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Are there any surprises? Any teams that need to maybe make some moves the rest of the season so they can get into the playoff? Joining us right now is someone who covers all things college athletics. You can check them out at palmbrackets.com. Welcome back to the show, Jerry Palm.
Jerry, how are you, man? I'm all right. How are you? Very well.
Well, we just saw the rankings. I don't think there was anything surprising or shocking at the top. I I just rattled rattled off Ohio State, Indiana, Texas AM, Alabama, and Georgia, Ole Miss at six. BYU undefeated there at number seven. What caught your attention, either in the top twelve or elsewhere?
Yeah, I think the You know, it was, um I think pretty easy to predict really what this committee was going to do. I think you had some pretty clear lines. strength of schedules are still being sorted out as especially for the But major conferences which most of these uh rankings are going to be uh the teams in these rankings are going to be is um you know, they're they're some of these schedules are pretty backloaded.
So they're not going to get their schedule really built up until we get through the end. And especially as you get some of these rivalry games at the end.
So Um, it's uh, yeah, I think there's not much of a surprise there. Certainly, those teams that you listed at the top of these rankings. very little in the way of surprises. Uh there's no group of five team in these rankings, so that's Interesting as well.
Now the One of those teams, you know, because there are five conference champions that automatically gets in, which means at least one. from the group of five, one conference champion. And if none of them are in the ranking, in the final rankings as well, then the committee will just choose that team, that that fifth conference champion. Jerry Palm is here with us from PalmBrackets.com. No surprises here on the rankings, but I think overall for the season, Indiana, I mean, everything from beating the Ducks and smashing Illinois and given Kurt Signetti that extension, I mean, it's inevitable that we're going to see Indiana and Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship game.
What are your thoughts on what Indiana has been able to do up until this point? Yeah, it just it's really a remarkable turnaround. And of course, Part of it is a function of our new era, right? With the and IL and all of this money available to turn rosters, entire rosters over. Uh, the way that you know, if you have enough money, you can do that kind of thing in Indiana.
decided that they were going to invest in football. And they went out and they got Kurt Signetti, and they devoted a lot of money to roster building, and it was pretty successful last year. They couldn't beat the good teams, the very good teams, but they had a great record. They didn't lose the teams they shouldn't lose to this year You could they go into Oregon and they win that game. And now you're thinking, okay, this team is actually for real in terms of being an actual national title contender.
You didn't quite get that feeling about them last year, but this year's team Now you have to believe is going to be part of that short list of teams that people are talking about when the playoff bracket's announced. I am. Uh Their quarterback, Freddie Mendoza, has been tremendous. What a find he's been for that team. And it's really.
pushed this team to another level even from last year. And it's weird. uh as someone from Indiana to talk about Indiana football like this when they have been like it. for decades with the you know the occasional winning season here and there. you know if you'd have told somebody in 1987 When they won their last basketball title, they might win another basketball title someday, but the football team has to win one first.
You know You think, okay, that's never going to happen.
Well, it could happen this year, but that could. It could happen.
Well, we know Ohio State, we saw right out of the gate they went out there and beat Texas after that game. People started to beat up on Arch Manning. But Ohio State's defense as elite, Julian Sayn, has been playing out of his mind as well. And it just seems that, for all things considered, Ohio State and Ryan Day, they look great last year. And I guess it's a good thing that things are quiet this year.
Yeah, but they might actually be better this year. Yeah, it's hard to say that really because They've been better in the regular season than last year. You remember last year they didn't get a buy. They had the They had to work their way through. uh you know, from the uh play and game round.
uh all the way through to the title.
Well, this year they're going to get a buy. And they're probably going to be considered the favorite. if they don't stub their toe between now and then, and that that could happen because you've got an Ohio State, Indiana Big Ten championship game pretty much locked in at this point.
So, yeah, they look terrific. Yes, they've been good. Their defense is tremendous. You know, they Arch Manning did not have a good game against them. And everybody's ripping on Manning and I'm j and I'm just saying that Ohio State does that to a lot of teams.
They make a lot of good teams look bad. That's why they're so good. And You know, uh he struggled most of the season Manning has. I'm sorry I'm getting off your question here, but Um he really looked good last time out, so maybe things the lights still went on for him. Possibly Jerry Palm is here with us from palmbrackets.com.
There's a couple of teams that are on the outside looking in. They've looked good throughout the course of the season, but have taken some L's. We saw Georgia Tech just go out there and lose to NC State. They've fallen in the rankings. Miami hasn't looked good.
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Listen to and follow Unpaused with me, Dr. Mary Claire Haver. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. Beck looks like he's come back down to earth. What do you think their prospects are on still ultimately getting into the playoff?
Are they too far gone at this point?
Well, I don't know that they even control their own Georgia Tech, you're talking about, right? I don't know that they even control their own state for the conference title now. getting into the championship game. Uh that league is a mess. And NC States had something to do with it because they'd be two of the contenders.
Um, but it's yeah, Louisville looks Yeah, Miami looked like the the best team for the first half of the season. And they were really hot. And then Louisville beats them at their place. And now Louisville looks like the best team. Georgia Tech schedule.
have have been really bad. They I don't think they've played a ranked team yet. a team that's currently in the rankings yet. Uh, and they will play Georgia at the end, but you know, for them to be an at-large team. you know, for the playoff, they're probably going to have to beat Georgia.
And I guess we've seen stranger things happen, but if they don't beat Georgia and they don't make the ACC title game, Top twelve may be difficult for them to attain.
Well, one scene that we know is is pretty much undefeated at this point. They beat LSU. They got Mizzou coming up next. Texas AM. You want to talk about being a quiet, undefeated, but Was there a full expectation that they would be doing this at this point this year?
I don't think That people had Texas AM on their short list of teams to win that league. I mean, Texas, of course, Alabama. Georgia, the usual suspects. I don't think anybody really thought A and M would be there, but they they wanted Notre Dame, which was big for them.
So it's Now Their only win over team currently in the rankings.
So their schedule hasn't been great, but they do have. Mizzou this week is a ranked team and probably will be at the end. And they have Texas at the end of the season, of course, and those are both road games.
So A and M is going to get tested again. The three best teams that they will have played will have all been road games.
So, if they get through this and they get to an SEC title game, they've really earned that spot.
Well, Jerry, we know one team that if the playoff would be today, we know that's not the case. That happens to be Texas, who you just mentioned. They finish up their season against Texas. AM. And we know that Arch Manning hasn't been consistent.
There's been the ups and the downs. The defenses really carried them. What are your thoughts on Texas for the rest of the season? Yeah, they've boy, they have a difficult schedule. Um Texas has got to play probably more ranked teams than anybody in that league over the course of the full season.
Uh but they have Vanderbilt At home, they're in the top 15. They have to go to Georgia. They finish with AM, that's two top five teams.
So If they get through even it Ten and two. That's going to be pretty impressive against a really good schedule that also we talked about earlier, including Ohio State.
So that's that's um That would be a pretty good accomplishment. I think the ten and two t tack the Has a pretty good shot to be in that Final Twelve if they can get there, but they're going to have to beat at least one good team to do that. He had no massive surprises here with this new Well, now it's more than one year, this twelve uh team bracket. At what point do you think we're going to get an expansion on the the college football playoff? It seems that twelve is okay.
I mean, we've advanced past the four that were automatically selected and placed there. When can we realistically look at an expansion?
Well, probably not till the T V deal is up, which I think we've only got. you know, is it this year, maybe one more? Um so I I think as soon as they can you know, get free to a point where they can head take a new bracket to T V providers and and broadcasters and have something to negotiate with. then I think they'll go ahead and do it. I don't know if it'll be fourteen or sixteen.
If you're going to expand, you might as well go to sixteen because it makes for a nice looking bracket. No, but Uh I don't know if they have thoughts of doing more than that. And of course, The Big Ten Commissioner has talked about Having automatic, you know, like four automatic berths for his league and four for the SEC. Yeah, I'm not in favor of that. Go out and earn them.
If you're if you're really that good, just go earn them.
Well, I mean, Jerry, even outside of of what we already have at twelve, I mean, sure, you have the entertainment value, and you got to have people watch and pay attention, and have schools invested, and we know it's all about cash. Is is twelve even necessary and now we want to tack on more?
Well, is it necessary? but you're not adding another round to the tournament. You're going to have a 12-team bracket and a 16-team bracket go just as deep. It's just that there's. fewer gains in that first round than you would have It was 16 team brackets.
So I I think it's all right. You know, you don't want what you don't want is for somebody else to have to play, you know, like a fourth game. to win. You know.
So as long as you're not adding games adding teams to the bracket is okay. once you get past sixteen, then you've got a problem because now you're making the the the a team coming from that first round have to win. what, four times? to to be a champion. And that I think that's just asking too much.
Yeah, well we'll we'll see what happens. That's a couple of years out, and we just got the first release. of the college football playoff rankings. I can't believe it. We're going to blink and it's going to be a little bit more than a month.
And we're already going to be staring at the first round of the playoff. Hey, Jerry, thank you so much for your time and your expertise. Tell everybody where they can follow you and all your work. Yeah, I'm at palmbrackets.com. I have college football.
Obviously, we're in the heat of college football season. But I also have college basketball, which just started yesterday. And I have a preseason bracket up for college basketball as well. and I'm doing brackets weekly for football. And of course now predicting the rankings each week before they come out.
Um So uh you can follow me there at palmbrackets.com. Hey Jerry, we appreciate you. We'll catch you down the line, okay? All right, thank you. No doubt about it.
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