If Texas wanted to get in over Florida State, hey, guess what?

Don't lose the Oklahoma and give up a 75-yard drive with a minute and 12 seconds left.

To lose the game. Don't get stuff to the goal line. Don't turn it over three times.

I'm sorry. Florida State didn't do those things. Like they won the games that were in front of them.

And while we all get enamored with the eye test to know, well, the game control and oh, the margin of victory,

no, did you win or did you lose? And if Florida State won all their games they should be in.

Welcome in, it's always college football. It is a Thanksgiving week edition. I am not at home. I am away from home.

A little different backdrop here, but same content and we appreciate you coming to us from wherever it is you're

coming to us from. I'm Greg McElroy. Thank you guys so much for subscribing to

the podcast, liking the podcast, rating the podcast, telling your friends about the podcast, the numbers are up like some crazy triple digit percentage from a year ago, and it's all thanks to you guys and we couldn't do it without you.

We do it every Monday, we do our

takeaways, and we're also going to do our top six and there are some significant

takeaways that need to be heard. I'm tired of the air of the argument that if you lose a player it should hurt your playoff chances.

If you win your games, you should be benefited.

You should be given the benefit of the doubt.

I'll explain why here in just a minute we're going

to go through takeaways from Michigan takeaways from Ohio State takeaways from

Georgia takeaways for Florida State so many different things and I also am going to give it a little bit of a tip of the cap and a take away about rivalry games and why they need to be preserved

Because this week is so special for all of us. We'll be sitting around the Thanksgiving table.

We'll be stuffed to the gills and in some houses there will be houses divided.

I know in our house there is one lone Auburn supporter amongst like 30 bama supporters but tell you

what it takes toughness and mental fortitude to sit at that dinner table on

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