Fake Outrage Surrounding College Football Playoff Rankings? (Hour 2)

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That's 855-212-4227. Big night in the NBA. We have the Golden State Warriors in Boston taking on the Celtics in about 30 minutes from now. We already showed a little bit of a clip of Steve Kerr with a smile on his face walking towards the basketball court where I'm sure he will be cursed out all game long. All night long.

I'm almost certain of it. Hickey, what are some of the words that Steve Kerr is going to hear? Go ahead. Tell us.

Oh yeah. How about this? You go first and I'll follow. Okay. Let's see.

I can give it. This is, is this a name telling somebody that they suck? That's not a name, right?

Does that count? No. Yeah.

Not a name. Okay. Try. Dumb ass.

I'm sure he'll hear probably at least 20 times. You're bum. You're bum. Bum. Okay.

Keep going. Alternate. Your turn.

You're an idiot. Okay. Uh, clown.

Oh, good one. Keep going. Elevate.

Elevate. Come on. You are a fool. You fool.

Why don't you play Tatum? You fool. You foolish clown.

That can't be yours. Come on. We just, we use those two words. Oh, these, I'm trying to keep a job here, you know.

Me too. Trying to see if you knew some of the words they're going to call Steve Kerr. And that's the bad thing. You know, as a, as a player, when you get cursed out, you are on the court.

Like there's a separation, right? And then when you go to the bench, you're walking past really the scorers table. And then the bench is kind of insulated amongst the coaches. When you are the coach, when you're Steve Kerr, like you're standing up your back, your fourth, you are just almost in proximity of the fans the whole time. Like the best thing is maybe the fans in his vicinity are either nice or they get bored of yelling at him. Uh, they got to get bored eventually, right? You would think, and especially for the most part, people sitting within earshot or paying a lot of money and maybe not to say that they're not the most diehard Celtics fan.

So maybe they're there for the experience or the view, or was invited by a friend and maybe their passion towards Jason Tatum's benching is not as strong as maybe the guy sitting up in section 538. Nah, I think they're going to, I think they're going to be ready. I think they, I think they've been waiting on this for months. Do you think anybody shows up with a Steve Kerr clown face shirt?

Got to have at least one or two of those right? Of course, somebody does. I don't know if they'll, it'd be cool if it's in his vicinity, you know, get the, the one shot with that in the background.

I don't know. That would be funny. That'd be very funny.

People are just waiting to see what Tatum does. I, you can go ahead and include me in that one. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

It's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Brent is calling up from Illinois. You're on the JR sport re-show. Hey, Brent, did you ask me about the Tennessee Titans and Patriots game? Was that you?

Yes, it was. Oh my God. Okay. I'm preparing myself for what you'll ask next.

Go ahead. Oh, well, you know, a couple of days ago you brought up, um, you talked, you did a, uh, rhyme or a poem about a little orphan auntie. Remember that two days ago? I just mentioned, I didn't do it. I did a rhyme.

It's a hard knock life. Yeah. I talked about Daddy Warbucks. What about it? Yeah. Yeah. Um, little orphan Annie has created my hometown where I live in right now, Lombard, Illinois.

Okay. Do you, did you grow up knowing little orphan Annie? Was she real?

No. Um, you know, the creator is how it looks like the doll house looks like a house. It's, you know, the balcony and everything. And, um, that was like in 1924 when little orphan Anne was created in my hometown, Lombard. Oh, lovely. Amazing. I wasn't around. Were you?

No, I wasn't. Okay. All right. What else? Okay. You know, a story about, um, a BB King's guitar, Lucille store behind it.

I know there was about 20 of them girls. That's all I know. No, no. And it's ironic.

You're talking about this fight. Uh, BB King named his guitar Lucille after two men got into a fight over a woman named Lucille. Oh, creative.

Okay. The more, you know, did you know that or did you Google that? No, I, well, I Googled it, but I knew that from high school, like back in the eighties when a music teacher brought up a story, he was, he was like in Arkansas. He played at a gig and there's a care scene, um, heater. And then two men got into a fight over a woman named Lucille and, uh, in the place, the dance hall got was burning and you, he left, BB King left, but, but forgot his guitar and walked back into the dance hall to get it.

He named that guitar and the rest of his guitars Lucille to remind him, don't do anything stupid, like leaving his guitar or getting in a fight over a woman. Okay. Well, the more, you know, I feel like I, I learned something today, Brent. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Yeah. Anytime, Jar. Thank you for having me on. Oh, absolutely.

Thank you so much. Brent from Illinois had no hickey. Did you know that? No idea. Why is something new every day from Brent?

I'm going to take that with me for the rest of my life. Why did BB? I thought it was maybe after some of his, not, not a wife. I don't think BB King was a wife and anybody up.

I think he was just kind of doing what it do. Uh, I thought it was named after, I know, come on named after a woman, right? I don't know. No men named Lucille.

You know, a man named Lucille. I do not. No, sorry. Not yet. It's 2024.

Not yet. Don't worry about it. You'll know a man named Lucille in a couple of years. Um, yeah, I would say useless information, but Hey, the more, you know, why not?

8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Mark is here from Tampa. You're on the JR sport. We show us a mark. Hello, JR. How are you? I'm amazing.

What's up? Um, I was just calling Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr doesn't really care.

When Steve Kerr was a freshman at the University of Arizona, his father was the ambassador from the US to Lebanon. And he was killed. He was assassinated. So he's been through everything.

He was also a walk-on prelude also. His father was assassinated when he was 20 years old. So he doesn't really care about his Celtic thing. Well, well, well, Mark. Well, well, thank you for bringing that up.

I think a lot of people are well aware of that. I didn't think it came up. Oh no, it didn't.

It didn't come up. I was well aware, but I didn't think bringing up his deceased father was, uh, you know, I didn't think it was worth kind of going to that extent. Uh, nobody had mentioned about the Steve Kerr being intimidated. It was a matter of, I can't wait to see what type of crap they give him. I don't think Steve Kerr is going to go on the back and cry.

Okay. This is someone who was ready to get, if we want to keep the basketball, not, not his, uh, unfortunate circumstance. Well, I mean, with his rotate, well, Steve, well, not Steve Kerr, uh, Stephen Curry is back. Uh, he, he's been back from his ankle injury and Steve Kerr has been throwing out about a rotation. That's like 12 guys deep. There is no Jalen Brown playing tonight. Jalen Brown is dealing with a hip issue. And so it might be on Tatum to go out there and light it up.

So who knows, at least there should be more of a competitive game with no Brown, but her, her won the gold medal anyway. So what's the point? Yeah.

Well, that's all that matters to him. Thank you, Mark, for calling from here. Thank you so much. Damn. Hickey. Did it have to get that dark for Mark? I guess it did. Yeah. He's like, Oh yeah, the guy's dad was assassinated.

I don't think he cares what the Celtic fans say. Oh, Oh wow. Damn. Okay. Thanks Mark. Right. Okay. Yeah. I needed that. I heard about that.

I think I've heard that story. Unfortunately, a lot of times, and unfortunately Steve Kerr has had to live with that his entire life. So yes, I think in the big grand scheme of life, he is not worried about the guy behind him who says he's Steve Kerr.

You suck. Um, but just on basketball things terms, I also don't think he's worried about it. I mean, this man has been in the NBA for the better part of, I don't know, about 40 years now. This man is an NBA lifer. It's kind of crazy when you look in the record books, he is already coached. Like I think he's in the top 10 of games coached all time already. Like Steve Kerr just got here.

Oh, not, not necessarily. There was a point Hickey, do you remember he was on TV? He was on television. Barely remember, but you are, was he his piano?

I forget where, but that was, I guess about a decade ago he was doing TV. And you, if you recall, he had a choice between working for Phil Jackson with the New York Knicks or going on to coach the golden state warriors. Safe to say he chose wrong. He chose, he chose wrong. Right.

Sure. And good on him. Good on him. Let's see, let's see what he does. And you know, right before we went to break, we talked about coaches. You know, Steve Kerr is one coach. He don't have to worry about getting fired one day after Steph Curry retires, Steve Kerr is going to be like, I'm out.

They're not going to have to worry about, uh, you know, putting him out to pasture. But we did talk about some college football coaches, guys who are kind of right on the edge of getting the boot. Uh, Barrett Sali is going to join us in about 10 minutes to talk about the college football playoff rankings that we just got yesterday. But we did mention Brett Napier or excuse me, Billy Napier, who's probably going to stick around with the Gators knowing how his team has competed after now dropping two QBs and in Mike Norvell, who is owed an ungodly amount of money, $65 million with the contract ending in 20 31. We heard from Billy Napier in the last break. Let's take a listen. This is Mike Norvell today.

The team is one and eight. They just got smacked around by North Carolina. He's getting ready to take on Notre Dame. And he actually said he has a lot of optimism about the team moving forward.

Listen to this. I want to make sure that, you know, these guys, you know, they see it from us, you know, um, you know, our, uh, effort that we have into helping develop and port into them. And, you know, we've got some great, you know, some great, uh, you know, ability and talent on this team, um, that I do think has, has really, really bright futures as they continue to grow in those, especially those younger classes.

Um, and you know, I'm excited to see what, uh, what those guys are going to be able to do as, as each day goes by. Meanwhile, you, you, you got crystal ball down in Miami telling everybody that we, with the hurricanes, we just run Florida, like the whole state. Gators done fell apart and Seminoles done fell apart. Like we, we run all of this and here you got Miami already. They're ranked in a college football playoff and you got the other Florida teams. They're just on the outside looking in. Uh, Hickey, I could not believe today following the rankings last, last night, why so many people are upset where some of the teams are ranked specifically, you take a look at a team like BYU, people want to look at their, their schedule and what they do. Why are people so interested?

This is the first edition of it. Well, what's the be up in arms about? I think the frustration centers around the lack of consistency when it comes to evaluating teams. That's all like if you want to judge a team based on, let's say who they beat, for example, or the fact that they're undefeated. Okay, well then if you're going to do that, then just be consistent to if you're going to reward, let's say Oregon for being number one, cause they're undefeated. Well, make sure that right behind them is Miami, BYU, Indiana, cause they are also undefeated. If you're going to prioritize who you play, well then make sure it seems like BYU who have two top 20 victories are ahead of teams that have zero top 25 victories. Talking about them beating SMU and Kansas state.

That's right. And SMU is on the road. That's a good win. SMU is 13.

That's a solid, solid win, especially in the committee's eyes because they think so highly of SMU, but yet here you are sitting BYU behind Indiana with zero ranked wins behind Penn State zero ranked wins. Like what are you doing? If you know you're not getting one of the buys, if you know that, and you know, you're going to be in the second tier and this is the first edition of it.

What are you going to do? Why do you care so much? Like we know who's going to sit at the top. You're not sitting at the top. You're going to have to play multiple rounds. So what's the big deal?

Well, why people up in arms about it? You don't know right now, like you still have a month to go before this, you know, season ends and you can move up in part based on where you start, you know? Nah, just play it out, man. Ain't nobody moving Oregon and Georgia and Ohio. Ain't nobody moving them out the way. Well, Georgia loses on Saturday.

Who's benefiting from that? Do you think Georgia is going to lose on Saturday? I don't. I do not trust Lane Kiffin at all. I think that's going to be a dog's win. But what if they, I mean, what if I'm wrong? What if Lane Kiffin actually shows up, Ole Miss's offense looks great and they win? Oh, he's going to charge Florida more money to move, I guess.

I don't know. Lee from Cincinnati will be calling us any second now to be a real Benedict Arnold. Holy cow.

Wow. Would you be shocked if he left? I would be shocked. No, you wouldn't be.

No, no, no, no, no. I think he's in the he's in the he's in the best position possible. It's like, hey, here I am, SEC, I can't beat anybody. They're still paying me. I don't think he's leaving. I don't think they're going to fire Billy Napier anyway.

So you can't you can't can't leave where you're not wanted or there's no space. Florida fans love to hear that. Yeah, we don't want you, Kirby. We're going to keep our guy. Hey, I'm just saying. I'm just saying.

You know what? We're going to have this chat. Barrett Salih is going to join us on the other side of the break. Host on Sirius XM covers all things.

The College of Football also on Outkick. Ask him about these rankings, what they mean, who should have been higher, who should have been lower, what should we be outraged about? We'll talk about it with Barrett on the other side of the break. You are locked in to the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbree. It is the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. The college football playoff rankings are out.

We got the first edition around this time, exactly this time yesterday. To talk about what we saw yesterday, what we might see the rest of the way, what we need to pay attention to this week, what we need to lock on to for the stretch run. Joining us right now is someone you can hear on Sirius XM covering all things college football.

You can read his words on Outkick. It is Barrett Salih. Barrett, how are you?

Oh, I'm great. Just, you know, Tuesday night college football rankings night. Everyone hates everyone and there's rage all over the place. And it's a great time of year, man.

It's a great time of year. Hey, Barrett, I was going to say for the first edition, especially with the newly extended playoff, we got 12 teams getting in. We had a ranking of 25.

Everybody's up in arms and it's just the first edition. What stood out to you? Was it Indiana? BYU?

What are your thoughts on this? Yeah, I mean, the overall the overarching thought, and I said this in my podcast today, is that name brand matters and they'll never tell you. They'll tell you the opposite.

I've talked to people at the college football playoff office and and Rich Clark and all of them. Bill Hancock said it, too, that the brand doesn't matter. And yet we've got Indiana, which has beaten everybody by 14 or more points for any day. I don't care about strength of schedule. Everybody has flaws.

Everybody's stumbled. Everybody has that issue where they look beatable except Indiana. And they're not getting any credit for it because wins and losses should matter. You have a Texas, which strength of schedule wise is fine, doesn't have really any quality wins. BYU has two.

SMU at 13, significantly better than Texas or Miami in terms of overall resume. And, you know, it's one of those things that move the move to goalposts, right? One day they say it's wins and losses that matter. The next day it says strength of schedule.

The next day they say gain control or whatever. And it goes to show you that name brand matters because there's no way Texas would be number five if they didn't have that Longhorn on their helmet. I'd say there's no way Miami would be ahead of BYU or SMU if it didn't have that U on its helmet.

So, you know, it's name brand matters and that's it. But like I said, it'll change because every single year they do it, right? The conference call comes out afterwards or, you know, the spokesman comes out on the TV show and is like saying they're focusing on gain control this week. And it's just like you're scratching your head going, what the heck are you guys doing? And then it becomes the realization it's all the program, the sport, it's all for us to yell at each other and be angry.

And because that's a feature of the sport, not a bug. It's awesome. I love it. If people get so mad, it's same thing, right? AP preseason rankings, right? Everybody's up in our arms, cancel preseason rankings. They're dumb.

And yet everybody loves to talk about it because in secret, everybody likes them all. And college football expert Barrett Salih is joining us here on the JR sport re-show. So Barrett, you mean to tell me this is all a business?

Is this what this is? I didn't believe it. Shocking, right?

Shocking. No, but you know, I think in reality though, this year it's interesting. And look, I'm not a 12 team playoff guy. I didn't like the sport team. I wish we could go back to the BCS.

But wait, wait, wait, wait. Before you move forward, why would you want to go back to the BCS? Because it only had one thing wrong and that was in 2004. And I would argue even as an Auburn alum that Auburn probably didn't deserve to be in that BCS championship game either. I'm all about rewarding excellence, not granting access. And we've got a system now that rewards access over excellence and it takes away from the regular season. And it's proven to do that already this year. And on top of that, there are teams that are going to make a playoff this year that have no business act being called national champions.

They just don't. I like that college football is unique. I don't like the NFLization of the college football world. It shouldn't be, it can't be. And the landscape of it should prevent it from looking like the NFL. But like you mentioned, money's off.

Business, right? Well, we are in a 12 team playoff. We have, the field is wider, on paper at least. We know some of these teams are going to get smacked around when the playoff actually starts. Who should we actually pay attention to to kind of hoist that trophy come January?

Oh, okay. So this is so interesting too, because you have the, you're going to have the four automatic qualifiers, right? It's probably going to be the power four teams. They might not be, but the third and fourth seed might not actually be capable of winning a national championship, but five, six and seven might.

So that to me is fascinating. So I'm looking at a team maybe like Tennessee that if they win out, they're going to get in. Obviously they might, they'll probably make the SEC championship game if they do that as well.

You know, I think they've got a chance to, to really get back into it. I'm still a fan of LSU. I think that they had their get the loss to USC is holding them back because that's a bad loss right now. But if they were to get into the SEC championship game, which I think is very possible, then winning it could provide a springboard or not to maybe even, you know, get a home field home game. So I think LSU is one to watch out for. They're down at 14.

I think they're underrated. And look, with Penn State, I know what happened last week is last week. I still believe that they can, can catch fire. I still think their offense is, um, is capable of doing, um, doing more than it did last week.

I thought it was ultra conservative and I trust James Franklin enough. If they do get to that point to recognize the error of his ways and big gains and to let it fly a little bit. Um, so I do think Penn State is capable.

It has the athletes to do it, but man, I keep it. I keep an eye out on Tennessee. If they can, if they can, uh, get their passing game going, Oh man, that seems going to be almost impossible to beat.

Barrett Salih is joining us here from Sirius XM and Outkick. You talk about potentially skipping over the ultimate third and fourth seeds. And we know that the top four seeds are going to be conference champs. Are you throwing an ACC team? Like, I don't know, some guys in Miami out the window here. So maybe, here's the thing.

Okay. Let's, let's just say Miami gets it. Miami to me, flawed defensively, right? I think we've seen that especially in big games. Their defense has not come to play. They've also, I wouldn't say luck, but they've benefited from some, um, some calls that might've been gone. They should have gone the other way. Right.

So they're living on the edge. That said, they've got a quarterback and a superstar who can take over every game. So they've got that working for them. Um, but eventually I think in big games against great teams, they can take cam ward away a little bit.

Right. And that'll go a long way because if the defense for Miami falters, like it has in big games already, I don't even think cam ward can make up for, for whatever hole they get, they dig themselves into. Plus on top of that, I don't know if they're going to win the ACC because I tell you what, man, SMU is legit. That is a really good football team right now. SMU sitting at number 13 of the college football rankings. When you take a look at what we have here in this, this first week, what gets you going about SMU? Well, first of all, they've got one of the best coaches in the country. Um, red Lashley is going to get offered jobs across the country. Like him and Kurt Cignetti are going to have, they can do whatever they want. They will be able to go wherever they want or stay where they are.

Doesn't matter. Um, second of all, they caught lightning in a bottle with Kevin Jennings. He played great towards the end of last season when, um, when Preston stone went out, red made the proper call after a couple of games to bench Preston stone and Kevin Jennings has taken it from there. Uh, the mustangs are relentless offensively and opportunistic defensively. Um, and they're getting better and they're gaining confidence. And so I think to go to pit last week and do what they are to beat pit at home, the way they did, that's a really good pit football team.

And they cut through them like a hot knife through butter. So I think we're talking about a team like right now, maybe they can't beat Miami, like right. But the ACC championship games in a month. And by that point, they might be as good, if not better than Miami. I truly believe in that team. I think that, you know, they're not capable of winning a college football playoffs, but I don't think Miami is either, but I think that both of them will actually get to it. Hey, listen, I think SMU after being chopped to shreds with the death penalty about 40 years ago, I think, damn it. I think a lot of them, well, everybody with the program old enough to remember is probably appreciative of what they're, they're currently doing. I put it that way, right?

Everybody who drives the trans am drives it because of very sicker. Oh boy. Oh boy. Barrett is here with us. I'm serious XM and out kick as we look forward to this upcoming weekend. I know you mentioned LSU. They got a big game this Saturday as well against Alabama, Alabama, not getting a whole lot of attention. And we got Lane Kiffin trying to get over the hump again by taking on Georgia.

What are your thoughts on those match-ups? Are there any other games that we should really pay attention to? Well, those are the big ones. It's SEC week, right? Like that is they're taking center stage. I think for Alabama LSU, the biggest thing to me is, is Alabama and the lack of discipline, right? You look at what they've done in conference games, they're near the bottom and penalties, what they've done on the road, they're near the bottom of the SEC and penalties. It's just, it's an undisciplined football team. And the last thing you want to have when you go to Death Valley is an issue with discipline. And we saw Alabama in a big game at Tennessee where they had 15 penalties.

I think they had three more that were declined. That's not good. And I think that's a trend that's been in Alabama all year. And I think it, it really concerned me when Kalen Devore said a couple of weeks ago that they have to go back and work on the little things like getting to meetings on time. And I'm sitting there thinking, if that was Nick Saban, like he might actually kill somebody for being late to a meeting. That's not, that is not something that's supposed to happen.

So that worries me a lot. And I tell you what, with Auburn, with Ole Miss and Georgia, if Lane Kiffin can get Georgia into a shootout, Georgia's in massive trouble. Carson Pick with 11 interceptions over the last five games, they hadn't been able to run the football effectively, even against Texas, they were bad. Like not, not just, they were horrible offensively against Texas. And the only reason they won was because of that front seven, which was just unbelievable. So, you know, I think to me, if, and I never thought I'd say this before the season, but Georgia getting into a shootout is, is a bad, bad problem for Kirby Smart. And I think Ole Miss more than really any other team on Georgia's schedule is capable of doing that. Oh yeah, absolutely.

Carson Beck is going to throw the ball around to the wrong team, unfortunately. You don't want any, any piece of that. He finds them.

Yeah, he does. Unfortunately. You talk about LSU, let's talk about USC. What the hell is going on out there? Like is they're going through multiple quarterbacks now? Do we got people trying to save their asses from being fired? It's getting there, man. It is getting there. Like I said, all off season, the Lincoln Rileys abroad.

Um, I think he only cares about himself and his philosophy and is very reluctant to move off of it no matter what. And that includes in the quarterback department. Look to me, Miller Moss is this year's version of Joe Milton last year. And Joe Milton remember had a great bowl game. Everybody thought that he was going to come in and be a superstar and he tanked for Tennessee last year. I think Moss kind of has that same sort of Joe Milton, uh, thing going on. And look, I, I think Lincoln with the defense progressing a little bit than it was before the season.

Okay. It's still way better than it has been under Lincoln Riley for the first two seasons. But, um, I think that he just really didn't want to admit that he's wrong and he has a hard time doing that. With that said, Jay is a really good quarterback. You know, he, he held very Odom. He was the driving force of UNLV, you know, coming back into the national scene with Barry Odom last year. And I mean, they were, they were mad that he left.

They really liked them. I mean, the dude threw for over 3000 yards last year. So, uh, you know, is, is it going to change USC all that much that, that Miller Moss is on the bench and Jayden is in the game? I don't, I don't think it will in terms of the offense. I think if, if anything, they're going to let Jayden kind of loose, uh, more so than maybe they were with Miller Moss trying to like hide his deficiencies a little bit. I don't think they're going to do that now after making a quarterback change. So this might help them a lot. Um, but it goes back to, you know, they shouldn't be in this position and they're in this position because Lincoln Riley's extremely stubborn.

Yeah. Well, we, we know it looks like he's getting closer to the, uh, the end. And so we'll, we'll, we'll see what he does.

Thrown out a new quarterback to try to save his ass. Uh, Barrett, where can people follow you and all of your work on Sirius, your podcast outkick, you're right. Your podcast, your radio, where can we follow you? Uh, pretty much everywhere. Uh, college football, smothered and covered YouTube, Apple, Spotify, all those places. Uh, you can find it there daily.

Uh, and then Sirius XM on Sunday mornings on, on channel 84 and throughout the week, wherever on their college channels and then columns every day on outkicks. So we'll be at the, we'll be at Ole miss Georgia this weekend. Uh, Oxford's always a great time, always a great town. And it should be, uh, should be really excited about this one. I've already talked to folks down there. This is a, this is a bucket list game for a lot of people that are, uh, Ole miss man.

Yeah. Hopefully it's a bucket list game for people traveling from Athens and Georgia. Hopefully Georgia doesn't disappear. No hurricane, please. No hurricane. No, I hope not. I've already had to deal with that this year. No, we've had, we've had enough.

We don't, we don't need any more of them things. Hey Barrett, thank you so much for the time. Appreciate you. My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

No doubt about it. That Barrett Sallee. Catch him on Sirius XM, smothered and covered podcast, read his writings on outkick.

He is everywhere. Thank you for the expertise Barrett. It's the JR sport re show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side, he just talked about quarterbacks at USC getting swapped out. Carolina Panthers aren't swapping out their quarterback.

I'll give you an update on that. On the other side of the break. It looks like we got two Colorado players and Colorado here in the top 25 rankings ranked number 20. We got two players who are saying that we're about to swap out college for the NFL and us here at the top of the hour. I'm going to swap things out for a new top six list. We're going to take a look at the top six list of legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

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Thank you so much. Barrett Sallee joining us in the last break. We were able to talk about the college football playoff rankings. Who's in, who's out, what we need to look forward to.

And he reminded us this is a business. Let everybody get upset. Let them get mad. Let them yell.

Let them get angry. It's all great marketing for what will ultimately be a game between two teams. That's it.

That's it. Speaking of two teams, by the time we get to the Super Bowl, it'll be down to two teams. The top of the hour. I'm going to share with you a top six list now that we're just about halfway through the NFL season. It's time to share with you a top six list of legitimate Super Bowl contenders. The NFL trade deadline.

It has come and gone. Coaches have been fired. Players have been hurt. Now it's time to give you a little bit of an update.

8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. And right before we went to break and having this chat with Barrett Sallee called Lincoln Riley a fraud. We talked about some of the players that are in Lincoln Riley, what he's doing at the quarterback position, how long he might stick around.

How about this? Of course, the guys at Colorado, the two stars, Chador Sanders, Travis Hunter. Of course, they're sitting around doing a podcast. They got what else they got better to do, right? Not study.

Who needs studying when you can catch and throw the football? They were sitting around talking about their future. And if you needed any type of, let's just say, hint as to what their futures might look like, it involves the NFL immediately, like next year.

And so they sat around and this became news because they talked as they do in public. Travis Hunter is engaged and he pretty much admitted that he is scheduling his wedding in between OTAs. Like he knows he's going to get drafted and he's going to get married. He's going to make sure that there is no conflict for his wedding.

Me, Hickey, to be a 21 year old college football player, the world is your oyster. He wants to get married. He's engaged. He's got a good head on his shoulders. Very mature. You know, you've heard Dion talk about it doesn't go out and party ever.

He just goes home and hangs out. Kind of guy you want to draft, right? I don't know, man. Yeah, yeah, sure. But you don't know. Yeah, I get it. But going to get married?

Well, I'm not saying I would do that. It's kind of kind of young. I mean, I get it. The different era, different time, different age, different strokes for different folks. But.

Twenty one. OK, all right. OK. All right.

Good for him. Anyway, Chador Sanders, he's not getting well, he's not getting married, but he had a response because he basically said, yeah, well, you're not going to be here. I'm not going to be here because I'm going pro as well.

Listen to this from well off media. Hey, real quick. Listen up. Eight thirty a.m. registration.

Eight thirty a.m. No one is to miss. We got that for what we got to be here. We just made it. We got registration coming back next year. We got registration. Now we're sitting on me.

Hey, man, it's sitting down, man. Hey, registration. I know after this game, you're not going to see me. Oh, man.

Man, I ain't playing no football in college. I remember school registration a little bit. Hickey, when did you register for classes, like the semester before? Did you wait until like the last minute?

Oh, no. Yes. Semester before. That sounds about right. Right.

Timing October, November for like January, February. He knows he's not even going to be in school. Now, this is interesting. This is a sham. And this has been the case for a lot of people.

Do you have to go to in the world? And there's not enough college players. There's not enough football.

There's not a mechanism for this. College is a necessity if you want to go pro just to learn to gain, you know, get your body physically right. There's a massive difference. There's no way in hell you're going from being 18 years old, you know, just I'm going to the NFL. No, you will die.

Doesn't work that way. Is it always going to be necessary? Are we always going to have college? Like you think you're doing? Sanders gives a damn about I don't want to say an education, but his emphasis is on football.

Like it's almost I don't want to say it feels dirty. He's he's not in school to learn, he's in school to play football. Why can't we just send him somewhere to learn football?

That's not college. Because that doesn't exist, right? I mean, I guess what the only other What?

Can it? I mean, I don't know what would form like, what are you forming? And how many people would follow suit? That's what I'm saying. I mean, there's too many college football athletes, it's too difficult to form a program. Like it's easy to slap together a basketball team in a league.

And we see it how many how many leagues do we have? That are quote unquote, not the NBA, but can be a stepping stone to the NBA. It's not just college anymore. We've had, you know, the G League started its own little thing. And then we got the OTE for for high school slash college students to kind of take that next step. You can go to Europe and garner attention, not so many, no options for football.

I don't know, maybe it's so unique, because it's unique to the United States of America at the highest level. But it just it just doesn't sound good. And I get it. He's going pro. But he's just like, man, I registered for school.

I'm going to the NFL. Like, damn it, if I didn't need to sit in a class and act like a student today, I wouldn't like he didn't say that part, but he might as well have. It just sounds bad to me, you know? It I mean, it feels a little dirty, I will admit, kind of hearing him say that. But I mean, that's the reality right of college football. If I'm a student at one of these schools, if I'm a student at Colorado, I'm like, well, should do it.

He's he's. How come I can't just make a lot of money and not do anything? I got to pay to be here and learn. I guess that's life. Life's not fair.

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