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Podcast Host 1 (Matt) (0:31)
This is Matt and Myron, the podcast.
Podcast Host 2 (Myron) (0:34)
Matt myron here on ESPN radio, the ESPN app. Sir sex of channel 80. Braden Dahl filling in for Matt Jones, who is out with a personal matter. He's always trying to teach me songs, Braden. He's always shocked that, like I don't have his playlist, you know, like the mad things. I'm just like playing his playlist every week to try to know what he listens to. And he would never listen to mine. Like he wants me to listen to his, but he would never listen to my playlist. And that's kind of how the show goes.
Braden Gall (1:05)
I hear you. And I really don't understand, excuse me, I don't understand why people don't just appreciate all of it, right? Like I can go jagged edge from 1998 and I can go Tyler Childer, Sturgill Simpson from deep in the coal mine in Kentucky landscape where he's from too, where, where Matt's from. So you got to be able to appreciate all of it.
Podcast Host 2 (Myron) (1:21)
You should have a conversation with Matt about that. But we're going to have a conversation now with the great Greg McElroy, ESPN college football analyst, who will be on the call of the College Football Playoff national championship game on ESPN Radio with Sean McDonough. Greg, I'm sure people have been texting you, calling you, asking you about this three loss Alabama team that the committee has to make a really crucial decision on. Maybe the most difficult decision in the history of the playoff. How do you see this all shaken out for an Alabama team with three losses, a win over Georgia, but that lost to Florida State. How do you think they'll end up in these final playoff rankings?
Greg McElroy (2:04)
Well, as a former Alabama quarterback and as a guy that lives currently in Birmingham, Alabama, you guys want to set the over under on the amount of text I've received asking the question, quote, we in end quote, 71, 71 and a half, I think is probably about right. Yeah, I think smart money's on the over. Look, I'll, I'll tell you this. I, I think it's very difficult right now for the committee to justify leaving out a team that was forced to play a 13th game and all for the same reasons that transpired last year when talking about SMU's candidacy. The committee is comprised of former coaches and players, but mostly by administrators. And I don't think anyone on that committee floor wants to deincentivize participation in conference championship games. The conference championship games are a part of our culture. It's massive, obviously, for these conferences to crown a champion. And in the event in which you make it, it should be a reward to play, but you should not necessarily be penalized if you lose because the teams you're being measured against aren't being asked to play. They didn't earn the right to play in that game. So I think Alabama and a lot of people have kind of talked about this and what did they play? Did they pass the itest? Did they have this? Did they have that? Alabama still has a win, arguably. And if Georgia is number two today, then Alabama has the best win in college football because Georgia is the number one or the top ranked one loss team potentially. And I think that will ultimately keep Alabama in. But it's mostly because they don't want that slippery slope created where teams make their conference championship and say, nope, we're not playing, we're in the field, we're good. That I think is a real dangerous precedent to set.