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I would like to say this and we were efforting catching up with LaVar Arington, who by the way is in Arizona where his Penn State Nittany Alliance took care of business last night and took care of business against Boise State.

And the game kind of played out pretty much how you expected the game to play out.

That Boise State was going to battle because they play hard.

If Ashton Genty didn't have a big-time monster performance, then Boise State was going to be up against it.

But ultimately, Penn State was the

better team. They were favored by 11, 12 points, whatever it closed at, going into the game for a

reason, and Penn State got it done. And so what we've gotten thus far through the first five

games of the college football playoff, this new expanded 12-team

college football playoff. What we've gotten is basically chalk. You've gotten all the results

that you expected. And you've gotten, for the most part, pretty uncompetitive games.

And so the feeling would be, all right, well, then what was the point of this?

I mean, I thought this was supposed to add some intrigue.

I thought this was supposed to add some new layer to college football.

I thought the college football playoff was supposed to give us a different viewpoint and a different look and a different vibe when it comes to the entire thing.

So what was the point?

And my pushback on that would be what's the complaint?

Like there is no guarantees that when you go into this thing that you're going to get good games.

There's no guarantees.

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