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Until Saturday: A show about college football

The College Football Playoff is set, but did Alabama deserve to be left out? + Conference Championship Reactions

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The 12-team College Football Playoff is set, but did the CFP committee get it right? David Ubben, Chris Vannini and Damien Harris react to the first-ever 12-team field, and they debate whether Alabama deserved to get in over SMU. Later, the guys share their thoughts from a fun conference championship Saturday. Is Georgia in trouble if Carson Beck can't play? Is Oregon the BEST team in the nation? Does Cam Skatteboo deserve Heisman votes? Ralph Russo hops on the show before we close things out to recap The Athletic's CFP Bracket Challenge. Who won?!


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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini), Damien Harris (@DHx34), Ralph Russo (@ralphDRussoATH)

Audio editor: John Ross

Executive producer: Cam Molina (@commentatorcam)

Supervising producer: Michael Martinez (@MikeMartinezDC)


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0:00.0

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0:47.8

I'm David Ubin with Chris Vinini and Damian Harris.

0:50.8

The first ever 12-team playoff has been set.

0:53.5

Guys, we are live. And guys, these 16 weeks

0:56.8

flew by. Dame, what did you make him? I mean, this was the most unpredictable up and down

1:04.3

season that we've ever seen. Now that we have the final rankings and we see these matchups,

1:08.4

there's going to be a lot of exciting games, but there's still a lot of questions that people are going to have. There's a lot of things that people want to get answered. And there's going to be a lot of chatter for a long time about what the decisions were, how it all came about, who fit where, who got left out. And I mean, that's the beauty of the sport. That's the beauty of the game of football. It's just you never know. And you got to be able to be comfortable with the unknown and, you know, whatever your fate is, you just got to roll with it. I love it. I think this is great. This is an awesome bracket. I think the matchups are really fun. Everybody's path is really interesting. SMU being the last team, I think, was the right call. It fit with what they did in the bracket. I'm fired up, man. Like, all this talk about 12-team playoffs, what's it going to mean for the regular season, what's it going to mean for conference championships? It has been an awesome season with unpredictable, awesome results. And now we're going to have a playoff where, like, I could pick like half this field to win the national championship. Like you really could.

2:19.1

It does feel wide open. I'm fired up and ready to talk about it. On today's loaded show, we got thoughts, takes about the 12 team playoff. We're going to share our reaction to a full slate of conference championship games. Camp Scataboo just run his way to New York City. Is Ashton Gentie going to run away with the Heisman? And what about Carson Beck? How do we view Georgia in light of his injury? I was in

2:23.7

Atlanta last night. Chris, you were in Dallas for the Big 12 and Dame. There's some reports of

2:30.6

possible crowd surfing for you in Indianapolis last night at the Big Ten.

2:34.5

You know, it's so funny. It's so funny because I picked Oregon to cover that game.

2:38.8

And I let the Penn State fans know about it, particularly the student section.

2:42.9

But, you know, just wanting to see a great game and taking myself away from having to make a pick,

2:49.2

just being in the environment and being right

2:51.2

there behind the student section. It was an electric environment. My first conference championship

2:55.6

as a member of the media. And I was just grateful that the Penn State fans didn't try to

3:00.8

throw me on the field or try to rough me up too much for ruffling some feathers. But yeah,

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