Lou Holtz is a guy who knows a thing or two about college football, and when he speaks, people listen.
In an interview with Uproxx.com released Friday, and he shared some thoughts on the College Football Playoff field. When asked to predict the final four teams, Holtz named Ohio State, Auburn, T.C.U, and Notre Dame.
Though Holtz thinks the Buckeyes make the playoffs, he think they'll lose a game this year:
You have to look at Ohio State, but I do not believe Ohio State will go undefeated. They will lose a game somewhere, and it very well might be against Michigan in Ann Arbor. Let’s remember in ’68, that great sophomore team had won so many games and went up there and lost to Bo Schembechler in his first year there. I think the same scenario is very similar here. But you have to put Ohio State in there.
I don't think anyone would put Ohio State in the CFP if the Buckeyes lost to Michigan, but this isn't my world. It's Lou Holtz's.
Holtz also told a fantastic anecdote about the time he told a bold-faced lie on national television:
But if you ask me the most embarrassing thing, we were on TV, and Mark May asked me about my golf game. I said, “Mark, I want you to know I’m the best golfer in Lake Nona, and I mean that. I’m not joking.” At Lake Nona, we have all sorts of touring pros. Ian Poulter, Justin Rose, Graeme McDowell, Henrik Stenson. I mean, everybody at that club was all over me. “You’re a lousy golfer. You lied on TV!” And I told them 300 members called me a liar, but 300 million people think I’m a hell of a golfer. I figured, pretty good odds.
They don't make them like Lou Holtz anymore, that's for sure.
