Expanded College Football Playoff's ideal field + Cinderella teams & two-sport stars in NIL era
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of 'Dear Andy', Andy answers readers/listeners' questions about parallels between March Madness and an expanded College Football Playoff. What would the ideal CFP field look like and would there be a Saint Peter's equivalent? Will NIL's prominence give rise to more two-sport stars? Plus, college football's Bachelorette contestant and Mike White at Georiga.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It is a special Dear Andy Edition. |
| 0:13.9 | Ari Bachelor party this weekend. Don't know when we're getting him back exactly, but it's coming fairly soon. |
| 0:21.2 | We think if we didn't lose him to Vegas and he's got to get married very soon. |
| 0:26.1 | So he better not be lost for long, at least. |
| 0:28.6 | But I do know he's coming back because he texted me on Sunday and he said this. |
| 0:34.2 | Someone told me a math riddle I want to tell people on the podcast while I was drunk that absolutely |
| 0:40.3 | blew my mind. Now, I don't think it's that hard to blow the mind of a drunk, Ari. I'm not sure |
| 0:48.1 | it's that hard to blow the mind of a sober Ari. So I'm not sure how we're all going to feel about |
| 0:53.8 | this riddle. Well, we feel like it's at |
| 0:55.7 | mind-blowing, but we're going to let Ari have his time. He will have the stage. We're also |
| 1:02.6 | going to talk a little bit about the most important players on some of the biggest teams in college |
| 1:06.9 | football. That's something Ari had brought up last week, and I thought was a great idea. So we're |
| 1:10.5 | going to get to that this week on the show. Also this week, we rank in the SEC jobs. |
| 1:15.4 | We got the Big 12 last week. I know we did it last year, but the lineups have changed. And if you're |
| 1:20.8 | coaching in the SEC or the Big 12 this year, there's a very good chance you're going to coach |
| 1:25.4 | in the New Look versions of those leagues in a few years. So where to Texas and Oklahoma stack up? How of our views of the jobs |
| 1:33.9 | changed? I think I probably owe Tennessee fans an apology when it comes to the Auburn job, |
| 1:40.3 | Tennessee job debate that we had last year. So prepare for me to fall on my sword pretty hard on that one. |
| 1:47.4 | And also, we had a lot of discussion on Twitter this weekend about the fry discussion that |
| 1:53.8 | was tacked on to our debate about the fish sandwiches. |
| 1:56.8 | You know, we had Max Olson eating his first fillet of fish. |
| 1:59.8 | I was trying the Arby's fish sandwiches. |
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