Jessica Smetana

So they don't have like a marquee win in the conference, even though when the season started, it was like, wow, can Vanderbilt get to six and six?

Can they make a bowl game?

Wow, can they make the SEC championship game?

But like they've beaten a bunch of,

teams in the sec that i think we can all agree aren't great teams i mean if you fired your head coach i think you have to admit it's not not a great football team um but i've seen arguments that like why is vanderbilt behind notre dame notre dame has two losses as well and i i mean i think the obvious thing is that notre dame beat usc and that usc win is being propped up as you know notre dame's best win so far so yeah mike i i think that that's funny that you could take a team like vanderbilt and look at

Either side of the argument.

Utah, briefly, I do want to also mention because they have two losses.

They lost to BYU earlier this season and they lost to Texas Tech.

But they did beat Cincinnati and Arizona Sims.

Yeah, no, that's right.

Let me just I agree.

Like, I do think that like a lot of times we argue in the beginning of November and then by the end of the season, like Alabama loses to Oklahoma and a lot of it works itself out.

So I do think a lot of it is the amount of vitriol that the committee gets for like the first two weeks of rankings is like, OK, guys, like

They've got to put some teams somewhere.

Let's all take a deep breath.

But the Louisville thing is interesting, Mike, because I know like you probably don't want to talk about this, but Louisville has overtime losses to Virginia and Cal.

We know Virginia is at the top of the ACC conference and Cal is not.

Cal is, I think, a four loss team right now.

They have a freshman quarterback, but they're

still i guess feisty they're okay um they lost to san diego state earlier this year who's one of the better teams in the mountain west and they lost to duke and virginia who are obviously very good and they also lost to virginia tech who also fired their head coach so louisville's losses like one is totally i i think quote unquote good loss one is much worse loss but they have a head-to-head win over miami and they're still ranked behind miami so i guess like the circular logic here is like if you think that