Week 12 reaction: Oregon's out, so who's now in? Hot seat watch & OSU's potential
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 21 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Week 12 was a whirlwind! Andy and Ari tee off the show by reacting to Oregon's astonishing loss at the hands of Utah. With the Ducks' playoff hopes extinguished, who's now in the CFP race? The Buckeye's made an emphatic declaration in their blowing win over Michigan State. Just how good is OSU, and how far will they go? The guys pivot from playoff/bowl hopefuls to teams out of consideration like Florida and Texas. Do one or both programs need to introspect about their head coaches? Plus, a look ahead to Rivalry Week and the Egg Bowl!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It is a Saturday night, late here on the East Coast, not yet Sunday morning, are you? We are doing this early? Because it feels like all the important stuff has |
| 0:22.1 | happened. We got not a shocking result because the favored team won, but we got a result |
| 0:29.2 | that will shake up the college football playoff rankings. Utah 38, Oregon 7. |
| 0:39.7 | That was a butt-whipin in Salt Lake City. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, first, before we jump into the new playoff discussion, |
| 0:49.7 | I think that I wanted to say that the committee might have a unsolvable problem, |
| 0:54.9 | which is the unsolvable problem might be how do you keep the group of five out? And if you actually want to know what the unsolvable problem might be, how do you keep the group of five out? |
| 0:58.8 | And if you actually want to know what the unsolvable problem was from that reporter that we were talking about the other day, |
| 1:01.8 | this is the one who asked the very awkward question |
| 1:03.8 | of C. Sarkesian at Texas. |
| 1:06.3 | Yes, what was his unsolvable problem? |
| 1:08.0 | Because we had several guesses, moving a dead body, you owe too much money to a bookie, solving world hunger, peace in the Middle East, and fixing Texas football. Yes, so the reporter said in a former life, I used to be in IT and I used to write software. I work with a gentleman and I almost put his name in there. I'm so glad I didn't, but he's like the smartest guy I know. And we were working on a technical problem for two |
| 1:31.2 | weeks we could not solve. And he finally said, in his wisdom, we must take a step back and ask |
| 1:35.8 | what would an extraordinary person do? Did it solve the problem? It's another cliffhanger, |
| 1:42.9 | but I don't know. |
| 1:44.6 | I just thought that our problems were more entertaining. |
| 1:46.9 | That is as boring as I imagined that to be. |
| 1:51.1 | Because it's also, it's not just boring, Andy. |
| 1:53.9 | It's also, you know, bogged down with technical IT stuff that most people wouldn't |
| 1:58.9 | understand. |
| 1:59.4 | So we couldn't even explain it if he wanted to. |
| 2:02.2 | It's just like just some boring IT things. Somebody sent me the link to that Texas monthly story |
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