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hours to talk about everything going on in the world of of college football from the The coaching to the big games that are coming up, everything involved in the playoff. Joining us, welcome back to the show from collegefootballnews.com. It is Pete Fewatak. Pete, how are you, man? I'm doing all right.
A little interesting stuff going on lately. Interesting to say the least. We all know about the issues with Sharon Moore, his personal problems, and the cost of his job, and unfortunately, seemingly larger life issues that we don't know all the details of yet. What happens next, not with him, but at Michigan? There's a lot of.
Names, a lot of names thrown around as to who can be the next coach, who Michigan might poach. What are your thoughts, Pete? Yeah, there's a lot of parts to this. I mean, Do you want if you're Michigan, there's a part of this bunch that's going to want to just be like, you know what? The Jib Harbaugh era was great and Its own way, you got a national championship.
Oh yeah, another appearance to the Excuse me, college football playoff. You got a bunch of wins over Ohio State, but you do probably want to move on from. All the Connor Stallion stuff and all the remnants of that, you go forward and maybe just kind of start anew. Uh so that kind of changes things a little bit. Do you want a Jesse Minter, the defensive coordinator for the Chargers, who was a very integral part of what Harbaugh did over his two last two years there?
Do you want to go with Jed Fish, who from Washington, kind of a new part of this puzzle, who might want to make a kind of a cut the next step up kind of move? But it's Michigan.
So like the crazy part about this is there is no name that's too big. You know, you can you can honestly say it would not be entirely insane to say John Harbaugh might want a like a change of scenery after you know, if he's struggling, or Mike Tomlin, if he's sick of being booed, even though it seems in first place. Uh, in the division, so you know, it's you can name just about anybody. I think it's probably going to be more like a Tommy Reese, an offensive, you know, high-end offensive coordinator, or uh, or uh. A guy who's got some experience like a jet fish.
We gotta wait and see. When do you think something like this will take place? We know that they got the the the Cheez-It bowl coming next. When do you think realistically they can get their hands on a coach? Relatively soon.
I mean, like it's it's actually about the perfect time for this 'cause it's After that first wave of recruiting happened and okay, now Michigan's not in the college football playoff setting.
So, you know, the bowl game, while of course everyone loves it and wants to have fun with it, it's not the end of the world if they don't Play well. And the coaches that they're probably going to go after, they'll probably be relatively free in the next few weeks.
So there's not a huge amount of time needed to change this around. And if it is, for example, like in a perfect timing sort of thing, if it is Fish who is going to be on this list.
Well, they play first. I mean, they play I think it's probably Saturday, uh, the first one I'll play against Boise State.
So he'd be done You know, after this weekend, they start up next week.
So I think it'll go pretty fast, but I think they're so shell-shocked right now. This whole process might take just a little bit longer than that. Pete Fuersek is here with us from College Football News.com. You talk about the college football playoff before this news broke involving Michigan and more. We knew that a lot of the story involved just it seems like light years away, but the fact that Notre Dame is not in the college football playoff.
And we know with the current system, you got to get some of the lower conferences in. That's what occurred. What are your thoughts on how this system has played out where we have teams that we know are better and we got teams kind of getting handouts here?
Well, there's a lot of parts is. First of all, you gotta have some way of playing your way in. I don't mind having, you know, the automatic. The the College Football Playoff Committee screwed this up. And I do agree that you've got to have a way that no matter who you are, if you're UMass or Akron or Notre Dame or Alabama, you've got to know that, you know, once you start the season, that there's a way to get in.
You can't have it where eighty teams are eliminated from the playoffs in the national championship chase before the ball is first kicked off. There's no way to do that. You gotta make it somewhat like that. Another way to think about it is that James Madison and Tolaine, while awful. Matchups for what's going to happen because that first Saturday of college football playoff is awful, especially going against the NFL.
But it's a reward, you know, for the five and the six. you know, it's kind of like the NCAA tournament, you know, the the three seed gets the fourteen and you know, two gets the fifteen.
So there's it's something that's all right in a certain way. The problem was in the process. And the way that they did this and to have the college football playoff committee say, well, we didn't like how BYU played in the championship, but the way Alabama played in the SEC championship, that was okay.
Well, BYU lost to the number four team, and it was 24-7, with seven minutes to go, and there were a few, you know, oh, by the way, points later. It was seven minutes to go in the SEC Championship. Alabama was down 28-7, and Georgia just stopped. There was minus three rushing yards for the game. Alabama looked awful.
That was against the number three team. And for them to come out and say, well, You know, we're gonna keep Alabama there 'cause that performance was all right, but we're gonna drop BYU one spot. You gotta you can't do it both ways. Either you say, look, the loser of the conference championship is not going to get punished. Which, you know, Ohio State only dropped the two, so it wasn't punished because you had to put Indiana higher, so there was a backstop there.
So either you have to say, we're going to keep the conference championship losers. Where they are, which then Notre Dame gets in, or we're gonna drop them both one spot, and even in that case, Notre Dame gets in. And the Irish's beef is legit because You know, even though Miami's good, Miami could win the national championship. They have the talent. It's just about the process here.
When they first did the first round of college football playoff rankings came out, both teams had two losses. The head-to-head was baked into the cake. Notre Dame was 10, Miami was 18. And for them to kind of twist this all the way up to get Miami in, it's just Notre Dame's like screaming and yelling.
Well, when do you think? We get an adjustment. Are we more likely to see additional teams here in the playoff and it move to sixteen as opposed to a real adjustment with how they get seated? Honestly, all they gotta do is be more transparent about it. They are the worst.
ever at communicating what they're doing. You they come out with this show every Tuesday night and the committee chair comes out and comes all cheeky and, you know, says, Well, we might do this. I don't know if we're gonna do that. You gotta have something that the teams can go on so you don't get blindsided. Because Norway basically throughout the entire college football playoff rankings process, The committee was yelling at Notre Dame: you're fine.
We think you're good. You're safe. And so for them to twist this at the very last second, yeah, North Ams ticked, and I can see why, because it's not fair. The other part of this thing, too, that it You can just, you don't need to blow this up. You can tweak it and just say, look, all five all four Power 4 champions are in.
Because at the end of the day, If they just put Duke in, that's fine. If they put Duke at 24 and James Madison at 25, That's fine, now you're good. Because they could have argued and said, Look, they're a power four champion, they have seven wins over over against power four teams, James Madison has zero wins. Over Power 14. But instead, all they did was they record rank and put in a bunch of record teams in.
Yeah, it's uh it's screwed up. There's no doubt about that. Pete Fuatek is here with us from college footballnews.com. One thing that was pretty cut and dry, we saw how the game went, we saw the end result, was Indiana going out there and beating Ohio State. Like, is that going to go down as being their best win of the season?
Like, is that their peak, or can we see them walk away with a championship? And they can, they got the talent. I mean, that's the best win their history. I mean, it's crazy that it is but I think this is more about Ohio State. And you remember they did this last year where for some bizarre reason, sometimes they just don't take the car out of third gear.
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The defense was great. But India has got defense too, and Ohio State didn't push it very hard. And if you remember, it did this last year where. Everybody forgets how bad Michigan was. Like it got totally memory dumped that that Michigan team last year was literally the worst in the country at completing forward passes down the field.
But somehow they just got how they went ultra conservative, and then boom, it just all of a sudden turned into 1310 Michigan. They lost. I think this is kind of the wake-up call. The Big Ten Championship didn't matter. Both teams are in the top two.
And now I think you're going to see Ohio State start to open up a bit. But yeah, Indiana's that good. But remember, they needed a last-second pass to get past a tough or a mediocre, I should say. Penn State team. They had a rough time to get by Oregon.
Great win, no doubt about it, but it was a hard time, and they had a hard time getting by Iowa.
So, good team. I do think they're gettable, though.
Well, let me ask you this. You talk about anything involving Indiana at this point in time. I can't believe that it's it's here, but it is. In a couple of days, we're going to have the Heisman that that'll be awarded. Who are you favoring in that one?
This seems like one of the more quiet Heisman awards or races that we've had in recent memory. Worst Heisman race ever, at least as long as I've been doing it. There's nobody there. I mean, it literally was. You know, nine o'clock on Saturday night, and I still didn't really know who I was putting on my ballot.
I I can't say who I put on because they get really mad about that and they get in trouble. Uh but in terms of just flat out predicting who's gonna win, I will be shocked if it's not Mendoza, just mainly because they did it differently this year. And in the past they would send out the Heisman ballots early 'cause they wanted as many voters as possible. But the problem is people were sending them in early and then weren't watching the late games and when You really started magic. You had some weird Heisman finalists and things like that happening.
So this year, they opened it up on Friday.
So they give it a little more space.
So I don't I'm guessing again, I'm guessing how this is out work, is I'm gonna guess that all the Julie and Feyen votes came in before the Big Ten championship. Um and I you know Jeremiah Love, I just don't think enough people were paying attention to him. He's good enough to be a finalist. Diego Pavia is going to get all the SEC votes because SEC people just think that nothing else exists outside of that.
So he probably gets all of that. And I think Mendoza probably ends up winning it just because he's the last thing anybody got to see out there. Yeah.
Well, shoot. I mean, next time we well, we won't see him. I'm just thinking very, very forward about his future. We know the Heisman's going to be in New York City. Hopefully, he's not calling New York City his home sooner than later at the professional level.
You don't like him? You don't like him as a pro quarterback? And I don't like him on the New York Jets in the future. I think that might be the worst case situation, Pete.
Well, there's a lot of good quarterbacks. This is going to be a massive year for quarterbacks.
So there's going to be a lot of options out there between Dante Moore of Oregon, Lawrence Stellars from South Carolina. It's going to be a pretty good year for quarterbacks this season. Poor Dante Moore is dodging anonymous bullets from Troy Aikman right now about. Kirina. And Pete Fiotek is here.
Well, we know the teams that got some buys. We talked about Indiana, Ohio State, Georgia, Texas Tech. We should get some good matchups here in the playoffs. Who are you favoring overall to walk away with that trophy in January? Ohio State.
I mean, I think there are four teams that have the talent. To pull this off, Ohio State. Uh Indiana, Georgia, and Miami. If Miami has its head on straight, it's got the NFL guys. where they could go on a four-game run and pull this off.
I'm not buying into Alabama at all. Texas saying that's fine. I don't think the SEC was all that great this year. It was okay, not a total killer. Georgia's offense is going to have to perk up, but that defense is coming to board at the right time.
But it's coming together at the right time against other SEC teams, which I think gives it kind of a little bit of a false sense of greatness.
So, I do I'm going to stay with my pick of Ohio State. I they're just better. I do think that they They do kind of change things up a little bit and they start playing differently. And we have a little bit of the thing like we had last year. And the thing that stinks about this is the LET that I was good.
all along I said gonna play for the national championship was Notre Dame. They're better than last year's team. They are healthy. Last year's team was all banged up. This year's team is a lot better.
So two losses came before September seventh hit.
So it was a long time ago, and that was a team that I think was going to rip through this. And I think, you know, if Snorting was just a team that's going to be like, yeah, okay, well, really on the bubble, they were kind of limping into this. That would be a problem, but Norway people are so mad because they were like, wait a minute, we actually could have won this thing. Yeah, now they're on the outside uh looking in as uh JM, you good old purple, gold, and that ugly dog mascot. Man, if they win this, imagine if they actually went on a run.
Win what, Peter? What are we talking about? What are we doing? This isn't the NCA tournament. You can't just get hot from three and all of a sudden pull off the upset.
I will be absolutely stunned if this is not 52-6 or right, that Oregon just doesn't come out and rip. Oregon is, I think, their 22-point favorites here. I think. I think it may go a whole lot more than that. Christmas coming early for a lot of people out there.
And look at the point total, too. Oregon's probably going to hit that point total by itself. Damn you've got a defense, though. Damn you, you know, they played a tough defense at times this year. Get some.
Okay, team, so we'll see what they can do. Pete, one of my favorite, I don't know if it's a cult classic movie, it's Taken, right? You've seen Taken? I have not seen taken.
Okay, there's. We'll take a look at it maybe tonight or whenever. There's a good thing from Liam Neeson, the crook. He tells the guy, I'm going to go find my daughter. He tells the kidnapper over the phone, I'm going to find my daughter.
The kidnapper says, Good luck, and he clicks the phone. And so on that one for JMU. Yeah, look up Liam Neeson lately on social media. Good luck to him, too. He's having himself a day.
Uh oh, it it's oh oh boy.
Okay. I'll just leave it at that. I'm not I will not get political in any way. I'm just oh boy. Just look on social media and it's it's funny you mentioned Liam Neeson because uh uh there's a lot of clicking happening on that dude right now.
Uh oh. But yeah, I I I I like the line though. It actually absolutely fits. Good luck. Thanks for playing.
Actually, I like the line from a really obscure movie. It was about Bear Bryant back in the day, one of those ESPN movies. Here's a bus ticket and a peanut butter sandwich. Have a good one. Good luck.
Good luck to you. Have a good one. Liam Neeson might need some luck. I'm going to Google that right now. You're educating me, Pete.
A lot of controversy on the internet, as we know. From Michigan, I'm Liam Neeson. It's busy. What else is new? It's the internet.
Hey, Pete, tell everybody where they can follow you, my man.
Well, we're you know, we're b busting through this and there will the games will be fun. The bowl games, once they get started, these matchups might not be scintillating to most people, but you're gonna watch because they're gonna be on at holiday parties and what else are you gonna do? Talk to your family or something.
So we're previewing them all at collegefootball news dot com. We're previewing, predicting every game and all the highs and stuff. And hopefully this becomes interesting really fast. Hey, Pete, always appreciate the Tom. Happy holidays.
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