Impact of Expanded College Football Playoffs on Season

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00:00I think the first thing that I want to ask you this first, because this was the one thing

00:08that I've been thinking about here in November with college football, there was so many people

00:12that tried to tell me that the regular season in college football is not going to mean as

00:18much anymore, going from four teams to 12 teams, that it's not going to be not going

00:23to be as exciting in November, there's going to be, Bill, they couldn't be more wrong.

00:28Because there are so many more games that years ago, we would have never been highlighting

00:35or looking forward to or saying mean a lot than we do now.

00:39Because with three weeks to go, Bill, this thing is all over the place with this committee

00:44and what the 12 teams that are going to get in specifically in the SEC.

00:48Right.

00:49And the Power Four is like four separate NFLs, basically.

00:53When you look at the tiebreaker scenarios, and you sort all that out, at least the NFL,

00:57there's just two AFC, NFC, you figure it out.

01:00Now, when you dig in to the SEC tiebreaker scenarios, you come up with a couple conclusions.

01:06If Texas beats Texas A&M takes care of business against Kentucky this weekend, which I think

01:11they will, the Longhorns will have one spot.

01:14If you have this multi team tiebreaker, it could work its way down to a tiebreaker, which

01:20would be the combined winning percentage of their conference opponents.

01:25And right now, of those two lost teams, the one that has one that's 500 or better, is

01:31that who?

01:32Alabama, of course.

01:33So for all this posturing and trying to figure out all these doomsday scenarios, we're probably

01:39going to end up with Texas and Alabama if those two teams take care of their business

01:42the next two weeks.

01:44Yeah.

01:45And I was saying in the break before, that LSU doomsday scenario that was out there last

01:50week was pretty wild, because on paper, Bill, it kind of looked plausible when you first

01:57looked at it.

01:58And you went, all right, you know, it's a favored team.

02:00But as we've kind of gone to learn this year, especially even in the SEC, the whole favored

02:05team to win definitely is not how this year is going, especially in that league.

02:11What did you think of where the committee put the SEC teams last week?

02:16And how much do you think they'll switch it up this week?

02:19I think they purposely left Georgia as the last team out, because they knew they beat

02:24Tennessee this week.

02:25They're going to rifle them right back up a little bit higher in the rankings.

02:29What did you think of where they kind of have those teams in the pecking order right now?

02:33I think they honor head to head all the time.

02:35That's something to keep in mind as we get in.

02:37Now, I say this, and I'm going to sound like a hypocrite in about five seconds, but—

02:40Alabama, Alabama, Tennessee.

02:41There it is.

02:42You stole it from me.

02:43I was going to get there.

02:44So I'll get there first.

02:45I'll say they're going to honor Alabama beating Georgia before they honor Tennessee

02:52beating Alabama.

02:54And I think they'll move Georgia in tomorrow night.

02:57And I think they'll move Tennessee out, which is going to cause Tennessee fans to

03:02lash out.

03:03And I think they're going to find, if they can't lash out within their own conference,

03:06they're going to find the next closest thing.

03:07And the next two closest things are going to be Indiana, if the Hoosiers lose by a bunch

03:13of points in Columbus this weekend, and Notre Dame, who is attaching their—Notre Dame's

03:18playing really well, by the way, but they lost to Northern Illinois, and their two most

03:23impressive victories might end up being Navy and Army, if they take care of the Army game

03:27this weekend.

03:28So I think that's where Tennessee fans are going to try to go, because the way the playoff

03:32picture is set up, you're probably going to end up with four Big Ten teams and four SEC

03:37teams.

03:38They're going to need Indiana to lose by a lot for the committee to consider knocking

03:42them out with one loss in Big Ten play.

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