Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider, our final special edition of the college football

playoff ranking show. I'm Tim O'Malley, joined by Tim Priester and Drew Bentock of Irish

Illustrated, John Bryce of Football Scoop, Notre Dame ranked number four. Obviously, they cannot

play in that spot. Projections, Notre Dame hosting Alabama, December 20th or 21st.

Congratulations for all your hard work, all your efforts, 10 in a row.

Here come the Crimson Tide.

What do you think about that, Tim Priester?

Well, it could change this weekend if SMU wins, which we could probably maybe anticipate a little bit will happen.

That could shift that. But look, it is what it is. And, you know, I know that the guys in the

broadcast last night, we're talking about, you know, the winner Tennessee, Ohio State plays Oregon.

I mean, in the second game. So Oregon plays the winner of Tennessee, Ohio State plays Oregon. I mean, in the second game.

Oregon plays the winner of Tennessee, Ohio State's one way looking at it, too.

Yeah. That's not nice. Right. Exactly. So, I mean, this is the world that we live in now.

Maybe there are some exactly how you would adjust that. You know, the other day i said uh you know would they want

those kind of matchups would that be fair and you know fair is kind of out the window when it comes to

uh television well television in a 12 team bracket you know it's just you can't you can't serve all

masters here it's like the you know the complaints about strength of schedule and head to head you can't serve all masters here. It's like the complaints about strength of schedule and head to head.

You can't serve everybody.

There has to be, the committee has to make a decision one way or another, which they did in this instance with Alabama and its, it's SEC brethren.

But yeah, that'd be difficult.

I'm sure Alabama will look at this and say,

holy crap, we got to go to Nordaim on the third weekend of December. That probably isn't

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