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We said, well, we'll see when we come back on Thursday.

Who's playing college football. And so far, two of the Big Five have now dropped out.

Big Ten, Pack 12 are packing it in at least until the spring.

Meanwhile, conferences like the Big 12, like the SEC, are still planning, apparently, on playing football.

And coaches like Davos Sweeney are saying, hey, even if there's only four or five

teams, whoever wins is the champion of the year, is it really college football? Even right now,

if two of the biggest power conferences are not playing. The idea of there being a champion

in a playoff is preposterous to me. And the only reason it isn't unthinkable is that we know how the mentality is at this level

in certain areas and the country.

But no, I mean, it's crazy.

It's crazy.

And the idea that if they want to go ahead and do whatever they do, they can do what they want do but there's not going to be a champion quote unquote at the end of the season if they go through

with this sorry you know it's i i agree with you both but but here's the thing we are living now

in the year of weird championships in sports professional and college shouldn't be any different whoever wins the

NBA bubble ball championship it's still going to feel weird even though I always

maintain nobody remembers that the spurs won a title when they did in the shortened season

okay um I think right now not I mean is is the Big 12 officially decided, they officially decided that they're going to play?

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