CFP Week 4 Rankings Reaction: Is Clemson still alive? Alabama Chaos Theory, USC at #6 & Michigan-OSU ripple effect
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this fouth installment of the College Football Playoff rankings reaction, Andy and Ari chat about Clemson's postseason hopes, a whacky (and unbelievable) Alabama playoff theory, USC's position, which final at-large bid in a 12-team playoff we'd like to see from this year's field, and more!
- Clemson's hopes & 10-25 (1:30)
- Scenario: USC, 1-loss Pac-12 champ, misses the playoff? (19:30)
- TCU, strength of record (22:15)
- Alabama Chaos Theory (28:15)
- Which at-large bid would we like to see in a 12-team? (32:30)
- Boo on Clemson and USC (42:30)
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| 0:43.5 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show presented by Sling. |
| 0:46.5 | It's another college football playoff ranking reaction. |
| 0:48.9 | We will learn the rankings as you do. |
| 0:51.9 | We are watching the reveal right now. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm here with Ari Wasserman, |
| 0:54.8 | and we're going to try to figure out what it all means going into a jam-packed rivalry week. Are you pumped Ari for this second |
| 1:01.8 | screen experience that we're giving the viewers? Yes, yes. Who am I? Peyton or Eli? You're definitely |
| 1:08.3 | Eli. Yeah, no, because Peyton's the goat, and Eli's like his little brother that's kind of... Tom Brady's the goat. But the thing is like Eli has two Super Bowl rings. No, I know. But you have like five, so, you know, it's okay. No, Peyton has two. Like they have an equal number. Yeah. I mean, if you want, I'm not going to get into a debate about who the goat is between those two. Everybody knows who it is. Cooper. Absolutely. Cooper. Okay. So I feel like, game show now. I feel like every year there's an intersection between, uh, wow, I cannot wait to watch the show tonight because I can't wait to see what the committee does. So it gives us insight potentially and what they might do to we already know what's up. Just release the rankings and we'll talk about it. Like we know the scenarios, I think, right? Regardless of what we see tonight, do we know? I don't think it, right. I don't know that anything we see tonight matters unless there's something just completely out of |
| 2:00.8 | left field but what you see you number one all of a sudden right what i'm expecting is is georgia |
| 2:08.1 | one ohio state two michigan three tc u sccc5 lsu six does that sound about right That sounds exactly the way that I would do it. |
| 2:19.5 | Yes. |
| 2:20.1 | And those are the teams that have a chance. |
| 2:23.6 | And LSU's only chance is beating Georgia. |
| 2:26.6 | Right. |
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