The Beat of Sports

Marc gives his weekly recap of what the College Football Playoff committee said yesterday with the newest rankings. He explains that the committee told teams to treat this weekend like a beauty pageant and just win as big as possible.

One of the biggest made for tv sports disasters was the Phil Mickelson vs Tiger Woods golf special. It was marred by technically issues, lack of personality, and no real stakes. So could it happen again or was it just a one-off event?

With the second to last College Football Playoff ranking showcase tonight Marc lays out the scenario that even with chaos ahead of the Knights the committee will still figure out a way to disrespect the Knights and have a 2 loss team ranked higher.

Marc explains that last nights result of the Magic losing to the Warriors was disappointing because it was a completely winnable game for the team and that Steve Clifford should be upset that they couldn't handle maintaining an 18 point lead going into the 4th quarter.

Yesterday turnover happened with the Jacksonville Jaguars, offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett was fired and Blake Bortles got benched for Cody Kessler. Marc explains that in the 5 year tenure of Blake with the Jags he never really stood a chance to succeed when you look at all the coaching turnover and lack of weapons.

It seems like every sports franchise is getting into the eSports world and now the NCAA wants to join in on the fun, but why?

Earlier this year it was announced that Disney-ESPN would need to sell off all the regional sports networks they acquired in the Disney-Fox merger. Now we are learning who might be interested in buying those networks, Amazon being the newest name. Marc explains why this could be a huge game changer if they were able to pull off the deal.

In true Marc Daniels fashion he lays out the path for the next 2 weeks that could help land UCF in the College Football Playoffs. It would require a few upsets this weekend but it is not out of the realm of possibility but as Josh Heupel says every week the team needs to go 1-0.

Josh Robbins from The Athletic joins the show for his weekly visit to discuss the surging Orlando Magic. He talks about how with Steve Clifford there has been a resurgence for Nik Vucevic. And he talks about how Terrance Ross has been a key contributor for the Magic after spending last season injured.

Despite what former NFL players said on Twitter last night after the high scoring Chiefs-Rams game it didn't ruin the sport at all. Marc explains that while there have been more points scored and defense is struggling to keep up this is what the fans want and interest will continue to go up.