More Playoff expansion?! + 5+7 model winners/losers | Kalen DeBoer's staff | EA Sports, they're in the game
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
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)
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| 0:29.9 | Music Hey everyone and welcome back to until Saturday. I'm Nicole Auerbeck. I'm here with Chris |
| 0:48.7 | Benini and Max Olson. So much to get into. It was a really newsy week in college football between the college football playoff and EA sports, college football. |
| 0:59.3 | Lots of really good news. |
| 1:00.7 | And then I think some major existential crisis questions that we will get into about the future of the sport. |
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| 1:32.5 | Chris, Max, hello. Chris, are you alive? You've had a busy week. |
| 1:37.3 | Been a long day, you know, staked out DFW airport. |
| 1:41.3 | Do you mean, like, is this like an AI, Chris? Like, what do you mean, are you alive? Well, he's, he's, was staking out a CFP meeting for like 12 hours. Yeah. And then had an EA sports headline on our site like five hours later. So I'm just confirming. You love to see. Yeah. So I'm out. I'm at DFW. It was just me for a while. And then eventually Eric Prisbill from On3 showed up and so did somebody from AP. And like, I'm talking to the people around EA and the game to prepare the story. And I'm like, hey, the CFP meeting is like about to get out any minute here. I may need to jump off this call and they may blow up the playoff any moment now. So, uh, a hectic couple of hours there. But lots of stuff to talk about somethings fans are |
| 2:22.9 | excited about. Some things they are very much not excited about. As Michael Scott would say, |
| 2:28.9 | that the timing of this podcast is, is nothing short of predominant. Yeah, this is good timing for |
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