Hour: What do we expect the CFP top 25 to look like? + Our thoughts on CFP expansion 24 hours later

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Well, here we go, Cole. It's NFL Trade Deadline Day here in just about one hour. The Seismic News already is hitting that, ooh, Kirk Cousins is heading back to Minnesota. So, sorry, Kyler, it's been sweet, it's been fun, but they wouldn't bring Kirk Cousins back to Minnesota if they didn't intend to start him, right?

Cole Bryson (0:22)

Right, right. No, I'm with ya. And look, Minnesota's in a situation, Diesel, where they feel like they have a really good chance to make a run, a really good team, but we saw last night, what do we see?

They don't have any offense. They have no quarterback. So, Carson Wentz, he was not good, right? And you almost feel like, hey, we've gotta go get somebody because we have a good enough team to make a run. So, it's interesting.

SPEAKER_1 (0:50)

It's gonna be a lot of fun to monitor over the next 58 and a half minutes. Cole, of course, we'll break it all down here on Wire 2 Wire after the trade deadline comes and goes. We'll monitor what's happening live, try to pass it on as best we can. Also, Cole, we're just a couple hours away from the second college football top 25 What kind of major changes will we see after a lot of teams in the top 10, top 15 lost? How high could the South Carolina Gamecocks rise, Cole? There's a lot of three lost teams. Now it's a logjam, right? It's a logjam of three lost teams which get ready.

We've expanded the college football playoff. That's going to be the future conversation. Instead of debating the one lost teams or the undefeated teams, we're going to be debating the three lost teams. Isn't it great?

Cole Bryson (1:40)

Isn't it expansion great?

Six lost. Seven lost. Everybody makes the CFP, right?

SPEAKER_1 (1:47)

Everybody gets in, sure.

Cole Bryson (1:49)

But you're right. I mean, tonight is telling what I remember you and I talked about it last week. These initial college football playoff rankings.

They're important, but at the same time, like the top three, top four, top five, could they not even make the CFP? There's still a lot of football to be played.

SPEAKER_1 (2:08)

You know, we, you and I talk about the AP top 25 a lot when the season starts. Like, okay, does it actually mean something? No. But does it influence things later on in the season? Yes. It kind of sets a preconceived notion of who's going to be good this year, though. Granted, like, stickers on the sides of helmets already do a pretty good job of doing that. The question is, Cole, does the early CFP rankings actually mean a whole lot? And I honestly think they mean less than the early AP top 25 because you and I have seen that the committee is all over the place with its methodology. It's not consistent. It decides on a whim to make a change at the end.

And they, I mean, I guess it is their prerogative to do that if they choose to do that. So we just don't know what these first couple of college football playoff rankings mean. But I guess, of course, you always want to be at the top of this thing. Being at the top is better than being at the bottom. So we're going to monitor that as well.

And we'll of course report on the actual CFP top 25 tomorrow, Cole, but here's the AP poll this week. We're not going to go through the whole thing, Georgia 1, Utah 2, Notre Dame 3, UCLA 4, UCLA and Utah, by the way, the only two undefeated teams here in the top 25 Miami fell to number 5, Indiana falls to 6 after a bye, Bama 7, Texas 8, Tennessee 9, and Texas Tech 10 How would we expect, how do you expect, that the first ever college, excuse me, the second college football playoff rankings actually play out? And if you need it for reference, the last week, top 25 is there on the rundown with the results.

Cole Bryson (3:54)

Well, I think the first question that I asked Diesel, and I think a lot of people ask, including yourself tonight, is, okay, well, let's go through the big storylines first, right? When you talk about what do we expect the rankings to look like, number one, Miami lost, Notre Dame had their biggest win of the season, right? Georgia absolutely destroyed Ole Miss, and Alabama and Tennessee are making serious noise in the SEC.

So you start there, and this could be what I think could be fun about the night. It feels like it's always controversial, but it could be controversial tonight as well. I mean, with Georgia delivering BTA like they did, I don't see how Diesel, Georgia is not one tonight. Okay, let's start there. Do you have any? No. You agree with that?