The 14-team playoff train needs to slow down | Can Penn State, Clemson bounce back? | UMass + Future of independents
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Nicole, Audrey Snyder and Grace Raynor, the latter two are The Athletic's Penn State beat writer and recruiting expert, respectively, dig into reports about a 14-team playoff model that is being discussed. Is the 3-3-2-2-1 structure fair for the ACC and Big 12? Do the Big Ten and SEC deserve additional AQs? Is the committee moving too fast on this? Are Penn State and Clemson candidates to bounce back in 2024? Plus, thoughts on Texas A&M and Miami. Later, the trio discuss the hot button topic of court storming. What are some realistic solutions? Lastly, thoughts on moving Early Signing Day and the future of Notre Dame and independents.
Time stamps:
- 14-team model (1:30)
- Is finishing 3rd incentivized? (14:30)
- Bounce-back teams; Penn St. (16:00)
- Clemson (22:30)
- Texas A&M (32:00)
- Miami (36:45)
- Court storming fixes (41:30)
- Early Signing Day - does moving it to early Dec. solve the issues? (54:00)
- UMass, future of independents & hard non-cons (1:00:00)
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| 0:29.9 | Music Hey, everyone, and welcome back to the latest edition of the Until Saturday podcast. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Nicole Auerbach. |
| 0:50.6 | I am joined by two of my favorite people and two of the most hilarious people that we |
| 0:55.6 | have on staff. Audrey Snyder and Grace Rainer. Audrey covers Penn State and the Big Ten. Grace covers |
| 1:03.1 | a little bit of everything. National recruiting used to cover Clemson for us. But ladies, welcome to the show. Glad to have you on. |
| 1:12.9 | Yay. At the end of the week. |
| 1:21.0 | Seriously. We would really like to be Saturday. We do this show until Saturday, and it's not quite there yet. But you might be listening on a Saturday. Hope everyone is enjoying the off season, |
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| 1:58.2 | couple we're going to get to later in today's show as well. But we're going to start with news of the week. We've been talking about CFP expansion, the debates, discussions, everything around that for the last couple of weeks. We finally got some clarity on Wednesday evening about what models are actually, well, what model is getting the most |
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