How Can We Take College Football Seriously?

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Valenti and Rico discuss the growing issues with college football and the influence the TV networks have over the sport.

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0:00.0	Three o'clock.
0:00.8	Good to have everybody with us.
0:02.1	We're reacting to the complete kerfuffle that is the college football playoff committee,
0:08.0	how they went about things, and really an awful field and a largely unwatchable batch of games.
0:14.2	This is not going to be some defending of Notre Dame thing.
0:17.6	I'm not, but don't gaslight me.
0:20.3	Don't have Notre Dame 9 or 10 for a month. And then mystically, with Notre Dame thing. I'm not, but don't gaslight me. Don't have Notre Dame 9 or 10 for a month.
0:23.0	And then mystically, with no evidence, with no games taking place, move Notre Dame out and
0:29.5	move Miami in. Just do it from the start. Tell us they won head to head, have Miami ahead of
0:35.3	Notre Dame the whole way. Have them close.
0:38.7	You didn't.
0:40.1	Then you factor in when you lift the hood of this thing and you go, oh, I see what's going on.
0:45.2	So the teams that got screwed have no affiliation to ESPN, the very network that
0:51.1	bought the playoff.
0:53.2	The ESPN doesn't own the Big 10 The ESPN doesn't own the Big Ten.
0:55.9	ESPN doesn't own the Big 12th.
0:59.3	ESPN has a vested financial interest in the SEC and the ACC.
1:04.4	Who benefited?
1:05.7	Bama, SEC.
1:08.1	Miami, ACC.
1:10.2	Who they screw?
1:11.5	Notre Dame, who has a deal
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