Speaker 1: You know what I did yesterday, Jesse, in the span
Speaker 1: of twelve hours. In the span of eight hours, I
Speaker 1: appeared publicly with Mac Brown college football legend, college football
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, or a saint of an individual former
Speaker 1: national champion. And I appeared with Brandon Walker. The extremes
Speaker 1: of the human condition never more pronounced than my life
Speaker 1: what I experienced yesterday. And I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: the latter of which a lot later in the show
Speaker 1: where jampacked. We're high a top of glowing downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Beautiful sunset underway outside. And look the reason I got
Speaker 1: to push all that stuff TI later in the show,
Speaker 1: is it's college football playoff prediction time. It's conference championship
Speaker 1: prediction time. Last year, I was looking at the calendar.
Speaker 1: We waited too long. Frankly, I think I got influenced
Speaker 1: by some things that I heard in August, and that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, and so I want to get it out
Speaker 1: of the way early, and we're gonna do it tonight.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do it to lead the show off. Also,
Speaker 1: the rankings came out today from the coaches, and the
Speaker 1: coaches are telling you some things without telling you some things,
Speaker 1: or either their sids who filled the ballot out in
Speaker 1: their place, or telling you some things. There is one
Speaker 1: of the more egregious teams placed in the top twenty
Speaker 1: five that I ever remember in the modern era, and
Speaker 1: we all know how far that goes back. I've got
Speaker 1: a ton of fall camp stuff, not like practice intel yet,
Speaker 1: cause most camps are just opening up or haven't opened
Speaker 1: up yet. But I got my eye on a lot
Speaker 1: of things. We're finally about to put pads on and
Speaker 1: you start figuring out some of this depth chart stuff.
Speaker 1: All that, plus I will give my own personal recount
Speaker 1: of my appearance last night, my debut appearance, my hosting duties,
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Speaker 1: with that. We are off. This is a really important
Speaker 1: show because it's time to pick some winners. It's time
Speaker 1: to make some predictions. It's time to nail myself down.
Speaker 1: And it's August fourth, and you know what that means, Jesse.
Speaker 1: I don't like predictions, frankly, because they set me up
Speaker 1: for failure. Think DJ Lagway, number one quarterback in SEC
Speaker 1: circa twenty twenty five. This never works out well for me.
Speaker 1: I went oh in five maybe and six picking it's
Speaker 1: Indiana last year. So take this with an entire factory
Speaker 1: of salt. And so what I'm thinking about doing is,
Speaker 1: you know a little strategy called hedging. It is early August,
Speaker 1: and I am gonna make predictions tonight, and I'm not
Speaker 1: writing them in pencil. I'm writing them in dark pencil,
Speaker 1: but still irasable because if I hear some stuff in
Speaker 1: fall camp. I want to be able to er right
Speaker 1: before the season starts. So I'm gonna give you my
Speaker 1: conference winners. I'm gonna give you my playoff predictions. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you my national champion right here in front
Speaker 1: of God and Bradley and everyone. But I just want
Speaker 1: to leave myself a small crack in the exit door
Speaker 1: over here. With that in mine, Let's talk conferences first,
Speaker 1: and in no particular order. The ACC won the draft,
Speaker 1: and so the ACC is gonna go first tonight. Look,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to break these games down because number one,
Speaker 1: they may not happen, but number two, even if they do,
Speaker 1: they're like four months five months away. But congratulations to
Speaker 1: Mario Cristoball in Miami. They're gonna finally do something that
Speaker 1: many said would happen a lot, but in actuality has
Speaker 1: never had happened, and that is Miami winning the ACC. Now,
Speaker 1: to quickly remind you the odds over a FanDuel. Right now,
Speaker 1: Miami is the overwhelming favorite to win the league. What's
Speaker 1: very interesting is who's theoretically number two in this conference. Well,
Speaker 1: the answer is two teams. SMU and Louisville had the
Speaker 1: exact same odds to win the ACC. Right now, I slightly,
Speaker 1: ever so slightly lean SMU to face Miami in the
Speaker 1: ACC title game, which probably means Jesse, probably not definitely
Speaker 1: means that SMU, who knows when on the road and
Speaker 1: beat Louisville. They do play early in the season while
Speaker 1: the rest of the Free world has their eyes focused
Speaker 1: on Oxford, Mississippi. You know, SMU and Louisville play that
Speaker 1: week two. I think on a Saturday, Jesse, we want
Speaker 1: to check that. Anyway, gimme Miami versus SMU and the
Speaker 1: ACC Championship game and gimme Miami over SMU. More on
Speaker 1: what that means from Miami and SMU in just a second.
Speaker 1: Next up the Big twelve, the Monster Energy Big Twelve
Speaker 1: drafted second, and I think we're going to have a
Speaker 1: rematch from what we had last year, at least in
Speaker 1: terms of the matchup itself. Texas Tech, even without Brendan Sowsby,
Speaker 1: is still the pretty overwhelming favorite to win this league.
Speaker 1: Then it's a little drop off in Brigham Young, then
Speaker 1: it's a little drop off further and Utah. And there
Speaker 1: was a rumor that went around not just the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: But the whole country last year that I was anti
Speaker 1: Brigham Young. Some people made harsher accusations than that. Some
Speaker 1: people went down roads that were not comfortable going down
Speaker 1: on this show, on this campus, at this university. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I heard all of it. And I also watched American Primeval,
Speaker 1: which is it's a tough watch, but I think a
Speaker 1: necessary watch because it put the fear of God and
Speaker 1: me at least when it comes to Brigham Young. A
Speaker 1: dude ran a different way back then, and so I
Speaker 1: think maybe I want to lean Brigham Young slightly right
Speaker 1: now to win this league over Texas Tech. Joey McGuire
Speaker 1: enjoys this. He'll enjoy it more than any Brigham Young
Speaker 1: fan enjoys this. So I'm doing favors for everyone here.
Speaker 1: But I think that when you go through what they
Speaker 1: went through last year, which is they lost to one
Speaker 1: team twice. I was on hand the first time when
Speaker 1: they played in Lubbock, and then they got another shot
Speaker 1: against them in Texas Tech was just a better team.
Speaker 1: And then you go home to Provo for the entire
Speaker 1: offseason and you just think about it, and you got
Speaker 1: all your players back, and then here comes Jesse's private
Speaker 1: jet from Penn State in and they're like, Kalani Staki,
Speaker 1: we want to hire you, and he says no, and
Speaker 1: Jesse has to go home empty handed only to cash
Speaker 1: in with Matt Campbell. So all's well that ends well there,
Speaker 1: and it's just you got another shot. That group of
Speaker 1: guys has another shot. I like Brigham Young and so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna slightly lean them right now to win the
Speaker 1: Big twelve. Next up, the Southeastern Conference still gonna field
Speaker 1: sixteen teams this year, and they're gonna give it the
Speaker 1: good old college tribe right now. The odds in this
Speaker 1: league league Georgia the favorite, Texas behind them. Actually that know,
Speaker 1: Alabama had moved up to third. Jesse, is that new
Speaker 1: is is that odds movement? Okay, well it's Bama third,
Speaker 1: LSU fourth, LSU and ole Miss are tied. LSU, ol
Speaker 1: Miss and OU tied for fourth. Okay, Well again, I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about this more later when we talk
Speaker 1: about the rankings in the show. But how do I
Speaker 1: think this conference is going to work itself out? Well?
Speaker 1: In early August, before we've really got an intel anywhere,
Speaker 1: why overthink the room. This is Georgia's league. This has
Speaker 1: been Georgia's league, and even though Texas has had multiple
Speaker 1: shots at him, it's remained Georgia's league. And every single
Speaker 1: time there's this giant dust cloud during the week, folks
Speaker 1: hyping themselves up. I've fallen victim to this at least
Speaker 1: once or twice. I've picked Texas over Georgia, not three times, though,
Speaker 1: and it's always Georgia. So why overthink the room? Give
Speaker 1: me Georgia against Texas, and give me Georgia over Texas.
Speaker 1: And you know what, if I hear some hot rumor,
Speaker 1: if I think Rashem bay Else is going to single
Speaker 1: handedly up in this entire dynamic, If I think Cam
Speaker 1: Coleman is going to up in this entire dynamic, Hollywood
Speaker 1: Smother's about to run for fifteen hundred, including one forty
Speaker 1: eight and three scores against Georgia and up in this dynamic,
Speaker 1: I'll change my pick. But I don't know that yet,
Speaker 1: nor do you. So let's just yield the floor to
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart until we have reason to think otherwise. And
Speaker 1: then in the Big Ten, or as they're calling it,
Speaker 1: America's new College Football Conference patent pending, Ohio State's the
Speaker 1: favorite to win this league. Oregon's a hot team, Jesse.
Speaker 1: You see how many people are picking Oregan to win
Speaker 1: this thing, and then Indiana just hohm. Coaches don't even
Speaker 1: have them top five. It's just say good for you, guys,
Speaker 1: but it's it's you peaked last year. Great story, but
Speaker 1: now order is restored. Okay, USC's fourth, Michigan fifth, Penn
Speaker 1: State sixth. And there's a big drop off by the
Speaker 1: way after the top three that fits right in line
Speaker 1: with perception. We'll see what reality is. So here's where
Speaker 1: my head's at right now. I think Ohio State's going
Speaker 1: to be really good, so does everyone else. I think
Speaker 1: Indiana is going to be really good, and so does
Speaker 1: most everyone else. I think we're gonna have a logjam
Speaker 1: here of one lost teams. That's kind of how I
Speaker 1: would envision the Big ten playing out right now. And
Speaker 1: I think it'd be those three teams at the top
Speaker 1: there and the way that I think the tiebreakers would work,
Speaker 1: and who I think it would send to Indianapolis right
Speaker 1: now is Ohio State in Indiana, which is a rematch
Speaker 1: of last year. Give me a different winner in that one.
Speaker 1: This is tentative, so This does not count as me
Speaker 1: picking against Indiana. Also, if I send you to the
Speaker 1: conference title game, am I really picking against you? I
Speaker 1: don't think so, but reasonable minds can disagree there. Ohio
Speaker 1: State over Indiana as of early August is where I'm
Speaker 1: leaning in the Big ten. So our recap in the
Speaker 1: conference picture, our recap is Notre Dame was the best independent.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't know ute that. Congrats to the Irish. Miami
Speaker 1: wins the ACC, Brigham Young wins the Big twelve, Ohio
Speaker 1: State wins the Big Ten, Georgia wins the SEC. There's
Speaker 1: no big shot there. That's three favorites, and then Brigham
Speaker 1: Young's the number two on the odds board in the
Speaker 1: Big twelve courtesy of fan duel. Now gets a little fun,
Speaker 1: and it also gets a little interesting, and frankly gets
Speaker 1: a little tricky as we try and figure out how
Speaker 1: this seeding would look. So, as you may have heard,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's not in a conference, so you have zero
Speaker 1: context clues as to how good they were by looking
Speaker 1: at that lineup. But I'll tell you how good they were.
Speaker 1: They went undefeated, So they're number one overall in the
Speaker 1: playoff rankings. I would think Ohio State would have to
Speaker 1: be number two as a result of them being the
Speaker 1: best team in the best conference. I would say Miami
Speaker 1: third and I put Georgia fourth. And the reason Georgia
Speaker 1: would be fourth here is I'm I'm just not sure
Speaker 1: even the SEC champion is making it through the SEC unscathed,
Speaker 1: maybe even two losses. But I'm thinking there's a greater
Speaker 1: likelihood that Georgia emerges kind of like they did last year,
Speaker 1: kind of beat up conference champ. But Miami if their
Speaker 1: only loss is on the road at Notre Dame and
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's your number one team, I just think that
Speaker 1: resume may be good enough. Where Miami just won a
Speaker 1: conference title, they look good in the process, I think
Speaker 1: they may lock down the number three spots. So Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Miami, Georgia is your one through four. This
Speaker 1: is where I got to figure it out. So Indiana,
Speaker 1: if they lose the Big Ten championship game, they're not
Speaker 1: dropping far. And I think maybe they only drop behind
Speaker 1: Georgia as a result of Georgia being a conference champ.
Speaker 1: So I've got Indiana five, I've got Texas six, So
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a similar vibe to last year,
Speaker 1: where your teams that were participants in the Big Ten
Speaker 1: and the SEC championship games they don't drop much, if
Speaker 1: at all. And then we got to figure out what
Speaker 1: the committee does with Big Twelve champion Brigham Young, and
Speaker 1: I also had to figure out if we could have
Speaker 1: two Big twelve teams. Now, I played with this scenario
Speaker 1: for a second. I thought to myself self, what if
Speaker 1: Texas Tech goes undefeated regular season? What if Brigham Young's
Speaker 1: only loss is at home to Notre Dame and they
Speaker 1: go to the Big Twelve title game and Brigham Young wins.
Speaker 1: At that point, do I think Texas Tech is gonna
Speaker 1: go from being an undefeated top five team to all
Speaker 1: the way out of the rankings. I don't think they would.
Speaker 1: So to be very clear, if that's like one loss
Speaker 1: Brigham Young against undefeated Texas Tech and Brigham Young wins it,
Speaker 1: I think you got two Big twelve teams in the playoff.
Speaker 1: I think maybe there's one more blemish for Texas Tech. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I think Brigham Young is your seven seed. I guess
Speaker 1: the better way to put that is the Big Twelve
Speaker 1: chance is your seven seed, and in this case, it's
Speaker 1: Brigham Young and I think Texas Tech dropped out, which
Speaker 1: is kind of a wild scenario, But in this scenario,
Speaker 1: that's how it worked out. Give me Oregon at eight,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma at nine, LSU at ten, USC at eleven. Certain
Speaker 1: staff members are shaking their head. You want to doubt
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley good, you've been very successful over the last
Speaker 1: half deck Gabe, that's about to come to an abrupt halt.
Speaker 1: Put that eleven seed in your pipe and smoke it.
Speaker 1: Jesse not in the building though. And then twelfth is
Speaker 1: Boise State. Look, we threw army and navy around. Who
Speaker 1: else did we throw it? We threw UTSA, we threw
Speaker 1: unlv I tossed New Mexico in. There was some Billy
Speaker 1: Napier smoke at JMU for a little while. Still is
Speaker 1: fire's not out in there for the time being. Let's
Speaker 1: put let's put Boise State in the G five seed
Speaker 1: there the obligatory G six excuse me, G six twelve seed.
Speaker 1: I don't think if you're listening on podcasts and you're
Speaker 1: a visual learner, I don't quite think you understand what
Speaker 1: just happened here. Because it's time to look at the bracket,
Speaker 1: and I don't quite think people understand what it means. If,
Speaker 1: for example, Brigham Young is the seventh seed and LSU
Speaker 1: is the ten seed, I'll tell you what it means.
Speaker 1: It means LSU playing a playoff game in Provo, Utah
Speaker 1: in December. It means the greatest clash of cultures in
Speaker 1: the history of this country. I'm talking about revolutionary war
Speaker 1: up to and including everything that's ever happened in the
Speaker 1: history of this country. If people from Thibodaux, Louisiana storm Provo, Utah,
Speaker 1: We've never seen anything like it. That is irresistible force,
Speaker 1: that is immovable object, greater than any WrestleMania ever gave us.
Speaker 1: And that's not even to determine the outcome of the game.
Speaker 1: That's just who survives and kind of makes it to
Speaker 1: the game, so to speak. So we've got LSU Brigham
Speaker 1: Young playing in round one. This would give us USC
Speaker 1: at Texas in round one. I've got Oklahoma going on
Speaker 1: the road to Oregon and then Indiana as a result
Speaker 1: of being the five seed, which again in this brief
Speaker 1: history of the twelve team playoff era, that's been the
Speaker 1: spot you want to be in. They draw Boise. So
Speaker 1: how would this shake out? Firstly, up in Eugene, this
Speaker 1: is Dan Lanning's shot. Okay, Dan Lanning, I think he
Speaker 1: just had a really good year. He's the eight seed, Okay,
Speaker 1: So he's in the playoff and they've been bounced emphatically
Speaker 1: two years in a row. They've got to win that game.
Speaker 1: I think they do. So I think Oregon over Oklahoma
Speaker 1: is how i'd pick it right now. Again, I've got
Speaker 1: entire of August, or the entirety of August changed my mind.
Speaker 1: Indiana would route Boise. LSU goes into Brigham Young and
Speaker 1: I think they leave a part of their soul there.
Speaker 1: But I think they win the game because they just
Speaker 1: be better. You also got to understand, and more on
Speaker 1: my thinking here in a second. If LSU's made the playoff,
Speaker 1: that means Laying got that group of players to come together,
Speaker 1: and that means they gelled, they coalesced, and they're probably
Speaker 1: clicking pretty good by this point. USC at Texas in
Speaker 1: round one's awesome. It's a uniform game. It's Lincoln Riley
Speaker 1: coming home. Although Lincoln Riley's a West Texas guys, I
Speaker 1: don't think he would call Austin home and I don't
Speaker 1: think they would welcome him home. And I don't think
Speaker 1: it matters because they're gonna lose to Texas. So give
Speaker 1: me Texas over USC. But Lincoln Riley made the playoff, Jesse,
Speaker 1: so y'all can shut up, no hot seat, Lincoln Riley
Speaker 1: made the playoff. That's what we needed from him. Playoff
Speaker 1: or bust. Well, playoff, so no bust again. If you're
Speaker 1: listening on podcast, there are some of us out here
Speaker 1: who fought against playoff expansion. I'm one of them. I
Speaker 1: also freely admit to you I think the sport of
Speaker 1: college football has grown into twelve teams being perfect because
Speaker 1: the top of the sport got flatten like play dough.
Speaker 1: And so as a result, look at the second round
Speaker 1: of this playoff. These are your matchups. If you're listening
Speaker 1: somewhere driving around in Waterloo, Iowa, this would be Oregon
Speaker 1: going to Notre Dame. This would be Georgia going to Indiana.
Speaker 1: LSU goes to Ohio State, Miami goes to Texas. Oh no,
Speaker 1: they don't, do they No, I'm messing with you, No
Speaker 1: they don't. That's the way it should be. We should
Speaker 1: have two rounds of playoff games on CAMPI plural of campus,
Speaker 1: but we don't, so we still get awesome matchups. They're
Speaker 1: just going to be in sterile NFL stadiums because that's
Speaker 1: how we do the playoff right now. But nevertheless, Oregon,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Georgia, Indiana, LSU, Ohio State in Miami, Texas.
Speaker 1: I guess if you could hand pick the lineups, maybe
Speaker 1: you could make some tweaks here and there and improve it,
Speaker 1: but you can't improve that by much. Like that's an
Speaker 1: insane second round there. So I'll take Notre Dame over Oregon.
Speaker 1: That's my one seed, and they're sitting there rested, they're
Speaker 1: ready to go. They've got last year still fresh on
Speaker 1: their mind. And what that would mean for Oregon, we
Speaker 1: can figure that out. That's well down the road. I
Speaker 1: think I'd go Indiana over Georgia. What I'm thinking there
Speaker 1: is if Indiana is in the playoff, they had the
Speaker 1: first round game and then they get Georgia and this
Speaker 1: spot historically is not being good. Indiana is the only
Speaker 1: team that's figured out how to play rested in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Georgia has suffered twice in two years in this role.
Speaker 1: So I think they make it a third year, because
Speaker 1: in this scenario, that means Josh Hoover ended up being
Speaker 1: really good, and that means I've got Indiana maybe the
Speaker 1: best coaching staff in the country, if not one of
Speaker 1: the top two, top three in the country. Georgia staff
Speaker 1: not bad either, But if Indiana is humming by that point,
Speaker 1: you probably have an edgicate quarterback. I would guess, Okay,
Speaker 1: LSU and Ohio State. I'd lean Ohio State. And that's
Speaker 1: just an organization thing. That's just They've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of folks who have been there, done that, and are
Speaker 1: trying to do it again. That's Julian saying second time around.
Speaker 1: I just think I'd lean them at the moment. And
Speaker 1: Miami in Texas, that's that's really really tough. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lean Texas ever so slightly. Right now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lean Texas. That's a fifty one to forty nine coin
Speaker 1: flip virtually in my mind. Right now, your final four
Speaker 1: is Notre Dame Indiana on one side of the bracket,
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Texas on the other side of the bracket.
Speaker 1: What a time for the State of Indiana. Just what
Speaker 1: a moment. This is the biggest occurrence since the birth
Speaker 1: of Larry Bird. I would say, in this state of Indiana,
Speaker 1: I think Notre Dame wins this game right now in August.
Speaker 1: And on the other side, I think I would very
Speaker 1: so slightly lean Texas. I think that combination of players
Speaker 1: plus them getting on a role in the postseason at
Speaker 1: its best is a really, really tough out and Notre
Speaker 1: Dame Texas is an unbelievable national championship game. Coin up
Speaker 1: in the air it lands Notre Dame. Notre Name won
Speaker 1: the national championship in August. Would that schedule Jesse not
Speaker 1: battle tested at all? Imagine a team with that kind
Speaker 1: of schedule winning it all. It's almost like the schedule
Speaker 1: didn't matter once the playoffs started. So, and I want
Speaker 1: to emphasize in early August, that is how I see
Speaker 1: this entire picture playing out. Now here's the nightmare scenario.
Speaker 1: The nightmare scenario is, this is a perfect bracket and
Speaker 1: I mess it up in late August because I see
Speaker 1: something going to some practices, I read some things on
Speaker 1: some message boards, I get influenced by corrupt members of
Speaker 1: the staff, and all of a sudden, I got Penn
Speaker 1: State with a first round by somehow having won the
Speaker 1: Big ten. I'm trying to guard against it. It's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But none of us are perfect. None of
Speaker 1: us are perfect, and even when we are, kids, coaches
Speaker 1: and officials can screw it up for you famously, That's
Speaker 1: happened to me a lot. If people don't know that,
Speaker 1: I picked one hundred percent winners last year in games
Speaker 1: that kids, coaches and officials did not screw up. So
Speaker 1: prayers up for us. All, all right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: Coaches pole drop today. I don't know if you heard this.
Speaker 1: Let me make sure this screen is right there we go,
Speaker 1: So the coaches pole drop today, Top twenty five. Some
Speaker 1: of it makes sense. Some of it is so bad.
Speaker 1: I thought that we were looking at typos. I thought
Speaker 1: it was I thought we were getting punked dead serious.
Speaker 1: Now not in the top five. But there is a
Speaker 1: team in the top twenty five that defies all conventional wisdom,
Speaker 1: and I can only think it's wizardry at work. I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you about it in a second. So your
Speaker 1: top five, Ohio State's number one. That's pretty supreme. Respect
Speaker 1: the top five. For the record, I couldn't see I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone's going to rank Georgia number one. I
Speaker 1: could see someone ranking any of the other top six
Speaker 1: number one, so Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, Texas. Notre Dame
Speaker 1: is the top five, Indiana with six, Notre Dame at five.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to argue a coach's poll in August.
Speaker 1: I would just humbly love to know what's the explanation there,
Speaker 1: because I think Notre Dame belongs higher than five. So
Speaker 1: what's the explanation? Best I can tell? I think some
Speaker 1: coaches held it against them that they opted out of
Speaker 1: the bowl game. I think there's some of that residual,
Speaker 1: and that's fair, that's the way you feel. I think
Speaker 1: some other coaches look and say, I don't like their schedule. Translation,
Speaker 1: I wish I had that schedule, and I think they
Speaker 1: just took it out on him, knowing it won't matter anyway.
Speaker 1: And so it's the best I can tell. That's why
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's ranked number five, Indiana's number six. I lived
Speaker 1: this life last year, so you don't have to. Don't
Speaker 1: do this to him. Don't let Kurt Signetti get you
Speaker 1: in his crosshairs. He will ruin you. I was showing
Speaker 1: Jesse a film, a Johnny Depp film earlier today called
Speaker 1: Secret Window. Good movie. Jesse doesn't believe in movies, and
Speaker 1: so he hasn't seen it. Read the book, Jesse, and
Speaker 1: there's a crazy guy who, as it turns out's not
Speaker 1: real spoiler alert, twenty five year old movie. And he
Speaker 1: looks at Johnny Depp at some point and he says,
Speaker 1: I will burn your life and everyone in it like
Speaker 1: a cane field and a high wind. The reason I
Speaker 1: remember the line is that's essentially what Kurt Signetti told
Speaker 1: me last year every time I picked against him, and
Speaker 1: you people hashtag you people have the audacity to put
Speaker 1: this man sixth when the teams that he went three
Speaker 1: and oh against last year are ranked one to two.
Speaker 1: Have we learned nothing? No, not we I learned. I
Speaker 1: won't have them outside the top five, but the coaches do,
Speaker 1: and you guys actually have to face him. That's the
Speaker 1: crazy part. I just get to sit here. Miami's at seven.
Speaker 1: Fair Does that conclude Tier one? This is a growing
Speaker 1: point of debate in the college football ethosphere. Right now,
Speaker 1: Are there seven teams and then the end of Tier one?
Speaker 1: Or could you make the argument for like an a
Speaker 1: and M, or An Oklahoma or Old Miss. My Tier
Speaker 1: one stops at seven. That I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: a massive drop off. It's not like a touchdown differential
Speaker 1: on a neutral field. JP Pole coming soon. But the
Speaker 1: coaches have A and M at eight, Oklahoma nine, Ole,
Speaker 1: Miss at ten, Bama eleven. So you know in any
Speaker 1: rankings in the preseason, there's gonna be this kind of
Speaker 1: glob of Tier two SEC teams, those conditional teams. And
Speaker 1: I think they kind of got it right here. In fact,
Speaker 1: LSU's thirteenth. I'm gonna skip over Texas Tech for a second.
Speaker 1: I'll come back to him, A and M, Oklahoma, Ole, Miss, Bama, LSU.
Speaker 1: That means seven of the top thirteen in the coaches
Speaker 1: poll are SEC. The coaches are in the tank for
Speaker 1: the SEC. The coaches are drunk on SEC bias. Everybody is.
Speaker 1: These are like a bunch of IF then teams. Basically,
Speaker 1: Texas has a lot that they have going for them.
Speaker 1: These other teams like Bama Wood, the quarterback situation in
Speaker 1: the run game did oh for LSU, A and M
Speaker 1: all the talent they lost to the draft, got a
Speaker 1: lot of turn on the offensive line. Oklahoma same thing
Speaker 1: run game. How good is Matier this year he comes
Speaker 1: back from injury. A lot of if and any of
Speaker 1: those teams, if those ifs get answered in the affirmative,
Speaker 1: they could be fringe national championship contenders. I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: Texas text at twelve, which begs the question where would
Speaker 1: they be if they had sores By? I was wondering,
Speaker 1: if they have Soresby, do the coaches rank them top ten?
Speaker 1: My guess would be a Round nine or ten. They're
Speaker 1: at twelve with Will Hammond. Okay, we move on. Fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen,
Speaker 1: and twenty two are Big Ten teams, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of weird when you look at the Tier two of
Speaker 1: the SEC. Just below them begins the Tier two of
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. Now we don't know if this is
Speaker 1: going to be reality, but if I had to do
Speaker 1: my Top twenty five right now, I think it would
Speaker 1: feel somewhat similar. And that is I think the top
Speaker 1: of the Big ten's better than the top of the SEC.
Speaker 1: Then I think the second level of the SEC is
Speaker 1: probably a little bit better than the second level of
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. That's why answering that question is one
Speaker 1: of the most important storylines in college football this year,
Speaker 1: because if that's wrong, if an M and Oklahoma, Alabama, Ole,
Speaker 1: Miss LSU, some combination of those kind of crap out,
Speaker 1: and Washington is a surprise team this year, Bryce Underwood
Speaker 1: just balls out of his mind at Michigan, USC really
Speaker 1: is a playoff caliber team. Penn State goes ten and
Speaker 1: two or better, Well, that up ended the whole sport
Speaker 1: because that means the top of the Big Ten and
Speaker 1: the second tier of the Big Ten we're better. Or
Speaker 1: do we have a total inverse effect? Is the top
Speaker 1: of the sec better and then there's a huge gap
Speaker 1: and then the Big Ten's Tier one and Tier two
Speaker 1: kind of snuggles between the secs one and three. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I would think it kind of works
Speaker 1: out this way where you've got USC in there, Michigan,
Speaker 1: Penn State, Washington, and then I was at twenty two.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of fair so far. I don't
Speaker 1: have a big problem with all of this, and mixed
Speaker 1: in between there you've got Brigham Young at fifteen, SMU's
Speaker 1: in there at twenty. I think maybe just maybe I'll
Speaker 1: go a little higher than that on Smull. We'll see
Speaker 1: that works out. Tennessee's in there, Tennessee, seeing some opinions
Speaker 1: on them, seeing Tennessee start to have a little bit
Speaker 1: more spark, which is interesting. We'll see how that quarterback
Speaker 1: battle plays out. Is very much a quarterback battle right now, Jesse,
Speaker 1: Is this a typo at twenty three? Because I see
Speaker 1: the Clemson Tiger pond. Certainly that can't be reality. Certainly
Speaker 1: you meant to put something else. Certainly this is just
Speaker 1: a graphical oversight. No, they're telling me that the coaches
Speaker 1: ranked Clemson twenty third. Drugs. Dabo himself had to have
Speaker 1: looked at this when it came out and said, who's
Speaker 1: really twenty third? Though they're like, no, sir, we're ranked
Speaker 1: based on what I've got to think the sit down
Speaker 1: Dabo did with us on the Speaker series had to
Speaker 1: be watched by enough people that they just got roped in.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Clemson Mago eleven and one for all
Speaker 1: I know, but there is no basis for the most
Speaker 1: hardcore of Clemson fanatics on this planet to rank that
Speaker 1: team in the preseason, so much so that Clemson Addict
Speaker 1: friend of the program on Twitter said, if we're being
Speaker 1: one hundred percent honest, with ourselves, like brutally honest seven
Speaker 1: and six team coming off of nine players getting drafted.
Speaker 1: We're only ranked to give LSU a ranked win and
Speaker 1: we won. The SEC media machine thinks they're slick. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to remind you this is not the Associated
Speaker 1: Press Top twenty five. These are the coaches. So there's
Speaker 1: a growing conspiracy that the coaches are in the tank
Speaker 1: for the SEC. I don't even know who all votes
Speaker 1: on this, but like, just picture Bob Chesney if he's
Speaker 1: an AP voter saying, what do I want to do here?
Speaker 1: I think I want to rank Clemson because four months
Speaker 1: later it's going to help you in the eyes of
Speaker 1: the committee to have had a ranked win in Week one,
Speaker 1: Go Bruins? Is that really the conspiracy right now? If
Speaker 1: Clemson addict says it, who am I to push against it?
Speaker 1: I can't believe. I can't square Clemson. It's hard for
Speaker 1: me to scare in the top thirty. Number twenty three
Speaker 1: is insane. Houston's twenty four of Missouri's twenty five. So
Speaker 1: the teams that aren't here Louisville, Arizona, Illinois, Illinois again,
Speaker 1: you're kinda I don't have a problem if you're projecting
Speaker 1: with your ranking, So like if Illinois had a good
Speaker 1: year last year but they lost a lot and you're
Speaker 1: gonna bump them down. Okay, but what are you projecting
Speaker 1: with Clemson? Is my whole question. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get two up in arms about this because it is
Speaker 1: August fourth, after all. But neither of the Arizona's are
Speaker 1: in there. Florida's not in there, Auburn's not in there.
Speaker 1: And you may be thinking to yourself, well, those aren't
Speaker 1: good teams. Those shouldn't be ranked. Okay, but you see
Speaker 1: who is? Is my point. Great job, coaches. I got
Speaker 1: big news on this piece of paper that Jesse has
Speaker 1: freshly printed off so recently it's still a little warm,
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Speaker 1: been for a while. A mountain of new items are
Speaker 1: about to get dumped in there, by the way, not
Speaker 1: that the old ones are bad. We've still got a
Speaker 1: ton of good stuff in there. The football is coming,
Speaker 1: shirts are moving and moving in a big way. I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you, Alex has got some new stuff that
Speaker 1: is about to roll off the assembly line. However, that's
Speaker 1: not the big news, although it is big news. The
Speaker 1: big news is last year, a lot of people, as
Speaker 1: it turns out, in our audience, are designers, and they
Speaker 1: wanted to design shirts. We just didn't have time. It
Speaker 1: was the middle of the season and it was one
Speaker 1: of our off season projects. That's why Jesse took a
Speaker 1: break in July to get his hands around this sort
Speaker 1: of thing. So you wanted your shot, and you got it.
Speaker 1: So we're about to launch our first ever merch design contest,
Speaker 1: and there are cash prizes involved here, so you really
Speaker 1: need to pay attention as of midnight tonight. Tonight is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: August fourth, so if you're listening to the replay Wednesday,
Speaker 1: it's already live. As of midnight tonight, paystatematerial dot com.
Speaker 1: The design contest will launch. We're gonna run this thing
Speaker 1: for fourteen days. That's how long we're gonna take submissions.
Speaker 1: Then there's gonna be a seven day period where the
Speaker 1: best ones are gonna be available literally on the website.
Speaker 1: Your mom and dad can buy them. In fact, I
Speaker 1: would encourage your mom and dad to buy them, because
Speaker 1: we're not gonna choose the winners of the design contest
Speaker 1: We're just gonna kind of choose who makes the cut,
Speaker 1: and then the audience is going to choose based on
Speaker 1: their purchasing who wins this thing. And then there are
Speaker 1: cash prizes for one, two, and three. These are not
Speaker 1: small numbers in these cash prizes. There's more on the
Speaker 1: graphic than there is on the paper. Oh well, I
Speaker 1: thought we were Jesse says, we're actually giving out more
Speaker 1: money than is written on this piece of paper. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of this is my money. We're giving
Speaker 1: out a lot of money. I'm giving out a lot
Speaker 1: of money. That's fine. That's fine. It's just going to
Speaker 1: come out of someone's paycheck, but that's fine. So I
Speaker 1: would strongly encourage everyone who reached out last year and
Speaker 1: you know who you are, or if you didn't reach
Speaker 1: out last year and you just think you're really good
Speaker 1: at designing stuff, this could be pretty lucrative for you
Speaker 1: at the very least, and hopefully eventually for me one day.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. What a day last night.
Speaker 1: That's not how I want you to intro it. Pres
Speaker 1: when you cut this in a little while, We've got
Speaker 1: a lot of friends of this program. We've got some
Speaker 1: people we don't care for We've got some people who
Speaker 1: have been outright hostile towards us in the past, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we have to completely ignore opportunity
Speaker 1: and Brenda Walker Burger King Brandon, as he's kind of
Speaker 1: become known, is someone who we've been familiar with for
Speaker 1: a long time. Brandon Walker and I have corresponded behind
Speaker 1: the scenes and what I would call a hostily cordial
Speaker 1: manner in the past. He said some things about me publicly.
Speaker 1: I've said some things about him publicly. Most of what
Speaker 1: I've said has been true. Most of what he said,
Speaker 1: I think is more a defense mechanism than anything else.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the kids saying I'm running away
Speaker 1: from home. I'm never coming back. He doesn't mean. It's
Speaker 1: just what else is he gonna say? He's seven? What
Speaker 1: else is Brandon Walker gonna say in a lot of
Speaker 1: these situations. But here's the thing. He used to have
Speaker 1: a show. It went away, some conflicting opinions as to why,
Speaker 1: but it went away, and now it's back. And so
Speaker 1: I got an offer. I got an invite to Barstool
Speaker 1: headquarters in Chicago. A couple of weeks ago. People thought
Speaker 1: I was going up there for Big ten media days.
Speaker 1: It was great. No one asked why I was in Chicago.
Speaker 1: But I didn't go up there for that. I went
Speaker 1: up there to go record a lengthy ninety minute sit
Speaker 1: down with Brandon Walker for his debut show, which happened
Speaker 1: Monday night, and it's like two hours forty five minutes total.
Speaker 1: Probably not a great idea because his voice was shot
Speaker 1: in the first twenty minutes. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw that or not. A lot of you did big
Speaker 1: viewership on this show, but it was the debut, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to go up there and I wanted to participate.
Speaker 1: And I've got some more news about how that's not
Speaker 1: quite finished yet. But I also got to tell you
Speaker 1: there's some other people I know up there that work
Speaker 1: in that Chicago office. And one of the highlights of
Speaker 1: my trip was not Brandon Walker. I would not call
Speaker 1: Brandon Walker the highlight of the trip. Our good close
Speaker 1: personal friend Ben Menz I think was probably the highlight
Speaker 1: of my trip. And Mensi suffered an injury a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He's been hobbled, he's been on the shelf.
Speaker 1: But you know what, nothing is impossible, and so one
Speaker 1: of The first pieces of audio and video that I
Speaker 1: want to play for you is sort of Brandon Walker
Speaker 1: recapping the scenes when I first walked in the building.
Speaker 1: And I got to say, for a dude who stretches
Speaker 1: the truth a lot, this is very accurately told story.
Speaker 1: Let's roll it.
Speaker 2: Ben Mince and Big t Ben Mintz broke his leg.
Speaker 2: Ben Mince broke his leg three weeks ago and has
Speaker 2: not moved an inch. Yeah, since we can't get him
Speaker 2: to work, we can't get him. He has to be
Speaker 2: led to the bathroom to pee. People have to hold
Speaker 2: it for him. They gotta wipe him, they gotta do everything.
Speaker 2: We have to send a crane into to bathe them
Speaker 2: every night, and he is useless. You show up, Ben
Speaker 2: Mince jumps out of his chair and he skips. He
Speaker 2: skips to you, like, oh my god, Josh Pate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to hold that. The boom marm
Speaker 1: will hold it up. So I walked in and Mince
Speaker 1: Mince drug a peg leg all the way he has
Speaker 1: all the way, yelling let's.
Speaker 3: Talk about pep tides. Talk to you about peptides. We'll
Speaker 3: talk later. Well, you gonna be Nashville for all, Miss Lola,
Speaker 3: we'll talk later.
Speaker 1: Mens is sitting there all sud He goes, I don't
Speaker 1: know that you can appreciate the moment if you don't
Speaker 1: know Ben Minz, and you can't really appreciate at the moment.
Speaker 1: It is the most surreal thing because I knew about
Speaker 1: Mens's injury. It's been well documented and I have seen
Speaker 1: the videos, and I like, I thought for a little
Speaker 1: while the dude would never walk again. And I walked
Speaker 1: in that building and you're like taking your sunglasses off
Speaker 1: because it's bright outside, You're adjusting your eyes, and boom,
Speaker 1: this was captured. This is like still photography images of
Speaker 1: when I first walked in. So there's Menzi that unmistakable posture,
Speaker 1: and he's a he's in a boot there, he's in
Speaker 1: a walking boot, like an Alabama running back after the
Speaker 1: LSU game. And then we start walking down the hallway
Speaker 1: because Brandon walker like we're on kind of a time crunch,
Speaker 1: and so he's trying to peel me away. And in
Speaker 1: that picture on the right, MENSI tried to chase us
Speaker 1: down the hallway a little ways. So that's that's an
Speaker 1: accurate portrayal of what happened there. Amazing trip though, amazing
Speaker 1: encounter there. Get well soon, MENSI. We're all pulling for you.
Speaker 1: So anyway, this was a wide ranging conversation. You can
Speaker 1: find it over on the Brandon Walker College foot I'll
Speaker 1: show YouTube channel what a combo of words coming out
Speaker 1: of my mouth here on the show. But here's the thing, okay,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna happen a lot, I would imagine, because
Speaker 1: he's doing a solo show. As we all know, I
Speaker 1: am very measured and calculated and responsible with the words
Speaker 1: and predictions that come out of my mouth because I
Speaker 1: hold myself to account. If I pick Indiana to go
Speaker 1: oh and six and they go six and oh, I'm
Speaker 1: throwing the clown nose on. Okay, So we do a
Speaker 1: health the inventory, and I try to keep myself honest.
Speaker 1: Branda Walker lives in a fantasy world. He is a
Speaker 1: high air balloon with absolutely no sandbags. And so sometimes
Speaker 1: when you finally get face to face with that kind
Speaker 1: of person, you can get them on tilt really quickly,
Speaker 1: and you can see that they're about to go a
Speaker 1: direction because it's in the eyes. You can see it
Speaker 1: in the eyes. You can read the body language and
Speaker 1: what you do at that point is you just nudge them.
Speaker 1: So Mississippi State comes up last night, and I'll just
Speaker 1: give you a quick example. This happened like one hundred
Speaker 1: times over the course of ninety minutes, but one of
Speaker 1: them was Mississippi States. His team. Mississippi State's over under
Speaker 1: win total is four and a half at FanDuel. Right now,
Speaker 1: with that information on the top of mind, let's hear
Speaker 1: how Brandon Walker thinks the Bulldogs are going to do
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: We might have some things percolate down there.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go to a bowl to Mario Taylor, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know who he is. I've read the preview magazines.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go to a bowl.
Speaker 2: Well, went to a bowl last year.
Speaker 1: But so, I mean, what is the standard this year?
Speaker 1: Like we're cooking some things. Everyone speaks in these hypotheticals.
Speaker 1: Eight wins? Are you high? Eight wins? Eight?
Speaker 2: And you know what, we got Oklahoma and Alabama coming
Speaker 2: in back to back. We're getting one of them.
Speaker 1: You got that right? Eight and four minimum, at least
Speaker 1: eight and four, and either OEU or Bama fall victim
Speaker 1: to Mississippi State. And it's not like I'm down on
Speaker 1: Mississippi State. The way to handle. This is the over
Speaker 1: unders four and a half. Let's call six and six,
Speaker 1: but no, we got to go eight and four. So
Speaker 1: it's important to get that sort of thing on the
Speaker 1: record early. So that's on the internet now. You can't
Speaker 1: get rid of that. That'll lift forever. It's no different
Speaker 1: than that kid from Texas catching that dagger touchdown pass
Speaker 1: right in his face and the live broadcast catching him
Speaker 1: right there in the corner of the end zone. The
Speaker 1: lights are on. No one's home dead behind the eyes
Speaker 1: which came up, by the way, and I got him
Speaker 1: to discuss it on record at length. So here's the
Speaker 1: heartbreaking part that sometimes happens in life. The heartbreaking part
Speaker 1: that you can only imagine if you get into the
Speaker 1: media business is some people you like, some people you're
Speaker 1: indifferent on, and some people you despise. And you would think, oh,
Speaker 1: the folks you like, those are the ones you have
Speaker 1: chemistry with, and oh, man, the folks who you can't stand, Oh,
Speaker 1: you'd never be oil and water. No, no, no. The
Speaker 1: heartbreaking part is when you love folks but you have
Speaker 1: no on air chemistry with him, and then you turn
Speaker 1: around and you sit down with that and it just
Speaker 1: clicks you know how it is, Jesse. The heartbreaking takeaway
Speaker 1: from all this is it was great. The feedback we
Speaker 1: got was incredible, to the point where I'm happy to
Speaker 1: announce right here on this show tonight that that was
Speaker 1: only the first half of a home and home. There's
Speaker 1: no buy out here. You can't go Indiana, Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: You can't get out of this one. And so I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give you exact dates, but it'll be
Speaker 1: in August. It'll be later this month. Think about these words, Jesse.
Speaker 1: Take tike camera one, Bradley, think about these words on
Speaker 1: this stage, in this physical space. Brandon Walker in studio
Speaker 1: for part two of whatever you want to call what
Speaker 1: happened last night. Subscribe to the channel, please, both of them.
Speaker 1: We move on. They're watching us in State College, Pennsylvania, Franklin, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Daytona Beach, Florida. We do have great news to report.
Speaker 1: It's a little delayed. Frankly, we should have talked about
Speaker 1: it the other night, and I just forgot. So we
Speaker 1: had a question about a rivalry, a rivalry I grew
Speaker 1: up on, A rivalry that should be eternal, evergreen, should
Speaker 1: never die. USC and Notre Dame is back after a
Speaker 1: brief absence. It won't be played this year, or next
Speaker 1: year or the year after that, but the good news
Speaker 1: is it's coming back in twenty thirty. So one of
Speaker 1: you asked, how am I supposed to feel about this?
Speaker 1: You know, am I supposed to celebrate that it's back?
Speaker 1: Or am I supposed to be mad that I got
Speaker 1: to wait to twenty thirty? Well, one thousand percent celebrate
Speaker 1: that it's back. I mean, this was a historic rivalry
Speaker 1: that it looked like we were going to lose, and
Speaker 1: now we do get it back. It's in twenty thirty.
Speaker 1: You can be mad that it's come to this. I was,
Speaker 1: I know I was. I view rivalries in the kind
Speaker 1: of light that I don't even view the playoff in.
Speaker 1: I don't even view the content up to the National
Speaker 1: Championship game in the same light. It's like the Pope meme. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm holding Notre Dame USC here above and beyond the
Speaker 1: college football playoff logo because I grew up like that,
Speaker 1: I was raised like that. I was raised properly, and
Speaker 1: so rivalries mean everything to me. It's the very bedrock
Speaker 1: and foundation of college football. Rivalries should be more secure
Speaker 1: than Fort Knox, and yet we let people touch them
Speaker 1: and we let people mess around with them. And it
Speaker 1: is my opinion, if I were college FOOTBA commissioner and
Speaker 1: everything I just said goes, I wouldn't care who the
Speaker 1: ad at Notre Dame is or USC is, or the
Speaker 1: head coach at Notre Dame or USC. At any given
Speaker 1: point in time, you sign up to be part of
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. You're signing up to play USC every year.
Speaker 1: You sign up to be part of USC, You're signing
Speaker 1: up to play Notre Dame every year. Case closed. And
Speaker 1: if you don't like that, the answer is not, oh,
Speaker 1: let's rework the schedule. The answer is head on down
Speaker 1: the road and go somewhere else, Go coach somewhere where
Speaker 1: you do have full autonomy over the schedule. But it
Speaker 1: just so happens that this is ordained. Okay, you don't
Speaker 1: get to touch this. It's like the sky is blue,
Speaker 1: water is wet. Notre Dame in US see play every
Speaker 1: year and if you don't like it, that's a you problem.
Speaker 1: And if it messes up your path to the playoff,
Speaker 1: your head's in the wrong place. So I'm not casting
Speaker 1: a spurs and s here you remind me to tell
Speaker 1: you who I had to ignore a call from Jesse.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. So rivalries are everything to me. So yes,
Speaker 1: I was irate when this happened, and yes I'm very
Speaker 1: happy that it's back right now, here's what we have
Speaker 1: to resist. Okay, and this is a cautionary tale. It's
Speaker 1: not the last time we're going to have to deal
Speaker 1: with this. I want to make sure everyone understands. Playoff
Speaker 1: brain rot is a very, very big danger to college football.
Speaker 1: Playoff brain rot sounds like this, we got to make
Speaker 1: the playoff no matter what. And that means that if
Speaker 1: we got to soften our schedule to do it, so
Speaker 1: be it. And if this rivalry has been played for
Speaker 1: five hundred years, but moving it would help us go
Speaker 1: to the playoff, and so be it. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: And then there's this group of fans that I think
Speaker 1: have fallen victim to playoff brain rot. And that group
Speaker 1: of fans no particular group here, but a generic group
Speaker 1: of fans, feral in nature. They wander the college football landscape.
Speaker 1: They say, well, why should they play that game if
Speaker 1: it makes their path to the playoff tougher? Because it's
Speaker 1: college football That's why that's it. I don't have bullet
Speaker 1: point two, three, four and five because it's college football,
Speaker 1: and it happens. This is the whole nature of the sport.
Speaker 1: It happens. Now, I do get the logic. I do
Speaker 1: get it, just like Sark last year, Sark came to
Speaker 1: the end of the year, Texas is nine and three,
Speaker 1: they don't get in the playoff, and he looked and
Speaker 1: he said, now, wait just to second, we could have
Speaker 1: easily scheduled Abilene Christian in Week one instead of Ohio State.
Speaker 1: And it's a fact in his opinion. It's a fact
Speaker 1: in his opinion that had we just won fifty to
Speaker 1: nothing and then done everything else the rest of the
Speaker 1: way just like we did, would be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That is true and irrelevant because that's not how a
Speaker 1: competitor should think. But there is merit to the logic
Speaker 1: of it. So my gripe is not merely with people
Speaker 1: who want to do away with historic pillars of this
Speaker 1: sport in advancing their playoff likelihood. I also I also
Speaker 1: look at the entire rankings process. There's a big difference. Now,
Speaker 1: there's a big difference in when we get to the
Speaker 1: end of the year, and do we think that the
Speaker 1: resume justifies making the playoff? I'm starting way way way
Speaker 1: way back in like the table of contents in this book,
Speaker 1: not on chapter nine. The table of contents is how
Speaker 1: does a playoff committee operate? How should they operate? And
Speaker 1: to me, what I would tweak is the way resumes
Speaker 1: are judged, because I think there should be a world
Speaker 1: where there's a nine and three team And I don't
Speaker 1: mean last year's Texas, but I mean any given year
Speaker 1: if someone loaded their schedule up and they go nine
Speaker 1: and three against it, and there's another p four that
Speaker 1: went eleven and one. I want to live in a
Speaker 1: world where there's room to put nine and three over
Speaker 1: eleven and one, because if you thought that just loading
Speaker 1: up on creempuffs was going to be this double barrel
Speaker 1: middle finger to the system, which is basically what Indiana's
Speaker 1: doing when they're out of conference schedule. Mind you, it's
Speaker 1: an embarrassing situation that Indiana's in right now. But you
Speaker 1: know what, there's like a part of me that can't
Speaker 1: even blame Indiana because number one Indiana can do no
Speaker 1: wrong right now. But number two Indiana's looking to say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: we already played in the Big Ten. If we take
Speaker 1: care of business in conference, it don't matter if we
Speaker 1: play three high school teams out of conference. You won't
Speaker 1: box us out of that playoff Watch and see, and
Speaker 1: you know what, you won't playoff committee.
Speaker 2: Won't.
Speaker 1: It may happen as soon as this year. What if
Speaker 1: Indiana's ten and two this year didn't play anything with
Speaker 1: a pulse out of conference, and they're being compared to
Speaker 1: a comparable ten and two, maybe even a nine to
Speaker 1: three from somewhere. You're not gonna keep them out. You
Speaker 1: won't playoff committee, won't. They know they won't. They've spoken
Speaker 1: publicly about it, so you know, until that dynamic changes
Speaker 1: a little bit, you're gonna deal with playoff brain rot
Speaker 1: as the basis and the foundation of the logic for
Speaker 1: some of these decisions. Anyway, I am glad we got
Speaker 1: USC and Notre Dame back. I hope this is the
Speaker 1: last time we have to deal with that, but it
Speaker 1: won't be okay. Transfer a portal was a buzz this
Speaker 1: past year, and we didn't have a post spring portal window.
Speaker 1: So I kind of like that world that we live in.
Speaker 1: But also now that fall camp's opening up, like it
Speaker 1: gets real. So we find out when you look at
Speaker 1: the industry composite, you look at the on three portal
Speaker 1: rankings and you think you know, but then after every
Speaker 1: single year we look back at that top fifteen, top twenty,
Speaker 1: and inevitably there were guys that you expected to be
Speaker 1: impact players that weren't. And this is like the great
Speaker 1: period of unknown where we're trying to figure out, like
Speaker 1: LSU goes and get Sam Levitt. Is Sam Levitt gonna
Speaker 1: be a true difference maker at quarterback? Is Sam Levitt
Speaker 1: a guy that if LSU draws like Texas in the
Speaker 1: SEC championship game, which would be a second time they
Speaker 1: played him this year, or if they're playing Ohio State
Speaker 1: in like a quarter final and it's twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty four and quarterbacks got to go win a game.
Speaker 1: Can he do it? Jordan Seaton? How does he pan out?
Speaker 1: Because that's a big deal for LSU because they were
Speaker 1: the worst team running the ball in the league last
Speaker 1: year and there was some woeful historic powers in terms
Speaker 1: of rushing numbers in the SEC, but LSU was the worst.
Speaker 1: But LSU tried to make moves to correct that. So
Speaker 1: that's a top off tackle I think he was the
Speaker 1: best offensive tackle in the thing, and Peek was the
Speaker 1: only other one that could have maybe challenged for that,
Speaker 1: and he got hurt. So they were lasting the sec
Speaker 1: and rushing last year. They are making moves definitively to
Speaker 1: try and upgrade that. They got Uman Meellen, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta say it slow. They got Jordan Ross. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are two really, really big time edge players. So
Speaker 1: if lsu falters this year, it won't be for lack
Speaker 1: of immediately trying. At Miami. This is kind of a
Speaker 1: story every year. Miami's very active in the portal, Damon
Speaker 1: Wilson kind of coming in. I think it may be
Speaker 1: the wrong way to look at it to just say, well, Miami,
Speaker 1: everything about them depends on how much they can replenish
Speaker 1: the lost production of Reuben Bayin and a Key mesidor
Speaker 1: they lost twenty two sacks. Well, Damon Wilson only had
Speaker 1: nine last year. First off, no one only has nine sacks.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing. The second thing is, it's not
Speaker 1: like the rest of the teams of carbon Copy. What
Speaker 1: if Miami, oh, I don't know, maybe is only eighty
Speaker 1: two percent as effective in their pass rush as they
Speaker 1: were last year, but they're better in the secondary, especially
Speaker 1: at corner, better ball skills and oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: they got Darien Mensa down there now and he's an
Speaker 1: upgraded quarterback. That's a what if. I believe it, So
Speaker 1: it's kind of a prediction for me. But technically it's
Speaker 1: a what if. What if they don't have to be
Speaker 1: exactly what they were? What if they're more than one
Speaker 1: or two ways to skin the old cat? As Memo
Speaker 1: would say, and Morio Christovaul would also say, Cooper Bark
Speaker 1: coming in just casually pairing an eleven hundred yard receiver
Speaker 1: last year with Malachi Tony, first world man. That's the
Speaker 1: world Miami lives in. And Texas of course, this is
Speaker 1: the most all in of all in teams in the portal.
Speaker 1: Going to get in cam Coleman. Cam Coleman, there's a
Speaker 1: world this year where he matches his career production Jesse
Speaker 1: did we say around the thirteen hundred career for cam
Speaker 1: Coleman right now? Somewhere around there. He could have thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred this year. So I mean Ryan wingoes on that team.
Speaker 1: They're loaded. They went and got smothers, they went and
Speaker 1: got really brown two tailbacks most teams out there would
Speaker 1: have died to have one of them. But also Rasheem
Speaker 1: Biles one of my favorite players out of the transfer
Speaker 1: portal huge addition at linebacker, he's not going to catch
Speaker 1: the ball, he's not running the ball, he's not throwing
Speaker 1: the ball, so he's not going to get as much attention,
Speaker 1: but man, the mentality they need to play with. Or
Speaker 1: in other words, when you think back to Texas Georgia
Speaker 1: games and you think about Georgia just having a little
Speaker 1: more of that, Rashee Biles is one of the kinds
Speaker 1: of guys that you bring in in order to, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe change that dynamic a little bit. Indiana had the
Speaker 1: number one portal class in the country per On three,
Speaker 1: and it was a small class, but it was a
Speaker 1: really really high impact class. Josh Hoover, of course, at quarterback. Hoover,
Speaker 1: you know, if you think about Curtis Rourke two years
Speaker 1: ago and then them upgrading to Fernando Mendoza, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say those are the two bookends of the scale
Speaker 1: because it's possible that Josh Hoover's better than Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 1: Who knows, that'd be tough, but I'm asking if he's
Speaker 1: between those two, where is he on that scale, little
Speaker 1: Born Rourke or a little closer to Fernando Mendoza, because
Speaker 1: really that's kind of what it comes down to here.
Speaker 1: And they went and got Nick Marsh, the Eric Singleton
Speaker 1: of the Big Ten as I like to call him,
Speaker 1: And by that I mean Nick Marsh is a potential
Speaker 1: superstar caliber player that was just in the wrong situation
Speaker 1: last year. And there are a few truths in an
Speaker 1: uncertain world. But I promise you he's in the right
Speaker 1: situation at Indiana and there are a lot of passes
Speaker 1: to be caught there. I was gonna say a lot
Speaker 1: of balls to go around, but that would have been
Speaker 1: an early August immunity and we don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: We don't we want to take ourselves down that road
Speaker 1: this early. So I get the vibe and got the
Speaker 1: vibe when I was talking to Sig when I went
Speaker 1: up there, as you remember, you were setting up the
Speaker 1: cameras and I was asking them about Hoover and Signetty
Speaker 1: just said, we got what we need there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we got what we need there. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: only scouting report I need. So the other guys I
Speaker 1: mean Drew Mestemaker did this hall in general that they
Speaker 1: brought in at Oklahoma State. Just taking Drew Mestimaker, who
Speaker 1: was a forty eight hundred yard forty plus touchdown guy
Speaker 1: last year, could end up being the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the country this year, and hardly anyone has him on
Speaker 1: his radar unless you're a Diehore college football fan. Caleb
Speaker 1: Hawkins also transferred up there from North Texas. That's a
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred yard rusher last year. That team in general
Speaker 1: is gonna be fun to watch because there are going
Speaker 1: to be some people out there who halfway know what
Speaker 1: they're talking about in the sport that pick Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: to play for a conference title, and that would not
Speaker 1: be the biggest shock in the world. Justice Haynes's gone
Speaker 1: from Bama to Michigan and and now to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: And if you think about what Georgia Tech doesn't have,
Speaker 1: you think about Haines King being out the door, and
Speaker 1: then the offensive coordinator is gone, and probably the guy
Speaker 1: that would have been the starting quarterback is gone, and
Speaker 1: you think about some of the portal moves they made
Speaker 1: elsewhere trying to gain size. Overall, there's a lot of uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Justice Haynes is certain he's a good player. He may
Speaker 1: lead the acc guys, he may lead power for in
Speaker 1: total carries, because I can promise you he got paid
Speaker 1: to come down there and they were going to get
Speaker 1: their money's worth out of Justice Haynes. Eric Singleton, I
Speaker 1: just mentioned him. This is a guy who at Georgia
Speaker 1: Tech two years ago, was a really good player, went
Speaker 1: to Auburn last year and did what everyone did at
Speaker 1: Auburn last year, which was disappear. And now he pops
Speaker 1: back on the scene at Florida, playing with Dallas Wilson,
Speaker 1: playing with Vernell Brown, playing with Aaron Filo, who I
Speaker 1: think will win the quarterback job there. Eric Singleton's a
Speaker 1: really good player and he is not alone down there,
Speaker 1: and he can be a really really good breakout player
Speaker 1: this year. And then rock o'beck who has Jesse you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's like I'm trying to think of who I
Speaker 1: want to compare him to. It's like the it's like
Speaker 1: the new cam rising guy who's just been around forever
Speaker 1: and he's your quarterback. Now you own him. He's your quarterback,
Speaker 1: so whatever he does, you do. You guys are one
Speaker 1: and the same this year, fourth year starter at quarterback,
Speaker 1: veteran running backs, veteran tied end, kind of a veteran team.
Speaker 1: Guy's got an old team up there, Jesse, that work
Speaker 1: for Indiana. So those are some of the impact portal
Speaker 1: players that I've got an eye on. Not an exhaustive list. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful time of year. Camps are open, fall
Speaker 1: camps opening all over the country. And I got to
Speaker 1: tell you, this quarterback situation in college football from a
Speaker 1: preseason standpoint, is unlike anything I remember in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: I was just looking like I opened my notes app
Speaker 1: this morning and I just started writing names of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And this is not CJ. Bailey's not even on this list,
Speaker 1: as I got pointed out to me, DJ Lagway is.
Speaker 1: But I just wrote some names, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's like twenty or thirty names there of guys who
Speaker 1: are notable. And I told Jesse earlier today, take the
Speaker 1: top ten, Go go to the heismanods at FanDuel. Take
Speaker 1: whoever they have ranked top ten. Take them off the board,
Speaker 1: and think about the names who were still there. If
Speaker 1: you take the top ten quarterbacks in terms of preseason
Speaker 1: heismanads off of that list, You've still got John Mattier,
Speaker 1: Marcel Reid, Leonora Sellers, Demon Williams, will Hammond, either Austin
Speaker 1: mack or Keelan Russell, Bear Bockmeyer, rock O Beck, Drew
Speaker 1: messen Maker, Kevin Jennings. Austin Simmons was slated to start
Speaker 1: for Lane last year. This is an insane quarterback year,
Speaker 1: which means the potential for week by week upsets greatly
Speaker 1: increases because any of those quarterbacks hot on any given Saturday,
Speaker 1: could theoretically beat almost anyone else. It's gonna be credible, incredible,
Speaker 1: And if you think about the best of them filtering
Speaker 1: out over the course of a season, think about what
Speaker 1: the playoff bracket would look like, not even predicting the teams,
Speaker 1: just kind of think about the quarterbacks in the bracket.
Speaker 1: So that obviously is something to watch in fall camp.
Speaker 1: There are some quarterback battles that I really have my
Speaker 1: eye on. I think the Alabama quarterback battle is the
Speaker 1: most important one in the country. So Keilan Russell, Austin
Speaker 1: mac Now I do owe you this. We're just going
Speaker 1: to delete this if it doesn't come to be. But
Speaker 1: I think I went through spring, and I thought Kielan
Speaker 1: Russell would be the starting quarterback there, and my feel
Speaker 1: nothing's changed since spring. But my feel is Kielan Russell
Speaker 1: still ends up being their start or like by November
Speaker 1: or something like that, and he may start Week one,
Speaker 1: who knows. I do think there's some legitimacy to the
Speaker 1: theory that's floated around that if you have a little
Speaker 1: more trust in Austin Mack, you start Austin Mack understanding
Speaker 1: that from a psychological standpoint, from an ace in your
Speaker 1: back pocket standpoint, you don't have the toughest open to
Speaker 1: the season. They play East Carolina, they go to Kentucky,
Speaker 1: they got Florida State at home, and then they get
Speaker 1: into conference plague at South Carolina. Point is, look we
Speaker 1: saw last year with Bama. There is no gimme, but
Speaker 1: they should start five and oh should start five and oh.
Speaker 1: But if anything goes sideways at any point, I think
Speaker 1: you want to be able to say, all right, it's
Speaker 1: time to start Keeling Russell like that feels like the
Speaker 1: start of a new season. If you do that. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that's the way it'll go, but I think
Speaker 1: this quarterback battle is plenty competitive enough where that's the
Speaker 1: way it could go. Camp I think opens there tomorrow
Speaker 1: at Tennessee George McIntyre and Faison Brandon. My default stance
Speaker 1: in spring was it's George McIntyre's job to lose, and
Speaker 1: I still think that's the case. I just think it's
Speaker 1: razor tight because I think Faison Brandon is going to
Speaker 1: do a lot in fall camp, and he's only going
Speaker 1: to get better, but he's going to do a lot
Speaker 1: in fall camp to I think challenge there. I think
Speaker 1: the fallback for Hypel either way is, hey, we got
Speaker 1: a pretty good offensive line here, we got a pretty
Speaker 1: good ground game here. The jury is still out on
Speaker 1: how good they'll be defensively year one under Jim Knowles.
Speaker 1: But if you think about the style of team, you're
Speaker 1: not probably asking either one of these guys throw the
Speaker 1: ball fifty times a game. You're looking for the best
Speaker 1: decision maker. You're looking for the guy with the best poise,
Speaker 1: and if that's a true freshman by the time week
Speaker 1: one rolls around, so be it. And you're not married
Speaker 1: to that decision that you make in week one, but
Speaker 1: the one that has a lot of people scratching their
Speaker 1: head right now and I'm with you. It's Clemson Top
Speaker 1: twenty five. Clemson, the twenty third ranked team in the
Speaker 1: country according to the coaches, is in a situation where
Speaker 1: ch Chris Vzina has been there how many years Jesse
Speaker 1: three and he has not taken the job yet, and
Speaker 1: Tate Reynolds is there. And look, I'll be honest. When
Speaker 1: we went through spring, I listened to the feedback from
Speaker 1: Clemson and I kind of took this as a cosmetic
Speaker 1: quarterback battle. That's how I looked at it. We have
Speaker 1: them every year, but I don't think it is that.
Speaker 1: As we get closer to fall camp opening there, that
Speaker 1: just feels like a battle where I'd still pick Vezina
Speaker 1: to win the job. I just he hasn't taken it yet.
Speaker 1: And remember, Garrett Riley's not the offensive coordinator there anymore.
Speaker 1: So you got both guys learning a new system. And
Speaker 1: there's some people around that program that would tell you, hey,
Speaker 1: Tate Reynolds maybe fits the Chad Morris offense a little
Speaker 1: bit that Chris Fhazina does. It just feels kind of weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought that'd be locked up already.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing to keep in mind they
Speaker 1: open against LSU at LSU and that offensive line to
Speaker 1: be generous, it's probably in the state of flux coming
Speaker 1: into the year. It's not the place that I would
Speaker 1: want to go to figure things out. And so whoever
Speaker 1: gets the start there, you got to keep in mind
Speaker 1: it could be rocky in week one, So quarterback battles,
Speaker 1: that's something to watch. The hot seat thing, which I
Speaker 1: kind of talked about the other night, but since fall
Speaker 1: camps are opening, it's a good time to just remind everyone.
Speaker 1: Pete Nkos did a really good job sort of summarizing
Speaker 1: all this over on on three dot com earlier today,
Speaker 1: yesterday or today. I saw it this morning, so yes, yes,
Speaker 1: of course, Mike Norvel's on the hot seat at FSU.
Speaker 1: Dave A Randa at Baylor. Yeah, the whole Belichick thing
Speaker 1: at North Carolina. Not a lot of sand left in
Speaker 1: the old outlass there, I don't think. Mike Loxley at Maryland. Yes,
Speaker 1: a man through Chris Creighton on here. Tough times at
Speaker 1: Eastern Michigan, but that's not who I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to you about. I wanted to talk to you about
Speaker 1: Luke Fickle at Wisconsin. So Luke Fickle has had the
Speaker 1: worst quarterback injury luck of any major head coach over
Speaker 1: the last few years. Luke Fickle did not do himselves
Speaker 1: any favors with how he filled out his offensive staff
Speaker 1: when he first got there a few years ago. That's
Speaker 1: ancient history. Can't do anything about that. Now. He's tried
Speaker 1: to rectify it since then. Here's what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: tell you. Unlike some of these other guys, if Luke
Speaker 1: Fickle gets fired this year, and I were North Carolina
Speaker 1: or someone like that, I'd go after Luke Fickle in
Speaker 1: a second, cause Luke Fickle's not a bad football coach.
Speaker 1: He got down the wrong road too far.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I look at these situations where maybe you turned
Speaker 1: down a dead end road and you just don't have
Speaker 1: enough gas to get back to the main road. So
Speaker 1: but if I could just get this car back to
Speaker 1: the main road and fill it up a little bit,
Speaker 1: it'd be fine. It'll run fine. Luke Fickle. All I'm
Speaker 1: trying to wait and see is did he get down
Speaker 1: that dead end road too far? And if so, and
Speaker 1: if he gets fired, Luke Fickle would be in high demand.
Speaker 1: Like Pate State has an opening, I would very aggressively
Speaker 1: go after Luke Fickle. But I don't know that's how
Speaker 1: it ends up. This year. You got their schedule Jesse
Speaker 1: by chance, the Wisconsin schedule. I didn't ask for it.
Speaker 1: But hopefully it's just in the system. I think they
Speaker 1: may be okay this year. They open it against Notre
Speaker 1: Dame in Lambeau, so I would guess they lose that
Speaker 1: game and then they're off everyone's radar for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. They play Western Illinois Eastern Michigan, and then
Speaker 1: the next time you see them would be at Penn
Speaker 1: State Week four. Now, I'm gonna tell you right now,
Speaker 1: Jesse's people have penciled that in as a W. And
Speaker 1: the only W you should be penciling in is the
Speaker 1: Wisconsin logo because there's nothing given about that day. You
Speaker 1: need to be careful. You need to be careful. All
Speaker 1: I'm saying is they do not play Ohio State, they
Speaker 1: do not play Michigan. I'm having to scan it in
Speaker 1: real time. They do not play Indiana, they do not
Speaker 1: play Oregon. Check me on that, but I think that's accurate.
Speaker 1: It's a far cry from this time last year when
Speaker 1: we did the strength of schedule rankings, which Rhet Lashley
Speaker 1: is a huge fan of preseason strength of schedule rankings,
Speaker 1: and Wisconsin was like a runaway number one without a
Speaker 1: close number two in the Big Ten. Things have changed.
Speaker 1: I think I think Luke Fickle's gonna be okay. A
Speaker 1: lot of people disagree with me on that. Also, the
Speaker 1: first year head coaches getting ready to open these fall camps.
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin of course at LSU. Kyle Whittingham is the
Speaker 1: head coach at Michigan now, which I know is old news,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of something you have to remind yourself
Speaker 1: of every now and then because of everything that's happened
Speaker 1: up there. Matt Campbell of course at Penn State. James
Speaker 1: Franklin at Virginia Tech. Here's I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: Jesse and everyone else, because Jesse can't speak for himself.
Speaker 1: Do any of those guys make the playoff this year?
Speaker 1: Take Lane out of it. Let's just pretend Lane's a
Speaker 1: different category. Are we gonna have first year head coaches
Speaker 1: or a head coach singular or plural here in the playoff?
Speaker 1: I think we're going to I just don't know who,
Speaker 1: And we're taking Lane out of it again because that's
Speaker 1: a different category. Like Morgan Scalley at Utah, he technically
Speaker 1: is a first year head coach, even though he's been
Speaker 1: there for a long time. I mean, what if summer
Speaker 1: all just it all came together for him, What if
Speaker 1: he made the playoffs? What if Billy Napier at JMU
Speaker 1: making the playoffs while Florida doesn't would be a poison
Speaker 1: pill for a lot of people in Gainesville. So yeah,
Speaker 1: fall camps opening, It's a beautiful time of year. I'm
Speaker 1: extremely excited. And then I pull this up, this story
Speaker 1: in case you can't tell, I've moved on this NCAA
Speaker 1: suspension of Arian Carter. I wanted to wait a couple
Speaker 1: of days on because this is a pretty family friendly
Speaker 1: show and I don't want to blow up in front
Speaker 1: of the kiddos. And so Sammy hit us, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to answer this question tonight. He said, how much
Speaker 1: of a joke is the NCAA for suspending Arian Carter
Speaker 1: for a plane ticket? Don't they have better things to
Speaker 1: be working on? Great question, No they don't. There's no
Speaker 1: other rule that they have on the books that they
Speaker 1: can actively enforce. So this is kind of what it's
Speaker 1: come down to they have to lick the old innex
Speaker 1: finger and flip past the first nineteen chapters of the
Speaker 1: NCAA bylaws. And they get down to something they think
Speaker 1: maybe they won't get taken to court over And this
Speaker 1: kid let an agent pay four hundred dollars for a
Speaker 1: plane ticket. Put him in prison, put him, get him
Speaker 1: out of here, put him in prison. So what happened here?
Speaker 1: For those of you who haven't been following this story
Speaker 1: and think that this is a joke, it is, but
Speaker 1: it isn't. Arian Carter really good player for Tennessee. He
Speaker 1: tested the NFL waters and what happened was he had
Speaker 1: an agent, because everyone does now, and that agent purchased
Speaker 1: him a four hundred and twenty seven dollars plane ticket.
Speaker 1: We don't know if it was round trip or not.
Speaker 1: And then he decided not to go to the NFL
Speaker 1: and he paid back the four hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: dollars to the agent. Case closed, except that it's not.
Speaker 1: Because the NCAA got wind of this and they were like,
Speaker 1: finally something for us to do, and they came down
Speaker 1: hard on Arian Carter and they suspended him three games actually,
Speaker 1: and Tennessee appealed the ruling, and I think the appeal
Speaker 1: was something like, you can't be serious, and the NCAA said, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: two game suspension. And apparently that's where we are right now.
Speaker 1: Here's what's wild, what's wild? And again, I'm about to
Speaker 1: speak in pure hypotheticals, because there's no way that the
Speaker 1: purely hypothetical scenario that I'm about to paint would ever
Speaker 1: actually happen. But if Arian Carter's agent would have just
Speaker 1: gone charged Tennessee a forty thousand dollars consultation fee and
Speaker 1: then handed a lot of that money to Arian Carter,
Speaker 1: would be fine. Again, not that that ever happens in
Speaker 1: the real world, strictly hypothetical, but no, no, no, Instead
Speaker 1: he bought the kid a four hundred let's round up
Speaker 1: to five hundred. Why not bought a five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: plane ticket, prison, prison or suspension, whatever comes first. So
Speaker 1: Josh Hypel spoke on this today. I said, this is
Speaker 1: a family friendly show, but there is going to be
Speaker 1: some language mixed into this SoundBite. And I did not
Speaker 1: have Bradley and Crewe edit it for content because it's
Speaker 1: just too accurate. So they asked Josh Hypel at his
Speaker 1: first press conference of fall camp today. What's the latest here?
Speaker 1: How do we feel about the Arian Carter suspension? And
Speaker 1: here's just a bunch of facts from Josh Hypel.
Speaker 4: The ruling that came out from the NCAA, the two
Speaker 4: game suspension, I truly believe is bullshit. You look at
Speaker 4: the landscape of college football, the rules from nil everything.
Speaker 4: I think the ruling is completely outdated.
Speaker 1: Oh, but it's a rule, Josh. Don't you know? It's
Speaker 1: a rule. Even if you don't like the rule, we
Speaker 1: got to enforce the rules. Hey, did you know that
Speaker 1: it's illegal to coast down a hill in the state
Speaker 1: of Tennessee? Did you know that it's illegal to shine
Speaker 1: shoes after one pm on Sunday in New York State?
Speaker 1: Be careful? Did you know that, Jesse? I didn't either.
Speaker 1: You know why because there are some laws that we
Speaker 1: collectively as a society have understood are laughable and we
Speaker 1: don't enforce them. The NCAA is not familiar with this
Speaker 1: concept whatsoever, and so they're still enforcing nineteen ninety seven
Speaker 1: logic based ruling in twenty twenty six. Do you understand
Speaker 1: there are teams paying over forty million dollars to their
Speaker 1: roster this year. Legally, you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: And Arian Carter said, maybe I want to go be
Speaker 1: a professional athlete. Four hundred and twenty seven dollars plane ticket. Oh, actually,
Speaker 1: you weren't supposed to give me that. Let me pay
Speaker 1: it back, suspension. Here's why I can't be a head coach.
Speaker 1: And this is really the only reason I'm not a
Speaker 1: college football head coach. I'd play him anyway. That's why
Speaker 1: I can't be a head coach because if I'm Josh Hipel,
Speaker 1: I don't really care what my legal team tells me.
Speaker 1: I'd ocur my ad tells me. Truthfully, Danny White would
Speaker 1: probably be on board with me doing this. I'm like, Arian,
Speaker 1: you're in Week one. Just see what happens, because clearly,
Speaker 1: when you step to the podium and you talk that
Speaker 1: way about the governing body of the sport, you don't
Speaker 1: have any respect for them. No one has any respect
Speaker 1: for them. In fact, I know Tennessee is going to
Speaker 1: be playing at home week one. Tennessee could play on
Speaker 1: the road. Tennessee could probably play in Tuscaloosa. I think
Speaker 1: it was man who was it? It was Andy Staples.
Speaker 1: I believe. But I can't remember which show, but they
Speaker 1: floated a scenario the other day. They were saying, if
Speaker 1: you were to take this to trial in a Gainesville
Speaker 1: courthouse or a Tuscaloosa courthouse, Tennessee would probably even win there,
Speaker 1: because that's how egregious this is, So it couldn't be me.
Speaker 1: You want to know why Josh Heipel gets paid a
Speaker 1: lot of money, It's not even because he can dial
Speaker 1: up game plans so well. It's because he has to
Speaker 1: just like grit his teeth and deal with this nonsense.
Speaker 1: And yet Tennessee is still going to be probably pretty
Speaker 1: good this year. But if you don't believe that, you
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Speaker 1: last Lead Bowl prediction season rolls on around here. I
Speaker 1: made my predictions earlier. It's time for you to make
Speaker 1: your predictions. And if any of these ranked nine point
Speaker 1: five or boulder on the boldness scale and it hits,
Speaker 1: you win a chalice of supremacy. We gave away three
Speaker 1: of them last year, which means there were chaali instead
Speaker 1: of chalices. Let's see what we have tonight from Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Three words lsu. Actually it's four words because we don't
Speaker 1: say natty because I think it's disrespectful LSU wins the
Speaker 1: national championship. This is from tweeting an elon until he
Speaker 1: gives me one million legal name. So this is a
Speaker 1: nine point five. But it's not insane to think ls
Speaker 1: you could win the national title. Yes, there is a
Speaker 1: lot that has to come together for them, but you
Speaker 1: know my philosophy on this. If you're predicting a single
Speaker 1: team to win the national title from this far out,
Speaker 1: it's like trying to sink a half court shot. The
Speaker 1: rim is the same size as if you were shooting
Speaker 1: a layup, The ball's the same size, but just the
Speaker 1: percentages drop significantly. Big basketball guy. So if they get
Speaker 1: in the playoff, then obviously it's a game changer. Well
Speaker 1: for two reasons. Number one, because you're in the playoff,
Speaker 1: which you have to be to win the national title.
Speaker 1: But number two, if they're there, that means it all worked.
Speaker 1: So like, if if you tell me LSU's gonna get
Speaker 1: in the Plaoff, that's kind of like Miami making it
Speaker 1: last year. Once Miami made it in, anything's possible. But
Speaker 1: they've got to make it. And I know by SEC standards,
Speaker 1: this is a workable schedule, but it's still a hard schedule.
Speaker 1: So give me a nine and a half on them
Speaker 1: winning the whole thing, because even if they make the playoff,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to play two or three of the
Speaker 1: best in the country and that's just tough, not impossible,
Speaker 1: but tough. Next up, Jared from Mechanicsburg, PA. Penn State
Speaker 1: wins all of its games en route to Matt Campbell's
Speaker 1: first playoff appearance, so close a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: This is a nine point five. Remember, Penn State is
Speaker 1: not its schedule. Penn State is a team who plays
Speaker 1: its schedule, and they're over underwin totals nine and a
Speaker 1: half right now. But we're calling for him to go twelve.
Speaker 1: And oh, I believe in Matt Campbell implicitly some say
Speaker 1: I got him hired, not me, but some. But do
Speaker 1: they win everything they should? So let's take a look
Speaker 1: at their schedule? Do they win all the games they should?
Speaker 1: You know, the Marshalls and Temples and Buffalo is a
Speaker 1: man I forgot. I haven't looked at their schedule in
Speaker 1: a while. This is Indiana esque. This is pretty rough,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. It goes to the big ten.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: No one gets to take shots at the Big ten,
Speaker 1: right now it's so comforting having that patch on your chest. Anyway,
Speaker 1: eventually they will be less than a five touchdown favorite
Speaker 1: when Wisconsin comes to town. Northwestern. These are games they're
Speaker 1: supposed to win, though, Minnesota and Rutgers later in the
Speaker 1: year at Maryland. So Purdue, if we are to assume
Speaker 1: they win all the games they're supposed to, that gives
Speaker 1: them to about nine and oh, and then we got
Speaker 1: USC at Michigan and at Washington. Those are the three
Speaker 1: games that are still in a state of balance here,
Speaker 1: and I just got a tough time seeing this. I
Speaker 1: also have a tough time assuming that the schedule is
Speaker 1: going to be as big a cake walk outside of
Speaker 1: those three as other people are suggesting, just because that's
Speaker 1: not how the sport works. So that's a nine and
Speaker 1: a half twelve and oh. Penn State, though, would be
Speaker 1: very entertaining because that means they're going to the Big
Speaker 1: Ten title game, and who knows what happens there, but
Speaker 1: they're in the playoff either way if they make it
Speaker 1: that far. Next up, we have some controversy out of Lynchburg,
Speaker 1: Virginia in the ACC. SMU wins their first ACC championship
Speaker 1: before Miami I don't like it. I love it. I'm
Speaker 1: not picking it, but I love the I love the
Speaker 1: spirit of this prediction. It's a nine point twenty five Jesse,
Speaker 1: you thought I should go higher, right, You didn't think
Speaker 1: I should go higher. You think this is accurate at
Speaker 1: nine point twenty five, So you don't think it's You
Speaker 1: think it's bold, but it's not insane. It's because you
Speaker 1: doubt Miami's ability ever win a conference title. They haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't won it yet. Cursed, did you say that.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. Cursed. Wow. Miami is the overwhelming
Speaker 1: odds on favorite to win this league right now, but
Speaker 1: you know what, that doesn't mean much. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the league. But that doesn't mean much either
Speaker 1: in a one off scenario, Kevin Jennings gets hot. He
Speaker 1: beat Miami last year. Mind you, these teams played last year.
Speaker 1: We were there, We were on the field there in Dallas,
Speaker 1: and it was it was like a rainy game early
Speaker 1: then it was complete Blue Sky's second half. We talked
Speaker 1: to George Bush that day, Senior, So an eventful day
Speaker 1: there in Dallas. Look, here's what I want to point out.
Speaker 1: This is a big time schedule alert, red flag double
Speaker 1: warning situation. Look at SMU's schedule right now, it's on
Speaker 1: your screen, and if you're listening on podcast, this can't happen.
Speaker 1: How do you let this happen? SMU plays at Notre
Speaker 1: Dame November twenty first, they then play at Stanford November
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, back to back road games to end the year,
Speaker 1: and if they're in the conference title game, that means
Speaker 1: it's a third straight road game because they have to
Speaker 1: play it in Charlotte. So think about being in Dallas.
Speaker 1: You fly to South Bend and back, you fly to
Speaker 1: Palo Alto, California and back, and then you fly to
Speaker 1: Charlotte and back. This could have happened to Miami last year.
Speaker 1: The ACC schedule makers had Miami playing back to back
Speaker 1: road games to end the year last year. But Miami
Speaker 1: just said, okay, a little work around here, let's just
Speaker 1: not make the conference title game and still play for
Speaker 1: a national title. But this, this prediction says SMU wins
Speaker 1: the ACC. So on top of probably playing Miami, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to play Miami and beat them. Having been
Speaker 1: on the road three times in three weeks. That's hard.
Speaker 1: I changed my mind Jesse it's a nine point five.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bump it up to a nine point schedule dynamics,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bump it up to a nine point five.
Speaker 1: And lastly, this will raise some eyebrows. Taco Cat from Westchester, PA.
Speaker 1: Indiana will one hundred percent not make the playoffs this year.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of wiggle room and one hundred
Speaker 1: percent I think this is a nine point twenty five
Speaker 1: because here's really what it takes. Indiana has a dog
Speaker 1: water out of conference schedule, so if they lose two
Speaker 1: conference games, throw their schedule at Bradley whoever punches that
Speaker 1: thing in there. Let's just walk through this for a second.
Speaker 1: Let's say Indiana goes ten and two, because they're not
Speaker 1: going to be bad. But let's say they go ten
Speaker 1: and two. Their losses let's just say are Ohio State
Speaker 1: USC or like Ohio State at Michigan. But my point is,
Speaker 1: let's say the teams they beat, like USC and Washington.
Speaker 1: Let's say those end up not being good teams this year,
Speaker 1: so there's not really signature wins to hang their hat on,
Speaker 1: and they get docked for playing North Texas some dude
Speaker 1: named Howard and Western Kentucky and out of conference play,
Speaker 1: and it's like Vandy. Last year. Vandy was ten and two,
Speaker 1: but it was just a log jam of teams and
Speaker 1: they get left out. Now it's really tough to envision this,
Speaker 1: I know, because you've got the I don't believe in
Speaker 1: defending national champ, but you've got last year's national champ
Speaker 1: being left out if they're on the bubble. But that
Speaker 1: is kind of the way this could go. I still
Speaker 1: think it's unlikely, so I'm going to make this a
Speaker 1: nine and a quarter. But if they do get left out,
Speaker 1: that's how I think that would happen. Great show tonight,
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