Podcast Ain't Played Nobody, towing the line edition.

We've got to somehow find the nugget in the middle bill of embracing and slightly affirming

the outrage that comes with the first college football playoff ranking, but then also not,

I don't really want to empower the outrage column factory because I think by the time I went to bed Monday night

you had at least, you had 12 to 15 stodgy

dying newspaper columnist types who were calling it a reality TV show and all this

other business it is but half of those people used to work for ESPAN, so what do they expect?

Okay, so let's just jump right to it, Bill.

Texas A&M and Washington, four and five.

Give me a one to ten on your incredulity scale because I think you have this pretty low.

So, well I mean I think everything should be on a one to ten scale nothing should be more than at about four

the first playoff rankings of the of the year. Real quick I'm just gonna jump in like your

hype man on this it's November 1st okay keep going yes But as anybody who was on Twitter last night saw, it's a fool for me or whatever that Max is, it's that because I think

it's just, I think it's enforcing a bunch of really bad tendencies when it comes to

what the committee's looking at at this time and you know I have my line yes my

line last night I stick with it now. On Sundays and Mondays, I produce rankings that are

impersonal, that have no emotion, and they're not going to change if you, you know, if I'm convinced

to change them, and I get yelled at you know watch the game

nerd and then on Tuesday the playoff rankings get released and I see the what's

Kirby Hope cut is he the I think the, what's Kirby Hocut is he the, I think the, the

spokesperson now?

He is the chair, that would be the athletic director of the Texas

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