Welcome to the Andy Staples Show presented by Sling.

It is that time of the week when Nicole joins Ari and I and we pick games against the spread.

But first, we have to talk about why Bill Hancock, the director of the college football

playoff, called Ari a degenerate today.

In front of the entire room.

In front of the entire room.

Okay, so let me ask you guys this, because you both have done, so for the listeners who

aren't aware of why I would be in the same room as Bill Hancock today, it was I did the mock media trial, the mock, uh, the mock, uh, playoff selection. Yeah, you were not on trial. No. It felt like a trial. It was not a mock trial. It was super that way for you. I've never, I will say I've never been more. And it's, it's funny, it's going to go along with the theme of the show, overwhelmed with statistics.

And I don't know if you guys felt that way while you were doing it. But anyway, you know, the entire time of the presentation that they were explaining is that each college football playoff committee member uses as much information as possible.

No matter where they can get it from, it's compiled.

It's in front of them from the box score of the game to play by play to advance

stats in direct comparisons in a program.

They've got everything at their disposal.

And I asked if they ever take into

account who they think that they would win in a head-to-head matchup. Like as they are tasked with

determining who the best team is in college football, as they compile the rankings, do they

ask themselves who would

win between these two evenly matched teams if they played on the field? So I raised my hand and

I said, I know that gambling is a faux pa, you know, as it pertains to this thing, but they do

advanced lines for potential matchups. And in the art of mathematical, you know, data, is this something that anybody in the

committee has ever used to help determine who they think might win in a hypothetical

matchup to determine who's a better football team?

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