Oct 16, 2026 · 38 min · 21 segments
LSU could be catching a massive break ahead of Saturday's showdown with Mississippi State. Bulldogs quarterback Kamario Taylor and running back Fluff Bothwell are both dealing with injuries, and Matt…
Matt MosconaHost
[lip smacks] Big news from a day ago is that, uh, it appears as though this imminent college football playoff is expanding.
I had a lot of things to say about it yesterday, as you all, as you all well know.
But what an expanded playoff does is solves the problem of access, uh, to deserving teams and simultaneously solving the issue we have of, uh, strength of schedule arguments.
Um, Indiana two years ago went 11 and 1, and they played one ranked team and got their head kicked in by Ohio State.
So what you've done with that structure is incentivize teams not to play tougher games.
That's why Indiana pres- like, canceled a future home opener with Virginia, canceled a future home opener with Notre Dame.
Indiana does not have a powerful opponent on their future non-conference schedule anywhere.
You're incentivizing teams to wanna continue playing and win because you can either get a bye, you're playing for a home game, you're playing to get in if you're on the bubble.
[lip smacks] Big news from a day ago is that, uh, it appears as though this imminent college football playoff is expanding.
I had a lot of things to say about it yesterday, as you all, as you all well know.
But what an expanded playoff does is solves the problem of access, uh, to deserving teams and simultaneously solving the issue we have of, uh, strength of schedule arguments.
Um, Indiana two years ago went 11 and 1, and they played one ranked team and got their head kicked in by Ohio State.
So what you've done with that structure is incentivize teams not to play tougher games.
That's why Indiana pres- like, canceled a future home opener with Virginia, canceled a future home opener with Notre Dame.
Indiana does not have a powerful opponent on their future non-conference schedule anywhere.
You're incentivizing teams to wanna continue playing and win because you can either get a bye, you're playing for a home game, you're playing to get in if you're on the bubble.
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