's fine. Yeah. That's true.

I know how I want to watch this game with, though. I want to watch it with the dumbest Miami fan who goes to this game in College Station. It's at Kyle Field. And I want to sit next to the dumbest, loudest Miami fan. That's a I am Spartacus situation. Yeah. He can't go to Spartacus without the you either. A bunch of crypto dudes.

Is this the most like crypto per capita game of the year? Oh, God. For different reasons. Yeah. Like OG crypto in the sense that half of the A&M crowd is like, gold the gold standard should still be real Spider-Man pointing in like price of oil in the Permian price of oil in

it's the most alternative currencies game of the year right it's just one's paleo paleo crypto from two teams that would flip their shit if you called them alternative it's like Iraqi dinar versus there we go yeah there we go

versus like cocaine crypto I have guaranteed bear bonds from the king of Swaziland I got them off of Texas tags.com. They're going to fuel my retirement. I will say that I would trust, I would trust implicitly any currency that I got off of taxags. I would trust it. Like if I, if I absolutely had to do some kind of crypto situation, that's where I'm going first. Those Jembo checks aren't bouncing. Tell you what. See? That's legal tender. Correct. Yeah, because they take pride in

wasting money. Right? Like, like Aggies take pride in, oh, we're so rich, we don't give a shit. If you take our money, because, like, to them, it's just, well, ah, Texas cares because they're poor, but we don't. Whereas Miami fans are like, bankruptcy is just, like, starting a new game, bro. I'm like, there's a new buildout going. I'm just going to respond. So you have to find a society that operates entirely off of fake money, Texas A&M. Check. I mean, my financial advice is life is a rogue-like, brother.

You're going to get to re-roll. Yeah, I want to sit next to that dumbest, loudest Miami fan as Miami takes a two-point lead in the second quarter and stands up and goes, I don't hear anything right now, huh, it's awfully quiet here, and then calls all of them gay, because that's the Miami fan tradition. That's not the word he uses. No, that is not the word he uses. And you have, like, Miami fans, like, pining for the early 2000s, the 80s, or the Aggies are pining for, like, 1919 or whatever. the 1880s yeah yeah they're about yeah yeah this is this is a team where this is your team where like Taylor Sheridan is looking at a target rich environment he's like I'm gonna sell so much TV to these people remember how big and tough people were in the 1880s they definitely weren't like they definitely didn't have rickets they definitely weren't dying at 42

because their bones were brittle Taylor Sheridan dying of like Disney Terry would be so fun like of his own like just because he is trying to like eat clean but like 1883 clean 1883 clean is just salt mule core it's just salt pork i was gonna say salt peter and i'm like well no that's what's your that's his blood type i just listen taylor shared him back in a time machine to 1881 so people go look at him and be like what do you eat you're so red measles yeah that's right you're huge and you smell weird i'm trying to think of the at the the uh the uh Miami fans conception of 1880 is there in 1880 booze 1880 they'd be like this a kind of tequila yeah that's it I got Marnier is that 1880 sure something

whatever yeah their brain their brains just running back bottles oh yeah right the answer is anything before 1900s that's pirate time that's dinosaurs pirates all that all that OG shit yeah ninja turtles bro I've got all the ages of history there's the bronze age i don't know what that shit was pirate age that's like four thousand years platinum only jesus is in there somewhere pirates took all the bronze there's somewhere on my necklace yeah he's the original pirate jesus on a dinosaur is i'm getting that necklace made yeah jesus was born in year one everyone knows that um on christmas then pirate age uh and then there's kane's age and then

there's uh howard schnellenberg who's next the most important age the man who tamed pirates Towerstone, bro. Put in the ass and triassic. And then the thousand-year reign of the canes and the brief momentary blip that seems to have followed it. But of course it hasn't because it's still the age of the canes, bro. And the dinosaurs. The bird notice era is somewhere in there, too. Bird notice.

Bird. Also, there was the day Chick-Naddy was born. That would be a great bootleg Miami-like Sebastian. Bird-nurt. Oh, no. My name is Sebastian. Are you trapped here because they burned your cover? No, man, I just got some bills.

Got some credit issues. Boat blew up. Yeah, boat blew up. It happens. You know those hallover videos where people are taking them out and they're like getting their boat fucked up on the waves? I was one of those cracked in half. It was a little bummer.

It fucking ruled. Real hustlers get burned and don't notice. I'd do it again. Yolo. All right. All right. That's that game. That's it. That's that game.

Next on the schedule is on TNT and HBO Max and True TV. Sure. This is practice reps for March Madness. Yeah, if you put all of these, if you put these on all of these channels, Clark Kellogg and Charles Barkley should call these games. God, yes. Yeah. I want Chuck on the call. I want to hear Charles talk about Lane.

I just want Chuck and Shaq on the call for the entire. Tulane Ole Miss game. Jack, what's wrong with that man's dick? Like, not even Ernie. Just like, like, Kenny is the straight man. That's what we need for this game. I don't know what a green wave is. Tulane, Ole Miss.

Oh, man. Like, the most old school matchup of all here. Throwback. Throwback. I assume they played more. I'd like to throw this game back. They've played like several times more. I am not going to look this up, then OUBama have, I would assume.

Actually, I will look it up. Yeah, do look that up. That would be, yes, number six, Old Miss. So much it has played the record is 44 to 28, Ole Miss. Is it good when you have a losing record to Old Miss, historically speaking? Discussed in the comments. That's fine. Old, Old Miss, sure. Old Miss was good forever ago.

Yeah, I just, I was looking at the outstanding spikes. In 1979, Tulane beat them 49-15. Florida's 500 against Old Miss, man. Yeah, because Florida just showed up. Yeah, so like, let's not talk to the catch shit right here. Since 1990 was 10 years ago, y'all haven't really had the opportunities. Brian, you don't belong to the Miami hurricane-style wing of the Florida fan base. I'm going to talk some shit.

Y'all showed up after Ole Miss quit playing football. They have since resumed a little bit for now. After Bill Clinton stopped Old Miss football. Mm-hmm. That's right. During his 40 years as president. I don't think they're as rich as we are. Thanks to that slut, tipper gore.

Yeah. I think they're poor and they like kissing men. Am I doing the Miami thing right? Is that how you do it? Yeah, that's pretty good. Sure. We all love weight. Yeah.

But wait I do. What? Yeah, this is the debut of, I think, the most important coaching presence in the playoff. That would be Pete Golding, founder of Pete Golding's vintage wines. Against John Summerall, no less. we got these are two straightforward gentlemen coaching this game I got I really wanted to see Tulane play Oregon but maybe we'll get there Pete was Pete was

the opening presser when he was talking about what he's gonna be is because hey listen I'm just gonna be the same person I've always been I'm like yes no hey you know what Pete Golding none of us doubted that none of us said I bet he's gonna change that is so true. He didn't say, I'm going to learn and grow. No, no, he didn't say that. I'm signing up for Babel today, and I'm going to learn Japanese. You watch.

I could not fix him. Here we have our second rematch of the first round. Ole Miss Corr won the first one by not important, doesn't matter. The Green Wave. How much? It doesn't matter. The Green Wave look far more fashionable. They have the better light blue.

in fact take that old miss um and uh and their town is cooler so yeah also favored by every single conceivable metric the money and uh history but uh you know what it's awesome that tulane is here i don't want to over it's actually awesome that old miss is here and is favored by that much so much has happened in the past month that we would be celebrating this a lot more had their coach not in a protracted bit of attention seeking dragged out his job hunt to a two and a half after three-month ordeal, effectively overshadowing everything that was happening in this game. Am I talking about Lane Kiffin or John Sumerall? That's so unlike him.

Either one. Sumerall was fine. Summerall was fine. Sumroll has that a far better job. That's a tension hog, John Sumroll. Ryan, you're already biased because of your Florida fandom, but I- Wow. Miami fan Spencer Hall.

Summerall did a whole ass interview like denouncing the schedule that they have to do this shit by me. I know, in Somerals. And he didn't go to Auburn. He's got more good sense than most of them. Summerall's out here putting up house-divided photoshopps of himself. That's right. He's the fly to the Florida gator and the green wave into one unholy being. He's kind of a liquidy-ruddy gator.

Yeah. He's the slimy, oozy, very expensive gator. This game will be part of the, what will soon become a fucking annual thing of people complaining that teams that don't have a billion dollars to spend on players exist and arguing that they should never get to play football ever again like we saw last year i'm going to try to ignore that but it's going to be difficult um just you know toulain made the playoff that rocks yeah and old miss is like uh your your big bully favorite in this game which typical normal typical normal old miss behavior huh there is there is one mismatch that favors touline in this game that i've seen

some old miss fans talking about this is one of the rare instances where old miss does not have the consider themselves fancy or fan base that's toulain too lane is the more like oh this is an underrated element here yeah too late two lane is more like my bag is nicer than yours and i think old miss is like our our president is in a house that's nice and it has columns on campus and we have william faulkner's house two lane meanwhile it's like yeah our president's house is the guy who over who overthrew the government of Honduras for United Fruit. It literally is. That's a joke, right?

No, I don't tell jokes. I don't. Like, Ole Miss usually gets to be like, Mississippi State, LSU. We're so much fancy. Here comes Tulane. Tulane's like, ah, I've got New York money, see? We told Roosevelt what to do.

I invented the sack of money with the dollar sign on it. See? You work for me now. Trinidad Chambles just juking somebody looking down and being like, doing this for the democratically elected government of Honduras. Hello, I'm the Monopoly man. I went to Tulane. I own your railroads. Your water is mine. I don't think he went to Tulane. I think the Monopoly man's like boozy younger brother Evan went. Hey, I'm Monopoly, Derek.

Yeah. Duopoly man. I killed my man's servant with a model T. I spent some time in Monopoly jail, but I cleaned up my act now. Somehow even more corrupt Monopoly Man. I threw up in Marvin Gardens. It's like if Monopoly Man got elected governor. Yeah, which is pretty fucking Louisiana.

Hey, listen, we've all burnt down a mansion in Hyde Park and a fit of alcoholic rage, right? But I don't believe man got second place in a beauty contest. You better believe Derek got first. All right. I'm hearing Miami and Tulane need to play. Ole Miss Tulane, the winner gets Georgia. Again, that's the SEC Quad. And joy.

Why are all our best characters named Derek? Derek is a charismatic individual at all levels. Up next, the best playoff game, possibly of the bracket. absolutely of the day that would be the brawl of the wild montana at montana state postseason game for the first time again it's on abc while this other bullshit is on hbo max it's the abc game it must be the important game um the two best teams in fcs they are arch rivals uh the top two seats standing the winner will be a big favorite in the fcs title game we might

get a slight bit of snow remaining on the stadium, but regardless, it will be the greatest rebuke of the FBS doing all of its after first round shit in various NFL stadiums. Game of the day, game of the day. Possibly the game of any bracket, but I assume some of the later FBS stuff will compete. So, yeah, a poll for Tulane to keep a competitive, but this is probably where you're going to end up. And then you'll go back to TNT, HBO, Max, and True TV. That's right.

That's right. Yeah, we have to go back to our 12-5 match-up. There's got to be a 12-5 match-up. Everybody's going to be like, oh, man, the playoffs' ass. The first round, most playoffs is ass, right? Like, we just can't replicate it at a 64-game or 64-team scale yet. And once we do, the first round will be even more ass. There will be like three upsets.

and will be like, oh, how wacky, ignoring that most of the lower-ranked teams are getting obliterated just like basketball. Yeah, that's, and this is probably going to be one of those dog. Despite the best efforts of the JMU fan social media account that is talking gigantic shit about Oregon all day long. Which, as they should, as they should. Posting slow-mo highlight videos of Oregon, like, damn, these dudes are slow. Like just wildly trolling every Oregon fan on the end, which I think by now most of them are in on the joke. But it's, yeah, JMU 21 point underdog.

It rocks that they're here. It sucks for whoever thought they should have been here. But guess what? That's what happens when you let Duke win your conference. So, yeah, good for JMU. They made it. Hey, Duke won the conference? Duke won the ACC, despite Miami being here.

I was looking up, by the way. I put this in the newsletter this week. I look back at, like, preseason win projections from various computer ratings, and Dukes came out to exactly seven, and I was like, oh, great, they nailed Duke. They knew exactly what Duke would do, except they didn't, because then Duke played one more game that it had no business playing. Anyway, JMU, it's awesome that they're here. Where's James Madison going after this?

That's right. They're going to Galveston. They ain't going to Cancun. They think they go into the beach. That dirty-ass water. What will make more people mad if JMU upsets Oregon or if Tulane beats Ole Miss? Oh, the latter. Because like Ole Miss has become the, oh, those poor guys team.

Old Miss would be a lot more problematic, right? In some ways. Because it would make it look like, oh, Lane Kiffin really was an incredible genius. I think if Oregon gets upset, it'll just be annoying because yet once again, Oregon will have gotten our hopes up, gotten into the postseason and then broken those hearts yeah it'll be it'll be pretty bad because it'll be like Oregon's like okay we learned don't make the big ten don't make the conference championship game don't get a buy just get straight in the hot shit but I have thought dumb things before I think that people would be more mad about almost losing because that

would mean like Lane Kevin must have really been worth all that money whereas most people like shitting on Oregon not winning titles yeah I'm just speaking for a general here. And it would vindicate, it would vindicate JMU getting, like, I don't think people are, I don't think anybody questions that Tulane should be in just based on, there's no system where it was like Tulane wasn't getting in the playoff, it's just whether there were the 11 or the 12 seed. And it would sort of vindicate like, well, I guess if we're going to let JMU in, they might as well win. All right, I guess that makes sense. And upset on either one of them is going to incinerate, like, one serious block of the playoff in addition to burning that opening playoff game, because

If James Madison wins, they're going to get their face ripped off by Texas Tech. No, no, it doesn't matter. Because if JMU wins, they get to be like, Napier is the chosen one. Look, he has made so. He's already want to know. Billy's back! Like, look at the financial disadvantage of having to play Nike and then having to play Texas Tech. If you're JMU.

Yeah. and then if old miss loses and two lane advances george is going to play the same game i'm sorry yeah wait a second it'll be 21 10 22 to four never mind tulane gets june's going to get that pure just going to get that noble defeat right you're going to 100 percent get the same georgia game everybody else gets we also have um the annual pick of first ever

first ever FBS team to lose a home playoff game. A few years ago, I picked Notre Dame. They're not in it this time. I think split zone has all rallied behind Penn State. They're also not quite in it. Let's see, Aggies and Sooners. Everyone's looking at you two now. So.

Oklahoma all the way is what I'm hearing. You think Oklahoma is going to be the first team to lose? a home playoff game? No, I think Aggies are. All the way to the national title, I assume you're saying. Yeah. The most disgusting display of football ever. So Aggies

being the first to lose a home playoff game would be God, that would count as like an Aggie style collapse. Oh yeah. On the season. In their last game, that was when it all sort of all the chickens came home to roost. This would indicate their

or more chickens. If I would, if, all my bad feelings. No, all of them. Like imagine, if A&M loses this,

imagine what it will take for, to make an A&M fan ever believe in one of their teams. It's a very, uh, Texas A&M losing at home to this Miami team is some perfect like Aggie Pennywise shit. If I was to do a fallout vats targeting of the Texas A&M psyche, where I was like,

or to do like the Sherlock Holmes movie thing, right? Like, triple six months the two shots and you only gave me two shots that i could take on the corpus of the texas and yeah exactly sick i would be like shot to the texas i play off home loss like that would be the two that i would choose to absolutely shatter somebody and leave you with an 11 and 2 season where you're like i want to die yeah free me of this it all started with south carolina i knew it i knew we should have lost that one on purpose Carolina bit you and you got sick. It's a very different kind of sick. There's more pooping. I think it's the kind that comes with the irrational confidence of illness where you're like,

no, this fever may be stronger. I'm like Jordan in the flu game and something like, oh, same pounds. I'm looking great. You know who beat South Carolina? Oklahoma. It's like tuberculosis in the 19th century when they're like, it makes you more passionate. And then you can't breathe. Podcast business, playoff business, podcast business, podcast business, playoff business,

Express Edition for the season. And we're going to talk about Homefield, then we're going to use some t-shirts. That's right. Comfort, value, quality, things that people say, Spencer, I associate all of these words with you. Where can I get more of that? And I'm like, there's only so much of me. Are you looking for sex partners again? No.

Homefield apparel.com. Partners doesn't describe it. I don't know if y'all saw the incredible sensuality of some of these like vintage jacket sheets they've been doing. There's folks lounging. That's true. We got that. We have my favorite thing that they make, which is the hoodie. If you do not own like one hoodie, it's become like a like, I,

I think that's an essential item is to get a home-filled hoodie because it has been cold as hell this week. And the first thing I grab in the morning is one of my two or three. I'm wearing it right now. I am. You raw dog in a hoodie? I will be honest. I did raw dog a hoodie the other day because, you know, dogs need to go out. A lot of things happening in the morning and you're just kind of like scrambling.

And I- Defined dogs need to go out. The dog looking at me and going, it's time, the old man. yeah like you had the look of urgency in the eye cover your nipples yeah like this is a saboo so i went out there and i got to admit even in the unholy arrangement of elements that is raw dogging a hoodie see you see where you where you use dog and raw dogging in juxtaposition comfortable still stylish right i can't stop you and i put a t-shirt on after it because i'm not a savage Phil t-shirt.

Oh, yeah. You kind of double up. Can I recommend, and we were very early to this particular garment, but can I personally recommend the Indiana Rose Bowl hoodie? Ooh, yeah. Had the boy in that one. That we got last year from the live show. Yeah.

Put the kid in that and he was like... Make you feel like your very own Ferdin and the Bull. It's Toasty Season. Get yourself a home-filled hoodie. Available at homefield apparel.com. Among playoff teams, as far as, as the playoff team that has the best uniforms go this two lane game breaker jacket on homefield's website right now my goodness what an attractive piece this would be for any ensemble um i i

wear my two lane uh powder blue home field oh that is sick i hadn't seen this before there's lots of tremendous two lane gear with this jacket all the game breaker jackets if they have at homefield are very nice very like 90 style throwbacks um that's that's that's a big starter vibe If I have multiple two-lane winterwear garments, maybe I get like 1% of a two-lane degree kind of leaning toward it.

And just to be clear, you don't have to have sex with Spencer if you buy from home field Not at all. You don't have to do that. I'm looking at the site right now. I'm looking at the terms of use page. I control F. Spencer didn't see a single thing. Yeah.

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