Maybe you won't learn a lot from sports talk radio, yet it's a fun listen.
Nationally, you have your entertaining hosts - Dan Patrick, Rich Eisen, Ryen Russillo and Dan Le Batard - and your not-so-entertaining. You get sports news. And you get different, broad perspectives.
On Saturday, for instance, one analyst said Baylor has played "a bunch of nobodies." Apparently, to him, that extends to Morgantown. Then, later that morning, another radio host discussed Notre Dame's candidacy as a College Football Playoff contender.
"It doesn't matter if Notre Dame is in a conference," he said. "It doesn't matter if it plays in a conference championship. That doesn't bother me."
I spoke to the inanimate object that is my radio. In a loud voice.
"Say what?"
I'm pretty sure I was listening to an ESPN station. And I'm pretty sure it was ESPN that hosted Big 12 coaches before the college football season for a "carwash" TV rotation. I distinctly remember seeing those Big 12 coaches being grilled individually about the necessity for a league championship.
Unless, apparently, you coach Notre Dame.
Then, suddenly, it dawned on me. Aside from a scenario in which two Big 12 teams make the CFP four-team playoff, perhaps the next best scenario for that league would be to have the Fighting Irish make the field.
Maybe, just maybe, the conference should "cheer, cheer for Old Notre Dame."
I'm not kidding. See, if the Fighting Irish would make the College Football Playoff once - just once - the Big 12 could tell the other Power Five conferences to take a flying leap in regard to league title games.
OK, so perhaps a little history lesson of the recent past is necessary. It was just this past spring when an Associated Press story surfaced quoting Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby. None of his league's teams made the first playoff and some - including selection committee chairman Jeff Long - indicated a reason was a lack of data from a championship.
"There is a good chance," read the story, "the Big 12 championship game will be making a comeback as soon as 2016. Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he believes the conference will move toward having a championship football game again because not having one puts the league at a disadvantage. ... 'Having 13 [games] is superior to having 12,' Bowlsby said."
As I wrote at the time, though, caving to the pressure would have been one of the most spineless decisions I've seen in 35 years of covering sports. The Big 12 has 10 teams. Each team plays every member. There are no divisions. There is no need to play a championship, a la a 14-team SEC, ACC and Big Ten.
Also, there is no rule stipulating a team must go through a title game to make the CFP. If one was in place, that would preclude Notre Dame from making the field. And no one is going to preclude TV-popular Notre Dame from anything.
"Rah, rah, for Notre Dame."
If the Fighting Irish are one of the four best teams, they should make the field. The end. Why should Big 12 teams be looked at differently?
There is absolutely no reason for the Big 12 - in its current state - to stage an awkward, unnecessary football championship. The only reason to do so is because other leagues are putting their best teams in precarious situations via title games and wish the Big 12 to do so as well.
Well, Notre Dame is an independent. Unless strong-armed by every Power Five conference, it will remain an independent. And even if it's strong-armed, it still may remain an independent. The Irish can be a wee bit stubborn on the point.
"Wake up the echoes cheering her name."
I enjoyed a quote from CFP executive director Bill Hancock from this past July regarding Notre Dame: "They're in the same boat as everyone else," he said.
Silly, of course. But in this regard, it might work toward the Big 12's favor.
OK, so what are the chances Notre Dame makes the playoff this season? Slim at this point. The Associated Press poll has Ohio State, Baylor, Clemson and LSU at the top. The Sagarin computer rankings have Alabama, Clemson, Baylor and Oklahoma at the top. In both cases, the Fighting Irish are No. 9. Yet consider the school a definite "maybe" as we careen into the second half of the season. Just a couple weeks ago, victories over Texas, Georgia Tech and USC seemed devalued.
Look now though. Texas has whipped Oklahoma. Georgia Tech wrecked Florida State. USC muted the Utes.
"Old Notre Dame will win overall."
We'll see. The first CFP committee meeting and, subsequently, rankings will materialize next week. Those charged with the task will meet in Grapevine, Texas, to clue us in on their thinking.
Certainly, there's a lot yet to be determined. Who would have thought Memphis, Houston, Toledo, Temple, Duke and Pitt would constitute 24 percent of the football poll? (Reads more like a nice hoops conference.)
But keep an eye out for the Fighting Irish. Because if the leprechauns are dancing at season's end, the Big 12 might hear a different tune in regard to championships.
"Onward to victory!"