Rodger Sherman

I can come up with another.

I do.

I do feel that a team of the year should not, I feel like team of the year should just not be the national champion.

I think it's pretty fair.

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My team of the year is going to be Miami.

I think that why I picked Miami here is because Miami is proof positive of one symptom of

the expanded college football playoff, or one that is at 12 teams.

Part of the beauty of it, in my opinion, is that, look, single elimination tournament is what it is, but you do not necessarily have to be the best team

Uh, by I test or incongruent or as a result of an incongruent schedule over a small sample size that we all then kind of congeal vote and argue about and then crown as the national championship.

Now, funny enough, as Alex has stated, Indiana would have been the national champion in the nineties and probably our BCS format, uh,

And then end up also running a campaign and winning three games in January to do it as well.

So it is very funny that Miami made this run at the same time that your very classical champion did the thing that I wasn't really sure would ever be done again, which is power conference power to bonafide 16 and 0 playing a real conference schedule.

and winning a conference championship against the teams that you would have to do to get through that unscathed.

It's just deeply impressive.

But Miami making the run the way they did

under the coach they have, who has shown growth over his tenure, who has gotten the better part of or figured out the better part to blend the current roster acquisition system with the mandate of being Miami's head coach, which is pretty much recruit where you are and do it well.

And then going on a, I don't want to say a miracle run, but going on a run as a double-digit seed in this tournament.