The first College Football Playoff rankings of 2026 are out, and George Wrighster reacts live the moment they drop. He said going in that he expected the committee to lean SEC-heavy, and he grades the bracket against his own twelve.
Then the biggest Saturday of the season. Miami vs Notre Dame, where a second loss likely ends the Fighting Irish because independence leaves them no conference title game and no margin for error, and where CJ Carr faces a Miami defense that has been elite against the run and vulnerable through the air.
Alabama vs LSU in Baton Rouge, with Sam Leavitt, Keelon Russell and Lane Kiffin’s complaints about a 2:30 kickoff.
Oregon vs Ohio State in Columbus, where both teams are down to backup quarterbacks in Dylan Raiola and Luke Fahey and the loser is probably finished.
BYU vs Utah in the first top-10 Holy War ever, with a Big 12 chaos scenario that could leave an 11-1 Texas Tech out of Arlington entirely.
Georgia vs Ole Miss in Oxford, the rubber match with Trinidad Chambliss against Kirby Smart. Kentucky vs Tennessee in Knoxville for first place in the SEC.
Texas vs Missouri, with Ahmad Hardy back for the Tigers. And UCLA vs Minnesota, where an 8-0 Bob Chesney is reportedly already in line for an extension.
Also on the show: why Lincoln Riley’s postgame confrontation with Ohio State’s athletic director is the most real we’ve seen him. Oklahoma firing offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle, Brett Yormark stepping down as Big 12 commissioner and what the conference needs next. Whether Jeremiah Smith’s Heisman case survives Julian Sayin’s injury, Oregon’s actual path back into the playoff, why the NFL versus college football debate is a waste of everyone’s time, and the AP ballots of the week including the most SEC-slanted voter in the country.
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