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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Championship Weekend Preview + Does Alabama belong in the playoff?

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State fell, and Alabama snuck into the College Football Playoff rankings ahead of the final rankings on Sunday. David Ubben, Chris Vannini and Damien Harris react to the penultimate CFP field, the Buckeyes hosting, the ACC sweating it out and more. Afterward, the trio preview championship weekend. Can Texas take revenge against Georgia, and why has Carson Beck been so good lately? Is Oregon really the best team in the country? SMU deserves a playoff spot regardless of Saturday's results, and Clemson could be a bid thief. Cam Skettebo for Heisman? Boise State-UNLV win-and-your-in game. Later, Chris has coaching carousel updates, including West Virginia and UCF's top candidates, FSU, Michigan and Oklahoma's coordinator changes, and more!


Rundown:

- CFP rankings reaction: Does Alabama deserve to be in? (1:00)

- Texas vs Georgia (11:15)

- Conference championships' place in the 12-team era (15:00)

- Oregon vs Penn State (22:00)

- SMU vs Clemson (27:30)

- Arizona State vs Iowa State (31:30)

- Boise State vs UNLV (35:45)

- West Virginia HC candidates (42:15)

- Florida State hires Gus Malzahn & Tony White (45:00)

- Purdue candidates (49:15)

- Oklahoma's new OC (50:45)

- UCF candidates (52:00)

- Sherrone Moore fires Kirk Campbell, Michigan's OC search (53:45)


Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini), Damien Harris (@DHx34)

Audio editor: John Ross

Executive producer: Cam Molina (@commentatorcam)

Supervising producer: Michael Martinez (@MikeMartinezDC)


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0:00.0

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0:47.1

I'm David Umband alongside Chris Finini.

0:49.4

He's been all aboard the coach Carousel and Damien Harris, who we sorely missed in Aggie Land this weekend. We got to get you out there sometime. On today's podcast, we got the penultimate CFB rankings to break down. We're to Alabama, Ohio State, Miami and Ole Miss sit going in a conference championship weekend. Can South Carolina sneak in there? Speaking of which, we have a full conference championship preview. It's championship weekend. And we got the Texas Georgia rematch. Why Carson Beck has played so well as of late. And SMU and Clemson going head to head. Clemson playing the role of potential bid thief. What a time. And a lot more. Before we get out of here, also, the coaching carousel approaching mock speeds. We're going to talk Michigan, Nebraska, others making moves we have to

1:27.8

talk about today. But first, we've got the new CFP rankings. Here's how the field shapes up going

1:33.3

into championship weekend. Oregon, still the number one seed. They would play the winner of Ohio

1:38.3

State and Tennessee, importantly in Columbus. We'll talk about that in a second. Texas,

1:43.2

grabbing that number two spot.

1:44.4

They would play the winner of Georgia, Indiana, in the 7-10 game. The three-seed would be SMU as the

1:50.2

A-ACC champion, A-C champion getting the buy. They would play the winner of Notre Dame and Alabama at the

1:56.1

11th spot. And the four-seat, Boise State being ranked higher than the Big 12 champion, so they would get the buy,

2:02.7

and they would play the winner of Penn State and Arizona State.

2:06.6

Chris, you were right. Let's start here. Ohio State. I hadn't looked at it as closely when we did the pod.

2:12.2

You talked me into it. I think you're definitely right. I yelled you into it.

2:15.8

You did yell me into it. That's okay.

2:15.9

Ohio State, a better resume. Like, I think it's hard for some people to swallow because there's a lot of Indiana disrespect out there. People don't really respect Penn State. There's still two top 10 wins. It just is what it is. Like, you can say, well, Alabama was better than those two teams, and they might be. but two top 10 wins is more than one top 10 win.

2:18.6

Last I checked, I'm not sure how close this is, Chris.

2:51.3

I think you were right. Yeah, look, Ohio State, not only do they have two top 10 wins, they have a one point loss of the number one team. Like, based on how the committee views those teams, Ohio State's resume is way better than Tennessee. The Michigan and Arkansas losses cancel each other out.

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