More Playoff expansion?! + 5+7 model winners/losers | Kalen DeBoer's staff | EA Sports, they're in the game

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Nicole, Chris, and Max react to the CFP adopting a 5+7 model. Who are the biggest beneficiaries of this structure? The Playoff might be expanding again?! Would a 14 or 16-team field be more detrimental to the sport than helpful? EA Sports' big announcement. Kennington Smith III then joins the podcast to chat about Kalen DeBoer rounding out his staff. What can fans expect from the Tide's new coaches? Plus, Max shares some transfer portal names to keep an eye on as we inch closer to Spring practices. Rundown: -5+7 model + winners/losers (2:30) -A 14 or 16-team playoff?! (9:15) -How might a 14 or 16-team field work? (15:00) -EA Sports, they're in the game (25:30) -Alabama's staff with Kenny (35:15) -Nick Sheridan question mark (40:45) -Keon Sabb transfers to Bama (48:30) -Championship or bust in year one under DeBoer? (54:00) -Spring portal names (59:00) Subscribe to the Until Saturday newletter: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to Until Saturday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhfrD1COvG40Mk7vvgaHIQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.9	So much to get into it was a really newsy week in college football between the college football
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1:15.0	lots of really good news and then I think some major existential crisis
1:19.6	questions that we will get into about the future of the sport.
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