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The Paul Finebaum Show

Hour 4: Kirby Smart & Lane Kiffin join the show

The Paul Finebaum Show

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Paul Finebaum is live from SEC Spring Meetings in Miramar Beach, FL and chats with Georgia HC Kirby Smart and Ole Miss HC Lane Kiffin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is the Paul Finebaum show, our Ford podcast.

0:41.1

This might be college football.

0:43.5

So we are literally ever been a holding pattern over Atlanta or New York or someplace.

0:49.7

That's where we are.

0:50.5

We're hoping to get to a number of the SEC head coaches so far.

0:59.0

I'm not sure which meeting they're in, maybe with the commissioner, something pretty important for them to not be able to sneak out. So why don't we kick back for a minute or two here

1:05.0

and give you an update on exactly what we have done so far.

1:11.6

The main points of contention here are, you know, is the SEC going to add a ninth game?

1:18.6

And is that contingent upon the expansion of the playoff to 14 or 16 teams?

1:24.6

And, you know, it seems pretty clear that the Big Ten and the SEC want to go to 16 and would like four automatic bids for each conference, which I really don't like, but that's kind of where they're, I think, their minds are. And they probably have the juice to make it happen. Ultimately, the SEC hasn't decided what really it wants in a

1:45.7

playoff and how that balances, how Greg Sankey can balance, what is best for the SEC, sort of

1:52.0

what's best for the rest of the country. So ultimately, where I am is wondering, you know,

1:58.0

where does the SEC take the college football playoff? Not that it will do it alone,

2:02.8

but it's becoming very apparent that it still has probably more say than any other conference

2:08.5

in the direction of this event. You know I like to be pretty direct. There's still a lot of

2:12.5

pissing and moaning, and we haven't gotten to any decisions yet, but we're still collecting information and talking about things.

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