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Until Saturday: A show about college football

CFP Semifinals Insanity! Georgia-TCU in title game; has Michigan reached its ceiling & Ryan Day's future

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

2022 went out with a bang! The CFP semifinal games were ones for the ages, and Andy and Ari break them down as they welcome in 2023. TCU proved stars don't always matter. Has Michigan reached its ceiling? What about Jim Harbaugh? How will Ryan Day be viewed after losing to Georgia? Is the Bulldogs' defense more vulnerable than we thought? Did TCU prove that there is growing parity in the sport, and how should we evaluate team talent moving forward?


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0:43.0

Welcome to the Andy Staples Show.

0:44.7

Happy New Year, everybody.

0:48.9

Happy best day of the college football playoff semifinals ever.

0:51.5

Ari Wasserman was at the Fiesta Bowl.

0:52.9

I was at the Peach Bowl.

0:55.5

Ari, have you recovered?

1:01.0

I don't know which game was more, I mean, the Ohio State Georgia game had to be more exciting, right?

1:07.4

Because it came down to a final kick. I could barely breathe. It was unbelievable. That was, it was so, I mean, I felt like my face was melting because it felt like every time some team did anything, the other team immediately responded, which I know is what the game you were at felt like for a while.

1:21.8

Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure. Like, there's no question about it. Like, you know, it seemed like TCU was going to pull away and win that game five different times. And then Michigan came back and scored quickly. And, um, man, that Horn Frogs team, dude, like, there's something special. Like, I don't know if they're going to be able to beat Georgia. You know, you know, you know how I feel. But that team deserves every bit of praise it gets and can enjoy

1:48.5

this moment because if you would have told me, Stuart looked us up at the at the Fiesta Bowl,

1:52.9

but TCU was a 20, like it was like 2.30 to 1 to make the playoff this year.

2:00.0

Right.

2:03.7

Like nobody even thought about them when the season started. Right. I think they were picked to finish seventh in the big 12. Yeah. And like

2:09.9

the column that I wrote after the game, um, was that it's helping, it's like going to help be the first

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