Ep. 193 - Encouraging Playoff Expansion News & Bookie Re-Watch Results

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast

In the opening take, Lee says Josh Heupel and Roy Williams should already be in the College Football Hall of Fame. Then Grant joins to give his thoughts on the careers of Heupel, Williams, and Vince Young (6:10). An interesting report from Yahoo Sports says that a 12-team playoff model is gaining some traction. We're both surprised that 12 is the most likely number at this time (13:20). Why we think the idea of an 8 team playoff is not good enough. Also for those arguing against playoff expansion, are they actually arguing against more college football (23:45)? Brief talk on college football before the BCS era. Then Grant presents the main reason why he believes people like college football, whether they realize this is the reason or not (38:10). Grant wants to remind everybody what a 24-team playoff would have looked like a couple of years ago and the matchups we could have seen. (50:20). Grant mentions a story from Dennis Dodd, which then leads to Lee going off on one of Dodd's columns from 2020 (55:15). Lee goes over what a 12-team playoff would have looked like in 2020 (57:50). We've recently found out two of the first three OU games of the season will kickoff at 11 am. Lee tells you exactly how many 11 am kickoffs the Sooners have had in the Playoff era compared to other big time Playoff teams. Also do 11 am kickoffs really impact recruiting all that much (1:02:50)? Lee shares his final results from the "Bookie Re-Watch". We answer the question finally: will Bookie transferring help, hurt, or be indfferent for OU (1:19:20)? At the very end Grant says he's enjoying the Women's College World Series and everything Porter Moser has done since being hired at OU -- plus we totally forgot to pick an old OU game to re-watch for the podcast. Our bad (1:42:40). Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9