Sugar Bowl stunner, Trey Sermon surges & Notre Dame covered!
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 2 January 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari react to an entertaining College Football Playoff semifinal round, headlined by an astonishing, convincing Ohio State win over Clemson. Though there were numerous noteworthy performances on behalf of the Buckeyes, Trey Sermon certainly shined (4:00). How did the former University of Oklahoma do-it-all back find himself in a potentially career-defining stretch of games? OSU finally overcame Clemson, the hurdle taunting them in recent years (15:00). How important was it for the Buckeyes to squash this boogeyman, especially one that has lured in-state prospects away from them? Should we be concerned about Justin Fields' potential rib injury (26:15)? Lastly, Notre Dame covered! And other Rose Bowl takeaways (29:15).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.1 | Shocking playoff result edition. |
| 0:13.5 | I don't usually get to say that because there aren't really that many shocking results in the college football playoff. |
| 0:18.5 | But I would say that number 11 Ohio State |
| 0:22.1 | 49, number two Clemson 28 qualifies as shocking. Would you agree Ari Wasserman? |
| 0:30.5 | Yes, I would say though that game was shocking. I would agree with you. I mean, |
| 0:35.5 | that was a butt kicking, a true butt kicking. And listen, I realize |
| 0:41.9 | Ohio State had every reason to be motivated for that game. And I'm being somewhat unfair to |
| 0:47.4 | Abbo Sweeney here making fun of him, ranking them number 11 in his coach's poll ballot. His reasoning |
| 0:52.9 | for it, as he pointed out again on Friday night, |
| 0:55.3 | had nothing to do with Ohio State. |
| 0:57.3 | His thing was, if you didn't play nine games, |
| 0:59.3 | I'm not putting in the top 10. |
| 1:00.8 | But my thing about that is that's not Ohio State's fault. |
| 1:05.8 | It is not Ohio State's fault that it is a member of an incompetent conference. |
| 1:12.5 | The Big Ten screwed all that up. |
| 1:17.7 | Ohio State, Ohio State was fighting to play the entire. Ohio State would have loved to play 11 games. They would have killed to play 11 games. So that's why this result, I'm sure, was incredibly |
| 1:23.8 | satisfying for Ohio State fans, but also for the folks who, you know, from Nebraska, |
| 1:31.3 | from Iowa, the Penn State players who fought for a season to happen. |
| 1:34.9 | Because, you know, if those players and the Ohio State players hadn't fought for this, |
| 1:39.8 | the Big Ten's not even involved. |
| 1:41.9 | And now the Big Ten has a chance to win a national title. |
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