Daily Pod: What would College Football Playoff expansion mean for Ohio State?

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Recent surveys and stories have shown that a large majority of college athletic directors are in favor of expanding the College Football Playoff from four teams to eight teams or maybe even 16 teams? Why? Because athletic departments fear the financial losses from the coronavirus shutdown and are eager for ways to make more money off college football. And an expanded playoff would do that. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird debate whether the coronavirus outbreak should be the driving force for playoff change. And then they examine what it would mean for Ohio State football. They look at who the Buckeyes would have played if the playoff had always been eight teams, and they try to figure out what an expanded playoff would mean for Ohio State's regular season. The Buckeyes are always part of the playoff conversation and they could be affected by expansion more than any program. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey. Hey, hey, hey, where you been?
0:17.0	Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:21.0	Hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.0	Welcome back.
0:27.0	It's Buckeye Talk.
0:29.0	Your Ohio State Podcast from Cleveland.com, Doug Lémarse, Nathan Baird, recruiting writer Stephen Means is off today.
0:36.0	So we are dealing with the main Tuesday Daily Pod and we're talking playoff ideas.
0:42.0	And this is why we're going to talk about this.
0:45.0	With the coronavirus situation,
0:47.4	athletic directors are nervous about money.
0:50.0	And so there are multiple stories about there
0:52.0	that one of the ways they think they can solve their potential money problem is by expanding the college football playoff and making more money that way.
1:01.0	We'll delve into a couple of the stories, some of the reporting that has led to this
1:04.9	but Nathan Baird as we dig into this discussion for our loyal Buckeye Talk readers off the top.
1:11.3	That motivation, that idea, right, that we are, it's a 12-year
1:15.6	E-SPN college football playoff deal. They have done six years of the college football
1:19.9	playoff. There are six years left of this. And so a lot of people have thought along the way,
1:24.4	well, you're not gonna see any playoff changes
1:26.4	until the end of that 12-year television deal.
1:29.2	But reporting by Brett Mc Murphy from Watch Stadium
1:32.4	and anyone being triggered by the name
1:34.6	Brett Mc Murphy I'll bring a bell for you and then Pete Samel from Yahoo Sports
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