Speaker 1: Welcome to the Solid Verbo. I'll that for me. I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be happy. You want to be happy
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Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 3: Whoo whoom and Dan and Tie, Welcome back to the
Speaker 3: Solid Burbo boys and girls. My name is Ty Hildebrand,
Speaker 3: joining me as always over there in beautiful New York City,
Speaker 3: the one, the only, the man who unfortunately has the
Speaker 3: Twitter past word, Dan Robitstein.
Speaker 4: So how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good. I am preparing for solo Dad Saturday
Speaker 1: aka Sleepless Saturday aka what we're about to find out
Speaker 1: your pitch is and then I will give you my
Speaker 1: pitch Saturday. But otherwise, Ty no complaints. Life is all right.
Speaker 3: It is week eleven. Welcome back to the show. Can't
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Speaker 3: So what is your pitch for a week? Okay, because
Speaker 3: there are some big games this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some big games. This is where for
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, it's not necessarily season defining. I
Speaker 1: would say, I think there are some bigger matchups. Certainly
Speaker 1: it's the biggest one in the SEC this season, but
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily season life time. I'm defining Penn State Minnesota.
Speaker 1: You know, Minnesota can still have a good season if
Speaker 1: they don't take down the Nitney Lions at home, and
Speaker 1: same for Penn State. They can still have a successful one.
Speaker 1: They're same for Baylor or Wisconsin against Iowa Oklahoma, Iowa State.
Speaker 1: It's been a thorn, but it is where the rubber
Speaker 1: meets the road. There is something about the ball not lying.
Speaker 1: And initially my mind went to SAT Saturday a significant test.
Speaker 1: It's not bad, that is not bad, but not end
Speaker 1: all be all, but Sat Saturday, because Saturday starts with SAT.
Speaker 1: It was too mushy for me, and so I'm going
Speaker 1: with something that is a little bit more fun to say,
Speaker 1: flows a little bit better where it's a significant test.
Speaker 1: Results don't lie. Everything's you know. You win, you win,
Speaker 1: you lose, you lose, especially looking at you Wake Forest,
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. I have it Scantron Saturday. That is not
Speaker 1: bad scan Tron's, especially with it being voting day this
Speaker 1: past week. It's voting week, and yeah, you fill in.
Speaker 1: You either get it right or you get it wrong,
Speaker 1: and I don't think there's much room for error. That
Speaker 1: is very good, Thank you very much, very good. I
Speaker 1: am partial to scan Tron's Saturday.
Speaker 3: My suggestion was going to be because it's a striking
Speaker 3: week and it looks like it's got a lot of bark.
Speaker 1: Maybe not striking week. Striking.
Speaker 3: You just look at the slate before us, and it's okay,
Speaker 3: here's some striking matchups.
Speaker 1: I thought there was a Union reference of some kind.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing like that. But
Speaker 1: it's striking Chicago teachers by the way. Hell yeah, it looks.
Speaker 3: Like it's got a lot of bark, maybe not a
Speaker 3: lot of bite. It's very family friendly if you look
Speaker 3: at when these games are being played. I'm a little
Speaker 3: partial to my puppy I was going to say samoids
Speaker 3: Saturday type.
Speaker 1: People don't even know how to spell that. This is
Speaker 1: about branding. I had a winner last week. It's tough
Speaker 1: to top what I had. It's true. Okay, Welcome to
Speaker 1: Scantrons Saturday, number two pencils only, yes, and keep your
Speaker 1: eyes on your own paper. And you know you've been
Speaker 1: You've been prepping all these things, been prepping for months
Speaker 1: for this, so you've had time to get ready for
Speaker 1: these big matchups. Now sit at your desk. And it's
Speaker 1: also kind of collegiate, right Scantron's.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Scantron Saturday.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Scantrons Saturday. But before we get there, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna yell the breaking news. My voice is ready
Speaker 3: on its last legs. It's week eleven.
Speaker 1: Doo doo doo, doot doot.
Speaker 3: Trying to suckle down some of that wild sweet orange tea,
Speaker 3: a little bit of honey key things going here.
Speaker 1: Nice, good for you.
Speaker 3: Playoff rankings. We had the first playoff rankings that were released.
Speaker 3: We did not have a chance to talk about them because,
Speaker 3: like all big things in the podcast world, that happens
Speaker 3: seemingly right after we hit stop correct sort.
Speaker 1: Of right, wasn't it last night? Tuesday night we record
Speaker 1: Let's peel back this onion. We record the tues crews
Speaker 1: on Mondays. We do it's up at six am on Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're pulling one over anybody. Sail early
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. Here's your first four. We've got Ohio State one,
Speaker 1: LSU two, Alabama three, and Penn State four. So to
Speaker 1: big ten teams to SEC teams. You know, these are
Speaker 1: like deck chairs in the Titanic at this point, they're
Speaker 1: going to get all sorts of boggled around by the
Speaker 1: time we get to the end of the season. Certainly
Speaker 1: some teams in that top four are going to lose.
Speaker 1: We know at least two of them will between now
Speaker 1: and the end of the football season.
Speaker 3: To round out the top ten, though, we have Clemson
Speaker 3: at five, Georgia at six, Oregon your Oregon Ducks defending
Speaker 3: Great box Ball champion Oregon Ducks ye at number seven,
Speaker 3: followed by Utah, fill by Oklahoma, and followed by Florida.
Speaker 1: Any surprises you think Penn State's the fourth best team
Speaker 1: in the country, It's okay if you do.
Speaker 3: I can't make a case against it at this point.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I believe it in my bones
Speaker 3: at this point, but I certainly understand why the committee
Speaker 3: would go there because their strength of resumes so far
Speaker 3: has been really, really formidable.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, the Michigan win is obviously doing the work
Speaker 1: here because that's what separates them from Clemson. Through no
Speaker 1: full fault of Clemson's own, their best win is A
Speaker 1: and M, so I understand it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you have your your spreadsheet, your your mock up line
Speaker 1: of like what a Penn State Clemson matchup would look
Speaker 1: like on a neutral field, but it figured out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even with this year's results and not looking at last year,
Speaker 1: not looking at talent level in general, I think I
Speaker 1: have Clemson ahead of Penn State in my mind, right.
Speaker 4: Neutral field Clemson by about ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So once you get into that double digit area
Speaker 1: and I understand the Michigan win is, it looks more
Speaker 1: impressive than ever. They held on to beat the Wolverines,
Speaker 1: but otherwise it's been The Iowa win is I think
Speaker 1: pretty good. They held on. They held Iowa without out
Speaker 1: of the end zone right for three and a half corners,
Speaker 1: so or at least maybe even more than three and
Speaker 1: a half, So I can't really hold that much against
Speaker 1: Penn State. It's just more of an eye test thing
Speaker 1: and that's harder to quantify. So I guess I'm okay
Speaker 1: with Penn State at four. It's the first release of
Speaker 1: the playoff rankings to make Clemson's higher quality right now.
Speaker 1: But Penn State blows the doors off of Minnesota. I
Speaker 1: think that's a pretty emphatic scantro on Saturday for them.
Speaker 3: Clemson's likely going to move into the top four next
Speaker 3: week after the Lsubama game, depending on how that game goes.
Speaker 3: But I would say I have a pretty high level
Speaker 3: of confidence that Clemson will be in the top four
Speaker 3: next week. Georgia's probably blocked by the loser of that
Speaker 3: LSU Bama game, at least for the time being. Your
Speaker 3: Orga Ducts are uniquely positioned. If they can run the table,
Speaker 3: if they can beat Utah whoever in the Pac twelve game, they.
Speaker 1: Are in the top ten playoff team correct.
Speaker 3: They are uniquely positioned here to maybe throw their hat
Speaker 3: in the ring. Oklahoma all the way down at nine,
Speaker 3: really needs a case State win over Texas this week.
Speaker 3: They really need that. The way I see it, about
Speaker 3: nine teams real shot at this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing going against Oregon right now is probably
Speaker 1: what's out of their control and that the Arizona schools
Speaker 1: in Oregon State are not going to come across and
Speaker 1: they have a bye week this week as crazy impressive
Speaker 1: to finish out the year. Whereas Alabama from this point
Speaker 1: forward can beat LSU and Auburn, LSU can beat A
Speaker 1: and M and Alabama, Ohio State has Penn State and
Speaker 1: you know whoever comes out of the Big Ten West,
Speaker 1: it looks like Minnesota, so they'll have more quality wins.
Speaker 1: Clemson is going to struggle in that department, and Georgia
Speaker 1: can can lay low. But yeah, they're they're blocked for
Speaker 1: the time being. And I still think they have a
Speaker 1: pretty good shot here after their win against Florida. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Utah's lurking as well, and they could have a really
Speaker 1: impressive win over Oregon in the Pac twelve championship game.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Oklahoma needs help. And beyond that, I don't
Speaker 1: think we're talking about playoff caliber teams. I don't think
Speaker 1: so either. I think there's a there's a line, and
Speaker 1: you know, Auburn has a playoff caliber defense. I just
Speaker 1: there's there's too many flaws beyond that line to me,
Speaker 1: all right, Dan, time.
Speaker 3: It is scan tron Saturday. Get those number two pencils ready.
Speaker 3: Fill in your dots. Make sure you fill them in
Speaker 3: completely so the scantron does not get confused. This is
Speaker 3: all very important information.
Speaker 1: That's true. And if you're going to a race, be
Speaker 1: thorough What do they recommend white out? White out? Really
Speaker 1: they don't. I don't know if they recommend white out?
Speaker 1: What I know? You just have to really, really thoroughly
Speaker 1: go for it, right, you can't. You can't be hazy
Speaker 1: with your erasers. No, no, you gotta. You really got
Speaker 1: to go for it, which is a good life lesson
Speaker 1: to me. Don't be hazy with your erasing. Scandro on
Speaker 1: Saturday week, what are we twelve eleveven eleven? I don't know, ty,
Speaker 1: I got very little sleep last night.
Speaker 4: Let's do this.
Speaker 1: Let's do.
Speaker 4: This. May be the easiest.
Speaker 1: Window of opportunity that we've had. I need, I need
Speaker 1: to know this because it's childcare Saturday.
Speaker 3: Exclose, single day, single dad Saturday. Excuse me, Yeah, solo dad,
Speaker 3: solidad Saturday, not sad, different thing.
Speaker 1: M h.
Speaker 3: It's easy. It's a family friendly Saturday. I look at
Speaker 3: the slate before us here there are a couple notable
Speaker 3: night games. I guess I always state Oklahoma could be fun,
Speaker 3: It's been fun in the past. I guess Missouri Georgia
Speaker 3: has some intrigue for us here, at least as a
Speaker 3: podcast goes, because we've been talking it up for months
Speaker 3: on end and Notre Dame dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even app state South.
Speaker 3: Carolina some intrigue there. Lower points spread than maybe people
Speaker 3: might expect. But I think the bulk of your big
Speaker 3: games are in the early half of the day before
Speaker 3: dinner on the East Coast, and good for me, doesn't
Speaker 3: help me much well little one people that then aren't
Speaker 3: named Dan Rubinstein. I think your window of opportunity is
Speaker 3: some time after LSU Bama go out and have a
Speaker 3: date night.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually it works out well for I'm going to
Speaker 1: be selfish air and talking about me some more. It
Speaker 1: works out. This is what I have to study and
Speaker 1: everything I didn't see normally. I'm able to get up
Speaker 1: early on Sunday mornings before the podcast and do you know,
Speaker 1: catch up on everything I need to before we record,
Speaker 1: So it'll just be more of a late night. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad that the action isn't always pertinent across the
Speaker 1: board during primetime in late night, So that's good. Let's
Speaker 1: start at high noon. It is on ABC.
Speaker 3: It is the Penn State Nitney Lions, again number four
Speaker 3: in the first college Football Playoff rankings this season, on
Speaker 3: the road at the Minnesota Golden Gophers. This point spread
Speaker 3: is at a brown six and a half seven points,
Speaker 3: depending where you look. Of note here is that PJ.
Speaker 3: Fleck got a new seven year deal just in time
Speaker 3: for this game.
Speaker 1: Dan about thirty three, mel I saw. I don't know
Speaker 1: how the structure works out and how incentives work into that,
Speaker 1: but yes he did. He started out really well. There's
Speaker 1: sure to be interested in PJ. Fleck as jobs open up.
Speaker 1: His enthusiasm, his passion. You know, we'll see if there
Speaker 1: is more to PJ. Fleck than just enthusiasm and passion
Speaker 1: against some of the lower teams in the Big Ten
Speaker 1: as the schedule gets harder. But yeah, it was good
Speaker 1: for Fleck and the Fleck family.
Speaker 3: That is that is correct, and you know, to his credit,
Speaker 3: there's a lot to like about Minnesota this year. They
Speaker 3: might not be the flash last team, but thus far
Speaker 3: they've been crazy efficient on both sides of the football,
Speaker 3: and certainly in terms of raw atmospherics. They work to
Speaker 3: Minnesota's advantage. Here. They're at home, it's an earlier game,
Speaker 3: so it's a body clock situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are.
Speaker 4: Gonna be fired up for this.
Speaker 1: I'd be glad if I were a Penn State fan
Speaker 1: that it's an eleven am kick actually, rather than a
Speaker 1: you know, local six pm prime time. Whole place has
Speaker 1: been drinking all days, used for the big event kind
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 3: My problem is the matchup. Yeah, the matchup is what
Speaker 3: bothers me because for starters, you look at Minnesota's resume,
Speaker 3: you could make a case and I'm not making it,
Speaker 3: but I'm saying hypothetically, somebody out.
Speaker 1: There, do you want me to make a case.
Speaker 3: You could make a case that their best win is
Speaker 3: over South Dakota State.
Speaker 1: Whoa to all the haters who said that Minnesota couldn't
Speaker 1: take down the jack Rabbits scoreboard.
Speaker 3: They're number four in the FCS. Correct, you could make
Speaker 3: that case. I'm not making it here, but you could
Speaker 3: if you really tried. I do think they've gotten better
Speaker 3: as the season's gone on, so it's not advisable to
Speaker 3: take them lightly. There's just some degree of credibility missing
Speaker 3: from their resume, and frankly, that's why they're eight to
Speaker 3: zeroe ranked number seventeen in the first set of rankings.
Speaker 4: Is that all fair?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I left out Minnesota and talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: tiers of playoff caliber teams. Minnesota wins all of their games.
Speaker 1: It can be in the playoff. That's you know, I
Speaker 1: would be surprised, but pleasantly surprised. Walk me through all
Speaker 1: of the Big Ten starting quarterbacks Minnesota has faced this
Speaker 1: year because it's none of them, Because it's Purdue, Illinois, Nebraska, Rutgers, Maryland,
Speaker 1: all I believe started backup quarterbacks against Minnesota. Gopher's fault
Speaker 1: absolutely not proper Gopher data, not necessarily. That's all the
Speaker 1: point is behind that sort of snarky comment. They'll be
Speaker 1: playing Penn State starting quarterback. They'll be playing a Penn
Speaker 1: State offense that generally relies on explosion, bigger plays. Whether
Speaker 1: it's kJ Hamler, Pat Fryermuth, do they call him baby gronk?
Speaker 1: Is that a thing there? I've seen it. Yes, most
Speaker 1: good tight ends are now known as baby gronk for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. That is correct. So it's hard to fully
Speaker 1: know what we have in Minnesota. They started the season
Speaker 1: off slowly in terms of separating themselves from teams. They've
Speaker 1: taken care of business out seeing the Purdue game wasn't
Speaker 1: great for them, especially on defense. But you take care
Speaker 1: of business, you win your clunkers. You're formidable. And so
Speaker 1: as it relates to Penn State, I think the Knits
Speaker 1: the Ninny Lions have an edge. I think part of
Speaker 1: it is special teams. I think in order to beat
Speaker 1: Penn State you have to do it repeatedly, putting together
Speaker 1: drives down the field, which will become increasingly difficult over
Speaker 1: the game. Over the course of the game, I like
Speaker 1: Minnesota's offense, but this is a couple of tiers up
Speaker 1: from what they've seen. I like the early kicktime for
Speaker 1: Penn State. I think it's back and forth for a bit,
Speaker 1: but ultimately it's the big plays from Penn State and
Speaker 1: just the overall talent level of the backups, the threes, whatever,
Speaker 1: they have to see action throughout a game. I have
Speaker 1: at thirty one to twenty Penn State.
Speaker 3: Interesting, I've got it at thirty one seventeen Penn State. Okay,
Speaker 3: So three things that jump out at me and you're
Speaker 3: all right. Everything you said is all right. In my book,
Speaker 3: Penn State plays the run really well and that poses
Speaker 3: a challenge for a Minnesota team that has relied on
Speaker 3: the run to a great degree this year. I also
Speaker 3: think Minnesota has a hard time keeping tan or Morgan
Speaker 3: upright when they do have to pass.
Speaker 1: I think they've been more successful passing it Minnesota than
Speaker 1: running it, even though they've been some big numbers. I
Speaker 1: think they've been a better passing team in terms of efficiency. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: but they've had plenty of games where they've relied on
Speaker 1: that rushing attack as well. Correct.
Speaker 3: Yes, So it's not to say that they're a one
Speaker 3: trick pony, but I could see them trying to utilize
Speaker 3: that run game to open things up, maybe try to
Speaker 3: throw it downfield. I just don't think they're going to
Speaker 3: have much success doing that. And I worry for Tanner
Speaker 3: Morgan because this line has not been great at keeping
Speaker 3: him upright. And we know it's a Penn State line
Speaker 3: that's got a lot of bite to it. So that
Speaker 3: that's number two. And the third thing is I don't
Speaker 3: know if you saw, but James Franklin essentially made it
Speaker 3: Facebook official naming Noah Kane his number one running.
Speaker 1: Back is that? Is that a real real thing?
Speaker 4: It is a real real thing.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: It won't change next week.
Speaker 3: It could change next week, but at least for this week,
Speaker 3: he's number one on the depth chart.
Speaker 1: That's good to see because that's actually been a place
Speaker 1: where Penn State has struggled. If they need a four
Speaker 1: minute drive and to really grind it out on the ground,
Speaker 1: it hasn't always been there.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping now that they've kind of made this
Speaker 3: commitment that it means more work for Noah King, And
Speaker 3: if it does, it could could be a big game
Speaker 3: for him on the ground.
Speaker 1: I see that in his near future.
Speaker 3: I like Penn State pretty comfortably thirty one seventeen, could
Speaker 3: see it being close for half.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I think Penn State's a couple rungs better than Minnesota
Speaker 3: at this point. You know, if I put my personal
Speaker 3: biases aside, would love to see it be an awesome
Speaker 3: story if Minnesota could pull the upset here at home, And.
Speaker 1: What does that look like? What does that that Minnesota
Speaker 1: upset look like? How do you beat Penn State if
Speaker 1: you are Minnesota with their talent, their their strengths on
Speaker 1: defense and offense.
Speaker 3: They've got to figure out some way to rattle Sean Clifford. Okay,
Speaker 3: they got to stop the run in rattle Shan Clifford
Speaker 3: and hope that their offense can win the battle field position,
Speaker 3: control the clock, and I think keep it relatively low scoring.
Speaker 3: I don't think they can outscore Penn State.
Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna need to if you want to win. Well,
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. Not in a shootout, right
Speaker 1: right right, So it'll be it would be like a
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen win. Yeah for Minnesota if they're able
Speaker 1: to pull it off, get a couple of big plays
Speaker 1: from their big play receivers against a pretty good Penn
Speaker 1: State secondary.
Speaker 4: We're moving on.
Speaker 3: Also at high noon on FS one, we've got the
Speaker 3: Baylor Bears on the road at TCU. Okay, the revivalry,
Speaker 3: as they say, yeah, two and a half points. I
Speaker 3: hate this game so much. I hate I've heard great
Speaker 3: things about Fort Worth. We had an undefeated Baylor coming in.
Speaker 3: There's no love lost between these two teams. Got to
Speaker 3: throw out the records and the revivalry.
Speaker 1: Come on, I get in a revivalry. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, Yeah, I've been high on Baylor all preseason, all
Speaker 3: regular season. I think this is a really good football team.
Speaker 3: They've consistently gotten more consistent under Matt Rule. Sure it's
Speaker 3: a thing, Okay, so good for them in terms of efficiency.
Speaker 3: The defense has been better than the offense, which our
Speaker 3: not really used to saying about Baylor.
Speaker 4: But okay.
Speaker 3: I like Charlie Brewer, I like the skill talent a lot.
Speaker 3: Not crazy about their line play, but.
Speaker 1: You get my point. I like Baylor a great deal here.
Speaker 3: I like so much about Baylor, Yet I still feel
Speaker 3: like TCU is going to win the game, and I
Speaker 3: don't know how to emotionally deal with that.
Speaker 1: What why? How score walk me through? Baylor's got Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and Texas in the next two weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: You think they're looking past the Frogs.
Speaker 4: I think there's a potential here.
Speaker 1: For a look now, Oh, get out of tech. I
Speaker 1: think there's potential for a look ahead spot. No way, Madden,
Speaker 1: this is a matchup that has a lot of teeth
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 4: Ty is it or is it not?
Speaker 3: TCU's spot their brand to completely muck up the Big
Speaker 3: twelve race here?
Speaker 1: Oh? It for sure? Is Here's my general concern about
Speaker 1: the Frogs right now. They might not have a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Max Duggan hurt his I want to say his the
Speaker 1: middle finger on his throwing hand as one does yep,
Speaker 1: which if he plays, that's probably not the best way
Speaker 1: to throw a football with twenty percent of the necessary
Speaker 1: digits being broken. And you say to yourself, well, there's
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks on the TCU roster. You look at and
Speaker 1: I think it was the reddit CFB subreddit, the college
Speaker 1: football subreddit on Reddit. They went through the quarterback room
Speaker 1: for TCU, and it's like next guy transferred, next guy rickets,
Speaker 1: next guy, next guy undisclosed SCD, next guy transfer portal,
Speaker 1: and then it's like all the way down to possible
Speaker 1: walk on if he gets the grades or something like.
Speaker 1: It's not great. So when a position like quarterback is
Speaker 1: hanging in the balance to that degree, I'm happy to
Speaker 1: just go with the other team that happens to have
Speaker 1: a snow advisory defense.
Speaker 4: Why is hold on?
Speaker 1: Then I'll play the snow advisory.
Speaker 3: But why why is the line only two and a
Speaker 3: half in favorite Baylor's at TCU?
Speaker 1: TCU has I mean, they have good players, their defense
Speaker 1: is fine. They they're in games. They got blown out
Speaker 1: by what Iowa State, and otherwise they've they've been competitive,
Speaker 1: so mean, they're coached. Well, they gave up a ton
Speaker 1: on the ground last week, which wasn't great. I have
Speaker 1: Baylor twenty three to fourteen. I think the Bears got
Speaker 1: a couple of big plays through the air. TCU has
Speaker 1: one four straight in this last year. They beat them
Speaker 1: by a touchdown in Waco. So I get your concern,
Speaker 1: but no, the Ricketts factor of the of the tc quarterback.
Speaker 3: Round emotionally mentally conflicted.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: You know my stance on TCU one night stand. Come on,
Speaker 3: you know my stance on TCU. You know where I
Speaker 3: stand on Baylor. I do like this snow advance, but
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 1: Coming up to Waitco Waco Rato games in Fort Worth,
Speaker 1: but all the same game is in Fort Worth.
Speaker 3: I think Baylor is the better team I have all year.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stick with that. I think it's twenty four
Speaker 3: to twenty one Baylor wins, but it's close. Okay, So
Speaker 3: you have Baylor sneaking out the cover. I do, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: I do. Maybe a little bit of a front door
Speaker 3: cover here. Up.
Speaker 1: You just scared some dogs. Sorry A lot of samoid's
Speaker 1: out there. It's gone to a big Tomali Dan.
Speaker 4: Three thirty.
Speaker 1: You couldn't even raise your voice for that one.
Speaker 3: Three thirty CBS NBR LSU at Alabama the Crimson Tide,
Speaker 3: a six and a half point home favorite. Is this
Speaker 3: one game of the century?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: Has it achieved game of the century labeling?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the biggest LSU Alabama matchup since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: I mean we probably say that most ears, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels true enough this year, two playoff teams playing number.
Speaker 3: Two versus number three, if you want to get technical
Speaker 3: about it, talking about the College Trooble playoff rankings, Dan, Yeah,
Speaker 3: big match up here. Alabama's won the last eight, which
Speaker 3: is wild. The last eight have gone to Alabama. They've
Speaker 3: had a dominant run, obviously, not just in this game,
Speaker 3: but throughout all of college football. What's meaningful to me, though,
Speaker 3: is that, for the first time in what feels like forever,
Speaker 3: maybe all the way back to twenty eleven, I had
Speaker 3: a hard time picking a winner here.
Speaker 4: Okay, and I know there are.
Speaker 3: No moral victories in it's football and man ball and
Speaker 3: sports ball and whatever else, but that in and of
Speaker 3: itself stands for something in my book, because for as
Speaker 3: long as I can remember now, BAMA has been so dominant.
Speaker 3: I don't remember having that dilemma before me when looking
Speaker 3: at this game. And I think college football is more
Speaker 3: interesting when this game is interesting. So I'm excited. Just
Speaker 3: I mean, this game is always interesting, It's always interesting,
Speaker 3: but in a modern era. Yeah, I just haven't felt
Speaker 3: in so long like this was a close, almost coin
Speaker 3: flippy kind of game, and that's meaningful to me as
Speaker 3: a college FOT.
Speaker 1: I like LS was averaging three point three points these
Speaker 1: last three years in this matchup, over under LSU scoring
Speaker 1: more than three points, I'll go over. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, did you know that only three times in
Speaker 3: the last fifteen meetings has the winning team scored thirty
Speaker 3: or more points in this matchup.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that exact stat, but yes, I do
Speaker 1: know that it's been relatively low scoring. Where do you
Speaker 1: come down here? So, first off, you didn't mention Tua's
Speaker 1: right ankle.
Speaker 4: I did not. I was building to that, Dan, But continue.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well you asked me a question, so to I
Speaker 1: had a procedure. He I believe had the tightrope procedure.
Speaker 1: The tightrope system anchoring. And I look this up. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the tibia and fibula together with a braided polyethylene chord
Speaker 1: sure tie to help stimulate recovery. Okay, that sounds awkward. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: so that brings up a question to me, is a
Speaker 1: hobbled to a tough better than a healthy bon Knicks? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, really?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm just asking the question because LSU took
Speaker 1: on an Auburn team with an excellent defense and an
Speaker 1: offense that was pretty inconsistent that day, and it was close.
Speaker 1: It was tight. And so if Tua isn't as good
Speaker 1: as a healthy bone Knicks, and Ta certainly is not
Speaker 1: as good as Mac Jones. If he can't move, it's
Speaker 1: a problem. It's a definite problem. So how I come
Speaker 1: down in this game is the worries are obviously to
Speaker 1: his ankle, and to a lesser degree, Bama's rush defense.
Speaker 1: I think they're a good enough big game team. LSU
Speaker 1: has a very efficient ground attack. We've seen Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Laire really thrive this season. He's just he's patient. He
Speaker 1: hits the lane really hard. So he's been a pleasure
Speaker 1: to watch. And on the other side, LSU's pass rush.
Speaker 1: I think there's just generally an assumption that LSU, with
Speaker 1: how well they recruit, especially on defense, and the speed
Speaker 1: on defense that they get after everybody, they haven't been
Speaker 1: really getting home this season. They haven't been getting to quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: have been putting a ton of pressure, at least relative
Speaker 1: to where they've been in previous years, and even stopping
Speaker 1: the ground game of teams you've been able to run.
Speaker 1: We saw some big runs from Florida from Auburn, not
Speaker 1: all game long, but we saw some cracks in this
Speaker 1: LSU rush defense that certainly Alabama can exploit. LSU certainly
Speaker 1: is built to beat Alabama. I still like Alabama's secondary
Speaker 1: a good deal. LSU is going to We've talked about this.
Speaker 1: This is a broken record, the fearlessness, the talent at receiver,
Speaker 1: the size at receiver for LSU, all of that is there.
Speaker 1: But but and I did see I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw that Joe Burrow played in this game last
Speaker 1: year with a separated shoulder. I saw that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that at least is further context perhaps for why
Speaker 1: LSU struggled. But they were not the offense that they
Speaker 1: are this year. Last year I have at thirty to
Speaker 1: seventeen Bama. Wow, that's a pretty big margin. I'm gambling
Speaker 1: onto A being passibly healthy. But I think it's it's
Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa under those weird, stupid lights that they have
Speaker 1: in that stadium. Now I don't like them. Sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: not a fun police officer, but it's not my favorite.
Speaker 1: And I just think those receivers for Alabama going against
Speaker 1: the secondary at LSU, who's so good. There's so much
Speaker 1: talent on that secondary. But over the course of four quarters,
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit worried about this LSU offense against
Speaker 1: Alabama's defense comparable to Auburn's defense. I don't think Alabama
Speaker 1: has quite the talent they did last year. Quinn Williams
Speaker 1: did so much to disrupt LSU last year, and they
Speaker 1: don't have a Quinn Williams upfront this year Alabama. But
Speaker 1: over those four quarters, I think Alabama and that speed
Speaker 1: and at least a seventy five percent to this is
Speaker 1: my pick is built around a seventy five percent healthy
Speaker 1: TOA because you got to pick a percentage if you're
Speaker 1: gonna preview this game and make a you know, plant
Speaker 1: your flag. Thirty to seventeen Bama, So I do think
Speaker 1: they get to thirty exactly.
Speaker 3: My pick is also contingent on a seventy five to
Speaker 3: eighty percent to A. Okay, I think we're looking at
Speaker 3: a fun thirty five to thirty one game.
Speaker 1: Okay, so shootout by relative terms for this matchup, correct.
Speaker 3: I want to see if Bama can run against LSU,
Speaker 3: because if they can, if they can establish Nase Harris,
Speaker 3: that makes their what four headed receiver.
Speaker 1: Monster even more dangerous? Yeah, and Elsie's got a three
Speaker 1: headed receiver monster. They do be fair, yeah, they do.
Speaker 3: But I'm really excited about those Bama receivers this year.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you cover all four of them. Okay,
Speaker 3: I've got Alabama winning thirty five thirty one, but I'm
Speaker 3: taking points here.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you a follow up? Please? So you're
Speaker 1: taking points because the spread is about a touchdown? Yep.
Speaker 1: If to A starts rolls out, rolls as ankle, which
Speaker 1: I don't want to happen, it's like, well, it's mac
Speaker 1: joone this time. How does that alter your prediction? Receivers
Speaker 1: are still there, defense is still there, Najah Harra is
Speaker 1: still there. How does a mac Jones let out, how
Speaker 1: does the mac Jones show alter? Your prediction is an automatic? LSU?
Speaker 4: It's not automatic?
Speaker 3: Okay, it's not automatic because if Nick Saban's proven anything,
Speaker 3: it's that he can adjust. Yeah, and he's adjusted to
Speaker 3: coaching staffs turning over year after year. He's adjusted to
Speaker 3: a lot in his tenure at Alabama. So I don't
Speaker 3: think it necessarily means instant death for Alabama, but it
Speaker 3: definitely means a more conservative game plan, and certainly in
Speaker 3: that instance, the ability to establish Naji Harris or some
Speaker 3: sort of rushing attack would be key.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have twenty seven to twenty four LSU. In
Speaker 1: that situation, I think they adde them.
Speaker 3: I tell you what the move would be, actually, Okay,
Speaker 3: the move would be if Alabama goes up early, if
Speaker 3: you got some sort of live betting app jump on
Speaker 3: LSU and maybe go counter to our seventy five a
Speaker 3: little contingency.
Speaker 1: Oh, you think there's gonna be an overreaction. Alabama goes
Speaker 1: up ten to three with still the two of possibility at.
Speaker 3: More points, and then there's a chance that it tightens up.
Speaker 3: If two, it gets hurt because.
Speaker 1: Two has been locked up. Yeah, he has those ankles.
Speaker 1: The other thing was the left ankle and the right
Speaker 1: the right foot, the right ankle, and injury in that
Speaker 1: area generally stepping forward, that's accuracy being able to step
Speaker 1: into your throws, you know, planting his power hips and
Speaker 1: shoulder whatever his power. But it's the accuracy stepping into
Speaker 1: your throws and really staying on balance and on platform.
Speaker 1: So if accuracy goes, could be a long day.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the four pm slot on Fox. It
Speaker 3: is Iowa, it is Wisconsin. It is the game every
Speaker 3: year that causes us to dig out of the archives.
Speaker 1: The old YouTube video you put together. Uh yeah, the
Speaker 1: nature film, the Iowa Wisconsin nature film for what it is,
Speaker 1: the Heartland Trophy. Yes, I believe, so that is correct.
Speaker 1: There's a Brass Bowl involved.
Speaker 5: Ty.
Speaker 1: Wisconsin's won three in a row, three in a row.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that affects how you pick this game,
Speaker 1: but this might Iowa. For as crazy good as their
Speaker 1: defense has looked basically all year long, their offense is
Speaker 1: averaged less than excuse me, fewer then fewer then one
Speaker 1: touchdown per game against the good teams that they've played
Speaker 1: in Michigan, Penn State, and Iowa State.
Speaker 3: So what that tells me is as at the point spread,
Speaker 3: which is nine and a half, that tells me that.
Speaker 1: Go Wisconsin here. Yeah, so we know what it takes
Speaker 1: to beat Wisconsin at this point, week eleven. It takes
Speaker 1: speed and downfield passing or just being the Illinois fighting alive.
Speaker 1: That's what it takes. Iowa is neither fast or great
Speaker 1: downfield in the passing game. For as much as I
Speaker 1: think we both admire Nate Stanley and the best of
Speaker 1: Nate Stanley, that's not them. That's not how they win games.
Speaker 1: And so I think even though we have downgraded Wisconsin
Speaker 1: a bit since that early start where people were freaking out,
Speaker 1: like they're shutting out everybody, Oh my god, history, I
Speaker 1: have a twenty one ten Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: I've got it, twenty eight thirteen Wisconsin twenty eight thirteen.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of points score against his Iowa defense.
Speaker 1: This is a very and not only is the Iowa
Speaker 1: defense good and your your prediction is valid, but Iowa's
Speaker 1: defense is particularly good at stopping longer run plays by
Speaker 1: Honky are run plays they are? And not that Wisconsin
Speaker 1: relies on that.
Speaker 3: No, but that's that's a and butter thing for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I just I was parkening back to
Speaker 3: the old game that we played probably last week. I
Speaker 3: know we played every week, but how many points does
Speaker 3: iowould need to score to win here against Wisconsin? And
Speaker 3: I think we agree that the answer is probably twenty
Speaker 3: to twenty four.
Speaker 1: They got to score more than twenty. Yeah. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: weather's going to be fine. It'll be a little chilly
Speaker 1: about thirty eight forty, But we're not. That's big ten
Speaker 1: poor stuff. Yeah, No, So can Iowa get there? I
Speaker 1: don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think the Wisconsin defense is too much. I think
Speaker 3: they win, I think they cover. I think it's something
Speaker 3: like twenty eight thirteen. Jack Cohn's been good enough as
Speaker 3: a passer here to give Wisconsin enough balance. And I'm
Speaker 3: sticking to my guns. Twenty eight thirteen Wisconsin wins at home.
Speaker 3: They covered the nine and a half.
Speaker 1: You don't have faith in big game Brian Farrens's offense, No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, all right, so we agree. We're
Speaker 1: were agreeing a lot today, which I don't like this.
Speaker 1: I don't like this at all.
Speaker 3: And finally, in terms of our headliners here, we've got
Speaker 3: a bunch of other games to get through. But eight
Speaker 3: pm on Fox the Nightcap, it is Iowa State on
Speaker 3: the road in Norman, Oklahoma against the Sooners. Oklahoma is
Speaker 3: a fourteen and a half point favorite. DAN of note
Speaker 3: here since Matt Campbell arrived in Ames. The biggest margin
Speaker 3: of victory in this game ten points, only ten points
Speaker 3: by Oklahoma back in twenty sixteen and last year again
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen. But you might remember two years ago
Speaker 3: the big upset in Norman. Iowa State went on the
Speaker 3: road in twenty seventeen, they won thirty eight thirty one.
Speaker 3: Do we think that Matt Campbell has a little bit
Speaker 3: of Lincoln Riley's number here?
Speaker 1: First of all, put Joel Lanning's name on this matchup.
Speaker 1: Please put his name on this matchup fair after his
Speaker 1: performance a little ways ago. I think Matt Campbell gets
Speaker 1: his team up for big games. I think there's almost
Speaker 1: like a little bit of Tom Herman too, maybe played
Speaker 1: down when you shouldn't play up when you should. So
Speaker 1: I always say it's good enough to hang around in
Speaker 1: this game. This is not I agree with that it's
Speaker 1: not a bulletproof Oklahoma defense, especially on the ground, where
Speaker 1: Iowa State has been inconsistent, But the best of Iowa
Speaker 1: State on the ground has pretty impressive more recently. Anyway,
Speaker 1: My problem is I don't know if the Clones have
Speaker 1: enough firepower to keep up in a shootout. And you
Speaker 1: could have said that about k State. That game was
Speaker 1: in the Little Apple, though, So there is a little
Speaker 1: bit a little more juice there, and this one's in Norman.
Speaker 1: I think Ioways stayed in the red zone is good
Speaker 1: enough on defense to turn Oklahoma sixes into threes to
Speaker 1: generate some field goals or field goal attempts. Ultimately, though,
Speaker 1: I think Oklahoma is good enough and they sort of
Speaker 1: go as their running backs go. When we saw in
Speaker 1: that K State game, it was sort of Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: and a little bit of beck Meyer syndrome having to
Speaker 1: do it all himself, and I don't love that idea.
Speaker 1: I have this as a front door cover for Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: a little bit of cover. Sorry dog, sorry doggies forty
Speaker 1: one twenty four Oklahoma, but perhaps it's twenty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty one, you know, thirty one, twenty four deep into
Speaker 1: the game, and then ultimately it's just maybe some sort
Speaker 1: of explosion play at the end. Oklahoma coming off of
Speaker 1: bye week at home. I believe oklhoem is coming off
Speaker 1: a bye week, right, yep, yep, Yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: boomer sooner here, but I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun one for a healthy chunk of it.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma is ninth in the playoff rankings, and I think
Speaker 3: they are smart enough to know that they can't take
Speaker 3: any weeks off. I think Lincoln Riley looks at this
Speaker 3: game and says, if I can score one hundred, I'll try.
Speaker 3: They did have the week off to recover from the
Speaker 3: k State loss.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma's gonna win this game.
Speaker 3: My problem with it as it relates to the point spread, though,
Speaker 3: is that they're gonna win this game by either fourteen
Speaker 3: or twenty one points and it's one hundred percent the
Speaker 3: kind of situation where the point spread comes down to
Speaker 3: the wire and there's a garbage time touchdown that may
Speaker 3: or may not screw the whole thing up. So I
Speaker 3: want the points here. I'll take fourteen with the little
Speaker 3: hook at the end. I think Oklahoma wins thirty eight
Speaker 3: to twenty four. But I don't like that point spread,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna go iwa stay in that respect.
Speaker 1: Here's my problem. Even though we celebrated him for an
Speaker 1: entire month, that would be bro October. Yeah, the end
Speaker 1: of the Oklahoma State game where Brock Party in a
Speaker 1: close game down seven through seventeen interceptions. Do you treat
Speaker 1: a performance like that like, well, everybody has a bad day,
Speaker 1: and like we've said, before. Don't judge somebody on their worst.
Speaker 1: Don't judge somebody on their best. Everything in between is
Speaker 1: what matters. That was his worst day. Did happen relatively
Speaker 1: recently against a team that's probably not as good as Oklahoma?
Speaker 1: Does that color your opinion of him winning a close
Speaker 1: game on the road. No, because we've seen it before. No,
Speaker 1: well we haven't really seen it from brock Party against Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Maybe not, but no, I think he's a good enough
Speaker 3: player that it doesn't It doesn't worry me too much.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think we agree, but I guess we agree
Speaker 1: on the outcome of the game.
Speaker 4: All Right.
Speaker 3: Some other quick notables that we do need to mention here.
Speaker 3: If we could travel back in time, Dan, if you
Speaker 3: could give me the sound for a second ten thirty
Speaker 3: on Friday night on FS one, it's Washington at Oregon State.
Speaker 3: Washington's a ten point road favorite. Now of note here,
Speaker 3: and I do want to mention this. In our initial
Speaker 3: document I did forget to label this game as being
Speaker 3: on a Friday night, So I appreciate you doing the
Speaker 3: responsible thing and attaching the movie art from Ice Cubes
Speaker 3: Friday as well as the Rebecca Black headshot. It's my
Speaker 3: privilege and honor, just to give it a nice little
Speaker 3: touch there and remind me. Also, Dan, this game starts
Speaker 3: at three point thirty am one time. Are you gonna
Speaker 3: stay up for this one?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, no, absolutely not. It's soloed out Saturday.
Speaker 1: I'll be in bed by eight. I need everything I
Speaker 1: can get. So, as it relates to this specific game,
Speaker 1: it is a short week road hangover spot for Washington
Speaker 1: losing the way they did to Utah going on the road,
Speaker 1: and it's not a long flight to Corvallis from Seattle.
Speaker 1: It's pretty sure. I've actually done Eugenis Seattle and it's
Speaker 1: actually pretty scary. And the small plans that Alaska has
Speaker 1: there is an opportunity for an all time great kung
Speaker 1: fu cliche and student becoming the master Jonathan Smith and
Speaker 1: Chris Peterson. And certainly Washington's offense has not been the
Speaker 1: same since Jonathan Smith left. The Oregon State's defense is
Speaker 1: by far the worst thing in this game. But I
Speaker 1: cannot ignore the short week road and the hangover factor
Speaker 1: as well. So I have this as a field goal
Speaker 1: game for Washington. Yeah, I have this as like thirty
Speaker 1: four to thirty one. I don't think Washington's as bad
Speaker 1: as they've been against the better teams on their schedule
Speaker 1: and Gallen Stanford, and I don't think Oregon State is
Speaker 1: quite there defensively to beat at least an okay Washington team.
Speaker 1: So they'll run a little bit on Washington because that's
Speaker 1: what you're able to do. They have two good running
Speaker 1: backs and Artavis Pierce and Jamar Jefferson. I hope everybody's healthy.
Speaker 1: I did not look up Oregon State's current health, but
Speaker 1: I think they're healthy. Yeah, Oregon States, wait for thirty
Speaker 1: one Washington Shamar Smith, Nashan Wright and Kolby Taylor per
Speaker 1: Don Best. I assume the master the master.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I uh, they're my home dog of the week.
Speaker 1: Actually, Oregon State, will you watch this game? You don't
Speaker 1: sleep hoom dog of the week.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not watching this game, but short week, weird
Speaker 3: spot in Corvallis. The Beaver defense is capital be bad.
Speaker 3: But I don't know they score points. So I don't
Speaker 3: think Washington's all that great. I've been saying that for
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks now. I don't think they win outright,
Speaker 3: that's a bridge too far. But can they cover ten
Speaker 3: at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can. One of the weirder things that happens
Speaker 1: at Oregon State games. I assume you have not been
Speaker 1: to Corvallis No okay. On big third down plays or
Speaker 1: big they need a stop plays on defense, they pipe
Speaker 1: in the sound of a chainsaw, which almost doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: I understand how it's congruent to a beaver in you know,
Speaker 1: cutting wood, eating wood, whatever, but I feel like the
Speaker 1: chainsaw has replaced the beaver. So they're celebrating the technological
Speaker 1: advancement that's putting beavers out of work and creating dams.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're familiar with that. That's a
Speaker 1: little bit just a local trib for you.
Speaker 3: It's a little that's a little bit of a deep
Speaker 3: cut for me. Dan, not gonna lie, no problem. What
Speaker 3: is your order from Yakos? By the way, my order
Speaker 3: from Yakos?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're going in there, you want a quick dog,
Speaker 1: what's what's your order?
Speaker 3: I will usually get two to three Yaco dog, depending
Speaker 3: how hungry I am toppings. It's usually just the Yaco dog,
Speaker 3: the hot dog with the special sauce on.
Speaker 1: What is the special sauce? That's sort of like a
Speaker 1: chili sauce interesting like a thinner or a sledgeier. And
Speaker 1: I say that lovingly. I love a good sludgie chili.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's sort of in between, actually, okay, a little
Speaker 3: bit of a little bit of a little bit of
Speaker 3: bee is it?
Speaker 1: Is it like a squiggle to it? Or is it
Speaker 1: a squiggle? Yeah, like a mustard or ketchup squiggle like
Speaker 1: thin enough for a squiggle. No squiggle. It is like
Speaker 1: it's a top, Yes it is. Okay, two or three
Speaker 1: yacos dogs, So I assume they're not super No, they're
Speaker 1: not gigantic, right, Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Next game three thirty ABC USC at Arizona State. Arizona
Speaker 3: State a two point favorite once a year, Dan we
Speaker 3: gather to reflect upon Lin Kiffin getting fired on the tarmac. Yes,
Speaker 3: at almost what six years now?
Speaker 1: This one's a coin flip to me. This game.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with ASU for two reasons. First Off,
Speaker 3: the defense is pretty good. I don't think good enough
Speaker 3: to fully stop USC, but good enough to force turnovers
Speaker 3: and get Jayde and Daniels a few more bites at
Speaker 3: the apple. And secondly, I think there's an opportunity here
Speaker 3: for Ineno Benjamin to run the football and control some
Speaker 3: of that time of possession for ASU. I think it's ugly.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go twenty one to twenty Asu. I'll take
Speaker 3: the points even though there's only two of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, who's favored? So it's Asu? Excuse me. ASU's favored
Speaker 1: by two, right, So you think they'll win by one?
Speaker 1: So you're going to take You think it's a one
Speaker 1: point game. You feel confidently enough in USC winning or
Speaker 1: losing by a hair? Sure? Okay, it's reasonable enough. USC
Speaker 1: still beat up and they're definitely in letdown, if not
Speaker 1: body blow mode. You can play the sound. And also
Speaker 1: it's it's possible. I don't know if I'm fully there,
Speaker 1: but there's a potential bottom falling out of this USC
Speaker 1: season in play? Right? Yeah? All we hear about is
Speaker 1: will the new USC ad have permission to hire urban Meyer?
Speaker 1: Will USC make a move sooner rather than later? Who
Speaker 1: is James Franklin on the table? We saw James Franklin rumors?
Speaker 1: Is he a potential candidate for USC? I saw I
Speaker 1: think it was Pete Thamil from Yahoo said he is
Speaker 1: who some people at USC If it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: urban Meyer? Who makes a lot of sense interesting. Okay,
Speaker 1: USC struggled with a similar Colorado team. I would say
Speaker 1: on the road that they have the potential for offense,
Speaker 1: but there are definitely some deficiencies all over the field.
Speaker 1: That was just a couple weeks ago, and that's a
Speaker 1: beat up USC. With that struggle ASU weathered. They didn't
Speaker 1: do a great job, but they weathered the Wazoo air
Speaker 1: raid and came away with a win. I was more
Speaker 1: because of Wazoo's defense than anything, but still they weathered
Speaker 1: it enough. I have ASU by six thirty one, twenty five.
Speaker 1: I think it's a bad situational spot for the Trojans.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 4: I do agree with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have ASU covering here all right, rapid fire
Speaker 3: through five other games. Yeah, three thirty ACC Network wake
Speaker 3: Forest at Virginia Tech.
Speaker 4: Wake Forest a two and a half point road favorite.
Speaker 1: DAN. Last time they played, Frank Beemer raised his hands
Speaker 1: in glory about going to an overtime period at zero zero.
Speaker 1: I believe that was a six to three double overtime thriller.
Speaker 1: The last time they played, that's it was twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, twenty thirteen. It's been years, plural years since
Speaker 1: these two teams have played. I think it takes an
Speaker 1: offense to take down Wake. Sort of takes a village,
Speaker 1: and I don't think from what I saw from Virginia
Speaker 1: Tech last week, even though they're at home, even though
Speaker 1: it's in Lane Stadium. The thing that I am worried
Speaker 1: about though I thought this line would be a little bigger.
Speaker 1: It surprised me too. Worry some lines you're supposed to
Speaker 1: steer into. But I can't justify a Virginia Tech offensive
Speaker 1: explosion because I think Wake's gonna get there. So I
Speaker 1: have waked by a touchdown after Virginia Tech last week
Speaker 1: let their potential signature season win slip away. We agree
Speaker 1: also at three point thirty ESPN two Louisville Louisville at Miami.
Speaker 4: Miami is a six point favorite.
Speaker 3: This is another one where I thought the line was
Speaker 3: gonna be different, okay, and I think I like the
Speaker 3: Miami defense too much. I really like this line for
Speaker 3: the Caynes. I thought it was gonna be higher. So
Speaker 3: I'm taking Miami.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Miami as well. So for
Speaker 1: similar reasons, it's a bit of a letdown spot after
Speaker 1: the Florida State win that got Florida State's coach fired,
Speaker 1: or at least was the final nail. Louisville just allows
Speaker 1: too much through the air. And I know Miami has
Speaker 1: been up and down offensively, relying on big plays, but
Speaker 1: they got him last week and they've gone the past
Speaker 1: couple weeks, and so I think the Miami offensive line
Speaker 1: has improved. So I think just maybe that passing attack alone,
Speaker 1: because Louisville's defense is improved, but it's still all that good.
Speaker 1: It's you know, your daughter has an awful, awful boyfriend,
Speaker 1: they break up and she starts dating somebody new and
Speaker 1: not great, but it's better than the old guy. So
Speaker 1: Louisville has a ways to go. They're fun on offense,
Speaker 1: but give me Miami.
Speaker 3: Here three point thirty ESPN. We've got ky State on
Speaker 3: the road at Texas. Texas is about a touchdown favorite here, Dan.
Speaker 3: That feels like a lot to me. Why feels like
Speaker 3: a lot to me because I think k State does
Speaker 3: the fundamentals quite well and they've been pretty dept at
Speaker 3: controlling the clock. Still not entirely sure that they're balanced
Speaker 3: enough on offense, but I feel like Chris Kleiman has
Speaker 3: been working all week in his fantasy fact after the
Speaker 3: Oklahoma win two weeks ago, to try and come up
Speaker 3: with a game plan here for this Texas game. So
Speaker 3: I think Texas may win the game outright, but maybe
Speaker 3: like thirty four thirty.
Speaker 1: I think it could be close. Okay, so let's not
Speaker 1: judge Texas on their worst day, and they aren't getting healthier.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how healthier they'll be in the secondary,
Speaker 1: but this is not exactly a Kansas State team who
Speaker 1: should be able to throw a ton. But I guess
Speaker 1: we could have said that about Kansas. I have Texas close.
Speaker 1: It's they're coming off a bye week, they're at home.
Speaker 1: It's the second straight road game for Kansas State. However
Speaker 1: much you believe in that being an obstacle, Kansas State
Speaker 1: probably needs to win on the ground, and at least
Speaker 1: the ground is a place where Texas is not a disaster.
Speaker 1: It's not bad, right, it's fine. They're fine up front.
Speaker 1: The secondary has been just a mess. You can pick
Speaker 1: on them all day. So I'm going to go with Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the points, though, So I think
Speaker 1: we agree. I have Texas like thirty three to thirty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we agree.
Speaker 3: Okay, seven PESPN Miszoo at Georgia. Georgia a seventeen point favorite. Here, Dan,
Speaker 3: we've had this one circled for a long time.
Speaker 1: I've again thoroughly erased the circle on Scandal on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a game that we had highlighted a
Speaker 3: while back. It's always been a bit of an intriguing
Speaker 3: matchup for me. I think George is way better than Miszoo,
Speaker 3: let's get that out there. But this does feel like
Speaker 3: a weird game where somehow Miszoo covers the spread, keeps
Speaker 3: it close even though Georgia wins. It sort of is
Speaker 3: like a little bit damaging to the dogs.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven thirty one Wyoming twenty one to fourteen, Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: twenty nine to seven Kentucky. There is your road slate.
Speaker 1: I know Zoo, I know in twenty ninety.
Speaker 3: But yet a couple of weeks ago you said, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the game that they're going to play him tight.
Speaker 1: I was a different guy a couple of weeks ago. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so potential letdown spot for Georgia Miszoo though again nightmare
Speaker 1: on the road. And this is a quote I hate
Speaker 1: to see it was. I think it was Bury oed
Speaker 1: and at least it was an Amazoo coach said if
Speaker 1: we had to play tonight, it would not be Kelly
Speaker 1: Bryant out there. He's not ready. That's a subversion of that.
Speaker 1: That was a day and a half ago, and this
Speaker 1: is Miszoo on the road. I don't see it. I
Speaker 1: think even with it being a letdown spot, maybe Georgia
Speaker 1: starts slow like they're prone to do. I have it
Speaker 1: thirty four to thirteen Dogs.
Speaker 3: And finally seven pm ESPN two app State. App State
Speaker 3: lost a week ago. They are on the road at
Speaker 3: South Carolina. The line is only five in favor of
Speaker 3: South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Dan. Yeah, this is an interesting matchup, isn't it? A
Speaker 1: team that gave up forty one to Tennessee m HM.
Speaker 1: App State plays a tough brand of football. App State
Speaker 1: does play a tough brand of football. Their defense isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily was it where it was? Excuse me under Scott
Speaker 1: Sadderfield and his staff, But still fine, still pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If South Carolina wins this game, it'll be on the ground.
Speaker 1: And that's what I think happens here. App State coming
Speaker 1: off of a loss, going back out on the Road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take South Carolina. I get South Carolina by
Speaker 1: a field goal. Oh, so you have You're gonna take
Speaker 1: those points, taking the points, getting South Carolina wins by
Speaker 1: seven late. All right, That is all I have in
Speaker 1: my list, Dan, you got anything else? H Wyoming at
Speaker 1: Boise State. I know you like to ignore the Mountain
Speaker 1: West because you have an East coast bias, but that
Speaker 1: should be quite fun. I think I have Boise here,
Speaker 1: even after there's slow start in surviving a shootout against
Speaker 1: San Jose State. Just a tough place to win. A
Speaker 1: telemarketer from Wichita, Kansas is calling me right now. Otherwise, Ty,
Speaker 1: I have Duquine, Bob Morris fighting Bobbies both four and
Speaker 1: o in the Northeastern Conference, Kennesaw State, the Owls against
Speaker 1: the Campbell Camels, ow Wools, ow Wwolves, Big Big South matchup,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire four and one in the Colonial against James
Speaker 1: Madison five and oh in the Colonial the Underrated not underrated,
Speaker 1: but I have ignored this logo for far too long,
Speaker 1: and they also happen to be good. But the the
Speaker 1: Ut Martin Skyhawks. Have you ever seen the Skyhawk logo?
Speaker 1: It's amazing, It's an eagle, but the eagle has like
Speaker 1: those aviator goggles resting on its head with the cool
Speaker 1: wing situation on either side. Great logo they're taking on
Speaker 1: Austin p They're four and one in the Ohio Valley
Speaker 1: ut Martin five and one and now tie your week eleven, Yes,
Speaker 1: headliner forget LSU Alabama Yankee Stadium tie. You know this
Speaker 1: game is in Yankee Stadium, right, I know. I know
Speaker 1: Princeton at seven and oh, Dartmouth at seven and oh,
Speaker 1: and there is a line. I did find a site
Speaker 1: five dimes. I believe FCS lines the mouthis.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I regret that weird, We'd already regret it. Three and
Speaker 1: a half point favorites in what I'm calling because Dartmouth
Speaker 1: is a New Hampshire and Princeton is in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: I'm calling it the Uper Bowl. I work shot that
Speaker 1: name a little clunky. I work shop. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's brilliant, and I spent more time on that on
Speaker 1: any game preview fair. I'm gonna take there's something in
Speaker 1: the air in Dartmouth. There is something in the air,
Speaker 1: and they win on a hail Mary last week. I
Speaker 1: love Princeton. I love that offense. But the Dartmouth defense
Speaker 1: allowing ten a game. Give me the mouth these. I
Speaker 1: stand by it. Let's go mouth these. I'll do it
Speaker 1: double mouth. Ye a, God, regret that even more. On
Speaker 1: that note, please drop that pulsating pounding, pure bliss, big
Speaker 1: stanky drum. Five.
Speaker 3: All right, we got three games on the docket here,
Speaker 3: starting lines for these, by the way, Oh okay, starting
Speaker 3: at High New Go ahead, you read them off then.
Speaker 1: All right? Holy Cross the Crossaders at three and h
Speaker 1: in the Pat League, favored by nearly two touchdowns, thirteen
Speaker 1: points over the Eddies of Lafayette at noon.
Speaker 4: I go Yettes, I go big, John Burke. You know
Speaker 4: where I stand.
Speaker 1: As well, the true big noon Saturday game. Lee High
Speaker 1: at three and one at Bucknell one and two in
Speaker 1: the Pat League. But it looks I think Lehigh's is
Speaker 1: the Lee High. They're given four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go Lee High minus the points. I
Speaker 3: don't usually like to take the road spot here, but
Speaker 3: Lee High has been playing pretty well last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: So let's go Tyler. Monica had a big week last week.
Speaker 3: Let's go Mountain Hawks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna go Mountain Hawks. Engineers, whatever, you gotta
Speaker 1: call him Fordham one and two at Colgate one three Colgate.
Speaker 4: I think it's one two in a row. Mm hmmm,
Speaker 4: two in a row since.
Speaker 1: Not winning any at all for a good chunk of
Speaker 1: the season. Well, they're one in three in the pat League,
Speaker 1: so one.
Speaker 4: And three in the pat League.
Speaker 3: But I think I think two wins overall, and I
Speaker 3: could be wrong about that. Okay, I'm gonna go Colgate
Speaker 3: here to shock the world at home.
Speaker 1: The Bronx is the center of the college football universe,
Speaker 1: obviously with Yankee Stadium hosting the Nuper Bowl. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed I did put a Nuper
Speaker 1: Bowl sound You know I did not see the sound files.
Speaker 1: It's okay, we can we can play it another week
Speaker 1: or play it in the recap. There's something, there's something
Speaker 1: about the Bronx. I'm gonna take Fordham here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the for the Fordham Rams. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you are going to the Nuper Bowl, La Morada
Speaker 1: for Mexican food. La Morada m O r A d
Speaker 1: a La Morada really good. Wa Hawkan food Wahawcken Wahaka
Speaker 1: is an area. It's a state in Mexico. It's a
Speaker 1: very specific style if you like Molais, like we've talked about,
Speaker 1: No I do any ingredients, sure, yeah, okay Claudas oh man,
Speaker 1: I wish that in an old blue Apron spot you
Speaker 1: had to read off that you could make Claudas t
Speaker 1: l a I udat.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm going in that direction also, Ty, before we stop,
Speaker 1: Before we hit stop on the show, I'm actually going
Speaker 1: on The Lead, which is a terrific show that Wondery does.
Speaker 1: It's a daily sports show. They partnered with the Athletic,
Speaker 1: interviewing different writers based on the story of the day.
Speaker 1: So if it's a big it's a big day for
Speaker 1: the Lakers, they talk to the whoever's covering the Lakers
Speaker 1: for the Athletic. If it's a big day for the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos for whatever reason, they talk to the person
Speaker 1: covering the Broncos. And so I'm going on the show
Speaker 1: to talk about LSU Alabama. So I figured let's let's
Speaker 1: get to know the Lead a little bit more before
Speaker 1: we go, since they do a terrific job doing a
Speaker 1: daily sports show. Up stuff every morning of the week
Speaker 1: for your commute. Have a listen, and now before we
Speaker 1: go on very excited to take a take a nice look,
Speaker 1: take a dip into the pool of our friends at
Speaker 1: another Wondery show, and it's Kavitha Davidson and Alters. I said,
Speaker 1: Alters Honders kelto because what I did was I combined
Speaker 1: your names. But they host the Lead for both Wondery
Speaker 1: and The Athletic, and if you have not listened to
Speaker 1: the lead, First of all, shame on you. You are
Speaker 1: doing a poor job with your digital audio consumption. Second
Speaker 1: of all, as you probably know, they do a daily
Speaker 1: sports show with The Athletic and Wondery, So every morning
Speaker 1: you wake up, you get on your way to work
Speaker 1: and boom, there is an episode of the Lead. They're
Speaker 1: talking about the biggest sports stories and talking to experts
Speaker 1: at the Athletic. Not that they're not smart, but how
Speaker 1: can you know about everything in every single sport? You
Speaker 1: might as well lean on the experts. So whether it's
Speaker 1: the Lakers, the Broncos, or Florida State or maybe the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild, I don't know. I don't know, and I
Speaker 1: would like to know. So Kavitha Onders, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining me.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having us.
Speaker 1: Dan, what an intro. Oh my gosh, I've been working
Speaker 1: on that all day, so I think I did the
Speaker 1: concept justice. And part of the reason that I'm having
Speaker 1: you on besides that I'm just fans of the show,
Speaker 1: is also I'm appearing on the show to talk about
Speaker 1: LSU Alabama, so I figured we'd make this official. Go
Speaker 1: both ways. Tell me about how the lead works, how
Speaker 1: it operates.
Speaker 5: Well, it is as a heavy lift, but it's a
Speaker 5: lot of fun and essentially we just dive into the
Speaker 5: sort of the biggest and the most fascinating sports stories
Speaker 5: of the day, and like you mentioned, we're hitting all
Speaker 5: sports and all kinds of stories. We tend to do
Speaker 5: a lot of profiles of really interesting athletes or people
Speaker 5: of note in the world of sports, but we're really
Speaker 5: just kind of curious about what's happening out there and
Speaker 5: trying to find surprising and compelling stories and then to
Speaker 5: find the best people and the best sports reporters to
Speaker 5: help us tell them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that that's you know, if you
Speaker 2: follow what we do over at the Athletic, you know,
Speaker 2: and I came over to the podcast from being a
Speaker 2: sports business reporter for the Athletic. You know, we've got
Speaker 2: so many reporters who have just been covering these teams
Speaker 2: for years, who are on the ground there, and you know,
Speaker 2: if something happens in New Orleans, we've got like four
Speaker 2: people that we can call on in New Orleans to
Speaker 2: come on and talk about that. And that's that's really
Speaker 2: cool to us.
Speaker 1: So it actually does bring up a question, how do
Speaker 1: you I know you're leaning on the experts, but you
Speaker 1: have to be able to ask smart questions. You have
Speaker 1: to no context to bring information out of these experts
Speaker 1: in various cities. How are you able to download content
Speaker 1: like I have to know about dozens, if not like
Speaker 1: over one hundred college football teams, and that's already a
Speaker 1: heavy lift. How do you jump across sports to fully
Speaker 1: understand context to bring good information out of your interviewees.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll answer that because the answer often is Kavitha.
Speaker 5: She is an encyclopedia of sports information, and we do
Speaker 5: lean on her quite a bit. But you know, it's
Speaker 5: also very much a team effort. We've got a team
Speaker 5: of producers who are amazing researchers who create prep sheets
Speaker 5: and outlines for us and prep us for interviews and
Speaker 5: talk through story ideas with us, and you know, research
Speaker 5: is a big part of what we do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm just gonna jump in and say and
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Ondrews, thank you. You know, like I've
Speaker 2: covered sports for six years now, and I'm a generalist, right,
Speaker 2: Like I've covered all sports, so I have a pretty
Speaker 2: good baseline knowledge of, you know, anything that we could
Speaker 2: talk about, but you know, without going as deep as
Speaker 2: these experts go. You know, that's kind that kind of
Speaker 2: sets the foundation for you know, when we do these
Speaker 2: deep dives, and that also kind of helps for us
Speaker 2: that you know, we do have this incredible staff of
Speaker 2: people who not all of them are sports fans, so
Speaker 2: they can kind of filter out, you know, the stuff
Speaker 2: when I get way too much into my heads and
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, you remember when this happened in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty seven. Nobody else remembers that. I don't either because
Speaker 2: I wasn't born.
Speaker 5: And I would also just add real quickly that you know,
Speaker 5: we are both we both love sports. We're both very
Speaker 5: curious about sports, but we try to get out of
Speaker 5: the way of the story as much as possible. Like
Speaker 5: the show isn't about us, it's about the storytellers that
Speaker 5: we bring on and it's about the stories themselves. So
Speaker 5: we're not out there to try and impress anyone or
Speaker 5: like validate ourselves with how much we know about sports.
Speaker 5: We're just there to try and help tell these really
Speaker 5: powerful stories.
Speaker 1: Oh we have completely different ideologies then, because I love
Speaker 1: no one myself and taking some credit for everything I know, Well,
Speaker 1: maybe we do a little core of my being. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My final question is, and I know, Kavitha, this is
Speaker 1: probably more appropriate to you. I think you're a bigger
Speaker 1: college football fan, but do you have strong LSU Alabama thoughts?
Speaker 1: You know going into the game? Is there a part
Speaker 1: of the narrative, the storyline of the game that you're
Speaker 1: particularly interested? Do you have a pick? Do you have
Speaker 1: a hot take? How are you landing with this matchup
Speaker 1: of the century?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I think that we've bandied about
Speaker 2: the idea of the game of the century and how
Speaker 2: many times we have had the game of the century
Speaker 2: in the last tenth of a century. It's the best
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see. First of all, is too a
Speaker 2: playing do we have Do we have that confirmation.
Speaker 1: He is supposed to play? He is going He had
Speaker 1: a little procedure done the tightrope procedure on his ankle
Speaker 1: and supposedly will play what percentage of fully healthy tou h,
Speaker 1: he'll be nobody knows which.
Speaker 5: By the way, have you guys watched online videos of
Speaker 5: the tightrope procedure?
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to recommend that you
Speaker 5: do it or not, but you will not be able
Speaker 5: to unsee it or unfeel it.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have a pick? Do you have any
Speaker 1: strong thoughts?
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be LSU's year, man. I mean,
Speaker 5: they've lost, they've lost for eight straight years. They finally
Speaker 5: have the team that they've been working towards for a
Speaker 5: number of seasons. Now they've got the quarterback that they
Speaker 5: need to finally break the Nick Saban curse. And even
Speaker 5: though they're on the road, I don't know, I just
Speaker 5: think this is their year.
Speaker 2: Didn't we do the calculation at some point in preparing
Speaker 2: for your the two of your episode that we're running
Speaker 2: that like, Nick Saban in the course of this rivalry
Speaker 2: is like fourteen and four which team he's coaching?
Speaker 5: That's right? Yeah, Yeah, you'd be silly to bet against
Speaker 5: Nick Saban if you go by the odds, but I'm
Speaker 5: going to go against the odds.
Speaker 1: Nick Saban and Math get along quite well. That is
Speaker 1: the lesson near All right, Kavifa Anders, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for your time and again anywhere where podcasts can
Speaker 1: be downloaded and subscribed to do that. For the lead
Speaker 1: from Wondery and the Athletic. Thanks again, you guys, thank you,
Speaker 1: thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Dan all right, Dan Cool, I like it. Thank you,
Speaker 3: good stuff. Check out the lead another great Wondery show.
Speaker 3: We're happy to be part of the Wondery family and
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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Yeah, it's I mean, I love a good
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Speaker 3: Well, don't forget to check that out, and don't forget
Speaker 3: to check out our week eleven recap show that'll be
Speaker 3: up on Sunday afternoon. After all the action As you
Speaker 3: are watching week eleven on this scan tron Saturday.
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