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Hey, Rich, how are you?

Good.

How are you?

Are you happy with the college football playoff field?

I think it's ridiculous.

You know, they thought that by expanding it to 12, that they would do away with problems.

I think the problems they have this year are as bad as I've ever heard.

You know, when you have a field of four, there's enough talent in the country that unless it's one of those years where

like one team is just so much better than everyone else or two teams, you can always fight over

like whether they got the right four teams at the margins. But you would think if it was 12 teams,

they'd be able to do it in a way that, you know, some team might be left on the

outside looking in, but you know they're not going to win the national championship anyway.

But to have Notre Dame out, and isn't Texas is out too?

Texas is out.

Van der Velz out.

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