award-winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mitch album and bob ryan i'm mitch album of the detroit free press i am bob ryan of the b Boston Globe and ESPN, and we welcome you to the sports

reporters podcast.

The Wednesday edition of the Thursday edition, because obviously this sudden holiday

of note tomorrow, and our friend Mike Lupica is not with us today.

He'll be back next Monday.

Well, we have football, football, football on our brain.

And first of all, before we get to the actual games being played

we have to take note that the committee has responded to america's pleas at least at least

those who people who didn't go to power five schools Cincinnati is in there at number four

Mitch and I wonder I don't know, what triggered it finally.

I'm wondering, throwing it out there, is it conceivable that the fact that they finally kick somebody's butt,

which they hadn't been doing, and a team that was supposedly a half-decent team,

finally pushed them into the thinking of the...

Well, you know, I see it a little differently.

I see that they, they, they kind of scheme this with the, with this week ahead in mind.

So they know that Ohio State is playing Michigan.

And they know that one way or another, this will determine where Michigan belongs in this deal. So they don't feel bad

having Michigan at number five right now. By the way, for those of you don't know, it's Georgia

number one, Ohio State number two. Ohio State jumping Alabama, which is significant in terms

of when this thing actually plays out, although it's going to move again because Alabama is

going to play Georgia and all that.

And Alabama, third, Cincinnati, fourth, Michigan fifth.

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