Welcome to Annie and Ari on three.

It's Monday and, you know, I wanted to start the week on a high note because obviously there is college football at the end of this week, Ari.

Same week.

Unfortunately, I've been placed on your team when it comes to college football playoff now.

I've transferred. I have entered the portal and I am now I'm left. on your team when it comes to college football playoff now.

I've transferred.

I have entered the portal.

And I am now, let's stop this madness before it gets out of control.

Because on Friday, Pete Dammel from ESPN writes that Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitie is, what do they call populating an idea?

There's these stupid new buzzword verbs that have come out in the last year that I've never heard before,

mainstreaming, populating.

I don't know exactly what they're doing with it, but it's basically kind of one of those blue sky,

no bad ideas, conference calls, and they had a bad idea and now they're uh socializing it that's the other word for it uh and he told some people

and some brave person's like this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard i'm going to leak this to the

media so that we can smother it in the crib yeah that's that's that's, that's, that's, that's the hope that of what's going on here, right?

Yes.

Because like, the thing is, is that like, if you're on a conference call or you're talking amongst

friends, you can float any idea you want, right?

Like, that doesn't bother me.

We just can't allow this to get traction.

The idea is expanding the playoff to 24 or 28 teams.

The reason they want to do this, well, one, Tony Petitie's doubling down on his

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