Hour 1 – Seahawks Win but Rams Still Favorites, College Football Playoffs Changes Coming

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: Declarations from last night's game. Okay, I know we love to do the standalone and I'm going to give you my opinion. And this is an opinion that you can put in ink, not pencil, you know, because we would have said what last night? There were a couple of things. It could have been Matthew Stafford solidified the MVP rams to the team to beat in the NFL. Oh Seattle at home, Sam Darnold, they're frauds. It could have gone a couple of different ways last night. It's wild how it ended. I even joked yesterday the game was too big for Thursday night. It actually took Thursday night to Friday morning in some parts of the country. But Seattle gets the win in overtime thirty eight thirty seven. But if Seattle I would lost that game, what would we be saying today? Because keep in mind, Seattle nearly won the first game between these two when Sam Darnold threw four interceptions. They had three turnovers last night, and they still won the game. Matthew Stafford threw for four hundred and fifty yards. Phuka Nakua had twelve catches two hundred and twenty five yards. Like you're going and Seattle's still going to win this game. And the Rams didn't have any turnovers. There were you know, there were no interceptions by Stafford. See you're looking at it's thirty to fourteen. You go, yeah, all right, Rams are a better team. Seattle was stayed in there, you know, the defense when they needed to came up with some really big plays. Now, did you get some ricochets there? Did you get some bounces? Yes, you got old of those things. The punt return to me was really big. But Seattle goes for two. Here's their head coach, Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 4: Follow is something we had talked about probably throughout the season and then really particularly for this game because of the playoff situation. You know, you play for the tie, you know, make the lock up a playoffs seed. But I just felt like I just felt great about our play and I trusted our guys and to clinch credit to he was really confident, and then the players ultimately make it happen. So once we got that drive going, it was pretty clear on what we're.

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Speaker 2: Going to do. I loved it. But I don't have to answer to the media, but I did love it. You're at home. You felt good the comeback and let's take advantage of this. So the records after last night, Seattle's twelve and three, LA is eleven and four. Who do you think is the favorite right now for the Super Bowl? According to DraftKings this morning, just got the Super Bowl ons. The Rams are still the team to beat in the NFC. In the NFL, then it's the Seahawks, then it's the Broncos, Bills, Eagles, and Texans. So we want to make it a statement game, a statement win. But this is this is about two teams that took advantage when they needed to, and Seattle had the last chance to take advantage and they end up winning. But it was great. It was a great game back and forth. You may get home field advantage. Now do I still have questions about Sam Darnold. I do I think they won maybe in spite of him. They almost won in spite of him the first time against the Rams, and Stafford looked great, Phuka Nakua look great. But you know, Seattle ran the football and came up with a couple of big stumps, and that's what you want, get a couple of three and outs and then try to make them pay. But it was It was wonderful to watch that game, a lot of fun back and forth. All Right, so you got college football coming up, Alabama and Oklahoma on a Friday night, and we're gonna look at some of the different scenarios of if Miami gets blown out. What are people going to say, if Alabama would get blown out, what could happen to their head coach? What if Tulane shocks Old Miss And then we go, well, they should have kept Lane Kiffin in there. James Madison against Oregon. Everybody has already made their declaration. Oregon's going to win, but by how much? Now, all I can tell you is I watch jmu play twice this year. That defense is really good, and this might be a situation where Oregon eventually wins, but James Madison keeps it close. Oregon. Oregon's starting slow, maybe a first half cover. I don't know what that number is, but James Madison's going in. This is everything to James Madison. Oregon is probably looking at this as all right, who do we have after James Madison. I'm not saying that they're going to shock the world, but I hope we're surprised at how well James Madison can play. It's a good program here for the last couple of years. And yes, is this a tall task? Absolutely, tou Lane against Old Miss. Absolutely, And Nick Saban came out and said, you know, we shouldn't even have you know, these smaller schools like you don't take a tripa a baseball team and put them into the Major League Baseball playoffs. And I was surprised and disappointed that Nick said that, because you're supposed to be kind of a steward of the game. Now you're not at Alabama, you're on college game day. And it's not like James, Madison and Tulane created this format. It's all these so called smart people who created this format. I do have an update on a playoff format for next year, Okay, I'm gonna do that after the break, And there's a couple of things in there that you should know, a couple of surprises that I found out yesterday. But I said, we're going to fourteen or sixteen next year, and it looks like they've already agreed to that. But I'll give you some of the details on the new playoff format, and Notre Dame will be in the playoff picture. If they finish in the top twelve. But you know, we don't want upsets in football, but man, do we crave upsets with march madness. I give if JMU was playing Oregon and it was basketball and Oregon was one of the top five teams, we'd be like, man, JMU can pull this off. That would be great. Or if Tulane's playing Old Miss and Old Miss is a top ten team or a number four seed overall, we'd be like, Tulane just pull it off. A shocker there. But when it gets to college football, we don't we want shock. We don't know surprises here. Don't do that to us.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Marvin, I think because it's a numbers game, because there's so many teams in NCAA tournament or great Michigan State got knocked out in the first round, but guess what, I still got Duke Carolina, Yukon UCLA. In college football, it's not like that. There's only twelve of those teams, So you don't want one of those big dogs like Oregon early Canada for most must win game a weekend. This can change everything. If JAMU wins all the small schools going forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look we belong Yeah, but in basketball, you can get hot, you know, playing on a neutral site, and you know you can get some magic there. In college basketball, it's really difficult to shock somebody in college football, especially when you're playing at their home stadium. But I hope that they I hope that they're able to play in a way that they're proud no matter what the end result is, because yes, do I like these kind of stories.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 2: Should Notre Dame be in instead of JMU or Tulane, Absolutely, but JMU and Tulaine shouldn't be punished for something that college football and their committee came up with. I mean, they earned it. It's not like they go, you know what, this is a sponsor's exemption and it's a golf tournament, like, hey, you can come on in. That's not what happened. They did what they were supposed to do. Do I like it? No, I'd like to see Notre Dame in there, because Notre Dame could win the national title. I think they're that good. They didn't get in. So we move on and now you got these games coming up tonight, but guaranteed you're gonna get the now they never should have been in. Told you Okay, told who tell the committee they came up with this. It's like tulaane you know, man, I just I'm disappointed. Nick Saban should say, Hey, they did what they were supposed to do and maybe they changed the format, but let's let's welcome them. Let's see what they can do. That's what I wanted to hear out of Nick Saban instead of you know what we didn't You don't invite a triple A team. You know, you know you don't invite it. Yeah, we know all of that. But they did what they were supposed to do, what they were asked to do, and I hope that they are able to put up a good effort there and maybe win, maybe shock the world. Uh setan what's pole question for the first hour of the program?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, one here from Paul if your life depended on it, this one catch you're taking Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, Jackson Smith and Jigba or Pooka Nakula.

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Speaker 2: I'm taking Poka akua recency bias.

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Speaker 7: He is getting silly with his catches.

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Speaker 2: Yes he if it's if it's around him, it's it's his. Even when it's not around him, it's it's his he's I never worry about him on the field, it's off the field. He was criticizing the officials last night right after the game, and I'm going didn't do.

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Speaker 6: The proposed celebration that maybe he was gonna get in.

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Speaker 2: Trouble for me an anti semitic that.

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Speaker 6: Was that was good that he avoided that.

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Speaker 2: Boy. Uh. Here's Sean McVeigh talking about Pooka Nakua's comments after the game.

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Speaker 1: He was very apologetic.

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Speaker 8: I don't think he understood the totality of some of the things. I think he issued that apology. I know this guy's heart and for anybody that was offended, terribly sorry about that. I know he feels that same exact way. As a young guy. There's a great kid that's continuing to learn about, you know, just the platform that he has.

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Speaker 4: I love him.

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Speaker 8: We're going to continue to put an arm around him and help him learn and grow. But we never want to do things that ever offend anybody. And I know he feels that same way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's talking about the video that he did on a podcast after the game last night. He was critical of the referees And now's when the NFL's got to find him now they will. By the way, Most Valuable Least Valuable danet voting is up and running at danpatrick dot com. The link also in our Twitter and Instagram bio as well Most Valuable Least Valuable Danpatrick dot com. We will tabulate your votes and Tuesday. Tuesday, in the final hour of the pro gam oh boy, that's when we make the big announcement, big reveal, and also the most Valuable backroom guy as well. There's only thirteen people, twelve full time people who work here, including all of us you know, the five here, but there are some very valuable backroom guys. It's a really it's going to be a really close vote, and I'm the one that's voting. It's going to be one vote for the most Valuable backroom guy, and it may shock people. I'm just going to say that. I don't know if the most Valuable Least Valuable is going to shock anybody, but there's always that possibility. That's a fan vote. Okay, I'm not involved in that. I will cast my vote, but this I'm going to leave it up to the audience. Most Valuable Least Valuable Danett. I think Fritzy, you've wanted a couple of times.

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Speaker 9: Now, yeah, taking on both of those, the rollercoaster riot, the emotions that come with these prizes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 7: So is there anything us, any of us can do in the last three hours here to garner a couple extra votes or lose them?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah there's Yeah. You get to vote till Tuesday, so wow. Yeah, there's plenty of room to screw up.

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Speaker 9: Yes, Ton, we'll have any backstab being going on in the back room, there is there anyone that thinks that they've got it and they're about to get the rug pulled out, like Notre Dame where they thought they were going to be winning and they're not going to get.

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Speaker 2: That A word, I don't know, Ton, Once you go back and say a lot to a couple of guys, Yeah, once you go back there.

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Speaker 9: Only go back there if there's like hot dogs or egg rolls on the on the griver.

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Speaker 2: No, you do go back to do your stand up act. I'll try a couple of.

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Speaker 9: Things out of them, just got to see if there's something there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but I all walk by and Mario and Anthony are trying to get ready for the show, and then Todd will do basically five minutes to stand up my little notebok.

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Speaker 9: I'll cross out things that are hard good. I'll put a little check mark if they giggled.

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Speaker 2: Uh okay, yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 7: By the way, we talked about this before. I think we did this with Isaiah Pacheco, the most valuable player in the NFL. Based off salary, Pokinakua makes a million dollars this year, a million, and he's going to make a million next year. His four years for the Rams, he'll be paid less than five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think he'll make a million next year. I don't think so.

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Speaker 7: But let's say the first three years of his career he made two point eight million dollars.

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Speaker 2: But this was like Cooper Cup and to see him on the field last night in a Seattle uniform. I mean, Cooper Cup had years better than Pooka Nakula. But PAULI goes, how fast do you think Pooka Nakua is? And then he answered his own question, he goes fast enough. Yes, there is a jar. I brought this up a couple of weeks ago. There's a Jerry Rice feel to him from the standpoint of I don't know how fast he is, but I know he's big, but I don't know what his forty is and I don't care, because there's football speed and then there's track speed. And he's got football speed, and you saw that again last night. All right, Well, take a break. When we come back, your phone calls on this meet Friday. Also, i'll give you the information I have on the college football playoff format that I believe has been agreed upon a while ago. But I got information last night, so I'll bring that to your attention. Coming up here in about five minutes. We'll take a break. We're back after this and The Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Round of applause for Seatan O'Connor. Yeahan Satan said the Chiefs weren't going to make the playoffs, and he was all in on the Seahawks beating the Rams last night Hawks fire. Yeah, the Seatan Hawks. So he avoids a pie to the face. I have a pie of the face coming up at the end of the show. Fritzy will administer the pie to my face.

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Speaker 9: And you said you wanted the thing on top of your head if.

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Speaker 7: They could affect the voting.

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Speaker 2: That's that's true. By the way, there's already backstabbing. Uh, the backroom guys. You know, Mario is already upset. He's the defending backroom guy winner last year. And now you got some backroom guys who were nominating other backroom guys. Then you got some I mean, now it's starting to get a little ugly here. And I said, great, that's content. Go ahead, make sure whatever you do, you do it on camera. Okay, but we will announce the most valuable backroom guy, most valuable dan at least valuable Danet, and I have the one vote for the BRG. You the audience will vote at Danpatrick dot com on the most valuable and least valuable Danet.

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Speaker 9: Yes, John, has anyone asked to speak with you privately in recent days a week to the yes, Yes, and were your receptive to that?

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Speaker 2: I thought that was a week on their part.

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Speaker 10: To do that.

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Speaker 2: I I told that person during the commercial break that if they would like to talk to me, then do it privately. It's letting you know there's some things going on, things going No, nothing like that chat, just a chat. All right, here's the information I got. This is the UH college football playoff format that we will see. It looks like next year. This was done in the spring of twenty twenty four is when they came up with this new format. Each of the Big four conferences so Big ten, acc SEC, and Big twelve guarantee of birth for being their champion. The highest ranked team among remaining conferences is also involved. Notre Dame is guaranteed of birth if in the top twelve rankings. All the other slots six of those if you include Notre Dame as the top twelve teams at large berths for the field. That means if we use next year's structure, Notre Dame would be in and Duke would have been in because they won the ACC. James Madison would not be in. The Big Ten in SEC went to the Big twelve in ACC and said, hey, we're going to guarantee your champion gets into the playoffs. They got Notre Dame support by saying you're going to get in if you're part to the top twelve ranked teams. This is where it gets interesting. The Big ten and SEC went to the Mountain West packed twelve Sun Belt MAC American Conference Conference USA and they laid out the new structure here, the new format, and they said that the two conferences, Big ten and SEC will have ultimate control over the college football playoffs, and then gave the six conferences a short window to accept the deal. It was basically here, it is accepted, and then they did. Now if they hadn't, the SEC and Big Ten were apparently ready to have their own playoff structure and take all the proceeds, so it would just be the Big ten in the SEC. Right now, it's for either twelve or fourteen. There's nothing that says, what if they go to sixteen or twenty four, but that will open up more discussion here. And my source wasn't sure if this structure would work for sixteen to twenty four or how that would work. But this is going to be the playoff format moving forward, and this you'll still have maybe a Cinderella story or two in there. But if you go to fourteen or sixteen, and Pete Bavaqua, Notre Dame Athletic director said we should be going to sixteen teams, maybe you're going to fourteen. I don't have the number, and my source didn't have the number, but the playoff format is designated for fourteen schools.

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Speaker 7: Yes, So a couple weeks ago, even on our show, it was talked about that it could go to twenty four teams. It almost feels like that people in college football leaked out or suggested twenty four. So when it goes to sixteen, everyone's like, oh, that's not so bad. Sixteen. It's the natural evolution, like you're managing expectations. You threw out twenty four, which I mean lots of people throwing out twenty four teams. People are like, no way, that's too much regular season will get hurt.

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Speaker 2: Oh I don't want twenty four and.

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Speaker 7: Nobody does, which is why I think people in college football threw that out there, so when it moves quickly to sixteen, it's not a big of a deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't give college football much credit when it comes to this stuff because they've screwed it up. The NCAA is screwed up. You can't sit there and go, man, I see what they this is what the NFL does.

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Speaker 11: Now.

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Speaker 2: If the NFL does that, I go okay, I see what they're doing college football and be like I don't know, how about this? Or then how about this? And then I don't know, let's change this? Yeah, pulling.

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Speaker 7: You know what's really bothering people, at least on social media this week is that different college football programs are announcing that they're resigning players. All the schools are doing it. I don't know who kind of evented it's now become the thing blank blank football has resigned Ted Smith or whatever. Everyone's doing it, and it's really turning people off.

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Speaker 2: I'm fine with it, Like there's other things to be worried about, concerned about. Then we're going to make an announcement that our quarterback is staying. There's other bigger problems now you are re signing them. It's all business. You are resigning these kids. It's year to year. Uh. Kevin in Michigan, Kevin, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 12: Hey Dan?

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Speaker 11: Good morning six four.

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Speaker 2: Dan.

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Speaker 11: Just wanted to push back a little bit on your opinion from earlier saying you send to the term we don't want to see uh these underdogs, uh be these favorites to college football playoffs. But I kind of push back on that and say it is relatively similar to basketball, unless you're you pledge allegiance to those teams like Ohio State, Georgia, Notre Dame if they were in it. Anyone outside of those folks who pledge allegiance, I feel like, for the most part, want to see those teams go down. And I think all the way back to Boise State and they're upset over Oklahoma. I know that was many moons ago, but just what an incredible game that was.

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Speaker 2: I know, but we keep going back to that game. We don't bring up any other game. If you give me three or four more. Now, I'm glad James Madison and Too Lane are in. They did what they were supposed to do. They shouldn't be punished. All I want to make sure is that they're not blowouts. That they get blown out and then people say the following, I told you so. That's the only thing that I don't want to happen. If they happen to shock the world, great, it's content I don't have. I'm not rooting for anybody, but you know, the line is twenty and a half. I mean, the odds are probably not great. It's going to be a great game, But Kevin, thank you. I'll take those comments under advisement. But if you have a surprise in March madness, we expect that it's really rare. I mean, there's a real separation between the powerhouses and JMU and two Lane, a real separation talent wise and as a result financially, how they built these rosters and do they have a chance. They're on the field, you have a chance, But if you look at the point spreads, not likely that they're going to keep it close. And that's that's the only thing that I hope that we can have competitive games. That's all because I just don't want it to I told you so, I told you so. Yep, you can tell me so because you know Vegas is expecting blowouts here. Yeah. Point.

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Speaker 7: I would say though, that because of the l NIL era, that these big heavyweight programs are a little more vulnerable than they were six or seven years ago. Like it wouldn't even be a game like Oregon squeaked by Iowa, which is a nice team. They had a couple other close ones. There's not a steamroller in college football anymore. Ohio State's pretty close, but even they lost.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's this year. I mean Ohio State, although they to Michigan last year. Ohio State, Ohio State's going to have probably five first round draft picks, five first round draft picks, maybe more, and two of their marque guys aren't even eligible for the draft. So there's a big separation. It is to Lane or James Madison going to have a first round pick. I don't think so, second round, third round probably not. It's just a big, big drop off, and that's where college football needs to get to the point where everybody is on a level playing field. And you know you're going to get that because of Nil, your collectives, you know we're heading towards it. It's not stopping right now. Even with fourteen playoff teams, or even sixteen, it's going to go to twenty four. March Madness will end up at ninety six. One of these days in our lifetime, it'll go to ninety six schools. And it is They never pass on money. That's why when they had four teams, and I said immediately like I was going to be thrilled if we got four team the college football playoffs would be four schools, And I go, okay, that's progress. And then I said, once they realize the amount of money here, it's going to quickly double, if not triple. And that's what we're facing right now, and facing is the wrong word. That's the new world in college football because of the amount of money that's there for these conferences, Notre Dame individually, there's a lot of money at stake. More games, more money, March Madness, more games, more money. I've said it many times, follow the money. I don't care. The answer is money, now, what's the question?

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Speaker 9: Yes, Todd and the coach of the ninety seventh basketball teams are of course going to wonder why you got fired and be shocked that just because it make the field of ninety six if they showed them the.

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Speaker 2: Door, Thank you, Tod. Yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 5: I think if you see one of those powerhouses, maybe say like Texas A and M get molly wopped in the college Football Playoff, there's gonna be some issues because they sholl out so much money that they're gonna be like, what are we paying you all this money for. We're paying you to try to win a national title. You're not paying these guys or the collective twenty to thirty million dollars to lose in the first round or the college football playoff. So you're gonna see more guys get fired in the middle of September, the middle of October because these you know, because the boosters are showing out so much money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Miami is what a three and a half point underdog, four and a half point underdog against Texas A and M, so that wouldn't surprise anybody. I mean, I'm waiting if A and M wins by fourteen and then you're gonna hear it. Well, see, they shouldn't have been in Notre Dame. Should have been in Yes, Mark, But.

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Speaker 5: If you're a booster for Texas A and M, you don't want to hear that. You want to hear that we won. They don't want to hear that. Oh they were favors, so they should have won. No, no, no, we paid Mike Elko. We paid all these players twenty thirty million dollars as collective.

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Speaker 2: Miami. Wait, Miami paid their players. They all pay their I mean Carson Beck was the highest paid quarterback when he went to Miami. I think he went out and bought a Ferrari or Lamborghini.

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Speaker 4: Like.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're all getting paid, but not the smaller schools. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Pull remember in college when like someone had a new accord and that was cool. Can you imagine rolling around in a Lambo? I mean, even its Miami, you're sticking.

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Speaker 2: Out Josh and san Antonio. Hi Josh, what's onny mind?

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Speaker 13: Hey Dan? I'm an admitted college football junkie, and I blame myself because I'll watch however many games they put on. But one thing I will say about college football fans is.

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Speaker 2: That we're never happy.

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Speaker 13: First it was the coaches in the ap defense, the debating who was going to be playing in the College Football Championship. Then we said no, that can't that can't work. Let's go to a computer system, the BCS, and we said, no, that can't work. So we said, go to a fourteen playoff. And now it's twelve teams. And now it's this kind of contrived idea that you mentioned with the Big twelve or the Big ten and the SEC run in it. I have no self control. I'm going to watch every game that they're gonna put on. But I really wish, I really value and what makes college football special is the regular season. Every game matters, and if any year this year for a fourteen playoff, those four teams are a tier above everybody else.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Yeah, I worry about the regular season, But now all of a sudden, more teams have an opportunity to, if they play well during the regular season, get into the postseason. You know, it's a kind of a push pull taffy pull. It feels like like if you have more teams than it's watered down and it doesn't mean the same. And I know, but it's the new age. It's money, college bounds. Give college football the amount of money, March madness. Why not have more madness college football. Let's have more teams, more money, more televised games, feels like a win win, And I don't know if they're worried about us as much as they're worried about themselves the amount of money that Now, are you going to watch tonight? I mean this is standalone game Alabama and Oklahoma. No NFL. Maybe as we get closer to Christmas, you're staying inside you watch the game. No, I mean, these ratings aren't going to be good this first rip of games because the NFL, and even you've got a game on opposite the Bears in the Packers on Saturday night. You do have a standalone game on Saturday. I think that's noon Miami and Texas A and M. But you know they're not going to do well in the ratings. Yeah, Mark, stupid question.

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Speaker 5: But do you think there's going to be less regular season games of college football if they expand to twenty four teams?

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Speaker 2: I don't know how many. I don't know how many regular season games that you can have and then you have the postseason because you're going to say to these kids, are we going to treat them like professionals?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: They're gonna have an eighteen game schedule? Were they potential for an eighteen game schedule, and I wonder about that. Well, I wonder how many games is too many? Right now? If you have twelve, you go into the playoffs. Now you win what three games, so that's fifteen games.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Paulie, you think we don't care about the health of NFL players, We really don't care about the health of college players. There's zero protection.

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Speaker 2: That's why I said, why is it the NFL they want to protect them and they change the kickoff, but in college football they don't change the kickoff. It's like, ah, you got your bell, run, get back in there. Come on, hey, you're getting paid nil money? Yes, don And what.

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Speaker 9: About the exams and the papers these student athletes have to do. You can't keep giving them more games.

00:31:57
Speaker 2: They'll never have any time to study in sarcast little bit. All right, we'll take a break. More phone calls coming up are Play of the day is next. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search fs R to listen live.

00:32:20
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Play of the Day much.

00:32:25
Speaker 2: I got it. This is the play of the day. Check this out.

00:32:31
Speaker 3: Donald under Center play fake to walker, rolls to.

00:32:34
Speaker 11: His left, looks firebacks on wide open, quick it up, cut down, Say.

00:32:40
Speaker 2: Hawks, pull that one out of your bag of tricks.

00:32:44
Speaker 14: Roll to the left. Donald stopped throw back to the right corner in the.

00:32:51
Speaker 1: End zone, and he had to leap. He used every bit of his six feet seven inches.

00:32:57
Speaker 7: Holy catfish, don't see hawk to have come back hit a big way.

00:33:02
Speaker 2: Courtesy of the Seahawks Radio Network. Seattle has won five in a row. It's your play of the day, brought to you by simply Safe. Traditional security systems only take action after somebody's already inside. That's too late. Simply Safe designed to be proactive, stopping crime before it starts. Take fifty percent off in a new system. At simplysafedan dot com, there is no safe like simply Safe. You can vote on the most valuable Danet least valuable danet and that's available right now, Danpatrick dot com. Fritzy suggested a poll question to me, if you're Lane Kiffin, do you want to see Tulane beat your former team? Will miss so if you're Lane Kiffin, you don't say this publicly, but in your head, and Fritzy gave me two options of course they wouldn't let me coach them. Hey, that's what you get. Or no, I want my players to succeed and not get eliminated early Todd, how would you vote?

00:34:02
Speaker 9: I think publicly say what my players to succeed. In a private, honest moment, you would like to see things not go well.

00:34:09
Speaker 2: How about you, Marvin? If you're Lane Kiffen, what do you want to happen for your players?

00:34:15
Speaker 5: You want to see them win, maybe just that one game, but not the entire national title seaton.

00:34:20
Speaker 15: If you're Lane Kiffen, no, no, I don't want them to lose, Paul, depending on your level of ego deep deep down, if your level of ego does not want Old Miss to advance.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: I would hope that Lane Kiffen wants those players to succeed. He may not want his almost or he may not want his former team with the powers that be to be able to succeed. But you can't have it both ways. You can root for the players, but maybe you're not going to root for the people who are in power. But also, what's this say about Lane Kiffin? If they win, they the one without him? Or if they don't win, well, you couldn't win without me. Yes, and if reports are true.

00:35:06
Speaker 9: If you're rooting for these players and sticking up with them, supposedly a number of them voted for him not to coach them, right, there was a number of reports, So well, you want your rooting for them and you want them to do well. But some of them, I don't want to say backstambed you, but they were like, no, we don't need this. SKUYLM go to LSU.

00:35:19
Speaker 2: The colonel in Tampa. Hey, colonel, what's on your mind today?

00:35:23
Speaker 3: Hey? Dan, how you guys doing. I think it's Thursday night. It feels like Thursday night football, Now, Dan, that was a good game.

00:35:31
Speaker 2: Great, Hey, listen.

00:35:32
Speaker 3: I wanted to be an update I had. I watched the game at four in the morning because I had a hip replacement done anterior approach on Wednesday, highly recommended. Great doctor. You know, Dan, there's so much pressure on you and I, you know, us athletes of our generation to continue to perform. It's tough. I do not have the luxury of surrounding myself with twelve thirteen enhancing athletic performance personnel. So you have twelve and thirteen valuable players, Dan, and looking forward to a great weekend of sports and quick recovery. Love you guys, and you can send me a wag Uberger.

00:36:07
Speaker 2: I'd love it all right, Thank you, Colonel. Don't hell's he talking about? He's talking about you guys and our athletic achievements or I don't know if we have any I certainly don't have any any anymore.

00:36:23
Speaker 6: He has the main character energy there and.

00:36:25
Speaker 9: He said he doesn't have twelve guys for what?

00:36:27
Speaker 11: What is like?

00:36:28
Speaker 9: Who accomplished?

00:36:29
Speaker 6: Colonel show?

00:36:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what the colonel's doing, but he just had hip surgery or hip replacement surgery. Also, a woman who works with this, Jade, just had hip surgery and I happened to reach out to her for a different reason, and I caught her right as she came out of surgery. She's like, hey, I'm on drugs, and I go, oh my god, you had your hip surgery. She goes, yes. I go, all right, I'll catch up with you. She goes that would be good, yes see did.

00:37:02
Speaker 6: I checked in with her later that day to be like, hey, how to go you okay?

00:37:06
Speaker 13: Whatever?

00:37:06
Speaker 6: And I just got back I'm so high.

00:37:13
Speaker 2: Well, she just got out of recovery when I hit her up, Yes, Tod.

00:37:18
Speaker 9: And what do you say when you have a successful hip surgery?

00:37:21
Speaker 2: Your hip hip hip parade, hip paraded?

00:37:27
Speaker 7: Possible dumb question here. When you have knee replacement surgery or hip replacement surgery, you're not replacing it. Are you gutting out the bone area and resetting it or what is it exactly?

00:37:37
Speaker 2: You're replacing it?

00:37:39
Speaker 7: Not the bone.

00:37:40
Speaker 2: They give you a new knee.

00:37:42
Speaker 7: What does that mean for someone who has never had it done?

00:37:45
Speaker 2: And they put in a new hip look like a socket.

00:37:49
Speaker 7: Like the inner socket part is kind of shaved down and redone, but not new bone.

00:37:54
Speaker 6: You get like artificial like prosthetics.

00:37:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, they attach it to the bones.

00:38:00
Speaker 7: They take out bone and give it to you.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: Correct. Uh, No, Okay, they don't give it to you.

00:38:04
Speaker 6: You're not allowed to keep your You can't keep.

00:38:06
Speaker 7: I think territorial rights.

00:38:08
Speaker 2: Zach and Knoxville, Hi, Zach, what's on your mind?

00:38:12
Speaker 9: ADP.

00:38:13
Speaker 12: I'm also on drugs, but I did not have it for surgery or any knee. But yesterday I just was directing somebody with my hand while I was on with you guys. So I just want to let Seaton know I don't think it's that serious. With Joe Burrow, I wasn't really that intense. My hand gesture made my intensity and my voice go up.

00:38:36
Speaker 11: But I just want to know.

00:38:38
Speaker 12: Do you think that Matthew Stafford's performance last night, even in a loss, kind of helped him solidify the MVP or.

00:38:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, he's winning the MVP. He's winning the MVP. He didn't have DeVante Adams and he threw for four fifty. I don't think he can lose it. They're gonna be in the playoffs and he's been great from start to finish. Josh Allen is making, you know, a charge here, but you got it. You should reward the person who has been the best player this year. And I think if Drake may had beaten Josh Allen, now we have a neck and neck race there for MVP. Yes, Marvin, but.

00:39:18
Speaker 5: I think it makes it easier that Stafford's biggest competition is a second or third year player that hasn't done much in the league. If he was a VET, it'd be a different story.

00:39:28
Speaker 2: And it's a good story. Matthew Stafford MVP. I didn't even know if he was going to be able to last the season and He's been great and this feels like it might be a career achievement award. There Buddha in San Francisco. I Buddha, no oh buddy, let's go baby.

00:39:49
Speaker 9: Yeah.

00:39:50
Speaker 14: I just watched the UH live look in from a Seaton getting the Pie in the Face in San Francisco, out in the presidio where you guys were in that twenty sixteen.

00:40:01
Speaker 2: I was in the building.

00:40:03
Speaker 14: Damn, backstage with the big German and I watched that live.

00:40:07
Speaker 4: That was some man.

00:40:09
Speaker 14: I really look forward to you guys coming out here this year and it seems on fire, by the way, with the Pies in the face man.

00:40:15
Speaker 2: Last night was.

00:40:17
Speaker 14: Awesome watching that game, a lot of radifications. I'm looking forward to seeing old man Rivers this year this week this week on Monday Night against the Niners. I cannot wait to see how he plays. And I just want to say that that is going to be amazing to watch.

00:40:37
Speaker 2: Thank you, Buddha. Buda kind of struggled there at the very end, going to find his words. It is weird that Philip Rivers can still play, but to a tongue of Bai loa can't play like we're going to deactivate you. How about that in Philip Rivers Lewis Riddick from the Mothership. He'll join us, coming up Ryan Leaf. He has the Packers and the Bears this weekend. Former quarterback will stop by the studio as well. Updated college football title odds have that for you coming up hour two on this meet Friday, right around the corner