Can the Miami Hurricanes Win the College Football Title?

But I gotta start you with Hurricanes. Is this the year Miami Hurricanes win the national title? So I think it is, but I hate saying it out loud. It has me nervous, but I'm sorry, I look at everybody else in the country. And I don't think anybody, our defense is not quite as good as it was last year. But the offense is better than it was last year. And I don't see another team out there. I mean, the only team that scares me is LSU. Like I have this premonition that it's Miami LSU in the national title game. I don't know how LSU gets there, but I think that would be, I sort of look at LSU as having the better offense in Georgia, for instance. I think it's Georgia, LSU, Miami. Look, I have weird confidence about the Notre Dame game. I'm more nervous about this UNC game on Halloween night and just sort of being a little bit look ahead, right? as a player Dan, how much you know you know the big games coming up what are you thinking about going into this Saturday's game as a player I will tell you what Jimmy Johnson used to do with games like that we had these gap games it was never really about the opponent it was about the process Chuck so he would always tell us look we know that game's coming up he would make it exciting for us guys this is just one more step to get to your goal so he taught us to be and do things in steps if you want to walk yourself to the national championship it takes steps how many steps do you think it's going to take for you and so every week was always a challenge we really never even knew what our records was i think this has got a lot to do with coaching and Mario and their preparation, it's a coaching issue, yeah this right now a game like that because i said the same thing to Chris my producer, i go i'm not really worried about the Notre Dame game that much i'm worried about the game here with UNC because Belichick can do things and by the way they're four and three, they're better than they were a year ago these are one of those games you can stumble, you know, your foot here a little bit and we'll be worrying about the next thing and i think last year's championship run Chuck, i think is really going to help them also in this game yeah this is where you know it's funny uh you know is Miami the number one team in the country i think it's fair if people want to say they haven't earned it yet now i think priors matter i think Miami's playoff run should reassure folks that we probably are physically as tough if not tougher than some of these other teams but it does you know it's funny to watch the SEC bias work its will i'm not a Big 12 fan positive or negative but correct me if i'm wrong the Big 12 seems as competitive as the SEC the competition of the Big 12 means they only get one team in the playoff the competition in the SEC means they get four i didn't know that and look at BYU right now i mean look at what they did to Notre Dame a couple weeks ago here so i mean no question about it here. Hey, Chuck, NIL, has it been good, in your opinion, for college football? So big picture, yes. I was just at a conference that I helped put together, that was a part of. I didn't put it together, but I was a host of it on the prediction markets, okay? And people get really worried about the exploitation that takes place when a new system gets implemented? Is there insider trading problems with the prediction markets? There are. Is there problems of boosters going haywire right now in NIL? There is. But the bigger picture is what? More players are getting more opportunity to showcase who they are. And we have seen, boy, parity in college football is a lot of fun. You know what nobody loved when it was Alabama versus Clemson four out of five years, right? The diversification is something people like. This has worked really well. So I think it's overall better. I get we're in the middle of this transition. Every year, we're improving the system so that it isn't just totally nuts. So now it's one transfer portal window instead of two. Maybe we'll have, I do think you're gonna need collective bargaining before you can sort of have contracts that stick. We'll see how that works. But overall, I think the product's better. I think the competition is better. And I think it is opened more. Look, I think there's a max of the number of major schools that can compete. It's probably in the 40 to 60 range. But the SEC was trying to put it into the 15 to 20 range. So this is an improvement as far as I'm concerned.