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Speaker 2: the Solidverbal onto the game for today. Okay, you want
Speaker 2: to explain this? Should I explain this?
Speaker 1: How do we want to do this?
Speaker 3: It's it's quite easy. So we're looking at the schedule
Speaker 3: right now. There are no obvious headliners, which means it
Speaker 3: is going to be an obviously chaotic weekend. Right as
Speaker 3: soon as you look at the schedule and you're like, well,
Speaker 3: there's no seven verses eight, there's no three versus sixteen,
Speaker 3: there's no nine versus twelve. You know what's the fun
Speaker 3: in that? That we don't have these headline matchups that
Speaker 3: we're all gonna, you know, watch it what noon eastern
Speaker 3: on Fox or going to eight eastern on ESPN, ABC, whatever, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't know. It just seems kind of like an
Speaker 3: off weekend, an unexciting weekend. Wrong, that's and the.
Speaker 1: Good stuff happens.
Speaker 3: We all know.
Speaker 2: That's what they say about serial killers, right, it's always
Speaker 2: the quiet ones.
Speaker 3: I was not going to go in that direction. I
Speaker 3: was not going to go in that direction. I am
Speaker 3: just saying we are about to dip the nacho chip
Speaker 3: in the excitement case. So that's what I think is
Speaker 3: in line for this weekend. And so we are going
Speaker 3: to use our own metric. So we have Look, we
Speaker 3: play this sound on the show on the regular podcast
Speaker 3: oliverble dot com, just when we are so excited for something.
Speaker 3: And then we built our entire scale of which window
Speaker 3: makes the most sense to get excited about because of
Speaker 3: the roster of games. You know, is at the early window,
Speaker 3: the afternoon window, the night window, and how do we
Speaker 3: rank those in terms of gossling quotes? Right, So we
Speaker 3: have no one is paying attention, always paying attention.
Speaker 1: That is an.
Speaker 3: Opportunity, opportunity and all of those things. All of those
Speaker 3: things can apply to potential chaos and whatever and wherever
Speaker 3: it'll unfold in week three. But I didn't want to
Speaker 3: just have Ryan Gosling. It's Jared Bennett, the character from
Speaker 3: The Big Short, yelling it. I didn't want to have
Speaker 3: him just yell I'm Jack to the tits. I wanted
Speaker 3: to I wanted to add a groove to it for
Speaker 3: our intro. I wanted to add a little bit of class,
Speaker 3: a little bit of rhythm to it.
Speaker 2: Ty.
Speaker 3: So this is where I fell. Oh here it comes.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's good for us. That might not
Speaker 3: be good for us. Who knows, no, possibly not. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna take these games. We're gonna take these windows
Speaker 3: and figure out where the chaos chunk comes in.
Speaker 2: As you are listening along in the chat, please weigh
Speaker 2: in and let us know which upsets you think are possible,
Speaker 2: what you like, what is sneaky. Let's start in the
Speaker 2: early window. I've got four games here pulled out. The
Speaker 2: first is the Oklahoma Nebraska game. We talked about this
Speaker 2: on our pre production call. The line in this game
Speaker 2: is Nebraska getting eleven at home.
Speaker 1: That feels low.
Speaker 2: It's even lower now than it opened. It was thirteen
Speaker 2: and a half at one point, and people have been
Speaker 2: crushing Nebraska. A lot of folks are betting Nebraska in
Speaker 2: this game, which feels weird because Oklahoma has been pretty
Speaker 2: solid so far this season, with maybe had a rough
Speaker 2: half last week, but all told, has still been relatively solid.
Speaker 2: The numbers definitely add up fairly well for Oklahoma. Behind
Speaker 2: the scenes, Nebraska fires coach Nebraska struggling in close game situations,
Speaker 2: yet the line goes down.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 2: Georgia on the road at South Carolina, a heavy favorite.
Speaker 2: Of course, we've seen heavy favorites and what they've done
Speaker 2: in recent weeks. South Carolina's got a brand new starting
Speaker 2: quarterback and they are playing at home.
Speaker 1: Tough place to play. Williams Price.
Speaker 2: Yes, another game that has chaos potential in the early
Speaker 2: window Perdue at Syracuse. That line is Syracuse minus one
Speaker 2: and a half. I might talk about this one a
Speaker 2: little bit later, but suffice to say, you don't just
Speaker 2: go up to the JMA Wireless Dome.
Speaker 3: And expect to look at that every time.
Speaker 2: I've got what it's called. I can go from memory now.
Speaker 2: It took me a while, though, it took me all
Speaker 2: off season and then the final one that I pulled
Speaker 2: out here and I don't know why because I couldn't
Speaker 2: even find a point spread on it. The vaunted Wafford
Speaker 2: Terriers are on the road at Virginia Tech. They play
Speaker 2: this game at eleven am. It's like a high school
Speaker 2: game on Thanksgiving Day. Eleven am. The rare early start
Speaker 2: for two East Coast teams Wafford traveling to Virginia Tech. So,
Speaker 2: in terms of chaos, Dan, where's the chaos potential for
Speaker 2: you in that early block?
Speaker 3: Is there a field hockey team that needs the field
Speaker 3: at Lane Stadium?
Speaker 2: Like two point thirty?
Speaker 3: Guys, we got to start at eleven. We've got a
Speaker 3: heart out at two forty. Okay, sure, I'm sure there
Speaker 3: is a reason. I'm sure there is either a TV
Speaker 3: reason or some kind of scheduling reason between these two
Speaker 3: teams to have it at eleven am Eastern. But that
Speaker 3: is my fantasy that Virginia Tech fallen to the point where, like, guys,
Speaker 3: Innermural Ultimate Frisbee has a reservation on Lane Stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Three, there's a sign out sheet on like the
Speaker 2: intramural building.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's just like a very angry Ultimate team
Speaker 3: waiting on the sideline for the game to finish, like hi,
Speaker 3: as we promised. Okay, so the chaos here, I like
Speaker 3: Purdue over Syracuse. Upon further thought, I think I like
Speaker 3: that a lot. South Carolina over Georgia. Would need like
Speaker 3: an All American squinter. To find where that happens and
Speaker 3: how that happens. You really have to go between a
Speaker 3: number of lines here and Nebraska Oklahoma. I like Nebraska.
Speaker 3: I'm in a zag. I know Oklahoma's favored by outright, No,
Speaker 3: I don't like him out right. Ah of these options
Speaker 3: because Perdue over Syracuse is not a major, major, no
Speaker 3: earth shaking upset. There is something about Oklahoma where I
Speaker 3: believe them to be good. I believe Oklahoma to be good.
Speaker 3: But also I could see us sort of realistically Sunday
Speaker 3: morning saying to ourselves, yeah, we thought we liked Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: but we hadn't really seen anything specific to know why,
Speaker 3: and so sure they can lose. The loss to Nebraska
Speaker 3: makes sense. Nebraska has been moving the ball, but that's
Speaker 3: still a little bit of a squint. I'm just saying
Speaker 3: a home team with a good offense, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to fully write off Nebraska, even with everything that's happening
Speaker 3: off the field.
Speaker 2: I think between the Purdue Syracuse game and certainly Oklahoma Nebraska,
Speaker 2: and maybe for some chunk of time the Georgia South
Speaker 2: Carolina game, there's potential for some chaos, some fun. Sure
Speaker 2: those would be fun games to watch.
Speaker 1: In terms of.
Speaker 2: Actual chaos potential, it's the Nebraska game, I think, far
Speaker 2: and away that's the only answer here. So you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've got those sounds they're ready,
Speaker 2: but I would probably put this one as like a
Speaker 2: one out of three in terms of chaos potential.
Speaker 3: Well, when you say that.
Speaker 1: No one is paying attention, that's.
Speaker 3: When, just like you said it's the Quilond, no one's
Speaker 3: paying attention to a couple of these teams as actual threats,
Speaker 3: that's when they get you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's move on to the afternoon block.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of big games that we have
Speaker 2: to mention, not necessarily upset potential, but in the three
Speaker 2: point thirty to four o'clock window. Penn State at Auburn's
Speaker 2: nice matchup BYU at your Oregon Ducks. Also got Troy
Speaker 2: at app State. Game Day is going to be at
Speaker 2: app State this week, which is nice for them after
Speaker 2: the big win. Here's where I think the chaos potential is.
Speaker 2: There's some weird matchups here.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: We've got Kansas at Houston. Kansas at Houston, Houston has
Speaker 2: had a rough go of it, and Kansas can score points.
Speaker 2: Could definitely envision a scenario Sunday morning waking up like,
Speaker 2: did that one really go into double overtime? Again for Houston.
Speaker 2: I can see that happening. I can see that happening
Speaker 2: all miss at Georgia Tech. We talked about this on
Speaker 2: the Previews show. We really want to root for Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: We don't have a great reason to do so, but
Speaker 2: perhaps Jeff Simms can put something together at home and
Speaker 2: make that one a little bit more interesting than meets
Speaker 2: the eye. You were about Tulane in Kansas State, weren't you.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, no, I just think that's interesting. Tulane has
Speaker 3: been moving the ball well early on. Michael Pratt's been good,
Speaker 3: and then Kansas State has Douce Fawn, which is always
Speaker 3: going to be entertaining. Adrian Martinez say, which you will
Speaker 3: can be entertaining. The Kansas State helmet is looking pretty
Speaker 3: great and slick. I like that. I think this window
Speaker 3: is terrific. I really really do. There's something for everybody.
Speaker 3: I'm ready for it, and I am ready for I
Speaker 3: think I took Houston. I don't know what the spread
Speaker 3: is at the time we're doing this, like eight and
Speaker 3: a make your picks eight and a half, nine points whatever.
Speaker 3: I took Houston because I think Kansas might be as
Speaker 3: smidge overvalued after their West Virginia win, just because I
Speaker 3: think they're going to be sort of all over the
Speaker 3: place this year as they get back to respectable, hopefully
Speaker 3: under Land's Leipold. But of all of the losing in
Speaker 3: a losing effort potential in this window, Clayton tune throng
Speaker 3: for five hundred and sixty three and six touchdowns in
Speaker 3: a losing effort, Yeah, most certainly on the TI, most
Speaker 3: certainly right there on the table.
Speaker 2: The chaos potential here is Cal at Notre Dame. And
Speaker 2: here's why. First off, Notre Dame's I went to and
Speaker 2: Cal doesn't play any offense. These aren't two good teams
Speaker 2: at this juncture in the season. Notre Dame is wearing
Speaker 2: their green jerseys. Mm hmm. I found this out about
Speaker 2: an hour and a half ago. As a Notre Dame fan.
Speaker 2: I am beside myself at this news. You know where
Speaker 2: I stand on the green jerseys. Know where I stand.
Speaker 2: Every now and again a coach gets the bright idea
Speaker 2: at Notre Dame that we're gonna we're gonna shake things up,
Speaker 2: shake down the thunder if you will, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: wear the greens.
Speaker 3: Is it you think it's the coach's decision.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. It's not not the
Speaker 2: coach's decision. I'm sure he has some say in it.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's Frank under founder of
Speaker 3: Under Armoured, deciding that, hey, we need to wear special
Speaker 3: uniforms that we saw often.
Speaker 2: My only point is the green jerseys are cursed, and
Speaker 2: so if you're and I tweeted this out, but it's
Speaker 2: like the gambling gods nelt be for you, whispered directly
Speaker 2: into your ear to take cal plus eleven, do not
Speaker 2: bet on Notre Dame in this game. They're wearing the green,
Speaker 2: They've got a new starting quarterback, their offense is in shambles.
Speaker 2: There is a chance they lose this game. There's a
Speaker 2: legit chance they lose this game. It would be a
Speaker 2: very ugly Iowas game. We're going to talk about Iowa
Speaker 2: here momentarily. It will be a very ugly game if
Speaker 2: they lost. But the offense has not been good and
Speaker 2: they are going up against a good defense and now
Speaker 2: they were great jerseys. I don't like it, don't I
Speaker 2: don't like it. There's a lot of chaos potential here
Speaker 2: that it's like a two if you got the two sound.
Speaker 2: Don't know what the two sound sounds like from Ryan Gosling,
Speaker 2: but this is a two for me at a three. Okay, So.
Speaker 3: If I'm interpreting what we mean by chaos, wouldn't buy definition.
Speaker 3: I know Notre Dame is the favorite here by eleven points,
Speaker 3: but we've got a two to zero team and then
Speaker 3: an zero to two team who has really struggled at
Speaker 3: times on offense. So chaos would almost be Notre Dame
Speaker 3: out of nowhere unexpectedly looking good. Wouldn't that be the
Speaker 3: unexpected result in this game that nobody was really expecting.
Speaker 2: This is this, This is really mind bending at this point.
Speaker 2: It's been a long day for both of us.
Speaker 3: I know, I understand what I'm saying. Drew Pine looks excellent.
Speaker 3: Marcus Freeman and Tommy Reese in concert, no turnovers, just
Speaker 3: slicing and dicing the CAL defense. That's kind of a
Speaker 3: chaotic turnaround for Notre Dame. Out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: Drew Pine throwing for five hundred and thirty yards in
Speaker 2: like four touchdowns against a decent CAL defense would be
Speaker 2: in would be the ultimate zag given where things have
Speaker 2: been the last two.
Speaker 3: Weeks, maybe even just a shootout in this game forty
Speaker 3: two to thirty eight. Who could have seen this coming
Speaker 3: between Drew Pine and Jack Plumber that would have definitely.
Speaker 2: How might not score forty eight points all year? That's tough.
Speaker 2: It's a tough break, all right. So I'm a two
Speaker 2: out of three for this up.
Speaker 1: That is an opportunity.
Speaker 3: So there's opportunity for chaos. We're not sure in which direction.
Speaker 3: But let's talk about these other games. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: what is the chaotic unforeseen result in Penn State Auburn.
Speaker 2: The chaotic unforeseen result is Sean Clifford gets yanked, either
Speaker 2: due to injury I hope not due to injury, or
Speaker 2: due to performance. Drew Aller comes in and lights it
Speaker 2: up and is suddenly the next great hype at Penn State. See.
Speaker 3: I think Penn State has moved the ball enough at times.
Speaker 3: I know they were like the ninety fifth best offense
Speaker 3: or something in points per drive last year. To me,
Speaker 3: with everything that has happened off the field, with the
Speaker 3: transfers in and out, the unforeseen chaotic element would be
Speaker 3: Auburn winning this game like twenty seven to three and
Speaker 3: having its act together in a big spot at home
Speaker 3: with the weight of the world crushing down upon their shoulders.
Speaker 2: What about Oregon? What about Oregon? What will be the
Speaker 2: most chaotic possible outcome for that BYU Oregon game?
Speaker 3: So Oregon's favor but I think a good hefty percentage
Speaker 3: of the money is on BYU.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If you have that a metric in front of you,
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna have to tie it back to
Speaker 3: the previous game. In a previous Auburn quarterback looking incredible
Speaker 3: for Oregon and bouncing because Baylor, excuse me, Baylor BYU
Speaker 3: looks like the team with its act together more. But
Speaker 3: it's at Oregon their favorites.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Three three and a half points.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: We've already seen Oregon get destroyed this year, so there's
Speaker 3: nothing crazy and unforeseen about that. So I think it's
Speaker 3: a high flying Oregon comfortable win. To me would be
Speaker 3: chaotic enough to be like, oh wow, that was not
Speaker 3: what anybody saw coming except for super duper to Oregon diehearts.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that to me would be that would qualify.
Speaker 2: Let's move into the late window here, if we could
Speaker 2: one final grouping of games. The big one in this
Speaker 2: block is the nine PM game, it's Miami at Texas
Speaker 2: A and M. This line has jumped around a little bit.
Speaker 2: The last I saw it was back up to six
Speaker 2: after being at five in favor of Texas A and
Speaker 2: M for a few days. I think this window has
Speaker 2: the most chaos potential, all right, and here's why. Listen
Speaker 2: to the Listen to these games here, Texas Tech at
Speaker 2: NC State, Pit at Western Michigan, UTSA at Texas, potentially
Speaker 2: third stream quarterback, Texas Fresno at USC And then you know,
Speaker 2: we just we kind of hinted at this game when
Speaker 2: we did our preview podcast. Nevada at Iowa, oh Man,
Speaker 2: Nevada getting twenty three points. Brian Farren's apparently getting cameos,
Speaker 2: spoof cameos from Bob Steves.
Speaker 3: I saw that.
Speaker 2: Just a beautiful, beautiful piece of art from Bob Steves.
Speaker 2: There's a lot that could go sideways in that block
Speaker 2: of games. Texas Tech, you know, kind of starting over
Speaker 2: under Joey McGuire, but won last week. They can score points.
Speaker 2: You know they're gonna throw it. NC State veteran unit
Speaker 2: favored by ten. We'll talk about this game momentarily. Wink
Speaker 2: week nudge, nudge, but Texas Tech is sort of an
Speaker 2: interesting team to me. Pitt on the road at Western Michigan,
Speaker 2: Pitt has some it's some of its own quarterback issues
Speaker 2: right now because of injury, and Western Michigan beat them
Speaker 2: last year. I don't think Western Michigan's any good. But
Speaker 2: given the circumstances, you could see a scenario in which Pitt.
Speaker 1: Struggles to move the ball.
Speaker 2: UTSA also dealing with We're also going to a place
Speaker 2: that is dealing with quarterback issues in the Great State
Speaker 2: of Texas. Quinn you Ers Hudson Card might be going
Speaker 2: Chas right, is their third string quarterback who's never thrown
Speaker 2: a college pass. And then Fresno USC. Fresno I think
Speaker 2: is a better team than Stanford. I think they can
Speaker 2: move the ball in USC. The points spread there is
Speaker 2: twelve and a half. I would never want to bet
Speaker 2: USC minus the number in a game like that. I
Speaker 2: just think all of these games have potential to be interesting.
Speaker 2: And then there's a Nevada Iowa game, which I have
Speaker 2: no idea what to expect that Iowa would you would
Speaker 2: expect like the most chaotic possible outcome there is Iowa
Speaker 2: winning fifty two to nothing.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, you have no idea what
Speaker 3: to expect out of Iowa. Iowa is screaming from the hilltops.
Speaker 3: There are no hilltops I understand in the Midwest, but
Speaker 3: just bear with my analogy. Iowa is screaming from mounds
Speaker 3: of dirt. This is who we are. We have established this,
Speaker 3: this is our identity. Uh yeah, we know, we know
Speaker 3: who Iowa is. And maybe they'll improve to a better
Speaker 3: version of who they are right now, but yeah, this
Speaker 3: is what is it? Twenty three points, twenty two points,
Speaker 3: twenty three Yeah, oh my god, it's hard again that
Speaker 3: you need to be a pro level squinter like okay,
Speaker 3: so few punt blocks that people fall on in the
Speaker 3: end zone that gets them to twenty eight and they're
Speaker 3: gonna hold a bout. Novad is not good at all, obviously,
Speaker 3: first year coach and Ken Wilson. It's gonna be just
Speaker 3: losing to incarnate. Incarnate word excuse me, ward is the transfer.
Speaker 3: It's gonna take a little bit. It's gonna take a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: So you're right.
Speaker 3: The chaos is ioa so getting it all together, getting
Speaker 3: unexpectedly healthy on offense and finding new playmakers. Throwing out
Speaker 3: that old playbook starting all over and it working in
Speaker 3: a matchup they should, they should part of win, the
Speaker 3: sure should win easily.
Speaker 2: But by the way, Dylan in the chat saying Iowa
Speaker 2: can't score twenty three and a half points. We've got
Speaker 2: Luke here saying he thinks we could see one hundred
Speaker 2: or more combined points in the Fresno USC game, which
Speaker 2: I don't think. Sure, I don't think is off the table.
Speaker 2: Nate saying fire Farances hashtag fire Farances, totally understand that.
Speaker 2: Someone says I think we need to give Brian Ferrence
Speaker 2: full control. That would be you talk about a zag,
Speaker 2: that would be That would be a real zag to
Speaker 2: give him more control after what the offense has done
Speaker 2: so far this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to talk about USC Fresno because this
Speaker 3: is a fascinating matchup and the chaos is obviously Fresno
Speaker 3: just finding a way to win this game, which is
Speaker 3: not crazy unforeseen because Fresno has been a good program
Speaker 3: these past few years since Jeff had for took over
Speaker 3: left and it is now back. But they've got a
Speaker 3: good quarterback. They should have a good offense coming off
Speaker 3: of a i'm sure heartbreaking lost to Oregon State in
Speaker 3: the last second. But let's be fascinating, absolutely fascinating. This
Speaker 3: is USC trying to get better on defense because there's
Speaker 3: not much better that they can do on offense. I
Speaker 3: suppose they could run the ball with more consistency and
Speaker 3: pop some more big runs, but they're just going to
Speaker 3: score points against I guess everybody other than Utah maybe
Speaker 3: and Fresno is they're there to play spoiler. These two
Speaker 3: teams have gone back over the years and played some
Speaker 3: memorable matchups. Obviously none more than in one of the
Speaker 3: two thousand and five when Reggie Bush had a bajillion yards.
Speaker 3: But I mean you go back two three four years,
Speaker 3: they are, you know, giving USC all they can handle
Speaker 3: late in that comeback, it was a comeback loss. Excuse me,
Speaker 3: but no, this one is if you are on the
Speaker 3: West coast or even in the Mountain time zone and
Speaker 3: you don't have small children exhausting you. We're staying up
Speaker 3: for absolutely thing up for. But it's the first true
Speaker 3: test that USC. I think we'll see this here yeah
Speaker 3: in USC.
Speaker 2: By the way, on the road next week can core
Speaker 2: Vallis against Oregon State, which is another one too, another
Speaker 2: game we're going to have to talk about for sure.
Speaker 2: I see folks lighting up the chat. This is about
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Speaker 2: to you as best we can here. Momentarily, I did
Speaker 2: want to close the loop on this window by bringing
Speaker 2: up two points. First and foremost, I did mention Miami
Speaker 2: at Texas A and M. We didn't talk a whole
Speaker 2: lot about it. Miami a six point dog, Texas A
Speaker 2: and M lost obviously last week to app state. If
Speaker 2: they can't get their offense in order, that will be
Speaker 2: a problem for Jimbo Fisher. As we allude to on
Speaker 2: our website solidble dot com, we had an article go
Speaker 2: up where we talked about this interesting push pull between
Speaker 2: the stubbornness of Jimbo Fisher and how he likes to
Speaker 2: run his offense with the stubbornness. How Mario crystal ball
Speaker 2: likes to run his offense, which one will win when
Speaker 2: push comes to shove. Mario wants to try and run
Speaker 2: it if he can. I don't know if he's got
Speaker 2: the line to run it against this defensive front and
Speaker 2: A and M. You know, is A and M gonna
Speaker 2: be able to open up things? We joked about it
Speaker 2: on the last show, but like, okay, does Jimbo have
Speaker 2: that bone where he can open up the offense and
Speaker 2: make this a little bit more exciting as opposed to
Speaker 2: the pickleball offense? As you said, that really just keeps
Speaker 2: everything close to the line of scrimmage. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine if you're an offensive coordinator who's having
Speaker 3: some success somewhere else in the country and seeing what
Speaker 3: Texas A and M's roster on offense looks like, like
Speaker 3: you guys had a month. You guys had a month
Speaker 3: of camp and that's what you came up with. That's it,
Speaker 3: I guess Apstate after the North Carol, Okay, okay, just
Speaker 3: watching it in absolute awe, this will be a great one.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, and it has to do
Speaker 3: with Miami, Texas A and M. This should be a
Speaker 3: great one. It's like a narrative bowl, right, no matter
Speaker 3: what happens in this game, it's going to fuel some
Speaker 3: narrative for the rest of the season. Absolutely, So what
Speaker 3: happens in terms of is there a conference? To you
Speaker 3: when you look at the slates of different conferences, A
Speaker 3: lot still obviously in the non conference portion of their schedule,
Speaker 3: with you know, some interconference games dipped into the mix, like,
Speaker 3: is it the ACC that just runs rough shot over
Speaker 3: the sport?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 3: Because that would be a Miami, that would be what
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech over Ole Miss Every week, it seems like
Speaker 3: in the non conference they're like, ooh big ten looking spicy,
Speaker 3: ooh sec twelve and one sec whatever, seventeen and o
Speaker 3: However many teams in the SEC this week? There always
Speaker 3: seems to be that conference that just goes wild and
Speaker 3: wins a bunch of games. What if it's the ACC
Speaker 3: this week. What if we see Syracuse with another dominant
Speaker 3: win this week over Purdue. What if we see Virginia
Speaker 3: Tech getting out of the way for the ultimate frisbee
Speaker 3: team but picking it to Wafford. What if we see
Speaker 3: obviously Miami. What if we see it Florida State. Well,
Speaker 3: Florid State's playing Louisville, but they're obviously considered to be
Speaker 3: one of the premiere programs within the conference. Pit who
Speaker 3: does pit at Western Michigan. Yep, there's that potential for
Speaker 3: the ACC to me this week and Miami would be
Speaker 3: the central piece.
Speaker 1: They would be. Yeah, that would be a big deal if.
Speaker 3: They went to A and M. This is a little less,
Speaker 3: a little less luster on a win in college station
Speaker 3: after last week, but nonetheless it would still be a
Speaker 3: pretty giant feather in Mario Cristobal's cap.
Speaker 2: Tough place to play, there's still a six point dog.
Speaker 2: I will close out this bit of the show by
Speaker 2: just saying here in the late window, Texas losing to
Speaker 2: UTSA is the singular funniest thing that could happen this
Speaker 2: weekend because it depends who starts a quarterback. Well, it
Speaker 2: depends who starts a quarterback. That's an important caveat. But
Speaker 2: after all of the sunshine that's been pumping all week
Speaker 2: long about the Texas Longhorns and how well they played
Speaker 2: on defense, and look, it sucks that Quinnywers has heard.
Speaker 2: I thought he looked amazing in the little action that
Speaker 2: we saw of him against Alabama, but even still Texas
Speaker 2: going down to UTSA in state, UTSA who could clearly
Speaker 2: recruit off of any win. You know that they're going
Speaker 2: to be up for this game, and Texas has some
Speaker 2: has some figuring out to do here. As you said
Speaker 2: on the show, Roshaan Johnson might find himself in some
Speaker 2: different meetings. Four and a half, Yeah, this time and
Speaker 2: a half snaps this time around. So I think this
Speaker 2: one's three out of three. Give me the three out
Speaker 2: of three?
Speaker 3: Can we do a some sort of in memoriam at
Speaker 3: the end of the season, honoring the best losses of
Speaker 3: the season, because the amount of pride, the amount of confidence,
Speaker 3: the amount of compliments bestowed on Texas for losing close
Speaker 3: to Alabama right now, they are the best loser of
Speaker 3: the year, are they not?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, so we can at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: we can. I mean, as two key losers in college football,
Speaker 3: nobody's more qualified than ty hild and Randon Dan Robinstein.
Speaker 3: But yeah, a lot of a lot of praise heaped
Speaker 3: on the Texas Longhorns for losing clothes.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, speaking of losers, that's actually a perfect segue
Speaker 2: versus the world time versus the world. So look, Dan,
Speaker 2: I did something last week because I'm a generous guy.
Speaker 2: Of course, as you know, the prior week, in week one,
Speaker 2: I went what four and.
Speaker 3: One, three to one and one four to one, something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three. I mean, it was just it was just
Speaker 2: an all time performance from me in week one. I
Speaker 2: didn't want the world to feel jilted at all by
Speaker 2: my dominance, and so it was a little bit of
Speaker 2: a long con. I kind of played cooy, you know
Speaker 2: when we did the show ago, but I did it
Speaker 2: on purpose. I went one and four for you, for
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 1: That was my gift to the world.
Speaker 2: My overall record now through two weeks is four five
Speaker 2: and one, but last week was sort of a gimme
Speaker 2: for all y'all. The world went five.
Speaker 3: And oh, yeah they did the world.
Speaker 2: The world went five and oh. Last week just a
Speaker 2: banner showing by the world. I'm glad that we're now
Speaker 2: back on more level footing. The world actually has me
Speaker 2: by like a game and a half if you're looking
Speaker 2: at this in terms of baseball stats, the world overall
Speaker 2: six and four through two weeks. I am four five
Speaker 2: and one. Let's get to our picks. For Week three
Speaker 2: are your.
Speaker 3: I was going to say a nice, a nice little
Speaker 3: homage to Notre Dame Marcus Freeman in the festival, just
Speaker 3: jumping out real quick and then following it right up
Speaker 3: with a bunch of losing, like you're really on brand
Speaker 3: as a Notre damer. I'm a first half better. What
Speaker 3: can I say?
Speaker 2: All right? Again? That goofy little game, a bunch of
Speaker 2: other goofy little games that you will hear throughout the
Speaker 2: course of this year, can be heard on College Football Thursdays.
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Speaker 2: We hope you enjoy your weekend. Dan and I will
Speaker 2: be back to recap week three in the meantime. As always,
Speaker 2: stay solid,