Can Penn State finally crack the College Football Playoff? | Big weekend for the NCAA tourney bubble

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today's show is brought to you by PrizePicks, the easiest way to play daily fantasy. All first time users that deposit and use the promo code ANDY will receive a 100% instant deposit match up to $100. If you deposit $100, PrizePicks will give you $100. Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/ivHR/ANDY (0:00-1:12) Intro (1:13-7:39) Guaranteed Byes for the SEC and Big Ten in CFP? (7:40-40:42) Checking in on Penn State with Sean Fitz from Blue White Illustrated (40:43-56:26) James Fletcher III joins to discuss bubble watch (56:27-1:02:29) Conclusion: NFL Combine Update Penn State has won double-digit games five times since 2016 but has yet to make the College Football Playoff. With the CFP expanding to 12 this season, is this the year the Nittany Lions finally break in? If you believe they’ll go over 9.5 wins, then you believe they’ll make the CFP. The question is this: How excited will fans be if Penn State is still only the third-best team in the Big Ten? Would making the CFP change the calculation? Sean Fitz of On3’s Blue and White Illustrated joins to answer these questions and more. Penn State has two new coordinators and perhaps the most interesting schedule it has had since before it joined the Big Ten. There is much to discuss. Next, On3’s James Fletcher III joins to preview a critical weekend in college basketball. Has Kentucky turned the corner after smashing Alabama and winning on a buzzer-beater at Mississippi State? Also, Tennessee heads to Tuscaloosa for a game that could help determine NCAA Tournament seeding. Kansas heads to Waco to face Baylor in a clash of Big 12 titans. Marquette and Creighton play in a key Big East game in Omaha. Out west, Gonzaga faces St. Mary’s in the West Coast Conference finale. Lose, and the Bulldogs might need to win the WCC Tournament to make the NCAA tourney. Want to watch the show? Join us LIVE, M-F, at 8 am et here: https://youtube.com/live/Kcu-q_UAH-c

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0:00.0	Welcome to Andy Staples on three.
0:04.0	We got a fun one today. We got Penn State talk. We got Penn State not having a two-game season anymore.
0:11.4	Penn State having the most interesting schedules had maybe since it was an independent.
0:16.4	Penn State being able to make the playoff at 10 and 2.
0:19.4	We're talking to Sean Fitz from Blue White Illustrated in a few minutes.
0:23.3	We're also going to talk to James Fletcher, the third.
0:26.9	Little bubble watch.
0:28.8	Bad loss for Nebraska last night.
0:30.5	Bad, bad loss for Nebraska ball.
0:34.0	Big game for Gonzaga tonight.
0:36.3	Like they got must win, like a regular season must win game for Gonzaga in West Coast Conference play.
0:44.2	It's wild that we're talking about that.
0:47.9	We'll talk a little combine.
0:50.3	Guys, you heard from when we were at the Senior Bowl, Jalick's Hunt, Braden Fiske, had great days at the combine.
0:58.9	Dallas Turner, the Alabama edge rusher, watching that composite 40 of him outrunning Derek Henry and Jalen Hertz from their combines.
1:08.1	That's nasty.
1:10.1	A lot of fun. But before we get to that, before we get to Sean and talk
1:14.6	Penn State and dive deep into that schedule and that nine and a half win total, let's talk about
1:21.8	something that has been proposed for the college football playoff. Could the Big Ten and the SEC get guaranteed buys in a 14-team playoff?
1:33.8	As in their champions are guaranteed the one-and-two seed are guaranteed the buys.
1:39.4	That is part of the most recent model being socialized is the word they use.
1:46.1	Ross Delinger from Yahoo reported it yesterday.
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