WEBVTT - Pate State Tour Schedule Draft + Predicting The Perfect CFP 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.560 Some breaking news to me. I don't know if anyone 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.400 else cares, Jesse, but we're locking down some storm chasing 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.040 plans this week, which may very well see me grace 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.960 another state with my presence for the first time. But anyway, 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.720 that has nothing to do with college football, but the 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.640 rest of this show does. We're jam packed high on 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.800 top of very warm but dry downtown Nashville, Tennessee on 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.120 the Sunday night, June seventh. The Oar of Our Lord 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.320 twenty twenty six sounds like a pretty weighty show, but 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:46.200 we cannot let the mistakes of Thursday recreate themselves where 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.200 we had a twenty seven minute a block. We cannot 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.840 do that. But we are going to have a dream 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.879 playoff bracket on the show. I'm also going to tell 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.360 the truth about Miami. Not today's Miami, but someone one 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.080 of our younger viewers, one of our local youth, asked 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.640 about a time before they were born and what Miami 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.120 was like. Is is the thirty for thirty stuff? Real? 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.600 Is what people say about the nineties and two thousands 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.000 of Miami Team's real. Oh it's real, friend, it's real. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.640 We got boll predictions on the show tonight I'm gonna 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.000 attempt to predict where we're going in the tour this fall, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.720 and the tour doesn't even have a name yet. But man, 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.480 some of these weekends are borderline impossible to choose from, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.920 and yet we're gonna attempt to do the impossible on 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.959 tonight show. Here's an impossible thing to do, have a really, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.479 really happy, carefree college football show in June of twenty 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.560 twenty six. We can do it. We will do it. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:41.240 They're watching us in Roanoke, Virginia, Oxford, Mississippi, Cleveland, Ohio, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:46.600 and Jackson, Tennessee. Not exclusively, though, but among several other 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.160 places they are. Please make sure you are subscribed to 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.200 the channel. It's free, doesn't cost you anything, it just 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:58.520 helps us. I would like tonight to begin our journey 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.400 with something that has nothing to do with this Senate. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.840 It has nothing to do with angry commissioners. It has 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.760 nothing to do with shadowy outside entities. No, no, no. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.720 What I would like to do is I would like 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.080 to look at the twenty twenty six schedule, and I 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.560 would like to try and forecast our tour this fall. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.400 And Bradley, that's not the endpoint that I want you 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.520 to use when you cut the video. Here's the endpoint. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.679 We'll be somewhere every game this fall. We don't even 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.919 know what the fall tour will be named yet. That's 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.000 up to you. So my balls are in your court 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.680 when it comes to that. But I can guess, and 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.320 I can look out over the horizon, and we can 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.040 start in week one, and I can go all the 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.160 way through Week thirteen, and basically we just get to 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.840 pick where we go. So as we start in week 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.600 one and try and map out our tour this fall, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.160 I am majorly disappointed in the college football powers that 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.640 bees lack of marquee matchups in Week one, But you 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.280 know what, that's not within our control. What's in our 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.680 control is I can look at some of these neutral 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:01.720 site games. Three of the top five games in Week 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.800 one are pretty much neutral site games. So Louisville Ole 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.519 Miss is a Sunday that's in Nashville. If we want 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.600 to walk to the game, we could go to Green Bay, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.320 if we want to visit Lambeau for the first time, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.640 and go to Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Baylor and Auburn. DJ 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.360 lagway season at Baylor trying to save Dave Randa's job 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.840 Alex Golish Game one on the job at Auburn, but 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.200 that's in Atlanta. I would lean Clemson versus LSU. In fact, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.720 it's really obvious where you should go. I think week one. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.480 The problem, if you want to call this a problem, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.720 is we also have a marquee LSU game in a 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.120 couple of weeks, so we're trying to balance. Like, all 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:38.680 due respect to Lane Kiffin, I don't want to see 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.800 him half a dozen times this year, but let's lean 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.600 Clemson LSU in Week one, which brings us to Week two, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.200 and there are a clear there's a clear top two 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.040 in Week two. Oklahoma's at Michigan, Ohio State is at Texas. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.600 Now I went to both of those games last year 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.160 because they weren't on the same week. So Texas was 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.360 at Ohio State one last year, and then remember OU 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.560 went to Michigan went to OU. We were at both 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.080 of those games. I think we lean Ohio State Texas here. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.200 That's going to be a primetime game. It's going to 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.279 be awesome. Look, if this were a situation where you 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.920 and I were bidding against each other, I would be 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.080 happy to give you first pick and I just take 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.320 whatever's left over because to me, you can't go wrong 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.600 here either way. Like the way I think about these 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.120 early season games is even if Oklahoma or Michigan end 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.000 up being four lost teams, they haven't lost four games here, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.760 so they're both really really high hopes, full on vibes 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.480 teams this time of year. Arizona State, Texas A and 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.800 M's this week. Dan Landing's going to be in Stillwater, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.000 Oklahoma on this Saturday. But I think we lean Ohio 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:51.200 State at Texas week three. And remember, ladies and gentlemen, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.720 these are just leans. I am by no means confirming 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.960 that we will be in these towns on these days. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.440 Some are saying Week three has the game of the year. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.040 Some are saying LSU at Ole Miss is the game 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.240 of the year. I am pretty sure the closest available 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:12.680 hotel room is in Nashville for this game. So is 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.359 it LSU Ole Miss? Do we see LSU for the 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.919 second time in three weeks? You could also if you 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.440 wanted to see John summerl and Alex Golish year one 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.960 versus year one head coaches. Florida is at Auburn on 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.360 this day. I think a huge pair of sleeper games 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.080 is right there at the bottom of the screen. Houston 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.520 at Texas Tech is a massive game in the Big twelve. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.240 SMU at Louisville, I think is sneakily a massive game 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.039 in the ACC. And yet I don't know how you 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.839 look anywhere other than Oxford. So I would lean LSU 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.720 at Ole Miss, even acknowledging that we have now chosen 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.160 two LSU games in the first three weeks of the season. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:57.440 Week four major SEC week here, and ironically I'm not 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.240 even going to lean one of these, but there are 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.560 no less than four huge marquee games in the SEC. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.480 This is Oklahoma at Georgia, This is Texas A and 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.080 M at LSU. This is Texas at Tennessee, Ole Mess 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.799 at Florida Jesse, I would say is the fourth most 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.880 attractive game of this day, and that's a huge one 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.800 as well. But if you'll recall a few weeks ago 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.640 when I was talking about strategy in building out your 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.800 own tour schedule, you got to have the circle games, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.880 you got to have the games that are non negotiables. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.440 And remember one of mine was I wanted to make 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.560 sure I am in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum when 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.960 Oregon goes to USC because if this is a do 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.280 or die a year for Lincoln Riley, and I think 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.400 it is. And if there are a lot of people 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.280 out there still saying Dan Lanning hasn't won anything, which 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.200 there are, then I want to be there early in 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.600 the year when they face each other, and that is 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.520 this Saturday. So with all those big SEC games, I 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.839 still lean Oregon at USC in week four week five, 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.760 could we doubled it big ten here? I think so. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.479 So in week five, Miami's at Clemson. Now, listen, the 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.800 calculus changes here mightily. If Clemson upsets LSU in week one, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.280 it probably changes our week three strategy, but it also 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.840 changes our week five strategy because if Miami is at 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.240 Clemson and all of a sudden, Clemson's top fifteen and 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.720 Dabbo looks like with a quote unquote bunch of nobodies 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.400 on his roster, that they're about to make a run, well, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.880 all of a sudden, this could be I don't know, 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:35.160 a de facto ACC Championship game, maybe at least an 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.600 ACC Championship preview. All of a sudden, it looks like 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.360 they're going to play each other twice. Miami at Clemson 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.760 would be amazing, but if Clemson has already lost a 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.560 game there, if Miami is going to be favored by 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.880 a touchdown there, and instead I could look up to 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:53.440 Iowa City, where somehow we still haven't been to a game, 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.880 and I could go see Ohio State at Iowa. I 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.160 think we lean Ohio State at Iowa in this week. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.400 I've seen i was so many times, but I've seen 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.640 them on the road. I have not seen them in 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:10.360 a home game. All right, Week six, multiple heavy hitters here. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.320 Red River Shootout known by no other name on this 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.200 show is this Saturday. But remember it's no longer a 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.280 noon kickoff. One of the things that has happened with 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.120 that game is it's still at the Cotton Bowl as 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.320 the Lord intended, the real one, not the corporate Cotton Bowl. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.560 But it is a three point thirty eastern, two thirty 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.960 local time kickoff now, and that matters because this is 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.000 a Saturday theoretically, where if we had the noon kickoff 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.319 in Dallas, you could go Texas sou and then probably 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.800 get to Tuscaloosa for a seven thirty eastern kickoff Georgia 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.320 at Alabama. But be that as it may, even with 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.000 USC at Penn State, possibly a wide out game, Jesse, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.880 is that the word people are saying up in state 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.440 college that it in fact everyone's saying it should be. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.720 But there are a lot of things that should be 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.920 that are not in college football scheduling. So USC at 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.439 Penn State's very attractive to me. Georgia at Alabama is 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.760 always attractive to me, and we have been at the 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.080 last several games they've played, and outside of that clunker 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.040 in Atlanta, these regular season games have been must see 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.880 And so I'm going to lean Georgia at Alabama for 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:26.040 Week six, Week seven. I don't know how you could 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.600 possibly sell me that there's ever been a bigger game 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.320 in Bloomington, Indiana on a football field than Ohio State 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.600 at Indiana the year after Indiana just won a national title, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.240 the year after Indiana knocked Ohio State down in the 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.440 Big Ten championship game. And so before I even tell 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.440 you about the other matchups, and there are a few 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.520 big ones here in Week seven, Ohio State at Indiana 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.280 is my lean. Now, if some things have gone sideways 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.600 during the year, this game right here, Notre Dame at 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.319 Brigham Young. As I've said like five times in the 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.439 past month, it's not getting enough attention. But if Brigham 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.800 Young sort of proves that they are once again a 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.680 force to be reckoned with this year, and we'll know 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.920 by week seven, this could be a situation where everyone's 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.800 looking at this game and saying, boy, Matt. Back in August, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.520 I thought Notre Dame had a one game season. I 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.920 thought it was going to be that Miami game. And 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.560 if they get over that one, good, And if they 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.400 don't get over that one, they'll still be in the playoffs, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.440 just a lower seed. That one, right, there's not an 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.600 easy game. And I have never been to a game 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.480 in Provo, so I could see that. I could see 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.400 if we don't go see Alabama earlier in the year, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.000 maybe the third Saturday in October at Kneeland. We've been 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.880 there the last two times that game's been in Kneeland, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:47.000 both times field stormings. One time Gelby's equipment got trampled 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.880 and we still have not tracked down the perpetrator. Also, 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.880 Florida's at Texas on this day. John Sumrall, maybe he's 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.440 surprised people. Maybe we find ourselves making a second surprise 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.240 trip to Austin. But until otherwise stated, I've got Aleen 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.560 Ohio State at Indiana in Week seven. Most of us 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.080 have not been to a game at Indiana, so that 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.880 would knock that down. Week eight feels like an SEC 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:19.000 week here, but it's not for me. Texas A and 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.559 M's at Alabama here, and this kind of gets into 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.360 that territory where all these SEC teams have played each 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.680 other a lot, and so it could just be a 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.440 hodgepodge of multi loss teams, or it could be that 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.480 a few teams have like separated themselves. What if that's 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.920 Texas A and M at Alabama? You know what if 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:41.040 that's Ole Miss at Texas. Yes, that's a possibility. Indiana's 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.920 at Michigan on this Saturday. That's on the radar. I 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.800 think that may be our shot to go to a 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.559 Michigan game this year if we want to. In ann Arbor. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.560 But I want you to look at this game here, 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.200 Houston at Utah. Houston has a shot to be really 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.600 good this year. Utah has a shot to be really 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.480 good this year. It would not surprise me if that 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.440 right there ended up being game of the Year in 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.040 the Big Twelve. Would not surprise me. It's a little 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.760 later in the season and we kind of know what 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.520 Texas Tech's gonna be by that point, so we kind 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.640 of feel out whether it's gonna be a one bid 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.800 league again, and it's just a shoe in that it's 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.400 Texas Tech or have they been brought back to earth. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.760 Maybe Soresby's not eligible. Maybe they're good but not great 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.760 compared to last year, and maybe the Big Twelve is 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.920 wide opening that right there is deciding the other half 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.240 of the Big Twelve championship game. Could see that. I 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.320 am going to slightly lean Houston at Utah. I've only 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.199 been to one game at Utah. Kickoff temperature was ninety 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.200 five degrees dry heat, but ninety five degrees for Florida 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.680 in Week one a few years ago. I would like 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.080 to make my way out there once the weather has 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.800 turned a little bit. So Week eight, we're gonna lean 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.600 Salt Lake City right now. Week nine another big spot 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.840 for USC. See if Lincoln does it this year, it's 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.720 not going to be because he tiptoed his way through 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:07.480 an inferior schedule even without Notre Dame. USC's got it 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.559 to do this year. Ohio State goes into the Coliseum 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.040 in Week nine. This is the same day as Clemson 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.400 at Florida State. Which once upon a time was one 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.560 of the marquee games in college football. Not so much 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.440 this year probably, But the sneaky game here to me 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.560 is again we're all eyes on John Sumraw. That's a 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.400 team that I don't think a ton's going to be 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.120 expected of, But because the talent rosters a little bit 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.120 deeper than maybe your normal six or seven win projected 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.880 team is, we got to keep an eye on him. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.640 The world's largest outdoor cocktail party known by no other 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.080 name on this show I've avoided since it gave me 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.720 food poisoning. But that doesn't mean that we couldn't slightly 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.480 lean the game in Jacksonville for four or five months 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.600 out and then change our mind. I would lean Ohio 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:02.400 State at USC here, but when we get this deep 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.360 in the season, it's tough, but I would lean Ohio 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.840 State at USC next week, Week ten. This is the 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.079 biggest week of the year, I think. I don't know 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:13.640 how it ends up not being the biggest week of 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.720 the year. Let me just rattle them off for you. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.640 We don't even have room on the graphic for all 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.440 the big time games. Bama is at LSU, Georgia is 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.400 at Old Miss Brigham Young is at Utah it's the 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.760 Holy War because they don't want us saying it on air. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:31.440 Miami is at Notre Dame. Oregon is at Ohio State. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.520 Now you may be thinking I just listed the biggest 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.480 games of the year. No, all of these games are 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:40.880 happening on the same Saturday. In week ten, I lean 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.200 Miami at Notre Dame. We know Miami at Notre Dame 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.280 is going to be a primetime kickoff. I don't know 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.680 who is the noon kickoff, but I think I'm pointing 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.680 to it right now. So I think Joel Klatt's gonna 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.240 have syrup on his hands up there in the booth, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.680 and they're calling this Oregon Ohio State kickoff right there 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.880 at noon Eastern. And if that's the case, stats in 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.240 info ran the numbers, it is possible to be in 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.720 Columbus in South Bend on the same day, especially if 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.680 you have that padding in between the two games. But 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.880 since our rule is we can only pick one game here, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.400 I'm gonna hard lean Miami at Notre Dame. That's one 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.640 of our circle games for the whole year. We can't 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:23.920 not lean Miami at Notre Dame Week eleven. Hmmm, is 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.680 this our shot to go to Eugene. Michigan is at 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.600 Oregon on this day. USC is at Indiana. Now that's 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.640 a conditionally huge game. The conditions are, Indiana's got to 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.880 be right back in the similar seat they were in 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.960 last year. USC has got to come through. That could 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.280 be a huge game. That's Lincoln Riley and cold Weather. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:47.440 That's Jed Miyavin cold Weather. Potentially Michigan at Oregon, as 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.920 I already said, and then three games in the SEC. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.360 Texas is at LSU. Just the way the conference schedule 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.880 looks in the SEC, they're just randomly those kinds of 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.560 games with these huge brand teams every single week down there. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.720 Ole miss is at Oklahoma Tech. Tennessee's at A and 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.960 M on this Saturday. Any of those games could be 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:13.400 anywhere from afterthought to marquee depending on how those league 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.320 standings look. But since I can't figure that out and 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.640 we've already seen those teams like we already we got 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.680 a wild card, I think with the SEC situation, I 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.160 haven't been to Oregon yet this year. At this point, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.600 I am leaning Michigan at Oregon. Michigan could screw that up, 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.560 Oregon could screw it up. I don't think they will. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.200 I think Oregon's gonna be in the hunt. I got 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.880 to see if Michigan is Michigan at Oregon is my 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:45.320 lean for Week eleven, Week twelve, interesting situation here. I'm 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:50.200 gonna make a and m at Oklahoma my lean. The 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.000 week before I was gonna go ole Miss at Oklahoma 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.120 as my lean, but then I realized, oh, I could 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:57.440 go to oe you the next week. Let me go 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.520 to Oregon the previous week strategy. But on this week, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.360 even though you don't see it on this graphic, there 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:09.240 is a very, very intriguing Friday night opportunity and it 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.919 is Virginia Tech at Miami. Now I will grant you 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.720 Virginia Tech could be out of it by now, or 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.720 James Franklin could be one of the big surprises in 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.680 college football this year. And whomes to amongst Us hasn't 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.880 ever taken in a Marquis Friday night game in hard 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:31.160 Rock Stadium. Whoms To amongst Us hasn't Jesse, wasn't Virginia 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.520 Tech at Miami a Friday night game a couple of 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.320 years ago where there was the inexplicable Yeah, okay, So 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.760 this matchup has delivered in this time slot in recent history, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.960 SMU at Notre Dame is a sleeper candidate on this Saturday. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.000 LSU at Tennessee is a sleeper candidate on this Saturday. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.440 So I'm gonna lean A and m at Oklahoma. I'm 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.119 going to reserve that Friday spot for Virginia Tech at Miami, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.200 and then we get the rivalry week and my default 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.919 here is Michigan at Ohio State until someone talks me 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.320 off of it. And by talks me off of it, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.800 I mean, if that thing's a three touchdown spread, Okay, 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.359 I'm talked off of it. I could find myself at 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.119 the Egg Bowl. I could find myself in college station. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.080 That's a Friday game day after Thanksgiving. Washington's inn Oregon 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:15.840 that day. You got the Iron Bowl that day. But 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.760 until further notice, Michigan at Ohio State is my lean there. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.400 Now leen is the keyword. I guess we could look 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.920 back come December, Jesse and figure out how accurate we were. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.640 We have been terrible at this in the past. Everybody 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.600 when we used to work at CBS, remember they would 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.359 all hit us up and they would say, hey, sales 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.480 wants to know if you figured out where you're going 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.440 this year, and I would say yes, in week one, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.000 I pretty much know where I'm going after that. I 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.760 have no idea. Now we own the company, so certainly 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.040 we can call our shot, but I have no idea. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.160 I don't even think we've ever hit over fifty percent. 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.400 Maybe we've hit fifty five percent on guessing where we're 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.600 gonna go, because that's the beauty of how unpredictable this 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:02.800 sport is. Let's move on. You know, the last few shows, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:08.680 with one exception, there's been some pretty serious commentary. We've 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.760 had to talk a lot about stuff that no one 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.560 wants to talk about. Who in the world wants to 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.560 talk about a Senate bill, except that we'll do it 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.879 way later in the show. But no one wants to 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.520 talk about this stuff. No one wants to talk about 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.240 sad things. We want to talk about happy things. And 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.320 in an ideal world, we just turned the mic on. 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:30.399 Bradley fires the cameras up, Prez hits the lights, Mitch 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.480 does whatever Mitch does in there, and we just daydreamed 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.439 together for a little while. So let us daydream for 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.800 a little while. Bradley, here's a good endpoint for you. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.040 We know the playoff is twelve teams this year. We 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.240 know twelve teams will be in the playoff this year. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.720 We know what the schedule is. But that's about all 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.960 we know. And everyone's going to make their predictions, and 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.960 eventually I'll make my predictions as well. But it is June, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.720 and by law I don't have to predict the playoff 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.879 in June. But we were sitting around today, feed up 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.000 on the table since no one else is in the office, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.640 and the idea entered the room of fantasy booking the playoff. 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.280 And what that looks like is essentially throwing caution to 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:16.720 the wind, keeping like some air of believability in the room, 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.159 but just walking up on the grease board, which we 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.040 had never used until today, putting the bracket on the 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.239 grease board, and filling that thing out. What would be 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.879 the most fun, what would be the most incredible, what 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:33.879 would be the most eyeball attention grabbing playoff that we 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.119 could have? And so the only rule here is it 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.000 has to be somewhat conceivable, and it has to have juice, 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.280 and that's it, that's all. And so we got to 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.639 work and there was a lot of erasure, and there 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.840 was a lot of moving around and This is not 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.919 a prediction, but this is more fantasy booking. This is 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.679 like imagining what Stone Call versus Hulk Cogan would look 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.199 like in nineteen ninety eight, but we couldn't see it 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:00.040 at that point. Turns out we never saw it. But 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.800 we see this at least on paper. Let's take a 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.120 look at round one. Here's where our sick minds went 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:11.280 for the twenty twenty six college football Playoff fantasy booking 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.080 portion of the show. I would love to have the following. 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.479 I would love to have Indiana go to Oregon in 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.679 round one. That's a nine seed versus an eight seed. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.280 So that's the scene of the crime last year. That's 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.520 Kirk Sininati, Kurt Signetti going up to Dan Lanning's house 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.760 and doing whatever he wanted to tough to watch for those 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:37.080 of us who had predicted Oregon to win emphatically, and 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.600 so I get that rematch in round one. We gotta 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:43.520 have a G five team in this thing. I thought, 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:45.760 what better G five team to ha in the playoff 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:51.240 than Billy Napiers Florida. Get no, not Florida. Billy Napier's 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.080 James Madison. That's where he is now. Some of you 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.440 are still unaware of this. But Billy Napiers, the head coach, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:03.200 jmu and I put in a round one sacrifice in 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:07.159 South Bend, Indiana, but they're in Billy Napier's in the 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:11.680 playoff here. How about the ten to seven matchup? Those 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:13.520 of you who are watching already know what it is, 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.080 and you stop drooling all over your keyboard. But for 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.520 those of you listening on podcasts, I want you to 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.399 close your eyes unless you're driving, and I want you 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:27.640 to imagine Lincoln Riley and the University of Southern California 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:33.520 fighting Trojans in the playoff. That's part one. And then 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.359 I want you to imagine they're the ten seed, which 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.679 means they're going to be on the road in round one. 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:41.960 And then I want you to imagine the bracket coming 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:46.040 out and the team that plays host to Lincoln Riley 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:51.040 in round one is none other than the University of Oklahoma. 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:57.280 I need say no more about what that would mean. 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.520 I think that there was an outside shot that we 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.720 maybe could have gotten this last year. I was trying 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:07.959 to kind of map it out, and it looked for 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.600 a second like it could happen. It is happening here, 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:15.359 so USC at Oklahoma in round one and then at 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.960 the bottom. This was one of the easiest ones because 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.760 it's the freshest in everyone's mind. How do I get 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:26.480 Texas Tech in Texas locked up in round one? And look, 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.000 in an ideal world, which I guess we have here, 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.399 we would have sent Texas to Lubbock, but with the 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:34.359 way that we thought the season may play out, it 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:36.760 made more sense for Texas Tech to be the eleven 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:39.200 seed and Texas to be the sixth seed, which is 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.119 fine because Joey said he play him anywhere Jesse, and 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:43.880 he just said he wants to see him in the playoff, 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:46.719 So we're going to have Texas Tech at Texas in 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:52.760 round one. This is very interesting because this is multiple 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:58.480 marquee games in round one and remember like last year, 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.840 remember how the rotation happened and where it was Alabama 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.600 Oklahoma as the standalone Friday night game, the primetime game, 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.119 and then the next day there was a noon game, 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.679 like a mid afternoon game, and a late game. But 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:14.280 the mid afternoon in late games were very much afterthoughts 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:16.840 because we had two G five teams in the playoff, 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:19.359 so it was two lane old miss who else was it? 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:24.560 Last year it was who is the other one, I'm 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:28.560 blanking on it, JMU. It was JMU Oregon. Yeah, and 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:32.600 those games were they didn't have the spotlight on them 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:35.159 that other games did. And it was also head to 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:38.080 head with NFL games too. You can't do that here. 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.080 There are three marquee games here out of four, huge 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:43.919 like must see marquee games. Okay, then we moved to 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:46.760 the next round. Now remember this is not a prediction. 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:51.159 This is US fantasy booking this playoff. Give me Oregon 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:56.320 beating Kurt Signetti and Indiana Dan Lanning. I guess until 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:58.080 he wins a title, the group that says he's done 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:00.160 nothing will still say he's done nothing, but that that's 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:02.560 a really big win, all right, So they atone for 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:05.320 their loss last year in the regular season. So Oregon 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:10.640 moves on. Notre Dame beats JMU, Texas does beat Texas 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:16.440 tech USC going into Norman and beating Oklahoma would be 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.600 so toxic, so toxic. If USC makes it back to 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:22.639 the airport and makes it home, they advance to the 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.560 next round. And here are my matchups that I have 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:31.920 waiting on them advancing. Give me Oregon against our number 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:36.639 one overall seed, and that is Miami. And that is 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:41.760 Dan Lanning against Mario Cristobal if you know, you know, 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:45.800 huge matchup no matter what. But that's Mario against his 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:49.959 old team. I think Mario still, I think he at 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:52.720 least pays a passing bit of attention to what Oregon's doing. 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:57.359 Who's amongst us, wouldn't I got Ohio State awaiting Notre 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:01.200 Dame in round two, So that's a rema the national 0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:05.280 title game from two years ago. This is a swerve. 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:07.439 This is what you can do when you fantasy book. 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:12.280 LSU won the SEC in this scenario, like Lane Kiffin 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:16.320 went to LSU and won the SEC, and what does 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.440 he get? He gets a first round by and then 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:24.040 he gets to play usc usc versus LSU in the 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:27.919 quarterfinal round of the College Football Playoff. You want to 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:31.680 talk about feeding families, Jesse, We're feeding like entire small 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:35.240 countries with these matchups. And then we have LSU and 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:39.960 Alabama having played in the SEC championship game. It looks 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:44.080 to me like LSU beat Alabama, but Alabama plays Texas 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:48.240 in the second round. So Sark just beat Joey. Now 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:50.600 he's got to go up against Kaylin Debor and that 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:54.679 matchup's interesting because Debor beats Sark in the playoff a 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:58.399 few years ago. That's when Washington punched their ticket to 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:04.600 the national championship game. These rounds right here, obviously, everything's 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:07.640 a huge matchup from here on out. What is the 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:12.920 worst game in this round is Alabama Texas like USCLSU. 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:17.000 What's the worst game in this round? These are massive 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:21.760 ratings draws. These are all eyeballs. These are casuals tuned in. 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:24.520 These are relatives of casuals who don't even watch college 0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:28.280 football tuned in. I got a national title game rematch 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:30.679 from a couple of years ago. I got Lincoln Riley 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:33.080 trying to make a run in the playoffs after a 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:34.760 few people thought his job was going to be on 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:38.440 the line. I got Landing versus Mario, and I got 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:42.640 Sark trying to make a run. And it's basically national 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:46.200 title or bust for Texas. Remember so, just because they've 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:48.040 made it to the second round, or just because they've 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:51.480 made the playoff doesn't mean anything. Who wins these games? 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:59.280 I think I want Oregon over Miami. I want Notre 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:03.560 Dame to beat Ohio State, Give me Texas over Alabama, 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:07.680 and give me USC in one of the more unprobable 0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:10.800 stories of the modern era. And I don't think that's hyperbolic. 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:14.320 Lincoln Riley is now headed to the semi finals of 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:18.359 the playoff for a rematch of the two thousand and 0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:21.960 five National title Game aka the two thousand and six 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.320 Rose Bowl. And that is USC versus Texas in one 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:29.560 semi final, and that is Oregon versus Notre Dame in 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:32.280 the other semi finals. So pause and think about this 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:37.240 for a second. I have got four coaches here that, 0:28:37.320 --> 0:28:41.520 to varying degrees, people say cannot win a national title. 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:45.560 I think the noise is the quietest about Marcus Freeman 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:48.320 out of these four coaches. But there are people who 0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:51.560 swear to you Landings all hype he can't win a 0:28:51.640 --> 0:28:54.040 national title. Of course they say it about Lincoln, they 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:58.440 absolutely say it about Sark And look, Notre Dame made 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:00.120 it to the game a couple of years ago, but 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:04.080 they got housed pretty thoroughly. And so you've got no 0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:06.840 matter who wins it at this point, You've got a 0:29:06.840 --> 0:29:10.680 first time national champ head coach. It doesn't matter who 0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:12.480 wins it at this point because you've got a huge 0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:16.840 marquee brand and you've got one SEC team, two Big 0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:19.960 ten teams, and Notre Dame still in the mix here. 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:25.840 I want Oregon over Notre Dame, and I want Texas 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:29.840 over USC and that national championship game. I couldn't care 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:32.400 less who wins it at this point, because I have 0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:36.440 no matter what a guy winning a national title that 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:41.040 my inbox has reliably informed me cannot win a national title. 0:29:41.560 --> 0:29:44.200 Either it's either gonna be Sark or it's gonna be Landing. 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:48.680 Texas and Oregon recruit against each other constantly. They're always 0:29:48.720 --> 0:29:52.200 the finalist or among the finalists for Premier talent. It's 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:55.480 Dante Moore, it's arch Manning unless that bold prediction was 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:59.080 right the other day and Sark has benched arch Manning, 0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:03.240 which I gave a nine point seventy five, But I 0:30:03.360 --> 0:30:05.600 put who did I have? I think I had Texas 0:30:05.640 --> 0:30:09.400 winning it. It doesn't matter in this scenario. The SEC 0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:12.800 ends that drought. If Oregon wins it, it's a fourth 0:30:12.880 --> 0:30:16.160 Big ten team, a fourth unique Big Ten team in 0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:20.440 four years. But either way that playoff right there. If 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:23.360 I call up the folks at ESPN right now and 0:30:23.480 --> 0:30:26.280 showed them that, they would start exploring how to make 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:30.320 it happen. That is. I'm not saying it's every fan's dream, 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:33.080 because obviously if your team's not represented, it's not your dream. 0:30:33.400 --> 0:30:36.160 But if you remove your own fan interest for a 0:30:36.200 --> 0:30:38.800 second and just think about the product that that would be, 0:30:39.200 --> 0:30:42.040 that would be amazing, and then we could spend every 0:30:42.080 --> 0:30:44.640 halftime show talking about how we need to expand it 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:48.280 fun for everyone. We have expanded the pet State store, 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:52.080 but that's fine because it does not I think, saturate 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:55.800 the overall quality of individual shirts when we expand the store. 0:30:56.120 --> 0:30:58.600 But peytstatematerial dot com. You know, for those of you 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.440 who are asking you get those shirts, it's right there. 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:04.000 There's the website. I block it with my shoulder. Paytstatemterial 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:07.520 dot com. Summer is not coming, ladies and gentlemen. It's 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:11.120 basically here, football is coming, as indicated by this hat 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.280 in the shirt, and you can buy that on the website. 0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:20.520 Right now. Let's move on, better pace, Jesse, because it's 0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:22.560 seven point thirty better pace here. I don't know what 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:24.800 the over under was in there. I don't need to know, 0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:28.280 but I feel good about the pace right now. So 0:31:28.320 --> 0:31:32.960 we had a very important question Earl from reading California 0:31:33.200 --> 0:31:35.280 sent this to us. He says, does it bother you 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:38.640 that the Rose Bowl might be a night game this year? 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:44.400 Here's the context. The Rose Bowl is a quarterfinal rotational 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:48.040 game this year. That's how it falls into the playoff rotation. 0:31:48.520 --> 0:31:50.800 So here's what it's going to look like. I'm not 0:31:50.880 --> 0:31:53.520 even going to bother telling you how mad this makes me. 0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:55.960 I'm just going to give you the schedule. So the 0:31:56.000 --> 0:32:01.000 quarterfinal round happens New Year's weekend basically or New Year's 0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:05.719 week There's gonna be the Fiesta Bowl, which is locked 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:11.240 into that Wednesday, December thirtieth, seven to thirty Eastern window. Okay, 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:15.040 so that's not the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl is 0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:18.360 going to be two days later. By the way, in 0:32:18.400 --> 0:32:22.320 case you're keeping track at home, Yes, in the quarterfinals 0:32:22.320 --> 0:32:25.600 of the playoff, there's one game, then no games the 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:30.200 next day, then three games the day after that because 0:32:30.240 --> 0:32:31.720 we can't play a game on the same day that 0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:36.240 the NFL does. I don't know who you know etched 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:38.760 that and stone, but we can't do it. So again, 0:32:38.800 --> 0:32:41.200 I'm not gonna editorialize on that front. You already know 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:43.800 how I feel about that. But that Friday, here's here's 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:45.920 where the Rose Bull comes into play. There is a 0:32:46.000 --> 0:32:49.080 noon eastern kickoff that will not be the Rose Bowl. 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:52.480 The Rose Bowl will either be a four pm or 0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:55.960 an eight pm Eastern kickoff, because those are the games 0:32:56.000 --> 0:33:01.480 the DESPN has. Now, the Rose Bowl means something to me. 0:33:01.760 --> 0:33:03.320 I need to put this pin down. I'm holding it 0:33:03.360 --> 0:33:05.280 like a weapon. The Rose Bowl means something to me. 0:33:06.120 --> 0:33:10.440 As a local youth in rural Georgia growing up, I 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.240 saw the Rose Bowl. But the Rose Bowl did not 0:33:13.440 --> 0:33:15.840 mean to me what it came to mean to me. 0:33:17.080 --> 0:33:19.280 It was Sugar Bowl country. Like in the SEC, the 0:33:19.360 --> 0:33:21.800 Sugar Bowl was the big game. But yeah, of course 0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:23.800 I'm watching the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. But 0:33:23.840 --> 0:33:26.040 as I was growing up, I remember when the BCS 0:33:26.560 --> 0:33:29.400 was launched, and then we had the fourteen playoff and 0:33:29.440 --> 0:33:32.920 more recently, you know, a playoff expansion. I was young, Jesse, 0:33:33.080 --> 0:33:36.720 I was ignorant. I was unwise far different from me 0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:40.719 now obviously, but I fell for the propaganda. The anti 0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:45.920 Rose Bowl crowd closely aligned with the current playoff expansionist crowd. 0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:47.680 And here's what they used to tell me about the 0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:50.000 Rose Bowl. They used to say, the Rose Bowl is 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:53.920 standing in the way of progress. The Rose Bowl is 0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:58.560 the only thing holding college football up from implementing a 0:33:58.640 --> 0:34:02.520 better way, a better world for us all. If only 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:05.239 the Rose Bowl would get out of the way. And 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:09.000 I fell for it. I used to think, shame on 0:34:09.080 --> 0:34:13.160 all those crotchety old people at the Rose Bowl standing 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:16.160 in the way, clinging to their tradition. Shame on them. 0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:21.640 And man, did I flip on the Rose Bowl. I'm 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:24.040 arm in arm with the Rose Bowl now. I could 0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:26.680 not respect the Rose Bowls worldview or the Rose Bowls 0:34:26.719 --> 0:34:31.320 stance anymore. So. The Rose Bowl means something to me. Firstly, 0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:34.440 let me tell you as it relates to this year, 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:37.400 I'm not all that freaked out about it. I'm a 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:42.800 huge Rose Bowl sunset guy, huge Rose bul sunset guy. 0:34:42.840 --> 0:34:46.240 I will have my sunset this year. Okay. I'm either 0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:49.920 gonna have it if it kicks off at what four 0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:52.919 o'clock Eastern, I'm gonna have it in the second half 0:34:53.000 --> 0:34:54.640 like I would normally have it, because if it's a 0:34:54.640 --> 0:34:58.200 four o'clock Eastern kickoff, it's very very close to the 0:34:58.280 --> 0:35:00.400 time the Rose Bowl would normally kick off every New 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:03.760 Year's Day anyway. But if it's an eight pm Eastern kickoff. 0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:07.839 That means a five pm Pacific kickoff carried the three two. Yeah, 0:35:07.880 --> 0:35:10.760 it's five pm Pacific kickoff. I'm still getting my sunset, 0:35:10.800 --> 0:35:14.000 Mitch is just an early It's like a kickoff sunset 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:17.640 sort of thing. So I'll get my sunset. I'm not 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:21.120 that upset about that, as long as it's not the 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:25.160 noon eastern kickoff where we have a Rose Bowl sun rise. 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:28.680 I wasn't emotionally ready for that, and it appears that 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:31.640 that's not in the cards, So I'll get my sunset. 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:35.560 I'm fine with that. The Rose Bowl is Brett Hart 0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:39.520 to me, Brett Hart, when I was very very young, 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:44.000 was one of the top guys in WWF. In the 0:35:44.120 --> 0:35:48.440 years slash decades since, Brett Hart developed a little bit 0:35:48.440 --> 0:35:51.800 of a reputation in the wrestling commentary and podcast community 0:35:52.000 --> 0:35:54.520 as a guy who took wrestling two series. It's a work, 0:35:54.600 --> 0:35:59.360 bro It's a work. After all, the outcomes are predetermined. 0:35:59.360 --> 0:36:03.120 Stop taking and stuff. So seriously, man, it's not a 0:36:03.160 --> 0:36:07.239 real sport, Brett. This is performance. We're just putting on 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:10.040 a show. And Brett Hart had this reputation of a 0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:13.080 guy who had way way too much pride in the 0:36:13.120 --> 0:36:17.839 performance aspect of pro wrestling, and he respected the traditions 0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:24.600 way way too much. And then the entire industry exposed itself, 0:36:25.280 --> 0:36:28.439 and the entire industry couldn't get out of its own 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:31.600 way quick enough to tell you that it was fake 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:33.759 and to tell you that it's a work. And all 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:35.400 of a sudden, people who used to make fun of 0:36:35.440 --> 0:36:38.800 Brett Hart started looking at Brett Hart saying, wait a second, 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:42.560 the very things I used to make fun of about 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:45.319 Brett Hart are now the things that are in such 0:36:45.400 --> 0:36:49.359 precious short supply in the rest of this ecosystem that 0:36:49.440 --> 0:36:52.560 Brett Hart has become like the north Star. I wish 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:54.880 we had more of Brett Hart. And that is the 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:57.719 Rose Bowl to me. The Rose Bowl. I used to 0:36:57.760 --> 0:37:00.520 look at it and I used to say, what is 0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:03.879 with these people talking about their sunset, talking about their 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:08.160 New Year's Day guaranteed spot, and they can't even maneuver, 0:37:08.239 --> 0:37:10.439 they can't be a little bit flexible. And the Rose 0:37:10.440 --> 0:37:15.160 Bowl was like, no, no, and no, here's what we are, 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:18.239 Here's what we believe in, Here's where we're willing to 0:37:18.320 --> 0:37:21.520 bend in no area are we willing to bend a lot. 0:37:22.280 --> 0:37:25.719 There are values and traditions that we have that have 0:37:25.800 --> 0:37:28.960 been this way for one hundred million years. Dinosaurs basically 0:37:29.080 --> 0:37:31.680 used to fight in this stadium, and it's been that 0:37:31.719 --> 0:37:33.719 way since the beginning of time and it's going to 0:37:33.760 --> 0:37:35.759 continue to be that way. And if you don't like it, 0:37:35.880 --> 0:37:39.200 tough man. We need a whole lot more than in 0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:42.040 college football. College football kind of used to sort of 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:44.440 be that way. It was never totally that way. But 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:48.400 the Rose Bowl is a microcosm for what college football lacks. 0:37:49.080 --> 0:37:52.959 The Rose Bowl defining what it is, defining its non 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:56.520 negotiables and not bending it for anyone, including people with 0:37:56.600 --> 0:38:00.160 the playoff logo on their lapels, that is a beautiful thing, 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:04.040 just like Brett Hart clinging to the things he believed 0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:07.440 in even as they completely evaporate every world's in pro wrestling. 0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:10.319 That's a beautiful thing. So it means something to me, 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:13.399 Jesse the Rose But it's still real to me. Yeah, 0:38:13.400 --> 0:38:15.200 it's still real to me, and I will get my 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:17.680 son set this year. They're watching us in Prague. Do 0:38:17.760 --> 0:38:20.760 you realize that that is allegedly in the Czech Republic. 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:24.040 They're watching us in Woodlands, that's in Texas, and they're 0:38:24.040 --> 0:38:28.480 watching us in Racine, Illinois. Cope go. What was the 0:38:28.560 --> 0:38:31.160 Racine team in the league of their own? Rockford was 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:34.480 the Peaches. I don't remember Racine kit got traded to him, 0:38:34.480 --> 0:38:36.480 but I don't remember the name of the team. Anyway, 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:40.200 we move on another good question. The inbox was flooded 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:45.440 with quality this week. Jake in beautiful Western Florida. His 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:47.799 words and mine. He said, I'm a twenty four year 0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:51.000 old Canes fan, and I want to know from your perspective, 0:38:51.360 --> 0:38:55.319 how you personally felt about Miami in the early two thousands. 0:38:55.640 --> 0:39:00.239 Was the hate really that crazy? I despised Miami. I 0:39:00.320 --> 0:39:04.360 at a cellular level, I thought Miami was everything that 0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:10.359 is wrong at the time modern sports. I was raised 0:39:10.400 --> 0:39:12.880 to believe this, Jesse. I was raised to believe this. 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:16.760 I was raised to believe that college football and sports 0:39:17.160 --> 0:39:20.759 were supposed to look a certain way, pretty much the 0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:23.040 way I look in the mirror. And I was taught 0:39:23.080 --> 0:39:26.720 that college football was supposed to be presented a certain way, 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:30.839 it was supposed to be played a certain way. And 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:35.240 then Miami started playing in a way that was totally 0:39:35.280 --> 0:39:38.920 antithetical to all that, and it wasn't right. I'll go 0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:42.359 a step further. It was wrong. Miami played the wrong way. 0:39:43.320 --> 0:39:47.720 I was not alone. A vast swath of the country 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:52.400 felt this way. Now Miami today is not universally adored, 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:57.840 but the relative hatred that is felt about Miami today 0:39:58.200 --> 0:40:03.120 pales with all caps p al ees, pales in comparison 0:40:03.480 --> 0:40:06.920 to what people felt in the nineties and early two thousands. 0:40:07.400 --> 0:40:09.759 So you're twenty four years old, so that has you 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:13.160 born right around the time Larry Cokers went in their 0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:16.719 national championship, their last national championship, as it turns out, 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:19.319 and that's, you know, sort of the tail end of 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:22.239 that run. And they weren't done, like, they still had 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:27.200 some good years. But man, I am a kid growing 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:29.560 up in the deep South. Miami is not the South, 0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:32.560 but Miami is further south than the South. Miami is 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:35.880 not the South. Miami is its own portion of the country. 0:40:36.960 --> 0:40:40.600 And the way they played was different onto any other 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:46.120 place than the country, and it it had it had 0:40:46.280 --> 0:40:52.080 like worldview implications. And that is what I remember as 0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:55.480 a kid. I remember the way that I was taught 0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:57.759 college football is supposed to look and the way I 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:00.480 was taught it was supposed to be played. And here 0:41:00.520 --> 0:41:02.520 was the fact of the matter. The fact of the 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:06.080 matter is when Miami started doing what they were doing, 0:41:07.200 --> 0:41:09.920 not only were they doing it in a way that 0:41:10.200 --> 0:41:13.839 really really flew up people's backside sideways, as me Mam 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:17.080 would say, they were winning while they were doing it. 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:19.840 It wasn't that they were playing that way but still losing. 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:24.680 They were dominating folks doing that. And once you see that, 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:28.879 there's this slippery slip, there's this snowball effect that oh man, 0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:32.359 like everything we believed was wrong. Wait a second, I'm 0:41:32.400 --> 0:41:35.080 told that that's not supposed to work. If you play 0:41:35.160 --> 0:41:37.920 like that, you're going to suffer the consequences of losing. Well, 0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:40.720 they played like that, and everyone else suffered the consequences, 0:41:41.000 --> 0:41:43.120 and it was a tough time. It was a tough 0:41:43.120 --> 0:41:46.280 pill to swallow. And I don't really I mean, look, 0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:50.600 you understand now when you look back on it, why 0:41:50.680 --> 0:41:53.280 it was the way it was, why it rubbed people 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:55.960 the wrong way. It's not even an elephant in the room. 0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:58.200 It's just that's right there in the middle of the room. 0:41:58.400 --> 0:42:00.640 Like everyone kind of gets it now, but when you 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:03.239 were in it, people kind of didn't want to admit it. 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:06.359 Mike Rump on the show tonight, No one gives better 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:09.719 tours than Mike Rump. Mike Rump knows the name of 0:42:09.800 --> 0:42:12.319 every tree on that campus. And I know because he's 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:14.200 loaded me up in a golf cart and he has 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:16.200 taken me around that campus and showed me the Banya 0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:19.000 trees and then quizzes me on what the name is 0:42:19.160 --> 0:42:23.399 of the trees. Here is how loaded Miami was back then. 0:42:24.080 --> 0:42:27.920 They've got former first round draft picks giving recruiting tours 0:42:27.920 --> 0:42:30.719 on campus to this day. That's how loaded they were 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:36.399 back then. So yeah, an unbelievable time. But were they hated. Yeah, 0:42:36.520 --> 0:42:40.560 in fact, I I'm not quite sure you could explain it, 0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:43.880 because words are one thing, but the overall feel, like 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:49.400 the overall vibe, the overall shock to the landscape, like 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:52.200 measured on the Richter scale. Back then it was an earthquake, 0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:55.799 like it was a figurative earthquake in sports and enough, 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:58.520 where they made two thirty for thirties, they made like 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:03.359 a full sixty for sixty. Miami unbelievable time. Again, I'm 0:43:03.400 --> 0:43:06.560 not sure that we could ever recreate that. We were 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:10.160 talking earlier today about stuff that happened before we were born. Really, 0:43:10.400 --> 0:43:12.800 we were looking at TV ratings of some of the 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.640 biggest finales in history. Because I'm on season eight of 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:18.960 Game of Thrones. Lwan was watching it publicly. He was 0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:20.759 just like live tweeting his way through it. I've been 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:23.680 quiet about my Game of Thrones journey, but I am 0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:28.319 starting season eight tonight actually, and I was looking back 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:30.680 and that got what Jesse a little over nineteen million 0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:34.400 viewers the finale when it originally aired, MASH had like 0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:38.279 one hundred and twenty million viewers, which is just an 0:43:38.360 --> 0:43:41.359 ungodly number. That's over half the population at that point 0:43:41.400 --> 0:43:44.920 in time. I think something like that, and you can't 0:43:44.960 --> 0:43:48.000 have that anymore, is the point. Even as the population 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:50.800 of the country has exploded, No one thing, not even 0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:53.560 I mean short of the Super Bowl, no one thing 0:43:54.000 --> 0:43:59.400 commands like a monocultural levels worth of attention like that 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:01.839 did back then. I don't know that we could ever 0:44:01.920 --> 0:44:05.359 have something happened in college football that gets the kind 0:44:05.400 --> 0:44:11.239 of reaction Miami did back then. Nil in totality has 0:44:11.320 --> 0:44:14.160 probably had that impact, Like people feel a certain way 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:17.279 about it, and then you go down the road of well, 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:19.640 what should players have the right and not have the 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:22.880 right to do? But that's like a whole topic. This 0:44:23.120 --> 0:44:27.120 was a team Miami was a team that commanded that 0:44:27.200 --> 0:44:29.719 level of reaction, So I don't think it could ever 0:44:29.719 --> 0:44:32.839 happen again. Yeah, it was real. It was very real. 0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:36.359 Everything they say is real. And then some let us 0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:40.520 move on. Man, what a moment. Friday. We had our 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:42.760 Thursday show. We talked a little bit about that Senate 0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:45.640 bill and what's happening in college football and is anything 0:44:45.719 --> 0:44:49.200 going to get fixed or not? And Mike from appropriately 0:44:49.239 --> 0:44:51.480 from Washington DC hit us. He said, what are your 0:44:51.520 --> 0:44:55.080 takeaway from Greg Sankey's comments on Fine Bomb? Man? He 0:44:55.200 --> 0:44:57.600 said a lot. So Greg SANKEI the commissioner of the 0:44:57.680 --> 0:45:01.640 SEC goes on Paul finebamb for a full thirty minutes, 0:45:02.520 --> 0:45:05.440 well with a commercial break baked in, but an extended 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:10.400 period of time on Friday, And dude, he let loose, 0:45:10.520 --> 0:45:12.799 like Greg Sankie ought to talk more. Some of these 0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:18.120 conference commissioners hide and SANKI should talk more because even 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:20.000 when I disagree with him, Dude, that good that the 0:45:20.040 --> 0:45:23.880 guy's really really good at presenting his viewpoint. So Greg Sankie, 0:45:23.920 --> 0:45:25.560 we're gonna play a couple of sound bites from it 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:30.160 if you missed it. He was sort of reacting to 0:45:30.280 --> 0:45:34.120 what had been a pretty pretty news filled week last week, 0:45:34.320 --> 0:45:36.839 a pretty eventful week last week, we got another one 0:45:36.880 --> 0:45:42.200 coming up this week. And so my feel on Greg Sinki, 0:45:42.239 --> 0:45:44.520 even though I have kind of found myself on the 0:45:44.520 --> 0:45:48.080 opposite side of the arguments as him in this particular 0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:52.120 set of events, Greg Sankie is always a guy that 0:45:52.960 --> 0:45:55.279 I usually just agree with him, but when I don't 0:45:55.320 --> 0:45:57.239 agree with him, he is one of those guys who 0:45:57.280 --> 0:46:01.000 always makes you pause and rethink your position because he's 0:46:01.040 --> 0:46:06.280 always got really really good logic and like seemingly fact 0:46:06.400 --> 0:46:09.480 based reasoning behind his argument, or at least fact in 0:46:09.520 --> 0:46:12.200 a sense that it's a fact he's thought this through 0:46:12.239 --> 0:46:15.919 and he feels this way. So Greg Sankie's the best 0:46:15.960 --> 0:46:19.920 commissioner in college football at doing his job, even if 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:22.279 sometimes him doing his job and requires him to do 0:46:22.320 --> 0:46:25.920 things that I don't like. So two sound bites stood 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:28.400 out to me to answer the question. Two soundbites stood 0:46:28.400 --> 0:46:30.759 out to me, And I'm going to just play him 0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:32.759 here and then I'm going to react to him. But 0:46:32.920 --> 0:46:35.960 this is Greg Sanki. After a whole week of this 0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:39.160 Senate bill being public and a lot of people coming 0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:41.319 out for it, and a lot of people coming out 0:46:41.400 --> 0:46:44.680 against it. Nick Saban broke ranks. He comes out on 0:46:44.719 --> 0:46:48.240 the opposite side of the SEC and the SEC's media 0:46:48.280 --> 0:46:51.360 partner who currently employees Nick Saban. So it was a 0:46:51.400 --> 0:46:54.600 wild week last week. Here is one of a couple 0:46:54.640 --> 0:46:56.479 of sound bites that I'll play you. This is Greg 0:46:56.520 --> 0:46:59.280 Sanky on Paul Finebomb Show on the SEC Network. 0:47:00.000 --> 0:47:02.120 And I think one of the flaws and the bill 0:47:02.800 --> 0:47:04.719 is to pick a point in time, which is like 0:47:04.800 --> 0:47:08.440 the most recent tax filings. There are two conferences that 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:12.479 had over a billion dollars and revenue, and those two 0:47:12.480 --> 0:47:16.000 conferences are singled out and can't do certain things. One 0:47:16.000 --> 0:47:19.400 of my observations is, hey, you know what, if we 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:22.400 can't do that, make that apply to the ACC in 0:47:22.440 --> 0:47:25.640 Big twelve. Make that apply to the Ohio Valley Conference 0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:28.400 and my old friends in the Southland Conference. We shouldn't 0:47:28.440 --> 0:47:30.640 be singled out because we're not having that conversation. 0:47:34.160 --> 0:47:36.920 So the point he's making i'd probably make if I 0:47:37.000 --> 0:47:39.239 had his job, but I don't, so I can just 0:47:39.440 --> 0:47:43.040 freely speak on it. It's pretty obvious why that bill 0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:45.239 singled out the SEC in the Big ten, because the 0:47:45.280 --> 0:47:49.359 SEC in the Big ten are unique entities unto any 0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:53.040 other in college football. So there are some people out 0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:57.400 there who keep making this point thinking they're breaking news 0:47:57.440 --> 0:47:59.560 to the rest of us, and the point sounds something 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:04.400 like this, this bill is unfair because it's essentially asking 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:08.319 the SEC and the Big Ten to somewhat subsidize the 0:48:08.360 --> 0:48:13.359 rest of college athletics. We know, Yes, that's exactly what 0:48:13.400 --> 0:48:16.880 it's asking them to do. Yes, that's full stop, that's 0:48:16.920 --> 0:48:18.759 what it's asking them to do. It's a funny thing 0:48:19.440 --> 0:48:23.360 when you're already two of the power entities in the 0:48:23.400 --> 0:48:26.399 sport and then you go and gobble up even more 0:48:26.520 --> 0:48:29.680 valuable properties and become super conferences, which they already are 0:48:29.880 --> 0:48:32.680 in and of themselves. Yeah, a crazy thing happens, and 0:48:32.719 --> 0:48:35.200 that is there are two shark fins in the pond, 0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:39.600 and everyone else just has to latch on or die. 0:48:39.920 --> 0:48:43.279 That's where we find ourselves. The entire concept, like the 0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:47.319 entire thinking behind the need for this bill. Let me 0:48:47.400 --> 0:48:51.600 remind everyone is two of the big complaints in college 0:48:51.719 --> 0:48:55.319 athletics right now are we can't enforce our rules, so 0:48:55.360 --> 0:48:58.640 we can't govern, and we're running out of money, which 0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:02.399 is insane. But that's where we find ourselves now. If 0:49:02.440 --> 0:49:04.120 I put one of these fingers down. I just go 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:06.840 back to the governance part. We tried that several times. 0:49:06.840 --> 0:49:10.400 It was called a Score Act, and it died because 0:49:10.440 --> 0:49:14.080 it did not address the revenue part. And so to 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:18.480 get bi partisan support on a bill, you had to 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:22.000 bake in a way to pay for everything, not just 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:24.680 the SEC and the Big ten's cost of doing business. 0:49:25.080 --> 0:49:27.200 But in order to get enough people on board, you 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:31.239 needed several pieces of paper, aka a bill that at 0:49:31.320 --> 0:49:35.600 least had a mechanism baked into it that theoretically would 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:39.279 fund everything, including the non revenue generating sports. Because once 0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:43.040 you put that on a piece of paper, it convinces 0:49:43.160 --> 0:49:46.320 enough people from both sides of the aisle again in theory, 0:49:46.640 --> 0:49:50.920 to sign off on it. The great caveat there is 0:49:51.160 --> 0:49:54.680 it really does not fulfill its ultimate purpose if the 0:49:54.680 --> 0:49:57.960 two biggest earners aren't on board, that's the SEC and 0:49:58.000 --> 0:50:02.680 the Big Ten. But then, understandably, the commissioner of one 0:50:02.719 --> 0:50:05.360 of those conferences, and really both commissioners, one is just 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:08.200 better spoken than the other one. Greg Sank goes on 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:10.960 TV and says, well, hold on, we don't think it's 0:50:11.040 --> 0:50:15.000 right that this bill is singling us out. It's understandable 0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:18.399 how you feel that way. It's also understandable that that's 0:50:18.400 --> 0:50:21.280 the only way that the bill really has the wheels 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:23.560 under it that it needs to have. So it's kind 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:25.960 of easy to see both perspectives there. I've got my 0:50:26.080 --> 0:50:28.200 feelings on it, but I'm not the commissioner of the 0:50:28.239 --> 0:50:32.279 SEC either. There was another sound bite, this one I 0:50:32.280 --> 0:50:35.800 think generated a little more attention. Again, I'll have Bradley 0:50:35.880 --> 0:50:37.200 roll it and then I'll react to it. 0:50:37.840 --> 0:50:40.279 And you know what's interesting, Paul, is we've more from 0:50:40.360 --> 0:50:43.440 talking even in this conversation, from some of the core 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:47.320 issues that need to be addressed the return of national 0:50:47.400 --> 0:50:52.160 standards into a discussion about what different entities on the 0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:56.920 outside are pulling strings to accomplish their agendas rather than 0:50:56.960 --> 0:50:59.799 solving the core issues in college football. And you can 0:51:00.160 --> 0:51:04.000 decked the social media fodder that will follow this conversation. 0:51:04.400 --> 0:51:06.520 That's why I tell people go read the bill for 0:51:06.560 --> 0:51:09.720 yourself and make evaluations. 0:51:11.840 --> 0:51:14.040 Greg Sankie and I are both telling you go read 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:16.160 the bill for yourself. I think I've said that about 0:51:16.200 --> 0:51:20.000 five times on the show. Just log off of social media, 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:23.719 or at least mute the terms send it, don't mute 0:51:23.719 --> 0:51:27.320 college football, maybe mute both of those terms together right now, 0:51:27.600 --> 0:51:30.120 because it's just going to confuse you. Because, like I said, 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:33.919 most people don't swim in these waters thankfully, it's bad 0:51:33.960 --> 0:51:36.879 for your mental health to swim in these waters too long. 0:51:37.000 --> 0:51:39.879 So most people don't know the intricacies of this bill, 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:42.080 Like most people haven't read all one hundred and ten 0:51:42.120 --> 0:51:44.120 pages or whatever. And even if you did, a lot 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:47.200 of the stuff probably confuses you. Again, not because you're 0:51:47.239 --> 0:51:49.799 too stupid to understand it, but because it's it's kind 0:51:49.800 --> 0:51:51.960 of like trying to re foreign language in a lot 0:51:51.960 --> 0:51:55.400 of cases. And so if that's you, and I just 0:51:55.440 --> 0:51:58.920 describe most of us, if that sounds like you, you 0:51:58.920 --> 0:52:02.480 could get fool really easily. A lot of people could 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:06.160 bring some pretty convincing arguments for or against and they 0:52:06.160 --> 0:52:09.160 sound like they make sense to you. That's what he's saying. 0:52:09.360 --> 0:52:11.480 That's what I've said. So go read the bill for 0:52:11.520 --> 0:52:15.480 yourself if you have time, okay, and if not, then 0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:19.279 don't worry, because you're not actually gonna have to, you know, 0:52:19.320 --> 0:52:21.560 sign your name on a dotted line. But he's talking 0:52:21.600 --> 0:52:25.440 about outside entities, and look, I know that sounds like 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:29.160 the Boogeyman, and sometimes it is. He talked about private 0:52:29.160 --> 0:52:33.040 equity a lot. He talked about Smash Capital, the other group. 0:52:33.080 --> 0:52:35.399 I can't remember the name off the top of my head. Look, 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:39.120 we've never taken private equity money. These are not rooms 0:52:39.160 --> 0:52:41.760 that we have to be in. Who knows what happens 0:52:41.760 --> 0:52:43.319 down the road, Jesse. We could get the knock on 0:52:43.360 --> 0:52:45.160 the door at any second. But like, we don't have 0:52:45.239 --> 0:52:47.560 to do this, or we don't have to traffic in 0:52:47.640 --> 0:52:50.120 this because you guys subscribe to the channel and you 0:52:50.719 --> 0:52:54.360 keep us, you keep us afloat. But this happens a lot. 0:52:54.840 --> 0:52:57.960 Like I think you'd be pretty ignorant to look at 0:52:57.960 --> 0:53:01.279 an enterprise like college football and to assume, well, no 0:53:01.440 --> 0:53:05.319 outside entities will ever take interest. Well, what am I 0:53:05.400 --> 0:53:07.640 an outside entity? I guess not because I'm a fan, 0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:10.760 so that has me inside the bubble? Or maybe because 0:53:10.760 --> 0:53:13.479 we bought a microphone and we have a well lit set, 0:53:13.560 --> 0:53:16.120 does that put us inside the bubble? Are we an outside? 0:53:16.280 --> 0:53:18.960 What's an outside entity? And what's an inside entity? Because 0:53:19.040 --> 0:53:23.000 I do have this small observation if college football is 0:53:23.040 --> 0:53:26.279 such a mess right now, after the inside entities got 0:53:26.320 --> 0:53:28.440 to run the asylum for oh, I don't know, like 0:53:28.520 --> 0:53:33.719 five hundred years, maybe the entities inside college football suck. 0:53:34.080 --> 0:53:36.799 Maybe they're not good either. So I'm gonna go very 0:53:36.880 --> 0:53:41.400 case by case is my point on outside entities, because 0:53:41.440 --> 0:53:44.320 you telling me an outside entity has taken a special 0:53:44.360 --> 0:53:48.200 interest here alone tells me nothing. Because it could be 0:53:48.360 --> 0:53:51.440 Satan himself that's taken an interest, and yeah, I'm not 0:53:51.480 --> 0:53:54.320 a huge fan of that, or it could be someone 0:53:54.320 --> 0:53:58.040 who has deep pockets and very good intentions. That's why 0:53:58.080 --> 0:54:00.520 I encourage people to make me a billionaire, because I 0:54:00.560 --> 0:54:02.640 would be an outside entity with a lot of money 0:54:02.920 --> 0:54:05.200 who would have the best of intentions. I'd be a 0:54:05.200 --> 0:54:07.080 good billionaire, not one of the bad ones. I'd be 0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:11.600 one of the good ones. So that alone means nothing 0:54:11.640 --> 0:54:13.640 to me. So we got to get a lot more 0:54:13.640 --> 0:54:18.400 specific about who the outside entities are, what they're presenting, 0:54:18.760 --> 0:54:22.080 what are their ulterior motives? Where do they stand to gain? 0:54:22.120 --> 0:54:26.800 Because look, there's a lot of overlap here where college 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:32.800 football improves because an outside entity had influence. That outside 0:54:32.960 --> 0:54:35.560 entity gets what it wants and I don't really care 0:54:36.000 --> 0:54:40.560 because it didn't detrimentally impact college football. Now, make no mistake, 0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:45.600 there are plenty other scenarios where an outside entity poses 0:54:46.040 --> 0:54:49.640 as being the best interest of college football and then 0:54:49.680 --> 0:54:51.759 accomplishes the goal and they get what they want, and 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:54.600 I hate what it does to college football. That's why 0:54:55.160 --> 0:54:58.400 I haven't really written in sharpie on this piece of paper. 0:54:58.400 --> 0:55:00.600 Either way. On that front, you got to tell me 0:55:00.640 --> 0:55:03.719 more than just there's some shadowy outside entity, because that 0:55:03.760 --> 0:55:06.719 alone tells me nothing. Here's why this week's going to 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:08.880 be really big, and I'm gonna move on, certainly, not 0:55:08.880 --> 0:55:12.440 spending twenty seven minutes on this again. I don't know 0:55:12.480 --> 0:55:15.120 if you saw this headline. It was Friday and Saturday. 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:18.520 You may have missed it, but you know, Ted Cruz 0:55:18.560 --> 0:55:22.560 and Maria Cantwell co authored this bill, this bipartisan bill, 0:55:23.080 --> 0:55:28.319 and it's pretty obvious that Cruise and especially Cruz maybe 0:55:28.320 --> 0:55:30.439 to a lesser degree, can't well, I just see Ted 0:55:30.480 --> 0:55:34.440 Cruz's name more. It feels like they've kind of reached 0:55:34.440 --> 0:55:37.879 the end of the bargaining road or the negotiation road 0:55:37.960 --> 0:55:39.920 with the Big ten in the SEC. And the reason 0:55:39.960 --> 0:55:44.200 I say that again as an outsider, is I don't 0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:47.600 know that Ted Cruz is extending an invitation to the 0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:53.520 SEC chancellors and presidents minus Greg Sanki and the Big 0:55:53.560 --> 0:55:58.279 ten chancellors and presidents minus Tony Patiti. If that isn't 0:55:58.320 --> 0:56:02.480 the case. The word unprecedented keeps getting used a lot, 0:56:02.520 --> 0:56:05.360 Like I've seen Ross Dellinger's reporting on this, and he 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:08.760 has said like five different times after something has happened 0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:10.839 in this timeline. Now, guys, just so you know, this 0:56:10.880 --> 0:56:15.400 is unprecedented, buddy, This whole era has been unprecedented. But 0:56:15.600 --> 0:56:17.759 there was talk of a super league. The other day, 0:56:18.680 --> 0:56:21.200 Ted Cruz goes on a show and says, hey, I 0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:24.520 have spoken to Tony Pettiti and Greg Sank about the 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:27.439 viability and the legality of a super league, and they 0:56:27.520 --> 0:56:30.080 want one, and I don't think they can do it, 0:56:30.120 --> 0:56:31.920 and I'd have the votes to stop it. And then 0:56:32.000 --> 0:56:35.520 both leagues came out pretty quickly and said, we haven't 0:56:35.560 --> 0:56:38.040 spoken each other. We haven't spoken about forming a super 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:42.280 league at all. I think there's probably a little nuance 0:56:42.360 --> 0:56:44.920 that needs to be understood here, okay, and probably a 0:56:44.920 --> 0:56:49.399 little gaslighting going on to if your point is that 0:56:49.520 --> 0:56:51.840 the SEC and the Big Ten have not set in 0:56:51.880 --> 0:56:55.120 a room together and speculated about what it would take 0:56:55.680 --> 0:56:58.680 to print a big banner that says SEC, Big Ten 0:56:58.760 --> 0:57:01.239 super League and put it on the storefront. That's one 0:57:01.280 --> 0:57:05.360 thing and I'm fine agreeing with you there, because it 0:57:05.400 --> 0:57:08.120 would be illegal. Andy Staples has done a lot of 0:57:08.120 --> 0:57:10.400 writing on this, and I would encourage you to go 0:57:10.440 --> 0:57:13.359 read it, because Ted Cruise is right, Andy Staples is right. 0:57:13.400 --> 0:57:15.480 What a sentence I have begun coming out of my 0:57:15.480 --> 0:57:19.360 mouth here? That's illegal. They know that though, they know that, 0:57:19.840 --> 0:57:23.000 So it's kind of easy to gaslight people saying you 0:57:23.080 --> 0:57:26.040 haven't considered something that you already know would be illegal 0:57:26.040 --> 0:57:27.800 and it would be a waste of time to consider. 0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:32.600 But there's been way too much speculation and talking, in 0:57:32.640 --> 0:57:36.120 some cases on the record about breaking away and splitting 0:57:36.200 --> 0:57:40.200 away to try and convince me you haven't considered that 0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:44.960 in theory or that in concept. Yes, you most certainly have, 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:47.840 and I don't even mind as long as you admit 0:57:47.920 --> 0:57:50.000 it publicly and you're honest about it. But when you 0:57:50.120 --> 0:57:53.200 try and gaslight me and say we haven't even thought 0:57:53.240 --> 0:57:56.280 about it super league, we've never even heard those words 0:57:56.320 --> 0:58:02.920 put together. There's a difference and ignorance and stupidity. People 0:58:02.960 --> 0:58:05.400 may be ignorant about some of the things happening here, 0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:08.960 but it requires stupidity to think that the concept of 0:58:09.000 --> 0:58:13.120 a super League in its real form has not been considered. 0:58:13.840 --> 0:58:16.200 But yeah, there's a lot that's going to happen this week. 0:58:16.240 --> 0:58:19.240 But I would also say, you know, when when you 0:58:19.360 --> 0:58:22.840 make the point, you may be out there and you 0:58:22.880 --> 0:58:25.120 may be of the mindset that well, the SEC and 0:58:25.160 --> 0:58:26.960 the Big Ten should never consider signing on to this 0:58:27.000 --> 0:58:29.760 because why should the SEC in the Big Ten want 0:58:29.760 --> 0:58:32.800 to subsidize the rest of college football. Well, they don't 0:58:32.840 --> 0:58:35.960 want to. That's why someone's trying to force them to. 0:58:37.280 --> 0:58:40.040 I would say, And this is the very very very 0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:43.320 small child in me, I would say, I would love 0:58:43.760 --> 0:58:45.880 that out of the goodness of their heart, they want to. 0:58:46.080 --> 0:58:48.400 But that's the child in me talking. The more jaded 0:58:48.720 --> 0:58:51.680 and skeptical adult version of me knows they are not 0:58:51.840 --> 0:58:58.200 going to do it voluntarily. But that word subsidize, Boy, 0:58:58.240 --> 0:59:01.360 the SEC keeps throwing that aar. The Big Ten keeps 0:59:01.400 --> 0:59:04.400 throwing that around, And I just want to caution some 0:59:04.560 --> 0:59:06.800 of you in SEC in Big Ten circles to be 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:14.720 careful because you know, subsidizing happens within the SEC. You 0:59:14.760 --> 0:59:18.600 don't think the University of Georgia subsidizes Kentucky. You don't 0:59:18.640 --> 0:59:23.200 think Ohio State subsidizes Perdue. So you guys need to 0:59:23.200 --> 0:59:26.720 be a little careful. You could scream that word in Columbus, Ohio. 0:59:26.960 --> 0:59:30.200 You could scream that world or that word in Tuscaloose, Alabama. 0:59:30.560 --> 0:59:34.280 I'd be careful in Piscataway, New Jersey, screaming about how 0:59:34.440 --> 0:59:38.600 you have no business subsidizing the rest. You're not subsidizing 0:59:38.640 --> 0:59:42.400 anyone to begin with. You exist because the upper echelons 0:59:42.400 --> 0:59:46.000 of your conference are subsidizing you. That's why you're able 0:59:46.080 --> 0:59:48.600 to exist in the form you do right now. So 0:59:48.880 --> 0:59:52.960 I'm always cautious, or I'm always cautioning people beating their 0:59:53.080 --> 0:59:56.680 chest just cause that chest has an sec or a 0:59:56.720 --> 0:59:58.880 Big ten patch on it. Because if we do ever 0:59:58.920 --> 1:00:02.800 get to that world where you guys get the breakaway 1:00:02.840 --> 1:00:05.640 and you guys get the Super League, do we just 1:00:05.880 --> 1:00:08.919 know for sure that the SCC and the Big ten 1:00:09.120 --> 1:00:13.640 detached themselves as is? Do we know that? Because if 1:00:13.640 --> 1:00:16.400 we're going down that road, if we're going to embark 1:00:16.440 --> 1:00:20.480 on that frontier, everything's on the table at that point. Anyway. 1:00:20.680 --> 1:00:23.400 That's the extent of that. Not a twenty seven minute 1:00:23.400 --> 1:00:26.320 segment tonight, not a twenty seven minute I know why 1:00:26.320 --> 1:00:35.200 you're smiling, Jesse. Next up, we think this says Crabcake. 1:00:35.800 --> 1:00:38.040 We think that's what this name says. We do know 1:00:38.160 --> 1:00:41.360 that Crabcake one two three has submitted this question via 1:00:41.400 --> 1:00:45.160 the FanDuel discord, which means, regardless of how he spells 1:00:45.160 --> 1:00:47.439 his name, he's getting one hundred dollars in bonus bets 1:00:47.480 --> 1:00:50.320 dropped into his account courtesy of FanDuel. Anyway, here's the question, 1:00:50.560 --> 1:00:53.600 what programs are best positioned to become a top ten 1:00:53.720 --> 1:00:56.880 brand in college football within the next ten years that 1:00:56.960 --> 1:01:01.200 we would not consider top ten today. Texas A and 1:01:01.320 --> 1:01:04.480 M by a mile is my number one answer. I 1:01:04.520 --> 1:01:06.560 don't think Texas A and M is considered a top 1:01:06.600 --> 1:01:10.000 ten brand today. Texas A and M could easily be this. 1:01:10.240 --> 1:01:14.160 I fought this battle forever. I have long believed this 1:01:14.200 --> 1:01:16.720 has been the biggest sleeping giant program in terms of 1:01:16.800 --> 1:01:20.720 like national top ten, top five potential, cause they have it. 1:01:21.360 --> 1:01:23.600 But there is a portion of our audience. There's a 1:01:23.640 --> 1:01:27.040 portion of the college football public that refuses to believe 1:01:27.080 --> 1:01:31.480 something's possible until their eyes see it. Tom I plural 1:01:31.480 --> 1:01:35.280 of doubting Thomas's and I don't have to see it 1:01:35.280 --> 1:01:37.440 to believe it can happen. So Texas A and M 1:01:37.480 --> 1:01:39.800 would be there and I would ask, so, if you 1:01:39.840 --> 1:01:44.360 don't believe it's possible, what does it take to be 1:01:44.480 --> 1:01:48.520 a top ten program slash brand that they don't have? 1:01:49.520 --> 1:01:51.880 So mainly the answer is money, and they've got that. 1:01:52.160 --> 1:01:55.080 They've got a massive fan base. They put like three 1:01:55.160 --> 1:01:58.240 hundred thousand people in that stadium every Saturday. Massive fan base, 1:01:58.400 --> 1:02:02.840 also unique culture. It was pointed out to me the 1:02:02.920 --> 1:02:07.720 other day that you cannot spell culture without cult as 1:02:07.760 --> 1:02:09.400 I was making an A and M point, which I 1:02:09.480 --> 1:02:13.840 thought was uncalled for at the least, and inappropriate at 1:02:13.880 --> 1:02:17.440 the worst. What you call cult like behavior, I just 1:02:17.520 --> 1:02:20.360 call tradition. So I've never had a problem with TEXTA, 1:02:20.360 --> 1:02:24.200 A and M. But yeah, absolutely absolutely, Like they're already 1:02:24.280 --> 1:02:27.040 kind of there. They just made like they were just 1:02:27.080 --> 1:02:29.960 in the playoff last year, so they're already knocking on 1:02:30.000 --> 1:02:31.400 the door of it, and I think the best is 1:02:31.480 --> 1:02:33.200 yet to come there. So Texas A and M's one. 1:02:33.280 --> 1:02:38.400 Could I interest you in Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech, I 1:02:38.440 --> 1:02:40.360 don't know if they've cashed it yet, but they have 1:02:40.400 --> 1:02:42.920 a seventy five million dollar check sitting on their desk, 1:02:43.440 --> 1:02:46.920 and that is no small chunk of change that I 1:02:46.960 --> 1:02:50.520 think is directly correlated to James Franklin taking the job there, 1:02:50.840 --> 1:02:54.160 and so James Franklin's at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech, once 1:02:54.240 --> 1:02:57.440 upon a time, in my youth was a national power. 1:02:58.360 --> 1:03:00.800 Some think they can't be again. But if you got 1:03:00.800 --> 1:03:02.480 that kind of money floating around, you can be anything 1:03:02.520 --> 1:03:04.560 you want to be, as Mema told me, and I 1:03:04.600 --> 1:03:07.320 didn't even have seventy five million dollars, and so I 1:03:07.440 --> 1:03:10.720 think that it would be a stretch to be top ten. 1:03:11.080 --> 1:03:13.960 I will grant you that. But just imagine if they 1:03:14.000 --> 1:03:16.320 go on a roll here and think about how up 1:03:16.360 --> 1:03:18.080 in the air and in a state of flux the 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:22.280 ACC has been. Miami is not going anywhere. But you 1:03:22.400 --> 1:03:24.200 got room for more. I mean, they got like four 1:03:24.280 --> 1:03:26.280 or five of them in the SEC. They got multiples 1:03:26.280 --> 1:03:28.240 in the Big ten. You got room for more than one. 1:03:29.040 --> 1:03:31.000 Dabo and Clemson are on the clock. I got to 1:03:31.040 --> 1:03:34.480 see what they're going to do. But certainly James Franklin 1:03:34.520 --> 1:03:37.479 will improve Virginia Tech. Certainly he will do that. How 1:03:37.600 --> 1:03:41.120 much will he do it? And you need candidates for 1:03:41.160 --> 1:03:43.640 the answer to this question that aren't already there. So 1:03:43.760 --> 1:03:46.360 I would say Virginia Tech would at least be in 1:03:46.400 --> 1:03:50.560 the ballgame. And number three I think's easy too, because 1:03:50.600 --> 1:03:53.320 it's a brand that was once upon a time top ten, 1:03:53.520 --> 1:03:57.120 and that's Florida. If John Summer rolls the right hire 1:03:57.160 --> 1:04:00.000 at Florida, Florida will again be a top ten brand. 1:04:00.240 --> 1:04:03.400 Everything's there. We've already seen it happen. We saw it 1:04:03.440 --> 1:04:06.520 happen under Spurrier, we saw it happen again under Urban Meyer, 1:04:07.000 --> 1:04:09.960 So there's no doubt about the qualifications. This is like 1:04:10.080 --> 1:04:15.200 a car that has won multiple races, so it's proven itself. 1:04:15.240 --> 1:04:18.160 We just need to make sure the tires are right. 1:04:18.680 --> 1:04:20.640 We need to whatever they do when they peel that 1:04:20.760 --> 1:04:23.480 layer off the windshield so you can see. I don't 1:04:23.520 --> 1:04:27.440 know Florida can do it. Florida's done it. Florida just 1:04:27.480 --> 1:04:30.680 needs to be the best version of themselves, because that's 1:04:30.680 --> 1:04:33.800 plenty good enough to be a top ten brand. I 1:04:34.080 --> 1:04:36.960 continue to look at the State of Florida. Man, Miami's 1:04:37.120 --> 1:04:41.600 getting it done now. But I keep dreaming about this 1:04:41.720 --> 1:04:45.960 world where we have at one point in time, Florida, 1:04:45.960 --> 1:04:49.760 Florida State, and Miami all elite, and so help me, 1:04:50.040 --> 1:04:52.160 I don't I cannot get it. I cannot seem to 1:04:52.160 --> 1:04:54.520 get it. 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Or 1:06:30.320 --> 1:06:31.840 text Hope n Y in New York. 1:06:32.040 --> 1:06:34.160 All right, let's wrap it up with bold predictions here. 1:06:34.960 --> 1:06:37.520 Bold predictions on this show work a little different in June, 1:06:37.760 --> 1:06:39.560 because it's not time for me to predict, it's time 1:06:39.560 --> 1:06:41.600 for you to predict. I just put a rating on it, 1:06:42.040 --> 1:06:44.560 and anyone who submits a bold prediction that rates nine 1:06:44.600 --> 1:06:49.040 point five or Boulder and it hits wins the coveted 1:06:49.080 --> 1:06:52.360 and elusive Chalice of Supremacy. We only gave three of 1:06:52.400 --> 1:06:55.560 them out all of last year, at least for bold predictions. 1:06:55.600 --> 1:06:59.720 First up tonight, this is from New Brunswick, New Jersey. 1:07:00.600 --> 1:07:03.880 Not gonna attempt the name, but here's the prediction. Georgia 1:07:03.920 --> 1:07:07.240 wins the SEC again, but fails to win a single 1:07:07.280 --> 1:07:11.400 playoff game again, so this has been their last two years. 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:14.480 They beat Texas a couple of years ago, Carson Beck 1:07:14.560 --> 1:07:17.440 goes down, they lose to Notre Dame in round one. 1:07:17.680 --> 1:07:21.400 Last year they beat Bama thoroughly, but then they go 1:07:21.480 --> 1:07:25.440 to the playoff and Trinidad Shambliss happens to him. So 1:07:25.560 --> 1:07:29.240 this year they win the SEC again. They are pretty 1:07:29.280 --> 1:07:32.080 much co favored to win the league with Texas. Those 1:07:32.080 --> 1:07:34.760 are the odds right there at FanDuel right now. Texas 1:07:34.880 --> 1:07:38.800 as of this Sunday night, is a very slight favorite 1:07:38.840 --> 1:07:42.959 to win the SEC. But that's very fluid, so they've 1:07:42.960 --> 1:07:46.320 got to win the league. Could easily see that happening. 1:07:47.840 --> 1:07:51.160 It's not hard to envision the second part either, because 1:07:51.200 --> 1:07:53.960 what if the SEC just feels like it did last 1:07:54.040 --> 1:07:56.840 year again this year, where it's not a whole lot 1:07:56.840 --> 1:08:00.200 of great, but there's a collection of very good and 1:08:00.280 --> 1:08:04.000 the best of the very good teams wins the league 1:08:04.080 --> 1:08:06.760 and then Georgia they'll probably have a first round by 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:09.160 if they win the league, and then they go and 1:08:09.560 --> 1:08:12.360 they just face a hot quarterback that's better than Gunner Stockton, 1:08:12.720 --> 1:08:15.120 and that's the difference in the game. None of that 1:08:15.200 --> 1:08:17.160 in and of itself is hard to envision. It's just 1:08:17.160 --> 1:08:20.040 both of them have to happen. And for that reason, 1:08:20.120 --> 1:08:23.360 I will put a nine on that. But it's only 1:08:23.479 --> 1:08:26.680 so bold when what you're predicting has happened too out 1:08:26.680 --> 1:08:30.000 of the last two years. Next up, this one's bold. 1:08:31.320 --> 1:08:36.599 Ben in Denver, Colorado, Miami and Penn State both win 1:08:36.680 --> 1:08:39.960 a playoff game. That's a nine and a half for me. 1:08:41.280 --> 1:08:44.160 That's a nine and a half. So I put nine 1:08:44.160 --> 1:08:46.680 in a quarter earlier in the day, Jesse, but I 1:08:46.720 --> 1:08:49.920 thought about it more. That's worth a nine and a half. 1:08:50.000 --> 1:08:51.599 It's a couple of things that have to happen here, 1:08:51.640 --> 1:08:54.519 So think this through with me. It requires Miami and 1:08:54.560 --> 1:08:56.320 Penn State to make the playoff. Now I'm not going 1:08:56.360 --> 1:08:59.000 to spend a lot of time on Miami because Miami 1:08:59.240 --> 1:09:02.439 is a playoff team to me. So Miami makes the 1:09:02.479 --> 1:09:06.439 playoff and they have to win a game that I'm 1:09:06.439 --> 1:09:10.880 okay with. The Penn State part of all this, I 1:09:10.880 --> 1:09:15.960 think people have to be careful differentiating Penn State's schedule 1:09:16.520 --> 1:09:19.160 versus Penn State the team, because it's really easy to 1:09:19.160 --> 1:09:21.640 talk about Penn State schedule, but the schedule is not 1:09:21.680 --> 1:09:23.000 the team. The team is the team that has to 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:26.800 play the schedule, and they've got games they should win 1:09:27.360 --> 1:09:30.000 up until October tenth and seventeenth. That's when they play 1:09:30.080 --> 1:09:32.720 USC and Michigan back to back. But let's say they 1:09:32.760 --> 1:09:35.880 split those games, and I don't know, maybe even at 1:09:35.880 --> 1:09:37.720 ten and two, Penn State could make it. Certainly at 1:09:37.720 --> 1:09:40.360 eleven and one they would make it them that they've 1:09:40.360 --> 1:09:41.960 got to make it in and they got to win 1:09:42.040 --> 1:09:46.000 a game. And this is like a veteran Iowa State team, 1:09:46.520 --> 1:09:51.360 probably more depth than Star Power Meeting potatoes this year, Jesse, Yeah, 1:09:51.360 --> 1:09:55.080 meeting potatoes team, No desserts, meat potatoes. But make it 1:09:55.120 --> 1:09:58.000 in and win it Miami. I don't doubt you, guys. 1:09:58.240 --> 1:10:01.519 Penn state, making it and winning. That's worth a nine 1:10:01.560 --> 1:10:03.479 point five to me. I think you deserve a lot 1:10:03.479 --> 1:10:06.800 of credit if you predict that accurately. Next up, spin 1:10:06.840 --> 1:10:13.960 the Wheel, Adam from Beautiful Land from South Carolina. Oh boy. 1:10:14.360 --> 1:10:17.599 Both Clemson and South Carolina will be looking for new 1:10:17.680 --> 1:10:22.479 coaches after this season. This is a veteran prediction because 1:10:22.520 --> 1:10:24.839 he did not say Dabbo and Shane Biemer get fired. 1:10:25.160 --> 1:10:28.439 He just said they're looking for new coaches. They could 1:10:28.479 --> 1:10:33.400 be fired, they could retire, one could join the Peace Corps. 1:10:33.800 --> 1:10:38.040 I don't know. One could just take a sabbatical. But whatever, 1:10:38.200 --> 1:10:41.640 the scenario is, Clemson in South Carolina both looking for 1:10:41.720 --> 1:10:44.439 new head coaches. Jesse, that's a nine point five for me, 1:10:45.080 --> 1:10:46.880 both of them happening in the same year. Can you 1:10:46.960 --> 1:10:53.160 imagine the turmoil in South Carolina? Both major programs, in 1:10:53.200 --> 1:10:56.480 all likelihood have fired their head coaches. So I guess 1:10:57.360 --> 1:10:59.439 since I know both of them, neither of them sound 1:10:59.439 --> 1:11:01.320 like they're ready to retired to me, so I assume 1:11:01.360 --> 1:11:04.559 they got fired. In this scenario, it's easier to envision 1:11:04.600 --> 1:11:06.960 for South Carolina because they're coming off a four and 1:11:07.040 --> 1:11:10.200 eight season, and if Shane were to go sub five 1:11:10.320 --> 1:11:13.960 hundred again. I think that probably would be it for him. 1:11:14.520 --> 1:11:16.720 I don't want that to happen, certainly. I mean, for 1:11:17.240 --> 1:11:20.519 all I care, double digit wins for Shane Beemer this year. 1:11:20.720 --> 1:11:24.280 Lock it in Leonora Seller's Player of the Year offensively, 1:11:24.680 --> 1:11:28.160 Dylan Stewart Player of the Year defensively. And there's Shane 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:31.720 Beemer in Atlanta in the first Saturday in December, and 1:11:31.760 --> 1:11:34.360 he didn't even have to buy a ticket. Okay, but 1:11:35.160 --> 1:11:38.439 that's maybe not the real world. So this prediction here 1:11:38.560 --> 1:11:42.640 is they're bad again. It's the last go around with 1:11:42.760 --> 1:11:45.599 Leonora Sellers and Dylan Stewart. Enough people think well, if 1:11:45.600 --> 1:11:47.800 we couldn't do it this time, we're never gonna do it. 1:11:47.800 --> 1:11:51.200 And he gets fired. But Dabbo too. And this is 1:11:51.200 --> 1:11:53.320 the ultimate question. How bad does it have to be 1:11:53.360 --> 1:11:56.599 at Clemson this year for this to go down? Last year? 1:11:56.640 --> 1:11:59.120 What were they seven to five regular season? Jesse? So 1:11:59.479 --> 1:12:02.160 if they're so and five again, that's not to me 1:12:02.320 --> 1:12:06.400 bad enough to fire him six and six. The concept 1:12:06.439 --> 1:12:10.560 of firing Daboswiney is like a whole mountain of conversation 1:12:10.680 --> 1:12:12.760 in and of itself, And you got to find out 1:12:13.000 --> 1:12:16.320 how much equity is built up how bad does it 1:12:16.400 --> 1:12:18.719 have to be? Does it have to be like FSU 1:12:18.800 --> 1:12:23.640 twenty twenty four level bad, because I would think that 1:12:23.960 --> 1:12:26.080 it has to be a disaster, That's what it would 1:12:26.120 --> 1:12:28.400 have to be. And for both of these things to 1:12:28.400 --> 1:12:30.280 happen at the same time, that's a nine point five 1:12:30.600 --> 1:12:32.880 on the boldness scale. Maybe nine point seven five last 1:12:32.960 --> 1:12:38.200 up really really quickly to the point from beneath the Springs, Florida, 1:12:38.360 --> 1:12:42.280 Virginia Tech makes the playoff. Now, I don't doubt the 1:12:42.320 --> 1:12:44.840 team's going to be better this year. I don't doubt that, 1:12:45.160 --> 1:12:48.200 but there were three and nine last year, so they 1:12:48.200 --> 1:12:51.120 could be significantly better and still just barely make a 1:12:51.120 --> 1:12:54.920 bowl game. To make the playoff after going three and nine, 1:12:54.960 --> 1:12:58.080 that's a nine point five on the boldness scale. James 1:12:58.120 --> 1:13:01.760 Franklin making the playoff in year one at Virginia Tech 1:13:02.120 --> 1:13:05.559 would be just incredible. Theater. We were doing the fantasy 1:13:05.600 --> 1:13:08.200 booking of the playoff earlier today, and the only thing 1:13:08.280 --> 1:13:11.400 we regreted not being able to fit in is Virginia 1:13:11.479 --> 1:13:15.240 Tech at Penn State Round one of the playoff. You 1:13:15.280 --> 1:13:18.240 can't go wrong there, so the team's gonna be better. 1:13:18.439 --> 1:13:22.440 The schedules the problem they in the month of October. 1:13:22.479 --> 1:13:25.200 From October twenty fourth through the end of the year, 1:13:25.720 --> 1:13:29.120 they play at Clemson, at SMU, and at Miami, and 1:13:29.160 --> 1:13:34.120 it just strikes me as a classic candidate of a 1:13:34.160 --> 1:13:37.160 start fast but run out of gas kind of team, 1:13:37.280 --> 1:13:40.360 because I could easily see them being like five and 1:13:40.400 --> 1:13:43.200 oh or six and oh. I could easily see that happening, 1:13:44.320 --> 1:13:46.439 and then they're the story of the first half of 1:13:46.479 --> 1:13:48.720 the year, but then reality hits in the second half 1:13:48.760 --> 1:13:50.920 of the year. That stuff happens every year, but for 1:13:51.040 --> 1:13:54.960 them to make the playoff man from three to nine 1:13:55.000 --> 1:13:57.439 to I would think ten and two is what's necessary there. 1:13:57.600 --> 1:13:59.959 That's a nine and a half to me. Good predictions 1:14:00.120 --> 1:14:05.000 tonight are the three candidates for child live supremacy. Maybe 1:14:05.120 --> 1:14:09.040 multiple chalices aka childli the plural of chalice. All right, guys, 1:14:09.160 --> 1:14:11.679 it's going to be a busy week for pretty much 1:14:12.320 --> 1:14:14.760 no one here but me because I am going storm 1:14:14.840 --> 1:14:17.880 chasing this week. So at Josh Pate CFB is how 1:14:17.920 --> 1:14:21.120 you can follow along. I will give you a live 1:14:21.160 --> 1:14:24.439 stream once the live stream cranks up. It's going to 1:14:24.479 --> 1:14:26.240 be an act. 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