Championship weekend recap & truth serum test
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 20 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Andy welcome Max Olson to the program to place a holiday-themed bow on championship weekend (:30). What were the biggest takeaways from conference headline bouts? Who will be number four? What's case can be made for Texas A&M, Cincinnati and Notre Dame? The duo play the 'truth serum test' to decide the top-four clubs (8:15). Who would Alabama want to play least? What matchup is optimal for them? The gents then rely on the eye test to determine the nation's best four squads (21:00). Lastly, the locals for the bowl games may look a little different this year (31:45).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:12.4 | We are not far from playoff participants being announced. |
| 0:17.8 | In fact, Max Olson, as we record this, we are less than 12 hours |
| 0:21.5 | from knowing who will be in the playoff. This obviously has a short shelf life, so just listen to this |
| 0:26.9 | while you're eating breakfast. And Ari Wasserman and I will be back right after they announced the |
| 0:31.9 | playoff teams. But Max, we have to talk about this because, you know, I got this email from our friends at the athletic, |
| 0:40.5 | from our bosses saying, we're going to have a roundtable where we decide who's number four. |
| 0:44.5 | And I'm like, wait, we're arguing about just number four? |
| 0:47.8 | Shouldn't we be arguing about number three and number four? |
| 0:51.3 | First of all, I just want to say, I appreciate the invite for this. |
| 0:53.9 | You picked the least opinionated person of our national writers for this. Good. This is who I want. We've got a lot of people throwing heat this week on the athletic. And I'm the indecisive, you know, separate emotion from Logic One. So I want to let you cook in this podcast. Well, no, no, no. Okay, this is good. |
| 1:11.0 | I want to run the test on you. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm going to run the test on you. |
| 1:15.7 | I'll say this, though. |
| 1:16.7 | First of all, in addressing what you just said, what a blessing for Ohio State that |
| 1:25.3 | Notre Dame and Trey Sermon did what they did |
| 1:28.3 | because it totally changes the whole narrative of the day. |
| 1:31.3 | Yes, correct. |
| 1:33.1 | And now, it's not even narrative. |
| 1:35.7 | Like Ohio State was going to lose if Ryan Day did not realize |
| 1:39.8 | you are allowed to hand off to running backs more than every seventh play. Yeah. Like, I didn't understand what they were doing. It was like they did not realize this was a legal thing that you could just hand it to him until they stopped him. And by the way, they never stopped him. It felt like kind of like the curse of when you have the Superman QB and you're like, well, we can do everything. |
| 2:01.2 | And it's like, why don't we just do the thing that's working really well? I know Garrett Wilson's probably faster than Northwestern's DBs, but why don't we just stick to the thing that's really working, you know? Do the thing that works. It's cool. It will get you the result you want. And the thing is, Ohio states |
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