Week 5 Upset Alerts & CFP Expansion Stupidity

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I'm going to try and guess where it's going to come from. But the very nature of an upset alert is sometimes you don't see it coming. The commissioners poll, probably the stiffest collection of allegations yet this season being thrown at the JP poll. You throw five SEC teams in the top five one little time. And they come for your head. College football playoff talk is here. But I don't mean predictions. I mean, there's some stuff happening right now that, truthfully, I don't want to talk about. It's just going to make me angry. But a lot of you asked about it. I'm certainly not leading the show with it. But later in the show, I know a lot of you saw the Ross Dellinger tweet. A lot of you may be familiar with some of the meetings happening in Chicago. Whatever. That's the boring part. What you need to know is these people are still pushing for a 2014 playoff. I have some thoughts on it. I'll talk about it way later in the show. I've got best bets. We added two of them. 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Support local colleges. College football. Upset alerts, at least six of them this weekend, because here's the thing about a weekend without a top five matchup. They'll tell you it's sleepy. They'll tell you it's one that you can afford to skip. They'll say, "Oh, go do all sorts of things. It's October. The pumpkin patch is calling." Yeah, that's what Wednesday's for. Call out of work sick. You got to do it to watch Braves playoff games these days. So why not do all of that nonsense during the week? Take that back. I don't have a problem with pumpkin patches. I don't have a problem with apple picking. I got a problem with it on Saturday at 3:30 in the afternoon. So upset alerts. First one on the radar, or is it? Miami's playing Clemson. I'm going to be real with you. In week one, when we went down to LSU for the Clemson-LSU game, I was talking to myself and I said, "Self, I'm not sure Clemson's got much of a shot here." However, if they were to pull the upset, wow, think about what that does to that week five game with Miami coming to town. Instead, Miami is coming to town as a 16 and a half touchdown. We're going to win. I'm going to be a half point favorite. I am on the record of being highly skeptical that this is going to be a competitive game. I'm going to put a two on the upset alert concern meter here and dare dabbo to prove me wrong. And I know what the preview is going to be. Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit are calling this game. This is the primetime game on ABC. So you're going to have words like sneaky thrown at you, motivated, dangerous underdog mode. And I just have the unfortunate task. To remind you that Clemson has faced one high-level offense all year. They gave up 644 yards to LSU. Miami offensively ranks higher than LSU does. It's the number one offense in the country. Clemson continues to start a true freshman quarterback. Miami's got the number two total defense in the country. McMurphy, if you need hard data thrown at you, Brett McMurphy, friend of the program, said Clemson 16 and a half point home underdog to Miami. That's the biggest underdog role in dabbo's nine year career. And it's only the sixth time in his 245 games they're a double-digit underdog. What happened the last five times Jesse Clemson lost all five games as a double-digit dog. Now Darien Mensah, Miami, they've done nice so far. I guess you could theoretically make the argument they haven't played anyone, but you know what Darien Mensah did last year at Duke? Played Clemson. 27 to 41, 361 through the air, four touchdowns. I would safely say he has upgraded his supporting cast this time around with Miami. This is a two. I actually think Miami's going to win and cover this game. It's not Ramen Noodle Express material, but it is a pick nonetheless. Next up, Vandy's at Georgia. Is there any shot here? The old school handicappers out there would caution you. Where's my pen? Yeah, they would caution you. They would say, notice Oklahoma. Oklahoma last week, Alabama next week, let down spot, look ahead spot, sandwich spot. Well Georgia's favored by 24 and a half anyway because Vanderbilt can't run the ball. They're 106th in the country. And also those who follow recruiting pretty hardcore will remember while Jared Curtis is starting at quarterback for Vanderbilt, once upon a time he was committed to Georgia. He wanted to play as a freshman, Jesse. And so good news, it turns out Jared Curtis is going to start a game in Athens as a true freshman after all. He's just going to do it for the other guy. Kirby Smart's not a vengeful person. Kirby Smart is not a revenge-minded person. He's not a nasty person like that. So he may have forgotten. Kirby may not even remember that Jared Curtis was committed because Kirby's not about that sort of thing. But what I am saying is pray for Jared Curtis and the Vanderbilt Commodores because this is a two on the upset alert concern meter and frankly that's out of immense respect for Barton Simmons because I don't even think it should rise that high. If this were a Vanderbilt team that could run the ball, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But they're 97th against the pass. They're 48th against the run. There's nothing about this defensive profile that screams to me, "We can hang with Georgia for four quarters." Unless you could tell me Georgia's minus four turnovers here, I don't see much of a shot. Next up, I do see a big shot here. In Knoxville, Auburn at Tennessee. Tennessee's a six and a half point favorite. Alex Golish once upon a time coordinated the offense up there at Tennessee for Josh Heupel. He is now the head coach at Auburn. I'm worried about Tennessee. This Wendell Moe injury on the offensive line is a really big deal. I think this should be a low scoring game. I am stunned at the total in the game. More on that later. What they've got to do, what Auburn's got to do to pull this off, twofold. Number one, they've got to really weaponize Jeremiah Cobb. They've got to run the ball a whole lot better against Tennessee than they did against Florida. And that Florida loss is looking less and less bad by the minute. Number two. They've got to really take advantage of the quarterback edge they have in this game. Like Byron Brown, up and down, up and down, maybe even more down than up so far. but this is not a season. This is one game. So I just need to compartmentalize one four-quarter afternoon of football, if I'm pulling for the upset, and I need to have a veteran quarterback play like a veteran. And then on the flip side, I need to have DJ Durkin and a defense that got ripped against Florida regroup, got a win against Vandy last week, and I need to go on the road, and I need to do what Texas did, probably a light version of that. I need to make a true freshman look like a true freshman, get them doubting themselves a little bit. If I can do that, line six and a half, I think it's proper. I'm putting an eight and a half on this one. Jesse, you worried about this game? Like, you think Auburn could win this game. I think Auburn could win this game. Both of them already have one conference loss apiece, so this is sort of, you know, this is the path, and one of you is going to go down one that keeps you, at least on the road of contention, and the other one's going to go down the path of, message board threads you don't even want to be a part of. We're playing for message board supremacy at this point. Next up, man, I thought we may be at this game earlier in the year. Washington at USC. I really thought we may be at this game a few weeks ago, and we're not. We're going to Blacksburg, Virginia. This is a big character test for both of these teams. I mean, Washington has not looked anything like I thought they'd look. USC looked no different than they have looked in previous years last week, so in the interim, we're trying to find out if either one of them are capable of making a run. I think I know Washington can't. They're a nine and a half point dog here. I still don't know about USC. Now, I'll tell you what my instinct is. I pulled no punches this week talking about this. I feel like it's possible that the Oregon loss last week for USC could be equal to that of the Oregon loss for Penn State last year, where all these expectations were in this bubble, and it was sort of contingent on getting off to a good start, and you didn't, and that's like the bubble popping, and yeah, you lose one game that day, but the ripple effect is it costs you your season. For Penn State, that meant losing to UCLA out of nowhere. Remember how out of nowhere that game was. Remember they came home, and they faced Northwestern, and they lost, so as bad as Washington has looked, they hadn't looked as bad as UCLA had looked last year, prior to playing Penn State, so nothing shocks me in this game. It's this offense for Washington has been DeMond Williams and nothing else. Don't care. Nothing shocks me in this game, so I'm gonna put a seven on it just because I don't know about the mental state of USC right now. They're banged up at the pass catcher position, so now look, if they win the thing 33 to 17, good. Now you go to Penn State, and you got the rest of your season, but at least you got it back on track, but I'm worried until further and notice. Next up, Indiana, 23 and a half point favorite on the road at Rutgers. Jesse, should we call this a look-ahead spot? I mean, they are playing undefeated top 25, according to some polls, Nebraska next week, and Lincoln, don't tread on Saturday tour implications on these games. I got to tell you what two people think on this game. I'll tell you the first. It's me. This is body bag time. I think Kurt Cignetti and the Hoosiers have messed around long enough. They're barely top 10 in the commissioner's poll this week, and that shouldn't be that way, so I think they're going to run it up on Rutgers. That's what I think. Close win last Friday against Northwestern. One day extra rest to get ready for this. It should be a splattering, but that's not what everyone thinks. I have in my hand some feedback from producers. Here's your Jesse, who is essentially picking Rutgers to win this game out, right? Essentially. Jesse says that Rutgers is off the best win of their season. Bradley, the answer may be no. Oh, you do have Rutgers schedule? Okay, so let's just track here. They've played UMass, Boston College, USC. All right, there's Indiana. Where is the best win of the season? You're drawing off that Howard win, and you're suggesting to me that that is the springboard needed to take down the Indiana Hoosiers. Jesse, question, why do you doubt Kurt Cignetti? Hey, better question, why do you believe in Rutgers? Because this is not the first time you've pulled this foolishness on the show this year. I'm going to put a one on it. Jesse, what would you put on the upset alert concern meter? 10? Wow, okay. Brigham Young at TCU. I know it's unethical, but it's fun. It's fun. That's all that matters. Don't let ethics get in the way of a good time, as Meemaw would say. Now, we have to get serious for a second, because I have no clue what's going on here, but FanDuel and the model agree. Brigham Young, I will grant you, they have not been tested much this year, but TCU has, and they lost to North Carolina, and they lost to UCF, and Brigham Young is a five-point favorite, and a five-and-a-half-point favorite only in this game. So, I thought, that's insane. Who got hurt? That's the first thing I thought. The second thing I thought is, even with home field baked in, surely Brigham Young's got to be over a touchdown favorite, right, model? Model says no. Model very, very slightly leans Brigham Young, but it's not even qualifying it as a bet. So, I guess I'll put a six on it, because this is one of those examples of, it feels like somebody knows something, or in this case, it feels like everybody but me knows something. Does this line make sense to anyone? I can't reckon it in my mind, but then again, things happen every Saturday that I can't understand. Maybe this would be one of them. Follow-up question, good thing or bad thing for the Big 12 if Brigham Young loses? I don't know, but as a recently accused Big 12 hater, more on that later in the commissioner's poll segment, I think I should abstain from answering. So, there's your upset alert concern meter. There are warning signs all over the place. The results continue to pour in. The results are not final yet on the week five, don't tread on Saturday tour t-shirt, but let's just be real. Let's call it right now. We have seen enough to know that this is the most popular shirt design that we've had so far. The color scheme, like whomst amongst us knew that Virginia Tech was going to dominate the color scheme, don't tread on Saturday shirt design. I didn't. I was thinking about Brigham Young, Jesse, if we ever go to a BYU game, the way that blue and white pops, but then again, if they lose to TCU, how do we justify it? How do we justify it? Anyway, it's available right now at patestatematerial.com. I had to get some rushed to the athletic building yesterday. By the way, they got here today. They got there today. We, I didn't know we could ship these things in one day. I don't think we should let everyone know that. No, we should not. So we'll backspace over that. Oh wait, we can't. Oh, we're live pal. No. Okay. 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So listen to Free Therapy with Ben and Kevin on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Because therapy's expensive. But our podcast is free! Let's continue. The commissioner's poll is out because I cannot, in good conscience, bag on the AP. I cannot bag on the AP poll and not put my own top 25 out. But I have to warn you, I have preseason rankings just like the rest of you. I have thoughts on teams. Unlike an AP voter, apparently, I don't mind wiping my slate totally clean once I've seen some games. And I believe in ranking you pretty much based off resume. I'd say my balance is like 85% resume, 15% eyeball test. So, like, Indiana hasn't really played much of anyone. But I'm not going to drop anything. I'm not going to drop Indiana off the face of the earth. But I am going to give way to teams that have substantive wins on their resume. And I know all the while, that doesn't matter because Indiana plays several good teams. So they'll have a chance to beef up their resume. But I'm not going to anticipate that Indiana is good. I'm going to make them prove they're good, right? So that's at least the way I think it should work. So this is this week's commissioner's poll. Immediately, people were drawn to the fact that there are five SEC teams. And they said, well, this is going to be a great segment. I sent sarcasm denoted by the triple laughing emoji. I don't know why this should be a great segment. Shouldn't this just be the same old segment we always do? People will never believe this about me, Jesse. I don't really see conference. I sure don't. I don't see conference affiliation. I did realize. I did realize once we put the whole thing together, there was an uh-oh moment. Uh-oh. This is not going to go over well. But I just want to ask people to take an alternative point of view here. Instead of saying, how dare he put five SEC teams in the top five, might we want to say how brave of him to put this out, knowing full well what they're going to say because they bodied me in the comments today. And yet here I am. I still got to show up. Severed legs. Don't know if it's a legal name. I also always wonder what this sounds like on pod because you can't really tell when I'm saying the name of someone. It just sounds like I randomly said severed legs. Sounds like I'm describing myself after reading the comments. No, a dude named Severed Legs hit us and said, the smart ones, all caps by the way, the smart ones, have figured out you're trying to juice the ratings in SEC country by putting a team like Mississippi State this high. Their resume doesn't even warrant it. I'm not outraged. He sounds outraged. But if he's not outraged and he is just throwing an allegation around, we need to do a study, Jesse. We need to do a study on how good our viewership is if we put Mississippi State at four and how good our viewership is if we put Mississippi State at 12. How many thousands of views or clicks? It's about clicks after all. Clickbait paid. How many clicks does it get us to put Mississippi State top five? Starkville, one of the biggest media markets in the country. It's like New York, LA. Chicago. I think it's Starkville fourth and Houston, something like that. Yeah, it's around there. It could be one or two off. Actually, I just think they're really good, and I think their resume does warrant them being up here. But if you think I'm way off, and judging by the tone of the tweet, I got to think that you believe I'm way off. Where should they be? Where'd the AP have them? 16? Like to me, that's a joke. To me, that's insane. And the way that I think about it is this. I was joking a little while ago, and I'm really not joking when I say this. I don't care what your logo is. I want to know what your resume is. And to me, Mississippi State's performance, their resume, having a superstar quarterback, to me, that warrants being a top five team right now. Their best wins are at Minnesota. They went at South Carolina. They beat Missouri last week. It's week five. Who's stacked up a better resume than that? Texas? Okay. Florida? Okay. But I put them one and two. You're not just going to sit here and do what we do on Tuesday night. On Tuesday night, we do the JP poll. That's more a predictive odds makers power rating type thing. If you want to have Mississippi State outside the top 10 on that, okay, I would still argue they don't need to be way outside the top 10 because it's a really good team. But here's what I do not do. I don't do the thing that most of the AP voters do, where I have conditions on your resume. And the way you test that theory is if I could show you Mississippi State's resume, but I just lied and I said, this is Texas's resume so far. So like I show you Mississippi State's body of work, but I put the Longhorn logo on it. I think Texas would be number one in the country. If I put the Ohio State logo on it, if I put the Miami logo, the Alabama logo on Mississippi State's body of work, people would put them number one because of brand bias. I'm just not going to do the brand bias thing. You may think looking at this, oh, that's SEC brand bias. It's really not only because I've seen our polls. The rest of the year, this is the year. This is the week it happened to stack up like this. Mississippi State belongs top five to me. What else do we have? Speaking of SEC bias, Nanya hit us up and said, Iowa and Duke above LSU. I'm going to need to see your DARE program certificate, pal. We will not take shots at the DARE program on this show. We will not. You can consider me Nancy Reagan on that front. We just say no all the time on this show. Jesse, you need to correct me or you need to set me straight here. The complaint is too many SEC teams. The complaint is also Iowa and Duke above LSU. LSU in what conference? Yeah, legal briefs notwithstanding before week one. So are we anti-LSU? Are we pro-SEC? Or are we just calling it like we see it and this is the way it shook out? I don't know. I don't know. More allegations. Let's move on. People think I'm not having fun doing these segments where people just take shots. But I don't have a problem with it. Boxscore said that Big 12 hater Josh is back. Now I take bigger issue with this than anything else. You can call me an SEC homer. I'll just laugh at it. A Big 12 hater? This is my conference. The Big 12's mine. It's like Chubbs and Happy Gilmore. I'm playing for the Big 12. I'm doing the show for the Big 12. Jesse, we've got four Big 12 teams in the top 20. Where is the hate? We also, and you can't see this on the graphic, but I will tell you, we've got Cincy at 26. We've got Houston at 28. So we've got six of them in the top 28. What more could I do for the Big 12 that it hasn't done for itself? These Big 12 teams, I grant you, I hate the landscape of college football right now. I hate that we've got like 50 teams in the Big 10 and the SEC, and there's this huge conglomeration of most of the valuable properties, and the college football sphere, and the Big 12 was kind of left to fend for itself. I hate all that, but I can't do anything about that this week. I can't do anything about that in this poll. I've done everything I can. Jesse, some would even say I'm bending over backwards for the Big 12. Brigham Young's at 14. Texas Tech's down there at 16. Utah's at 15. Oklahoma State's at 19. I'm going to tell you more about that in a second. But yeah, this conference is a solid conference. Not great. It's not outstanding. That's why I asked earlier, if we are pulling for the totality of the Big 12, do we want Brigham Young to go lose to TCU? I don't think so. Mitch says no. Has the Arizona State check-in in there? He says no. He says we need some separation in this conference. Hey, buddy. Baylor-Arizona State. Late game. Saturday night. Kenny Dillingham, Dave Aranda, and me in a room together. If we ever were. to do the, uh, the two for one, the speaker series in the spring. If we had, uh, you know, if, if, if times became tight financially and we had to double up on interviews, let's sit those two dudes down together. Dave wouldn't say a word. He would sit there and listen mouth wide open, like Katie Britt at that hearing the other day is okay. Uh, chaotic. Someone called it chaotic Sylvan. I did not grow up with anyone named Sylvan. A lot of Chuck's and Steve's where I come from. Sylvan said, while I appreciate this approach, this is actually pushing me to like the AP poll more drugs, my word, not Sylvan's he continues or she continues. I can't tell. Uh, this is too chaotic week to week. It doesn't give a true sense. If a team losing or winning is significant, does the chaos not indicate that losses and wins are paramount insignificance? Is to me how a poll should look the first half of the year. We have almost nothing to go on. So if Florida hasn't played anybody of note and then they play Auburn and they beat them, you should react, but then they body bag Ole Miss. You should really react. That's why Florida rose 11 spots. That's why Ole Miss dropped eight spots. Iowa is up nine, Oklahoma state's up 10. We dropped the USC 12. We dropped Michigan 13. Now when you get to mid November, no, it shouldn't look exactly like that. But what Jesse, if we're not reacting to wins and losses, those are the only two things that can happen on a field, right? What should I be reacting to in lieu of the results on the field? That's my whole problem with the AP poll. They'll watch you. They'll watch Michigan lose or they'll watch Mississippi state win. And they'll say, well, all right, I'll drop them a little bit. I'll raise them a little bit, but and I didn't even have Mississippi state ranked in my preseason poll. I can't put them top five already. According to who? That's the stupid way to go about this. That's chaotic. That's not what we want. We want less of that. Not everyone took shots. Frog with Sig, good people, this is actually the best rankings I've seen all season. Thank you. There's no one else in here to clap for me. I'll clap for myself. And then one guy who is a Texas fan allegedly took issue with his own team being number one. This is where I feel like I really can't win. Rick said, brah, as a Texas fan, how do you move us to number one ahead of Georgia? Rick, where were you the second week of the season? Rick, are you one of those Longhorn fans that turned the game off in the fourth quarter? I don't know if you're aware of this, Rick, you guys beat Ohio state. You know what Georgia's done? Nothing like that. So that's why Texas is number one. Jesse, does the AP not also have Texas number one? Like, is this a radical concept? I'm not the biggest believer that Texas is the best team in the country right now. If I had to pick them, you know, but that's what the JP polls for on Tuesday. That's what point spreads are for. This is merit-based because if I've been wrong predicting even one game in my life, if Vegas has been wrong favoring even one team in history that didn't go on to win, those shouldn't be how we stack teams when it comes to merit. Earned results on the field, good or bad, is what this should reflect. And to me, that's what it does reflect. Thank you for your consideration and submissions. A lot of you are about to hit the road this week. I know we are. We're going to be in multiple places. We will need gas. We'll have multiple rental cars. Perez, I need to talk to you about that, by the way. So, you know, rental cars, they need a lot of things. 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I hope it gets you ready. Immunity for how you need to stack your Saturday. This weekend could have been a disaster. Okay, when I am commissioner, we will not have these huge peaks and valleys in strength of weekly schedules anymore. But until that day, we're left with a week like next week where we got 19 main event matchups. And this week, I think this week's okay. But imagine if Mississippi State was not delivering like they are right now. And Bama-Mississippi State was just another game. Imagine if Iowa doesn't beat Michigan last week. And that Ohio State-Iowa game looks even more lopsided than maybe it still will be. Miami-Clemson's off most people's radars. USC lost last week. Washington has been an underachiever. So Washington-USC is not as big a deal as we thought it would be. There's nothing here, is my point. But instead, Iowa came through. Mississippi State has come through. I said earlier today, Kamario Taylor, in many ways, is saving this country right now. Kamario Taylor may be next to Blake Baker, the biggest American hero in the Southeastern Conference. So you don't have to worry about him. You don't have to worry about him. So your early window does indeed kick off with, to me, two choices for your main screen. I think most people will go Bama at Mississippi State. That's the noon kickoff on ABC. Side note, can we get stats and info on how many games Sean McDonough has called in Starkville, Mississippi? That's got to be in the research packet somewhere. I think your other option for your main screen is Michigan at Minnesota. I don't know if someone's going to bleed, but if they do, you'll know it'll be all over P.J. Fleck's face. I heard some people took issue with that. Not from the health department either. I just think some people looked at it and said, that's a little gimmicky. But it wasn't a blade job, right, Jesse? That was hard way blood. That was authentic blood. Nevertheless, that's a fox. That's big noon kickoff. And that line's about five and a half. Sounds familiar because Iowa was a five and a half point dog to Michigan last week. So you got that on your main screens. And then I think we have to closely monitor West Virginia at Iowa State. That's a noon kickoff Eastern time. On TNT, those are both one loss Big 12 teams or one loss in conference play Big 12 teams. And so again, someone's going to emerge, a bigger contender. Another one's going to have a bunch of questions. I think at 1245 on SEC Network, let's at least check to make sure Vandy, Georgia is going like we think it's going to go. Notre Dame's at North Carolina at noon on ESPN. Again, you check in. If it's 24-0 by halftime, you know, that one's a wrap. We've got to monitor those. Your midday window, I think on your main screen, CBS, probably the call for Ohio State at Iowa. Now, that one could just end up being an Iowa special. I tend to like Ohio State a whole lot in this game. So I think Ohio State's going to get some margin. If they don't, ignore what I just said. You got to be locked on that thing from bell to bell. You may also be of the opinion that Florida, Missouri belongs on your home screen because it's going to be more competitive, going to be higher scoring. Who knows? Maybe the opposite is true. Either way, Ohio State, Iowa's 330 Eastern on CBS and Florida, Missouri is 330 on ABC. Now, here's where it gets a little tricky in the mid-afternoon window. Your secondary screen could be focused any of a number of directions. How competitive does Auburn, Tennessee become? To me, that's the sneaky game of the afternoon that's not on a lot of people's radars, but could end up being a complete fight. That's a 330 Eastern ESPN game. Also on ESPN2, Virginia plays at Florida State. Virginia's a two-point favorite at Florida State, first off. Secondly, I know people's minds are tainted about Virginia right now because your lasting image is of them losing to West Virginia. Not a conference game. So Virginia's still undefeated in conference play. So let's keep an eye out for the rest of the week. We'll be right back. Carolina could win 30-13 and pull the nose up completely and rattle off an undefeated Cocktober. Bring the Cocktober magic back. You can't win the entire month Unless you win the first game of the month And then on FS1 at 4 o'clock Eastern time Maryland plays Nebraska And Maryland should be a complete corpse After what Bob Chesney did to them last week They're going to Nebraska The line's 14 and a half Nebraska should win this game They should win it comfortably Nebraska's got Indiana coming in next week Nebraska's starting to get a little bit of attention We'll know how serious they are How serious they should be taken By how professionally they go about their approach this week I don't want any 23 to 20 I don't want any minus three turnover nonsense Handle them Handle your business Capital N, not lowercase n Handle your business In the prime time window Jesse, how does this happen? How does a prime time window look like this? It's 2026 We can do whatever we want We can flex games We can move times Dude, do you realize The Atlanta Braves went to sleep last night Not knowing what time First pitch of an elimination game Was going to be today And you're telling me That college football Backed itself into the corner where I don't even know what your main event game is here Is it Washington at USC A 7.30 on NBC Is it Maryland at USC Miami at Clemson 7.30 on ABC We got to monitor Texas Tech at Colorado Tech's a 12.5 point favorite Isaac Wilson starting at quarterback Juju Lewis been benched for Colorado You know how much I love backup quarterbacks That's 7.30 on Fox Brigham Young's at TCU That's 7 o'clock on ESPN I know if you're listening You keep saying Those are like the secondary games The tertiary games The quadiary games What's fourth? I don't even know how to say that But what's the main event? What's the main event game? There isn't one I just told you the best games San Jose State of Hawaii I don't know So The late window Is sneaky good So at 10.30 Eastern We get the aforementioned Baylor at Arizona State This is a big game This is objectively a big game In the Big 12 Mitch, how many conference losses you guys got? Zero Baylor? How many conference losses for Baylor? I'm asking you I'm not telling you Is it zero? Is it zero? Zero It's undefeated versus undefeated It's essentially a top five matchup In the Big 12 standings It's a top five matchup And then 30 minutes after that At 11 o'clock Eastern on Fox Cincinnati is at Arizona Cincy's undefeated Some said Maybe rightfully so That Cincy should be a top 25 commissioners poll team And we all know Arizona Is on the Ramen Noodle Express this week And Cincy was last week Wait, Cincy's this week? Cincy's on it this week, right? Because we rode Cincy last week And we're riding him again this week We're a big Cincinnati show, believe it or not Never thought the words would come out of my mouth Post-Luke Fickle But they did They're watching us in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Dalton, Georgia Chandler, Arizona The dew point has dropped And we're not going to stop the show I just need Bradley to hold on While I put some lip balm on I got it all over my face, immunity Okay, here we go I don't want to do this part of the show I don't want to do this part of the show But we're going to do it Because it's already in the rundown And we've loaded the elements It is the middle of football season I hate talking about off-field matters During football season But I cannot ignore this college football playoff expansion stuff I know most of you saw the Ross Dellinger tweet yesterday If you didn't, there it is Quote, CFP leaders are closer than ever To expanding to a 2014 playoff They're talking buyouts Of conference title games And scheduling logistics Of doubling the field Foregone conclusion Quote, if we can get a decent TV deal We're definitely going to 24 I mean, you guys asked what I thought about this It's very obvious what I think about this I think it's a joke I think it's really sad That the least among us Lead us sometimes And it's never been more true Like that whole axiom That whole way of thinking Has never been more true Than if you watch college football And the thing that kind of Kind of makes you the maddest Or makes me the maddest Is All of these people Who are responsible for making the mess That is college athletics By their words, not mine The ones that made the mess Are the ones that complain the mess And therefore still the people Who traffic in behavior That creates a bigger mess All while trying to sell you That it's going to solve the mess And it just somehow continues It's like the absolute bottom of the barrel Way of thinking So if you're new to this show I'm not going to walk you through this philosophy It's the middle of football season You can go back and look at countless videos I've done on this The regular season in this sport Is the best of any sport It is unique to this sport I slam the door in people's faces When they start talking about How this sport could compare To any other pro sport The percentage of teams in this sport That get the postseason As opposed to any other sport The door is already slammed in your face Not only is it faulty logic But even if the logic was sound I wouldn't care I don't care I don't watch college football Because I long for it to be like another sport Quite the opposite I watch college football Because it's not like any other sport So as usual You got a bunch of people Not actually a bunch of people at all You got a few people Pushing for something At the expense of what many people think And what are they going to tell you? What they're going to tell you here is Well we expanded to 12 And we got a little bit meaningful game Or we got more meaningful games They're going to tell you We need to expand the playoffs So that we can get more people And we can get more meaningful games And I got to remind you I guess we're going to have to learn this lesson the hard way Some people are You are not adding more meaningful games You are shifting meaning That's all you're doing It's treated like Number 3 versus number 7 plays In late November right now There are big stakes on that game Loser theoretically could drop out of the 12 That's just always going to be crystallized According to an expansionist So 3 versus 7 You know 11 versus 6 In mid-November That will maintain its value All we're doing here Is we're creating that kind of urgency On other games You know because in the 12 team field If you're number 23 And you play number 17 late in the year Maybe it doesn't have as much meaning But now it will And I just want to ask somebody Do you really think there's any world Where Texas and Texas A&M play each other And they're both top 10 And that game feels like The same in a 24 team model As opposed to a 12 team model Of course it wouldn't Of course it wouldn't So here's what happens What happens is You decrease the urgency and value On games featuring teams That are capable of winning a title Down the road And you manufacture it On games featuring teams That everyone knows won't be capable Of winning a title Because you could watch 8-3 Iowa battle for the 22 seed All you want to Nobody Even the most ignorant person in the room Is under the illusion That if Iowa makes that tournament They're capable of going on a run 0% chance of it happening Everyone knows it But for the sake of putting more money In people's pockets you'll never meet You're asked to support a model That removes urgency From the premier games Featuring teams that are good enough To win the thing if they make it So that we can manufacture drama On games featuring teams Everyone knows are flawed And will be quick outs If they do make the playoff This is different So I want to tell you You may think you've seen Playoff expansion movement before And you have It's really different this time Because unlike previous iterations of this There is no public support now Previous generations Previous iterations Of playoff expansion Whether it be Let's create the BCS Or let's go from 2 to 4 Or even let's go from 4 to Fill in the blank It turned out to be 12 All of those moves had public support This is wildly unpopular I keep doing these Twitter polls Because I know we're going to get Tens of thousands of responses So it's not a small sample size And I keep asking very simply Do you want a 2014 playoff? I did it the other day 84% said no That's not 60% 60% guys It's not a slight majority It's an overwhelming super majority Of college football fans Don't want this thing This is not isolated Many, many, many people With many different social media followings Have conducted similar polls And some of them are even more extreme than this The public doesn't want it They don't want it The people who are responsible For creating the very value You're trying to further cash in on Do not want this And many people Who do support it Only support it To advance different personal interests They have One of them right now Is that one network Controls the entirety Of the playoff contract Now if that rubs you the wrong way I get that rubbing you the wrong way I work for ESPN And personally I'd love to see the thing In everybody's plate But then again That also means They've got to put competitive bids On the table So I'm not just going to sit here And demonize ESPN When they were the only competitive bid Last time this thing was up For negotiation But If that's your motivation At least admit that But we've got a lot of people out here Wearing a clown mask saying, uh-uh, no, 24 would be best. When in reality, all they're doing is trying to create more value for a company they're adjacent to. And the way you find that out quickly is present this scenario to them. Let's say we go to 24, but ESPN maintains total control. How would you like it then? They quickly take the mask off. So these are not people who want expansion for the sake of the betterment of the sport. There's some people who just want skin in the game. I don't have a problem with you feeling that way, as long as you'll just admit why that's your motivation. So to get back on the main road here for a second, the people who are pushing for this are either totally unaware that the public is overwhelmingly against this, or number two, they don't care. And it's at this point, I want to take you back to summer at Big Ten Media Days. And I'm going to tell you why I think it's the latter. I think they're probably aware it's unpopular. I just don't think they care. Here's Tony Petitti at Big Ten Media Days. While the bowl system has done great things for college football for a really long time, when you get into a playoff world like this, it takes up all the air. And so success is defined very specifically about the playoff. And so we've just got to, I just firmly believe we create the access. Look, I know there's things out there we get asked all the time. Well, this fan poll said this, and this poll said that. I'm really confident that, you know, we'll fill our stadiums and we will really large audiences watching these games if we expand. You'll watch. You know, I bet you'll watch. That's the only reason I need, man. I bet you'll watch a complete joke, just a farce, like a complete laughable viewpoint of this sport from a guy who came from Major League Baseball. And I'm not even mad at Tony Petitti. Tony Petitti can't make moves that his bosses don't approve of. I'm not mad at him. It's like when Sankey does, in the name of the SEC. I'm not mad at Greg Sankey. Greg Sankey's not doing anything his university presidents don't allow him to do. So this is an age-old tactic used by really untalented people in positions of leadership. They can't create things themselves. They have very few good ideas themselves. So what they do is they slither their way up the ladder, up the hierarchy. They eventually grab hold of positions of leadership, and then, since they're not creative or talented themselves particularly, they have to latch themselves on to something that works, and then they have to alter that thing that already works so that it can enrich and benefit them. We are currently describing people of that ilk as it relates to college football. They have seen problem after problem arise. They've dug themselves into financial ditch after financial ditch, and they've looked at the little ATM over here in the corner, and it says CFP on it, and that's the best way to do it. That's the bailout. The CFP is the bailout. So you can suck, and you can be as untalented as you want, but you never have to pay the price because all you got to do is go make the ATM a little bit bigger and pull the lever, and voila, here comes the cash. But they know they can't sell you on that. They can't tell you we need to expand this thing because we need to make more money because we suck. We screw things up nine ways from Sunday and should never have our hands on the wheel to begin with. So they have to astroturf you. They have to gaslight you. And in this case, what it sounds like is this. Instead of telling you we need to expand this thing so we can make a whole lot more money, it sounds like, well, we can't schedule better in the regular season until we expand the college football playoff because teams won't schedule tougher if they're scared of not making it in. Now, I know that doesn't fool a lot of you, but these people really do think you're stupid. So they really do believe that fools you. They do believe you will never realize, number one, they control the scheduling apparatus already. And number two, if the playoff rankings process is flawed, guess what? They also control the rankings protocol. It's their system. They can rewrite the rules anytime they want to. It's their member institutions. They can tell them to play any game they want to. They won't because they're trying to weaponize it because it's a lot more convenient to say, hey, Seals, you guys want better regular season games? Support the playoff expansion. Wouldn't it be great to not see big noon kickoff at Kent State, Ohio State? Support playoff expansion. It's a joke. It's a joke. You're just expected to be dumb enough to buy it. I'll continue to ask this, though. Here's how you back someone into a corner on this stuff. Anybody who supports expanding to 24 for the stated logic that they use, I'll ask, why would you stop at 24? If it gives more hope to more teams to go to 24, why would you stop at 24? You're certainly not about maintaining value of regular season. You guys have sold me that you believe expanding to 24 won't dilute the regular season at all. It'll actually make the season more meaningful for more teams. So I'm asking, why 24? Why not 30? Why not 40? Why don't you just chase college basketball? Why basketballs dream of having 64 teams, 70 teams, whatever it is, in the postseason? If expanding to 24 gives us more meaningful games, wouldn't expanding further, by your logic, give us even more meaningful games? If expanding to 24 provides the pathway for more aggressive regular season scheduling, well, imagine how aggressive you'd schedule if you knew eight and four could get me in. Hey, I could get in at seven and five. Hey, man, some six and six teams. The playoffs are the new bowls. You're not going to get in at seven and five. You got to be just above 500. Why wouldn't you just go well beyond 24? You see how bankrupt the logic gets when you really talk through it to a logical conclusion. So these people should never be in charge of anything. And I'm going to tell you right now, this is not a foregone conclusion yet because it takes sign off from all of the power players. And to this point, the Southeastern Conference has not signed off on this. I don't know which direction it's going to take. I don't know which direction it's going to go. But I do know right now, I am not tapping out on this until I see the breaking news in my inbox. In the meantime, we got the greatest sport on the face of the earth right now, and we're right in the middle of a season of it. So I'm not going to waste a whole lot more time on that. What I will tell you is if you guys are going to games this weekend or next weekend or the weekend after that, you got to have tickets. I'm not endorsing trying to sneak in games. You need tickets. You can go to SeatGeek. That is where you can get your tickets. 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Because therapy's expensive, but our podcast is free! Quickly, we went over to the FanDuel Discord, where there's lively conversation, and we were asking about biggest surprises in the season so far this year, of which there have been. There have been many. Now, I had my ideas. I wanted to see where your guys' heads were at. And so one of them, and this is one I would have put in there, one of them said, Mississippi State being on the rise with an out-of-nowhere Heisman hopeful. That's one of the biggest surprises of the year. Gotta be, right? It's gotta be one of the biggest surprises of the year. Jesse, you remember their over-under win total was like four and a half or something like that? And here they are in a, according to the commissioner's poll, top ten showdown, according to the AP, top twenty showdown, with Alabama. And I would venture to guess Camario Taylor is one win over Alabama away from potentially being the Heisman favorite. I could easily see the market reflecting that. And so, like, it's kind of, it's uncharted territory. Like, Mississippi State was bad last year, but not quite as bad as the year before. So we're seeing a natural upward progression from Jeff Levy at Mississippi State, but right now Camario Taylor's got the third-best odds to win the Heisman. Keelan Russell, for that matter, he's tied for fourth. Yeah. Man, what a matchup, dude, this Saturday in Starkville. And just did not think I'd be saying that for week five of the college football season. Next up, oh yeah, yeah, this one's clearly there. Biggest surprise was Ohio State losing a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter. Yeah, I mean, it was week two, and so I was trying not to fall victim to, like, prisoner of the moment. Right? Not trying to be overly hyperbolic, but I remember saying, like, this is genuinely one of the most unbelievable things I have ever seen. We see big leads given up in college football games a lot, not by Ohio State. Like, not in a matchup like that, not with a defense like that. And to think about the stakes, like, even in an expanded playoff era, if Texas loses that game, it is such a baseball bat to the groin, of expectation, of, you know, what you believed about yourself. Like, go back to the third quarter. Go back to the beginning of the fourth quarter. If that score just remains a comfortable three-score Texas or Ohio State lead, think about what the conversation would have been around Texas after that, independent of what they do the rest of the year. Like, there's a Grand Canyons difference in how Texas is viewed right now versus if they had not stormed from behind. I mean, and look, it ends with me, people like me, still thinking Ohio State may be the best team in the country. So that was a lot bigger outcome for Texas, obviously. The next one, yes, this one's pretty baffling, too. Remember week one, Oklahoma State falls to Tulsa. Ramen Noodle Express, one of the best bets of the week. We haven't lost many of them this year, but we lost that one. So this one says, biggest surprise by far is Oklahoma State. Going from that insane losing streak, to beating Oregon and West Virginia back to back and finding themselves ranked in the top 25. Yeah, they didn't even mention the Tulsa game. If the Oregon game was week one, that would be surprising enough. What made the Oregon result more surprising to me was they looked terrible against Tulsa in week one. Like, they could not get out of their own way. It was like the wood was wet for the offense and they kept on trying to light it and nothing would work. And then the very next week, it's, it's look, it looks like, you know, it looked like they thought the Tulsa game was like the final preseason game or something like that. And then Oregon was the beginning of the regular season because they beat them and really beat them worse than the final score would indicate. And then they go to West Virginia last week and they beat them pretty convincingly in their own building. And now, I mean, the good part about that Tulsa game is it's an out-of-conference game. So they're undefeated in Big 12 play. They got an NFL quarterback. They're kind of off to the races. I would agree with this. Lastly, I mean, this one, yeah, these are four for four. I would say the sudden resurgence of the Florida Gators under new head coach, John Summerall. Yeah, probably just how quick it's been so far, but I, I keep trying to be careful. I sent, I sent a, an anonymous text to Summerall last night, short of trying to deflate the hot air balloon a little bit. Someone's got to do that for him because the media is not right now. Copious amounts of rat poison, like they're shipping it by the, by the barrel down to Gainesville. Yeah, man, they look really, really good. Really, really fast. And you know what this does, Jesse? It makes me feel a little more validated about how highly we kept having Florida in the JP poll last year. Because the JP poll, what, what it factors in a whole lot is just talent roster. And I kept going down to Florida and seeing those athletes and saying, dude, that, that team looks good. They just keep losing. Sark and them lost to them last year. And Sark said over the summer, I, I'm going to tell you again, dude, that Florida team we lost to last year, those were really good players, bad record, really good players. Well, a lot of those same players are the ones that are doing this this year. I mean, Jaden Boss still there. Those wide receivers, they were there last year, minus Singleton. So it makes me feel a little bit better. I do want to caution because, because in December, it's easy to see this. But it's hard to see it in the fog of competition. Every year we get too far out, you know, over our skis on overrating a team that, as it turned out, hadn't played anyone. Right now, we think Ole Miss is really good. That blowout win's incredible. I still think it's going to be no matter what. I'm just saying, maybe if Florida loses three games or something like that, and you get to November, maybe Ole Miss ends up being a four loss team. And you look back and you say, you know, in retrospect, had I known Ole Miss was a four loss caliber, team, maybe I wouldn't have overrated Florida. Or maybe they're just that good. Maybe they're going to go smoke Missouri this Saturday, 41 to 20, something like that. I think you could put Keelan Russell here. The tier two of the Big Ten, I think with Penn State, Michigan, USC, Washington, already underachieving relative to expectation. Ohio State's got a loss. I think Oregon's got a loss. Like you could have put the Big Ten kind of being slow out of the gate here. And that's not even mentioned in Michigan, almost having a second loss. Second being the optimum word there. So yeah, there have been some surprises already. All right, let's finish with the Romano Express and let's roll. We're already on three best bets for this week. We're at 60% against the spread right now. But we're focused on the here and now. So Michigan State plus 10 and a half. Cincinnati plus seven and a half. Florida, Missouri over 56 and a half. Those are the three we're already on. I'm adding two more. Let's go Buffalo plus 13 and a half. Let's go Auburn, Tennessee under 54 and a half. I think that number should be 50. So we already got five of them. Bussing and paid 50% off profit boost token, by the way, on any game on FanDuel this weekend. You can also find the Romanoodle Express tab. Like if you miss our picks, go to FanDuel. There's just a tab there. They'll have them all. And what you can't do is lock in the exact lines we're getting because these lines are available when I say them. And then I don't know what the numbers are going to do after that. Also, one final note here. You may have heard we're going to be at a game tomorrow night. So I'm not going to be in my hotel room like I normally am on a Friday night. So I got to figure out when to do Friday night lines. We will do Friday night lines tomorrow night. If I have to do it in the bowels of Lane Stadium, I will do Friday night lines. Wi-Fi pending. Stay tuned. Twitter and Instagram is a good place to follow this. You can only watch it on Instagram. Live, but the handle is the same on both at Josh Pate CFB. So make sure you're following. I will let you know tomorrow what our plans are there. Must be 21 plus and present in select states for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino or 18 plus and present in DC. 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