Will Notre Dame, Ohio State and Alabama ACTUALLY make the playoffs? + Curt Cignetti on Indiana's rise
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama and other programs have given us reason to question their playoff legitimacy. At the midseason mark, David Ubben and Ralph Russo, our Playoffs Secruity Administration workers, debate whether the Buckeyes, Irish, Crimson Tide, Clemson, Indiana and others will pass playoff security or get pulled out of line. On the topic of Indiana, Curt Cignetti, the Hoosiers head coach, joins Until Saturday to discuss his program, which has been one of the most surprising stories of the season so far.
Rundown:
- 0:00 Playoff Secruity Administration checks
- 2:30 Is Notre Dame a playoff team?
- 9:45 Iowa State's dilemma
- 13:30 Will Alabama's issues keep them out of the playoffs?
- 21:15 Was Ohio State's loss to Oregon season-ending?
- 29:00 Boise State or the G5 field?
- 32:30 Will Clemson coast into the playoffs?
- 36:15 Is Indiana for real?
- 40:45 Indiana HC Curt Cignetti joins the show!
- 43:00 What's the Hoosiers' blueprint?
- 48:15 Kurtis Rourke's rise and Philip Rivers story
- 52:00 Culture and talking with donor/fan base
- 59:00 Troy Aikman, IU bandwagon, and nicknames
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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Ralph Russo (@ralphDrussoATH), Curt Cignetti (@CCignettiIU)
Audio editor: John Ross
Executive producer: Cam Molina (@commentatorcam)
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| 0:17.5 | or settle in together on the weekend for a hearty Sunday roast whatever the weather. For any occasion or time of day, you and your family are always welcome. Head to our website or social channels to find your nearest vintage in. I'm Hello and welcome to until Saturday, the athletics college football podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | I am your host, David Ubin, who delivery savant, some would say. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm joined by Ralph Roussea, who may or may not know the ways of Uber Eats. |
| 0:55.9 | We've got to get a sponsorship, by the way, but he does know the way of the college football playoffs. |
| 0:59.8 | On today's podcast, Ralph and I are going to don our PSA uniforms. |
| 1:04.0 | That's the Playoff Security Administration. |
| 1:06.8 | Wave our playoff wants to determine Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, a few others will actually make the playoffs. |
| 1:14.1 | Are you going to clear security? We'll see. We'll see. Indiana, another one of those teams that has a real shot at making the playoffs. |
| 1:20.1 | But this week, we went straight to the source. Indiana coach Kurt Signetti joins the show a little bit later to talk about his quarterback Curtis Rourke, his |
| 1:28.4 | favorite nickname, he likes Sig Nasty, folks, and the historic start in Bloomington. |
| 1:35.1 | But Ralph, let's clock in to another hard day of work at the Playoff Security Administration. |
| 1:40.7 | Let's start sleuthing if these teams are going to make it or not. |
| 1:45.3 | We're at the midpoint of the season. We've got more lingering questions about the playoff field than we do at the start of the |
| 1:50.2 | year. We've seen some shocking upsets. But our colleague Austin Mock has a playoff projections model |
| 1:54.9 | on the athletic website. It updates after every Saturday and every game and shows the percent |
| 1:59.9 | chance that each team has at making |
| 2:02.3 | the playoffs. |
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