Welcome to the Audible.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman.

It is Monday morning.

We've just learned the playoff teams and the bowl lineup on Sunday.

Now Bruce, who is never home, is in New York for the various functions and festivities

there this week.

A lot of the coaching community convenes in New York this week and ADs as well.

I'm back home after spending most of the weekend in L.A.

And Bruce, having spent weeks and weeks analyzing and slicing and dicing what the committee

was going to do, they basically held serve.

You know, over a weekend where Alabama won, Clemson won, Washington beat Colorado soundly in the Pac-12 championship,

and Penn State beat Wisconsin in a very dramatic Big Ten title game.

We have the four teams that we had last week.

You and I debated quite a bit about Ohio State, Penn State, Washington last week.

Now that it is official, what are your thoughts?

You know, it's what we expected it to be. I'm glad we got two competitive games on Saturday night. I thought that

spiced it up. But, you know, again, I love the Penn State story this year. You know, they

won the toughest division in college football this season. They won the conference.

I think they impressed a lot of people the way they came back again.

You know, they also had a pretty good non-conference schedule.

But ultimately, you know, I still think Ohio State's the better team.

I know what happened head to head, but Ohio State only has one loss.

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