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Speaker 1: The rules and parameters are dropping for the 2014 college football playoff.
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Speaker 2: So let's get to it and break it all down in the campus. Kono DTT.
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Speaker 1: All right. So my man Ross Dellinger of Yahoo Sports, he put together a nice little graphic that breaks down all of what this 2014 playoff was.
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Speaker 2: Is going to look like.
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Speaker 1: So we'll just start with the field of 24, which the four conference champions, you already know that, ACC, Big 10, Big 12, and SEC. Then one, the highest ranked team from the American Conference, USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, or Sun Belt.
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Speaker 2: So they only get one.
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Speaker 1: And then after that, you have the 19 highest ranked remaining teams in the CFP selection committee's final rankings. So do we feel like that this is going to be the SEC invitational or will we get a nice medley of teams?
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be the brand invitational. I think I talked about this a long time ago when they extended the field from four to 12 and we would go through the top 12 rankings in what had been a four system, right? if you were to take the 12 teams that were ranked in those spots and you would see a team like even a James Madison who was playing well at that time or whatever, some of these other, you know, smaller brand schools, they would do everything they can to give the benefit of the doubt to the major brand team. And then kick JMU to 13th in that regard.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: I do wonder if, Even if we get a James Madison that sees the field this past year, I do wonder if this allows you to, oh, OK, you think that now a bunch of these little guys are going to get a fair shot and you actually see them get kicked to 25th. Right. Instead of still being in the top 24. And so it might be the SEC invitational. It might be a few teams from the Big Ten getting in as well. I don't think it will only be the SEC invitational, but I think because a lot of the big brands are in that conference, I think maybe it will look like that. Really, it's going to be the do you have a recognizable logo?
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Speaker 2: Sure. Now we have an opportunity to put you in.
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Speaker 1: I think the SEC is going to dominate as far as teams per year, so I guess you could kind of sort of call it that. If we'd have gone off of what the poll was last week, they would have had 10 teams in. Now, we know that some of these teams are going to fall. Florida got absolutely roasted, so they will no longer be in the top 25. They were 24 last week. Missouri also lost. We'll see how far they will drop. LSU lost, so they did have some losses, but you would expect LSU to still stay strong. in that top 24. So also, when we look at this, there are new scheduling requirements that have come out with this as well. And a couple of other tidbits that are there. The Heisman Trophy celebration will be now one week earlier. It will preserve one of college football's most cherished traditions, as they call it. No CFP games will be scheduled in conflict with the Army-Navy games. So you've got that. That's still going to be showcased at that level. But the CFP Management Committee has adopted scheduling standards that will incentivize schools to schedule additional compelling non-conference games and regular season matchups. And so that is also going to where these schools are going to have to play 10 power four teams per year.
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Speaker 2: So it says each A4 institution.
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Speaker 1: Will be expected to play at least 10 qualifying regular season games consisting of the following conference games, non-conference games versus A4 conference opponents and Notre Dame. Now this definitely got me excited because we're going to get more quality matchups.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get more Big game.
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Speaker 1: So this definitely made this even more palatable for me, because like I said, for me, it's more football. I think that with the parody being what it is now, I think it will have an interesting impact on a 2014 playoff. But I love these scheduling requirements now. with you having to play 10 powerful opponents.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the big one.
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Speaker 3: The fact that you just want the better games as much as possible, even if it does mean that you get more football, we want more good football. And if we get more good football, then really it's going to be a thumbs up type of thing. Even if you don't necessarily want the bigger brands in because you kind of want the little guy to get a shot. How often is that true? It's the age old debate that we have in the NCAA tournament. Really, you do just want a lot of the best games and you want them as frequently as possible. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And these teams, they're going to, you know, they're going to beat up on each other.
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Speaker 1: And so that's going to be the interesting part of all this, because when you get to the whole scheduling of it all and how these games are going to flow, you're going to have these teams that will play.
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Speaker 2: Hold on. I had to find it.
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Speaker 1: But as far as the scheduling, the top eight CC's one through eight will each earn A first round playoff by and host a CFP second round game on campus. And then seeds nine through 16 will each host a CFP first round game on campus. And then see 17, 24 through 24 would each travel to those first round games hosted.
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Speaker 2: On those campuses.
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Speaker 1: So I think that the first round games, you're going to get strong opponents, but it's not going to be, you know, the juggernauts at the top in the first round. So I think that that will help for better first round games to where you won't have as many teams, you know, coming in to play the Big Ten runner up. That's the 11th or the 12th seed and they get absolutely smashed. I think it'll be a little bit more even. in the first round and give teams a chance to get rolling because the scheduling was a big part of this as well with the breaks that the kids would have. So now I think when you get into that second round and you're playing some of these top seeds, I think you'll have a little bit better matchups. These teams will have a game under their belt. Some of them will have good momentum, confidence, all that stuff. I think that the scheduling works out pretty good.
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Speaker 3: What do we think about just the sheer volume of games that we're going to get? I mean, even from a, okay, fan perspective, everybody loves football. Some of these games are going to be on weeknights. Yeah, that's going to be the simple take. But weeknights and then, I mean, how many games are you adding to the team that wins the college football championship? So I guess if you were to roll through every single round, then you're talking about four games?
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Speaker 2: Five. Well, four. Yes, four games.
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Speaker 1: So you're basically playing the NFL schedule.
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Speaker 3: You're playing an NFL schedule if you're a top two team in college football, which is ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Or if you're a top nine team. Really? Or top eight, excuse me, top eight.
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Speaker 3: Either way, it's a lot more college football for these guys.
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Speaker 1: Oh, and I see what you're saying when you say top two, because if you make it to the championship game, that's an extra one for you.
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Speaker 2: I wonder how much of a problem is going to be there.
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Speaker 3: One, because of the sheer volume of games, is that ever going to get to a space where that outweighs you playing for actual stakes on the line? Or do we actually see some of the bowl techniques come into play where guys actually will sit out after? I don't think they would sit out because you're actually playing for a championship, but that's a lot of games where It's a lot of money you might be risking if you are a, you know, top pick. But if you're a top pick, I guess you're already making some money via NIL anyway. I'm just trying to like I'm trying to think of some of the unforeseen circumstances.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it makes that 100 percent because.
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Speaker 1: I've been wondering, too, with some of these players talking about this sit out. And I wonder if those are stipulations that are being put into some of these contracts that they will play in all of the games.
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Speaker 2: I think it should be. But we'll see, because.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, when they talk about these guys sitting out the bowl games now, but I'm like, you're getting paid now.
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Speaker 2: So I think you should pay if you're I mean, you should play.