Welcome to the shutdown full cast. I am Spencer Hall. This is a call of football podcast. I write for SB Nation. You know, I was right for SB Nation.

That'd be Jason Kirk. He's a college football editor. Say hi, Jason Kirk.

Hi, how y'all doing?

You're talking about college football. In fact, we're gonna get to the college football playoff rankings because they're completely made up.

It's a bunch of influential people get a room come up with that ideas and tell you that that's the way it's gonna be.

Tell America works now. Just get a bunch of idiots in a room. You put them together. They come out. They go and eat better food than you do.

And you just have to deal with that. Enough of that.

This isn't a podcast about clowns, Ryan.

Wow.

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We got the top political text. That's Ryan Nanny. Yeah, sorry.

Yeah, I'm the one who's a mess. But I want, can I start by issuing an apology?

Sure.

I think I have tried maybe on this podcast, maybe on Waker College football. Maybe who knows where to suggest that I have some idea of what the

playoff committee is going to do. I've sort of tried to look at past years as precedent or read into what I think they want to incentivize or

not incentivize.

And I just want to apologize because I don't have a fucking clue when everybody else who tells you that they do is a liar and a fraud. None of us have any idea.

This is completely true because

for three years now, their list of criteria. The very first one is conference championships one. It's on the website. You can look at it.

And the plan off when it was formed, it was partially a revolt against the LSU Bama rematch in which Bama Nanny and it's the vision but made the title game.

So all along we had it in our heads that conference championships are very important. Got it conference championships eight conference

championships made it so far. And now it looks almost certain that like Ohio State has already clinched us by not making its conference

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