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You know we get into the Emmgo blog roundtable in the nine o'clock hour and every

now within the fella show up a little early and

they showed up a little early today as Ira and I were having this space look I'm not

anti let's be clear I'm not anti analytics You're asking questions about these specific rankings,

which is, it's great to have Seth on and Craig

on for this conversation,

because Seth can help us break this down a little bit more

and Craig can make us sound a little younger.

Yeah, right now what I'm not trying to I just know I sound really old.

Yeah, to me they're a guide but they are far from the gospel to me and this comes up because I brought

up the the FBI from ESPN earlier today.N. earlier today,

went to E.S. B. and check it out and looked at the rankings

like this, how to hell do they have Michigan at number 12?

In case you guys haven't seen them, I'll read top 12 off to you. You got Georgia, you got Oregon, Texas, Ohio State,

Alabama, Penn State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Florida State, and then Michigan.

The Michigan team that will have one of, if not the best defenses in the country,

the number 12 team, what computer came up with this ranking guys and that got us down

the rabbit hole of of analytics. Okay I I think I figured it out you know I I jumped

on because your FBI is not Bill Connolly's thing. So Bill Connolly has SP Plus and he's like, you know, as much as stats could be a gospel right as much as these predictive

metrics can tell you something he's the one who's like isolated every

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