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Speaker 1: SEC Championship game. I think he will be against Clemson.

436
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Speaker 1: I think he will be moving forward. I believe they'll

437
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Speaker 1: win that game. I believe Clemson matches up horribly with them. Candidly,

438
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 1: they may not need Arch Manning to get past Clemson.

439
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 1: There I go discounting Clemson again. This is just right

440
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 1: to end up in a hype video. But I think

441
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Speaker 1: the Texas quarterback position and the way they handle that.

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Speaker 2: That's a big wild card.

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Speaker 1: Because if we watch them against Clemson, just kind of

444
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Speaker 1: work shopping in your mind.

445
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Speaker 2: You're watching that game this Saturday.

446
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Speaker 1: Texas is up twenty to six at halftime, and then

447
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 1: they add another seventeen in the second half, and it's

448
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Speaker 1: a good healthy mixture of Arch Manning and quinn Ewers,

449
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,919
Speaker 1: and Arch is bringing something totally different to the table.

450
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 1: Sark is able to show a lot of things that

451
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Speaker 1: your future opponents have to prepare for.

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Speaker 2: That's a big wildcard.

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Speaker 1: I think Penn State is the most slept on team

454
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Speaker 1: that could actually win this out of the entire bracket.

455
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Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong, Colin. I'm just pausing for a second

456
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Speaker 1: so people can laugh. Still pausing, still pausing, and all right,

457
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: if you're still laughing, it's disrespectful. Penn State is not

458
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Speaker 1: my pick to win the national championship here, but Penn

459
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Speaker 1: State is in a very fortuitous situation in the bracket.

460
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Speaker 1: And the last time we saw them was the Big

461
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Speaker 1: Ten Championship game when they lost to Oregon but had

462
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Speaker 1: two guys rush for over one hundred and had Drew

463
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Speaker 1: Aler throw the ball really well in the second half

464
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Speaker 1: against the number one overall seed in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So you ask yourself, at least I do.

466
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Speaker 1: At least I ask myself, do we see anyone hit

467
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Speaker 1: astride here that we haven't seen from them? I think

468
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Speaker 1: that about Tennessee. I think that about Penn State. I

469
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Speaker 1: think to myself, if we were to just get that

470
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Speaker 1: version of them, I know they can play defense, I

471
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 1: know what they have outside on the edge. I know

472
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Speaker 1: that they can get after the quarterback. But if they

473
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Speaker 1: found themselves a little bit offensively, they'll beat SMU, and

474
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Speaker 1: they'll beat Boise and then match up very favorably with

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Speaker 1: whoever they'd play in the semi finals. So that's a

476
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Speaker 1: wildcard because you know what else could happen. They could

477
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Speaker 1: go in a turtle shell and get upset by SMU.

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Speaker 1: That's why we call it a wildcard instead of a

479
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Speaker 1: foregone conclusion. You know what else I wonder about? I

480
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Speaker 1: wonder about the Oregon defense. Also wonder if you're subscribed

481
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Speaker 1: to the channel. We got a lot of folks watching live.

482
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Speaker 1: I know a lot more will watch this video. This

483
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Speaker 1: is college football all year, nothing else, and we appreciate

484
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Speaker 1: you being here. It's always free. We just ask that

485
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Speaker 1: you subscribe to the channel, and if you haven't already,

486
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Speaker 1: do it, and if you think you have, check to

487
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Speaker 1: make sure. Oregon's defense is a wildcard here because Oregon

488
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Speaker 1: is in a situation where they're going to catch the

489
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Speaker 1: winner of Tennessee, Ohio State, and by default of the

490
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Speaker 1: fact that that team won the.

491
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Speaker 2: Previous week, they will have looked good.

492
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Speaker 1: They will be a really big threat and the last

493
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Speaker 1: time we saw Oregon's defense. I don't want to say

494
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: they got exposed because they won. Maybe the style of

495
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: game is not the same if they if they play again,

496
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: but Penn State had some success against them, so Oregon

497
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: did what it took to win. But Oregon also is

498
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Speaker 1: going to face two or three teams that can really

499
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Speaker 1: get after it offensively personnel wise. That doesn't mean if

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Speaker 1: they play Texas that's guaranteed to happen, or if they

501
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: play Tennessee they may shut Tennessee out in the first half.

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Speaker 1: Everyone else did this year, so maybe they would. That's

503
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Speaker 1: why it's a wildcard the Oregon defense. Do they come

504
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Speaker 1: to play are they playing at a championship level? And

505
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Speaker 1: then Colin, I don't know if you have this. Do

506
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Speaker 1: we have the entire bracket that we can just look at.

507
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: I mean, even if we don't have it, people can

508
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Speaker 1: picture it in their minds because we have a one

509
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Speaker 1: through twelve there it is. So we have a twelve

510
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Speaker 1: team playoff. It's the first one we've ever seen. I'll

511
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Speaker 1: tell you. The biggest wild card in this whole this

512
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Speaker 1: whole bracket, this whole model is finding out how.

513
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Speaker 2: Compressed the field is.

514
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Speaker 1: Because in years past, if we had a twelve team

515
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: playoff in college football, it would have been blowout city.

516
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: I know this because we had mostly blowouts in a

517
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Speaker 1: four team field. Then the reason is because by the

518
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: time we got to December, a couple of teams had

519
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 1: elevated above the pack. That hasn't happened this year. Now,

520
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: what we've got to find out is do we still

521
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of order about things? Because we

522
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: have Texas favored by double digits against Clemson. We got

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Speaker 1: Ohio State favorite by about a touchdown against Tennessee sm

524
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Speaker 1: or Penn State big time touchdown plus favorite against SMU,

525
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: Notre Dame same thing, touchdown plus favorite against Indiana. If

526
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Speaker 1: that's the way it is, that feels orderly. But this

527
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: has not been an orderly season. We have had a

528
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Speaker 1: parody driven season all year long. We've had a lot

529
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Speaker 1: of like insane competitive balance all year long. So what

530
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Speaker 1: we got to find out is does the playoff look

531
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Speaker 1: like that? Because it's the play off looks like that.

532
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Speaker 1: That's how you end up with something like Arizona State

533
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: playing for a national title. That's how you end up

534
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: with like SMU and the semi finals. Do we have

535
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: that kind of you know, compacted playoff field. Does the

536
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: playoff resemble the regular season or is it more orderly?

537
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: Just some things I'm paying attention to. I've been twenty

538
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 1: four plus thousand miles this year on the road just

539
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: going to college football games courtesy of Quick Trip, because

540
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Speaker 1: they have fueled the whole New Saturday tour all year.

541
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Speaker 1: Will go up to Columbus this Saturday. Who knows where

542
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Speaker 1: we're going to go the next weekend, but we appreciate them.

543
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Speaker 1: They've put a ton of free gas in your tanks

544
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Speaker 1: this year, as evidenced by what we have seen all

545
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Speaker 1: over the socials, and I just humbly ask that you

546
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Speaker 1: continue to visit our partners, the Cole Bruce stations.

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Speaker 2: Inside.

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Speaker 1: It's a wonderful It's a wonderful time of year. Someone

549
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: once told me Hogwarts is magical this time of year.

550
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Speaker 1: I would counter with the fact that that's an insane

551
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Speaker 1: thing say about a place that doesn't exist. Quick Trip

552
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: does exist, and it is very much magical this time

553
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Speaker 1: of year. It's going to be ugly for me when

554
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Speaker 1: I get home, But I said what I said.

555
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 2: Transfer Portal.

556
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Speaker 1: Right after I take a sip of water, I have

557
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: the zvia here, but the throat requires water right now?

558
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Speaker 2: So what do you think about the transfer portal? Right now?

559
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: Pretty a blaze, isn't it? Things on fire? John Mattier

560
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: new number one player overall in the portal. I would

561
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Speaker 1: venture to guess that, even as good as he was

562
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Speaker 1: this year, a lot of you didn't watch him.

563
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Speaker 2: That's okay. Washington State was pretty hard to find this year.

564
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Speaker 1: He had over three thousand passing yards and twenty seven touchdowns.

565
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Speaker 1: He added another eight to twenty on the ground and

566
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Speaker 1: fifteen more rushing touchdowns six one, two, twenty. He's leaving

567
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Speaker 1: Washington State probably going to be a one and done,

568
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Speaker 1: but has two years left to play. Oklahoma needs him bad.

569
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Speaker 1: I would consider Oklahoma the slight favorite to land his

570
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Speaker 1: services right now. A lot of this is up in

571
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Speaker 1: the air, A lot of it is still written in pencil.

572
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: But the offensive coordinator that he played for last year,

573
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: guess where he works now? Brent Vinnibles just hired him.

574
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Speaker 1: Stands to reason. Brent Venables understood the score there, understood

575
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Speaker 1: what was going on. That probably gives you the inside track.

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Speaker 1: It will not shock you to learn that Miami is

577
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Speaker 1: a player here as well, to what degree, I don't know.

578
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Speaker 2: We'll find out.

579
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Speaker 1: But Miami looks at that and they say, huh, a

580
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: transfer quarterback from Washington State. Huh, where have we heard

581
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Speaker 1: that before? That is where cam Ward was two years ago.

582
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Speaker 1: So I'm watching that. Luke Cromanhape is now out of

583
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: the portal because he's committed to Mississippi State. He signed

584
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Speaker 1: with Mississippi State. He's the number two quarterback available, number

585
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Speaker 1: five overall. Well, he was at FSU. Gus Malsan came

586
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: in not a great fit, so he goes elsewhere. He's

587
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Speaker 1: going to probably compete against Blake's shape, and I think

588
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,239
Speaker 1: he's a much better system FIP under Jeff Levy. There

589
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: six y four two eight, a lot of these quarterbacks

590
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: on the move. But I'll tell you another position that

591
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: we were talking about the other night, and then moves

592
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: were made. As soon as we went off the air,

593
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M is getting after it a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Micah Hudson, the.

595
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Speaker 1: Former five star at Texas Tech has now since we

596
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: got off the air the other night landed at Texas

597
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Speaker 1: A and M. When I told you and I winked

598
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Speaker 1: on the air, I said, I'm closely monitoring Texas. A

599
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Speaker 1: and M at receiver. It's because we thought the news

600
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Speaker 1: had already gone public, but it hadn't, but it did

601
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Speaker 1: right after we went off the air. They also landed

602
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Speaker 1: Mario Craver. So those are two top forty players. It

603
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: was a position of major need for them. They may

604
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Speaker 1: not be done, but A and M's making a move.

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Speaker 1: And this is the one I want to talk about.

606
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Speaker 1: LSU is very very hot. LSU's gotten really hot the

607
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Speaker 1: transfer portal right now. And I had concerns about them,

608
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Speaker 1: and I stated as such on the show a couple

609
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I said, Man, it was fresh off

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Speaker 1: the Bryce Underwood decommitment, and so the recruiting class took

611
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Speaker 1: a huge hit. Bryce Underwood decommits, LSU recruiting class takes

612
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Speaker 1: a huge hit. I come on the air and I say,

613
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Speaker 1: not great vibes around LSU right now, and I don't

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Speaker 1: like where they're at. They're in a better place than

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Speaker 1: they were this time last year, but I don't love

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Speaker 1: where they're at in the portal. And I said that

617
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Speaker 1: and I meant it, and I was right about it.

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Speaker 1: Since then, they've gotten red hot in the portal and

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Speaker 1: some of you came back at me today and you said,

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Speaker 1: what now, guess you regret saying that. I don't regret

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Speaker 1: saying anything. I was right about it. I'm going to

622
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Speaker 1: fill you in on what's happened down there. Stuff has

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Speaker 1: changed in the last few weeks down there, and you've

624
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Speaker 1: seen some of it publicly. Behind the scenes, there's been

625
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Speaker 1: a little more weight thrown around, and LSU financially is

626
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Speaker 1: in a much better situation now than they were sixty

627
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Speaker 1: or ninety days ago. And that's because, unlike maybe this

628
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Speaker 1: time a year ago or two years ago, you've gotten

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Speaker 1: much more capable people in charge of such things behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. I know Brian Kelly made headlines when he

631
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Speaker 1: promised to contribute a certain amount to the fund down there.

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Speaker 1: Let me just say he's not the only one, and

633
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Speaker 1: not all of that stuff gets made public. But they

634
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Speaker 1: have made the necessary moves down there, and as a result,

635
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Speaker 1: they've landed the number two corner, the number ten corner,

636
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Speaker 1: the number seven edge, They've landed three top seventy five

637
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Speaker 1: guys recently. The operational side of things at LSU, they

638
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: get it, they know the score, they know what they

639
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: got to do. They're getting it done and so no,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't wrong at all about what I said a

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Speaker 1: few weeks ago. The status quo has changed in Baton

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Speaker 1: Rouge since what I said a few weeks ago. So

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Speaker 1: I just want to go on air and say I

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Speaker 1: apologize for nothing, but I am happy that things have

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Speaker 1: changed down there. More to come. Don't think LSU's done.

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech just surging. Yeah, I didn't say.

647
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Speaker 2: Texas, although Texas doing quite well right now. Texas Tech.

648
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: Very very interesting times in Lubbock with Joey McGuire and

649
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Speaker 1: his squad out there. Texas Tech finished eight and four,

650
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: had a pretty good year, had to bounce back here.

651
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how important that was. It was

652
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: important because a lot of them got to taste it.

653
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: A lot of folks in Lubbock, staff, donors, players, everybody

654
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: included administrative types. They tasted Big twelve title contention and

655
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: that lit the fuse. And now they have gone all

656
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: in in portal and they've got the number seven overall,

657
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: number one overall interior offensive lineman in there. They are

658
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: the crystal Ball favorite for the number five edge guy.

659
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: I think as early as tomorrow with Romelo Heights, number

660
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: nine defensive lineman Lee Hunter also crystal Ball there the

661
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: number four tight end. They just landed like twenty minutes ago. Basically,

662
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: Texas Tech is going to be a really fun team

663
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: to watch next year in the Big twelve. I feel

664
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: the same way about Baylor, by the way, but this

665
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: is about Texas Tech. And there was a lot of

666
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: drama around Alabama the last twenty four hours. Whew, Let's

667
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: see what can I what can I talk about publicly here?

668
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: So jalen In Backway was a former five star defensive back,

669
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: played for Alabama a lot this year and was from

670
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: the state of Alabama, so he's a true freshman this

671
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: past year played a fair amount. There was a headline

672
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: yesterday and Backway's going in the portal automatically aspersions are

673
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: cast from people who have probably since had to go

674
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: delete tweets. Ole Miss is thought to be the betting favorite.

675
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: It's called old Miss was the betting favorite. Pretty sizable

676
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: nil aw forre put out there. Today jalen In Backway

677
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: announced no more, I'm out of the portal. I'm staying

678
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: at Bama. A lot happened over the past twenty four hours.

679
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: I can clarify as much as I can that there's

680
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: a lot on the table for Jalen in backway to

681
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: leave Alabama kind of likes it at Alabama. A lot

682
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,479
Speaker 1: of these dudes, contrary to popular belief, don't really want

683
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: to leave where they are.

684
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 2: Most of them kind of like where they are.

685
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: But if you were in a very similar position as them,

686
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: you'd understand you've never seen that kind of money before,

687
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: and so you've got away things. And oh, by the way,

688
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: you're not using fifty years of wisdom and logic.

689
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 2: That you've gathered over your life.

690
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: You're using eighteen years of it or nineteen years of it.

691
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: And you're having to make the biggest decisions maybe that

692
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: you'll make in your life at a very young age.

693
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: So what happened here was not that there was a

694
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: bidding really wasn't a bidding war at all here. It's

695
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: just that when the sun rose and enough teammates got

696
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: in his ear, he hopped out of the portal. That

697
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 1: happens pretty frequently. This one just got to be pretty

698
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: high profile for a guy who was in the portal

699
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: a grand total of like five minutes and got back out.

700
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 2: I saw a ton yesterday.

701
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: I think it's cause Alabama's involved, and anytime they lose

702
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: a player. There's an edit ready to be made, which

703
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: I don't fault, by the way, I think are I

704
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: think some of our buddies do a really good job

705
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: on the edits. I would do the same, but I

706
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: think called this Alabama. It got a lot of notoriety yesterday.

707
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: The market's off the rails right now. I was talking

708
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: to a lot of people on the phone before tonight's show, coaches, player,

709
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: personnel types, some folks in media.

710
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 2: I don't cover the transfer portal.

711
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: I talk about it on the show, but I've got

712
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: to be well sourced on it because I don't get

713
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: in the weeds myself with it, because it really makes

714
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: you nauseous. The market is unsustainable and off the rails

715
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: right now. I'm if you don't like it, mute the

716
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: next ten seconds. If you could see some of the

717
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: dollar figures, not even the rumored ones, the ones I

718
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: can confirm on these guys, you would have your jaw

719
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: on the ground. And it's not a real market, is

720
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to tell you. It's a market in

721
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: a sense that you're worth whatever someone's willing to pay you.

722
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: It's not a sustainable market. It will not continue to

723
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: look like that. It's wild, though it's wild. Fort Worth,

724
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: Texas is tuned in Bozeman, Montana, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

725
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. It pains me to talk

726
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: about what we're about to talk about. But we're all

727
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: adults here. We have to do it.

728
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 2: We have to do it. I think, yes. Let me

729
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 2: let's look at the question John hit me up today.

730
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 2: Many of you did.

731
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: Actually, John said, is USC and Lincoln Riley collapsing before

732
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: our eyes? Losing record year three? A bunch of really

733
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,479
Speaker 1: good players leaving in the portal? My answer, John, is yes,

734
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: USC appears to be collapsing before our eyes. I don't

735
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: like to speaking hyperbole. I don't like to jump to

736
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: conclusions handily. I think it's why I've taken this long

737
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: to speak this directly. So if you haven't been paying

738
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: attention since they went six and six in the regular season,

739
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: at least, if you haven't been paying attention, it's been

740
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: a bad month for USC. They lost one of their

741
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: top two quarterbacks, they lost one of their top two

742
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: running backs. They lost three of their top five receivers,

743
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: including two of them today. They lost a starting offensive tackle.

744
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: They've lost nineteen total players. Every five star Lincoln Riley

745
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: has landed in the first two cycles is gone.

746
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 2: They're in major trouble. They don't have.

747
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: Good enough players. They just went six and six this year.

748
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: They were in a lot of those games in the

749
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And there's one train of thought that says, oh,

750
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: that means you're not far away. But look, that only

751
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 1: matters if you're moving in the right direction. It could

752
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: be that that's as close as they'll ever get on

753
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: this current trajectory.

754
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: I'm in Nashville right now.

755
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: It's like three hundred miles to Indianapolis, and if I'm

756
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 1: headed north, that number keeps ticking down. But if I'm

757
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: speeding south, I'm three hundred miles from Indy, and I'll

758
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: be three hundred and twenty miles from Indy in about

759
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: five minutes, and it'll.

760
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 2: Get worse and worse and worse.

761
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: So you know, for all the glass half full crowd,

762
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: which I try to be a part of, that says

763
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, was close this year. Man, give one more year,

764
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: they'll get over the hump in those close games. You know,

765
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: I said that about Nebraska forever in one possession games,

766
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: and it just never improved.

767
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 2: Still really hasn't improved.

768
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: So they've gone eleven wins to eight wins to six

769
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: wins in the three years under Lincoln Riley. But I

770
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: want you to imagine this fifteen years ago. I want

771
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: you to imagine a world where college football look way

772
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: different back then than it does now. So let's say

773
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, I mean fifteen, So let's pretend it's

774
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: twenty ten. I come to you and I give you

775
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: a vision of the future of college football, and I

776
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: tell you we will have wide open free agency, there

777
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: will be no cap on spending, and players will move

778
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: all over the place at their discretion. I think USC

779
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: would have terrified you. I think if I saw a

780
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: vision of the future of college football, I would have

781
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: thought USC is going to be unstoppable team in southern California,

782
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: in the second biggest media market in the country, and

783
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: New York really doesn't have college football, no disrespect to Syracuse, US,

784
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: He's going to dominate. They're gonna go scorted to Earth,

785
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: and here we are all those years later, and that's

786
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: the format in US. He sucks and they're bleeding players.

787
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: They can't hold onto players, they can't recruit at an

788
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: elite level. They can't keep their guys home. I have

789
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: defended these people. I have tried to defend USC and

790
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: I go back to this time last year. I go

791
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: back to Lincoln Riley to his credit. I will maintain

792
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: to his credit. He looked around, he assessed his program.

793
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: He said, this is not good enough. I don't have

794
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: a good enough defensive staff. My program philosophy needs overhauling.

795
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: The identity of this thing, top to bottom needs overhauling.

796
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: And he said it publicly, and I said at the time,

797
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 1: that's good. That's refreshing. This won't be an overnight thing.

798
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: But if he's serious about that, then this is the

799
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 1: first step in the right direction. We gotta have patients. Okay,

800
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: So here I am a year later. How much more

801
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: patience should I have? What are the telltale signs that

802
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: starting to take root versus what are the telltale signs

803
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: that it was lip service but it's not gonna work.

804
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:20,760
Speaker 2: That is tough to discern.

805
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: I know it's very popular in this business to just

806
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: shout in a megaphone and have definitive takes. I don't

807
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: know that there's a definitive stance to be taken here.

808
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it's guaranteed Lincoln Royley's going to flame out.

809
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: It's certainly not a guarantee right now that he's gonna

810
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: pull it out of the ditch and they'll be fine.

811
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: But if you're leaning one way or the other man,

812
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,479
Speaker 1: I gotta lean the way that USC feels a little

813
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 1: cooked right now. And I struggle mightily to look twelve months,

814
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: twenty four months, thirty six months into the future and

815
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: I see a powerhouse and all of this is a

816
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: distant memory. What players are you doing it with? Is

817
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: the first question. And secondly, Oregon versus USC or is

818
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: you to think about the way those two programs feel

819
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: to you? Oregon is like a rabid program. Oregon is

820
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: a program that figuratively just feels like it foams at

821
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: the mouth and it's constantly about to yank its chain

822
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: out of the ground and go devour whatever's in front

823
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: of it. That is how Dan Lannings built ORGAN, and

824
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: they have taken it to a different level there. USC

825
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like that USC, and I don't want to

826
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: be disrespectful here. I've got a mental respect for the

827
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: history of that program. They do not feel like that.

828
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: Let me put it that way, and so you're in

829
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: the Big ten now. You got to trade blows with

830
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: the Ohio States, Michigan, Penn State Organs in the world,

831
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: and you couldn't even beat Minnesota this year. And is

832
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: it going to get better? I don't know, but this

833
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: is probably as healthy cup of doubt as I've had

834
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: around USC in quite a while, because I badly want

835
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: USC to succeed. That's just me selfishly speaking. You can

836
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: believe that or not. I don't really care. I'm telling

837
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: you the truth, but I am having trouble. I'm trying

838
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 1: to clear the fog right now, and it's tough. It's

839
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: very tough now. If you're an organ fan, or an

840
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: Ohio State fan, or a Penn State fan the aforementioned

841
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: programs there you're in the playoffs. The ticket market is

842
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: interesting right now. If you're a Tennessee fan trying to

843
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: invade Columbus the fabled Tennessee takeover, which may or may

844
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: not but definitely will be happening this Saturday.

845
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 2: Seat Geek is your place.

846
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: If you haven't bought tickets already, they're available there and

847
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: I just humbly ask for your own good use the

848
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: promo code paid State ten at checkout. That gets you

849
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: a little discount, not free, but gets you a little discount.

850
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: The number ten, not the word ten, peyt state ten.

851
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: So seat geek.

852
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be football tickets. Believe it or not.

853
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: We just bought.

854
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: Should I say this on the air, Yeah, I can.

855
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: Someone tell Triple H. Someone give a heads up to

856
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: Nick Con and company over there at WWE. We bought

857
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw tickets earlier tonight. A lot of the

858
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: staff is going to Raw when it comes to Nashville

859
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: in February. And I have not been to a live

860
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: WWE event in fifteen years maybe, but I'm told good

861
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: things are happening, and so the show's done very well.

862
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: It's time to reap the reward, and that means walking

863
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: two blocks to Bridgestone Arena and checking out Monday Night Raw.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate seat geek. Appreciate them. We used our own promo code.

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Speaker 2: How about that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on. I'm looking at a piece of paper.

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Speaker 1: I got three, I got three pieces of sound on here.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to decide, like which direction I want

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Speaker 1: to go. Carrie hit me up. That's not Carrie, that's Carl.

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Speaker 1: Carl hit me up today, he said, feels like Ohio

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Speaker 1: State is teetering on the edge right now. What happens

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Speaker 1: to Ohio State and Ryan Day if they lose in

873
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Speaker 1: the playoff? Now, Carl, I gotta ask you, do you

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Speaker 1: mean losing the national title game? Do you mean lose

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Speaker 1: against Tennessee? Because I think you're talking about losing against Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: All hell breaks loose if they lose against Tennessee. I

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Speaker 1: don't know exactly what that entails, but I think that

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Speaker 1: opportunity for the dynamic to come off the rails is

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Speaker 1: real there. I mean, Ryan Day losing his job is

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. This is not a stance that

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Speaker 1: I have. It is not a stand side support. But

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Speaker 1: that is not my program. So it's really not my

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Speaker 1: business whether they were to make a move on him

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Speaker 1: or not. But there's a reality at Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing about college football. College football is

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Speaker 1: not built on the playoff. College football is not built

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Speaker 1: on anything other than tradition, and college football is not

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Speaker 1: built on the playoff.

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Speaker 2: It's built on rivalries. That's really what the sport is

891
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 2: built on.

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Speaker 1: Those things were around long before Man came along and

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Speaker 1: said I think I'll create a conference title.

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Speaker 2: I think I'll create the playoff. That's great, you can

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Speaker 2: enjoy those things.

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Speaker 1: But man like God created rivalries on the seventh day.

897
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: They've been here. They are ever green, they're not going away.

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Speaker 1: They should be of maximum importance and if you win one,

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Speaker 1: you should feel great for a year, and if you

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Speaker 1: lose one, your life should be terrible for a year

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Speaker 1: at least if you're coaching or playing. If you're coaching

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00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: for a living, if you're playing. That is a beautiful

903
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: thing about this sport, but it's a nightmarish thing about

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Speaker 1: this sport. They've lost four in a row in that game.

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Speaker 1: And at Ohio State, the reality is to be a success,

906
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Speaker 1: you got to check more than one box. Some places

907
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 1: they want to win the national title, and if they

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Speaker 1: win one, of course that's a success. At Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: it's about more than that. You got three things that

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Speaker 1: you really asked to do.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: You're asked to beat Michigan, you're asked to win the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten, and you're asked to win a national championship.

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Speaker 1: And I would argue it's not necessarily in that order.

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Speaker 1: Like the Big Ten championships at distant third to me,

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Speaker 1: and you could put the Michigan game and the National

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Speaker 1: Title game in any which order you want to. But

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Speaker 1: I am a big believer that they could take the

919
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Speaker 1: Big Ten title or leave it if you give them

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Speaker 1: the first two. And there is a healthy chunk of

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Speaker 1: the Ohio State fan base that, if given the option

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Speaker 1: win the Michigan game or win the National title, would

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Speaker 1: pick the Michigan game. And if I were you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'd feel the same way. I'd be one of the

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Speaker 1: folks who said, I hope we win the National Title,

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Speaker 1: but I gotta beat Michigan.

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Speaker 2: I need that. The version of me that will exist

928
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Speaker 2: in February or April will be impacted.

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Speaker 1: My mood will be impacted, my attitude toward my pet,

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Speaker 1: and my family will be impacted based off how we

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Speaker 1: do in that game against the team up north in

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Speaker 1: late November.

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Speaker 2: So they've lost four of them.

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Speaker 1: There's an interesting dynamic that's forming around Ohio State and

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Speaker 1: fan base right now that I've noticed.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be up there this Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I know the fan base pretty well, I know the

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Speaker 1: people in that building pretty well. There's a talking point,

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Speaker 1: a narrative, which is the most overused word in sports.

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Speaker 1: But there's a narrative that's forming that because they've lost

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00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: that game four years in a row, but they're in

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Speaker 1: the playoff again. Some people are trying to discount the

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Speaker 1: impact of the rivalry and they're trying to minimize its

944
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Speaker 1: importance but maximize the importance of the playoff. And I

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily.

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Speaker 2: Buy into that. I hope it's not true.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Day. There's a SoundBite circulating of him right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna play it because I got plenty of

949
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Speaker 1: other things to play for you. But there's a SoundBite

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Speaker 1: of Ryan Day circulating right now. I'm gonna paraphrase him,

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Speaker 1: but he's basically saying, you know, we lost the Michigan game,

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Speaker 1: although he didn't.

953
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Speaker 2: Say Michigan, and we hate that. But we're in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Some other teams aren't in the playoff, and the goal

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Speaker 1: all along has been to win a national title. Some

956
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Speaker 1: people have watched that and said, okay. Other people have

957
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Speaker 1: watched that and said, oh, of course he's minimizing the

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Speaker 1: team he can't beat four years in a row and

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Speaker 1: max the opportunity that's still in front of him. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I do. If I were in his shoes

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Speaker 1: right now. Oh, by the way, what he's saying publicly

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Speaker 1: does not have to mimic his actual attitude behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take you back to last week. Remember

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Speaker 1: I did a segment on the show that was triggered

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Speaker 1: by what Ross Byorke said. It wasn't It wasn't triggered

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Speaker 1: by what ross Bjorke said. Who's the ad at Ohio State?

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Speaker 1: He said things after we did a segment, not saying

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Speaker 1: the two are connected, but I'm gonna play some sound

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Speaker 1: for you here. Ross bjork is the athletic director at

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Speaker 1: Ohio State. And after they lost that game, he goes

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Speaker 1: on the podcast up there, Jeremy Birmingham Austin Ward I

972
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Speaker 1: think were the two he sat down with, and the

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Speaker 1: athletic director at Ohio State was talking about the rivalry

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Speaker 1: game and losing it and moving forward. Hey, Ryan Day's

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Speaker 1: still our coach, but maybe there's some things we need

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Speaker 1: to change. Take a listen to what he said.

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Speaker 5: Clearly we wanted to play better, and the player know that,

978
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 5: the coaches know that. And so then you have to say, Okay,

979
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Speaker 5: what do you learn from how do you do you

980
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 5: need to tweak anything? Do we need to adjust the

981
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 5: way we talk about that game. Not to say you

982
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 5: can't say it's just another game. You can't say that,

983
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 5: and there's no way you say that. But you look

984
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Speaker 5: at other rivalries. You know, Army Navy is getting played

985
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 5: this weekend. They have countdown clocks and they have different things,

986
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Speaker 5: but yet they play, you know, eleven other games. And

987
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 5: so how do you have big picture thinking but also

988
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 5: honing in on that game.

989
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: Now, if you were watching our show right after the

990
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Speaker 1: Ohio State Michigan game happened, I came on air that Sunday,

991
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: I think it was December second, and I said something

992
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Speaker 1: very similar now what I said, I'm about to play

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Speaker 1: for you. There are people who are interpreting what Ross

994
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Speaker 1: Bjork said. There what Ryan Day's been saying lately a

995
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: little bit differently. I'm going to tell you, I think

996
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: it is very very emblematic of what I said. But

997
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play what I said for you, and then

998
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play an alternative point of view roll at Colin.

999
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: I don't think Ohio State views this game the right way.

1000
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: I don't think Ohio State views this rivalry the right way.

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00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: When I say that, I don't mean they don't take

1002
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: it seriously. They take it ten kinds of serious. But

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Speaker 1: so does Michigan. But Michigan always plays their best football

1004
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: in this game, and recently Ohio State hasn't. So when

1005
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: I say they don't view the game the right way,

1006
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: I don't mean it's not of utmost importance. I mean,

1007
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Speaker 1: however they're viewing it does not bring out the best

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Speaker 1: in them.

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Speaker 2: That was my whole takeaway from Ohio State.

1010
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: They don't lack the players, they don't like the intensity,

1011
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: they don't like the focus.

1012
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 2: Whatever it is they're doing to go about preparing.

1013
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: For that game is flawed, not because of a lack

1014
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: of any of the things I just mentioned. In fact,

1015
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Speaker 1: in the very very zoomed out aggregate point of view,

1016
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Speaker 1: it's a case of whatever you're doing to play them

1017
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: is not bringing out the best in you. Whatever they

1018
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Speaker 1: do is bringing out the best in them to face you.

1019
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: That's why they're beating you. Just fact the fact that

1020
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: you've probably got a better roster three or four years

1021
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 1: in a row over them. Now, that is what I

1022
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: think Ross Buorke is saying. That is what I think

1023
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: Ryan Day's attitude should be, and it's what I think

1024
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: his boss, his ad is saying. It's not that we

1025
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: need to minimize the impact of this game or the

1026
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: magnitude of this game in lieu of, you know, maximizing

1027
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Speaker 1: the importance of the playoff or the Big Ten title

1028
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 1: or whatever. I think what they're saying is, let's maintain

1029
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: the focus on it. Let's just go about things a

1030
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: different way.

1031
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 2: Now.

1032
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: That's my theory, but I will tell you that is

1033
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Speaker 1: not the only theory. There are other working theories in

1034
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Speaker 1: and around Columbus, Ohio. So Juck Over with Menace to

1035
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Speaker 1: Sports did a video that I watched in totality the

1036
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Speaker 1: other day. I watch a lot of the Ohio state stuff,

1037
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Speaker 1: but he says something that caught my ear cause a

1038
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Speaker 1: lot of the spirit of what he says I wholeheartedly

1039
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Speaker 1: like pledge allegiance to He's got a different little working

1040
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Speaker 1: theory about what the meaning behind the message is.

1041
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 2: I hope he's wrong. Here's what he had to say.

1042
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Speaker 3: He's three and three and you lost your second in

1043
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 3: a row, or you won two in a row and

1044
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 3: you just lost this one. The reaction is like this

1045
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 3: because it's four in a row and nothing needs to

1046
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 3: change about this. In my opinion, this game can always

1047
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 3: be just as important as it always has, it can

1048
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Speaker 3: mean just as much, And if it is something that

1049
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Speaker 3: gets coaches terminated at Ohio State, I'm fine with it.

1050
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Speaker 2: It is what it is.

1051
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Speaker 3: We cannot allow everything to be stripped away from us

1052
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 3: in college football because they change the formats around us.

1053
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 3: The things that have always meant so much to us,

1054
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 3: the traditions, the stadiums, the uniforms, the helmets, the rivalries.

1055
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Speaker 3: It's up there on top of the list, man, And

1056
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Speaker 3: if we allow them to devalue it, we lose a

1057
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Speaker 3: little bit of what makes college a lot of what

1058
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Speaker 3: makes college football special, in my opinion.

1059
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Speaker 2: So don't let him do it.

1060
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 3: Don't let him devalue what it means to you. And

1061
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 3: you certainly cannot come out and try to devalue this

1062
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 3: game when you have lost four in a row. That

1063
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Speaker 3: is the softest looking thing I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 1: So I hope he's wrong, because if he's right, then

1065
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Speaker 1: he's really right. He's right about what the spirit of

1066
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Speaker 1: college football should be period. Like I played that because

1067
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Speaker 1: that's echoing the sentiment I've believed forever about what should

1068
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Speaker 1: be of maximum importance. In college football, you better beat

1069
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Speaker 1: your rival. Whatever happens after that's wonderful. You go win

1070
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Speaker 1: a conference, you go win a national title, but you got.

1071
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Speaker 2: To beat your rival before you do any of that.

1072
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Speaker 1: And if you don't, there's a void inside of you

1073
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Speaker 1: that no man made trophy in December or January is

1074
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Speaker 1: ever going to be able to film. And if the

1075
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Speaker 1: folks in Columbus, Ohio are actually adopting the mentality that

1076
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Speaker 1: we need to minimize the impact of this game that

1077
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Speaker 1: we can't seem to win and will artificially enhance the

1078
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Speaker 2: Anything and everything is on the table.

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Speaker 1: You will always hear rumblings anytime a coach loses a

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Speaker 1: think it was foolish. Now if they lose Saturday, I

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Speaker 2: He said it on this show. He gets it. This

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Speaker 2: Most of them.

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Speaker 1: Don't come true because they are bold, and the ones

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: First up, Sean from Murphysboro, Tennessee. My Miami Hurricanes go

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Speaker 1: on a historic run in twenty twenty four and win

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Speaker 1: the national championship. Wrong, your offense went on a historic run. Defense,

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Speaker 1: Number sixty scoring defense in the country was still there.

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Speaker 1: They end up losing forty two to thirty eight. They

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Speaker 1: miss out on the playoffs. Their consolation prize is the

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Speaker 1: greatest consolation prize in the history of humanity. They get

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Speaker 1: to go play in the pop Tart Bowl. That is

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Speaker 1: not sarcasm in the least candidly. I'd rather be in

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Speaker 1: the pop Tart Bowl than probably be the eleven seed

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Speaker 1: in the playoff. These people at the pop Tart Bowl

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Speaker 1: ready to go. That is the biggest, one small step

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Speaker 2: That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of the people at the Pop Tart Bowl.

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Speaker 1: A checkout line were running college football, it'll be fixed tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Next up, Mason from Delanaga, Georgia. Beautiful Delanaga, Georgia said,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe wins the Heisman and BAMA wins the SEC

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Speaker 1: Championship twelve and one regular season, Well, this didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: I put a nine point twenty five on the boldness

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Speaker 1: like if one happened, the other was statistically more likely

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Speaker 1: they could have still gone on to Atlanta and they

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Speaker 1: could have won the thing, like they could have done

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Speaker 1: half of this, but I don't think most I don't

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Speaker 1: think both were happening. Then I put a nine point

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Speaker 1: Bama's not even in the playoff. So they are playing

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Speaker 1: against Michigan. Sounds like all their players are opting in.

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Speaker 1: So celebrate that. We don't get that so much anymore.

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Speaker 1: Celebrate that. Next up, this one was complex. Jacob from Annville, PA.

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Speaker 1: Jesse was Steve Blackman from Annville, Pennsylvania. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 2: Pro wrestler in the Attitude era. Jacob from Annville, PA.

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Speaker 1: Oregon and Texas both went their conferences in their first

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Speaker 2: So you needed them to be one and two.

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Speaker 1: Well, I could see that if Texas wins the SEC

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Speaker 1: and if Oregon wins the Big Ten. In fact, if

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Speaker 1: Big Ten, they would have been one and two and

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Speaker 1: they could have theoretically met up in the title game.

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Speaker 2: But this involves so many things going right. I put

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Speaker 2: a nine point twenty five on it.

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Speaker 1: This is impossible because number one Texas let a backup

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Speaker 1: Oregon in the semi final instead of the final. So

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Speaker 1: over two there. Lastly, and this one was closer than

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Speaker 1: I thought it would have been. This one came from Birmingham.

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Speaker 1: Two G five teams make the playoff. I put a

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Speaker 1: so the chalice is safe. But it got close. Boise's

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Speaker 2: Would Boise have fallen.

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Speaker 1: Out inquiring minds want to know, and then also think

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Speaker 2: While, So we came close.

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Speaker 1: Now, I would argue, we may have just come as

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Speaker 2: I think. So that's where it is.

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Speaker 1: I felt a cough coming on the entire show, and

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Speaker 2: I just think you should be given it to me anyway.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys watching me so much. We'll be

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