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The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

Playoff Rankings: Texas Moves Up, Georgia Drops Off

The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sports News, News, Football, Sports

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The second College Football Playoff rankings are in and many fans are unhappy. On this episode of “The Audible,” Bruce and Stew try to make sense of the current rankings and how the next few weeks may play out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

0:16.1

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the athletic, Stuart Mandel.

0:20.1

We're taping this Wednesday morning.

0:22.4

Stu, I know it's me who always gets irked by the CFP committee.

0:27.1

You take it all in stride.

0:30.1

I assume that you had no issues with Texas sitting all the way up at now number three,

0:36.2

despite having no top 25 wins.

0:38.3

I don't even know where's Georgia here?

0:40.3

Oh my god, Georgia's down at 10, at 12, at 12.

0:44.3

Wait, didn't Georgia beat Texas pretty badly?

0:47.3

Yeah, it's almost like they played a football game against each other

0:50.3

and that Georgia just dominated Texas.

0:56.5

And now it's like it never happened.

0:59.3

Yeah, I'm pretty fired up about it.

1:04.6

And I don't know, I'm worried I'm not going to be invited to Torchese tacos again anytime soon.

1:12.3

But I think the committee is like main purpose and why they exist in the first place instead of just, you know, using the polls or the computers or whatnot, is they're supposed to do a better job

1:18.0

than the pollsters have in the past of taking schedule strength into consideration. And I think

1:24.3

this year with the new super conferences, we are seeing a pretty pronounced difference in schedules even more so than we have in the past.

1:32.3

And yet, it's the same old thing. Well, this team only lost once and this team lost twice.

1:38.3

So we're going to put the one lost team higher. And I feel like the Texas Georgia thing is a pretty stark example of that.

1:47.0

Because you're talking about not just the head-to-head, although that's obviously the reason I'm picking these two teams.

1:53.0

Georgia has played four top 25 teams, three top 10 teams. None of them at home.

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