Lane Kiffin Weighs Risks of Playing in Championship Games

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00:00Here's Lane Kiffin though, Scotty. He says, not gonna lie to you, you know, all these

00:07teams got two losses right now. You end up in that game, you're gonna get a third loss

00:12and that might not be the best thing. Might be better to not play in the game and just

00:16sit it out.

00:17I don't know. I guess I would say, you know, it's, it's, it's changed. The conference championship,

00:25you know, could, could have a big impact both ways for people. So, I've talked to other

00:31coaches, so I'll just kind of give you the feeling from some other coaches that, you

00:35know, they don't want to be in it. You know, the, the risk to get a bye, sorry, the reward

00:42to get a bye versus the risk to get knocked out completely. I mean, that's a, that's a

00:48pretty big, that's a really big risk just to get a bye. So, I think it's ended up being

00:56a very unique situation of all, you know, post-season sports, the way that, that system

01:03set up there and how you could go to that and get knocked out. And if you don't go,

01:08you're in. I'm not a big gambler, but that's the kind of one of them Vegas, you know, like

01:14poker table thing, like that's all in.

01:16Yeah. Look, I still think they're one of the best teams in the country on both sides of

01:23the ball. They're dangerous. And he may be right. It kind of gets, you know, fishy every

01:30year with players, not playing in bowl games because of their future in the NFL. And now

01:37you hear this guy saying, I don't even want to play in the sec title game because another

01:41loss could bump us from the 12 team playoffs. So I think now it's changing from players

01:47not playing in bowl games to teams, not wanting to play and lose a game to be left out of

01:53the 12.

01:54Yeah. And look, if they're in that spot, because there's going to be four teams from the sec

02:01and depending on who's in that game, it's going to get very tricky. And it could be

02:06on the outside looking in. If you lose it.