12/2: Did The Committee Take The 4 Best Teams Or The 4 Most Deserving Teams?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In this week's special episode of The Audible Bruce and Stew give their immediate reaction to Oklahoma being named the 4th seed in the College Football Playoff, they give a quick recap of this weekends Conference Championship games, and they wrap up the show with the latest coaching news and some well deserved shout outs.
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| 0:23.3 | You'll find Inside Trader Joe's on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to a special edition of the Audible. |
| 0:47.6 | We are recording it a day earlier than usual. |
| 0:50.2 | The playoff announcement was just released on ESPN maybe an hour ago, and Bruce is about to run to the airport. |
| 0:56.9 | So this is going to be a brief, briefer than usual edition, but we're going to hit. |
| 1:00.9 | Let's just right off the top, Bruce, it's Oklahoma for the fourth playoff spot facing Alabama in the Orange Bowl. |
| 1:08.3 | Clemson and Notre Dame, two versus three in the Cotton Bowl. |
| 1:11.7 | There was quite a lot of debate, at least on ESPN, after the SEC championship game, until a minute before the announcement, that it should be Georgia, not Oklahoma or Ohio State. |
| 1:21.2 | How do you feel about the selection? |
| 1:23.3 | I feel okay. You know, I didn't think it would be ideal to have Georgia in there with two losses, one of them being by 20 points to LSU. Now, look, this is the part where it gets tricky. If I ask you, Stu, who do you think the four best teams in college football are? I don't want to hear about, like, what Vegas thinks or whatever, but, like, who do you think the four best teams are? And do you think George is in there over both Notre Dame and Oklahoma? |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah. what Vegas thinks or whatever, but like, who do you think the four best teams are? And do you think Georgia's in there over both Notre Dame and Oklahoma? Yeah, I think if you're just like |
| 1:49.6 | subjectively saying, okay, I've watched these teams play, who I think are the best teams? I think |
| 1:54.6 | Alabama, Clemson, and Georgia are the three best teams. And then there's a drop off after that |
| 1:59.8 | to Notre Dame and Oklahoma. |
| 2:03.1 | But that... |
| 2:03.9 | And even more of a drop-off to Ohio State? |
| 2:07.2 | No, sorry. |
| 2:08.9 | I think there's a drop-off to Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and Ohio State, and... |
| 2:12.6 | But I do think there's a separation there. |
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