Welcome to Annie and Ari on 3, where it wouldn't be a Tuesday if we didn't have more chaos in the world of college sports.

We were going to go over Ari's projected college football playoff bracket.

And then Tennessee and the conference is just boom. Just what I do that what you get when you

sign off an episode with a two-minute diatribe about how we could be talking about rules and

the house settlement and NIL but football at this time of year is just more fun this is what

you get like you did this I. I brought this on myself.

The problem is like, yeah, talking about the rules is usually really boring.

Not when it's a standoff. Not when like they've got figurative guns pointed at each other.

Like the conferences, ACC, Big 10, Big 12 SEC, are basically circulating a document.

And this is something that they say that they would like to use,

where basically they will make the school sign a loyalty oath saying,

you agree to abide by the rules that we are putting forth in the house settlement,

which is the salary cap and all that stuff.

And if you don't, we'll kick you out.

And Tennessee, also Vanderbilt,

which is sort of just caught in the middle of this, is like, no, we have a state

law that we passed two weeks ago that says you can't force us to violate the Sherman Act.

And therefore, we're not going to follow your rules necessarily.

So that is where they're at. Like they are pointing the figurative

guns at one another. And like, would one of these conferences actually try to kick one of these

schools out? Is it weird that I spent all morning like thinking about conference realignment and like

where Tennessee would end up if that happened? Like I just like, this is all going to blow up. But like, here's the deal that I spent all morning, like, thinking about conference realignment and, like, where Tennessee would end up if that happened.

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