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40 FOR 40: 2025 College Football Playoff Second Round Preview

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Sports, Football

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

  • WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves.
  • Who decides what “deserves” means? We do! Thank you for asking
  • Now through December 31, 100% of proceeds from all PTKU merch sales will be donated to Trans Ohio. Visit preownedairboats.com to purchase BRAND-NEW BLUE SHARKS GEAR #EXCLUSIVE
  • This episode was produced by Michael Ray Surber
  • Fullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell Powell
  • Fullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by Matt
  • DID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s not
  • Before the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other work
  • Travel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot exist
  • Check out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

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0:00.0

Welcome.

0:16.0

To the shutdown, Fullcast 40 for 40.

0:20.1

You get the big welcome this time because we are doing the playoff

0:24.7

oh the playoff that's right uh we get starting off Miami at Ohio State at the Cotton Bowl

0:33.7

the second round of the playoffs the real games no that we've got the now that we've gotten

0:39.4

the james madison's out of here let's find some teams who might lose by even more speaking of

0:45.9

miami uh right now ohio state is favored by nine and a half in this game as of recording

0:52.9

that's because ohio state's probably better than than Miami this is my incisive analysis here but if things were to go one way or the other in the positive direction for Miami here's why because Ohio State if you watch the Big Ten championship game as evidence, Ohio State,

1:13.7

difficulties in the red zone, especially for a team that has as many offensive weapons.

1:19.5

If you wonder where Ryan Day's kind of bullheaded insistence on running the ball

1:25.4

when they clearly have much better options went it went

1:29.5

between the 10 yard line and the goal line whenever that offense gets in there and is driving for some

1:36.0

reason they get a bit stagnant i say a bit they're still like the i think they're like in the 40s

1:42.7

in terms of total red zone conversions for all teams,

1:46.0

but they will stall out in the red zone. How you do this with Jeremiah Smith at wide

1:53.8

receiver, I have no idea. But Ryan Day is talented in many ways. And this is just one facet of that talent.

2:02.5

That to me is the only way that this absolutely stays close, although I'm going to take a

2:08.2

second flyer on this. Carson Beck was paid a lot of money to play at Miami. Carson Beck cost

2:14.1

them two games this year. Straight up cost them two games by throwing a boatload of picks.

2:19.8

He might cost them a third by throwing a boatload of picks.

2:22.8

And no one would blame him.

2:24.2

If there were ever a time for Carson Beck to throw a valiant...

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