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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Power Auer: Is the CFP system broken?

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach & Stadium's Michael Felder give their takes on the 2021 College Football Playoff. Is the selection committee a broken system? Somehow 9-2 Army didn't make a bowl game while 2-8 South Carolina did. Undefeated Cincinnati didn't even get consideration for the top 4. Dabo Swinney doesn't think Ohio State deserves to be in the playoff. Last call!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Power Hour, the athletics Tuesday National College Football

0:19.9

podcast hosted by yours truly.

0:22.7

Nicole Auerbach. I am thrilled, as always, to be joined by my friend and colleague Michael

0:27.4

Fowler from Stadium this week. And we are going to break down the biggest storylines in college

0:32.2

football this week in an hour or less. And honestly, this week, it's mostly ranting.

0:37.4

A little bit of semifinal preview, but it's this week, it's mostly ranting. A little bit of

0:38.2

semi-final preview, but it's going to be a lot of ranting. So if you enjoy this podcast,

0:43.1

you probably do enjoy rants. So be sure to subscribe, rate and review the Andy Staples and Friends

0:47.9

show, five stars, because much like your favorite recruits, we want to make an immediate impact.

0:52.7

And Felder, we got to get into this.

0:55.6

It was a frustrating weekend for those of us who love college football

1:01.4

and love the little guys and love the coastal Carolinas and the Cincinnati's and Indiana

1:07.4

and these programs that are not just Alabama,

1:11.0

Clemson and Ohio State, it was frustrating.

1:14.2

It was, there was, you know, logic that was applied that I don't even think

1:18.8

qualifies as logic for ranking things.

1:21.9

There was this, you know, just total exclusion of teams that had great seasons, totally devalued, excluded from

1:30.5

the New Year 6th. I was just overwhelmed by my frustration this weekend. What was your,

1:37.0

did you feel it to or what was your reaction? I guess it was more, see, I'm still heated about this. I'm still really, like,

1:45.5

processing this. Sunday was a really frustrating day for me. And see, Sunday, Sunday felt, man,

1:52.0

I was, I was, I was, I was, what's his name, Lionel, um, dang easy like Sunday morning?

1:58.6

I felt good.

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