Good afternoon, Irish fans. You're in the right place. Irish Illustrated Decider on December 4th.

But before I introduce my esteemed colleagues as usual, guys, please allow me a digression.

The 1980s, there was a show called St. Elsewhere, 1990s, Seinfeld, and Quantum Leap.

2000s lost, 2010, Game of Thrones. Each of those were must-see

TVs, but shows with series finalees that ended nonsensically, lacking context or spurious.

Now in 2025, must-see TV is something called the College Football Playoff Selection Committee

special. It's weekly. It's half of a season.

In this case,

it was the penultimate episode that left a lot of holes unanswered or poorly answered questions,

even a plot twist.

So I ask you,

Tim Priester, Drew Medtok, John Bryce.

Was your reaction, how dare you or WTF when the rankings came out on Tuesday night?

Priester will start with you.

Well, I, you know, the phrase I've been using, and I wrote it in Thursday thoughts, I mean, it was a manipulation of the system.

It was like, okay, how do we correct all these things that we've been doing and saying in recent weeks?

Let's go ahead and flip-flop

Notre Dame and Alabama for what reason, I mean, the reasons that were given were ridiculous.

So let's let this play out.

I don't think, you know, any of us are sitting here saying that this is all said and done,

but that was a manipulation of the system.

And we still have a problem because there's no way to ever come up with a college football

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