College Football Playoff Upsets and Predictions Analysis

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00:00Lots of upsets this past weekend, we were looking at some of the numbers yesterday and

00:07this morning, you know, people sweating about Indiana game, you know, fan has got a minus

00:128000 to making the playoffs.

00:15So they think they're going to be in, you're seeing Tennessee at minus 450.

00:20You could sometimes Gabe, look at those lines for what the books think of who's going to

00:24make it and kind of get a little bit of a playbook for what these guys are going to

00:27put out tonight with the rankings.

00:29I don't fully understand the criticism of Indiana as much as there is out there.

00:36And listen, I don't think Indiana are a top, top tier football team, and I think they'll

00:40lose in the college football playoffs.

00:43But the hostility towards them, I think it's just a little bit over the top.

00:49And the fact is, there's just not that many one loss teams out there.

00:52Right?

00:53I mean, you know, we can talk about, are the SEC teams better?

00:58And I would say, yes, I think they've kind of cannibalized themselves a little bit.

01:02But at the same point in time, you are what your record says you are.

01:05So I don't have a problem with Indiana getting in.

01:08I think a big winner over the weekend, actually, was Notre Dame.

01:12Right?

01:13Notre Dame have just systematically sort of, they've kept winning and people around them

01:17are losing.

01:18But I said it before, Carver, and I said it to you.

01:21I said it to Pharrell when the first rankings came out.

01:24Right?

01:25Oh, look at this matchup.

01:26But look at that matchup.

01:27People can't even remember who was whatever looked like back then.

01:31So sort of like a snow globe.

01:32We reshake it every week.

01:34So I'm sort of going to wait and see how it plays out still right now.

01:39But it's going to be an intriguing playoff this year.

01:41And you get the big 12 teams, right?

01:44They're going to get in the back door.

01:45They'll be one of the lower seeds as well.

01:47But I'm curious to see what it's all said and done.

01:49Who plays who?

01:50A&M is all or nothing for them.

01:53Right?

01:54So Texas A&M win.

01:55They're going to get in.

01:56If they don't win, they're not going to get in.

01:58But as you stated, everything is kind of working itself out right now.

02:01It is.

02:02And you mentioned shaking the snow globe.

02:05I think there'll be even more of it between this weekend and the conference championship

02:10games.

02:11Especially if we can get an upset.

02:14Right?

02:15Like where's that upset coming from?

02:16Is it Georgia Tech?

02:17Georgia Tech lost by like seven or eight last year to them.

02:20Right?

02:21So Georgia Tech have shown, all right, we can hang around with Georgia.

02:24This Georgia Tech football team is pretty good.

02:27Right?

02:28They're not going to be overly, I don't think they get smashed, like murdered by Georgia.

02:32They can hang around.

02:34Does Michigan have one in them?

02:36Right?

02:37Michigan actually played the best.

02:39You know?

02:40I think Michigan can hang around the point spread, but it's going to be hard to go in

02:43there and actually beat them.

02:44Right?

02:45I mean, you're getting three touchdowns.

02:48So I don't know where the massive upset, Notre Dame, USC, maybe, you know what I mean?

02:53It's sort of like, some of these games, some of these teams that we saw last week, Mike,

02:57you know, it's a big theme.

03:00Teams saving their season, bro.

03:01Right?

03:02And I told people this all week about Oklahoma and Alabama.

03:05And I said, you know, if Oklahoma wins this game, there's going to be a lot of pain will

03:10be forgotten, man.

03:12Right?

03:13A lot of the season.

03:14Look at what's going on in Gainesville right now, Carver.

03:17They wanted to put Billy Napier on the next train out of town before.

03:20Now it's like, hey, let's go.

03:21What are we playing again?

03:22Let's go.

03:23Let's beat someone else.

03:24Right?

03:25It sort of started to roll.

03:26So you never really know what these last late games, what someone's going to step up and

03:30pull the carpet out from underneath.

03:32But I kind of don't see it happening this weekend.

03:35I think the one team I'd watch for this weekend is, and they need to win to play in that ACC

03:40title game is Miami.

03:42I know Syracuse has been okay in spots this year.

03:45They're going on the road.

03:49If Miami loses, Clemson is going to be in the game against SMU.

03:52So they cannot afford to slip up in the dome against Syracuse this weekend.

03:57And I was saying yesterday to Joe Gabe, Boise's played with fire the last few weeks and maybe

04:03not this week with Oregon state.

04:05But if they got to play UNLV again next week in the Mountain West title game, I know everybody's

04:11got Boise penciled in.

04:13They think they're going to get a buy, which I don't believe they will after whoever comes

04:16out of the big 12 wins.

04:17I still think that there'll be that fourth buy team, but I'd be careful with Boise these

04:21next two weeks, Oregon state, and then possibly UNLV.

04:25I don't, I don't disagree with you, but at the same point of time, if Boise get in, they're

04:28going to be dangerous for other teams, right?

04:31They're going to be, they're going to be a problem.

04:33You know, when you want to talk about the playoff, this is where something you just

04:36said, it's sort of, I find interesting.

04:39What do they do?

04:40If UNLV wins, are you, is UNLV getting in?

04:44Like those are the questions.

04:45Like we, I don't really know.

04:46We can debate all Indiana state or rank six and eight from whatever, blah, blah, blah.

04:50But like, think about that.

04:51Like, are you an LV?

04:52Are they going to, are you an LV in, right?

04:56If they win this, that, that's sort of a question that I'm looking at here there.

05:00So there's sort of still a couple of things to happen.

05:02Like you said, bro, this, this ACC thing is pretty wild right now.

05:07I still like, I kind of, I can't believe that SMU will be in the playoff somehow.

05:11So something's going to happen before that.

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