BMitch & Finley discuss the current landscape of the College Football Playoff. They both believe the system needs a serious reevaluation from the committee.
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00:00I did want to make a little bit of time for this
00:02because otherwise we won't.
00:04The college football playoff,
00:06I've been really excited about this.
00:08I think.
00:09I was excited that all four games were blowouts.
00:13Just absolute ass kicks.
00:14I hope the second round is better than the first round was.
00:16Did any of those outcomes really surprise you?
00:21No.
00:22Well, yes.
00:23I didn't expect it to be,
00:24I expected those teams to win but not to be,
00:27I didn't expect that much of a one-sided win.
00:30You know what I mean?
00:31I thought, I thought Ohio State, Tennessee would be tight.
00:34I thought Tennessee's D-line was really good
00:37and has a bunch of pros.
00:39So I was surprised that was an ass kicking.
00:41I thought Texas was going to kick Clemson's ass.
00:44And then that was, I mean, if you,
00:46my boy Kelly took Clemson plus 13 and a half.
00:49They have third and goal from the one,
00:51fourth and goal from the one.
00:52Texas just gets a hell of a stop.
00:55I think unfortunately the three teams
00:59with the most questionable credentials to get
01:02into this thing were SMU, Clemson, and Indiana.
01:06And all three of them got their ass kicked.
01:09Actually this question, moving forward,
01:12can they leave it like it is
01:13or do they have to make some tweaks?
01:16I think a gigantic tweak that has to be made.
01:19I think this is really unfair to Oregon, honestly,
01:22is because of the structure
01:24with these automatic qualifier buys, whatever it is.
01:28I, I've made pretty clear.
01:30So if you, if you, if you see these teams,
01:32one through 12 that got into the college football playoff,
01:36I think, you know, SMU and Clemson are the bottom two.
01:40That's cool.
01:41I just, the fact that Arizona State
01:43and Boise State get buys and now Oregon,
01:45who's been the best team in college football all year,
01:48has to play Ohio State in the second round.
01:52And that's just, dude, listen to these matchups
01:54and you tell me who got screwed, B.
01:56Texas gets to play Arizona State.
01:59Penn State gets to play Boise State.
02:02Georgia, Notre Dame, which should be a good, tough game.
02:05Ohio State, Oregon.
02:07But see, this is my thing.
02:08Like, I will tell you this, Jay.
02:10If you're the best, be the best.
02:13Right.
02:14It's nobody's fault that Buffalo, Ravens,
02:19all of them have to go against Kansas City.
02:22You know, what it looks like is Kansas,
02:25oh no, Kansas City has to play the top teams around.
02:29It has way more top teams in the AFC than the NFC.
02:32The NFC team can roll on into the playoff
02:34and Kansas City have to go through the murderer's row.
02:37And then when they get there,
02:38they still handle their business over the last few years.
02:41If Oregon is the best team,
02:42beat every damn body you face.
02:44See?
02:45When I hear people say, oh man,
02:48number one seed should have an easier route.
02:50No, if you're the number one seed,
02:51you're the bad ass, go beat everybody.
02:52I think they should do what they do
02:54in the college basketball tournament,
02:55like where the top 60, whatever it is now,
02:58eight get in and then they reseed it.
03:01I just think the seeding should have been done differently
03:04and the buys definitely should have been done differently.
03:07And I tweeted this out.
03:08I think the most deserving of those three teams
03:11between South Carolina, Bama, and Ole Miss,
03:14I think, you guys know I root for Bama,
03:17South Carolina was playing the absolute best football
03:20of that group late in the year.
03:21I know this.
03:22I know South Carolina doesn't go to Happy Valley
03:24and get their doors blown off.
03:26I guarantee you, we changed up to where you reseed
03:29and if the people play the games
03:31and it doesn't end up how somebody liked it,
03:33I won't do it again.
03:34If you are the best, be the best.
03:37You can't be the best team and say,
03:39well, I want to play all the easy ones
03:41till I get to the finals.
03:42Beat them all.
03:43I think.
03:44Because if you're the best and you got to play that team,
03:47you knock them out and the first time you play them,
03:48you don't have to worry about them no more.
03:50Sure.
03:51I get that Indiana had to get in.
03:53The regular season does have to matter.
03:55I'm not fighting you about that.
03:57But if we just think about how SMU got into this,
04:04they were going to be left out.
04:06So Clemson loses to South Carolina,
04:08but still qualifies for the ACC title game against SMU.
04:11Clemson's up big on SMU, which would have meant,
04:14all right, Clemson gets in, SMU's out.
04:17SMU just has a good comeback in the second half.
04:20They still lose, but that they came back against Clemson,
04:24who had just lost to South Carolina,
04:25was enough to get them in.
04:27But see, that's the thing about it, Jay.
04:29I am a total different thing than a lot of people.
04:32People care about who beat who.
04:35No, it's when you win.
04:37You know, it's when you win the game.
04:39I'm saying that too.
04:40You could have lost to South Carolina in the first game.
04:42It don't make a damn difference.
04:43If you don't win the game you're supposed to win,
04:45it's going to be a problem.
04:47So listen, man, we will never,
04:49because we are human beings,
04:51we will never be happy with nothing that people do.
04:54Because that whole college football thing,
04:57they can't ever do anything that's going to make it fair.
05:01I think you got to re-seed.
05:02I understand you want these home games to be at big stadiums,
05:07but there's just no way Arizona State
05:09and Boise State should have buys.
05:11And now you've got-
05:12Mess around Boise State, Arizona State,
05:14go run through this thing, it'll be a problem, wouldn't it?
05:16Bro, I would love that.
05:18If Boise and Arizona State get to the final,
05:20it'd be awesome.
05:21I just-
05:22What happened, yes, the other day, I didn't like it,
05:25but the teams that were the best,
05:29they showed that they were the best.
05:31They destroyed them.
05:32Sure.
05:33They didn't go out there and pussyfoot around with them,
05:36they destroyed them.
05:36And dude, that just may be how college football playoff
05:39is going to go.
05:40Because ultimately this thing's about cash
05:44and the teams that won and won handily
05:47all spent a lot of money.
05:49Cash moves everything around, not a dollar bill, y'all.
05:52The only team that really was kind of competing
05:54on the same financial wavelength was Tennessee.
06:02Tennessee and Ohio State probably weren't that far off.
06:05Clemson, because they won't do the transfer portal.
06:08Oh, they about to start doing that now.
06:10Yeah, he already took one.
06:11Oh, he gonna do it now.
06:12I don't know what, I feel like Indiana to Notre Dame
06:14and SMU to Penn State,
06:15not that Indiana and SMU aren't spending.
06:18SMU got more money than God.
06:20I just, I can't, those aren't that developed.
06:23When you can't beat a team, you join them.
06:25Bear Bryant, back in the day, wouldn't take certain people.
06:27Right.
06:28Tell USC, whip that ass.
06:29And he decided, oh, I better go get me some of them.
06:32Same thing, old dabble saying,
06:34I better go to that transfer portal, it's not working me.
06:37Trying to act like I'm holier than thou, like he was.