Championship Week Picks: Michigan, TCU look to finish the season out perfect, USC seeking first playoff berth & 12-team playoff coming in '24!
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Andy, Ari and Nicole pick the games of college football's Championship Week against the spread. Can USC and TCU win and secure their place in the College Football Playoff?
-CFP expanding in '24 (2:30)
-USC-Utah in Pac-12 title game; would you rather have Caleb Williams or Bryce Young? (11:30)
- TCU-KSU; could the Horned Frogs fall out of playoff contention with a loss? (23:00)
- USF-Tulane (33:00)
- LSU-UGA (35:00)
- UNC-Clemson (41:00)
- Purdue-Michigan (44:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show presented by Sling. |
| 0:12.4 | As you've noticed, if you watched last week's pick show, the IQ was considerably lower. |
| 0:17.0 | It is now backed up by an average of 50 points because Nicole has returned. |
| 0:55.1 | Welcome back, Nicole. Hello, hello, happy to be back, guys. Big weekend. We missed you. I know. I know this is very exciting. You know, I was at my Thanksgiving table and I was thinking to myself. We didn't go around and say what we were thankful for, but I was going to say, you guys. Oh, you appreciate that. You're thankful for us, but only to the point where you prioritize other people over us, right? Like your family? I mean, I had to get home for Thanksgiving. Yes, I did prioritize that over hanging out with you guys. I'm kidding. Well, we're thankful for you too, Nicole, and welcome back. I'm excited. You can reel me in. |
| 0:59.3 | Andy does, Andy struggles sometimes to reel me in. You reel me in a little bit better. |
| 1:02.1 | You're a big fish yard. That's all there is to it. |
| 1:10.9 | I mean, I feel like that is my main goal on the show is to balance you guys out and keep you guys relatively on track. There is an actual trend where when you're not on the show, a clip that they clip out of the show for Twitter purposes are more benign when you're here. |
| 1:21.4 | Well, when you're not here. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.9 | When you're not here, it's like, oh, boy, I know exactly what's going to be clipped. |
| 1:29.0 | And it's good. So, boy, I know exactly what's going to be clipped and it's good. |
| 1:34.8 | So, Wakey Ski just on our live chat said, was just listening to Power Hour when I got the notification for this. |
| 1:39.2 | And I highly encourage all of you to listen to Power Hour with Nicole and Chris Vanini. |
| 1:46.2 | They were talking about all kinds of crazy changes in college football, because theirs is a weekly show from last week to this week. So much change. But Nicole, you were waiting for some news |
| 1:54.3 | last night. You were chasing news and it sort of interfered with your power hour recording, |
| 1:59.7 | actually, but you were waiting on the Rose Bowl to make a decision. |
| 2:02.9 | The decision has been made. |
| 2:04.5 | What is going on with the college football playoff now? |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah, well, finally it's expanding, and it's going to expand in 2024. |
| 2:11.4 | The last major roadblock, as we all know, was the Rose Bowl. |
| 2:14.9 | They were very adamant that they wanted protection and assurances |
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