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Danny KanellDanny Kanell

Texas will be the favorite to win the Big 12 next season

I think Texas might be the favorite next year to win the Big 12. I know it's crazy to think that, but Oklahoma's going to lose Baker Mayfield. What are they going to do? But I think Tom Herman might be the pick to win the Big 12 next year.

Texas finished 7-6 (5-4 in Big 12) in 2017. Oklahoma went 12-2 and won the conference.

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Matt Barkley is a terrible quarterback

Let's face it folks, Matt Charles Barkley, the round mound of intentional ground, is terrible. Just terrible. Terrible, terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

Barkley was 1-5 as a starter for the Bears in 2016 and threw twice as many interceptions as touchdowns, eventually becoming a career backup.
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Nov 28, 2016
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Big CatBig Cat

The Dallas Cowboys are the best team that sucks in the NFL

Dallas is still maybe the best team in the NFL, which is insane. They're the best team that sucks. In the NFL. They're the suckiest best teams, too.

The 2016 Cowboys finished 13-3 and were the #1 seed in the NFC, though they did lose their first playoff game to Green Bay.
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Nov 28, 2016
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The Super Bowl will feature some combination of the Patriots, Cowboys, or Seahawks

And it sucks to say this, but it's going to be the Patriots and the Cowboys or the Seahawks. Slash Seahawks, yeah. So some combination of that, that's where we're going to be in Houston.

The Patriots did make and win Super Bowl LI, but the Cowboys and Seahawks were eliminated in the Divisional round by the Packers and Falcons.

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Danny KanellDanny Kanell

Having two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff is bad for the sport.

It's two teams from any conference. Like that just bothers me... If there are more teams outside that are deserving, that there's teams out there that are worthy of playing for a championship that we don't need to take two teams from the same conference... for [Ohio State] not to get that opportunity, I think it's messed up.

This is a fundamental debate in college football history; there is no factual right or wrong, though the CFP eventually expanded to 12 teams to solve this.
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Danny KanellDanny Kanell

Alabama's 2017 schedule was a 'cakewalk' and they were manhandled by Auburn.

Bama's schedule was a cakewalk all season long. Their toughest game was Florida State, who turned out to be garbage... And they got worked by Auburn. They got absolutely manhandled by Auburn, and yet never once did anybody say, oh, wait a second, Alabama's schedule is not that tough.

Alabama's 2017 SOS was ranked lower than many other contenders, and they did lose the Iron Bowl convincingly, though they went on to win the National Championship.
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Danny KanellDanny Kanell

The College Football Playoff should be an eight-team system with five conference champions and three wildcards.

I try to get the easiest, simplest solution... And it's five conference champs and three wild cards. And everything would matter that much more because the conference championships would matter... and the three wild cards make those valuable.

The playoff system was eventually overhauled to a 12-team format starting in 2024, bypassing the 8-team model Kanell suggested.

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