Week 9 reaction: Projecting CFP rankings; coaching hot seat & Michigan St., Michigan's futures
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 31 October 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
After a savory course of week nine college football games, Andy and Ari react to the weekend that was. Before unwrapping each big matchup, the guys share their first College Football Playoff rankings. Even though the scoreboard may tell a different story, Ohio State had Penn State well in hand. Although, could Michigan State take Ohio State to the wire in the Big Ten Championship game? If Michigan happens to win out, where do they reside in the CFP pecking order? The guys take a ride on the coaching carousel to pinpoint some names that are on the hot seat.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show post-game edition, and what a day of games it was. |
| 0:16.9 | Ari and I are coming to you right after the Ohio State Penn State game has finished up. |
| 0:22.7 | Utah currently throttling UCLA at about half time. |
| 0:27.1 | They're winning 2810. |
| 0:28.7 | We had two undefeated teams go down today. |
| 0:31.0 | Now, we knew one would because Michigan and Michigan State were playing in Michigan State |
| 0:35.8 | with a big win against Michigan, which, I mean, for most of the game, it didn't feel like it could happen, but they kept chopping. |
| 0:43.7 | And then SMU goes down at Houston. |
| 0:47.6 | So it's going to be really interesting. |
| 0:50.7 | The college football playoff committee having their first meeting. |
| 0:54.4 | They're probably sitting there in Great Buy in Texas watching those games. |
| 0:57.5 | Ari, I don't know what they're going to do because I tried to do a top four. |
| 1:03.7 | Mine sucks. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, it's going to be a struggle. |
| 1:08.5 | And I think what I think the top four teams are and what |
| 1:12.6 | they're going to be are going to be different. And the hardest part about this, Andy, is deciphering |
| 1:18.5 | the difference between who is most deserving and who in our hearts we think are the four best |
| 1:25.3 | teams in college football. And in my opinion, those things are very, very different. |
| 1:31.4 | And also, once you get through pass number one, which is clearly Georgia on everybody's list, |
| 1:38.4 | you could make a case for five other teams to be number two. |
| 1:42.7 | Oh, I could make a case for six other teams to be number two. |
| 1:46.1 | I have a top seven that I will read and everybody will get mad about it, but I don't, |
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