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Exploring the New Dynamics of College Football Playoffs
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11/17/2024
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And Rich and I were just talking during the break and I wanted to carry this conversation
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on air for a minute. There's not a clear picture to a national champion at the moment. I love
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that you mentioned that because I feel like it's just adding to the excitement around
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college football or at least bringing a lot of excitement back into college football.
00:19
We were also talking about all the chaos and confusion that came from COVID. You got six
00:23
and seven year seniors playing. So kind of piecing things together from what we've watched
00:28
and covered all season long. We were just talking about Ole Miss taking on Penn State.
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But what would you say is probably the team that can sneak into the mix for the playoff
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picture that was never kind of considered beforehand now that we have some new meat
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in the mix for playoffs?
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Well, you know, the one that jumps out to me, I mean, it's not, you know, this I'm not
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really out on a limb here because they're undefeated. But the Indiana story to me has
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really captured the imagination of not just Big Ten fans, but really fans across the country.
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And I love the fact that IU, a basketball school, I have friends in Bloomington who
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are just, you know, they're over the moon with excitement for what this team has been
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doing. And for me, it's more of a big picture type situation. I think I've said in the past,
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but it bears repeating, which is you can make the right coaching change. Like if things
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seem dire right now, if your team is under 500 and they're struggling, that one correct
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coaching change in the case of Indiana, Curt Cignetti, and then the ability to go into
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the portal and find the right mix for your offense and defense. Offensively, Curtis Rourke
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from Ohio comes from the Mac, is a maybe top five or six candidate for the Heisman. Mikhail
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Kamara, Curt Cignetti brought over the edge rusher from James Madison. He ranks among
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the nation's leaders in tackles for losses and sacks. So what Indiana is doing right
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now is potentially a blueprint Casey for other programs, smaller programs. Look at Vandy
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and all of the excitement they've had this year. A lot of that is related to one player,
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Diego Pavia. So it's the times that we live in, in college football, forget about rebuilding.
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You don't need three or four year plans. Find the right leader, find the right coach that
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can go into the portal and rebuild a roster. And man, you can rebuild on the fly. And that's
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what we're seeing with Indiana. Yeah, we're going to start to see more of a buy-in over
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rebuild theme as long as this continues to be successful, which it just makes for a better
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storyline and obviously getting these new, these new meats in the mix. It's very exciting
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and it's great to see.
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