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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Program rankings & our favorite college football moments of 2021!

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Ari are back together again, and this time, the guys saddle up to rank college football programs. After faltering in the national title game, is Alabama still the top program in the country, or has Georgia assumed that mantle? Who ranks third? Where does Michigan fall on this list after having a breakthrough season? What about conference champions like Oklahoma State? Plus, the guys share their favorite moments and games from the 2021 season. Also, what would you do with, like, a bajillion dollars?


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It is our season in review edition. And there's a gentleman

0:14.7

that you haven't heard from in about a way. I guess you heard from him on Monday, but you need to hear from him again

0:24.0

because he has not gotten a chance to say his piece since he stuck to his guns in one way,

0:33.2

turned his back on a promise he made in another way. But at the end of the day, Ari Wasserman was correct, and I was wrong.

0:42.4

Ari, Georgia, your national champion, as you predicted in the preseason, as you flipped on

0:49.8

your pledge to never bet against Nick Sabin and bet against Nick Saban. You were right.

0:54.7

Georgia beat Alabama.

0:56.6

Ari, the floor is yours.

0:57.8

I'm supposed to take off my shirt and run around the room now.

1:01.4

We're doing this on video, so yes, absolutely.

1:03.9

We need some VOD content.

1:05.4

I was actually listening to the podcast that you did with Dave Ubin after the game.

1:10.0

And I was just like, it kind of hit me. I'm just disappointed that you didn't stick with it, man, because you had the perfect, the perfect, perfect, perfect. Because I actually got the whole scenario right? Yeah, it's like easy to say. If you read what I wrote, yeah. If you read what I wrote, I did mention J.T. Daniels would play a big part in that.

1:29.7

So I don't think I got it exactly right. But no, I don't regret saying that I'll never bet against Nick Saban.

1:37.0

I feel like that is a pretty sound way to think. But it was wrong here. And for the reasons that you and I discussed quite a bit,

1:46.2

in fact, I wrote a couple things in the lead-up to the game saying,

1:50.0

here's how Georgia can win.

1:51.9

And here's what they didn't do the first time,

1:53.5

what they could do the second time.

1:55.5

And they did that stuff.

1:57.4

They did a bunch of different stuff.

1:59.5

And the pressure on Bryce Young was

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