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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Inside college football's failed playoff expansion experiment

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Andy is joined by The Athletic's Chris Vannini to discuss the lack of overarching leadership in college football in the aftermath of the failed experiment to expand the playoff. How does this decision impact group of five programs and potential conference realignment? The Sun Belt is gaining popularity and is becoming "SEC Junior". The future of the sport is up in the air during these uncertain times.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Andy Staples show.

0:20.4

We're talking playoffs again.

0:22.3

We're talking legal wrangling in the group of five with Chris Benini.

0:27.4

And I've made Chris wait.

0:28.7

I was very happy when Chris slacked me and said, I need a few extra minutes.

0:34.1

Because I didn't tell him I also needed a few extra minutes because as we're recording this as President's Day, it's a holiday.

0:40.4

That means my wife has come up with some chores for me to do that I would have never, ever considered and didn't realize we needed.

0:48.2

Today it was chopping some limbs off of trees that are about, the limbs are about 12, 15 feet in the air. And Chris,

0:56.3

one of the limbs was, well, let me say, it gave me the chance to embrace my inner Clark

1:02.5

Griswold. It was a little too thick for the chainsaw. And so what it ended up being was me on a ladder with my chainsaw stuck in the limb,

1:18.7

hanging 15 feet in the air like the chainsaw of Damocles.

1:23.5

And that's what was going on when you said I needed a few extra minutes.

1:28.7

I hope you were able to turn it off, right?

1:30.8

Like it wasn't just hanging there.

1:32.0

And when it came free, it's going to be spinning like wild.

1:35.0

It was off.

1:36.0

And it's one of those battery powered ones.

1:37.8

So I yanked the battery and gave that to my wife to take away from me so that I

1:43.6

couldn't accidentally turn it on.

1:45.7

And then I broke my chain.

1:47.5

So when we're done here, I will be heading to my home improvement super store to get a new chain

1:55.0

from my saw.

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