The

The Good morning Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025. I am Dave Biddle, very happy, joined by Steve Hellwagon. A lot to get into. First of all, let's hope we hear Steve's dogs at some point

during the show. He was saying he apologized before we went on in advance in case we hear his dogs.

I said, no, no, no, no, no apologies. This is a very dog friendly show, whether it's Dan Rubin's

dog, whether it's one of my dogs, the late great Dwayne Long's dog. So we would hear Bill Kirlik's dogs.

So very dog friendly show here, as the chat will tell you.

Steve, welcome in.

Let's start with Ohio State being number one in the CFP rankings.

No surprise there.

There was a lot of debate elsewhere, though,

and anything else surprise you from the top 25 unveiling last night?

Yeah, I think when it was over, the committee chair, the new committee chair was kind of

grilled about some of the decisions, and like half the questions seemed to deal with why

Miami is ranked so far below Notre Dame. I think there's three teams in between the two of

them. And, you know, my feeling in my rankings, I have Miami ahead of Notre Dame.

I guess I'm an outlier in that.

When you look at the full body of work, maybe you'd say Notre Dame deserves it.

They went on the road and definitely made a statement this past week against Pittsburgh.

So I think they're a playoff team.

And, you know, I guess we'll see,

you know, time will tell in Miami whether or not they make the final top 11 or 12,

you know, 11, I guess, because there's going to be a group of five that's going to replace whoever the 12th team is in the rankings. But yeah, I look at it on mine. I had Georgia ahead of

...