CFP Rankings: Fighting for fourth & chaos scenarios
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari plunge back into the College Football Playoff rankings discussion following the week four reveal. Under what circumstance could Cincinnati, Florida or Oklahoma be compared to Texas A&M or even slide into the fourth spot (:30)? The 'A-Team' attempts to imagine a playoff without the Rose Bowl (13:30). Is USC officially dead in the water, and should we prepare the chip of death (22:00)? Lastly, how would the committee perceive a Clemson overtime loss in the ACC Championship Game (27:15)?
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| 0:42.4 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:46.4 | It is a college football playoff rankings reveal edition. |
| 0:47.7 | The rankings are out. |
| 0:57.4 | Ari Wasserman, and they are about what we expected, which what you think would happen when two of the top six teams were playing last week and everybody else was off. One of them lost. You know, there's no change |
| 1:03.7 | in the top five. Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson, Ohio State, Texas A&M, do you think that top four is the playoff we're going to get? |
| 1:16.5 | I do. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.0 | I think that given the fact that I believe that it's super hard to beat a team twice in the same year, not to mention that Clemson is back to full health and probably is going to be playing this game like it is a playoff game. |
| 1:31.6 | I have a hard time envisioning that they're going to drop out of this playoff race and lose again. |
| 1:38.7 | And if that happens, and it's a good game, not a blowout. |
| 1:41.9 | I think that the top four will finish number one, Alabama, number two, Clemson, number three, Ohio State, and number four, Notre Dame. I think that's the most likely scenario right now. And, you know, we're about 30 seconds into this podcast. That's called the Happy ESPN executive scenario. Yeah, the podcast is over. but I don't know, like, if that's the way it goes, |
| 2:03.7 | then it's like a clean fitting end. |
| 2:05.7 | And I think that everybody can accept that. |
| 2:07.5 | I think what happens if one of those teams is not in the final four is when explosions start. |
| 2:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:14.3 | And I think the most likely scenario is the team that's already beaten the team that they're going to play beats them again. |
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