College Football Playoff expansion vote, Big 12 TV negotiations & Week 1 Thursday games preview
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
WE HAVE FOOTBALL TO TALK ABOUT! But first, presidents who manage the College Football Playoffs are set to meet to vote on potential expansion. Andy and Ari discuss the possibility of an expanded postseason. The Big 12 is expediting its TV deal negotiations. Could there be an exit agreement for Texas and Oklahoma in lieu of the Big 12 and SEC's TV deals? Kedon Slovis debuts for the Panthers in The Backyard Brawl between Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Plus, previewing Oklahoma St. vs. Central Michigan, Purdue vs. Penn State, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show presented by Sling. |
| 0:12.8 | Ari, we were going to be talking games all day, and I was very excited about that. |
| 0:16.9 | But there's some fairly big news in the college football universe today. So we will be |
| 0:22.1 | picking Thursday night games against the spread later in the show, cannot wait, backyard brawl, |
| 0:28.6 | Purdue Penn State, Tennessee Ball State. I mean, you name it. If it's playing on Thursday, |
| 0:33.9 | we're talking about it. But we got to talk about some bigger picture stuff |
| 0:38.8 | because apparently the folks who run the sport just cannot just let us enjoy some games. |
| 0:44.0 | Is this good news or bad news for us? This is good news because people are obsessed with it, |
| 0:47.9 | but bad news because we don't get to talk about football as much. Right, right. So let's get this out there. |
| 0:54.7 | And obviously now Friday, you and I and Nicole Ourback are going to pick the Saturday |
| 0:59.7 | games against the spread and probably make fun of you about potentially eating a whole |
| 1:04.2 | bottle of mustard. |
| 1:05.1 | Well, I'm going to tell you one thing. |
| 1:06.6 | If Nicole's going to be joining us every, every picks, she's on the hook with these |
| 1:10.7 | bets too. |
| 1:11.7 | Oh, no doubt. |
| 1:12.6 | She better be ready to house an entire bottle of, uh, of mustard herself. So she better be careful what she says to me. Because I'm, the stakes, you know, I'm going to have her put down two quarter pounders of cheese if we have to. Oh, we will get to that. We will, there's a Washington player who cut out, well, player who cut out McDonald's or just changed his order. |
| 1:31.7 | I'm unclear, but yeah, Nate Kaleppo's McDonald's order, at least his old McDonald's order prior to him losing 30 pounds. |
| 1:39.9 | We have to discuss that as well. |
| 1:41.7 | That is right in the wheelhouse of this show. |
| 1:43.4 | But first, we got to talk college football playoff. |
| 1:47.8 | Our friend Ross Dellinger from Sports Illustrated, and this is one of those nights when |
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