WEBVTT - Championship Week Recap 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:05.600 Welcome to the solid verbo. I'll that for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.160 I'm a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.000 be happy. You want to be happy for day Edith State? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:19.439 Is that? Whoo whoom? And Dan and Tye welcome back 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.079 to the solid verbal boys and girls. My name is 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.200 ty hilden Brand, jutting me as always over there in 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.160 beautiful New York City. My man Danrew Beansteinzir, how are you? 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.600 Ty I'm terrific and I'm told a little birdie told 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.680 me that you have extensive thoughts on this quick lane 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.080 Bowl match. I do guess the floor is yours? 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:40.960 I do No, we'll get into that when we get 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.479 to the bowl matchups a little bit later. So just 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.040 to peel back the curtain. Normally we record this recap 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.840 show about nine to thirty Eastern Time on a Sunday morning, 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.960 but because of the playoff announcements, because of the Bowl 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.840 announcements that are still coming out as we're doing this show, 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.600 we decided to record it for Eastern so that we 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.960 had a more complete set of data to present to 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:01.760 over ballers. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.320 Is that right correct? Yes, that is true. We could 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.160 have recorded this morning and just talked about the conference 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.080 championship games and any updated coaching stuff. But you know what, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.520 it didn't feel right to cheat everybody of our strong 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.720 Bowl thoughts. That's correct. The playoff rankings that became pretty 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.559 not the rankings, but in terms of the four teams 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.280 who would make the playoff pretty obvious after all was 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.200 said and done yesterday. As we record this Sunday, it's 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.280 important to date this by the way, Yes, so if 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.319 something crazy happens Sunday, four pm Eastern, we wanted to 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:33.840 give you the full scope, as full as we could 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.080 give absolutely, so as we are recording this show, we're 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:39.920 going to save some of the bull announcements for the 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.040 very end if we can. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.000 Hopefully we'll get a full pallette here. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.680 In shout out to everybody waiting to see the bull 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.800 match ups and hear them on this show. If you're 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:50.400 hearing them for. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.280 The real times, if you're hearing them for the first 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.400 time on our show, we will do our best to 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.760 present them in their entirety, at least as it becomes 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.160 available to us, probably by the stages of this show. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.920 But hello, hey, welcome. We made it through the college 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.360 football season. If you can believe that. There still is 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.239 the Army Navy game next week, which we'll talk a 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.720 little bit about at some point in time. But for 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.919 the interim, we've got all of our conference championship games 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.639 in the books. We're going to go through all of those. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.080 We're going to play your reverbs here momentarily. 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So stick around for that. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.560 All right, Why don't we start where we have started 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.160 all year. Let's many folks styled into our reverblind four 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.880 waight verbal one. They also sent in voice memos to 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.800 the reverbline at gmail dot com. And our boy Ryan, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.400 who's been cutting these up for us most of this season, 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:43.480 did an admirable job. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:44.600 Have a listen. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.520 The lady throwing overhanded and that doctor Pepper toss one. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:51.920 That's awesome. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.600 Hey, this is Chris calling from Waco, Texas. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.640 Daniel from Oklahoma here, Colin. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.920 Hello, In. This is Sewn from Seattle. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.680 Hey, this is Dylan. I'm calling from ben Ridge. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.280 Hi. This is Hayden and Notre Dame, Indiana. Hey, this 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.080 is Amy from Portland and I'm married to a man 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.920 from Oklahoma. And all I gotta say is Okay, Boomers 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.039 go dock. So it's halftime of the TAC twelfth Championship game, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:24.000 and my youths Well, I'm researching airfare to San Antonio. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.320 Hi, this is still from Salt Lake and got the 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:28.080 pain hurts. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.960 So I tried to put my emotions down to taper 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.680 and I wrote a poem. I had a football team 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:34.400 called the Youth. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.600 They died, They died. It looked like our offense was sleeping. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.839 I cried, I cried, go. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.600 Youth, Got this hurts. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.719 Utah's uniforms were clean as hell, but they certainly did 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:49.920 not play that way. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.960 They're going to need some extra serotonin to get over 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.600 this championship Saturday. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.039 Hey, didn't hi to Alex calling from Santa Clara after 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.760 the Packfield Championship in is Arizona State the best team 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:03.680 in the Pac twelve? 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:04.599 Just kidding? 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.680 Oregon wins, Go Duck? 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.240 Do you smell that? It's the fresh aroma of Roses? 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:15.240 We took the pack Go Duck tight, Dan, you guys, 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.200 do you smell that? 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:17.120 Is that. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.120 Roses? Go Duck? All of the Bears down in Waco 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.119 loved Christmas. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:29.080 A lot, but Alex Grinch, who lived just north of Waco, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:30.000 did not. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:35.280 I witnessed my Baylor Bears almost beat the perennial powerhouse 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.800 of the Oklahoma Sooners with a third string scout team 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.520 quarterback and Jalen Hurt giving two terrible turnovers. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.719 But now we shall see. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.800 This is David from Columbus calling to say I am 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.640 emotionally and physically exhausted. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.240 After the most stressful fourteen point conference championship win. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:56.320 I've ever watched. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.760 Let's hope the Bucks remember how to play the first 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:00.200 third me. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.640 Into a football game, and hopefully we can beat up 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.400 on some tigers. Go Bucks. Hi. This is Hayden and 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.120 Notre Dame, Indiana watching as my team doesn't have a 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.320 conference championship game, just like Alabama. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.200 Joe Irish, Hey, yow, I've been alive long, se safe, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.600 I am looks like our day answers getting pretty advanceder 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.680 I may neh everybody as always Tiger bad hat. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:28.719 Right, baby's sec and I starting this state clearly this year. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.560 It's Sunday morning in Athens, Georgia, and the sun did rise, 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.599 only to shed more light on the fact that Jake 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:41.800 Frum does not at all have Thaker Mayfield is It's. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.240 Not a good run for Georgia when you have more 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.560 players injured and points cord in that SC championship. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.719 I feel like the Georgia Athletics staff is just going 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.240 to trudge out like a World War two doctor at 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.680 this point with a cigarette in one hand, saying, Oh, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.359 it doesn't look like you're gonna have too good of 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.560 a time. But what about those Notre Dame Irish? 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:01.400 Huh Dan? 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.040 How about Dan Tigers? 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.279 How about the Hawaiians blow roasting ladies and gentlemen? The 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:16.200 Broncos bar back? Guess who's back back again? Playne Kiffin's back, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.200 Tell a friend. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:23.800 All right, there you go, out there, there you go. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.320 Thank you to one and all for calling all season long. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.480 It was a ton of fun. Again, thanks to our 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.480 boy Ryan for cutting those up, and thanks to all 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.360 of her ballers, the hundreds, if not thousands of people 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.120 who called in throughout the course of the last fifteen weeks. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.160 It's been a ton of fun to listen and relive 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:45.480 some of these college football moments with you. So, Daniel, Yes, 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:50.120 Captain Tye, thank you. By the way, did you catch 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.360 Gus Johnson going all Captain Jack on Jack Cone? 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.880 Of course I did, Tye, Captain Jack. The two's cruise 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.960 is permeating the college football lands. Whether you like it 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.480 or not, it's all very real. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.480 We're going to walk back through the weekend in chronological order. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.840 It's a quasi oral history, if you will. It was 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.520 the best way I could think to do it. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.160 But okay, let's start just counting on each other. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.600 That's correct, Tale, that's correct, Okay, sitting around the campfire here. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:20.000 Sure. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:25.800 The day after, we framed this weekend out as sort 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.360 of the and one scenario, Like, there were three teams 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.600 that we knew were on an elite level, and then 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.400 there was that one more spot left in the playoffs 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.080 that the committee would have to fill and we didn't 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.160 really know what would happen. We had a few options 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.400 that we presented. It could have gotten crazy. It didn't, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.360 and alas it was pretty obvious in the end. But 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.480 first up to try and claim that spot was the 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.880 Utah Utes in the Pac twelve game on Friday night. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.199 Coming into this, they were ranked fifth. In hindsight, they 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:58.920 got to be sick because I think a win would 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.280 have almost definitely put them through into the playoff, but 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.760 not meant to be. Dan, your Oregon Ducks. You're defending 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:10.320 red box ball champion Oregon Ducks. Yeah, they're now packed 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.280 twelve champions. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:12.920 Where's my hat as well. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.720 They win by a thirty seven to fifteen score. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.600 Walk me through this, Dan, I may I just say, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.120 I am supremely disappointed that when you said it had 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.000 an and one flare to it, that you were not 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.520 talking about skipped to my lou and the professor. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.319 And no, no, I thought about that, baby, no, no, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:32.800 no no no. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.600 I baby shack well s we oh god, I'm forgetting 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:41.000 all my guys here. But my reaction to Utah Oregan 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.640 is somebody who was pretty confident in watching both of 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.120 these teams for a good chunk of time and knowing 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.760 that Oregon had the higher ceiling because they just have 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.000 the I think higher collection, the better collection of talent, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.200 but Utah just had fewer questions. Like we talked about, 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.839 I was somewhat surprised by Oregon coming out the way 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.080 they did, but I suppose it shouldn't have been that 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.160 much of a surprise because we saw them play up 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.040 or sometimes down to their opponents all year long. We 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.000 saw the defense look rocking against Auburn and USC and 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.480 not necessarily against Washington. But they came to play against Washington. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.640 They came away, especially away from Audsen, with some pretty 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.120 big wins or performances. I'm not going to talk about 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.520 the end of the Auburn game. So what they look 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:28.120 like almost immediately against Utah was both familiar and surprising 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.839 all at the same time. So I just I came 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.720 up with the offensive line just completely pulverized Utah upfront, 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.760 which nobody's really done this year. No, justin Herbert first 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.640 of all, keeping the ball on runs early to actually 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.080 run the pistol as intended, because you're supposed to have 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.760 at least a threat of a quarterback running, and that's 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.880 not anything Oregon and Herbert offered leading up to this game. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:55.160 So that was a new but expected wrinkle if you're 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.479 running a pistol offense, and then Oregon's defense just completely 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.600 swarming Utah and coming up with big stop after big 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.079 stop on third and short and fourth and short. And 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.760 it's something we've talked about across the sport. Winning moments. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.240 We saw it across every one of these huge championship games, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.240 Conference championship games. Oregon won moments, whether it was you know, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.559 batting down passes on our just third and short, fourth 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.200 and short, Brady Breeze coming up and leveling a runner, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.400 or picking off that pass in the end zone. Oregon 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.400 just came to win the moments and Kevon Thibodeau was 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.960 terrific shorting a punt chasing down Tyler Huntley Utah. It 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.800 looked like the moment was just too big for Utah, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.240 who had a seriously, very very good season. But the 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.520 best of Oregon came to play in Utah was just 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.000 they weren't on the same field. So now, hold on. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.760 You say the moment was too big for Utah, and 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.480 that may have been true early, but there was a 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.160 moment in this game late in the third quarter totally 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.280 Utah came back. They made it an eight point game, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.640 twenty three to fifteen with a whole quarter left. Yes, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.240 or you have Auburn flashbacks, because that was a near 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.520 identical situation to what happened in that game. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.000 Yeah, Oregon ran out to a lead and then made 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.959 some decisions poor decisions, didn't get out to any sort 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.960 of impressive offensive start in the second half. And I 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:18.240 was so that it was a new look Oregon, even 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.160 though they sort of kept it somewhat conservative at times. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.760 Busting out long runs is fine, Yeah, sure, busting out CJ. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.160 Verdell goes for over two hundred with three touchdowns. I 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.720 believe he is one of just a handful of running 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.520 backs since two thousand or something who's done that and Oregon. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.200 When I talk about the moment being too big for Utah, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.120 there were specific instances of UTA. I mean, Tyler Huntley 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.320 made a couple of incredible throws, Zach Moss had a 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.120 few incredible moments and runs himself. But Utah was held 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.680 scoreless for three quarters in this game. Yeah, and so 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.000 Utah had a moment in the third quarter where they 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.000 they looked competitive that they were going to come back, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:59.280 but for Oregon to just rise again was as an 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.840 Oregon fan, it was pretty incredible to watch them really 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.320 step up in this moment because I really do anticipate 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.280 this being a point of the Mario Cristobal era. That is, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.040 I think it's base camp. I think Oregon has a 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.880 higher ceiling with how they're recruiting and what the defense 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:14.520 might look like. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.080 Well, to your point, Kyle Whittingham made the same comment 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.040 about the line of scrimmage. He was disappointed, said they'd 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.439 been undefeated in that area all year, and he's right, 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.880 they just they didn't win the line of scrimmage. I 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.680 thought the Oregon defense is super impressive. Six sacks of 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:33.400 Tyler Huntley pressure all night. You mentioned Kevin Thibodeau two 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.800 and a half sacks. He blocked a punt, wasn't like 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.840 a punt block was intentionally called there, No through the 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:43.000 line got it done. And only the second game this 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.160 season in which Zach Moss, the record setting running back 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.480 for Utah did not score a touchdown the other one USC. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:53.120 They lost that game too, So right, the Ducks move 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.240 on onto bowl season. I should say thirty seven to 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.000 two fifteen is your final. They're going to square off 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.240 against Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. So very narrowly missed 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.400 a solid verbowl if you want. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.880 I believe he got hurt in the USC game, so 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.400 that's at least defensively, only had I think six carries. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.280 He was hurt pretty early. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:18.160 So with a chance to go to the playoff, Utah falters, 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.160 which means the Big Twelve Game. The Big Twelve Game 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:29.320 was high noon on Saturday, Oklahoma thirty Baylor twenty three 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.240 in overtime. So unlike the first game between these two, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.320 this one was neck and neck the whole way. Each 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.800 team won two quarters, so it was actually quite fitting 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.520 that it went to ot again. This one was there 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:49.680 for Baylor with a little better execution sort of. I 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.640 don't think to the same extent as the first game, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.440 right to be fair, but they did go to overtime, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.200 and I think with a few more moments of better 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.600 execution they could legit be thirty teen and oh was 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.080 not meant to be the finish eleven to two. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:04.640 Fair enough, great year. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:10.600 After watching both of these Oklahoma Baylor games in their entirety, 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.800 I think it's clear that Oklahoma is the better team, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.720 also clear that they should have been winning these games 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.560 by more, and the reason they didn't is because of 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:25.160 a good, opportunistic Baylor defense and an offense that capitalized 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.640 on Oklahoma mistakes the whole nine yards. But at this point, 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.480 I keep coming back to what you said about Jalen Hurts. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.760 He is truly an equal opportunity hurterer, isn't. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.400 Yeah, who hurts you well, both teams? Jalen Hurts. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.920 Yeah, he mostly hurts other teams and his talent's undeniable, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.240 But when he hurts his own team, it really stings. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.640 And he did it again in this game. Dan, correct, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.360 So where do you want you want to begin? With Oklahoma. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.880 Let's start with Oklahoma. Yeah, yes, the. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.320 Best of Oklahoma is Jalen Hurts. It's Ceedee Lamb. It's 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.560 how much pressure Oklahoma got up front against this Baylor 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.800 offensive line, which has been fine, nothing crazy, but this 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.960 is sort of a different look for Oklahoma. Obviously, Kenneth 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.200 Murray has been, you know, the strong point of what 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.160 has been at times a weaker unit this season and 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.120 in the past few years. So it was nice that 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.640 everybody sort of gathered around him to rise to or 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.920 hope to rise to his level. So that was an 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.160 encouraging sign. Obviously, Oklahoma gifts Baylor a short field for 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.880 their first touchdown. Was a twenty twenty five yard short 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.680 field for the Bears, but that's fine. They took advantage 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.920 and that counts. It was a nice pass from Jerry Bohannon. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.240 I'm pretty sure it's Jerry. Jerry, No, it's Jerry. It's Jerry, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.680 which is a great name. He comes in once Charlie 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.080 Brewer takes a hit where he looked super wobbly and 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.280 it was very clear that he was not okay, so 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.480 he leaves the game. Jerry Bohannon isn't great, but he 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.360 makes a couple of plays, he was beat up. And 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.680 then it was Jacob Zeno, Yeah, baby, who comes in 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.320 for Baylor, who I think has been sort of pegged 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.320 as the quarterback of the future, a true freshman who 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:00.960 has not seen a lot of action this year to 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.520 maintain his red shirt. And he comes in and he 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.120 despite the Oklahoma defense looking very good for this this 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.600 this championship game, he found some soft spots in that 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:13.879 home defense. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:19.280 Two consecutive passes one and fifty nine yards and a touchdowns. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:19.680 First two. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.080 Yeah, first two passes. So talk about starting things off 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:24.800 on the right foot. I believe he was three for 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.320 three passing headed into this football game, So start to 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.120 bail our career a perfect five for five. Interestingly enough, though, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.760 to your point on the Oklahoma defense, he did not 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:35.959 complete a pass after that. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:37.560 He finished something like two for six. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.840 Oklahoma was able to really tighten things up, and as 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.760 he saw on that final series and then again in overtime, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.399 they were bringing pressure. They were not taking it easy 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.359 on the young freshmen. They were bringing pressure, and they 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.159 were forcing him to change his rhythm and you know, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:54.680 make some good decisions. 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:59.320 Absolutely absolutely what you should do. And it almost underscored 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.040 at the same time that Oklahoma is a running team. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:06.240 You know, the Jalen Hurts throws downfield to Ceedee Lammer wonderful. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.359 These past couple of years with Baker Mayfield and Kyler 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.679 Murray were sensational. But Oklahoma is at its best on 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.400 the ground, as we've seen, whether it's samaj p Ryan 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.800 or this year Kennedy Brooks and Trey Sermon before he 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.320 got hurt and Jalen Hurts like on the ground has 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.720 been incredible. They couldn't run against Baylor, and that's what 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.240 kept it close. They couldn't possess this game, and Baylor 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.960 came up big after big after big time on defense 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.040 and stayed in this game. But there's only so much 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.640 you can do with that much inexperienced under center. And 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.439 they came into this game with some offensive limitations in 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.000 terms of consistent drives, and I think all credit goes 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.600 to Oklahoma for playing as complete a game as they 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.480 possibly could have when things weren't popping necessarily at all 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:51.440 times offensively. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:56.600 Oklahoma ends up being your fourth seed in the playoffs 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.000 by virtue of this win. The Wisconsin thing didn't happen. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.320 We'll get to that game momentarily here. It was interesting 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.040 for at least a half, but Oklahoma is the one 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.920 that prevails here. They are going to square off against LSU, 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.359 which we'll talk about next. I believe I saw that 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.399 the points spread now has Goost all the way up 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.720 to like eleven or twelve points in favor of LSU, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.800 which does not surprise me one iota. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.119 Can we use the word goose now moving forward for 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.399 the way lines move? This one's goosen down all the 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.879 way to three? I love it. Did I say goost? 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.720 I used usage like this one, this one goost all 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.800 the way up to ten? Or that means don't know 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.480 how that happened? I mean Oklahoma. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.960 Congratulations they're going to the playoff, and on the Baylor's side, 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.199 congratulations to them on a great year. They're going to 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.919 the Sugar Bowl to square off against Georgia. It as 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.040 their first trip to the Sugar Bowl since I believe 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.280 the Heyday of nineteen fifty. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.480 Seven, if memory serves. Wow, okay, cool, so good on them. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.760 Good season. Fun game was meant to be. As Matt 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.000 Ruhle said, I want you guys to feel the pain, 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.080 feel the pain and use that in the off season 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:12.280 to drive. You Yeah, in the SEC title game, we 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:19.639 had LSU thirty seven Georgia ten dan. So the great 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.480 part about Championship Week for everyone and especially for us, 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:25.760 is that you can watch all the games from start 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:31.840 to finish. Normally, we're leafing through box scores or reading 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.640 game caps, trying to piece things together after the fact 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.520 as best we can, because we can't watch all these 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.600 games in the morning before we record. I actually could 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.639 watch this game. I didn't just jot down stats and 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:46.960 things that jumped out at me. I jotted doubt what 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.159