Welcome back to 4440.

This is the playoff first round episode that you are listening to on the internet's only college football podcast.

We have so much to discuss actual football and we'll do so in immediate fashion.

I am joined as always by Jason Caracacali, Anderson, Ryan, Nanny, and Michael Serber on the ones and twos.

Game one of this round of the playoffs, Alabama at Oklahoma, a game we have never seen before.

Teams have never played each other.

Even though they are both longtime SEC rivals.

The long, deep SEC rivals with no experience.

Also, their uniforms are different colors.

For those of you who enjoy defending the playoff by saying that we'll see matchups we've never seen before,

novel combinations of some of college football's most titanic powers skip ahead how

how many time red versus it's not red how many times do you think oklahoma and alabama have

played in their entire history i just looked it's not that many well okay thanks a lot thanks a lot

for not knowing what i was going to do oh i was doing your own thing own thing. I didn't look it up, four. What was it?

It's eight.

Okay.

Four plus five, almost eight.

Yeah, that's how many points they want to score combined.

That is current.

I mean, the rematch thing is one thing that, for all the legitimate criticisms of the committee,

one thing that for a decade now, people have said is if you

put up projections, they'll say like, oh, no, they wouldn't do that. That's a rematch. No, they'll do

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