WEBVTT - 12-9-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:09.560 This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon. Welcome aboard, 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:13.680 Thanks for tuning in on this Tuesday morning. Hope everybody 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.439 had a great weekend. I'll tell you what it was, 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.400 kind of an interest and what not, a kind of 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.119 it was a very interesting weekend this past weekend, and 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.840 we finally got our Christmas decorations up. And we thought 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.159 we were kind of late in terms of doing that 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.600 because we always, you know, driving around, you see people 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.480 that have already had their Christmas decorations up before Thanksgiving. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.200 I just don't I just don't buy into that. I'm 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.480 not into this early celebration because then by the time 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.640 Christmas comes around, you're pretty much tired of seeing the decorations. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.040 A lot of people had their Christmas decorations up before Thanksgiving, 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.760 which I think is a little bit early, but with 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.600 that weekend afterwards that generally when a lot of people 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.440 put their decorations up. But we were running well what 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.680 we thought was a little late. But then as we 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.280 started seeing some of the reports and talking to people 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.520 and listening and watching on Facebook, we're pretty much in line. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.440 So don't feel too bad about getting our stuff up 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.959 the way we got our stuff up, which was a 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.040 lot of fun, big weekend as far as sports is concerned, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.520 And normally I don't talk a lot about sports on 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.399 this program because after all, it is America's truck a network, 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.920 and so we generally stick to economic news because as 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.240 the reports from American Transportation Research Institute says that that 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.280 is one of the main concerns of you out there 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.560 on the road, that driving around and worrying about the economy. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:41.360 And with my point has been along all along is 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.600 that what we're hearing from the spoon fed regurgitators of 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.520 the mainstream media is not what is going on, and 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.639 that looking at some of these stories and reading between 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.520 the lines and seeing the positives in there, the headlines 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.400 don't always match what the story says. And so my 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.920 point on this program is to try to not try 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.600 to but to get the truth out so that people 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.119 know where the economy is, how strong the economy actually 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.959 is despite all the negativity from the spoon federalc urgitators 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.360 in the mainstream media. So again with that and said 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.360 I don't normally talk a lot about sports, but it 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.160 was very interesting weekends. Starting off from Friday, I almost 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.640 hit the trifecta this weekend in terms of teams that 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.400 I thought were gonna win. Anyway, Friday night here in 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.600 Cincinnati was a Crosstown shootout. Now, this is a game 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:37.040 between University of Cincinnati and Xavier University, my alma mater, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.040 and Xavier won the Crosstown shootout. They were not expected 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:46.840 to win. They were, you know, watching the pregame information 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.119 and you know, they have the panel it was the 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:55.000 show or the game was televised on TNT turna network television, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.720 and the four panelists we're talking about, well who you 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.639 choosing tonight? Who do you think is going to win? 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.079 And all four of them thought, you see, was gonna win. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.280 And on paper it appeared as though that they had 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.040 the stronger team, bigger team, better team, et cetera. However, 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.320 that's why you play the game. And you know they 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.679 were trying to downplay this, and you know, for those 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.320 of you who are not familiar with us, I mean, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.840 this is a big game. And of course my alma mater, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.880 Xavier on the Crosstown shootout. Now, just to kind of 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.079 give you a little bit of background on this, Zavier 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.560 University has a student body of six thousand students, you 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.840 see has fifty thousand. We are separated there, separated by 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.040 only three miles. A lot of these players in the 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.360 past used to play in these summer leagues around the 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.360 town and so the importance of this game was the 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.560 bragging rights on those during those games during the summer league, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.440 which is kind of faded by the wayside. Before Xavier 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.040 University dropped football back in nineteen seventy three, that was 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.320 referred to as the Crosstown Shootout for the Xavier U 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:02.840 See football game every year and on par Xavier had 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.240 a pretty good record against UC. It's one of those 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.800 games kind of like the Ohio State Michigan game. It 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.680 really doesn't matter what the what the record is. When 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.280 you go into that game because of the rivalry, people 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.480 are playing a little bit better than what they normally 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.800 would pay play with a lot more intensity because they're, 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.800 you know, just because it's a rival. And leading up 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.800 to the game, Xavier's first year head coach head coach 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.520 for the first year, Richard Patino, who is Rick Patino's son, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.599 they were interviewing him and they said, well, how are 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.719 you know, because the city really gets into this and 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.479 the of course the alumni that live in the city. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.000 The Xavier alumni and U SEE alumni. It's kind of 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.400 a kind of a clash there type of thing. And 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.599 they were interviewing him and said, well, what are you 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.040 preparation for the game? And we don't prepare any different 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.440 for this game. Uh, it's just another game on this schedule. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.920 We don't make any more emphasis on it more than 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.200 anything else. And a lot of the people that have 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.599 been here for a number of years and the sportscasters 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.400 and whatever said, you know, it's funny every time a 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.120 new coach comes in, whether it's for UC or Xavier, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.200 they always say the same thing until after the game 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.640 and they say, I had no clue how big this 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.240 game was and the intensity and the rivalry, especially in 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.800 the student body and in the stands, and so from 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.960 that aspect, I think there was a little bit of 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.719 a surprise as far as Richard Patino was concerned in 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.159 terms of that. Now, what's interesting is that when I 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.080 was watching the game, we call it the Crosstown Shootout. Now, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.800 the TNT sportscasters they were kept referring to it as 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.320 the Crosstown Showdown. I guess they're probably being a little 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.040 bit pc as far as that's concerned, a little politically 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.560 politically correct. I mean, because you know you can't well 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.800 you know, you can't have shots. You can't have shoot 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.560 it can't be a shootout for crying out loud. That 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.720 kind of kind of gives some sort of other connotation 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.360 to it, which is a load of crap, because if 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.440 you're going to do that, well then maybe you should 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.200 change some of the terms. You'd eliminate the shot clock, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.520 don't talk about the three point shots, you don't talk 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.440 about the number of shots that a player made during 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.599 the game, and all that sort of stuff. But I 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.560 thought it was kind of interesting, just kind of an 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.080 a side note. So anyway, as far as the game 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:28.200 was concerned, Xavery won the game seventy seventy four, which 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.200 was very interesting. Xavier beat the Bearcats for the eight 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:37.920 sixth time in last seven meetings, which is very interesting. Again, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.880 the team usually is on bragging rights, which is based 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.320 on bragging rights around the city. Forward Trey Carroll scored 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.560 a high career high thirty points as Xavier Musketeer has 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.719 defeated since Santy Baracats seventy nine seventy four in the 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.279 Crossdown shootout since at the Sintas Center of Friday Night, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:05.200 Beat you again, bait beat you see, And somewhere in here, 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.720 I think I've got the note that Xavier has won. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.480 Actually you See has not, And this was a home 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:19.320 game for Xavier, and the you See has not won 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:25.840 on x U's home court since two thousand and one. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.640 So this is like because it's usually you know, home 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.400 and away. You know, one one year it's at you See, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.480 one year it's at Xavier, and flip back and forth 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.760 and so on. So since two thousand and one, you 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.440 See has not beat Xavier on their own home court. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.480 So that was interesting. It was bragging rights and so on. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.640 This Trey Carroll and again they tried to downplay the 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.240 significance of this game and everything. But I think the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.720 individual students themselves, even though some of them transferred in, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.080 and I think they said at the beginning of the game, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.760 only one player on either team had experienced the Crosstown 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.640 shootout before. And I don't know what happened as far 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.080 as Trey Trey Carroll is concerned, but he's a transfer 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.240 student in and I think he's going going to be 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:11.960 I think he's a senior, so he's only going to 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.679 be here one year. But apparently he really got into 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.040 the motivation of this game again a career high. And 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.200 at the end of the game, you could just see 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.720 the excitement on his face and he was just so 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.680 excited and just running around the court and you know, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.040 showing the Xavier shirt and everything. I mean, it was incredible. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.880 And then the interview afterwards, what a great young man. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.199 He said, well, what are you gonna do? Are you 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.040 gonna go out with your friends tonight? And he goes, no, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.480 he isn't. Any point he turned around, he pointed, and 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.480 he says, my family came in for the game, and 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.880 my wife is up there because he got married in 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:50.160 the off season, which is interesting. And he said, I'm gonna, 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.640 you know, just go out to dinner with my family, 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.600 get get some sleep tonight and go to bed early 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.040 and so on. I'm not going to do anything stupid 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.480 and so on. But and the after game or after 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.040 the postgame interview, a couple of the people on set, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.520 I can't remember the two, but apparently they had played 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.480 college basketball before and they said, well, that is a 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.959 remarkable young man because he said he's not going to 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.040 go out and do anything stupid, which is certainly different 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.040 than what we did when we were in school, so 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.560 it was kind of interesting from that aspect. Also, going 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.040 into the weekend, we had the Indiana University OSU game, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.160 both teams being undefeated, Big Ten Championship and a big 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.720 a whole lot on the line there, which was kind 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.280 of interesting, kind of interesting as far as some of 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.679 the backstory there, we'll pick that up on the other side. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.880 I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network, seven hundred WLW, one 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.040 hundred WLW. I started at the beginning of the show saying, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.360 you know, I usually don't talk a lot about sports 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.680 on this program, again because it is America's truck in Network, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.520 And if you missed any of that or missing their 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.280 previous shows, make sure you hit up that iHeartRadio app 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.800 brought to you Buyer Friends at Rust Truck Centers. But 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.680 this weekend was interesting from the standpoint that again we 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.520 had the Crosstown Shootout x U versus UC University of Cincinnati, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.600 Miama Maters Avery University won that game seventy nine seventy four, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.800 which was an upset victory. Then on Saturday, we had 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.800 the Big Ten Championship Indiana University High State University ranked 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.800 one and two. A High State was ranked number one, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:28.400 Indiana was ranked number two. Very interesting game the Big 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.160 Ten championship and the national title on the line, and 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.920 of course then on Sunday we had the Bengals versus 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.960 the Bills. So but anyway, the Indiana game was it 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.560 was very interesting. I grew up, I mentioned before, I 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.400 grew up in Columbus, Ohio, so I do have kind 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.400 of a soft spot in my heart for them. However, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.080 my dad went to Notre Dame, so we were big 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.040 Notre Dame fans growing up, and not so much OSU 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.120 only from the standpoint that you know, if OSU is 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.320 playing any other team, I'm for OSU until they played 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.400 Notre Dame or something along those lines. But you always 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.840 want your hometown team or your home state team to 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.280 do well, and so you know, it wasn't necessary a 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.240 cheer for Ohio State, and of course I always want 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.600 them to beat Michigan and that type of thing. But 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.800 this particular game against Indiana was unique in a lot 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.880 of instances. The fact that they were able to win 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.880 thirteen to ten, which was a low scoring game between 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.200 these two teams, which is very interesting. It was the long. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.640 It was the longest, very long. I don't know if 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.800 it was a record losing streak. Indiana had not beat 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:45.960 OSU Ohio State University since nineteen eighty eight, thirty seven years. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.000 They hadn't beaten them, and of course, you know, again 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.040 according to statistics and according to the strength of schedule, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.600 and even though they were ranked number one and number two, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.000 I don't think anybody was really giving Indiana any chance 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.320 of winning that game, simply because as an overpowering offense. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.040 Now High State won the national championship last year. So 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.800 kind of in heart of hearts, you know, living here 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.520 in the living in the Tri state area around the Ohio, 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:17.240 Kentucky and Indiana corner there in southwest Ohio, you know, 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.480 we do have some a little bit of an affiliation 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.679 or so on with Indiana, and I was kind of 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.839 hoping that Indiana would knock off OSU because they have 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.959 been getting a little cocky and so on. So I 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.680 was actually pleased to watch it, even though I knew 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.040 both teams were going to wind up in the playoffs 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.400 at college playoffs, you know, having Indiana win. And the 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:43.040 other thing too, is that Indiana has not won the 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:49.040 big Ten championship since nineteen sixty seven, fifty eight years, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.160 Indiana has been one of these teams that has generally 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.079 a pretty decent record, but they have probably one of 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.120 the worst. I think they were saying that Indiana, in 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.839 terms of their record over the years, has one of 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.800 the worst in the Big Ten. You know, it's kind 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.079 of a so so program, never been very prominent and 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.240 so on. But the last couple of years, the new 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:14.400 coach there, his name escapes me now, but really built 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.719 up the university there, built up the team, really made 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.640 an effort here, and it was a It was an 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.160 exciting game, it was very interesting to watch. But the 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.200 mere fact that they had not beat Ohio State in 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.480 thirty seven years and had not won the Big Ten 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.560 championship in fifty eight it was a huge day and 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:39.200 a huge thing for Indiana IU Indiana University. Then we 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.520 had the of course, we had the Bengals game, and 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:46.000 then about six o'clock Sunday night, they did these college 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.760 rankings and who was going to be in and who 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.280 was going to be out of the college playoffs, which 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.920 to me wind up being an absolute joke. It's a 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.400 twelve team field, and again I don't talk much about sports, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.640 but you know, these kind of things that's on my mind, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.640 these kind of things that are of interest to me. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.800 And I've found over the years that if I find 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.199 something interesting, there's a whole lot of people out there 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:14.560 that find it interesting as well. So well, anyway, it's 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.400 interesting to me, and I thought that some of the 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.000 dynamics behind this. Now there's a twelve team that were 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.080 selected and all during the Ohio State Michigan or Ohio 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:27.040 State Indiana game and some of the other games. Let 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.280 me see, it was BYU and off the top of 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.000 my head, I can't remember off the top of my 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.760 head who they played. But there were all these games 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.440 that were coming down to some of these teams that 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.200 were on the bubble whether they were going to get 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.840 in or not. And it was interesting to see a 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:47.240 couple of these teams actually got blown out and even 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.960 though that they were still high ranked. And during the game, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.800 they were showing all these people that were part of 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.480 the selection committee and they were sitting there with their 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.400 computers and their notes and everything, and they were making 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:04.680 their determination. Team football field playoff was announced on Sunday 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.400 and Notre Dame was left out and a couple of 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.880 other teams that should have been in there were also 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.640 left out. The Fighting Irish to ten and to two 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.280 were the first team left out of the field, and 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.000 Miami ten and two received the last at large spot, 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.240 moving up two spots to number ten after the twelve 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:31.440 person CFP selection committee ultimately decided head had results. The 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.240 Hurricanes defeated the Fighting Irish of course first game of 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.160 the season, twenty seven to twenty four in their August 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.360 thirty first opener, so they kind of made that the 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.360 determining factor as to whether or not Notre Dame made 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.840 it in. But what was interesting is that if you 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:53.000 go to the AP rankings, which is interesting, the AP 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.480 did their rankings at the end of the season, and 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.120 they had the number one, number two, number three team. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.560 As far as who was going to be ranked, and 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.000 if you go through the top twelve, in my opinion 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.560 for the college National Championship game, it should be the 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.920 top twelve teams in the country, and you start off 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.200 with Indiana and then Georgia and Ohio State. But you 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.920 have you know, at the end you had number twelve 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:27.760 was BYU. Yet in the championship games, there's going to 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.320 be and I don't know why they did this. I 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.120 don't know the backstory behind this, but they put in 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:39.840 these lower tier teams James Madison and Tulane. Now, as 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.200 far as the college rankings, Tulane is number seventeen in 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.400 the country and James Madison is number nineteen. And so 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.680 if you're trying to have an interesting playoff situation, wouldn't 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.760 you want to put the people in there that have 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.680 the best chance of winning the overall championship. And I'm 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.520 you know, James Madison may be a good team. Tu 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.600 Lane may be a good team, but they're probably going 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.679 to get blown out and blown out big in terms 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.399 of their individual game. And so it was interesting to 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:16.639 see how this played out. Who they moved ahead just 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:24.720 remembered BYU wound up losing to Texas Tech thirty four 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.679 to seven Saturday, and so that was a blowout. And 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.560 in order to determine nowech Texas Tech made it into 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.680 the playoffs and the fact that they blew out somebody 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:42.760 by twenty seven points in a game that should have 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.600 dropped them out, because again, how good are they if 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.040 they were beaten by this team that is in the 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:55.400 top ten by twenty seven points? So college football rankings 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.040 have always been kind of weird. It's been kind of 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.960 a weird system. The way they had it set up, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.080 they thought that we're going to do something good as 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.840 far as these playoffs were concerned, Add more games to 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.199 the schedule and so on. So you don't have a 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.399 situation where just the college football writers, the Writers Association 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.199 or different AP of Associated Press did their rankings and 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.920 people would argue about who was number one, who was 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.480 number two, and so on. The playoff system is good, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.320 but this time around it was I think screwed up. 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.399 And I think they screwed up royally because again, the 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.960 name of the game is number of eyes on the 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.320 TV sets. How many people are going to be watching 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.560 these games? And if the college rankings mean anything at all, 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:43.800 I mean, if the CFP college football people are going 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.080 to make the determination and who's going to play in 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.439 the tournament itself as opposed to you know, the college 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.919 rankings itself, then why have the AP rankings on a 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.840 weekly basis or even talk about that and just say, well, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.560 it's just going to be up to the CFP committee anyway. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.520 That's that's my two cents worth in than that, And 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.679 of course that's been devalued because they've stopped printing penny. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:15.160 I'm Kevin Gordon, America's struck in Network. Seven hundred WLW. 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.280 Here's your trucking forecast for the Try State and the 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.640 rest of the country and the Try State. Over nightclouds 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.119 increased the low down to twenty one, partly Sunday. Tuesday 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.679 high of forty three Claudie with rain Wednesday, then a 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.760 chance of rain mixing with snow by late afternoon, a 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.800 high of forty five. Thursday, mostly Claude, a slight chance 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.919 of afternoon snow a high of thirty three. Nationally, the 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.800 Pacific Northwest will see several days of heavy rain, while 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.800 snow falls in the Northern Rockies. A clipper system bringing 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:41.920 a period of snow across the Upper Midwest and Great 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.280 Lakes region through Tuesday, while a stronger clipper system expected 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.440 to bring heavy snow and high winds across the Upper 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.320 Midwest Tuesday, continuing across the Great Lakes Wednesday. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:59.000 Seven hundred w l W. I'm Kevin Gordon. This is 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.399 America struck in NETW. America's Trucking Network supports the mission 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.639 or rece across America. You can hear us every truck 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.919 and Tuesday at five am and ten am Eastern on 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:14.119 REES Across America Radio, available on the iHeartRadio app. Search 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:19.480 the word rease Now that's wr EA TS for Rees 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.440 Across America Radio. And thank you to all our truckers 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:28.000 for supporting the mission of Reese Across America. Also, the Saturday, Saturday, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.240 December the thirteenth is the day that the reef will 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.960 be distributed to the individual cemeteries around the country. And 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.199 again this is geared more towards the fallen soldiers in 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.879 terms of these reefs. Now, if you have not joined yet, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.000 or if you've not entered or wanted to participate, or 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.280 you want to participate in the ref laying ceremony, you 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.760 can go to recacross America dot org and you can 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:02.560 check that out receacross America dot org. And on there 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:07.399 you can register at a cemetery near you. It's pretty quick, 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:11.080 it's pretty easy. It's Saturday morning. It's only about two 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.520 three hour period of time out of your day to 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.240 give honor to these fallen soldiers. And again, their motto 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.159 is that or what they say is that a soldier 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.479 dies twice once when they take their last breath and 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.919 the other when their name is no longer mentioned. And 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:30.560 it's a beautiful cemetery ceremony taking these where hes, placing 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.280 them on the tombs, and what is done is the 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:37.720 wreath is laid and then that person's name is said 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.360 out loud by the person laying the wreath, and it's 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.000 really interesting. I'm not going to be able to participate 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.919 in it this year. We will be down when my 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.120 wife and I will be down in Nashville. We are 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.960 going to be attending the Tech Rodeo from Rush Truck 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.680 Centers and it's going to be a very interesting event 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:57.439 where they bring in all of the different technicians and 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.879 bodywork and people from the Bodyshop and it's going to 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.320 be this tech Rodeo that's going to be going on 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.399 over the weekend down in Nashville, the twentieth anniversary of 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.880 that three hundred and some thousand dollars in prizes, cash prizes, 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.960 and of course the overall trophy. So I'm really looking 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:15.760 forward to being down there and it's going to be 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.760 a very interesting event. Looking very forward to being there 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:22.080 and broadcasting from down there and doing the show from 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:25.399 down there. Of course, we'll have to record it because 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:27.520 you know it's during the day, and then of course 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.440 our show is at night, so I'm gonna have it 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:31.960 looking forward to a lot of fun. So anyway, that's 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.680 what's going on. I won't be there on Saturday, unfortunately. 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:37.960 I really wanted to really looking forward to being there 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.080 at the event. But again, if you want to go 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.879 to reescross America dot org, you can register, and I 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:48.960 think there's still time to sponsor a wreath. Even so, anyway, continuing, 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.440 it's gone on a little bit longer than I had expected, 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:53.600 but there's I just have a whole lot of thoughts 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:56.159 and so on about this that past weekend. As far 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.639