Week 5 reaction: CFP frontrunners; is Cincinnati a playoff contender & SEC red flags
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Another Saturday of unbridled excitement in college football has Andy and Sam Khan Jr. poised to breakdown the weekend's action. Alabama and Georgia are head and shoulders above the rest of the pack. Some SEC fanbases may begin to question their program's leadership after underwhelming results. Is Cincinnati squarely a playoff contender? Could Caleb Williams be used in the Red River Showdown, and despite a win and an uptick in run game success, are we still worried about Oklahoma? Is Oklahoma State the Big 12 title frontrunner? Speaking of frontrunners, after Stanford upset Oregon and, subsequently, went about potentially shaking up the early postseason picture, Andy and Sam discuss which teams are in the mix for the College Football Playoff.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. |
| 0:11.5 | Get your popcorn ready or don't. |
| 0:15.3 | Or have it ready in case you want to troll your opponent later in the game. |
| 0:20.1 | I don't know what that was. I don't know how |
| 0:22.2 | Big Al the elephant knew to have popcorn ready. Because Lane Kiffin didn't say that until the |
| 0:27.6 | pregame interview. So very quick work by the Alabama spirit staff. But Sam Kahn, welcome in. |
| 0:34.2 | We have a crazy day of college football to talk about. Not so crazy at the top where the |
| 0:39.2 | two best teams in the SEC just absolutely demolished opponents that were supposed to test them. |
| 0:47.8 | But we did have a group of five power exerting itself against an independent power. We had the best team, |
| 0:58.0 | at least we think, in the pack 12 falling. And we had two big money SEC coaches with losses |
| 1:06.5 | that have people going, hmm. Actually, make that three. |
| 1:11.6 | Let's make that three. What a night. What a day. Good Lord. It's been a pack day. This day did not disappoint. We looked at the schedule. We knew it was going to be an actor. We thought it was going to be an act today. You never know how those things go. you know we always look at the schedule and when it's not good and think it's not going to be good |
| 1:10.4 | and it turns out to be an active day. You never know how those things go. You know, we always look at the schedule and when it's not good and think it's not going to be good and it turns out to be great. Sometimes a great schedule has turned out to be duds. Today was really active, really interesting, plenty of to talk about. And certainly it's been an exciting long day and still going as we sit here. Arizona State's up on UCLA 3223 right now |
| 1:45.9 | as we speak in the third quarter. That's right. We got a little Pac-12 after dark. I may not have to |
| 1:51.3 | stay awake and record a new intro if there's just an insane finish of this game because we |
| 1:56.5 | maybe still be recording when it ends. But it was, it was definitely one of those days where |
| 2:04.4 | the picture started to come into focus a little more at the top. Georgia is really freaking good. |
| 2:12.3 | We've said this and we thought their defense was good. And then we said, ah, but they only |
| 2:16.4 | played Clemson and Clemson's offense hasn't been very good. George is really freaking good. Can we just say that now? Is that okay? Yeah. This was one of, this was that game. It's like if you keep waiting for them to prove it to you to say, okay, Kirby Smart said it earlier. He goes, you know, we ain't played nobody. |
| 2:35.9 | Well, now you beat Arkansas. |
| 2:38.9 | And I'm going to tell him again, we ain't played nobody so they can keep his defense playing |
| 2:43.8 | the way it is right now. |
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