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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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John U Bacon

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0:00.0

We'll go back inside the Ann Arbor Studios of the Big 1050 WTCA online at the big 1050.com.

0:05.6

Efforting John Eubacon, who we're hoping to connect with this morning here on the show.

0:11.0

In the meantime, we'll get back to this college football playoff conversation here on the show.

0:16.7

And as we are now one round of games in the books and none of the games are close.

0:26.0

And a few of the different conversations have come out of this.

0:28.6

Well, first of all, the whining from the SEC has got to stop.

0:34.9

Because needless to say, they spent as soon as just the not just the SEC but anyone that is on the

0:42.0

SEC's payroll so that would mainly be ESPN because as soon as Indiana started getting blown out

0:47.5

they started questioning oh indiana should have been here so and so should have been here and then of

0:51.2

course the very next game same thing SMU is getting blown out SMU should have been here so and so should have been here well And then, of course, the very next game, same thing SMU is getting blown out. SMU should have been here. So and so should have been here. Well, Lane Kiffin,

0:57.8

yeah, we would have fared better. So who is? Tennessee got smoked. Right? So the third place team in the

1:04.7

SEC got smoked. Nobody below them has an argument. The end. I'm sorry, you lose to two six and

1:09.9

six teams, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma.

1:11.8

You have no argument.

1:14.2

You lose to four and eight Kentucky.

1:16.5

You have no argument.

1:17.6

And this is my thing about the devaluing of the regular season and why I do feel at least it has been devalued a little bit.

1:24.0

There are parts, obviously, that have made greater value because there are certain games had a lot of interest,

1:28.3

because if you're fighting for the eighth or ninth spot in the playoff, right, I get that part.

1:32.9

That late in the year, there are a couple of games that maybe have more significance than they used to.

1:37.5

But you're also taking away from the fact that you're letting teams argue that they deserve to be in a playoff when they lost to bad teams.

1:45.0

And yes, part of your resume is who you beat, so that's important, but not having bad losses or having losses in general.

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