The SEC takes the stage, and weekly CFP rankings are still stupid
Podcast Ain't Played Nobody
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🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Podcasting played nobody I have a question for you why would the playoff selection committee even bother with creating a 25 team list |
| 0:09.7 | Before you answer that I just want to point out like in what universe and I'm not I'm not against this but our beloved Iowa State cyclones with three losses right Texas A&M three losses |
| 0:21.1 | Virginia three losses. Virginia. Three losses, yes. |
| 0:24.0 | It's always fun to see a ranking in this sport. |
| 0:27.2 | We do it a lot. |
| 0:28.1 | But what is the point of 25 teams when you know there's like a realistic chance for I don't know seven |
| 0:36.0 | teams on this list what's the point well a how else are you going to find out |
| 0:42.1 | how many top 25 wins you have if you don't have 25 teams? |
| 0:46.4 | And we know that they lean on that stupid. |
| 0:49.4 | Even though you know, you could have one, one week and then zero the next because one of the teams you beat lost or something |
| 0:55.0 | We know that they |
| 0:59.0 | Lean on that as one of their little things they either lean on it as part of their ranking teams or at least they |
| 1:04.6 | lean on it for justifying rankings, but we know they do that. And the other thing, I mean, the one justification |
| 1:10.1 | for it and to justify it in this way, you have to justify that there are weekly rankings and the weekly rankings are stupid and unjustifiable. |
| 1:17.0 | But if you have them, then you basically have to show who's also in contention for the New Year's six bowls. |
| 1:22.0 | And if you have a top 25... also in contention for the New Year Six Bowls. |
| 1:23.8 | And if you have a top 25, you can, you know, |
| 1:26.0 | New Year Six, that's 12 teams involved. |
| 1:28.6 | That's half the top 25. |
| 1:29.7 | You can show some teams that are in contention. |
| 1:31.8 | And I guess you can hope that at least there's at least |
| 1:34.9 | one group of five team involved so you can say who the show who the leader is in that race. |
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