Welcome to the Andy Staples show.

It is a ranking reaction edition.

That's right.

It's a Tuesday in November.

We got to talk about the playoff selection committee.

And Ari Wasserman is here because this is a landmark moment, Ari.

This is the first time in the history of the college football playoff rankings that a group of five team has appeared in the top four.

The Cincinnati Bearcats, they're in at the moment, at number four.

Yeah, yeah.

I think that any step towards the end game here when you have a group of five team potentially in the field is, you know, step towards progress, right?

I think that we're still kind of a little bit of way to go before you can really rejoice at the reality of it.

And I don't know if it's just seven or eight years of of, of watching these teams continue to be in the

conversation until they inevitably lose or are left out, uh, in UCF's case, uh, and Cincinnati's

case a year ago. So, you know, I, I think there is a little bit, uh, to worry about behind them,

if I'm a Cincinnati fan, but I think for Tuesday, November 23rd, at least for this one night, you know, Cincinnati

made history and it's going to be super exciting to see the way it all plays out.

It is going to be very interesting.

And okay, I want to ask you if I'm being naive here because I look at this and I say, okay, Cincinnati plays East Carolina on Friday.

I think they should be able to handle that game even though the last time they went to Greenville, North Carolina.

It was kind of a messy game that they ended up winning, I believe, 46 to 43.

But I think they're going to win that game.

The Houston game's going to be tough in the American championship game.

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