The Football Four Podcast with CFP committee chair Jeff Long

On Nov. 3, the College Football Playoff selection committee will release its first top 25 ranking of the 2015 season. Committee chair Jeff Long joins Paste BN Sports college football reporter George Schroeder on The Football Four Podcast to explain how he and his peers watch college football compared to the rest of us.

How do they value wins vs. top 25 opponents? How will the committee view Baylor differently, if at all, now that starting quarterback Seth Russell is out for the season? How does the committee handle a team that doesn't play for a conference championship when a conference championship is part of the Playoff seeding criteria? And how does Long prepare himself for every Tuesday with ESPN and the media when he knows his every word will be parsed?

In addition, George and I break down the weekend that was, which included two more coaches leaving their jobs and two more teams leaving the ranks of the unbeaten.

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