Championship Week Reaction: TCU falls, Georgia and Michigan roll & who's going to be in the CFP?
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🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Live from Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay, courtesy of our partners at BetMGM, Andy and Ari react to a wild championship week of action. The only question that now remains; who's going to be in the College Football Playoff? (Oh, and why didn't Dabo start Cade Klubnik sooner?)
-Welcome to Banana Land: who's going to be 3 and 4? (1:00)
-Nick Saban's case for Alabama in the CFP (4:45)
-ASSJUICE administered for a candid response to Bama in the CFP (7:30)
-Michigan vs. Ohio State in the playoff? (13:00)
-Would Cade Klubnik have saved Clemson's season? (21:45)
-Playoff predictions (30:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anti-Staple show presented by Sling. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm here with Ari Wasserman. |
| 0:13.2 | We at the Manila-based sports book in lovely Las Vegas, courtesy of our partners at BetMGM. |
| 0:23.6 | And Ari, Purdue's just kicked a field goal that might not admit much to people around the country, but meant an awful lot to the people |
| 0:28.3 | and then this year's sports book. |
| 0:29.8 | In this room, yeah. |
| 0:31.9 | So you got to cut up to three scores, right? |
| 0:34.7 | From three to two scores. |
| 0:36.0 | There you go. |
| 0:36.5 | Got to be a good old ball coach. Meanwhile, all my friends out here, maybe a few of my friends in here. That's right. Are not really happy about it. But you know what? It looks like Michigan's going to roll. We have a pretty clear picture of what it looks like now. One and two. and the rest is banana lands. |
| 1:02.3 | This is why, so I guess I should have expected, you said going into today, as we were riding over here in our cab, you said Kansas State is going to beat TCU. |
| 1:07.8 | And what is that going to mean? |
| 1:09.3 | We were trying to figure out what is that going to? |
| 1:11.3 | And I should have realized that if that happened, |
| 1:14.9 | we would get the Nick Sabin media tour. |
| 1:17.6 | That's right. |
| 1:18.5 | Politicking for Alabama to be number four. |
| 1:21.0 | But I just, it didn't dawn on me. |
| 1:23.6 | And then he's on the TVs everywhere. |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.8 | Well, it's like, it is funny because it is a college football season. Yep. So why could we possibly get through the final week of the conference championships without talking about Alabama? Like, it's, it's an interesting. Where was Josh Heppel? That's my question. Yeah, yeah. They did beat Alabama. They do have the same record. I realize Hennon Hooker's not playing. |
| 1:44.4 | If Hector were healthy, I would be banging the drum like hell. I think Josh Huyple and Danny White, their athletic record would be making the tour as well in that case. |
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