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Speaker 1: And welcome into Lake Kick is Live. It is Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: October eighth, Fear of Our Lord twenty twenty and it, friends,

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Speaker 1: is a beautiful day, and it has a lot to

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Speaker 1: do with a big college football weekend on deck that

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Speaker 1: the Braves are going to the National League Championship Series.

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Speaker 1: And you don't know how long I've waited to say it.

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Speaker 1: Long time, Colin and I have had a serious conflict

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Speaker 1: of interest today. It's a miracle that we were able

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Speaker 1: to put the show together. But yes, friends, we can

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Speaker 1: ask now, finally, for the first time in nearly two decades,

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Speaker 1: who are the Braves playing in the National League Championship Series?

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Speaker 1: That question off the air. Many more questions, hopefully will

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Speaker 1: be answered on the air tonight, and they have to

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Speaker 1: do with the sport we love so much, college football.

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Speaker 1: We have got full Week six predictions. It feels kind

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Speaker 1: of strange saying Week six in a world where we

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Speaker 1: have two of the Power five conferences that have yet

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Speaker 1: to play a game that's twenty twenty four. You though,

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Speaker 1: We've got the mood Tracker with an extra special twist

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Speaker 1: on it tonight. We've also got some added Georgia Tennessee

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Speaker 1: thoughts I got several additional things that when I was

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Speaker 1: listening and why watching the show riding home Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: I said, you idiot, why didn't you say this or

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Speaker 1: why did you say that? As many of you probably

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Speaker 1: still watching the videos. So we're gonna add some more.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say cherry on top. There's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of whip cream with that too. And also

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Speaker 1: are Revenudle Express five best bets and that's been in

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Speaker 1: a state of flux today too. We have come right

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Speaker 1: up to showtime, taking some out, adding some in. So

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Speaker 1: we got a lot to get to we have had,

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Speaker 1: and I got to thank you for this. Over fifteen

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Speaker 1: hundred new subscribers to the channel just this week alone.

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Speaker 1: Weeks not over, guys, So continue to pour those subscriptions in.

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Speaker 1: It's getting noticed. So a lot of people who are

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Speaker 1: in very big, spacious offices and high rises in New

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Speaker 1: York City who own this company, this company being CBS,

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Speaker 1: they see that and they say, wow, well that's gaining

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Speaker 1: some traction. So let's make it gain some more traction.

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Speaker 1: You never know what all added benefits you as the

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Speaker 1: viewer may have in store. If we continue to have

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Speaker 1: the kind of traction we've had on the channel. So

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Speaker 1: subscribe if you haven't already subscribed to the Late Kick

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Speaker 1: podcast too. As I said, we have got a loaded

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Speaker 1: show and we will waste no time with it. I

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Speaker 1: want to start same place we started the other night.

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Speaker 1: You could make arguments for a number of games this week,

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Speaker 1: but at least the fine folks at CBS, since that's

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Speaker 1: our parent company, have seen fit to make Tennessee Georgia

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Speaker 1: the CBS three thirty game of the Week three thirty Eastern,

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Speaker 1: two thirty Central this Saturday. Understand how big this is.

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Speaker 1: This is what I didn't hit on the other night.

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Speaker 1: And I was talking to Wilfong the other day and

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Speaker 1: he made a very astute point. I tweeted it out

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Speaker 1: the other day and I want to repeat it now.

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Speaker 1: There may not be any visitors. In fact, Tennessee may

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Speaker 1: not even be at home this weekend, but this is

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Speaker 1: the biggest recruiting weekend of Jeremy Prewitz's career at Tennessee's

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee head coach, and they're in it for a

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Speaker 1: number of big time kids with Georgia. And that's the

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Speaker 1: case every year. But what do we always talk about

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Speaker 1: on here we talk about selling a vision versus selling reality,

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Speaker 1: and so far Tennessee's had to stick to selling a vision,

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Speaker 1: in other words, walking into your living room. If you've

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Speaker 1: got an offer from Georgia and Tennessee or Alabama and Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: they've had to come into the living room and say

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Speaker 1: here's what we've already won. Here are the guys that

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Speaker 1: we've already developed. Here all the cats that they're already

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Speaker 1: playing in the league. On Sundays, you can barely watch

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Speaker 1: every roster out there. It's hard to overcome that there's

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Speaker 1: only one way to do it. You got to win games.

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Speaker 1: That's ultimately what it comes down to. I want you

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Speaker 1: It'd be a big time deal. Colin, let's quickly before

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Speaker 1: to remind you what the odds makers think and what

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Speaker 1: Georgia was a thirteen point favorite. That is now twelve

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Speaker 1: So you've had some volunteer money come in there. Well,

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Speaker 1: So that's what we picked. We picked Georgia to win

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Speaker 1: the game. We picked Tennessee to cover the game. Let's

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Speaker 1: They were doing a Q and A back and forth.

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Speaker 1: They were talking about this Tennessee eight game win streak.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the longest, maybe the longest, and I know,

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Speaker 1: But Jake row made a point. It wasn't being sarcastic.

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Speaker 1: They haven't beaten anyone they're not supposed to. The challenge

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Speaker 1: because a lot of teams out there don't beat the

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Speaker 1: And if they do, we're gonna count on our secondary.

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Speaker 1: So I think points will be at a premium first

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Speaker 1: Dwan Mathis had a disastrous first half and week one

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Speaker 1: The reason I say that is because let's say, let's

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Speaker 1: and his name's Dwan Mathis. And I wonder perimeter runs.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that run between the tackles deal isn't working, Maybe

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Speaker 1: not to see him out there running the offense. But

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Speaker 1: Week six predictions. These are a lot of games that

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Speaker 1: They can play this game any which way they want to.

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Speaker 1: that's been the question. Where is the run game? So

430
00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,280
Speaker 1: you know they have Georgia on deck. The last thing

431
00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,200
Speaker 1: in the world Nick Saban's interested in doing is getting

432
00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,679
Speaker 1: into a back and forth shootout here, whereas defense has

433
00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,720
Speaker 1: got to be on the field all afternoon they play.

434
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,680
Speaker 1: Instead of playing sixty four plays, they play ninety one.

435
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,200
Speaker 1: Even in a win, they're on the field ninety one snaps.

436
00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,520
Speaker 1: No one wants that. So I will say this, as

437
00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,000
Speaker 1: much as rain may or may not be a factor here,

438
00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,240
Speaker 1: pretty sure wind will be a factor. If wind is

439
00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,360
Speaker 1: a factor in this game, twenty three is way too

440
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,040
Speaker 1: low because Old Miss can't do anything else. So twenty

441
00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,959
Speaker 1: three is going to be way too low. If you've

442
00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,160
Speaker 1: got more than like fifteen twenty mile an hour sustained,

443
00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,479
Speaker 1: which you figure to have, Alabama will beat them to

444
00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 1: death and it'll be a far wider march victory than

445
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,320
Speaker 1: twenty three. We're gonna take Bama minus twenty three and

446
00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna obviously take them to win as well. Let

447
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,600
Speaker 1: me get to one of the most interesting off the

448
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 1: radar games in all of the SEC, and I would

449
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,360
Speaker 1: argue in the nation this Saturday, Arkansaw Fresh off their

450
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 1: upset win against Mississippi State. They're playing Auburn Saturday. Auburn

451
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 1: is a thirteen and a half point favorite. We're gonna

452
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,640
Speaker 1: have more on this game in a little while. There's

453
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,760
Speaker 1: a lot going on at Auburn. Some of you Auburn

454
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 1: fans understand where I'm coming from with this, but this

455
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 1: is not a big national radar game. The last time

456
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,720
Speaker 1: you guys thought about Auburn was when you probably turned

457
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 1: the game off at halftime when they were getting smoked

458
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 1: by Georgia. There's a lot going on over there, a

459
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,800
Speaker 1: lot of injury, a lot of internal dynamics. There's a

460
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,920
Speaker 1: lot going on. They do not have their stuff together

461
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,520
Speaker 1: right now. Arkansas is coming in there fully planning on

462
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,280
Speaker 1: winning this game. I don't view this, in other words,

463
00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 1: as two respective sides having the typical mentality that a

464
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Speaker 1: near two touchdown favorite would have and a near two

465
00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: touchdown underdog would have. Don't feel those typical dynamics here

466
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 1: at all. I'd be happy if I were Gus Malson.

467
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000
Speaker 1: I'd be happy with a field goal win Saturday. I'd

468
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,120
Speaker 1: be happy with a win of any kind. Run defense

469
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 1: was very shaky last week. Now Georgia will do that

470
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 1: to you. Kentucky did it too, and who's to say

471
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 1: Arkansas can do it. Arkansas didn't light the world on

472
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 1: fire offensively against Mississippi State, but they didn't have to

473
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 1: because they shut their offense down. Now we ask about

474
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Speaker 1: Auburn's offense, and I ask you, what is Auburn's offense?

475
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,399
Speaker 1: So that's another thing that I think internally is an

476
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 1: issue over there. I don't really think they know who

477
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 1: they are. By the way, has anyone noticed this week?

478
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 1: I was listening to some Auburn players interviewed about the

479
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 1: upcoming game, and they talked about Arkansas. They were asked

480
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 1: about Arkansas and they talked about In fact, they went

481
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 1: out of their way to talk about how improved that

482
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: team looks. I don't know if everyone over there realized it,

483
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: but what you were doing, which you were talking about

484
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Speaker 1: how improved this team is, which only can imply they're

485
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,680
Speaker 1: much better than they were with that coach they had

486
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: last year. Problem is, the coach they had last year

487
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 1: is right here in your locker is Chad Morris. So

488
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 1: I hope Chad had air plugs in early this week

489
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 1: because these players were steadily and subtly tossing his performance

490
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 1: and Fayettvillal under the bus. Hey his performance at Auburn

491
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: so far has been nothing to ride home about. I

492
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 1: don't know what they are offensively. It's what I'm telling you,

493
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 1: so listen. They may win. I'm going to pick them

494
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 1: to win the game. I don't know if they have

495
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: pull away ability at all, pull away meaning stretch the

496
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: lead late. So I'm going to come back to this game.

497
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 1: But you know, it could be a couple of ways.

498
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,400
Speaker 1: It could be that Auburn just has no business being

499
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: favored by nearly two touchdowns over anyone, or could be

500
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,479
Speaker 1: the other way. But I'll tell you the danger in

501
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 1: rushing in to just take the points here. We did

502
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: it last week with Missouri. Remember we took Missouri plus

503
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,440
Speaker 1: the points against Tennessee, and we had all these things

504
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: in our mind that Tennessee wasn't going to be able

505
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 1: to do. We didn't think Tennessee was going to be

506
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,439
Speaker 1: able to bomb away on and we didn't think anything

507
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:49,600
Speaker 1: like that, and it was going to be a slower,

508
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 1: methodical game. Well we were right about all those things,

509
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,360
Speaker 1: but it didn't matter because the roster advantage was such

510
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: that Tennessee was just able to lean on Missouri. Well,

511
00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: that's something I don't think Auburn can do. I don't

512
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: have the offensive line to do it, and I haven't

513
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: seen any semblance of identity offensively from them so far

514
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: to think that, well, all of a sudden, they'll just

515
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: click this week. Maybe it will. We'll see. We're gonna

516
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: come back to that game later though. Virginia Tech is

517
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 1: playing North Carolina. This is a Top twenty matchup that,

518
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 1: regardless of what someone tells you in the grocery store,

519
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: this is a Top twenty matchup. It's a noon kickoff

520
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: Eastern time on ABC. Beware those preseason magazines and the

521
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: marriage that some of us tend to have between us

522
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: and those preview magazines. It may be conscious, it may

523
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 1: be subconscious, but you know what I'm talking about. You

524
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: go to the beach, you go out on the lake,

525
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: and you just absorb everything. Over the course of a weekend,

526
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: over the summer, you absorb everything that's in that preview magazine,

527
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: and whether you mean to or not, you let what

528
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: that magazine says about a team become your default setting.

529
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: And it's not that you can't change your mind, but

530
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: it's going to take something other than what's already in

531
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: your mind to have it changed. So what did the

532
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,919
Speaker 1: preview magazine Culture probably tell you? It probably told you

533
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 1: that North Carolina is a bona fide contender year, maybe

534
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 1: not for Clemson, maybe not gonna overtake Clemson, but their

535
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,479
Speaker 1: surefire contender for number two in the ACC. Meanwhile, no

536
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: one knows what Virginia Tech is. And then you read

537
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: about all the COVID mess they've had up there, but

538
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: you'd never seen either team play a football game this year.

539
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 1: So now we've seen him play some games, and I

540
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: know what a lot of your minds have been doing

541
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: those mine's been doing the same thing. You've been watching

542
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: North Carolina. And it was a slop fest, not literally

543
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: because they played indoors in Week one against Syracuse, but

544
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: they never pulled away from Syracuse until the very end,

545
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: and it was kind of a misleading final score. And

546
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 1: then they had a bunch of time off for cancelations,

547
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: and then last week they played Boston College. Couldn't hit

548
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: deep plays to save their life against Boston College, and

549
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: they won, but they failed relative to expectation, expectation being

550
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: a point spread. Meanwhile, Virginia Tech's had like half their

551
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: roster out and half their coaching staff out, and they've

552
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 1: just found ways to win. So you keep waiting for

553
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: North Carolina to do what you think they're capable of,

554
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: and you keep wait need for Virginia Tech to fall

555
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: because they're doing a lot more than you thought they

556
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: were capable of. But what we don't factor into that

557
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: equation is could we just been wrong about either team.

558
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: That's always a concern. So in this one run defense

559
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: is all it's about. Make no mistake. North Carolina has

560
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: been pretty good at stopping the run. Hadn't faced a

561
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: lot of great rushing attacks. Virginia Tech, I think, ran

562
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: for over three hundred last week. Haven't faced the best

563
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: run ds in the world. It's still early in the years,

564
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: so we don't know if they look poor because you

565
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: made them look poor. It's that whole deal. So we'll see.

566
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you as much as I'm watching that

567
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: the one thing I need to see, Man, there's talented receiver,

568
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: there's talented quarterback. For Carolina. They need to be able

569
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: to stretch the field more because they've done a poor

570
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: job of it so far. Having said that, I gotta

571
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: trust our numbers. I'm gonna take North Carolina to whim.

572
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to take North Carolina to cover that one

573
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: bears close watching. That's an early kickoff. Got a lot

574
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: of games with a lot of implications in that early

575
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: kickoff window. We already talked. We did a whole breakdown

576
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,479
Speaker 1: actually on Florida versus Texas, A and M. You can

577
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: find that in individual cut style on the twenty four

578
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 1: seven Sports YouTube channel mood Tracker time. We do it

579
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: every Thursday. The mood Tracker is essentially what a fan

580
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: base is feeling about their program, and boy, it was special.

581
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: I do this on the web too, so it's at

582
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: twenty four seven sports dot com and written for him

583
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 1: if you want to read that. Normally, it's up there

584
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: on Thursday morning. And I had a kind of an

585
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: epiphany today. Sometimes you can't tell when you've peaked in life,

586
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: in your career and your personal life whatever. You look

587
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: back years later and you say, oh, look, man, I

588
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: didn't know it, but that's where I peaked. I think

589
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: I may have peaked today. This could be it right

590
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: here in the middle of twenty twenty. No less, I

591
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 1: could have peaked today. I love the Office, even the

592
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: latter seasons up until season nine, which I disavowed totally.

593
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: But there's one episode, it's the very end, it's the

594
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: series finale, and there's the camera on Andy Barnard, and

595
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: Andy Bernard gives the following quote. I wish there was

596
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: a way to know you're in the good old days

597
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 1: before you've actually left them. I think today could have

598
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: been my good old day because Fleetwood Mac has been

599
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: trending heavily lately. Dreams, which is my favorite song of

600
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: all time, has been trending heavily lately because of certain

601
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: viral videos on the old TikTok involving Cranberry juice. I

602
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: think you know what I'm talking about. So I took

603
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: it upon myself to do a Fleetwood Mac themed mood

604
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: tracker today in which I described every fan basis mood

605
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: relative to a Fleetwood Mac song. And I got to

606
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: tell you, it was very vindicating for me. I was

607
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: mocked in first grade, I was mocked in fifth grade.

608
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: I was mocked in high school. I was mocked in

609
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: college and in the early portion of my adulthood for

610
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: loving a band that really existed and had most of

611
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: their big hits before I was born, but now everyone

612
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: wants to hop on board. But okay, I got room

613
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: for you. I feel like the Dallas Cowboys. This has

614
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: got to be what the Lakers feel like. But I've

615
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: got room for you. Hop aboard as many of you

616
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: as want to come aboard. I've been preaching this message

617
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: for a long time, but it took some dude chugging

618
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: cranberry juice on a skateboard on TikTok, but I died.

619
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: I will say this though, As I said on the

620
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: podcast the other day, I don't give out parenting advice

621
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: because I don't have children. But I broke my own

622
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: rule the other day, and I'll tell you again. If

623
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: your children are hearing about Fleetwood Mac for the first

624
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: time through a TikTok video, that's a failure on your part.

625
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say. So let's move on

626
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Their mood. I use Little Lies, and I

627
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: used lyrics from Little Lies. No more broken hearts. We're

628
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: better off apart. Let's give it a try. Is that

629
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: where we are? Is that where things are? In Colombia.

630
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 1: I talk to a lot of Gamecock fans and shot

631
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: for shot Man for man and woman for a woman,

632
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: they say, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. You just you

633
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: sound done. And I don't know if it can be resurrected.

634
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if the emotional fences can be mended.

635
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: But people are not on board with the direction. Whatever

636
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: the direction that Will Muschamp has this program headed. A

637
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: lot of you aren't on board with it. I want

638
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: to talk about a must win game. They're favored by

639
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: thirteen or so here in Nashville Saturday against Vanderbilt. That's

640
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: a must win game because if they don't win that game,

641
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: you start to three. You've got Auburn and LSU before

642
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: the bye. That is well, I won't say a sure

643
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Speaker 1: and five start. It is a probable and five start

644
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Speaker 1: if they lose Saturday, and then there's the bye week,

645
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Speaker 1: at which point you will have the ultimate theory in

646
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty tested, and that theory is no coach is

647
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: going to get fired because of all the external factors. Well,

648
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: I can tell you, if you start zero to five,

649
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: the only thing saving your job, if you will must

650
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Speaker 1: Jamp is twenty twenty. How about Tennessee Beautiful song number

651
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: six on the Greatest Hits album gypsy. So I'm back

652
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: to the velvet underground, back to the floor that I love.

653
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what Jeremy pruittt loves. I'll tell you

654
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: what he loves going back to, and that is playing

655
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 1: football in the same manner he grew up watching it,

656
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: coached his dad's a coach, and played. They're doing things

657
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: that would be right at home in nineteen eighty seven.

658
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: You could drop their style offensively. Now there is there

659
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: alway no one runs a true old school offense. Even

660
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: the triple option teams have elements of their offense that

661
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: are more modernized. I'm not saying Tennessee doesn't possess that,

662
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: But what I am saying is, while everyone else in

663
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: this sport has decided to spread things out, Prewitt walked

664
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Speaker 1: into Knoxville and he said, well, if everyone else is

665
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: doing it that way, perhaps we can be unique just

666
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Speaker 1: by doing it the way we used to do it.

667
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Speaker 1: And he built a wrecking ball. Essentially. The first thing

668
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: he did was looked at his offensive line. I don't

669
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: know if you guys heard in the broadcast last week,

670
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: they only said it like three dozen times. Jeremy Crude

671
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: only had one offensive line and over three hundred pound

672
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Speaker 1: when he got the Tennessee Now all of them over

673
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Speaker 1: three hundred pounds. Great, all right, So that's true, and

674
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Speaker 1: that's what he did. And he didn't just recruit guys.

675
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: That's what I keep trying to tell folks. You don't

676
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: just have to recruit anymore. The transfer portal has made

677
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: it a parent that you can just go pluck guys

678
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: and you can put together an offensive line. All of

679
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: a sudden, you got Kennedy from Alabama. You got Cade

680
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: Mays who was just ruled eligible formally from Georgia. They

681
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: didn't recruit those guys out of high school. They got

682
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: them though the wrecking ball. Now, and imagine, can you

683
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: imagine if the dust were to settle Saturday. This is

684
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: a wild scenario. Please don't understand that I'm predicting this,

685
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: but here's a wild scenario that Colin doesn't think it's

686
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: all that wild. What if Tennessee pulls the upset Saturday

687
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: and A and M beats Florida Saturday. You get to

688
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: the end of the day and there's Tennessee, dust clears,

689
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: smoke settles, and there's that orange tee flying atop the

690
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Speaker 1: sec East. Not only atop the sec East with a

691
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: head to head wind over Georgia and Georgia going to

692
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: Alabama the next week and knowing that, yeah, we got

693
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: to play Florida, but Florida's got to come up here

694
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: in December. Have you ever seen Florida play in sub

695
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: forty degree temperatures. It's not a pretty sight. So the

696
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: end of Saturday could be mesmerizing or it could be

697
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: same ol Samo, we'll see. I think I may have

698
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,719
Speaker 1: gone too far down that road. Miami has the privilege

699
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: of getting dreams now. Dreams is the song that's gone

700
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: viral here. The lyric I used is have you any

701
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: dreams you'd like to sell? Because they'd sure love to buy.

702
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: I'm in Coral Gables and the one, namely that they'd

703
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: love to buy is that of their own upset Saturday.

704
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,959
Speaker 1: I put out on Twitter earlier today. I put out

705
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Speaker 1: a poll which I don't do a lot, but I

706
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: should do more because I have great traction on it.

707
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: In fact, I can probably pull it up right here.

708
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: Let me use stall tactics. I asked, essentially, if we

709
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Speaker 1: were to, let's say we paint the picture for those upsets.

710
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: So tennessee over Georgia or Miami over Clemson. Which of

711
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: those upsets, if they happened, would impact college football more

712
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one and beyond. So I'm not even

713
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: talking about this season, but twenty twenty one and beyond.

714
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: Which upset would you be looking back more on once

715
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: you saw the ramifications of it and say, wow, man,

716
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: that really that really impacted college football as a whole.

717
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: So I did this a few hours ago, got over

718
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: seven hundred votes on it. Miami over Clemson, you guys

719
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: voted at a sixty three to thirty six percent clip

720
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: would have the bigger impact on the board of college football.

721
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: I could make a certain argument for both, but I

722
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: understand what people are saying here, because if you beat Clemson,

723
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: not only did you obviously pull a huge upset, not

724
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: only does that have immediate ramification, but think about how

725
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: that sells to South Florida kids. We've talked about that

726
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: at nauseum, about recruiting and about what Miami needs to

727
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: do in South Florida and what anyone down there needs

728
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: to do in South Florida. If they beat Clemson, first off,

729
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: if they beat them, that means they're good enough. They

730
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: were good enough to have beaten Clemson, which means, by default,

731
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: you got to take them more seriously. And by default

732
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: it means many Diaz has pushed the right buttons, pulled

733
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: the right levers, and he's got the right pieces in there.

734
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: And now he goes and sells that and he says, Hey,

735
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: I just hired this offensive coordinator like five minutes ago.

736
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: I just pulled this quarterback off the transfer market. Imagine

737
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: what we could be, man if we put a bunch

738
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: of homegrown talent together for that reason, among others, Yeah,

739
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: I agree with you. That's a dream that you would

740
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: like to become reality. Saturday, and for Texas we went Rhiannon.

741
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: Is a very simple line in Rhiannon, will you ever Win?

742
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: It's repeated over and over again, just as much as

743
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: it's being repeated in Austin, Texas over and over again. Now, granted,

744
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: the rest of that song is about a welch witch,

745
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: which has nothing to do with this game a program whatsoever,

746
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: But let's pay attention to the quote, will you ever win? Tom,

747
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: We already talked about this earlier in the show. Recruiting though,

748
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: is an angle I didn't hit earlier. They just had

749
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: another high profile decommitment. And I was reading over on

750
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: the Horns twenty four to seven site and have heard

751
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: elsewhere this past week or two opposing staffs have really

752
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: been pushing this narrative of unrest at Texas, possible hot

753
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: seat talk for Tom Herman at Texas. And here's the thing,

754
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: whether it's true or not, if kids believe it, that's

755
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: all that matters. And if they lose let's say Saturday,

756
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: that does nothing to quell that. In fact, it only

757
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: fans those flames. They've got to win, man, That's why

758
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: this game is so important. A lost Saturday hurts Oklahoma

759
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, but they got Spencer Rattler there like

760
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: they'll be right back in twenty twenty one. What do

761
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: you have? What do you have at Texas? You already

762
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: have everything. This is the point. You've got a nineteenth

763
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: year senior at quarterback, You've got a loaded roster, you

764
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: got everything you should ever need, and yet you've already

765
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: lost one game. Some would argue you should be sitting

766
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: in the same situation Oklahoma is, with a potential back

767
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: to back to back laws situation. They's got a whim

768
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, anytime we can theme the Mood Tracker after

769
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mact's been a good day on Late Kick. Hopefully

770
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 1: we'll have a good Saturday because let's wrap up now

771
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: with our week six predictions and really to put a

772
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 1: finer point on it as I get my paper straight

773
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 1: the ram Noodle Express. Now we're sitting at five hundred

774
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: right now. We don't feel great about that. We do

775
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: feel great about our lineup this weekend. I want to

776
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: stress before I hand these out, you need to follow

777
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: me on Twitter because I don't know that we're done.

778
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: I had Colin change the graphic like what kind of

779
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: less than an hour before the show tonight because we

780
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 1: had a line move and we had one that didn't

781
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: move that we're waiting on. We're still waiting on it

782
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: right now. So last week, for instance, we had one

783
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 1: move and I think I tweeted it out Saturday morning,

784
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: and obviously that's after the last show we have of

785
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: the week. So the only way you can get that

786
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: is if you're follow me on Twitter, and that's free.

787
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: So there's no excuse for you not to at Late Kick, Josh.

788
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: You need to be there, even if you're not a gambler.

789
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: Just be there anyway. We have a lot of fun

790
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: on there during the week. So we already gave you

791
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: two of these, let's show them now call in the

792
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: final three picks. At least, we gave you FIU minus

793
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: four and a half against Middle Tennessee State. That one

794
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: has since moved up, so we're glad we got on

795
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: that one early. We also gave you Florida at Texas

796
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: A and m Over fifty seven. Our three new picks

797
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: are as follows Kansas State plus eight and a half

798
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: on the road against TCU. We're taking Marshall minus seven

799
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: against Western Kentucky, and we are taking Arkansas plus thirteen

800
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: and a half against Auburn. We are not getting good

801
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: line value on this Arkansas game, if you understand what

802
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. That opened north of two touchdowns.

803
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 1: I think it opened around fifteen or sixteen, and we're

804
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: catching this thing after it's already crossed the key number,

805
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: which should probably tell you how confident I am. And

806
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: it's because of things that have happened this week that

807
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: I've learned this week that we're moving on that game.

808
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: Otherwise we wouldn't be touching the game that's crossed a

809
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: key number like that. So Florida International minus four and

810
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: a half, Gators and Aggie's over fifty seven, Kansas State

811
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: plus eight and a half, Marshall minus seven and Arkansas

812
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: plus thirteen and a half. Those are our five best bets.

813
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: And again we may be done, we may not be done.

814
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: Follow me on Twitter at late Kick Josh for all

815
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: the latest there. It's been a really good week we've had,

816
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: as I said, a great week of shows, great week

817
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: of traffic. If you haven't already, subscribed to the twenty

818
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: four to seven Sports YouTube channel, and also go find

819
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: the Late Kick podcast. We just released another edition of

820
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra, which is wall to wall mail bag

821
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: this morning. Always have a lot of fun on that.

822
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: Always await your submissions. You can email me really with

823
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: anything you want to talk about, but specifically if you've

824
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: got questions for the extra podcast. Josh paid seven zero

825
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: six at gmail dot com, or you can DM me

826
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: on Twitter whether you follow me or not, I keep

827
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: the dms open so for director Colin, for Jordan on

828
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: the podcast side, I'm Josh Pate. Have a great weekend,

829
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: enjoy the game, saying God bless