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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

USA Today's Dan Wolken on 2020's Unique Season of College Football

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Dan Wolken, a national columnist for USA Today Sports, to talk about the college football season so far (2:37), the different coaching moves happening within the league (14:55), the lack of Black head coaches in college football (23:34), and predictions for who will win the Heisman Trophy (33:55). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Dan Wolken Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast and today we're going to finally

0:16.8

because the selection has been over but it's also been getting on my nerves I get a

0:21.0

chance to talk about college football with none other than Dan

0:24.7

Woken from the USA Today I'm so excited to talk to him about my gamecocks of course

0:28.8

talk to him about why Ohio State doesn't belong in the college football playoff, Dan actually thinks they belong,

0:35.6

me and Dabbo Sweeney.

0:37.3

Don't ask me how we end up agreeing on anything, but that's where we are.

0:41.0

And along that same note, I wanted to do my introduction today about the college football playoffs in specifically Ohio State.

0:47.0

Now we're approaching championship weekend in college football where Power Five conferences are crowning their champions.

0:53.4

And because of COVID, we've got a special circumstance

0:56.3

involving the Big Ten powerhouse, namely

1:00.0

that they've only played five games, one, two, three, four, five,

1:04.9

and have no signature victories,

1:07.1

and they played roughly half the games of other teams

1:10.2

like Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame Dame in Texas A&M.

1:13.8

So you could imagine a world where a six-win

1:17.3

Florida State team gets into the college football

1:19.9

playoffs and has to play against teams that

1:21.8

have had far more games and wear and tear.

1:25.6

And while I always have to check myself, maybe more than once, when I agree with Dabo Sweeney,

1:31.4

he's right here.

1:32.4

Even if Ohio State wins the Big Ten Championship,

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