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Speaker 1: college football. So road teams Tennessee Hammered, Indiana doutless performance. Boy,
Speaker 1: is that Kurt Signetti talks a big game and doesn't
Speaker 1: back it up smu Hammered. Clemson did throw it for
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty six yards, but they were outmatched.
Speaker 1: I thought the best get bet of the weekend was
Speaker 1: Texas minus twelve and a half at home, and I
Speaker 1: thought Clemson played about as well as they could and
Speaker 1: they still got beat by fourteen. But I want to
Speaker 1: say this, so this is a twelve team playoff that
Speaker 1: will become fourteen pretty soon and maybe sixteen. The reason
Speaker 1: we have the playoff it was negotiated, like, these aren't
Speaker 1: the twelve best teams in terms of NFL athletes. That's
Speaker 1: not what it is. The reason this is allowed is
Speaker 1: because there was a lot of negotiation. The Mountain West
Speaker 1: gets involved. Everything was negotiated. So it's not going to
Speaker 1: be seven SEC teams and five Big ten teams. That's
Speaker 1: not what it's going to be. But the other thing
Speaker 1: is most of my life I remember arguing this. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure if I was at Fox or ESPN,
Speaker 1: but I used to be against the playoff because my
Speaker 1: argument was always this, have you ever thought in your
Speaker 1: life the sixth best team in college football by the
Speaker 1: end of the year could beat the number one team?
Speaker 1: And my answer is no. I mean when Nick Saban's
Speaker 1: fifteen year run, most of his teams there were only
Speaker 1: two to three teams in the country that could play
Speaker 1: with them, Clemson with Trevor Lawrence, Ordashawn, Ohio State, Georgia,
Speaker 1: maybe an LSU team that could play with them. So
Speaker 1: with the time you would get to like the fifth, sixth,
Speaker 1: seventh team, especially if the first round was in Tusca Loosa.
Speaker 1: They were going to kick the holy hell out of
Speaker 1: anybody they played. So the idea that Ohio State or
Speaker 1: Penn State or Notre Dame in a home game. Now
Speaker 1: we go to neutral sites, we'll have an upset this weekend.
Speaker 1: But my take is we're overreacting a little bit. Now. Again,
Speaker 1: I thought Tennessee in Indiana would play close because I
Speaker 1: thought weather would be such a factor, but it was
Speaker 1: just cold and clear. But we've got to be honest
Speaker 1: about this. When Pete Carroll was rolling at usc or
Speaker 1: you know again the Nick Saban or Kirby Smart for
Speaker 1: about a three year run, there weren't five teams that
Speaker 1: could go toe to toe with them. The only think
Speaker 1: it maybe be the natty game of Michigan or or
Speaker 1: in Ohio State. So I think this was not predictable.
Speaker 1: But I think we're overreacting because coming up now, John,
Speaker 1: now we've got neutral sight games. I could I would
Speaker 1: bet almost anything we're gonna have an upset. One of
Speaker 1: the underdogs is gonna win. I think we're overreacting a
Speaker 1: bit to a twelve team playoff that was negotiated. You're
Speaker 1: just gonna get some Boise States in this thing, and
Speaker 1: some ACC teams in.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think it's twofold. First, I can't
Speaker 2: expect it to be perfect year one. This isn't year six,
Speaker 2: this is year one. On the flip side, I see
Speaker 2: a lot of pushback of everyone complaining that you shouldn't complain,
Speaker 2: we should celebrate this, and it's like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, this all exists because millions upon millions of
Speaker 2: people give their time to be entertained. And I've been
Speaker 2: watching football my entire life and I've I don't ever
Speaker 2: remember before this year watching Indiana and Indiana and did
Speaker 2: get the benefit of the doubt right in most people's eyes,
Speaker 2: because it's like, we don't know you. You don't have
Speaker 2: any NFL players? Who did you beat this year? In
Speaker 2: the NFL? If you make the playoffs, you it's impossible
Speaker 2: to not beat some good teams. Plus even the bad
Speaker 2: teams you're beating are full of pros. I texted around
Speaker 2: some college scouting directors. I said, how many combined NFL
Speaker 2: players do SMU and Indiana have? And he said, I
Speaker 2: will have to see some All Star game stuff, but
Speaker 2: probably five total. I said, South Carolina Ole miss Alabama,
Speaker 2: he'd say probably on average low end seven for a team,
Speaker 2: I mean Bama eight nine. So the talent, the physicality,
Speaker 2: like Tennessee got their asking. If you just watched Tennessee
Speaker 2: move around. The quarterback is a young, frenetic player right now.
Speaker 2: Their talent on the team is immense. And Indiana we
Speaker 2: basically lumped in the Big Ten and the SEC as equals.
Speaker 2: And because Washington, who was in the Natty last year,
Speaker 2: lost their coach and all their players, wasn't any good.
Speaker 2: Was supposed to be good, not any good. Michigan obviously
Speaker 2: lost seventeen NFL guys and their coach fell off a cliff.
Speaker 2: So they had three SEC teams Penn State, obviously, Oregon,
Speaker 2: Ohio State, but the rest of the conference for it
Speaker 2: was really bad. Right, So it turns out Indiana, like
Speaker 2: I just think they're not very good relative to the
Speaker 2: SEC teams, Like I don't think they could beat any
Speaker 2: of them, and I think, but they went eleven and
Speaker 2: one and some of these other teams went nine and three.
Speaker 2: This is in the NFL records like they would I said,
Speaker 2: we're comparing apples to cheeseburgers. So trying to do these
Speaker 2: records because in theory it makes sense. Well they were
Speaker 2: eleven in one because that's how it's always worked, and
Speaker 2: I just go, I don't know. So I think we
Speaker 2: look back at at it in Indiana and SMU, two
Speaker 2: things can be true. Indiana had a remarkable season, the
Speaker 2: best season in the history of the school by a mile,
Speaker 2: and they're probably not a top twenty, Like are they
Speaker 2: better in Colorado? I just looked at the top twenty
Speaker 2: five yesterday. It's like, well, Colorado's got a top ten
Speaker 2: quarterback probably Micah one and the best player in the country. Indiana.
Speaker 2: I'm watching them, like, do they even have a pro
Speaker 2: their solid defense? SMU, I mean that was like JV
Speaker 2: Verus farsity.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean their quarterback was completely overwhelmed and the ACC
Speaker 2: is terrible, so of course it's overwhelmed. They don't have
Speaker 2: the talent. Who did they beat? So I think that
Speaker 2: moving forward, just because you have two more wins in
Speaker 2: a bad conference. This isn't the NCAA tournament where they're
Speaker 2: sixty four teams, like whatever, just throw this team the
Speaker 2: seventh seed. We only had twelve spots, and I thought
Speaker 2: we got pretty let down. For a lot of people
Speaker 2: that dedicate a lot of time don't even have a
Speaker 2: horse in the race. They just want to be entertained.
Speaker 2: You're like, this doesn't look.
Speaker 1: Right well, and also it's going to get potentially worse
Speaker 1: because if you really look at Washington, they have an
Speaker 1: excellent young quarterback and Jetfish had a great recruiting year.
Speaker 1: So Washington's going to be interesting team. Next they'll be back,
Speaker 1: they'll be a top twenty team. Michigan just got the
Speaker 1: best quarterback and again they recruited at a very high level.
Speaker 1: Michigan will be viable. I just saw this weekend, USC
Speaker 1: went and bought to SEC defensive linemen, so I and
Speaker 1: their schedule is pretty weak by Big Ten standards. So
Speaker 1: my takeaway is the Big Ten, to your point, was
Speaker 1: top heavy and very weak. I don't think it'll be
Speaker 1: that next year. I think Ohio State will still be great,
Speaker 1: but I think Michigan, USC, Washington will be much better.
Speaker 1: And I think Oregon's and Penn State are going to
Speaker 1: remain powers because Landing and James Franklin are top ten
Speaker 1: recruiters easily in the country. So I think this year
Speaker 1: we got Indiana, not that it's a one off, I
Speaker 1: did I kind of felt like when I was watching
Speaker 1: Indiana play, it's not that they lost, it's that if
Speaker 1: I told you it was twenty seven to seventeen and
Speaker 1: you didn't watch the game, you'd be like, Okay, that
Speaker 1: was a game. Indiana was so gutless punting down three
Speaker 1: score second have in plus territory. I think it really
Speaker 1: it was the way Indiana lost, which was like we
Speaker 1: just we know we can't compete. We don't want to
Speaker 1: be humiliated, so we're just gonna try. I think that
Speaker 1: really pissed people off. It was like, Okay, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna play like that, just put ole Miss in the turn.
Speaker 2: I thought of a rule that if you were on
Speaker 2: the fence of a couple teams, that you have to
Speaker 2: have minimum more than two guys on each side of
Speaker 2: the ball that would start for your opponent. And did
Speaker 2: Indiana have four guys on their starting twenty two that
Speaker 2: would start for Notre Dame? Do they have one? Maybe?
Speaker 2: How many guys on SMUs starting eleven on offensive defense
Speaker 2: would start for Penn State.
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Where that's the that's the argument for or Ole Miss,
Speaker 2: South Carolina and Alabama. Yeah, they might not have won,
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't have, but I know the talent discrepancy, Like
Speaker 2: I don't have a big issue with Tennessee getting their
Speaker 2: askit because I don't think the talent discrepancy. Ohio State's
Speaker 2: better and I mean could win the national championship pretty easily,
Speaker 2: but like Tennessee, you could tell physically it's like a
Speaker 2: quarterback is throwing the ball over the map. They got
Speaker 2: NFL players all over the field, So I could live
Speaker 2: with that game. I can't live with the Indiana game,
Speaker 2: where it's like I've never watched this program. I've been
Speaker 2: watching college football for three decades and I can I
Speaker 2: do this for a living, so I know, well, they
Speaker 2: don't have any talents. So it's like what's going on?
Speaker 2: And then Signetti, I think some of his comments to
Speaker 2: Sabin before the game, bragging out. I looked at their schedule.
Speaker 2: They go two Penn State, two Oregon to Iowa, and
Speaker 2: like you said, the Big Ten's going to be better.
Speaker 2: That game is going to be circled. The Big Ten
Speaker 2: coaches are going to want to beat the shit out
Speaker 2: of him. I will be stunned. Six and six. They
Speaker 2: are going to be a target next year, and I
Speaker 2: hope they enjoyed this year because it's not going to
Speaker 2: be like that moving forward. I'll promise you that.
Speaker 1: So before we get to the quarterfinal games, I do
Speaker 1: think we have a potential upset. Listen Tennessee, Ohio State,
Speaker 1: Ryan Day. The critics can go back to their reddit boards.
Speaker 1: But here's what I really took away. Clemson. They deserve credit.
Speaker 1: They fought to the very end, and they don't have again,
Speaker 1: they don't have transfer portal guys, and they don't recruit.
Speaker 1: Even when Dabo was winning a NADDY, they didn't recruit
Speaker 1: like Alabama and Georgia LSU. They never have. They just
Speaker 1: don't and they don't use a transfer portal. So I
Speaker 1: think Dabo's a hell of a coach. But my takeaway
Speaker 1: on that is if Ohio States, if Will Howard is
Speaker 1: as good as he was against Tennessee, I don't know
Speaker 1: how Texas stops them. I mean, Clemson was throwing the
Speaker 1: ball all over the yard. They were throwing it up
Speaker 1: the sideline, out of the backfield, seam routes. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you think of Clemson, you don't think three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards passing. I know Texas won thirty eight
Speaker 1: twenty four but that twenty four points. I looked at
Speaker 1: that and I thought, Jesus Texas plays Arizona State next
Speaker 1: thirteen and a half point favorite. Maybe that's not an issue,
Speaker 1: But if I'm Ohio State in my passing game, I
Speaker 1: after this weekend, Ohio State's my favorite to win the
Speaker 1: national championship, not Texas. I was almost dismayed. Not just
Speaker 1: that Clemson through but the variety of throws, the third
Speaker 1: down throws, the wide open targets in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 2: It was startling to me, Well, their quarterbacks really come along.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's the guy to keep it. If he
Speaker 2: goes back to school, I mean, I think he'll be
Speaker 2: in consideration to have a chance to be a really
Speaker 2: high draft pick in twenty twenty six. That kid's really
Speaker 2: gotten a lot better since that first game at Georgia,
Speaker 2: and last year was pretty bumpy. I like kid club
Speaker 2: Nick a lot, and they had one of the great
Speaker 2: I think freshman recruiting classes at wide receiver in recent memory,
Speaker 2: those couple five star kids. But to me, Sark has
Speaker 2: had to coach around Quinn Yewers a lot of the year.
Speaker 2: And you see that we talk about coaching with some
Speaker 2: of these young rookie quarterbacks. What do you call on
Speaker 2: third and seven? Or are you willing to call something
Speaker 2: aggressive on second and ten? Are you just trying to
Speaker 2: thrown like a screen or you know, a draw play.
Speaker 2: I think he coaches around Quinn. You were because to me,
Speaker 2: he is a pretty big roller coaster. You don't know
Speaker 2: what you're getting series to series. And this is where
Speaker 2: you know the seeding. When Ohio State's on me and
Speaker 2: they showed up in that game, you went, holy hell,
Speaker 2: I know. It was like why they were hitting guys
Speaker 2: like they were, you know, Dre Greenlawn and Fred Warner.
Speaker 2: It's like the defense, how good Jeremiah Smith is? Will
Speaker 2: Howard looked like Peyton Manning the games of his life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and Ryan Day listen, they'd had a long time to
Speaker 2: soak up that loss coming at home. I listened. I
Speaker 2: picked Tennessee. Five minutes into that game, you went, this
Speaker 2: could be fifty to nothing. This team is going to
Speaker 2: try to injure everyone inside. Can they keep that up
Speaker 2: again again? You know, Dan Lanning, this is where Oregon
Speaker 2: got screwed. They have to play that team in their
Speaker 2: opening game after rose Bolt, which is not a huge advantage.
Speaker 2: Because it's not like Ohio State fans aren't used to
Speaker 2: travel into that game, which is a cool game that
Speaker 2: the rose Ball gets Oregon Ohio State.
Speaker 1: That's good. That makes set a record, that the ratings
Speaker 1: for that game may set a college football non national
Speaker 1: championship record. I'm not joking.
Speaker 2: I think if you're Oregon, you just go. We had
Speaker 2: the best season where the only undefeated team and Penn
Speaker 2: State gets to play Boise and Texas gets the players
Speaker 2: on the state and we got to play that the
Speaker 2: biggest payroll in the history of college football with NFL
Speaker 2: guys all over that we had to like knock down,
Speaker 2: drag out to beat at home. That's that sucks for them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know a team that's never won a national championship
Speaker 2: that if I told you right now they were getting
Speaker 2: a good draw, you would like them a lot more.
Speaker 2: But you're like, damn they they'd have to go through
Speaker 2: three tough games, right, They'd have to beat Ohio State,
Speaker 2: they have to beat Texas, and then they probably have
Speaker 2: to beat Penn State or Georgia. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 2: a murderer's row. So and they had to beat Penn State,
Speaker 2: you know, to in the conference championship. So I listen,
Speaker 2: if if Oregon were to win a national championship, it
Speaker 2: would be really, really impressive. I can't take Texas because
Speaker 2: of the quarterback, but their talent on the team. I mean,
Speaker 2: there were that goal line stopped that they had basically
Speaker 2: end of the game. Again, they can really rev it up.
Speaker 2: I mean they got guys on defense. You're like, holy shit,
Speaker 2: and you know the skill. Their two running backs are
Speaker 2: really good. I just the quarterback. If you told me
Speaker 2: Caide Club Nick Clemson quarterback was Texas quarterback, I'd be like,
Speaker 2: watch out for they might be my pick. And I
Speaker 2: just is Will Howard going to play like that every game?
Speaker 2: Is he going to play like that against Dan Lanning's
Speaker 2: defense is if he does, they'll probably win. Right. If
Speaker 2: he's gonna If he's going to be Peyton Manning junior,
Speaker 2: then Ohio State's gonna be a serious problem for anyone
Speaker 2: they're playing.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's wrap it up. Penn State minus eleven against
Speaker 1: Boise State. I actually think jenty run he ran for
Speaker 1: almost tuner yards against Oregon. I think these are neutral
Speaker 1: site games. Now it's a whole different ballgame in college football,
Speaker 1: totally yeah, the college football team. You know, the seventy
Speaker 1: percent of NFL games are one score, one possession games.
Speaker 1: That's not college football. Home teams win. I think Boise State.
Speaker 1: I think Boise State is going to be you know,
Speaker 1: Penn State may be lulled to sleep opening with SMU
Speaker 1: at home blowing them out, and now they look at
Speaker 1: see Boise State hard to get that locker room revved up.
Speaker 1: SMU is a bigger name to some of those Penn
Speaker 1: State players than Boise State. They couldn't you know, they
Speaker 1: don't even know help. Most college players out east don't
Speaker 1: know much about Boise State. Can Boise State hang with them?
Speaker 1: I think they can.
Speaker 2: I do think Penn State's lucky that they got this
Speaker 2: generational player on Boise State. It's an easy one for
Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator circle. I mean, this guy had like
Speaker 2: a Barry Sanders Oklahoma state level season. So it's to
Speaker 2: me if they were much more of like the Kellen Moore,
Speaker 2: more of a complete team than a one man band,
Speaker 2: I think it would be a little different. You might
Speaker 2: look down upon them, but I think when you're playing
Speaker 2: a guy that just sitting next to Travis Hunter on
Speaker 2: that Saturday night at the Heisman Trophy, it's easier to
Speaker 2: get up. I also think, and this is my our like, listen,
Speaker 2: I started my career in the Whack, which basically turned
Speaker 2: in the Mountain West. The difference of size and strength
Speaker 2: on the line of scrimmage. We saw it in Indiana
Speaker 2: and SMU against You know, their two opponents at the
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and Penn State just overwhelmed them at the
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage on defense. And I don't know if
Speaker 2: Boise State their passing offense isn't good enough. So I'm
Speaker 2: putting ten guys in the box be like, we are
Speaker 2: you gonna throw on me? And I think it's a
Speaker 2: very very tough matchup for Boise State. I also think
Speaker 2: Penn State if this was the NFL and these games
Speaker 2: were out in the cold weather, I think Penn State
Speaker 2: and Notre Dame would be built for it. Play defense,
Speaker 2: run the ball down your throat, play like the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers did with Jimmy Garoppolo. We're just gonna freezing
Speaker 2: cold weather, let's roll. I mean, you watch Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: They would love every game at nineteen degrees because that's
Speaker 2: in same with Penn State. Freezing cold snow rain, that's
Speaker 2: how they would want to play. That's where these neutral
Speaker 2: site games, you know. I think Notre Dame is a
Speaker 2: good example, Like I actually kind of like them against Georgia,
Speaker 2: but then put them in a dome. But you put
Speaker 2: them in a dome, it does take away there. Straight.
Speaker 2: If you told me that game was outside in a
Speaker 2: cold weather spot, I'd be like, George is in for it.
Speaker 2: In a dome team speed, Georgia is gonna be a
Speaker 2: little faster, but Notre Dame can definitely win that game. Listen.
Speaker 2: I love Boise State and rooting for him for a
Speaker 2: long time. I think there's a really really tough matchup
Speaker 2: for them. Same with that state.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I think Penn State's gonna win. I think
Speaker 1: your point on Notre Dame Georgia is well taken. Texas
Speaker 1: should beat Arizona State. So I said before the year,
Speaker 1: I thought Oregon would beat Ohio State at Autson. I
Speaker 1: thought Ohio State would beat Oregon on the second matchup.
Speaker 1: I think I like Ohio State to win and cover
Speaker 1: against the Ducks.
Speaker 2: I think one big difference between Penn State, Georgia and
Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Then the other three top teams in Texas, Oregon,
Speaker 2: Ohio State, they are so explosive on the outside, like
Speaker 2: they feel like an NFL team at wide receiver in
Speaker 2: the skill position. Penn State and Notre Dame just don't.
Speaker 2: Penn State's tight end is gonna be a top twenty player,
Speaker 2: but they are not as explosive at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 2: So I mean, like you said, I think Oregon, Ohio State.
Speaker 2: I mean that could feel like the National championship game.
Speaker 2: And I think Texas if the quarterback can just play
Speaker 2: under control, which he's proven he can't really for four quarters,
Speaker 2: they could be pretty I just don't trust him. And
Speaker 2: Notre Dame Georgia, whoever wins that game, might be Honestly,
Speaker 2: I kind of like the draw for Penn State. Penn
Speaker 2: State plays Boise, wins that game and then plays that
Speaker 2: Penn State in Texas are gonna get putent. I mean,
Speaker 2: their enormous favorites, favorites in the second round are gonna
Speaker 2: be playing two teams. They're gonna be coming out of
Speaker 2: a war zone. I mean Ohio State and Oregon and
Speaker 2: Notre Dame in Georgia. Bodies are gonna be left on
Speaker 2: the field in that game. So I think that is
Speaker 2: a massive advantage if both those if Texas and Penn
Speaker 2: State take care of business. I mean Ohio State pulled
Speaker 2: out their quarterback with nine minutes to go in the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think what we're going to see in this playoff,
Speaker 1: and let's go back to the playoff as a whole,
Speaker 1: is I think it's going to expand to fourteen teams
Speaker 1: and possibly sixteen. On any given Saturday, you may get
Speaker 1: three really great games between good teams. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of blowouts in college football. It's just the way the
Speaker 1: sport works. It's it's of all the American sports team sports,
Speaker 1: it's the most have and have not sport, even you
Speaker 1: know baseball. Obviously now with the regional network's dying, it's
Speaker 1: getting more have and have not. There's like six teams
Speaker 1: that have money and like twenty six or twenty four
Speaker 1: that don't. But I think the neutral site games, I
Speaker 1: think Oregon Ohio State is going to feel like USC Texas.
Speaker 1: Remember that game with the stealth fighters flying over where
Speaker 1: you have like eighteen pros. The first game was great.
Speaker 1: I think Ohio State Oregon becomes the game of the year.
Speaker 1: I also think it is hard to play perfect football.
Speaker 1: Back to back weeks. Ohio State was nearly perfect. It's
Speaker 1: hard to duplicate that on back to back weeks.
Speaker 2: I also think that these guys have never played a
Speaker 2: season this long, right, I mean a lot of these
Speaker 2: teams played in conference championship games. Some of the teams
Speaker 2: that didn't just play this first round. I mean you
Speaker 2: start looking ahead, they still got three more games. I mean,
Speaker 2: and you saw some just collateral damage. As you know,
Speaker 2: notre dame at defensive lineman get banged up. You're talking
Speaker 2: about by the time you get to the semi finals,
Speaker 2: can you stay healthy enough? Which which honestly could just
Speaker 2: be a determining factor for whoever wins it just a
Speaker 2: team with the most health because we've been hammering at
Speaker 2: home and these coaches have been these teams. The depth
Speaker 2: isn't near the same, you know, in the peak of
Speaker 2: the saban Era. So what I lost a first rounder,
Speaker 2: I got a nineteen year old first rounder behind them? Right,
Speaker 2: those days are done. I mean there's a massive drop off.
Speaker 2: Some of these teams are and guys, Ohio State put
Speaker 2: a quarterback in the game when they yank Will Howard,
Speaker 2: he's in the transfer portal and Ryan Day had to
Speaker 2: have a talk with this team, like, hey, guys, are
Speaker 2: we cool with keeping him around? You know these cause
Speaker 2: these guys are in weird spots. Penn State's backup quarterback
Speaker 2: is gone, so and that's not obviously we talk a
Speaker 2: lot about the quarterbacks, but it could be you know,
Speaker 2: a backup linebacker, a freshman kid that might have had
Speaker 2: to be thrust in if someone got injured. So we
Speaker 2: got a long way to go. I mean this is
Speaker 2: you see, the NFL guys are dropping like flies in college.
Speaker 2: These guys aren't as big. They're not especially some of
Speaker 2: these guys at eighteen nineteen years old that are playing.
Speaker 2: Their bodies aren't as developed taking a lot of big hits.
Speaker 2: It's not like the violence in these games. It's that
Speaker 2: much different. I mean, how hard was Ohio State and
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and these teams hitting the physicality? And honestly,
Speaker 2: I appreciate the one thing that jumped out to me
Speaker 2: about this weekend, which was obviously a pretty big letdown
Speaker 2: with the blowouts. Yeah, we talk about a lot about
Speaker 2: nil and people not having it feels like guys are
Speaker 2: mercenaries now. And maybe that's the case. But it does
Speaker 2: feel like the guy's playing in the game are just
Speaker 2: all in and trying their one effort, and you feel
Speaker 2: that you know the teams is not like ten. None
Speaker 2: of these teams took their foot off the pedal like pen.
Speaker 2: Clemson just came back because they got NFL guys. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like Texas stopped trying.
Speaker 1: Right John Middlecoff his podcast is three and out.
Speaker 2: Good job, Buddy, Merry Christmas, going Merry Christmas. The volume