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And welcome to Thursday on the program, and not too much has been going on unless you're in charge of a college football playoff committee.

Good afternoon. Welcome in. Let's get you to some of the headlines that are happening right now, and there are plenty.

This according to Dellinger, Mack Rhodes, as expected, stepping down from the CFP selection committee.

He is the chairman. He's the one that shows up on Tuesday night, and now he is gone. The committee is at 11 members, two down from its normal 13. Hunter Yerechek is being nominated as a new CFP selection share, according to Yahoo.

The nomination needs to be authorized by the CFP governing boards.

Something tells me that will happen pretty quickly.

Meanwhile, playoff's still going on, the teams we trust and don't in the college football.

Playoff, that's a story by Alex Kirsner, of course, does the Split Zone duo podcast, one of my favorites of all time.

And we'll talk about that with Alex, as we say hello to him.

Alex, great to talk to you. How are you?

All doing well. Good to hear your voice. Thank you very much. It's good to hear yours as well.

Well, let's talk about it. We don't need to get too deep into who the chairman of this is going to be because I don't think it really matters, but what have you seen so far on schools that you like and who don't you like right now?

You know, I'll start with who I don't like. I have a feeling, as does Richard Johnson,

my co-host, I know you've talked with before, that Alabama is not very long for the playoff this year once they get there.

This has been a very good team.

They've won a lot of great victories.

They have been arguably the best team in the sport since that disaster in Tallahassee.

But at the end of the day, if you cannot run the ball reliably or stop the run

reliably, I just think those things still matter in football. I think there's an interesting

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