Sean and Joey both attended the University of Miami (Sean in grad school, Joey in undergrad), and they're thrilled the Hurricanes are participating in the College Football Playoff. Does that mean they understand how they got here? Certainly not!

Notre Dame was ranked ahead of Miami in every previous installment of the rankings, continued beating teams by a lot, and then dropped out. BYU beat every team on its schedule not named Texas Tech and fell out of the rankings after sounding losing its conference championship game. Alabama also badly lost its conference championship game and suffered no consequences. Miami was rewarded for not playing a conference championship game.

If all this back and forth doesn't make your head spin, kudos to you. You're very brave.

Plus, Joey and Sean share highlights from their trips to New York City and St. Lucia, respectively. And we might be doing a future episode from the top of a mountain. Unclear.

We're a month away from the NFL playoffs, and...is any team good? Are typically good teams bad? In any given week, it seems like a team could emerge victorious, then turn around and completely fall apart a mere week later. Do you trust any of these squads to win a stretch of games en route to a Super Bowl? We sure don't!

Due to scheduling conflicts, this episode was recorded a week ahead of its air date. If more pandemonium unfolds in the meantime, that just feels incredibly on brand.

The monetization of every aspect of college football has caused the sport to lose some of its charm. Remember when it was exciting to go to a bowl game? Now, it's just a seemingly endless stream of discussion and complaints of teams missing out on the playoffs.

And then you've got situations like Lane Kiffin leaving for a conference rival after leading his former team to its best regular season record ever. Wild stuff.

We're also going down on a rabbit hole of classic sports video game features. Thanks for listening!