Oregon, Ole Miss Flip Flop in Latest College Football Playoff Projections

And now for your sports news, we're joined by entities Dave Martin. Dave, plenty going on right now, but let's start in college football as the latest playoff projections were released last night. What stood out to you? you know, is actually pretty similar to the last one. Now, if we look at the projections here, the big change really is that Miss and Oregon flip-flopped the Miss 7, Oregon 6. Last week, they were just at the reverse there. Now, one thing to watch for, I would say, who comes out of the ACC. Now, Miami is number 11 here as the lone representative right now, but it doesn't look like they're actually going to make the ACC championship game. It looks like SMU and Virginia have the best chance to make it. And whoever wins likely gets that one of those automatic bids as a conference champion despite be still possibly being ranked behind Miami. And that would probably kick Miami out altogether because although Tain is the final team ranked in here, they're actually ranked number 24 overall, but they would be the fifth highest ranked conference champion, which would get that final automatic bid. So Miami somehow needs to move up in the rankings despite only having one game left in the regular season. So even though they're in right now, they they need plenty of help to actually make the playoffs here, too. >> We'll keep an eye on that. Looking at Olympic news, though, the torch relay was started today for the 2026 Winter Games in Italy, which begins next period. >> Yeah, they had a big ceremony today in Olympia, Greece, where the Olympic Games first started. Now they'll have a weekl long relay in Greece before they hand it over into Athens and then it will travel the torch into Italy for the start of a month's long relay there. Now newly appointed IOC uh CEO President Kirsty Coventry was there. Here's part of her very emotional speech he gave. And as we light the Olympic flame for Milano Cortina, we will carry this light from the past to the present and continue it into the future. These games come at a critical part in our history. Thank you. I wasn't supposed to get emotional, but this place is very special. And it's so special because in a divided world that we live in today, the games hold a truly symbolic place. And it's our duty. It's our responsibility to ensure that the athletes from around the world can come together peacefully and that they can inspire the dreams and hopes of those around the world that are watching. >> So the uh the winter games start on February 6th. They will be hosted by Milano and Cortina. >> All right. All right, Walsh, fingers to college basketball. A number of ranked teams are in action today. Where do things stand now? >> Yeah, that players era festival uh conducting uh concluding today in Las Vegas already 15th ranked Iowa State beat Syracuse there 7860. Also 20th ranked Texas Tech beat New Orleans 82 to 50. And at the battle for Atlanta's 24th ranked Vanderbilt beat Western Kentucky 8378. Now also at their players era players era festival today in Vegas. Third ranked Houston beat Notre Dame 6656. Tonight at 7 PM we have the third place game. The same venue in Las Vegas. Seventh ranked ranked Tennessee faces Kansas. The first place game follows that one at 9:30 Eastern time. 7th ranked Michigan versus 12th ranked Gonzaga. Now the winners of these games get a lot of money in NIL prizes here. >> All right. Well, regarding this tournament, the Players Era Festival CEO told ESPN that organizers will consider a different format for next year's event. What do you think he's referring to? >> You know, there was plenty of confusion about how they would choose, you know, which teams made the championship game and the third place game, which as we discussed were for a lot of money. The winner gets a million dollars in NIL money. Now, basically, this is a three-game tournament from each team. first two games were known or advanced in the final day today. The matchups would be determined by margin of victory, record, AP ranking, head-to-head record, points scored, points allowed through these first two games. The result was the matchups weren't announced until after midnight last night, Eastern time. And then you had a team like 15th ranked Iowa State had two good ones. They beat St. John's and Kraton, but it wasn't even enough to get them into the third place game, let alone the title game. Now, next year, they're going to have 32 teams in this event. So it could be a different format there. >> Going to be packed. Well, Davis always thanks for joining us.