Coaching carousel continues & championship weekend preview
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari discuss the current playoff rankings and matchups they'd love to see post-conference championship weekend (:30). The duo also converse about Auburn's head coach vacancy and who could fill that position on the Tigers' roster. Also, Auburn is a better job than Tennessee...right (23:00)? Will Mario Cristobal stay in Eugene? What about Matt Campbell in Ames? Plus, the guys preview the exciting slate of conference championship games this weekend (29:00). Could Northwestern upset OSU? Would Ohio State punch their playoff ticket even if they won in an unimpressive fashion? Could a two-loss Oklahoma team contend for the CFP (36:00), and will we see more shoes fly in Alabama-Florida (40:00)?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:12.1 | We are on the eve of championship weekend, Ari. |
| 0:15.4 | It's all happening, although if you go back to the end of our show after the playoff rankings, |
| 0:22.4 | how much of it should be happening? |
| 0:24.6 | Do we really want crazy results this weekend? |
| 0:28.3 | Because I'm not sure we do. |
| 0:29.6 | Well, your stance on it was chalk results, |
| 0:33.1 | boring Sunday equals most entertaining playoff. |
| 0:37.1 | And, you know, I think in a world where there's going to be some inconsistencies of the way that the committee views things, the way that they rank teams, obviously, I think everybody's got their own take on how things went when the most recent rankings. I think that the chalk results this weekend put you in a position to put the four |
| 0:56.1 | teams in that I think most people would be okay with. |
| 0:58.7 | It would help you, you know, sleep at night. |
| 1:00.7 | It would make you feel like the teams who are in are probably the four teams that deserve |
| 1:04.2 | to be in. |
| 1:04.8 | Maybe deserve isn't the right word right now, but the four best teams. |
| 1:08.7 | So if you have wacky results, if Florida does something crazy and beats Alabama or Ohio State somehow loses the football game |
| 1:16.0 | or who knows what could go on in that Clemson game, |
| 1:18.7 | there's a few different things that could happen that could make things interesting. |
| 1:20.9 | I think that it would be bonkers to watch the committee try to scramble to find the fourth team. |
| 1:27.0 | I don't know who that fourth team would be in that scenario, but right now I think that probably the committee |
| 1:31.8 | is hoping that the favorites win the championship games at this point, just for the sake of |
| 1:34.8 | of getting this right in a year where it's hard to get it right. I feel like if we could watch |
| 1:39.6 | them deliberate it live, it would be highly entertaining, but just finding out what they eventually |
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