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want to play a SoundBite from Pete Bebecuah, the ad
for Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: Now he states that the ACC.
Speaker 2: Did permanent damage to its relationship with Notre Dame for
all of the anti Irish playoff politicking the conference publicly
leaned into in the lead up.
Speaker 3: To the selection show.
Speaker 2: Let's listen in and see pontificates on this particular issue.
Speaker 3: What role did the ACC play in any of this
in your opinion?
Speaker 4: Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have
tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team, great school,
their athletic director, Dan Radikovich, is a good friend, and
all the teams in the ACC great wonderful universities. We
have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC,
but we were mystified by the actions of the conference
to attack their biggest really business partner in football and
a member of their conference in twenty four of our
other sports. And I would tell you, Dan, I wouldn't
be honest with you if I didn't say that they
have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the
conference in Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: What do you mean, just we.
Speaker 4: Didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled out repeatedly
and compared to Miami. No by Miami. Miami has every
right to do that, but it raised a lot of
eyebrows here that the conference was taking shots at us,
and you know, that's just not something we chose to do.
We wouldn't choose to do that in the future, and
people might disagree with us, but that's just not something
that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we have no
problem with any of these teams. These are all great teams.
And you look at those teams, Miami, like I said,
great season.
Speaker 6: They beat us.
Speaker 4: You think about Alabama, and nobody's had more success in
college football over the last decade than Alabama. But then,
you know, I mean, you follow the sport so closely.
Everybody was saying that we were one of a handful
of teams that could win this whole thing, and now
we have zero percent chances. Even Nick Saban, nobody knows
more about college football maybe in the history of the
world than Nick Saban, you know, and he said yesterday, like,
how is Notre Dame not in this I mean, everybody
is just kind of confused and perplexed, and we don't
have good answers for the kids on our team, for
our student athletes.
Speaker 2: So, in response to these comments from Bebequahd, this is
a statement from ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips. The University of
Notre Dame is an incredibly valued member of the ACC
and there is tremendous respect and appreciation for the entire institution.
With that said, when it comes to football, we have
a responsibility to support and advocate for all seventeen of
our football playing member institutions, and I stand behind our
conference efforts to do just that.
Speaker 3: Considering do just.
Speaker 2: That leading up to the College Football Playoff Committee selections
on Sunday, at no time was it suggested by the
AEC that Notre Dame was not worthy a worthy candidate
for inclusion in the field. We are thrilled for the
University of Miami, while also understanding and appreciating the significant
disappointment of the Notre Dame players, coaches, and programs. You
have a bit of a he said, she said situation here.
Notre Dame's perspective is that the ACC okay executed a
public relations campaign that was anti Irish. Bebequah stated that
as much that's his perception, that's his reality, that the
ACC openly on out rightly undermined the Irish, okay, and
that you know that it was unfair.
Speaker 3: And now the relationships on the rocks now they may be.
Speaker 2: Exploring opportunities to move their Olympic sports or or redo
the structure, redo the contract, maybe aligned with other schools,
or just go full on independent, no more ACC football agreement.
You don't get Notre Dame, you don't get piggyback offense.
Anyone that's making money off Notre Dame. Notre Dame is
fighting now. They're judo chopping in the throat. They're willing
and ready to negotiate, okay, anything to get out of
those deals where they feel like they weren't an advocate
for the Irish. That's what they've stated. They're drawing a
line in the sand, okay. Or they're just saying, hey,
we're not gonna do business with you anymore, and they're
gonna find a way out.
Speaker 3: So I asked the question what the number should be?
Speaker 2: How deep should you go with a with a playoff
bracketology in college football?
Speaker 3: How many teams? Is the ideal number of teams?
Speaker 2: Okay, some people are saying sixteen, Some people are saying fourteen,
some say twenty, some say twenty four. Ronald the three
man Weaver, what's the right number and why?
Speaker 5: To me, it's very simple been the right number is sixteen.
I believe. I don't think you can do twenty four
and go away from conference championships right, because there's money
involved there. It should now, I do believe this. I
believe if a team's are gonna opt out future of
conference championships and they should be penalized, but within the
reason like if by you were to opt out like
I do think Parker Kingston and we'll hear from this
sound a little bit later, there is validity and why
should we play it for gonna be penalized before? It
doesn't matter if our only two losses are to a
top four team, that shouldn't count. When we win eleven
and oh the whole time, there's there's validity and a
player saying that being on the team. But I think
it's sixteen. Right, you win your conference championship, you automatically
go now with the P four teams of the Big
twelve the SEC, the ACC, and you know Big ten.
They should be allowed to get those first four rankings
depending where it's at, but you expand it to where
there's multiple at large as Again, Ben, if it's sixteen,
I said this last year, by you would have had
opportunity to go even to the college football playoff last year. Now,
maybe they didn't deserve it as much because they lost
it down the stretch, but according to the rest as
man all the qualifiers, they deserved it this year. So
I think sixteen is the right number bin of going
to the college football playoffs. I don't think twenty four
is good because you go away from conference championships and
I do believe that, you know, you should be rewarded
if you win that. But it's also like basketball in
a way, even if you don't win your conference championship,
if your resume is good, you do that strictly on
the resume, not an eye test, not how you feel,
not of that, strictly upon your resume. Like basketball, Quad one, Quad, two, Quad, three,
Quad four, you're in. Yes, if you lose late, that
can matter, but it doesn't affect And that's why I
feel sixteen is the best because even if you slip
up being late in the season like BAU did last year,
they still I think would have been into it into
a degree. So I think I think winning in the
regular season should matter been and you can't judge a
team off of their losses and just in the season,
especially if you're not going to say that was a
good loss to BYU in Texas Tech. So sixteen is
a number for me.
Speaker 2: Man, if you go sixteen, you're still leaving out some
big brands, right, mission may be ticked off. Right When
I'm talking about big brands, I'm talking about these equity
stakeholders in college football that have a lot of pomp
and circumstance and resources surrounding them. You would leave out Michigan. There,
you leave out U of A. Maybe that's not a
big deal to some Virginia would be left out as well. Okay, Which, look,
you're gonna have complaints no matter what. You just don't
want the squeaky wheels to be the biggest wheel in
college football. Is leaving Michigan out as a nine and
three team?
Speaker 3: Right? Is that a cutoff?
Speaker 2: That that's gonna tick off enough people, and there's gonna
be all manner of turmoil and anger in college football.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe I think it'd be good to have USC in
the playoff. I think it'd be good to have a
rising u of a team. I think it'd be great
to have Michigan in the playoff.
Speaker 3: Shoot.
Speaker 2: I think Virginia is a really good football team at
ten and three, tu Lane's at number twenty at eleven two.
Obviously they got into one of the highest highest ranked
conference champions. Okay, so they already automatically get in. So
who gets ousted? Look, a lot of people are like,
let's just go twenty four. That way, everybody's happy, everybody
be it, and then it's going to be a seeding situation.
So why can't you go to twenty four, Ronald, Why
why can't you do twenty four teams in a bracket
style with uh with with buys amongst the top seeds
in college football to start it all off?
Speaker 5: Well, look, I mean go back to the championship game
against Virginia. They lost to Duke been Like, that's a
third loss. Like, you go to the college football playoff,
that's not good for your brand.
Speaker 2: Texas at the nine to three team, they have a fan,
they have a great resume. They but Ben, oh my hell,
I'm just saying that, Yeah, they could lose.
Speaker 3: Any team could lose in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is, everybody, if you got to realize
the repercussion to keeping it limited. More and more team
teams are not going to play in bowl games because
the calendar is ruined. I've told you guys this time
and time again. The calendar is creating this chaos. So
we've seen now how many Big twelve teams not wanting
to play in bowl games because they've already started with
their offseason acquisition and retention plan. They don't have time,
they don't have resources. Coaches of law coaches are gone,
they're going to other schools. Then you're having gas and
analysts coach the respective teams. There's turmoil everywhere. There's an
organizational design issue with this from a calendar standpoint. So
the only way to low level fix it is to
expand the playoff in disregard the ball system to a degree. Right,
you could have some premiere non CFP bowls. That's fine,
that's great, that's great, but remember you're gonna expand the
CFP balls, the Pop Tarts ball, the Alible Bowl. Those
all may become the first round games. So they get THEIRS,
they get a BYU Notre Dame game, they get a
Utah USC game, they get the money.
Speaker 3: They're taken care of.
Speaker 2: But the the the bowl games that maybe don't bring
as much money, much Bob much circumstance, they're they're relegated, right,
So it's the easiest way to.
Speaker 3: Make the big brands ESPN.
Speaker 2: Uh and and many of the UH the the other
sponsoring Corporate America institutions happy. That's the only way. So
I understand, like you, Oh, they're gonna lose. They could lose,
Like dude, I'm just trying to I'm just trying to
create a buffer, a barrier of like, Okay, what's not
gonna is James Madison or sorry, it's North Texas gonna
be pissed off because they didn't get in. Probably not
Iowa was at eight and fourteen. They're probably not gonna
get pissed off if they don't get in. Georgia Tech
maybe not gonna be pissed off that they didn't get
in at nine three, like so I'd be fine with that.
Like twenty Mark, you get twenty teams in and you
get most of the big brands in. If you're in that,
you know that that three four loss situation and you
don't have enough good wins, qualitative wins.
Speaker 3: To get in. Texas has enough quality wins to get in.
Speaker 2: They're a good football team, a well resourced football team.
I would like to see Texas in right because of
the brand, because of what they've done this season. It's
the same way I think about Alabama. Alabama does have
arguably the best winning college football this season outside of
maybe Indiana beating Ohio State in the in the in
the Big Ten Championship game, but Alabama went into Georgia
and b Georgia.
Speaker 3: That's a really really good win.
Speaker 2: And I empathize and sympathize with the committee wanting to
put Alabama in. I think BYU should be and it'd
be great, it'd be great, it'd be wonderful.
Speaker 3: They have a cutoff this year.
Speaker 2: That's that's the situation, and I just I want to
have a we can sit here in pisson mode and complain.
Speaker 3: I want to fix it. I want to fix it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to just put a band aid on
it by going we're just gonna go fourteen we're just
gonna go sixteen. No, let's let's make it into an
opportunity where certain Cinderella's get in, but the major brands,
the best football teams get in as well, and we're
not having to discuss all this trash on the back end,
and we're not having to have Notre dame like say,
we're not playing in a bowl game then, so the
biggest brands are saying we don't want to play in
bowl games.
Speaker 3: That's ridiculous, that's absurd.
Speaker 2: Unless you have some sort of incentive or accountability, you're
not gonna change behavior. So we gotta figure out what
the incentive is. We got to say, we gotta figure
out what the accountability is.
Speaker 5: But I feel sixteen will give you enough ben in
here as well, Like if Michigan were to piss and moan,
you've got it, you had a chance to beat Ohio
State and control your own destiny. Like I think playing
your schedule has to still matter to a degree, Like
if it's sixteen, even those that pistimone last year would
be in. And that's my point, Like I feel that's
why it's the cut off, Like there is an opportunity
in your schedule matters. Arizona will guess what you lost
to by you in the season. Who beat you like
that has to count. You have to take a punishment
for that. Like us, he gets in as the last
team as nine to three, like you tossed ten and two.
Like those teams get enough been to do that. Your
conference wins reflect where you should be at in the ranking.
Speaker 2: Still entertainment though too, it's still entertainment. Michigan provides eyeballs
and entertainment.
Speaker 5: And I know that, but you have to be held
accountable for your schedule.
Speaker 2: Still, Like I said, the teams from twenty to twenty
five right now in the colleg football playoff, Okay, Tulane
obviously they're in Houston because of their highest one of
the higher ranked uh you know G six is or
conference champion Georgia Tech, Iowa, North Texas.
Speaker 3: Jameson Madison that that's.
Speaker 2: Where you're at right Like, so you're not gonna piss off,
like these aren't like the power brokers the brands of
college football. Yet they're they're they're new Houston's new money.
Georgia Tech is on the rise and they've been a
good brand over the years, but they haven't been a
big time brand. Only at certain times have they been
a remarkable They have a remarkable season of Calvin Johnson
led season, et cetera. IOWA a good brand, not a
great brand. They're akin to BYU in many ways. They
have a similar trajectory of BYU in many ways from
a talent and resource allocation standpoint. So I'm fine with
leaving those teams out because it's not as big of
a hit from an entertainment monetization.
Speaker 3: You have to build bridges.
Speaker 2: The only way to make this thing work is to
go out there and build bridges. And you have like
those three fasces, you have the big brands of college football.
Speaker 3: That will continue to be resource rich.
Speaker 2: You have ESPN, you have Fox, these these behemoth sports
media entities.
Speaker 3: Disney. We're talking about Disney.
Speaker 2: I mean Disney billions of dollars, okay, and they want
entertainment and they want eyeballs, and they want corporate sponsorship.
And then you have, like I said, the corporate sponsorship.
So those entities have to be fed and they have
to be happy with what remains. And I still think
there's a obviously there's a there's a lack of happiness
amongst certain facets right.
Speaker 5: Now, so I think, like, also this has been maybe
you add this as a stipulation, Like I'm looking at
the teams in Michigan lost to above them, right obviously, USC, Oklahoma,
Ohio State, right, those are you opportunities? They are but
but but to me, that's the accountability you lost. So
you don't get in even with the sixteen, like you could.
You could have beat those teams, but you chose to
lose that, right, you could not perform and I get it, brand,
but you lost to other bigger brands.
Speaker 3: They would knock the socks off of Tulane or James Man.
Speaker 5: They would. I get that, But you have to still
like other people who won their conferences. If you're playing
a conference game, right, they still need to be rewarded.
That's my thing. Unless you're gonna go away from it,
which is fine. But then here's this, right, our eyeball
is not gonna be on the the cheese at Bowl
the cituers like I'm gonna watch that. I'm gonna watch
Texas in Michigan, right like you, Maybe what you do
is okay. If you didn't get in this a sixteen,
then when you match up these teams in the Bowl games,
these POSTERI, then you do that matchup, because like Michigan's
gonna take on on New Year's Eve at one pm Texas, Like,
that's the game you're gonna gonna people are gonna watch
and see Ken arch manning Cam Michigan. Like, I think
there's some validity in that having that game. So maybe
that's what you do if you move into sixteen. I'm
not saying it's the right answer, but if you go
with that, guys that don't get in, then maybe are
the Michigans or Howards. Can you match up those other
top twenty five teams that are close to playing these
Bowl games to get eyeballs on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like they like you said, I mean
they're incentivized by their conferences, right, Obviously the Big twelve,
these Big twelve teams, how many now are there that
have said we don't want to play because they're in
the they're in the middle ground here, they're five and seven,
six and six right, Kansas State UCF. Right, these are
five and seven teams that are essentially being told, hey,
we'll give you a Bowl opportunity. They're like, we've already
moved on we're already moving on. Like so the traditional
ball system is going away. It's done, it's done. We're
the corporate sponsorships that are looking for opportunities to put their.
Speaker 3: Brand out there. Right like some of these lower level brands.
Speaker 2: Maybe they may go by the wayside that it is.
Speaker 3: That's your trajectory right now.
Speaker 2: So the only way I see happening where where everybody's
gonna be happy or most people are gonna be happy
ninety percent of the people that are involved in college
football athletics are gonna be happy, is to go into
that twenty twenty four range. I don't know if sixteen
does it, don't. I don't know if sixteen does it.
I just don't know.
Speaker 3: I still think you're gonna get some major brands that
are gonna be pissing on it. But it does help.
If that's the case, we go sixteen.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Let's get to sixteen, because having a sweet sixteen
in college football has a sweet ring to it, has
a glorious ring to it. And like I said, maybe
all three of those entities that I mentioned will be
happy enough in those situations, and you won't have enough,
you won't have as much kicking and screaming on the
bagg you're not one of the top sixteen seas. Technically,
it's one of the top fourteen teams. If you continue
to incentivize the G six conferences to go out there
and win their respective conference championship game and they're the
ranked in the top twenty five, you know you may
get two of those cinderellas in So, how many cinderellas
do you want in the college football playoff? You say two,
two a year. We want to cinderellas. Okay, then you
get the top fourteen teams in college football with their resumes,
and that would have put me Yu in it. Obviously,
that would have put Notre Dame in the conversation. Obviously,
how good would their seatings fin Maybe it doesn't matter
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Cougar's got beat up by Texas Tech in the Big
twelve championship game.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh, congratulations to Texas Tech and the coaches, the
players and their fans well deserve Big twelve Championship.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 6: You can't make a lot of mistakes like we did.
We've learned it again. That's the second time this year
against the best team in the country. I've said it before.
I think they're the best team in the country, and uh,
I'm confirming it. They're the best team in the country.
Joey's done an amazing job with this team. It just
so happens that we had to play the best team
in the country twice and they created a lot of havoc,
and we fought as much as we can, but towards
the end, you can't make the mistakes that we did
and expect to come come away with the victory or
even have a competitive at the end. So credit to them.
I'm really proud of our guys, the effort. Thank you
to the fans. BYU fans showed up, and I mean
it was a record attendance, you know, so you know,
I want to just tell the uh, the bou fans
just get ready, you know. Hopefully we'll be back soon.
But with in our third year in the conference, really
proud of where we've been and how we built this team.
We obviously have some more work to do, but I
think playing the best team in the country twice will
be we'll give us some good lessons to learn. And
just really proud of the way they played. And I thought, uh,
looking at everything all three phases, just fundamentally really sound,
well coached team, an amazing environment today in the in
the stadium. Thank you to all the Texas Tech fans
and the BYU fans for bringing the energy. It was
a lot of fun. We just need to make it
a little bit more competitive. At the end, but it
got away from us. But really proud of the way
our guys played and they didn't give up. They just
I mean, we built our defense in some tough position. Uh,
those guys kept badly and so we'll build up. We'll
build from this and get better. But really really proud
of our team.
Speaker 5: But with that said and done, Uh, you.
Speaker 6: Have to watch the film and everything, but it was
an honor for us to be on this field and
to be part of the Big twelve championship game. And uh,
you know, we could get used to this. So I'm
hoping that we can you know, be back again soon
and looking forward to building. We have a quite a
bit of young guys on our team, and so the
unfortunate part is that this is our seniors last time,
so they won't be able to play for another Big
twelve championship. But uh, they've done some wonderful things and
getting our team ready for it, and uh they're still leading.
We still need to get better and to find ways
to to you know, we well, we will play again
in the in the postseason where we'll just find out.
But congratulations again. I'll finish by saying in my statement,
congratulations Texas Tech. I'll just confirm they are the best
team in the country.
Speaker 2: Okay, agree or disagree with Koaladia Stockett Texas Tech. He's
the best team of the country and Texas Teck is
gonna win the national championship. What do you make of it,
Ronald the three man Weaver.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I said it on the elevator and some
media members are looking at me sideways. I'll keep reiterating
at Ben. I think I've seen enough, and I've watched
Georgia and Alabama and I understand. But you can argue
to a degree that the quarterback play from Georgia and
Alabama quarterbacks and these other teams in the top ten,
to a degree that Baron Morton has been the same
situation like, oh, that was almost a near misinterception that
you know Baron Morton have. There's been a bunch of
people in the SEC that have had that too. But
this defense is legit been. This Texas Tech defense is
the top five defense. And I think they're gonna have havoc.
I'm serious. I think They're gonna play a team at
one point. It could be organ it could be Indiana.
I don't know. I think they're gonna make it all
the way and this they're gonna have a TCU Georgia
type performance, like they're gonna beat somebody bad, like their problem,
like they're fast, their physical, and I thought BAU was
going to be at a chip away and after their
first drive been in the first quarter, it was reps.
They locked them up.
Speaker 2: Ben Man, I really want to believe that this is
the best team in college football.
Speaker 3: They're definitely an elite team. They're definitely in the.
Speaker 2: Top four of college football in my opinion. Indiana, Ohio State, right,
and Georgia as well. Let's take I think all of
these teams. Any one of these teams could win the
national championship. ESPN sp plus puts Texas Tech at number
three in college football, so their rating is thirty point three.
Indiana is only zero point one closer to them, are
ahead of them at thirty point four, and then Ohio
State at thirty one point six.
Speaker 3: Now we saw what happened.
Speaker 2: Indiana beat Ohio State, right, So that's the number one
sp plus team in the country losing to the number
two team per s p plus. But it came down
to the wire skin of their teeth right close one
and so that's what it's gonna be, these games between
the best of the best. Look if Tech faces Indiana,
I think they match up extremely well. Obviously they have
the number two team offensively and number four team defensively.
Special teams is where they're a little bit down, But
that's the same thing with Indiana. Techa six at forty
three and Indiana's at thirty eight. From an efficiency standpoint,
Indiana's offense is fourth, defense is second. These are gonna
be entertaining games.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a ton of parody in
these semi final games with the best seeds of college football.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Any sort of like Cinderella upsets in this particular bracket.
Speaker 3: I don't see it.
Speaker 2: I think the best seeds are gonna get into the
semi finals and they're gonna duke it out one through four,
two verse three.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be tremendous.
Speaker 2: If there was an opportunity for a a maybe upset
to happen, where would it be in the bracket and
why is it?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm trying to think of where the upset
would be.
Speaker 2: I guess it's too langan a knockoff Old Miss after
Ole Miss beat them by three plus scores.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 2: Do you view the Miami, Texas A and m game
as like an underdog story? Miami's the underdog versus Taxa,
A and M I don't think so. Now, if Miami
or Texam get, you know, knockoff Ohio State, that would
be an upset. Ole Miss knocks off Georgia that would
be an upset. Alabama or Oklahoma knock off Indiana that
would be an upset. Oregon knocking off Texas Tech because
there's no way they're beating James Madison's beating Oregon.
Speaker 3: That's a huge upset.
Speaker 2: What's the most likely upset to occur in the quarterfinal?
Speaker 3: Do you think Ronald a three man weaver?
Speaker 5: Yeah, looking at it right now, Ben, If I had
to be honest, I think the most likely one. And
this is gonna sound crazy what I'm about to say.
People might think I'm ridiculous for saying this. I think
the most likely upset is Alabama over Indiana. Ben, I'm
gonna be honest. Look, it's a team that's won multiple
national championships. Has DNA. I know it's a different coach,
it could be, but someone in that bracket also Oklahoma, Venables,
like when you have a defense that's still you know,
top ten, top fifteen that can perform when you have
defensive minded coaches, I still think that could play a factor.
Anya is a good football team. Kirkzinetti's done a good job.
But again, Ben, this is his what early times coaching
in the college football playoffs, Like you know, Kellen de
Bor has been there, Venables has been there, like their
ten year coach is not saying he's not, but he
was at JAMU, he came over. He's been doing a
good job. But if you wanted to have a time
where you know, Number one decided to have their bad
game and those that could be it in the quarterfinal,
I believe that. And plus you're also playing an SEC team,
so I think that could be difficult. So I could
see the number one seed going down in the Rolls
Bowl potentially that's my pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm bought in on Signetti in Indiana,
Like I see what no everybody says. I'm bought in man,
Like I'm a believer. I do not think they get ousted.
I do not think like there's too much good football
culture in that program right now to deter me from Like,
I'm a believer in Signetti and the Hoosiers. Right now,
it's insane as the number one seed in college football.
Speaker 3: Like, I don't think they're ousted. I like the pick,
and I've nothing against the pick. I understand where you're going,
where you're coming from.
Speaker 2: But Alabama is not the Alabama of old, and Oklahoma
just doesn't have enough offensive firepower in my opinion right
now to knock off Signetti and the Hoosiers.
Speaker 5: None of these teams getting upset.
Speaker 3: Man, that's oh miss, Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like,
I don't see en upset.
Speaker 5: No, I don't. I don't see it.
Speaker 3: I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 2: I don't, man, Honestly, the way that I lean is
more so like Ohio, they getting knocked off, but I
highly doubt it.
Speaker 3: Like most people are.
Speaker 2: Gonna pick Tech Oregon knocking off Texas is the four
versus of five, right, that's it's the four most But
Texas Tech is underrated.
Speaker 3: They're underrated.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt in my mind that Texas Tech is
a is a legitimate national title contender. And Bay fans
are not even not just rooting for it, they believe
it wholeheartedly as well. The haters are gonna say Texas
Tech lost to a SU so they're very much beatable. Uh,
but their full strength now, So you hope no injuries
occur right in that in that Oregon game. But if
they're healthy, uh, I think they take care of Oregon.
I think it'll be a competitive one.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: But Texas Tech definitely takes care of Oregon, and I
think they win it in the trenches. That defensive front
and offensive lines just way too freaking good we have
BYO has got a great defensive front and they showcase
well for for a half to sometimes three quarters.
Speaker 3: But that team wears you down eventually. Man, they're gonna
wear Oregon down. I gosh darn guarantee it.
Speaker 2: You have great culture with great talent combined there with
tech and great coaching, and I just don't see it happening.
I don't see an upset any in any one of
those quarterfinals.
Speaker 5: But if I have one thought I would like to
add to if I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Pick one, I mean, I'm I think Ole Miss is interesting, right,
like i'd be I'd probably lean that way if Lane
Kiffin was still there.
Speaker 3: He's not. He's uh, he's not at LSU.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna pick
Ohio State.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick Ohio State as my potential my most
likely to be upset in the quarterfinals of the college
football Playoff.
Speaker 5: My thinging I wanted to say about this being because
I saw this again. This came from John Kurtz, and
I'm jumping on board with it. I understand that Tech
paid a lot of money for its roster, and I
understand you know that that, but the nature of Nila
l right now and donors and wanting to do that,
it's a disservice now that that's the narrative that they
keep talking about on broadcast. Well, Tech paid this money
for us, and I'm gonna stop doing it, right because
Ohio State's paying a lot of money. Jeremi Smith's making
over four million dollars. Oklahoma pays for guys, Alabama plays
for dudes. You know, a bunch of these premier schools
having the broadcast doesn't say it. And I understand why
the brand Texas Tech has improven it but we can't
just say, well, they're paying to do that, like these
dudes playing on this team even if you're paying them.
Jacob Roriguez is a first round pick. Ben like Romello
Height is a first round pick. David Bailey is a
first round pick in the NFL draft. They got guys
that can play. So yes, does the money correlate with
the talent? Always not necessarily, but in this case it has.
So I feel like having that narrative of saying, well,
you know, the national media saying well, they pay for this,
like well, how do you think arch Manning's making booboo dollars?
Like no, he's not right and he didn't show up.
So I just I want the national media and people
to pull off that because Jacob Riguez is the best
linebacker in the country. He won the award, he backed
it up. David Bailey's very good. Ben Roberts, who we
saw when the most outs ended Defensive Player of the
Year in the Big to a Bowl game and Big
twou excuse me, a championship game. He is legit, like
they have legit players, doesn't matter after they're being paid
and they're going to go shock people. And then I
think once they're able to go make a deep run,
you can no longer say, well, Texas Tech paid. I
think they will be in the conversation with the Indiana's,
with the Georgia because everybody's paying at this at this point.
Speaker 2: Ben, Yeah, man, this is It's an interesting scenario, no doubt.
Let's get back to the commentary from Kilani Killani stating
that Texas Tech is the best team in college football.
Speaker 3: You hope it plays out that way, Kialani.
Speaker 2: Both your losses came against the same team this year,
a top four ranked opponent. Do you think the CFP
should take that into consideration compared to other two loss
teams in college football?
Speaker 6: Well, I think if you look at what Texas Tech's done,
they're the best team in the country for a reason.
Their only loss came when they didn't have their starting quarterback,
and so that's that's difficult and on the road. But
you look at when their full strength team, they're dangerous.
And so I'm not on the playoff committee, but I
can tell you one thing, who's played the best team
in the country twice? We have and does that mean
that you're not one of the best twelve? I have
no idea. I'm not in that committee. I don't make
the decisions, but others will find out. That's a great
thing about the playoffs. Everybody else will find out what
we had to go against. And you know, I'm just
really proud of our team, So I can't really speak
for everybody else, but from seeing them twice and even
the way that the games went and watching them in
their response to some adversity, I mean, they they played
really strong, and so you know, I'd love to have
a third chance at him, but you know that that's
a that's a really good team and Joey's done a
great job with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would not want another chance.
Speaker 2: I don't want anything to do with the Red Raiders
right now.
Speaker 3: No, thank you, no, Gracius.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you know I will put it out there, like,
what do you think you all your chances would be
against Organ, right, and see how BU fans feel about it.
B what your organ mad were to obtaining at large bags.
But I don't want anything to do with Tech.
Speaker 3: But that's the thing.
Speaker 2: You would have been in the same bracket as Tech,
so we would have got them in the quarterfinals at
the twelve seed, you know, So Let's say, let's say,
for argument's sake, okay, that by You would have got
their true merited seating and they would have been I
think from a merit standpoint, is their resume better than Oklahoma's, Alabama's,
Miami's notre dames?
Speaker 3: Like, where would you put them in a true.
Speaker 2: Seating fashion with their resume taking into account strength of schedule,
strength of record, right wins versus top twenty five teams,
their record versus top twenty five teams, after losing to
the number four team in college football twice and it
wasn't even closed. So what's the true seating do you
think for BYU, if it was really truly merit based
resume base, what would they be?
Speaker 5: I had him in nine, ben, That's what I gave him.
I gave him, gave nine. I think that's where I
had it when I looked at true resume based wins, losses,
everything in the whole nine yards, I think where I
had BYU was nine. No higher than eight. I don't
think I could go higher than that, but that's why
I got them, got him in the eight nine range.
Speaker 2: So let's say they were a ten seed. Let's say
they took over the spot for Miami. They would have
got Texas A and m U with that was that
is that the seating that you would have liked, or
say they're the nine seed, say you oust Alabama out
of that ninth spot, and you know, and and so
you take on Oklahoma with the opportunity to play Indiana,
which which would have been most advantagious for BYU in
the seating, right.
Speaker 3: Is the question where would you have put them?
Speaker 2: And like all these teams are tough, maybe you match
up from a personnel standpoint a little bit better with Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: I agree, that's kind of where I would have liked that.
Speaker 2: I would have probably stated, a, let's hopefully get that
nine seed and then you face Indiana. Maybe you match
up well with Indiana. I don't think you win that game.
I think you get beat up pretty good in that game.
But I think you can compete with Oklahoma, just like
I think you could compete with Alabama, just like I
think you could compete with a Miami or Texas A
and m Okay. So that would have been the ideal
situation I think for the coups. Couple last soundbites from
Killane post game. Killane, Actually, let's skip that one Bear
blackom I was injured in the first half.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 2: And then actually let's bounce to let's go with number six.
What let's go and go number six? What is your
sense of your playoff hops? This is from the post game, right,
so it's a little bit late as far as reading
between the lines, but this is what Kilani said number
six in the post game.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: This is the first game, so I don't know what's
going on in the other games. But I know, like
I said, who's played, they're the number one team in
the country. I don't know what the other rankings are.
This team is really good. So you go play the
number one team in the country twice, one in Lubbock
and then one in neutral Site, which is the same state.
You know, I thought our fans showed up and made
a lot of noise. I'd love another crack at it.
But they do that to everybody. If you watch the
film and you see what they do, they they basically
grind it out and they end the games like they
just did against us. And yeah, I like who we
are and I like what we've been able to do.
I think we have a great resume. You know, but
I gotta watch the other games too. I just know
that when they're doing comparisons, hopefully they put it out
there and make it fair.
Speaker 5: At least put us in the graphic.
Speaker 6: That'd be nice.
Speaker 2: Colotti, at least put us in the graphic. That would
be nice. That would have been at least respectful. It's
disrespectful to not include BYU in the graphic.
Speaker 3: When will BYU be respected? Is the question?
Speaker 2: Because you're gonna have to overachieve to earn that your
new money, new kid on the block, and you're part
of the big twelve that has a bifurcated media rights
between ESPN and and Fox. If you were the ACC,
I wonder if there would have been more advocacy for you.
It sure seemed that ESPN, remember who owns the rights
of the college football Playoff, they were much more willing
and ready to sustain the ACC and support the ACC
minus Notre Dame. Right, and that's why Notre Dame's ticked
off and doesn't want anything to do with the ACC.
It seems going for it. It's a broken relationship. It's
on the rocks pebitquad. The ad of Notre Dame stated
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