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The Nine Greatest College Football Playoff Games

Crain & Cone

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The College Football Playoff instituted a four-team format which lasted from 2014-2024. These are the nine greatest games from the four-team CFP era.     - - -     Today's Sponsor:    Gametime - Download the Gametime app or visit https://www.gametime.co and redeem code BOOSTER for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We like doing lists here, not only checking things off of them, but presenting you lists that

0:05.2

open up a chance for discourse and debate about some of our favorite stuff. And David Cohn

0:10.4

has compiled many threads on social media that have gone viral in the good way, not the 2020 way.

0:16.6

So Cohn, what list have you put together for us today or what are we choosing from to let the audience know?

0:22.7

Well, it is December.

0:23.8

I want to talk about the college football playoff.

0:25.6

So I put out this thread on X.

0:27.7

The college football playoff instituted a 14 format, which lasted from 2014 to 2023, really until

0:33.9

2024 with this championship this past year.

0:36.7

And I said, these are the nine greatest games from the four-team college football

0:40.6

playoff era.

0:41.6

So I didn't put them in any particular order other than I started with the games that actually

0:46.0

went to overtime.

0:47.4

And look, we can argue about what makes a game the greatest, but close scores, overtime,

0:52.0

you know, that's really how I was organizing these. I just want to list them off. And you guys tell me at the end, you know, that's really how I was organizing these.

0:55.1

I just want to list them off and you guys tell me at the end, you know, what is the greatest

0:59.0

game? What's the most memorable game from the era that you remember from that time?

1:04.0

First one up, 2018 Rose Bowl. Georgia defeated Oklahoma 54 to 48 in second in the second overtime. This was the first college football

1:13.5

playoff game and the first Rose Bowl ever to go into overtime. Remember this is Baker Mayfield.

1:19.0

It's getting closest Lincoln and ever got. Yeah. Yeah. And Sony Michelle with a direct snap,

1:23.5

27-yard touchdown at the end of that game. That was one of the greatest of all times.

1:28.0

Yeah, to me, that was like the microcosm of, now, Lincoln Riley is dealing with different

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