Did Notre Dame win its biggest game ever & why has the SEC sucked?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Notre Dame suffocated Georgia in the College Football Playoff at the Sugar Bowl. David Ubben and Chris Vannini react to Marcus Freeman, Riley Leonard, and the Irish defense's massive win, but was it the biggest win in program history? Kirby Smart's UGA doesn't look the same, why? Oh, and why has the SEC stunk this year? Plus, an early look at the Penn State-ND Orange Bowl, and the guys chat about playoff expansion and re-seeding.
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| 0:48.0 | We are live on YouTube right after the Georgia, Notre Dame Sugar Bowl. |
| 0:52.1 | I don't know we could call it, it's a classic Chris, but it's sort of a classic. Again, I'm David Ubin, here with our bargain bin, Baker Mayfield, Chris Finini. What's going on, man? I keep getting told I look like Baker Mayfield. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I don't see it. But look, we got a final four set here, man. We got Texas, Ohio State, Notre Dame Penn State for Blue Bloods, four of the eight winningest programs all time. |
| 1:19.2 | No conference champions made it, but in terms of a juicy final four, I mean, you can't do much better than that. |
| 1:26.0 | 5,6, 7.8 seed, too, which is pretty interesting. Our co-host, Damien Harris, he'll be joining us on another show. He had to take care of some stuff. So, like you said, Chris, we got the semifinals. They are set. We're going to break down what we saw in the Sugar Bowl. And we need to have the SEC conversation, Chris. I feel like we do. There's one team left from the SEC, and I think we can, it's like a sort of fake SEC team in Texas. That is not who people are talking about when they're talking about the SEC. We'll talk about the SEC, the Big Ten, the potential changes that need or don't need to be made to the playoff at this point? |
| 2:01.0 | I don't know. |
| 2:01.6 | Every narrative everybody had about this playoff is out the window, but we got a lot to talk about, |
| 2:06.1 | starting with that Sugar Bowl that played out maybe like expected. |
| 2:10.7 | Yeah, and we're going to have a peek ahead at the Orange Bowl as well, that Penn State and Notre Dame game. |
| 2:15.3 | And like you said, on the topic of the playoffs, |
| 2:17.5 | Greg Sanky says he hopes there's interesting spanning it next season. |
| 2:20.9 | Will it? |
| 2:22.4 | Should we reseed first John buys? |
| 2:24.6 | A lot of stuff to get to. |
| 2:27.0 | And we have a listener question. |
| 2:28.7 | We're going to talk through as well. |
| 2:31.0 | Let's kick it off in New Orleans, though, first. |
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