Nov 5, 2026 · 46 min · 14 segments
Before they covered Utah and BYU, Steve Bartle and Jeff Hansen were friends sharing the same classrooms, basketball courts and rivalry arguments. Now, they’re looking ahead to a Holy War between No. 3…
Jeff HansenGuest
Steve BartleHost
But before we get to the Utah BYU conversation... know it is november and in november we see the college football playoff rankings debut and yeah i you know i would be curious jeff to start the conversation there uh with the debut of the the top 25 playoff rankings yeah utah coming in ranked number three byu number nine texas tech number 15. um you know with that just where are you at with the college football playoff and and all that do we need to Okay.
So I ought to break this down and we can get into the, cause I think everybody has finally like got on board this, this rankings more than any other ranking.
It's like, what in the hell's going on here? And I think that is like the universal opinion right now, which is great.
I thought nine was low, but it made sense because they also are punishing Notre Dame, right? Because they clearly don't think much of Notre Dame, which is fine.
If you want to say that Notre Dame hasn't played anybody, certainly I think that's a fair argument.
But it's hard for me to then look at some of these other teams that are ranked ahead of them and say, well, who they played and they've lost.
But what the committee said with BYU at nine is unless they go, unless they win out, maybe they lose in the conference championship game.
It depends on what conference you're from, whether they're going to punish you for that or not.
But before we get to the Utah BYU conversation... know it is november and in november we see the college football playoff rankings debut and yeah i you know i would be curious jeff to start the conversation there uh with the debut of the the top 25 playoff rankings yeah utah coming in ranked number three byu number nine texas tech number 15. um you know with that just where are you at with the college football playoff and and all that do we need to Okay.
So I ought to break this down and we can get into the, cause I think everybody has finally like got on board this, this rankings more than any other ranking.
It's like, what in the hell's going on here? And I think that is like the universal opinion right now, which is great.
I thought nine was low, but it made sense because they also are punishing Notre Dame, right? Because they clearly don't think much of Notre Dame, which is fine.
If you want to say that Notre Dame hasn't played anybody, certainly I think that's a fair argument.
But it's hard for me to then look at some of these other teams that are ranked ahead of them and say, well, who they played and they've lost.
But what the committee said with BYU at nine is unless they go, unless they win out, maybe they lose in the conference championship game.
It depends on what conference you're from, whether they're going to punish you for that or not.
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