Ryan McGee Breaks Down a Chaotic Conference Championship Weekend

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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While the College Football Playoff technically doesn’t start for another month, if you look closely you can see that in many ways it already has. Look no further than the fireworks of Rivalry Week: while appearing to keep up with decades old traditions, they are actually setting the table for the win-or-go-home repercussions of this weekend's conference championships. So today, Ryan McGee joins us to talk about the chaos of this unofficial bracket, and then dares to take a look at the unpredictable future of college football – our favorite Saturday pastime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ryan McGee not talking about the bottom 10 this week we're talking about the big boys
0:05.4	technically the college football playoff doesn't start for another month but it
0:10.0	feels like it already did last week in Ann Arbor.
0:13.6	Yeah, I have always argued that it's kind of like, you know, a secret society, right?
0:19.9	The bracket was already there.
0:21.3	You just got to look for it.
0:28.8	I've always said the quarterfinals earned the conference championship games. But yeah, it felt like, I mean, that was an elimination game at the big
0:32.3	house.
0:33.0	McCord looks, fires,
0:35.0	it intercepted, and Michigan will win the game.
0:41.0	And I, you know, I was at the Iron Bowl. That was an elimination game for Alabama.
0:45.2	Air space to cover for Millrow. Still looking. Fireing near corner.
0:50.8	Hencecaught. Touchdown, Alabama on a fourth and a mile!
0:56.6	And now we get into the actual official bracket part of it.
1:02.2	So what do you say to everyone who earlier this month like one of the greatest
1:06.7	sports talk callers in the history of the world said Paul Michigan ain't really
1:11.2	played nobody yet? How do you feel about those who
1:13.7	criticized their strength to schedule? I was one of them. I mean there's no
1:17.8	question about it and I caught a lot of flack because I did not have Michigan in
1:21.8	my playoff top four until this week.
1:25.0	You know all of us writers at ESPAN.com we always bang out our top four every
1:30.5	Saturday night and I didn't have them in there.
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