Brendan Gulick Questions For Ryan Day About College Football Playoffs

Ryan Day On The College Football Playoff

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00:00 >> Ryan, there was a 14-0 team conference champion left out.

00:05 And I think there's a lot of people around the country that are a little worked up

00:07 about that.

00:08 As a head coach who prioritizes win at all costs,

00:12 to know that that ultimately wasn't enough to get a team in the playoff,

00:16 how does that sit with you?

00:17 >> I just, coming off of our game that we didn't finish it out the right way,

00:26 then that's what I've been focused on.

00:28 I haven't really got too much involved with it.

00:30 I've always felt like conference champ deserves to be in the final four.

00:37 But I guess this is the last year of that.

00:39 But I'm probably not gonna get into all that right now,

00:44 just got my team to worry about.

00:45 >> As you consider future non-conference games,

00:52 do you think that it is still an incentive to play major teams?

00:58 Like for example, this year Notre Dame or

01:00 the games you have on the schedule against Alabama, Texas and Georgia.

01:04 Do you think there is still incentive to schedule those kinds of games given

01:08 the changes in college football?

01:09 >> Yeah, I think now that you have a 12 team playoff, for sure it does.

01:12 I think that's probably the biggest change coming forward,

01:19 is that those games are gonna matter.

01:21 But at the same time, you can build up your team and you can learn from your team

01:26 by challenging your team with non-conference opponents like that.

01:29 But also knowing that you'll have an opportunity to possibly make the 12 teams

01:32 as opposed to just the final four.

01:34 As you can see, it got really tight this year.

01:36 So I think it's gonna be a whole different end of the season next year.

01:44 But I think it's great to challenge your team, find out where you're at and

01:47 grow as the season goes on.

01:51 We did that this year by scheduling Notre Dame,

01:53 which I thought was great the last two years.

01:55 And I think we learned a lot about our team early in the season.

01:58 But yeah, it'll be much different next year.

02:01 I think it's a good thing.