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TNR 4/23/26 - Hour 2 | SEC vs. Big Ten: The Playoff Expansion BATTLE Continues!

The Next Round

The Next Round

Football, News, Basketball, Sports, Sports News

4.9890 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Connor O'Gara from The OG Kickoff joins the show! The College Football Playoff Management Committee continued to weigh multiple potential formats during their annual meetings this week. However, despite openness in the room, no decision was made. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is holding strong for a a 16-team College Football Playoff as momentum seems to have grown for the Big Ten proposal of 24 teams. A potential 24-team playoff would add 12 games and an additional round of the tournament. The committee received presentations from analysts who projected what viewership could look like with a changed format, along with conversations with network partners. Schedule remains one of the greatest complications. Historically, the national title game was set for the second Monday of January. With the 12-team playoff, it's pushed at least two weeks later. Additionally, as the season goes longer, the NFL starts to encroach. The NFL starts playing games on Saturday in December, which has become a major complication for the college football postseason. Each of the past two years, two of the four first-round games have gone up against NFL matchups; they have drawn substantially fewer viewers. If the playoff were to add another round, it would either have to play on weekdays or risk some of its most valuable games against the most powerful league in sports. Which current college football coaches have produced the most NFL Draft picks? What does that tell us about what those coaches have, or have not, accomplished? SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - / @nextroundlive FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, live from the Birmingham Racecourse Casino Studios.

0:33.3

The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.

0:42.2

All right, another hour of the next round.

0:44.7

As vacation continues for Dunaway down on 38, Lance Taylor,

0:48.0

somewhere along the Rhine River looking at medieval castles in a European boat cruise,

0:52.4

as he just told me in a text earlier.

0:55.9

He's going to try to join us tomorrow if service allows so we can see whatever is in the background as he

1:01.8

sails up the Rhine River or whatever river they are on tomorrow on the European River cruise.

1:06.1

We appreciate to spend a time with us. As always, thanks to Tom Leuke Bell for the last hour.

1:10.6

Tyler, Scott, Brooks, awe here in the back room. And we'll be here all week with us. We appreciate that. Connor O'Gara is with us for this hour. Connor is part of the family here with the next round. The OG football podcast. It just meant more. All those things right there, the same exact places you get

1:28.0

this show. You get those things. Welcome in. Connor, how are you today, buddy? I'm doing well.

1:34.1

It's good to be here. You know, I can't help but think you've got some McCulley Colkin vibes to you.

1:40.1

A little bit of Kevin McAllister. Home alone? You're not saying I look like him. No, no, no. Come on. Let's not go that far. No, I just can't help but think that you, for like the first day, you're like, wow, I can go in any direction I possibly want. I know. And then eventually you hit that point where you're like, there's a reason why I don't do this solo. There's a reason why we got everybody else around. You probably miss your family. You're probably wanting your mom to come home and, you know, help you ward off the bad guys. You know, it's funny, Connor, for, gosh, I don't know, 10 years or so, I'd have to go back and look at the exact year count.

2:19.3

Every single day at work at 2 o'clock, me, Jim, Lance would walk out of the studio, and Paul Feinbaum would walk in by himself.

2:28.6

And I used to always think, boy, that has got to suck, just having to sit there for four hours all by yourself. And I always respected, you know, Paul figured out a way to do it. He just, you know, takes 8 billion phone calls and lets the listeners run the show. And then he does really good interviews. But I always respect to Paul because I'm like, man, we got three guys. And it is so much easier with three guys guys and we walk out of the studio and in walks

2:51.8

paul by himself it's uh it's a different beast i don't think enough credit goes to those who can do

2:58.1

this solo like regardless of what people think of Colin coward i think Colin coward is like one of

3:04.9

the best people in media ever because of his ability to do that.

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