Cincinnati gets no respect from the CFB playoff committee. Should they?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Stew and Bruce discuss the first CFB Playoff rankings of the season. Cincinnati gets not respect from the committee. Is Ohio State overrated? There was a big discrepancy between the playoff rankings and the AP poll, especially for group of 5 teams. TCU parts ways with Gary Patterson after a 21-year run in Fort Worth. Dan Mullen seat is starting to get scorching hot in Gainesville. Plus, mailbag questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:25.7 | We are taping this just a few hours after the first CFP rankings have come out. |
| 0:32.3 | Stu, I have one big question for you. |
| 0:35.9 | Gary Barta is the CFP committee chair. He says he has great respect for |
| 0:41.1 | Cincinnati, but really does he have Cincinnati who's any respect for them at all? Great respect, and then |
| 0:47.1 | he proceeds to pick up, to nitpick there that they let Tulane rush for too many yards on them. |
| 0:55.5 | I really had no idea. |
| 0:57.5 | I had a pretty good sense of some of the other things. |
| 0:59.8 | Like I figured Alabama would be number two, |
| 1:02.2 | and I figured Oklahoma would be lower than they are in the AP poll. |
| 1:05.8 | But I just had no idea how they were going to handle Cincinnati. |
| 1:10.7 | Number six, you could have told me ahead of time. |
| 1:13.7 | I didn't think they'd be number two. |
| 1:15.3 | I thought they could be anywhere from three to seven. |
| 1:18.8 | They got a little bit boxed out, I think, by the Oregon, Ohio State situation, |
| 1:22.7 | where the committee feels like they have to, you know, and rightfully so, |
| 1:26.1 | have Oregon ahead of Ohio State. |
| 1:27.8 | I don't know that I'd have Oregon ahead of Cincinnati if I was just comparing them head to head. |
| 1:31.6 | But I agree with that because to me, the issue I had given Gary Bard's comments, who have they played? |
| 1:40.8 | Look, I think Ohio State's really talented. |
| 1:43.6 | I've seen them in person. Who have they |
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