Hey, it's Andy. Happy Sunday.

Ari and I did our usual Bracketology and Bubble Watch discussions on Sunday for the On3 Sports YouTube channel.

But we figured it was such a good discussion that we'd make it into a podcast.

So we'll talk Brackatology first, then Bubble Watch.

There may be a little crossover in the two.

But basically, you just get to hear me and Ari yelling at each other,

and you get to learn what RE ate at one in the morning in Texas and why that went so badly.

All right, Ari, let us talk Brackatology because Ohio State losing and Miami losing made things very interesting.

I think the last at large spot is probably the most contentious right now,

but we don't really know who's up for it until after the conference championship games.

Yeah, we got home pretty late last night. We were doing this, I think, at the same time this morning. And I'm looking at your bracket here, Andy, and I'm just like, I got, wow, that's such a better bracket than mine. I know four hours of sleep and I'm ready to let it rip right now with you. Go for it. You know, I don't know. You might be right at the end of the day. And I don't know why I lost my voice. It's been it's been a day.

So you took the hard way out. So we there's no hard way or easy way you let me explain what I'm going to say for okay. Go ahead. But if Clemson loses to SMU, right, then that's when the committee has to make problem. Yeah, you took the coward's way out and said Clemson beat SMU and just put SMU in as an at large, which is, I mean, that may, Clemson may beat SMU in the ACC championship game, but the committee's not going to be like, oh, this is a hard decision. Let's just put SMU there and no one will yell at us.

They don't care about that. They're going to go, who among these teams that's up for the number 11 seed that's up for the last at large spot? They're going to go, who do we think is the best? And there will be, I guarantee you, a bunch of different opinions. Yeah. So you're the result that you have, which is SMU beating Clemson, is the only thing just to be clear to the people watching that can happen that makes it a dumpster fire next Sunday, right? Like, it's the only thing. No, because you have the same situation with the last at large of Clemson, Clemson beats SMU. You assume that SMU will just slot in as an at large if they lose.

They won't.

There will be an argument with Alabama, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Miami. The same argument. Why did I take the Coward's way out? Because you made, it's the same thing. Because you made, because you, you didn't realize it was the same thing. You just feel like, go this will be i just the reason the i i picked my bracket based on who was favored in the games from the early lines i don't know i think s'm i think that's a toss up that's i'm just telling you how i arrived

it well here's to avoid here's the thing doing it i just don't know the thing that is tough for me

and like we discuss this over text,

Andy is that like I'm not even upset or think that you're, you could be wrong. Like what I think

is weird is that if you get to the point where you have to decide between Alabama, Ole Miss,

South Carolina and Miami, everybody is just assuming out of question that it's just going to be Bama.

I'm not assuming Alabama.

I'll tell you why I picked Alabama there.

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