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With that, Joel Clatt joins us.

The 12-team playoff, to say it's flawed as an understatement.

I'll start Joel with this.

Generally speaking, if you have the best regular season, Oregon,

and the best conference championship performance, Oregon, your

reward shouldn't be potentially Ohio, State, Texas, and Georgia. I just look at that and I think,

how does Penn State get grooved into their path, and how does Oregon get there? That's my first

complaint, that Oregon got a bit hosed. Am I wrong?

No, you're not wrong. Can you imagine if the Kansas City Chiefs had to face the hardest road to get to the Super Bowl after getting the one seed? Like, we don't do that because that's ridiculous. But in college football, we still do it. There's so much to get into column that all ties together with this sentiment.

So you're just bringing up Oregon.

And yes, you can talk about their path and how, you know, if you look at the top four

teams as far as oddmakers go in terms of winning the national championship are Oregon,

Ohio State, Georgia, and Texas.

What's the path for Oregon?

Those teams, which is asinine, in particular in a sport that desperately wants to retain

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