Why The Committee Got It Wrong And How We’d Fix The Bracket

@TheNFLSN https://twitter.com/TheNFLSN

Chapters

• 0:00 Miami Sneaks In, ACC Left Out
• 2:45 Notre Dame’s Case And Committee Bias
• 6:10 SEC Favoritism And The Eyeball Test
• 10:55 Rebuilding The Bracket Our Way
• 16:40 Who Actually Deserves A Spot
• 21:05 G5 Reality And A Better Path
• 26:20 Our Predicted Matchups And Upsets
• 31:45 Miami’s Shot And Pass Rush Math
• 36:20 Semis And Title Game Scenarios
• 40:55 Quick Pivot To NFL Headlines

Transcript

SPEAKER_07: 0:00

Let me ask you one question The North Florida sports Florida sports Florida North Florida Sports Network Hey you gotta give us a shot you know what you got the North Florida sports networks It is just another football Monday football Yeah it is welcome back we got uh Miami contributor Justin here happy as a clam is Miami is in I was right Jimmy was wrong nobody Justin doesn't care he's uh he's just happy he's in because you can't think clearly when it's your team. But I said I just want to talk about how I was right. That's all I got now is an FSU fan. This has been a nightmare of a two-year stretch capped off by Miami getting in to the playoff with two losses, but they should have been in, they were playing the best. Notre Dame is a team that got screwed, but nobody cares about that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:28

Can we take a second and just laugh at the ACC? Yeah, for two of the last three seasons, the ACC champ will not be going to the playoffs. That's fucking hilarious to me. This also makes me suck.

SPEAKER_07: 1:45

It's almost like the the committee was like, man, we got did you see what they did in that conference championship of the tiebreaker rules? We're gonna have to just help them out and put Miami in. If they would have just had Miami in the championship game, it all would have worked out. Notre Dame would be in. Notre Dame would have been in.

SPEAKER_03: 2:10

Right.

SPEAKER_07: 2:11

So yeah, I that's why Notre Dame is mad at the ACC. And but they can say all they want about like supporting the Miami over them. But the tiebreaker, the stupid freaking tiebreaker that was so dumb that Duke even got a chance to play in that game, is that's the embarrassment. Yeah. Is when you had a team that is in the freaking playoff now that was picked at large by the freaking committee. You had them in your conference, and you're like, nah, we're gonna put Duke in. And I know uh yeah. Team that lost to Yukon. And Tulane. Who's in, but Tulane's good, I guess. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 2:51

Well, Justin. Two games are gonna be absolute blowouts.

SPEAKER_07: 2:58

I could have sworn you guys were gonna get Oregon, but you're going against the Aggies. That's a good matchup. I actually got Miami in that game.

SPEAKER_04: 3:05

I don't think it'll even be close, man. I think Miami's up their ass.

SPEAKER_07: 3:09

Yeah, I think Miami wins big in that game. Then they're gonna play Ohio State. It should be a really good matchup. Yep. I hope you're all alright, man. But uh Kyle Fields a bitch to play in. That's true. You do have to go on the road.

SPEAKER_05: 3:20

And Marcel Reed's a dynamic quarterback, dude.

SPEAKER_07: 3:22

Yep. That that's true. You do have to go on the road, and uh Miami has not really been road tested in an environment. Listen, man, if you can go up and win at Heinz Field against Pat Narduzie. Well, I just think this team's got the what I was saying is Miami did lay an egg, but when they're on, they have the talent to compete with Ohio State.

SPEAKER_05: 3:45

And you saw I think Miami, on Miami's best day, they can beat anybody in the country.

SPEAKER_07: 3:49

Oh, I know. And I honestly would not be surprised if they won it. They're one of the teams that I think can.

unknown: 3:56

Right.

SPEAKER_07: 3:56

I think the only teams it's funny that we get a rematch of Alabama, Oklahoma when we already saw that freaking game. So it's like And neither one of those teams should be in the playoffs.

SPEAKER_05: 4:05

I know. Yeah, no, Oklahoma's garbage. I know.

SPEAKER_07: 4:08

It's just like the SEC has to have their their freaking cake, man.

unknown: 4:12

Right.

SPEAKER_07: 4:12

It's you know what I noticed on the Vanderbilt's playing better than both those teams right now.

SPEAKER_05: 4:18

Dude, on the on the show uh where they were announcing all the playoff spots or whatever, if you notice when they were showing all the SEC playoff teams, they all listed LSU as a key victory for them. Yeah. Like LSU fired their coach halfway through the season, dude. That's not a good team.

SPEAKER_07: 4:34

And then they tried to, what was it, Reese Davis tried to say that?

SPEAKER_04: 4:36

Oh yeah, when when Florida State was uh, you know, by by ESPN's power ratings, Florida State's top 30 team. That's bull crap, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 4:44

It's it's all bull crap. It's all just smoke and mirrors to get their little networks, to get there. What what affiliation do you have with which network? And we want to get as many eyeballs.

SPEAKER_04: 4:53

That's that's my whole point is that for weeks they've been pumping the Notre Dame against Miami comparisons when you're comparing two teams that should be in the playoffs. Yeah. Because they're trying to distract you from the fact that Alabama's in already. Right. And Oklahoma. Or Oklahoma's just sitting there ass at home, not having to sweat.

SPEAKER_07: 5:13

It doesn't matter how they they won. It doesn't matter that they they both struggled against two bad teams at the end of the year in the last game. Right. Let's not let's not put in a Vanderbilt team who went on the road to play against a better Tennessee team who beat the crap out of them. No, no, no, no. We're putting in Oklahoma. We want to put in our big schools, Alabama, Oklahoma. These are flagship schools. We can't just, who cares about Vanderbilt? Right. I would be more, I would be if they but the eyeball test is gone. And that what that's what the damn committee was even for. You just see and and for and for helping Miami out. If we're looking at eyeball, what I want to know is why there are teams. This is payback from 2000 BTS bullshit. Well, dude, yeah, look at look at the uh yeah, I sent you that. I sent you the rankings. If this is the BCS formula for like deciding this, Miami's out, Notre Dame's in, everything else is putting it. The BCS hates Miami, dude. But everything, everything but but my point, hold on, my I'll get to you, Jim. My point was saying that the eyeball test was supposed to be the reason that this committee was supposed to decide. And they can just slap down the eyeballs. And they never say that. Why don't they just say, you know what? Notre Dame is better than Alabama right now. So they're gonna be in. And that's it. Did you guys watch the games? We did. Boom. That's it. And there's three losses. End of story. End of story. End of story. This thing's a corporate sham.

SPEAKER_04: 6:42

What were you gonna say, buddy? Just right along that same line of how many teams whose resume was just all of us just magically accepted. Let's start with Texas AM. They played one top eight SEC team and lost in the last game of the season by two touchdowns to the same team that beat Oklahoma, Texas. That team that went down to Gainesville and got beat by Florida. Oregon plays one ranked team, USC. That's their good win. Yeah. You know, the only other good team they played in the Big Ten, Indiana. They got beat at home. They got beat at home. Oklahoma, you already talked about, okay?

SPEAKER_07: 7:27

Alabama, we've already talked about how these there's a few things you do, right? And they stick with, like, I don't, they they go above and beyond whatever rankings they're using. Like, if you go in, if you're Texas and you go into Alabama and you beat them, you're gonna be good for two years.

SPEAKER_04: 7:43

You're Alabama, you walked into Athens and won. Right. We don't care that they just kicked your ass by three touchdowns. You were able to do that on Oklahoma.

SPEAKER_07: 7:51

Oklahoma got the same treatment when they went into Alabama and won the same way Texas did prior two years earlier. So all of a sudden it's almost like they automatically put Oklahoma in. It's like, wow, you guys beat Alabama. Who isn't that good?

SPEAKER_04: 8:06

Right, but hey, it's week eight. If you just keep winning, you're already in. You've done enough. We've seen enough out of you. You won in week eight in Alabama in an ugly game.

SPEAKER_07: 8:15

All right. So who's if I was gonna put in who are my SEC teams I'm putting in? Well, George has earned it. I oh hell yeah. George is in for sure. Right. Right? I I think George is in. Ole Miss, yes. Well, that's that's they have a better win. And they have like the record of AM, though, but with a better record.

SPEAKER_05: 8:32

Yeah, and Ole Miss is good, man. I've I've watched some Ole Miss before.

SPEAKER_04: 8:43

Referencing back to 2023, players and coaches that have been a huge part of the success that are no longer there or unavailable will be taken into account.

SPEAKER_07: 8:54

When it matters to like our ratings and when it's a when it's a team that we don't make favor of. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04: 8:59

But no, Old Miss should be in. They've played, they've been fantastic. They played in Athens, they they lost, but they scored at will against Kirby Smart.

SPEAKER_07: 9:08

And I think the the how you play should matter. And they said that they keep saying that over and over, and you look at the way Miami was playing at the end of the year, you look at the way Notre Dame was playing at the end of the year, then you go look at Alabama, you go look at Oklahoma. Right. And both of the Texas AM. Look at Texas AM. And then look inside that conference at Vanderbilt. Exactly. Just put some resumes from the SEC up against. So I would say if you to keep going on who I would have in, if it was eyeball test, right? If I'm just going eyeball test from the SEC, I'm putting in, I'm putting in Georgia, I'm putting in Ole Miss, I'm putting in I'm gonna put in AM because they beat Notre Dame in the record. Right. But you're right about that. They got they got the they got the short the they got the easy stroll on the schedule.

SPEAKER_04: 9:54

Dude, they played the five worst teams in the conference.

SPEAKER_07: 9:57

They played all of them. They got, but but yeah, I guess you gotta put them in. But honestly, eyeball in Vanderbilt in Vanderbilt in. Right. And that's it. Right. I'm I'm I'm not putting in Oklahoma. I'm not putting in Alabama. That's who I'm taking out. Yeah. I don't, I mean and I'm putting in Notre Dame and Vanderbilt. That's who I'd take out, too. I think Notre Dame and Vanderbilt are playing better. I've watched a Vanderbilt play. They'll give some teams hell.

unknown: 10:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 10:26

Dude, I'd line up. Dude, if it was me, I'd line up Miami, Notre Dame in the first round at Notre Dame in South End. We got one big game in Miami to start the season, one game in Southend. Whenever it's on.

SPEAKER_04: 10:37

That game would have done numbers.

SPEAKER_07: 10:38

Right. And then again, they're going to just change the rules every year. We don't need these automatic qualifiers. No. It's a sweet story.

SPEAKER_04: 10:47

Look what we got. We got Tulane playing Ole Miss in a game that they won by five touchdowns earlier in the season.

SPEAKER_07: 10:54

Right. It's stupid. And now James Madison, Oregon. Come on.

SPEAKER_04: 10:59

Yeah, that's the Oregon team. That's Pete one good team all season with playing the team that shouldn't be in the playoffs. Oregon gets his.

SPEAKER_07: 11:07

But that's the ACC's fault for having Duke in that stupid game.

SPEAKER_05: 11:11

Yeah. Dude, the AC dude, the ACC fucked up back during COVID when they didn't strong arm Notre Dame and be ACC football. Right. Because they could have done it during COVID.

SPEAKER_07: 11:21

They further compounded that by adding three more teams. Well they're they're they're just a joke. I think they're they have to be this is a slow walk to dissolve to dissolving as a conference. With any hope. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_04: 11:31

With any hope. I was, you know, that that the one aspect of getting no ACC team in the playoffs was maybe it pushes it that much closer to just dying as a conference.

SPEAKER_05: 11:43

Dissolving.

SPEAKER_04: 11:45

Yeah. And and but, you know, whatever. It looks like Notre Dame's pissed and they're going to take their ball and go home. Good. So they can take their NBC money and go roll around in it.

SPEAKER_07: 11:56

Right. They'll be happiest. And take their other sports.

SPEAKER_06: 11:58

We're not going to go to a bowl game, no.

SPEAKER_05: 12:01

Yeah. Yeah. Who cares anyways? I mean, who's going to watch the fucking Sun Bowl anyway? Yeah. I will because I'm going to dig it, but you might as well.

SPEAKER_07: 12:10

So what I'm taking as you know, Florida State national championship wise. I mean, it who who who who's in the contender now?

SPEAKER_04: 12:20

I'd say the only teams that aren't contenders for it are the.

SPEAKER_07: 12:24

It's kind of wide open.

SPEAKER_04: 12:25

They're the two group of five. Oklahoma, I don't see them doing it. I don't see Alabama. And I think those are the only four that I I can't see winning the national title.

SPEAKER_07: 12:33

I could see Miami getting on a run. I could see Ohio State, definitely see Ohio State doing it. Right. Well Indiana, I don't know. I'm sold on Indiana, man. You are? Yeah, I'm sold on Indiana.

SPEAKER_05: 12:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 12:46

The defense. It's just the It's the entire team. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 12:50

It's the entire team. They got a good D line. They got a good D line. They got a damn good quarterback. They got a couple of good wide receivers. A solid running game, dude.

SPEAKER_04: 12:58

Like Indiana's a I know they lost a game at Arizona State. They didn't have their starting quarterback. Texas Tech has been kicking the shit out of everybody.

SPEAKER_07: 13:14

If I had to bet one team as just odds and everything, I'm taking that bet right there. Yeah, Texas Tech is really, really good. Just because what you said, they they've with their quarterback, they're undefeated. Yeah. I think they're it's just kind of one of those. I know the Big 12 sucks. It's one of those, just like it's in it trenched in our minds. It's Texas Tech. But if like if you had a different jersey or in that the way they've been going out and acquiring players, right. And from where they're getting them to, they're getting the same freaking players that all the teams that won the SECs. They go in and get those guys now.

SPEAKER_04: 13:47

Well, what they do is their general manager has exclusive he's got free reign to go and and offer anybody he wants without even checking with the coaches.

SPEAKER_07: 13:58

I would not be surprised as a Texas Tech Miami matchup.

SPEAKER_05: 14:01

Honestly. That would be fun. That would be fun, dude. Because I like dude, Texas Tech, just like when they walk field, it feels like Miami. They walk on the field and they're just big.

SPEAKER_03: 14:10

Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 14:11

They're a physical. Big athletic team.

SPEAKER_07: 14:13

Well, they're both similarly ran, too. It's like, hey, if you're going to open this NIL thing, we're going to take advantage of it. Like we got oil money here. Take a look. I love how do you get to Love It Texas? Go to hell and take a left. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_04: 14:27

It's like, nah, Lubbock, Lubbock is the the pit stop of the American.

SPEAKER_07: 14:31

They're just like, hey, we allow us to pay people, we're going to go out and do it. Miami's the same way. They've been doing it for years. And it's, hey, why not? If you're coming to Miami, we're gonna we're gonna pay you.

SPEAKER_04: 14:42

That's our right. Indiana's done the same thing. That's how they turn from being the losingest program in college football history.

SPEAKER_07: 14:49

And now they got people, but you have to have people that know how to identify talent. Right. And they do. And you gotta be able to coach. Yep. And we'll see if that's that's the hit coach. We'll see if Miami can get over that. Like if it's crystal balls. Oh, you know, Crystal Ball's got a crystal ball at one point, dude. Right.

SPEAKER_05: 15:05

Well, I think the matter of the matter of if the talent can overcome Crystal Ball being crystal ball.

SPEAKER_07: 15:10

I'd feel better about it in that regard because you're kind of coming in as an underdog, kind of, and as an at-large bid. You're gonna be on the road. You're gonna be able to do that. Yeah, I mean, you're not really there's no pressure on you to win, really. No one's gonna be like, oh, bad loss. Right. You know, you're gonna be like you lost an AM, whatever. You lost to Ohio State, whatever.

SPEAKER_04: 15:31

So I think avoiding the whole storyline of having to go back to Oregon is huge. Yeah, I was wanting to see that one, man. That like that was a great development for Miami is to not have all that extra added bullshit.

SPEAKER_05: 15:48

We go to Oregon, and then on the bracket, we go next to Georgia and get Carson or Socks.

SPEAKER_07: 15:54

That's what I thought, so, because then I then I saw Ohio State only drop to two.

unknown: 15:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 15:58

And I was like, oh man, that's the only better matchup. That's the only better matchup. Right.

SPEAKER_07: 16:02

Well, how but no, no, no. I would rather I would rather see I want to see Georgia versus Miami. I want to see Miami versus Oregon. I want to see that. I will just what you said. I want to see, I want to see the returns, I want to see all that drama. I think that's what you're doing it for, committee. I mean, this really is supposed to be a TV thing. And then you just go out and then and then you go out the first round matchups, ugh.

SPEAKER_04: 16:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 16:25

They suck.

SPEAKER_05: 16:26

Two rematches.

SPEAKER_07: 16:27

It is the Cane the Canes game is the only one. Only one. I mean, I guess you I mean, you're gonna watch Oklahoma, Alabama, but come on, man. Right. Really feel like that's the network. Yeah. You gotta see that shit again. Old missing two lane. I would have much rather saw Vanderbilt. I'm telling you, it would have been much more fun for the for America. It would have been a better story. You know, I I better quarterback play. Yeah, uh, they were playing better. Get them out, get Oklahoma out of there. Get Alabama out of there. Put Notre Dame and Vanderbilt back in right there. There you go. Switch those two right there. Yeah. And I hate both those schools. I don't care about any of them. I want the best teams that are playing the best to get the best games possible. And right now, you put Notre Dame in, you put Vanderbilt in, that whole first round's gonna be juicy. Right. Look at the matchups you got there. You know, let's just say put put that matchup. You got Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, match them up. That's a good matchup. Or put like what you said, put Notre Dame against Miami again, have them a rematch again in Notre Dame this time. Who's that?

SPEAKER_05: 17:32

Do it in South Air.

SPEAKER_07: 17:33

I mean, that would be all huge numbers. Yes. Oh my God. Or or just have Miami go to Oregon, you know, or set up, or set it up where Miami's gonna. If they if Carson Beck wins, he's gonna go to Georgia. It's so dumb. And then they play it out. It's not done like that. It's set up just boring old man style. Just well, Indiana's gonna play Oklahoma or Alabama. And then you got, I mean, Ohio State will have a my uh Ohio State, Miami will be intriguing if Miami gets past that, but or AM. And then you have but Ole Miss, Ole Miss Tulane. We already saw that game.

SPEAKER_04: 18:10

It wasn't close. The winner gets Who are they playing? The winner gets Georgia. Yeah, so we already saw that too.

SPEAKER_07: 18:17

I know. It's just like, oh, come on, man. How do you have Georgia should have been two, Ohio State should have been three. Well, you know, if then you would have had you would have had the interconference about battles, man. I want I don't want to see this again. I want to see Ole Miss Ohio State. Right, but that's the idea of the playoffs.

SPEAKER_04: 18:33

Yeah, if you don't do that, though, there's no guarantee that an SEC team's gonna be in the semi-final.

SPEAKER_07: 18:39

Exactly, man. I hate I I freaking hate Reese Davis. Yeah. All of them. Reese Davis. The the fact that he was trying to convince a Florida State at Florida State.

SPEAKER_04: 18:51

That just seems threw the remote at the TV.

SPEAKER_05: 18:58

You know how biased it was. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. You know how biased it was by him bringing that up because he didn't bring that up as a good win for Miami.

SPEAKER_07: 19:05

Ah, exactly. Right. And it's clear.

SPEAKER_05: 19:10

Great loss for Alabama, but a really bad win for Alabama.

SPEAKER_07: 19:14

We could have done that. We just did it. In in what? Not that long. And and ours is way better. But we don't have contractual obligations to live up to. No, we don't, you know, he graduated from the University of Alabama. Dude, Mike Leach had it nailed, man. Right, dude. It's like, oh yeah, let's get a committee. Let's get a committee.

SPEAKER_04: 19:34

Uh Gruden today said, you know what? That's freaking stupid. Everybody on that committee deserves to be fired. They're made up of A Ds who fire guys like me for a living. Like everybody on that committee deserves to be fired. But he was he was joked. He is dead set against the the G five schools being in the playoffs just because they win their conference.

SPEAKER_07: 19:56

Well, I don't I'm against that too. Honestly, when you when you Actually, when you're putting out a team like when you have Notre Dame and Vanderbilt where you actually have a shot. I mean, Notre Dame made it to the champion national championship last year with the worst team that they have this year. James Madison's a nice story, but they played one. Let them match up in a game like the like they they do in the black champ, the black national championship.

SPEAKER_04: 20:19

Right.

SPEAKER_07: 20:19

Go play, go play the top bowl game or whatever the have your own G5 national champion.

SPEAKER_04: 20:25

Now, if they would have beaten Louisville and they were undefeated, you could make somewhat of a case for the team.

SPEAKER_07: 20:31

But you should have a guaranteed game that has like at a big stadium that's you have a contractual obligation, the top two ranked teams, Tulane versus James Madison every year. You get those two teams matched up, whoever those top two teams are. It's the only game on. Right, man. You give them like cup or something. But like they're not gonna win. No. They're not gonna win. It's stupid. You might as well put it at 16 now. Well, and they will. Because the other bowl games, nobody's it's slow, they're slowly dying. Nobody's gonna want to play. You got teams that are five and seven that are turning down bowl games, man. Yeah, I mean, five and why would you though? Why would you want to do that?

SPEAKER_04: 21:14

No, the payout is 1.3 million, and you got to split it amongst 17 teams. Well, you're not keeping the guys.

SPEAKER_07: 21:21

Mostly, like if you were practicing and stuff, it's like, well, we're gonna get better, but these guys are out of here. We've got to restructure this team. Right.

SPEAKER_04: 21:29

Well, not to mention, even if everybody was staying, you Florida State would net 80 grand from that. It costs more to send all these big motherfuckers over there and feed them for three weeks.

SPEAKER_07: 21:39

Well, they're not the only one. Notre Dame's not going to a bowl. Uh, Vanderbilt is gonna go play um in a bowl game. Texas is gonna play Michigan. But I mean, but really those games don't really matter. I mean, they're fun to get a fun matchup, you go on vacation.

SPEAKER_05: 21:54

Yeah, like I want uh I watch Texas, Michigan, you know, like on a random like December 28th. That's not bad. You know, like on the Thursday or whatever.

SPEAKER_07: 22:02

But what you need is some sort of like if you I'm really I really think if you make if you if you start like factoring in like the group of five championship or something, make make it a big deal and have it give it its own night. I would be interested in that. Yeah. Like who's the best team of all the other teams? Like, don't give them like, all right, we're gonna allow you to get your ass kicked and embarrassed and get no glory and have no chance to go stand on a stage. I was in that champ, I was down in Atlanta for that game. That and what was Famu versus whatever. Yeah, it's a big deal. It's a huge deal. And you could do the same thing at that level too. And and and I think that that eliminates it gives the team something to play for. Now, if you do have a rare season where you have like a stud quarterback who stays and they actually beat some non-comprometer, the one power team that they play, and then they go undefeated, and they're and everything's like, well, they actually have a shot, then yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 22:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 22:56

When the eyeball test shows, but this is supposed to be an eyeball test. The committee's supposed to be done by that, and and and it doesn't make any sense. So I agree with that.

SPEAKER_05: 23:04

Yeah, it's just fucking stupid. Yeah, they're just uh they're essentially they're just it's just a room full of lobbyists lobbying for their own crap.

SPEAKER_07: 23:11

Right. All right, well, let's pick it. Let's pick the playoffs since they got we got them. We hey, let's go back to the bowl coalition, man. Go back to the early 90s. Well, I think more of the reason that that was that was hated on just because we only had two teams. So something was gonna get drilled. Right. Yeah, like if there was deciding between if we had the number of teams in the playoff, that Miami never gets screwed, the Florida State's in all those years. I mean, there they would have really never been like a big hate. Nobody would have been cared about the the 12th or 13th team.

SPEAKER_04: 23:46

The bowl coalition, you could get the number one and two teams playing both coalitions.

SPEAKER_07: 23:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 23:51

So the BCS at least got it to where we all they needed to do is add a little head-to-head rule in the BCS, and it would have been fine. Yeah, that's true. It would have been fine. That is true.

SPEAKER_07: 24:01

Just a head-to-head rule. That's like, oh shit. We didn't we didn't factor in that the computer could be like Well, if two teams are right next to each other and one and the team that beat him is ranked below him, we're gonna let that team below him go ahead. Right.

SPEAKER_05: 24:13

Yeah, no, it was it was so computer generated. You I mean, you know, it was very obvious in that manner when it was like obviously in two power and my enemy should have gone.

SPEAKER_07: 24:23

The computers were, I think, other than that, if you wrote in just one of those things and kept it another line of things. It's not a bad system. We don't need all these fake members, we don't need all this bull crap. Yeah, it's all done for show, it's all done for their weekly freaking TV show.

SPEAKER_05: 24:38

It's done so we have the TV show with the BCS show, too. We could do this, man.

SPEAKER_07: 24:43

We could do this, right? We should do this. Our committee would be better. And we just did it. That's right. But we're gonna commit their, we're we're we're gonna we're gonna pick theirs since that's what everybody has to do. And uh the first round will be who's got the what is it?

SPEAKER_05: 25:03

Five seed is I got not James Madison, not Tulane, not Alabama, and Miami. Yeah, that's that's that's what I got.

SPEAKER_07: 25:15

Right, so it's really not even that fun to pick. They're hosting James Madison, they're gonna win. Old six. So Alabama at Oregon, what do you think in this game? Alabama at Oregon. Yeah. I mean it's I mean, I'm sorry, Alabama and Oklahoma.

unknown: 25:33

God.

SPEAKER_05: 25:33

Oh, I think Oklahoma's gonna win because of their defense, and Alabama cannot run the ball to save their goddamn life.

SPEAKER_07: 25:39

Yeah, Oklahoma's at home. I think they're gonna win.

SPEAKER_05: 25:41

Yeah. And that defense is no joke. That is one thing, Oklahoma. Their defense is really, really joke.

SPEAKER_07: 25:47

They'll figure out a way to score enough.

SPEAKER_05: 25:49

Yeah, they'll they'll win like 21 to 17 or something. You know, it's just a garbage boring game.

SPEAKER_04: 25:54

Yeah, that's it'll be exactly like the game in Tuscaloosa. So you'll get Oklahoma.

SPEAKER_07: 25:58

Yeah, but you'll get Oklahoma, Indiana in the second round. In that top bracket, you'll get Oregon at Texas Tech. Against Texas Tech.

SPEAKER_04: 26:05

That is not happening because remember, yeah, I got you, but they'll be the home team. Ooh, Oregon Tech. Tech's gonna be a fun one.

SPEAKER_07: 26:15

They'll wear the red uniforms. All right. Um, the Rose Bowl is where Indiana will be against Oklahoma. If Oklahoma beats Alabama, I believe it's the Orange Bowl where Texas Tech will be, and they will take on Oregon, probably. Georgia will be.

SPEAKER_05: 26:32

And then Miami's Cotton Bowl.

SPEAKER_07: 26:33

Georgia will be Georgia will be waiting at the Sugar Bowl against Ole Miss or uh or Tulane. Who you I mean Ole Miss is gonna win that.

SPEAKER_03: 26:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 26:45

I mean, you got two, you got two staffs that got jobs elsewhere. One's leaving for LSU and Ole Miss staff, and then the Tulane staff's going to Florida. Uh but Tulane is allowing the whole staff to coach. Am I right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And and their passing game. Well, that's they don't have a I I get that.

SPEAKER_04: 27:03

They've already announced their new coach who's announced their new coach. The passing game coordinator. He's already on staff.

SPEAKER_07: 27:08

And you don't, and they're not like in the same conference. It's kind of a different, it's a step up. You don't really hate it. It's a promotion. I totally get old miss not allowing this. I mean, you're this is a freaking rival. Get the hell out of here. Yeah. They're gonna let uh Weiss Jr. call plays. Yeah. Um, but that could lead to that could be a difference in the game, maybe. Well, it's not just Lane Kiffin. There's other other offensive coaches that aren't gonna be there. That's what I'm saying. That could that could help. The fact that two lanes having the same staff and they're just gonna keep rolling could be a difference, maybe, to get the upset. Yeah, I think it's gonna come down to the talent differential right.

SPEAKER_05: 27:47

All right, so then there's too many studs in old mess. Yeah. All right. And then Miami, Ohio State. So then one PUC.

SPEAKER_07: 27:58

You'll have uh Texas AM hosted Miami. I like Miami in that game, so then Ohio State, a rematch of 25 years ago, pretty much, of that the over that pass interference.

SPEAKER_05: 28:12

Non-pass interference. Worst call in football history, right next to the Cleveland Gary fumble in the Catholics versus convicts game.

SPEAKER_07: 28:21

Oh, I I totally get it. That's why you're mad about that. So that that's an intriguing matchup, but they blew it. Oh, hell yeah. The first round, they fucking dropped the ball, man. Even if, like, come on, I'm putting oh man. First of all, I'm not we've already took this, but even if the teams they had, I'm gonna go Miami at Oregon. Come on. I'm not I'm not missing that chance. I'm gonna put one of these James Madison's or one of these two lanes at AM. All right, let's just go ahead and do that, get that over with. Tulane at AM. Which ain't that bad, you know, Tulane at AM. That's what I'm gonna do. At least James Madison, then I'm gonna put James Madison and Alabama together. Have them go at it. There you go. And then I'm gonna put Oklahoma and Ole Miss.

SPEAKER_03: 29:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 29:04

Or or or or or something like that. Something. I'm not uh like I'm definitely gonna give you some some sort of juicy matchup like Oregon and Miami would have been.

SPEAKER_05: 29:14

You can't give me two rematches. Come on.

SPEAKER_07: 29:18

Two rematches out of four games. And then the and then the the set it up the second round. It's come on, man. Alabama, then if we for our picks, then we got Oregon against Texas Tech, then we got Oklahoma against Indiana and the Rose Bowl, then we got Georgia against Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl, and Ohio State, Miami, and the um Cotton Bowl.

SPEAKER_05: 29:38

That's a fun round of game.

SPEAKER_07: 29:40

Yeah, that's better. But still, I I I would have liked to see Georgia, Miami in that. I would have think that. Yeah, I definitely still have to. They messed up the way they put Miami. I was like, if you're gonna put Miami in, this is a chance to put the ratings thing. You got you got you got Crystal Ball with Oregon, you got Beck with Georgia. You gotta you gotta tie that in. And they and they dropped the ball there. Yeah, that's what they'll have to wait for. But uh who you got and if it were who you got, I got Texas Tech beating Oregon and getting to the semifinal um against I think Indiana when Oklahoma. I don't know. That's a tough game to pick.

SPEAKER_04: 30:20

No, I I think both Texas Tech's defense and Indiana's defense are what's gonna get them wins in those games.

SPEAKER_07: 30:26

So, all right, so you got Texas Tech, Indiana in the semifinal, Georgia. I got them winning, um, and then I got uh I Miami, Ohio State. What do you see there?

SPEAKER_05: 30:39

I can't pick Ohio State in that game.

SPEAKER_04: 30:40

It's it's hard for me to pick against Ohio State, but I mean I don't think that Miami has no chance.

SPEAKER_07: 30:47

Miami has the thing that could get it's the pass rush. The pass rush, the thing. Yeah. If they can get to the quarterback, you can you can shut down a game.

SPEAKER_05: 30:57

Uh the only thing Indiana's D-line disrupted Ohio State's offense. That's what I said two years ago.

SPEAKER_07: 31:03

Yeah. When you get a D-line that's playing on fire, like Florida State's was in 23. You got to give them a shot. You gotta give us a shot.

SPEAKER_04: 31:11

That's another, you know, Ohio State, the only good defense from the Big Ten they played this year was Indiana.

SPEAKER_00: 31:18

You gotta give us a shot. You know what? You know what? No.

SPEAKER_04: 31:21

They didn't play Oregon, they didn't play Iowa, you know. They played Indiana, and Indiana gave them problems. Yeah. So yeah, there's the the only reason I'm picking Ohio State is because last year the same thing happened. They last, they lost the last game before the playoffs. All right, but that's gonna be I'm that's gonna be the best game of Georgia.

SPEAKER_07: 31:38

Georgia, I think Georgia, Ohio State, or Georgia, Miami in the semifinal. Or and then Indiana, Texas Tech. I got Texas Tech going to the national championship.

SPEAKER_05: 31:50

Yeah, I'd probably do that.

SPEAKER_07: 31:52

You got me on that one? I'm going Indiana on that. All right, all right. And then I got uh I think I got that my I want to see Miami, Georgia play. I I really do. I really want to see that game. I think Georgia will beat him. So I think uh I think I got Texas Tech Georgia in the national championship. Yeah, I got Indiana and Georgia. All right, who you got? You got Miami making it, Justin?

SPEAKER_05: 32:19

Miami in.

SPEAKER_07: 32:20

I I honestly would not surprise me. Yeah, would not surprise me because they they have the when they're and I and that's why if you're gonna have 12 teams, put the teams that have a chance, and they have a chance. All right, so they got Miami. Miami, Texas Tech is your Miami, Texas Tech United Championship. Yeah, man, of course, Miami is my champion. That's I can see that happening. All right. All right, well, let's go. Let's uh let's touch on the NFL for a little bit. The Dolphins, man. How about it, man? Can't believe I picked the damn Jets. They're your Jets, man. They got smoke. I think I think the Costanza runs over. We'll go over the records on the picks later in the week. But just thoughts on this last.

SPEAKER_04: 33:00

I'll tell you what, it's definitely over is Indiana Jones up there in old Coltstown.

SPEAKER_07: 33:06

Yeah, dude, and I saw Riley Leonard, the backup is hurt too. Yeah, Jags, man. The Jags just looking really good. Yeah. Trevor Lawrence. Dude, that defense, man. Trevor Lawrence looked normal. He's he's starting to figure out that look, I just got to be able to manage stuff. Not Peyton Manning, but Eli Manning. Right. I should be Eli. Just be hot. Get on a hot stretch where you need to just be NFL Greg McElroy, man. Just just be, you don't have to, yeah. Yeah. You don't have to be Peyton Manning. Because yeah, like Justin said, that defense is serious. Yeah, because Jags, they got a good roster, they've beaten some good teams.

SPEAKER_04: 33:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 33:39

Doing it all without the likes of Travis Hunter. Yeah, exactly. As soon as Travis Hunter went down, they started playing games. Yeah. Chiefs are done.

SPEAKER_04: 33:49

They're done. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 33:50

Yeah, they're done.

SPEAKER_04: 33:51

The Texans are.

SPEAKER_02: 33:52

They got the same record as the Dolphins. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 33:56

Wow. Which is wild. The Chiefs and the Dolphins have the same record at this point in the season. The Dolphins have won like four in a row, man. They're racing right towards the middle of that first-round draft pick.

SPEAKER_07: 34:09

They're racing right towards what we always do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 34:13

The Miami Dolphins is number 19 select.

SPEAKER_07: 34:16

Yeah. It's so painful every freaking year, man. Come on, man. Alright, so let's uh we do it. Well, the Rams, big win. The Bears, a Packers game was really good. Uh the Packers won. Caleb Williams throwing Caleb Williams at the end of the yeah. Dude, what who was he even throwing it to? Yeah. That's frustrating. They're gonna have another shot. They're gonna have another shot. They're gonna have another shot. They get Green Bay in their house. So they can get that one back. What that was a big win for is the Rams to get that one seed, so they they control that for the rest of the year. If they win out, they get it.

SPEAKER_04: 34:54

They gotta play. Yeah. They gotta play Seattle again, I think. Well I know the Niners gotta play Seattle again. In Seattle. Yep. So it's heat nut. Seat nut. NFC's loaded.

SPEAKER_07: 35:14

NFC's loaded. AFC I don't know.

SPEAKER_05: 35:16

No. A lot of mediocre teams are trying to take me.

SPEAKER_07: 35:25

Yeah, well. I mean the biggest, you got the you got the Chargers, Eagles, but the Chiefs lose. Ravens lose. Yeah. That's come on, man. The Chiefs and the Ravens, man.

SPEAKER_04: 35:40

I think those are those are your most disappointing. Yeah, that's probably in the entire league. Mm-hmm. I agree. The Commanders, holy shit, getting shut out by the Vikings. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 35:53

You wouldn't think that they would be that bad, man.

SPEAKER_04: 35:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 35:56

I just I mean, even though Dan has been hurt, still like that is their roster's that terrible.

SPEAKER_04: 36:04

It's like Flores just cooked something up and oh old Mariota. Marietta.

SPEAKER_07: 36:11

Yeah. I mean it about the Falcons. I mean, how about the Bucks laying an egg? Yeah. Losing it home to the Saints. They're done. In my book. I mean, they could still win that division. But they're not gonna do anything. They'll host a one playoff game in the race.

SPEAKER_04: 36:26

They're not doing shit.

SPEAKER_07: 36:27

Yeah. But I mean, I the Panthers could win a playoff game. Like, I I still have hope that they I still have like a but the Bucks they no. No, that's over. Saints have beaten both those teams though at their own place. That's that's so yeah. I can say that about the Bucs. I should say that about the Senate. Oh Shuck, but old Shuck.

SPEAKER_06: 36:48

Shuck running around a little bit.

SPEAKER_07: 36:50

Um but yeah, next week, not really. I mean, the Chiefs will have the Chargers.

SPEAKER_05: 37:00

The Bills will be game, baby.

SPEAKER_07: 37:02

The Bills will pay the Patriots. Uh the Jags have the Jets.

SPEAKER_05: 37:05

Oh, Bills Patriots is a big one. That'll be a big game.

SPEAKER_07: 37:08

That'll be a big game. Um the Panthers will go to New Orleans. Uh the Lions will be in LA to play the Rams. That'll be a fun game. Yeah, that's another big one.

SPEAKER_05: 37:20

And then the Colts need every win they can get still, man.

SPEAKER_07: 37:23

So do the Colts. The Colts need to respond after the big loss. I don't I don't know how they're going to, dude. They'll be in Seattle, too. So they're not going to win that one.

SPEAKER_04: 37:31

Well, playing the Seahawks and the 49ers back to back.

SPEAKER_07: 37:35

Packers. Here's the game of the week. Packers in Denver. Yeah. Good matchup right there. Yep. Possible Super Bowl matchup right there. And then Titans, Titans Super Bowls, San Francisco. Yep. And then Titans coming off a big win. That's right, baby. Cam Wars. Yeah, that was man. The the what was it? 33 was the over-under on that. Jesus. Vikings, Cowboys, Dolphins, Steelers. How about that? That's not true. Monday night or next week. There you go.

SPEAKER_05: 38:12

That game still got playoff entries. Oh, dude.

SPEAKER_07: 38:17

Well, and the Steelers are in that division where it's going to be one of those nine and eighteen or nine and eight teams going to win it. It should be an eight and nine team winning. Yeah, exactly. So let's we'll see, man.

SPEAKER_02: 38:32

We'll see.

SPEAKER_07: 38:34

I like the Rams, though.

unknown: 38:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 38:38

I've been on the Rams about mid-season, dude. The Rams are good.

SPEAKER_07: 38:40

You know what? I mean, the AFC. Fucking Rams. It's going to be the Rams. It's the patron of the guard in the AFC, really. Because you you usually see the Chiefs. And then you're like, well, if it's not the Chiefs, you got, well, Baltimore is good. Right? You know, and then the Burrow and the Bengals will be good. And then no, Josh Allen. No. And then you got you got these young guys and um Drake Mae and the Patriots. I know. Or the Broncos. Nah. The Jags. Or the Jags. I think they can do it. I'm starting to think the Rams, Jags might be a Super Bowl match. Well, there you go. How about that?

SPEAKER_05: 39:19

Jags make the Super Bowl in my lifetime before the Dolphins even Allen's favorite thing.

SPEAKER_07: 39:29

But yeah, it's it's week to week, though. Right. It's hard to predict. Like this has been the most unpredictable season in a while in the NFL.

SPEAKER_04: 39:37

Hey, you don't got a ton of leaves.

SPEAKER_05: 39:39

Look at my pick. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 39:45

We had to go. All right, is here. We gotta uh shuttle.

SPEAKER_06: 39:51

Well, we gotta get on out of here, but before we go, soccer team playing for a national title. All right.

SPEAKER_07: 40:01

All right, women.

SPEAKER_04: 40:02

Yeah, we don't have an in soccer team.

SPEAKER_07: 40:04

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_04: 40:05

I said all right, women. Oh, all right, women. Okay, I gotcha. It wasn't a question. I gotcha.

SPEAKER_05: 40:10

Well, I didn't say it correctly, but Game Girl volleyball made the uh NCAA tournament. There you go.

SPEAKER_07: 40:17

Who are they who are they playing tonight? I have no idea what I mean. I don't care about the men the volleyball team, Justin. It's the women's volleyball. I mean, if they're in the national championship in volleyball, then we can then all right. They're playing Stanford, Florida State, national championship tonight.

SPEAKER_04: 40:34

Lost to them earlier in the season. I mean, it you know. Big big game. Big game. Either way. It's the closest thing we got to any kind of dynasty at Florida State currently. Yeah, hoops, back to reality. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 40:47

Wasn't that bad against Houston, man?

SPEAKER_04: 40:49

We kept it under 40.

SPEAKER_07: 40:50

Right. Sure. Houston's a good team. Right. They played some DVD, but they got smoked by Georgia. Yes. I think it's like 107. Come on.

SPEAKER_04: 40:59

AM and Georgia just whooped that ass. So that'd be a longer season. Couple coaches got fired at Florida State. Sertan. Pat Sertan, running back's coach, is leaving on his own accord, apparently. I don't buy that. David Johnson? Yeah, he's going to Arkansas. They hired Nick Williams, the edge coach from Syracuse. Pretty much a journeyman assistant. Reshuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic type of stuff.

SPEAKER_07: 41:29

Bro, this year, this next year, come on. I've not been more dull. This is the most dull season I've ever experienced in the past.

SPEAKER_04: 41:36

I can't wait for it to be over.

SPEAKER_07: 41:38

I don't think there's a season that I'm not looking forward to. Right.

SPEAKER_04: 41:41

I already can't wait for the 2026 season to be over. Like, seriously hold on. It's for real.

SPEAKER_07: 41:47

I usually have like a little bit of optimism, even when the bad teams, but none.

SPEAKER_04: 41:52

Oh. Yep. I had more optimism about Jeff Baldon's offensive years than I do about anything with this team.

SPEAKER_07: 42:01

Well. Crap.

SPEAKER_04: 42:04

Look for Jabril Rawls to hit the transfer portal soon.

SPEAKER_07: 42:07

Well, we'll have updates on all that. And we got picks coming up this week as the NFL playoff picture is heating up. So some big games. We'll pick them and then we'll watch them and then we'll react to them. And we'll do it all over again. Right here on the North Florida Sports Network.

SPEAKER_00: 42:38

You gotta give us a shot. You know what?