Debate Rages Over Indiana's Easy Schedule & Their CFP Spot

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00:00Listen, Donnie, that conversation, that debate did not stop in the commercial break.

00:05And I have a lot of respect for Donnie Wright's side's takes on the NBA and the NFL.

00:09But when it comes to outrightly admitting that you don't watch college football and

00:13making the same outlandish arguments that everybody makes.

00:17There's no outlandish arguments.

00:18There's nothing outlandish about their equality football team that would not be very good

00:22in big conferences.

00:23I'm not interrupting you.

00:24I'm not going to let you.

00:25You're not going to get these nonsense.

00:27Yes, respond after this.

00:29Indiana is a decent football team that played the worst conference schedule I've ever seen.

00:34It was no surprise and no joke that once they played a team that was very good, they got

00:39absolutely embarrassed.

00:40They're still going to make the college football playoffs.

00:42They'll get in and they'll get blasted in round number one.

00:45They're a product of their environment.

00:47Put them up against Penn State this year.

00:49Put them up against Ohio State.

00:50Other good for Oregon.

00:51They don't even make the playoffs.

00:53There's no shame in that.

00:54This is a great season for Indiana.

00:55They played absolutely nobody and they're going to play a one win football team that's

01:00Hey, they beat Purdue.

01:01It's okay to understand exactly what happened here.

01:04They caught absolute fire by the worst schedule we've ever seen maybe in the history of college

01:09football and they're going to make the college football playoff before it.

01:12It's okay to admit that it is.

01:15It absolutely is.

01:16The odds makers are telling that at minus 3000.

01:19I have never once or as anybody that actually has a pulse denying that Indiana has played

01:25an easy schedule and they have taken advantage of easy schedule, not just escaping with victory

01:31after victory, absolutely hammering teams.

01:34Then they went into the home of the of the national championship favorites catching ten

01:39and a half points and got humbled.

01:42Nobody is arguing that what the argument now becomes the RS is the outlandish and flawed

01:49statement that you and many others who don't actually watch college football week over

01:53week are claiming about the SEC.

01:56You use hypothetical, which is not how game results matter and you use thinking that Nick

02:02Saban is still the head coach in Tuscaloosa in 2015.

02:05The argument that the SEC is just better than everybody.

02:09It's not.

02:10It's a mediocre conference.

02:11One of the best teams in the conference continuously get humbled.

02:14Donnie, who lost by 21 on the road as a 13 and a half point favorite on Saturday?

02:20Was it Indiana or was it Alabama?

02:23Because they're playing better competition.

02:24No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

02:26No, no.

02:27That answer the reality of this reality.

02:30Alabama would absolutely fillet, Indiana.

02:34They would smash what was honestly that's not a reality question.

02:40They have not played.

02:41You are using hypothetical Vanderbilt against Alabama.

02:48What realistically let me understand that.

02:50Alabama went.

02:51Let me understand this, if Indiana was in the SEC, would their record at this point

02:58be 10-1?

02:59That's all I'm saying.

03:00It would be nowhere near that.

03:01And that's all the argument is.

03:02I don't know.

03:03Because I delve in reality.

03:04I still believe that an Indiana team.

03:07They finally played a decent team and they got embarrassed then.

03:10As so many teams do.

03:11If they would have won that football.

03:12Yes, that's 100% correct.

03:13But that's the thing.

03:14No, no, no, no.

03:15Stop.

03:16Please stop.

03:17The only argument is, Indiana is a decent football team and a product of their environment

03:22and will make the playoffs.

03:23We can agree on that.

03:24Sure.

03:25If Alabama played that same schedule, they would be probably the number one team in the

03:29country coming into that game yesterday.

03:31That's all I'm saying.

03:32Sure.

03:33And if my aunt had cojones, she'd be my uncle.

03:35No, that's not it.

03:36And if kids fly, the world would be a better place.

03:38You are delving, as everybody else is, in hypotheticals.

03:43Because Donnie, we love the odds, right?

03:46We do everything from a sports betting component on the sports grid network and the early line.

03:52But the wonderful thing about sports is the odds don't always tell the tale.

03:56In fact, one of our favorite things in the world is David versus Goliath in the underdog

04:02triumphing as we have seen so many times this year.

04:08My argument for Indiana is not that, hey, they looked apart against Ohio State.

04:13Of course they did not.

04:14I am not, like you and every other buffoon is trying to do, going to diminish what the

04:19Hoosiers have done to their easy schedule, where the expected easy outcome has been outperformed

04:26by 14.6 points per game on cover margin when they have been booked as the favorite in those

04:32games.

04:33You are delving in hypothetical.

04:35Set the line if Alabama and Indiana play.

04:38Crimson Tide are no doubt laying double digits.

04:41The Crimson Tide laid 13.5 to an even 500 Oklahoma team who lost to Missouri, who Alabama

04:48beat 34-zip.

04:51And what happened in the game?

04:53In reality, what happened in the game?

04:55Tell me.

04:56There it is.

04:57You don't even need to tell me.

04:59Alabama lost by three touchdowns.

05:01Hear me out on this.

05:02If you have layup after layup, which means, Ben, you're not even playing your starters

05:05in the second half because of how easy your schedule is.

05:08When you're in the SEC in Alabama, you are playing heavyweights every single week.

05:13There are no bivouacs here.

05:15Indiana basically has 10 bivouacs.

05:16Look how many ranked teams are in the SEC.

05:20What's the strength of schedule for Alabama compared to Indiana?

05:24Did Alabama lose to a ranked team?

05:26Did Ole Miss on Saturday lose to a ranked team?

05:28They didn't even play a ranked team the entire season, Indiana.

05:34You're now arguing against Indiana again, using them as the punching bag.

05:39I am not using Indiana.

05:40Instant is good.

05:41There's a lot of teams in the country.

05:42And so, again, Indiana will make the college football playoff because they had an easy

05:45schedule.

05:46You're right.

05:47If the schedule wasn't easy, we wouldn't be talking about Indiana.

05:49That's the only point I'm making here.

05:50Maybe not.

05:51Maybe not.

05:52But again, if and what and how you are arguing hypothetical arguments that do not stand in

06:00reality.

06:01That's all you have in college football.

06:04Did they play the easiest schedule possible in the country?

06:07Yes.

06:08That's why they're in their position.

06:09If they played Oregon, Penn State, and Ohio State, then we wouldn't even be having this.

06:14We wouldn't be having this argument at all because they lost all three of those games.

06:17I know that Mr. Rightside, number one James Franklin hater, is not using Penn State as

06:24his argument for teams that don't play football.

06:25That's how you know.

06:26That's how you know.

06:27I'm backing Penn State over Indiana.

06:29That's how you know how crazy this argument sounds.

06:32I'm nowhere near Penn State.

06:35Penn State has a much better resume than the top-ranked team in the SEC, which is Texas.

06:42All to show you again that you're flawed in outdated hypothetical arguments or based on

06:49when Nick Saban and Les Miles were in the SEC.

06:53His confidence is just far superior to everybody in the updated landscape that is NIL in the

07:00transfer portal that has diminished some of the heavyweights at this sport at the highest

07:05power.

07:06Not from being a bad team, just to make it a little bit more egalitarian.

07:11Your argument does not stand the test of time, my friend.

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