CFP ROUND 1 LIVE REACTIONS Presented by High Noon

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[@liamblutman2422]

Thanks for watching whether supporting or not. Have a good Christmas, Hanukkah, or other.

[@tyarak5669]

The cfb media landscape this year has been draining. It doesn’t seem like ppl actually care about the games but care more about their opinions. If that’s the case then let’s just crown the champion of the ap poll

[@BT1919]

Well said! I think you’re right. I’m 42 years old which means I’m too old to fight on the internet. If I post ANYTHING in a college football group, people end up fighting and I guarantee they don’t even know what they are fighting about after 3 minutes. They just want to make their opinion known and make it be superior.

[@KMASports]

Maybe it's as simple as teams 9-12 in CFP are often not good enough to compete for a title, and it's even harder for them now having to win on the road

[@jbaker7439]

Clemson had chances to win their game. Texas defense gave up 400+ yards, 300+ passing. Clemson couldn’t stop the run. But Texas wasn’t dominant by any stretch. Also some luck.

[@tyrich1914]

Stop it, you’re making too much sense

[@NostalgiaH8ter]

@@jbaker7439Texas wasn't dominant? The score was 31-10 in the second half. Clemson was lucky to have lost by just two touchdowns.

[@gew1898]

Eight teams is the sweet spot for the playoffs.

[@gabraham12]

Great goal line stance ​@@jbaker7439

[@BT1919]

“Exposed” and “fraud” have taken over for “overrated” as the new most abused words in the college football world. “Literally” still remains as king of the most abused word overall.

[@adamperry7848]

Tennessee honestly was very lucky to even be there. I mean they went 3 games in a row where they didn’t even score a point in the first half and only 7 the 4th game. Got what they deserved

[@mikekyle3218]

8 is the magic number. 12 was never going to be fun.

[@cdoc2154]

This podcast is way better with y'all in studio together.

[@Commentleaver-c6x]

Yeah the zoom meetings aren’t great.

[@zachwillson2309]

Hey Kayce, Texas won by 14

[@giantraidinknight]

Beat Bluntman here. Love Kayce. Merry Christmas Roughnecks! 🏈🎄🎅🏻

[@BT1919]

Evan, HUGE win my man! I’m not even an Ohio State fan. I just saw the genuine and severe pain on your face/body language after the Michigan game and I don’t think I ever saw that kind of pain on anyone, college football fandom wise. Im happy for you man. You’ll never see this or anything, but good for you and smile and enjoy it bro.

[@joe_zeay]

Indiana Tennessee are One and the Same. EITHER BOTH DESERVED TO BE IN, OR BOTH deserved to be out. Lets not be hypocrites Espn

[@zeusalmighty1312]

Coaching malpractice is the only explanation for the osu Michigan game

[@jimjames3402]

can they acknowledge Indiana played a better game against OSU than Tennessee? Indiana is a step above IL. You don’t blow out literally your whole conference schedule except one game and all the media pundits chirp cuz “not football brand but tenn football brand”

[@greenman5255]

The Refs are what kept Tennessee SLIGHTLY in it before halftime, and Ohio State putting 2nd and 3rd team players in the 4th quarter is the only reason this game wasn't the biggest joke of a game in the 1st round of the CFP. Oh, and SEC HOMERS...STFU. Go Buckeyes and Merry Christmas!

[@nick_ager]

but hey cmon, the SEC is soooo much better than the big10! 😂😂😂 Ive heard that for so long. Glad we took it to em.

[@tyarak5669]

What’s frustrating is as the last few years all these sec schools wanted the super conferences and now when it doesn’t work for them they want to bitch about how it’s a problem. We know you all did it for money, don’t complain now

[@longhornjack6332]

Kayce, I love you and I know it’s tough but try and stick with me here. 38-24=14 not 10.

[@ScholarJones]

I'm really tired of the trashing of Indiana. They played the schedule that was dealt to them. They only lost 2 games to CFP teams, both on the road, that are still in the playoff. They lost by less to Ohio State than Tennessee (suck it SEC) and they beat Michigan. So much for how great the SEC teams are this year, huh.

[@travispapes]

Right. SEC fans are babies.

[@nickrodgers6902]

Looks like we’ve come full circle with computer rankings being needed like the bcs. There needs to be a cross between committee and computer rankings.

[@jimjames3402]

Dude just play the games on the field. You lose 3 you should be lucky to be considered. We already know you’re not good. This first round just confirms the 2 loss teams aren’t good

[@jbaker7439]

Texas Clemson was a blow out????? 24-31 in 4th quarter. Unlucky pick 6 call back. They threw for 300+ yards on a defense everyone keeps saying is tops elite. That game was competitive. Ewers is shaky. The defense can be scored on by higher talented teams.

[@dabneyoffermein595]

Tennessee gives up 42 points, SMU 38, Clemson 38, Indiana 27, Let's be real, Indiana "getting blown out" needs to be compared to the other scrubs that got "blown out"

[@wiltonater]

1:08:00 NDSU is Colorado's best win

[@phillipmarbury4383]

Blutman's an OG, was shitty about his OSU slander last episode but glad he came back around.

[@jbaker7439]

Lmao. Based on how Tennessee performed, why do yall think that Alabama, Ole Miss, SC would have faired better?

[@travispapes]

Because SEC fans are delusional. They were screaming up to the clouds after Indiana, SMU and Clemson lost but then when Tennessee gets smoked in the same fashion, they'll change the narrative and say something like "it's not fair they had to go play up north in the cold". If a bad Tennessee is the 3rd best SEC team this year, then the 3-loss teams crying they should be in are even worse. Again, it's all very simple - win your regular season games and you'll be in. You have zero room to cry (for a team like Ole Miss) when you lose some of the games you did. Are Ole Miss and Alabama better than Indiana and SMU - MAYBE! But can flat out say they are better like some of these SEC homers are saying - NO! Ole Miss, Alabama and South Carolina didn't deserve to get in - do you know why? BECAUSE THEY LOST THREE (3) GAMES. Don't lose three (3) games - it's really that simple.

[@mattbehling7416]

Magic number for the playoff might be 8 teams

[@KevinJL]

This weekend what a waste.

[@Nick-ej4ys]

Blutman says “there needs to be a baseline when looking at teams” then goes on to say they need to look at everything when picking teams, easy enough

[@travispapes]

These people aren't consistent in their takes (like most people)

[@gabraham12]

Was it an efficient night for Unnecessary Roughness?

[@KP-sh9he]

0:40 I hope they don’t get in here acting like it’s not a gap between 7-12 from 1-6

[@jkh5]

There’s never going to be upsets in these first round games. This isn’t basketball

[@Duzypriicee]

44:55 Damn Kayce, if you’re gonna hate on Texas at least get the score right. Texas won by 14, not 10.

[@tonymorrellcomedy9654]

Indiana played Ohio State closer than Tennessee. And Tennessee fans traveled. So if not Indiana who deserved it? Nobody. It's just the way it was. And none of these games would of turned out any different no matter who you replaced Indiana with.

[@travispapes]

Right. Sometimes teams just get blown out in the college postseason - it's just the way it's always been. If a 3-loss team whines and complains saying they are "better than Indiana and SMU", all they had to do was not lose 3-games. Period. Based on the regular season, Indiana and SMU did what they had to do to get in - just because they didn't look good in the playoffs doesn't mean "they shouldn't have been in" and a 3-loss SEC team should have replaced them. Just don't lose 3 games in the regular season...

[@kelleycarr7954]

So glad the NFL was on yesterday to counter balance that shit show called the CFB playoff

[@billeffingmurray1224]

7:04 the problem is - for the exception of last year - the committee can't understand the difference between the most deserving team & the best team. The one time they did the right thing, they got sued. So here we are again, wondering how we got here. Anybody with half a brain could tell you bama, Ole Miss, So Carolina...heck even Miami...would've been better competition than SMU & Indiana for teams like Penn St & Notre Dame. And it's not over yet. There's at least 2 more frauds yet to be exposed.

[@Edgehigher]

Nothing funnier than watching Kayce walk back an opinion the instant Brandon disagrees with her.

[@mvalois1]

This Indiana team is an anomaly. Most 1 loss big 10 teams are going to be CFP worthy.

[@wiltonater]

Texas and Penn St are 10+ favorites

[@azure_azure]

12 team playoff haters born winning and stay winning. This day was absolutely miserable and you defend this shambolic TV executive product of a postseason. The next round will be two maybe even 3 more blowouts. Deep down you knew this was coming and you know you're wrong but can't admit it. 12 never made sense, 4 was fine but 2 was also almost always a fine way to determine a champion. This isn't about finding the right way to determine a deserving champion, it's about making more money. There just aren't enough truly great teams, mostly 2 or 3 per year.

[@TheVice48]

100%. This isnt the NFL, national championship is about finding the best team in the country through the whole season. To me the moment i was totally out on this playoff format is when Bama lost to Vandy and people were still talking about them like they have a chance. If you lose to Vandy or Northern Illinois in college football your season should end right there, even if its wk 2. This is why this game is so much more exciting than the NFL where the regular season barely matters. For my money they could have crowned Oregon two weeks ago when they beat PSU

[@TheMackoftheyear]

Shut up SEC lovers!!

[@TheMackoftheyear]

Word salad full of 💩 ​@@TheVice48

[@910Cole-j7c]

35:56 this was not ur stance after the SMU Clemson game man stop it 😭, they dominated the 2nd half of that game and deserved to be there . Penn state is just a top 3 team in the country

[@travispapes]

The people on this show are just your average joe "fan". They aren't any brighter than anyone else - they just happen to work at Barstool and turned a camera on to film themselves. They aren't that bright.

[@therealist5648]

Cignetti had the stars aline. Had the easiest schedule, faked Indiana out, and got them to pay him over $70M 😂

[@christopherlord6766]

Math not the strong suit for Aggies 🤷‍♂️ 😂

[@Pack3rFan125221]

Doesn’t matter what Kayce says football wise, she’s always looking 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Super_Szn]

Texas won by 14 kayce do your homework

[@AA62185]

I know the world is piling on Cignetti for not backing up all the talk… but I have a point to make that I believe many are overlooking: In an interview with Cignetti early in the season this year, he was asked about his outward confidence and overly arrogant remarks. He said that the second he stepped on campus he sense an overwhelming feeling of doom and gloom throughout the building. This program has the most losses of any program in college football. This program does not know how to feel confident in themselves whatsoever. He said he needed to flip the culture, and make everyone in that building (and the fans on campus who couldn’t have been less-interested in football prior to his arrival btw) *believe* they could compete. Which is why he was calculated in his arrogant comments at his introduction, arrogant in his comments to the media. His confidence from the top spread through the building, the campus, and the fanbase. This teams’ win total was 4.5. They were projected to finish 17th out of 18 big ten teams. Sure their line got out-manned by 2 of the best teams in the country with far more blue chip talent. But boy did they FAR exceed expectations and beat the shit out of teams that nobody thought they would have if we had asked back in August. So yeah you can call him a “fraud” for brining Indiana its best season in school history and deliver a season that crushed every preseason projection imaginable. I know the shit talk put a big target on his back- but I don’t think people realize the calculated nature of the shit talk to attempt to flip the culture and mindset of a battered and bruised football program. The man brought INDIANA football- who was priced to crack out 4.5 wins this year - to the college football playoff. The man developed these kids at JMU and took them from a literal D2 program to the CFP. Imagine when Cignetti got hired last December you found out that the world would be arguing if he was a fraud or not for losing in the first round of the CFP - seems like a solid hire to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Hollan-vc7sh]

Some of the blame has to go to bad Officiating throughout the regular season, as well. There's more than 1 team that were victims of bad BS calls - or opponent no calls - that had the outcome of a game, or game(s) they lost, outright changed, or potentially changed, by BS Officiating.

[@buckhorn0090]

Fire the BCS computers back up, then just plug the teams in the spots.

[@jbaker7439]

Why didn’t Ohio State just air it out like that against Michigan? Lmao. Don’t understand why they were trying that run inside stuff when they have absolute dudes who can get outside.

[@CB-ke5xx]

Day got sucked into the narrative that we weren't tough, and tried to prove we were.

[@ztheiss]

OSU decided to phone it in against its greatest rival the week after getting up to play that "great" Indiana team.

[@Commentleaver-c6x]

Need to just go back to naming a national champion based on polls like back in the very old days.

[@travispapes]

Lol exactly. Everyone wants to crown people based on school names and recruiting rankings now - let's just do that. Screw this actual game of football - let's do it all on paper!

[@ChristoFreeze]

8 teams OSU VS TEXAS ASU VS BOISE PENN STATE VS GEORGIA NOTRE DAME VS OREGON THEN OREGON VS ASU OSU/ TEXAS VS GEORGIA

[@collegemunchies4544]

They don’t even talk football just the narratives surrounding the games.

[@joeyvalure]

Lol sucking Ryan day off now that’s hilarious

[@Billymulv]

What an awful take on Jeremiyah Love by Brandon. Notre Dame continued their rotation at RB, even cut him out some because he got injured last game and had some flu like symptoms on Friday. “He had 11 carries for 11 yards after”, he didn’t even have 11 carries in the entire game and barely played after the TD

[@decadentdevil]

Brandon picked Clemson and Indiana. He should be off the show

[@brettcole84]

Kayce WOAT

[@jimjames3402]

Sec is shit this year and yall just acknowledge it. Spend a whole program saying small brands don’t belong and then speaking about tenn for less than a minute cuz it doesn’t fit.

[@jbaker7439]

Also. A certain conference. All season long has said that all the other conferences are trash and they are the best. Tennessee. By conference stats. Is either the best or second best defense in SEC play. Ohio States O line is a patchwork. They ran all over Tennessee. They pushed that great D line around. Tennessee could not get any pressure on Howard.

[@TheVice48]

Im more excited about Michigan vs Bama bowl game than any other of these shitty playoff games

[@jimflores9098]

Who ARE these people? And why do they hate Texas? Do they even watch games, or do they just take shocking points of view for viewers...?

[@joshuacampbell7520]

Texas has lost twice to georgia, if you believe they are a power that can just walk through the playoffs that’s ridiculous. And honestly imagine a scenario where georgia somehow makes the finals and texas beats them. Winning the championship with a 1-2 record against the team you play would certainly make the conference championships mean less and show the 12 team doesnt work. Quinn ewers also has had the reputation of not showing up in big games. Theres a lot of reasons to doubt texas.

[@travispapes]

Brandon Walker hates every team not named Mississippi State. They just have extremely bias takes. It's what you get watching this show.

[@victorcarpen78]

Let’s go live

[@adam-thesportsguy6147]

I hate the Low IQ opinion that every team that loses in the playoffs is a bad team.

[@travispapes]

Right. It's an extremely lazy thing to do - and pretty sad a lot of "pundits" and "analysts" jump quick to such a take. It's hard to play in another team's home stadium - then you add in the weather aspect. These lazy people just want to automatically assume Bama, Ole Miss or South Carolina would roll into Ohio State/Penn State and just automatically give them a better game - well if they didn't lose three (3) games - especially to much worse/lesser opponents - they would have gotten their chance. SMU and Indiana did their part to make it to the playoff - just because they didn't perform doesn't mean they are automatically "bad" or didn't deserve to be there. If other teams that didn't make it want to cry now, all they had to do was just win more games in the regular season. It's very simple and something 95% of "fans" can't wrap their small brains around.

[@ghert3850]

SEC fans trying to find a way to lose their way in to the playoff. Beat your unranked opponents before sobbing about strength of schedule

[@travispapes]

Right. It's very easy. Just win your games and you'll be in. The crying by the SEC teams/fans this weekend is mind-numbing.

[@Seahawksby100]

Blutman your so great! But you gata talk faster or be more punctual or something. You start throwing together so many ideas at different cadence and I can't possibly be the only one that tunes out.

[@travispapes]

You for sure aren't the only one :) It was "cute" at first to listen to his little speech impediments but if the guy wants to be taken seriously as an "analyst", he's gotta fix that. He's a big boy now - it was fun at first but he's allowed to get criticized like everyone else who's got a name/face on a "big show". He might have some decent takes/watches a lot of football but he is hard to listen to. Maybe he can't help it but he works for an actual company who's in business to make money - and he's hard to listen to.

[@gabraham12]

Indiana 5-7 next year.

[@27MOJOKING]

Is it me or 90% of cfp playoff games are stinkers/blowouts. I think it's more about teams not being ready for the intensity of playoffs

[@travispapes]

There are always blowouts in the college football playoffs - it's just the way it's always been. It doesn't mean "better teams got left out" - it's just the way it happens to go. There's not much that can be done about that.

[@SasukeUchiha-qh4cf]

The show was better with jack.

[@sethbrantley2361]

Did the two big goofy guys win a contest or something? They’ve got to be related to somebody. Terrible

[@hptubez21]

8 team playoff. No bye. Its so obvious now but we know it’s only getting worse. **Added for Kayce: real Gs move in silence like a piece of trash rich guy who stole covid relief funds.

[@cvmeron3165]

does Kayce suck at math?

[@Whoopdy247]

The winner of UGA/ND is winning it all

[@Adog9999]

12 team playoff haters won forever on the first weekend and over the years everyone will jump ship. Glad you guys had easy content and could debate South Carolina and bama over the last month. Two teams that would have gotten smoked today. 2007 season was 10 times better than this season and that was BCS. 2000-2013 takes fat dumps on cfp era. FCS playoffs with 24 teams is a prime example. Every game is a blowout until the semi finals. Worst take you guys have ever made, but I get it, media driven

[@JimmieBrown-sg8fq]

CFP is wacky. Boring as all get out. No way SMU, Indiana, should have been in the playoffs. Boise is going to get blown out. It’s a mess. The entire structure is a Frankenstein monster. Tennessee was a fraud, Clemson got beat by the Gamecocks. 1st round losers going home who could be playing in a bowl plenty of time. Meanwhile a team like the Gamecocks playing New Years Eve. Gamecocks would have been favored over Clemson, SMU, and Indiana and probably pick against Tennessee.

[@collegemunchies4544]

Penn st is highly overrated. Drew allar is all hype, he’s not as good as people say he is

[@hanohanocampos00]

Nothing against Liam AT ALL its not his fault OBVIOUSLY...but what does he offer to the show that Jack Mac didn't?

[@walkeryoungblom7687]

Jack Mac quit the show before Blutman even got hired.. what

[@travispapes]

@@walkeryoungblom7687 Jack Mac got kicked off the show - he did an interview saying Portnoy didn't want him back on.

[@travispapes]

Liam offers knowledge but the more I see/hear him, the more he annoys me. Is his knowledge on college football above others at Barstool? Yes. But his "presentation style" and the way he talks begins to grind your gears after a while. He's a young kid who thinks he's smarter/better than other people - while also sounded like a "slow" person. It's a tough mix to sit through every week.

[@rmeis1111]

If you get rid of auto bids like Big Ev suggests then you are going to destroy the big 12 and acc and that is going to create even worse schedule disparity which is the problem with Indiana and Texas lol

[@DavidLane-bd8cm]

Dont know much bout foosball do ya?

[@DavidLane-bd8cm]

Watched a few weeks, not that great of a show imo, 👎👎👎👎

[@travispapes]

It's just a bunch of people who like to say "See, I was right" but then ignore every single they get wrong. It's people like Brandon who need constant ignore boosts to make themselves feel smarter than they actually are.