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00:00But, Joe, as we get ready for the fourth unveiling of the college football playoff top 25 tonight
00:08from the eyes and minds of the selection committee, here's how the oddsmakers stacked it up.
00:14Not many changes despite all of the chaos that we saw last week, at least in what the
00:21buys would be.
00:23Those opening round buys for the four highest out of the five highest ranked conference
00:28champions.
00:29Michigan, the price is too good.
00:31It's off the board.
00:32In fact, not as many CFP prices at this moment.
00:35Texas is with a win, going to play in the SEC championship against Georgia, but the
00:41Longhorns still have to beat A&M in the renewal of the Lone Star Showdown on Saturday.
00:47Boise State, still the hefty favorite to win the Mountain West, a better place to reach
00:51the college football playoff than that of Miami.
00:54So Boise, according to the oddsmakers, would be the three seat.
00:58Miami would earn that final opening round buy, but be the four seat.
01:02Yeah, it's going to get real interesting here, Ben.
01:07The good news for a lot of these teams like, you know, Indiana, even Penn State, Notre
01:13Dame, a lot of good news here, given the fact that in one weekend, Ben, we were talking
01:20about five, maybe even what, six SEC teams battling for spots while Alabama lost by 21
01:27to Oklahoma, Ole Miss lost to a five and five Florida team, and A&M lost to a four
01:32and six Auburn team.
01:33So guess what?
01:34You all of a sudden, you're one loss Indiana team getting in.
01:37Notre Dame, doesn't matter who you played, you're getting in.
01:41Maybe the greatest weekend for the entirety of those teams just happened because the SEC
01:47threw up all over themselves.
01:48Having said that, those numbers are pretty square.
01:51I mean, that's pretty much, I think that list of teams you're looking at is exactly what
01:57the 12 team playoff is going to be.
01:59It has been rather defined now, Joe, based on a chaotic Saturday that saw three top 15
02:06SEC teams go on the road, all booked as a favorite and lose to a team that entered the
02:11game at 500 or worse.
02:15So really just look at the SEC this year and tell me it is a vaunted gauntlet of a conference.
02:22It is not.
02:23This doesn't have the history of the pedigree.
02:26Sure.
02:27This year?
02:28No.
02:29Indiana lost big in Columbus and then still won the weekend because of the chaos in the
02:33Southeastern Conference.
02:35Notre Dame has been a wagon against non-MAC teams.
02:39That price rather defined to get into the college football playoff.
02:44Indiana is going to move back in the rankings, probably from five to eight or nine tonight
02:49from the college football playoff selection committee.
02:51Could Indiana now be in danger of, despite earning an at-large bid, not hosting?
02:56An on-campus CFP game?
02:58Certainly.
02:59I think that feels fitting.
03:01But again, a lot of these teams, based on resume, based on win-loss record, based on
03:06quality wins against Power Four Bowl-eligible teams, not just strength of schedule, it's
03:11an important metric, not the only metric, just so everybody knows that.
03:17These are going to be how the games play out.
03:20By the way, the final two spots, based on the odds-makers, would have Tennessee at
03:25minus 480, one of the few SEC teams now only with two losses this year, and SMU.
03:32That I think, Joe, more important than Indiana, Penn State, or Notre Dame, was maybe the more
03:36defining part of the chaotic Week 12 or Week 13 slate in college football.
03:42The fact that the ACC now very likely seems in line to get multiple bids to the college
03:49football playoff, when that did not seem to be the case entering the final few weekends
03:54of this year.