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College Football Playoff Rankings: Key Insights & Drama
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12/4/2024
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The college football playoff committee convened and gave you the top 12.
00:09
Now we know the usual suspects.
00:11
If the season ended right now, getting the buy Oregon, SMU, Boise State, Texas, a lot
00:16
to be determined this weekend.
00:17
We understand that the first round matchups, Arizona State, Penn State, Tennessee, Ohio
00:22
State, Alabama, Notre Dame, Indiana, and Georgia.
00:25
So you see the first round here.
00:27
Let's start there.
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The Crimson Tide would be in if the season ended today.
00:32
But my question to you, will the Crimson Tide be in this Sunday?
00:37
Yeah, probably, unless we have a marquee upset.
00:40
If Clemson upsets SMU, Crimson Tide, I still think are in the college football playoff.
00:47
That's why they solidified them right at number 11 overall and put your Miami Hurricanes at
00:53
number 12 overall.
00:54
Even though the Hurricanes only had two losses and Alabama had three.
00:58
So I think there's no doubt Alabama, that marquee brand, they want that in terms of
01:03
the college football playoff.
01:04
But Donnie, we keep going back to these rankings.
01:07
How do you have Ohio State at number five in these, I mean, come on.
01:12
I know you want to see the best teams, but Ohio State lost as a 20 and a half point favorite
01:17
to Michigan.
01:18
I mean, come on.
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I mean, how do we have them ranked as high as they are right now?
01:24
Let's start there with Ohio State and let's compare them to Miami.
01:27
You know, two losses apiece here, but certainly losses are made differently.
01:31
We're not going to penalize Ohio State going to Oregon, the number one team in the country
01:34
and losing late in that game.
01:36
If there's any such thing as a solid loss, that would be it.
01:39
But you can't be a three touchdown favorite at home and get beat by a football team and
01:45
only drop a certain amount.
01:47
And granted, I understand in the ACC, like Syracuse isn't a great team, but that's a
01:52
solid program with a good quarterback at home.
01:55
And yes, Miami had a 21-0 league and let that slip away because their defense has been bad
01:59
all season.
02:00
But why didn't Ohio State drop as much as Miami dropped?
02:03
Well, because they love the Big Ten.
02:05
It's clearly obvious.
02:06
We've seen that, right?
02:08
We talk about SEC bias.
02:09
What about the Big Ten bias?
02:11
And people will say, well, that was Michigan, right?
02:13
Well, those same people that were saying that was Michigan were complaining and just saying
02:18
that Ohio State was going to steamroll them and it was going to be a bloodbath, that Michigan
02:22
wouldn't win the ballgame and it would be a double-digit lead by the fourth quarter.
02:27
So they changed their tune after Michigan strikes the upset.
02:31
And you could talk about Syracuse, but Kyle McCord leads all FBS in terms of passing yards.
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They lost to Syracuse by one score.
02:39
They lost by five to Georgia Tech, a Georgia Tech team that has seven wins, that pushed
02:44
Georgia to the limit in eight overtimes.
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So both of their losses are very close.
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And when you look at Ohio State, yeah, close losses, but they were a 20 and a half point
02:55
home favorite over a team that they should have dominated, a team that was completely
02:59
one-dimensional and had 60 yards passing out of Davis Warren, and we're going to drop them
03:04
basically only two spots.
03:06
Absolutely ridiculous, Donnie.
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