Speaker 1: Some breaking news to me. I don't know if anyone
Speaker 1: else cares, Jesse, but we're locking down some storm chasing
Speaker 1: plans this week, which may very well see me grace
Speaker 1: another state with my presence for the first time. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with college football, but the
Speaker 1: rest of this show does. We're jam packed high on
Speaker 1: top of very warm but dry downtown Nashville, Tennessee on
Speaker 1: the Sunday night, June seventh. The Oar of Our Lord
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six sounds like a pretty weighty show, but
Speaker 1: we cannot let the mistakes of Thursday recreate themselves where
Speaker 1: we had a twenty seven minute a block. We cannot
Speaker 1: do that. But we are going to have a dream
Speaker 1: playoff bracket on the show. I'm also going to tell
Speaker 1: the truth about Miami. Not today's Miami, but someone one
Speaker 1: of our younger viewers, one of our local youth, asked
Speaker 1: about a time before they were born and what Miami
Speaker 1: was like. Is is the thirty for thirty stuff? Real?
Speaker 1: Is what people say about the nineties and two thousands
Speaker 1: of Miami Team's real. Oh it's real, friend, it's real.
Speaker 1: We got boll predictions on the show tonight I'm gonna
Speaker 1: attempt to predict where we're going in the tour this fall,
Speaker 1: and the tour doesn't even have a name yet. But man,
Speaker 1: some of these weekends are borderline impossible to choose from,
Speaker 1: and yet we're gonna attempt to do the impossible on
Speaker 1: tonight show. Here's an impossible thing to do, have a really,
Speaker 1: really happy, carefree college football show in June of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. We can do it. We will do it.
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Roanoke, Virginia, Oxford, Mississippi, Cleveland, Ohio,
Speaker 1: and Jackson, Tennessee. Not exclusively, though, but among several other
Speaker 1: places they are. Please make sure you are subscribed to
Speaker 1: the channel. It's free, doesn't cost you anything, it just
Speaker 1: helps us. I would like tonight to begin our journey
Speaker 1: with something that has nothing to do with this Senate.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with angry commissioners. It has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with shadowy outside entities. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: What I would like to do is I would like
Speaker 1: to look at the twenty twenty six schedule, and I
Speaker 1: would like to try and forecast our tour this fall.
Speaker 1: And Bradley, that's not the endpoint that I want you
Speaker 1: to use when you cut the video. Here's the endpoint.
Speaker 1: We'll be somewhere every game this fall. We don't even
Speaker 1: know what the fall tour will be named yet. That's
Speaker 1: up to you. So my balls are in your court
Speaker 1: when it comes to that. But I can guess, and
Speaker 1: I can look out over the horizon, and we can
Speaker 1: start in week one, and I can go all the
Speaker 1: way through Week thirteen, and basically we just get to
Speaker 1: pick where we go. So as we start in week
Speaker 1: one and try and map out our tour this fall,
Speaker 1: I am majorly disappointed in the college football powers that
Speaker 1: bees lack of marquee matchups in Week one, But you
Speaker 1: know what, that's not within our control. What's in our
Speaker 1: control is I can look at some of these neutral
Speaker 1: site games. Three of the top five games in Week
Speaker 1: one are pretty much neutral site games. So Louisville Ole
Speaker 1: Miss is a Sunday that's in Nashville. If we want
Speaker 1: to walk to the game, we could go to Green Bay,
Speaker 1: if we want to visit Lambeau for the first time,
Speaker 1: and go to Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Baylor and Auburn. DJ
Speaker 1: lagway season at Baylor trying to save Dave Randa's job
Speaker 1: Alex Golish Game one on the job at Auburn, but
Speaker 1: that's in Atlanta. I would lean Clemson versus LSU. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's really obvious where you should go. I think week one.
Speaker 1: The problem, if you want to call this a problem,
Speaker 1: is we also have a marquee LSU game in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, so we're trying to balance. Like, all
Speaker 1: due respect to Lane Kiffin, I don't want to see
Speaker 1: him half a dozen times this year, but let's lean
Speaker 1: Clemson LSU in Week one, which brings us to Week two,
Speaker 1: and there are a clear there's a clear top two
Speaker 1: in Week two. Oklahoma's at Michigan, Ohio State is at Texas.
Speaker 1: Now I went to both of those games last year
Speaker 1: because they weren't on the same week. So Texas was
Speaker 1: at Ohio State one last year, and then remember OU
Speaker 1: went to Michigan went to OU. We were at both
Speaker 1: of those games. I think we lean Ohio State Texas here.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a primetime game. It's going to
Speaker 1: be awesome. Look, if this were a situation where you
Speaker 1: and I were bidding against each other, I would be
Speaker 1: happy to give you first pick and I just take
Speaker 1: whatever's left over because to me, you can't go wrong
Speaker 1: here either way. Like the way I think about these
Speaker 1: early season games is even if Oklahoma or Michigan end
Speaker 1: up being four lost teams, they haven't lost four games here,
Speaker 1: so they're both really really high hopes, full on vibes
Speaker 1: teams this time of year. Arizona State, Texas A and
Speaker 1: M's this week. Dan Landing's going to be in Stillwater,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma on this Saturday. But I think we lean Ohio
Speaker 1: State at Texas week three. And remember, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: these are just leans. I am by no means confirming
Speaker 1: that we will be in these towns on these days.
Speaker 1: Some are saying Week three has the game of the year.
Speaker 1: Some are saying LSU at Ole Miss is the game
Speaker 1: of the year. I am pretty sure the closest available
Speaker 1: hotel room is in Nashville for this game. So is
Speaker 1: it LSU Ole Miss? Do we see LSU for the
Speaker 1: second time in three weeks? You could also if you
Speaker 1: wanted to see John summerl and Alex Golish year one
Speaker 1: versus year one head coaches. Florida is at Auburn on
Speaker 1: this day. I think a huge pair of sleeper games
Speaker 1: is right there at the bottom of the screen. Houston
Speaker 1: at Texas Tech is a massive game in the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: SMU at Louisville, I think is sneakily a massive game
Speaker 1: in the ACC. And yet I don't know how you
Speaker 1: look anywhere other than Oxford. So I would lean LSU
Speaker 1: at Ole Miss, even acknowledging that we have now chosen
Speaker 1: two LSU games in the first three weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: Week four major SEC week here, and ironically I'm not
Speaker 1: even going to lean one of these, but there are
Speaker 1: no less than four huge marquee games in the SEC.
Speaker 1: This is Oklahoma at Georgia, This is Texas A and
Speaker 1: M at LSU. This is Texas at Tennessee, Ole Mess
Speaker 1: at Florida Jesse, I would say is the fourth most
Speaker 1: attractive game of this day, and that's a huge one
Speaker 1: as well. But if you'll recall a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: when I was talking about strategy in building out your
Speaker 1: own tour schedule, you got to have the circle games,
Speaker 1: you got to have the games that are non negotiables.
Speaker 1: And remember one of mine was I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure I am in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum when
Speaker 1: Oregon goes to USC because if this is a do
Speaker 1: or die a year for Lincoln Riley, and I think
Speaker 1: it is. And if there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there still saying Dan Lanning hasn't won anything, which
Speaker 1: there are, then I want to be there early in
Speaker 1: the year when they face each other, and that is
Speaker 1: this Saturday. So with all those big SEC games, I
Speaker 1: still lean Oregon at USC in week four week five,
Speaker 1: could we doubled it big ten here? I think so.
Speaker 1: So in week five, Miami's at Clemson. Now, listen, the
Speaker 1: calculus changes here mightily. If Clemson upsets LSU in week one,
Speaker 1: it probably changes our week three strategy, but it also
Speaker 1: changes our week five strategy because if Miami is at
Speaker 1: Clemson and all of a sudden, Clemson's top fifteen and
Speaker 1: Dabbo looks like with a quote unquote bunch of nobodies
Speaker 1: on his roster, that they're about to make a run, well,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this could be I don't know,
Speaker 1: a de facto ACC Championship game, maybe at least an
Speaker 1: ACC Championship preview. All of a sudden, it looks like
Speaker 1: they're going to play each other twice. Miami at Clemson
Speaker 1: would be amazing, but if Clemson has already lost a
Speaker 1: game there, if Miami is going to be favored by
Speaker 1: a touchdown there, and instead I could look up to
Speaker 1: Iowa City, where somehow we still haven't been to a game,
Speaker 1: and I could go see Ohio State at Iowa. I
Speaker 1: think we lean Ohio State at Iowa in this week.
Speaker 1: I've seen i was so many times, but I've seen
Speaker 1: them on the road. I have not seen them in
Speaker 1: a home game. All right, Week six, multiple heavy hitters here.
Speaker 1: Red River Shootout known by no other name on this
Speaker 1: show is this Saturday. But remember it's no longer a
Speaker 1: noon kickoff. One of the things that has happened with
Speaker 1: that game is it's still at the Cotton Bowl as
Speaker 1: the Lord intended, the real one, not the corporate Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 1: But it is a three point thirty eastern, two thirty
Speaker 1: local time kickoff now, and that matters because this is
Speaker 1: a Saturday theoretically, where if we had the noon kickoff
Speaker 1: in Dallas, you could go Texas sou and then probably
Speaker 1: get to Tuscaloosa for a seven thirty eastern kickoff Georgia
Speaker 1: at Alabama. But be that as it may, even with
Speaker 1: USC at Penn State, possibly a wide out game, Jesse,
Speaker 1: is that the word people are saying up in state
Speaker 1: college that it in fact everyone's saying it should be.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of things that should be
Speaker 1: that are not in college football scheduling. So USC at
Speaker 1: Penn State's very attractive to me. Georgia at Alabama is
Speaker 1: always attractive to me, and we have been at the
Speaker 1: last several games they've played, and outside of that clunker
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, these regular season games have been must see
Speaker 1: And so I'm going to lean Georgia at Alabama for
Speaker 1: Week six, Week seven. I don't know how you could
Speaker 1: possibly sell me that there's ever been a bigger game
Speaker 1: in Bloomington, Indiana on a football field than Ohio State
Speaker 1: at Indiana the year after Indiana just won a national title,
Speaker 1: the year after Indiana knocked Ohio State down in the
Speaker 1: Big Ten championship game. And so before I even tell
Speaker 1: you about the other matchups, and there are a few
Speaker 1: big ones here in Week seven, Ohio State at Indiana
Speaker 1: is my lean. Now, if some things have gone sideways
Speaker 1: during the year, this game right here, Notre Dame at
Speaker 1: Brigham Young. As I've said like five times in the
Speaker 1: past month, it's not getting enough attention. But if Brigham
Speaker 1: Young sort of proves that they are once again a
Speaker 1: force to be reckoned with this year, and we'll know
Speaker 1: by week seven, this could be a situation where everyone's
Speaker 1: looking at this game and saying, boy, Matt. Back in August,
Speaker 1: I thought Notre Dame had a one game season. I
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be that Miami game. And
Speaker 1: if they get over that one, good, And if they
Speaker 1: don't get over that one, they'll still be in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: just a lower seed. That one, right, there's not an
Speaker 1: easy game. And I have never been to a game
Speaker 1: in Provo, so I could see that. I could see
Speaker 1: if we don't go see Alabama earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: maybe the third Saturday in October at Kneeland. We've been
Speaker 1: there the last two times that game's been in Kneeland,
Speaker 1: both times field stormings. One time Gelby's equipment got trampled
Speaker 1: and we still have not tracked down the perpetrator. Also,
Speaker 1: Florida's at Texas on this day. John Sumrall, maybe he's
Speaker 1: surprised people. Maybe we find ourselves making a second surprise
Speaker 1: trip to Austin. But until otherwise stated, I've got Aleen
Speaker 1: Ohio State at Indiana in Week seven. Most of us
Speaker 1: have not been to a game at Indiana, so that
Speaker 1: would knock that down. Week eight feels like an SEC
Speaker 1: week here, but it's not for me. Texas A and
Speaker 1: M's at Alabama here, and this kind of gets into
Speaker 1: that territory where all these SEC teams have played each
Speaker 1: other a lot, and so it could just be a
Speaker 1: hodgepodge of multi loss teams, or it could be that
Speaker 1: a few teams have like separated themselves. What if that's
Speaker 1: Texas A and M at Alabama? You know what if
Speaker 1: that's Ole Miss at Texas. Yes, that's a possibility. Indiana's
Speaker 1: at Michigan on this Saturday. That's on the radar. I
Speaker 1: think that may be our shot to go to a
Speaker 1: Michigan game this year if we want to. In ann Arbor.
Speaker 1: But I want you to look at this game here,
Speaker 1: Houston at Utah. Houston has a shot to be really
Speaker 1: good this year. Utah has a shot to be really
Speaker 1: good this year. It would not surprise me if that
Speaker 1: right there ended up being game of the Year in
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. Would not surprise me. It's a little
Speaker 1: later in the season and we kind of know what
Speaker 1: Texas Tech's gonna be by that point, so we kind
Speaker 1: of feel out whether it's gonna be a one bid
Speaker 1: league again, and it's just a shoe in that it's
Speaker 1: Texas Tech or have they been brought back to earth.
Speaker 1: Maybe Soresby's not eligible. Maybe they're good but not great
Speaker 1: compared to last year, and maybe the Big Twelve is
Speaker 1: wide opening that right there is deciding the other half
Speaker 1: of the Big Twelve championship game. Could see that. I
Speaker 1: am going to slightly lean Houston at Utah. I've only
Speaker 1: been to one game at Utah. Kickoff temperature was ninety
Speaker 1: five degrees dry heat, but ninety five degrees for Florida
Speaker 1: in Week one a few years ago. I would like
Speaker 1: to make my way out there once the weather has
Speaker 1: turned a little bit. So Week eight, we're gonna lean
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City right now. Week nine another big spot
Speaker 1: for USC. See if Lincoln does it this year, it's
Speaker 1: not going to be because he tiptoed his way through
Speaker 1: an inferior schedule even without Notre Dame. USC's got it
Speaker 1: to do this year. Ohio State goes into the Coliseum
Speaker 1: in Week nine. This is the same day as Clemson
Speaker 1: at Florida State. Which once upon a time was one
Speaker 1: of the marquee games in college football. Not so much
Speaker 1: this year probably, But the sneaky game here to me
Speaker 1: is again we're all eyes on John Sumraw. That's a
Speaker 1: team that I don't think a ton's going to be
Speaker 1: expected of, But because the talent rosters a little bit
Speaker 1: deeper than maybe your normal six or seven win projected
Speaker 1: team is, we got to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 1: The world's largest outdoor cocktail party known by no other
Speaker 1: name on this show I've avoided since it gave me
Speaker 1: food poisoning. But that doesn't mean that we couldn't slightly
Speaker 1: lean the game in Jacksonville for four or five months
Speaker 1: out and then change our mind. I would lean Ohio
Speaker 1: State at USC here, but when we get this deep
Speaker 1: in the season, it's tough, but I would lean Ohio
Speaker 1: State at USC next week, Week ten. This is the
Speaker 1: biggest week of the year, I think. I don't know
Speaker 1: how it ends up not being the biggest week of
Speaker 1: the year. Let me just rattle them off for you.
Speaker 1: We don't even have room on the graphic for all
Speaker 1: the big time games. Bama is at LSU, Georgia is
Speaker 1: at Old Miss Brigham Young is at Utah it's the
Speaker 1: Holy War because they don't want us saying it on air.
Speaker 1: Miami is at Notre Dame. Oregon is at Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Now you may be thinking I just listed the biggest
Speaker 1: games of the year. No, all of these games are
Speaker 1: happening on the same Saturday. In week ten, I lean
Speaker 1: Miami at Notre Dame. We know Miami at Notre Dame
Speaker 1: is going to be a primetime kickoff. I don't know
Speaker 1: who is the noon kickoff, but I think I'm pointing
Speaker 1: to it right now. So I think Joel Klatt's gonna
Speaker 1: have syrup on his hands up there in the booth,
Speaker 1: and they're calling this Oregon Ohio State kickoff right there
Speaker 1: at noon Eastern. And if that's the case, stats in
Speaker 1: info ran the numbers, it is possible to be in
Speaker 1: Columbus in South Bend on the same day, especially if
Speaker 1: you have that padding in between the two games. But
Speaker 1: since our rule is we can only pick one game here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hard lean Miami at Notre Dame. That's one
Speaker 1: of our circle games for the whole year. We can't
Speaker 1: not lean Miami at Notre Dame Week eleven. Hmmm, is
Speaker 1: this our shot to go to Eugene. Michigan is at
Speaker 1: Oregon on this day. USC is at Indiana. Now that's
Speaker 1: a conditionally huge game. The conditions are, Indiana's got to
Speaker 1: be right back in the similar seat they were in
Speaker 1: last year. USC has got to come through. That could
Speaker 1: be a huge game. That's Lincoln Riley and cold Weather.
Speaker 1: That's Jed Miyavin cold Weather. Potentially Michigan at Oregon, as
Speaker 1: I already said, and then three games in the SEC.
Speaker 1: Texas is at LSU. Just the way the conference schedule
Speaker 1: looks in the SEC, they're just randomly those kinds of
Speaker 1: games with these huge brand teams every single week down there.
Speaker 1: Ole miss is at Oklahoma Tech. Tennessee's at A and
Speaker 1: M on this Saturday. Any of those games could be
Speaker 1: anywhere from afterthought to marquee depending on how those league
Speaker 1: standings look. But since I can't figure that out and
Speaker 1: we've already seen those teams like we already we got
Speaker 1: a wild card, I think with the SEC situation, I
Speaker 1: haven't been to Oregon yet this year. At this point,
Speaker 1: I am leaning Michigan at Oregon. Michigan could screw that up,
Speaker 1: Oregon could screw it up. I don't think they will.
Speaker 1: I think Oregon's gonna be in the hunt. I got
Speaker 1: to see if Michigan is Michigan at Oregon is my
Speaker 1: lean for Week eleven, Week twelve, interesting situation here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a and m at Oklahoma my lean. The
Speaker 1: week before I was gonna go ole Miss at Oklahoma
Speaker 1: as my lean, but then I realized, oh, I could
Speaker 1: go to oe you the next week. Let me go
Speaker 1: to Oregon the previous week strategy. But on this week,
Speaker 1: even though you don't see it on this graphic, there
Speaker 1: is a very, very intriguing Friday night opportunity and it
Speaker 1: is Virginia Tech at Miami. Now I will grant you
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech could be out of it by now, or
Speaker 1: James Franklin could be one of the big surprises in
Speaker 1: college football this year. And whomes to amongst Us hasn't
Speaker 1: ever taken in a Marquis Friday night game in hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. Whoms To amongst Us hasn't Jesse, wasn't Virginia
Speaker 1: Tech at Miami a Friday night game a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago where there was the inexplicable Yeah, okay, So
Speaker 1: this matchup has delivered in this time slot in recent history,
Speaker 1: SMU at Notre Dame is a sleeper candidate on this Saturday.
Speaker 1: LSU at Tennessee is a sleeper candidate on this Saturday.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna lean A and m at Oklahoma. I'm
Speaker 1: going to reserve that Friday spot for Virginia Tech at Miami,
Speaker 1: and then we get the rivalry week and my default
Speaker 1: here is Michigan at Ohio State until someone talks me
Speaker 1: off of it. And by talks me off of it,
Speaker 1: I mean, if that thing's a three touchdown spread, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm talked off of it. I could find myself at
Speaker 1: the Egg Bowl. I could find myself in college station.
Speaker 1: That's a Friday game day after Thanksgiving. Washington's inn Oregon
Speaker 1: that day. You got the Iron Bowl that day. But
Speaker 1: until further notice, Michigan at Ohio State is my lean there.
Speaker 1: Now leen is the keyword. I guess we could look
Speaker 1: back come December, Jesse and figure out how accurate we were.
Speaker 1: We have been terrible at this in the past. Everybody
Speaker 1: when we used to work at CBS, remember they would
Speaker 1: all hit us up and they would say, hey, sales
Speaker 1: wants to know if you figured out where you're going
Speaker 1: this year, and I would say yes, in week one,
Speaker 1: I pretty much know where I'm going after that. I
Speaker 1: have no idea. Now we own the company, so certainly
Speaker 1: we can call our shot, but I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we've ever hit over fifty percent.
Speaker 1: Maybe we've hit fifty five percent on guessing where we're
Speaker 1: gonna go, because that's the beauty of how unpredictable this
Speaker 1: sport is. Let's move on. You know, the last few shows,
Speaker 1: with one exception, there's been some pretty serious commentary. We've
Speaker 1: had to talk a lot about stuff that no one
Speaker 1: wants to talk about. Who in the world wants to
Speaker 1: talk about a Senate bill, except that we'll do it
Speaker 1: way later in the show. But no one wants to
Speaker 1: talk about this stuff. No one wants to talk about
Speaker 1: sad things. We want to talk about happy things. And
Speaker 1: in an ideal world, we just turned the mic on.
Speaker 1: Bradley fires the cameras up, Prez hits the lights, Mitch
Speaker 1: does whatever Mitch does in there, and we just daydreamed
Speaker 1: together for a little while. So let us daydream for
Speaker 1: a little while. Bradley, here's a good endpoint for you.
Speaker 1: We know the playoff is twelve teams this year. We
Speaker 1: know twelve teams will be in the playoff this year.
Speaker 1: We know what the schedule is. But that's about all
Speaker 1: we know. And everyone's going to make their predictions, and
Speaker 1: eventually I'll make my predictions as well. But it is June,
Speaker 1: and by law I don't have to predict the playoff
Speaker 1: in June. But we were sitting around today, feed up
Speaker 1: on the table since no one else is in the office,
Speaker 1: and the idea entered the room of fantasy booking the playoff.
Speaker 1: And what that looks like is essentially throwing caution to
Speaker 1: the wind, keeping like some air of believability in the room,
Speaker 1: but just walking up on the grease board, which we
Speaker 1: had never used until today, putting the bracket on the
Speaker 1: grease board, and filling that thing out. What would be
Speaker 1: the most fun, what would be the most incredible, what
Speaker 1: would be the most eyeball attention grabbing playoff that we
Speaker 1: could have? And so the only rule here is it
Speaker 1: has to be somewhat conceivable, and it has to have juice,
Speaker 1: and that's it, that's all. And so we got to
Speaker 1: work and there was a lot of erasure, and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of moving around and This is not
Speaker 1: a prediction, but this is more fantasy booking. This is
Speaker 1: like imagining what Stone Call versus Hulk Cogan would look
Speaker 1: like in nineteen ninety eight, but we couldn't see it
Speaker 1: at that point. Turns out we never saw it. But
Speaker 1: we see this at least on paper. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at round one. Here's where our sick minds went
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six college football Playoff fantasy booking
Speaker 1: portion of the show. I would love to have the following.
Speaker 1: I would love to have Indiana go to Oregon in
Speaker 1: round one. That's a nine seed versus an eight seed.
Speaker 1: So that's the scene of the crime last year. That's
Speaker 1: Kirk Sininati, Kurt Signetti going up to Dan Lanning's house
Speaker 1: and doing whatever he wanted to tough to watch for those
Speaker 1: of us who had predicted Oregon to win emphatically, and
Speaker 1: so I get that rematch in round one. We gotta
Speaker 1: have a G five team in this thing. I thought,
Speaker 1: what better G five team to ha in the playoff
Speaker 1: than Billy Napiers Florida. Get no, not Florida. Billy Napier's
Speaker 1: James Madison. That's where he is now. Some of you
Speaker 1: are still unaware of this. But Billy Napiers, the head coach,
Speaker 1: jmu and I put in a round one sacrifice in
Speaker 1: South Bend, Indiana, but they're in Billy Napier's in the
Speaker 1: playoff here. How about the ten to seven matchup? Those
Speaker 1: of you who are watching already know what it is,
Speaker 1: and you stop drooling all over your keyboard. But for
Speaker 1: those of you listening on podcasts, I want you to
Speaker 1: close your eyes unless you're driving, and I want you
Speaker 1: to imagine Lincoln Riley and the University of Southern California
Speaker 1: fighting Trojans in the playoff. That's part one. And then
Speaker 1: I want you to imagine they're the ten seed, which
Speaker 1: means they're going to be on the road in round one.
Speaker 1: And then I want you to imagine the bracket coming
Speaker 1: out and the team that plays host to Lincoln Riley
Speaker 1: in round one is none other than the University of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I need say no more about what that would mean.
Speaker 1: I think that there was an outside shot that we
Speaker 1: maybe could have gotten this last year. I was trying
Speaker 1: to kind of map it out, and it looked for
Speaker 1: a second like it could happen. It is happening here,
Speaker 1: so USC at Oklahoma in round one and then at
Speaker 1: the bottom. This was one of the easiest ones because
Speaker 1: it's the freshest in everyone's mind. How do I get
Speaker 1: Texas Tech in Texas locked up in round one? And look,
Speaker 1: in an ideal world, which I guess we have here,
Speaker 1: we would have sent Texas to Lubbock, but with the
Speaker 1: way that we thought the season may play out, it
Speaker 1: made more sense for Texas Tech to be the eleven
Speaker 1: seed and Texas to be the sixth seed, which is
Speaker 1: fine because Joey said he play him anywhere Jesse, and
Speaker 1: he just said he wants to see him in the playoff,
Speaker 1: So we're going to have Texas Tech at Texas in
Speaker 1: round one. This is very interesting because this is multiple
Speaker 1: marquee games in round one and remember like last year,
Speaker 1: remember how the rotation happened and where it was Alabama
Speaker 1: Oklahoma as the standalone Friday night game, the primetime game,
Speaker 1: and then the next day there was a noon game,
Speaker 1: like a mid afternoon game, and a late game. But
Speaker 1: the mid afternoon in late games were very much afterthoughts
Speaker 1: because we had two G five teams in the playoff,
Speaker 1: so it was two lane old miss who else was it?
Speaker 1: Last year it was who is the other one, I'm
Speaker 1: blanking on it, JMU. It was JMU Oregon. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: those games were they didn't have the spotlight on them
Speaker 1: that other games did. And it was also head to
Speaker 1: head with NFL games too. You can't do that here.
Speaker 1: There are three marquee games here out of four, huge
Speaker 1: like must see marquee games. Okay, then we moved to
Speaker 1: the next round. Now remember this is not a prediction.
Speaker 1: This is US fantasy booking this playoff. Give me Oregon
Speaker 1: beating Kurt Signetti and Indiana Dan Lanning. I guess until
Speaker 1: he wins a title, the group that says he's done
Speaker 1: nothing will still say he's done nothing, but that that's
Speaker 1: a really big win, all right, So they atone for
Speaker 1: their loss last year in the regular season. So Oregon
Speaker 1: moves on. Notre Dame beats JMU, Texas does beat Texas
Speaker 1: tech USC going into Norman and beating Oklahoma would be
Speaker 1: so toxic, so toxic. If USC makes it back to
Speaker 1: the airport and makes it home, they advance to the
Speaker 1: next round. And here are my matchups that I have
Speaker 1: waiting on them advancing. Give me Oregon against our number
Speaker 1: one overall seed, and that is Miami. And that is
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning against Mario Cristobal if you know, you know,
Speaker 1: huge matchup no matter what. But that's Mario against his
Speaker 1: old team. I think Mario still, I think he at
Speaker 1: least pays a passing bit of attention to what Oregon's doing.
Speaker 1: Who's amongst us, wouldn't I got Ohio State awaiting Notre
Speaker 1: Dame in round two, So that's a rema the national
Speaker 1: title game from two years ago. This is a swerve.
Speaker 1: This is what you can do when you fantasy book.
Speaker 1: LSU won the SEC in this scenario, like Lane Kiffin
Speaker 1: went to LSU and won the SEC, and what does
Speaker 1: he get? He gets a first round by and then
Speaker 1: he gets to play usc usc versus LSU in the
Speaker 1: quarterfinal round of the College Football Playoff. You want to
Speaker 1: talk about feeding families, Jesse, We're feeding like entire small
Speaker 1: countries with these matchups. And then we have LSU and
Speaker 1: Alabama having played in the SEC championship game. It looks
Speaker 1: to me like LSU beat Alabama, but Alabama plays Texas
Speaker 1: in the second round. So Sark just beat Joey. Now
Speaker 1: he's got to go up against Kaylin Debor and that
Speaker 1: matchup's interesting because Debor beats Sark in the playoff a
Speaker 1: few years ago. That's when Washington punched their ticket to
Speaker 1: the national championship game. These rounds right here, obviously, everything's
Speaker 1: a huge matchup from here on out. What is the
Speaker 1: worst game in this round is Alabama Texas like USCLSU.
Speaker 1: What's the worst game in this round? These are massive
Speaker 1: ratings draws. These are all eyeballs. These are casuals tuned in.
Speaker 1: These are relatives of casuals who don't even watch college
Speaker 1: football tuned in. I got a national title game rematch
Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago. I got Lincoln Riley
Speaker 1: trying to make a run in the playoffs after a
Speaker 1: few people thought his job was going to be on
Speaker 1: the line. I got Landing versus Mario, and I got
Speaker 1: Sark trying to make a run. And it's basically national
Speaker 1: title or bust for Texas. Remember so, just because they've
Speaker 1: made it to the second round, or just because they've
Speaker 1: made the playoff doesn't mean anything. Who wins these games?
Speaker 1: I think I want Oregon over Miami. I want Notre
Speaker 1: Dame to beat Ohio State, Give me Texas over Alabama,
Speaker 1: and give me USC in one of the more unprobable
Speaker 1: stories of the modern era. And I don't think that's hyperbolic.
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley is now headed to the semi finals of
Speaker 1: the playoff for a rematch of the two thousand and
Speaker 1: five National title Game aka the two thousand and six
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. And that is USC versus Texas in one
Speaker 1: semi final, and that is Oregon versus Notre Dame in
Speaker 1: the other semi finals. So pause and think about this
Speaker 1: for a second. I have got four coaches here that,
Speaker 1: to varying degrees, people say cannot win a national title.
Speaker 1: I think the noise is the quietest about Marcus Freeman
Speaker 1: out of these four coaches. But there are people who
Speaker 1: swear to you Landings all hype he can't win a
Speaker 1: national title. Of course they say it about Lincoln, they
Speaker 1: absolutely say it about Sark And look, Notre Dame made
Speaker 1: it to the game a couple of years ago, but
Speaker 1: they got housed pretty thoroughly. And so you've got no
Speaker 1: matter who wins it at this point, You've got a
Speaker 1: first time national champ head coach. It doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: wins it at this point because you've got a huge
Speaker 1: marquee brand and you've got one SEC team, two Big
Speaker 1: ten teams, and Notre Dame still in the mix here.
Speaker 1: I want Oregon over Notre Dame, and I want Texas
Speaker 1: over USC and that national championship game. I couldn't care
Speaker 1: less who wins it at this point, because I have
Speaker 1: no matter what a guy winning a national title that
Speaker 1: my inbox has reliably informed me cannot win a national title.
Speaker 1: Either it's either gonna be Sark or it's gonna be Landing.
Speaker 1: Texas and Oregon recruit against each other constantly. They're always
Speaker 1: the finalist or among the finalists for Premier talent. It's
Speaker 1: Dante Moore, it's arch Manning unless that bold prediction was
Speaker 1: right the other day and Sark has benched arch Manning,
Speaker 1: which I gave a nine point seventy five, But I
Speaker 1: put who did I have? I think I had Texas
Speaker 1: winning it. It doesn't matter in this scenario. The SEC
Speaker 1: ends that drought. If Oregon wins it, it's a fourth
Speaker 1: Big ten team, a fourth unique Big Ten team in
Speaker 1: four years. But either way that playoff right there. If
Speaker 1: I call up the folks at ESPN right now and
Speaker 1: showed them that, they would start exploring how to make
Speaker 1: it happen. That is. I'm not saying it's every fan's dream,
Speaker 1: because obviously if your team's not represented, it's not your dream.
Speaker 1: But if you remove your own fan interest for a
Speaker 1: second and just think about the product that that would be,
Speaker 1: that would be amazing, and then we could spend every
Speaker 1: halftime show talking about how we need to expand it
Speaker 1: fun for everyone. We have expanded the pet State store,
Speaker 1: but that's fine because it does not I think, saturate
Speaker 1: the overall quality of individual shirts when we expand the store.
Speaker 1: But peytstatematerial dot com. You know, for those of you
Speaker 1: who are asking you get those shirts, it's right there.
Speaker 1: There's the website. I block it with my shoulder. Paytstatemterial
Speaker 1: dot com. Summer is not coming, ladies and gentlemen. It's
Speaker 1: basically here, football is coming, as indicated by this hat
Speaker 1: in the shirt, and you can buy that on the website.
Speaker 1: Right now. Let's move on, better pace, Jesse, because it's
Speaker 1: seven point thirty better pace here. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the over under was in there. I don't need to know,
Speaker 1: but I feel good about the pace right now. So
Speaker 1: we had a very important question Earl from reading California
Speaker 1: sent this to us. He says, does it bother you
Speaker 1: that the Rose Bowl might be a night game this year?
Speaker 1: Here's the context. The Rose Bowl is a quarterfinal rotational
Speaker 1: game this year. That's how it falls into the playoff rotation.
Speaker 1: So here's what it's going to look like. I'm not
Speaker 1: even going to bother telling you how mad this makes me.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to give you the schedule. So the
Speaker 1: quarterfinal round happens New Year's weekend basically or New Year's
Speaker 1: week There's gonna be the Fiesta Bowl, which is locked
Speaker 1: into that Wednesday, December thirtieth, seven to thirty Eastern window. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's not the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl is
Speaker 1: going to be two days later. By the way, in
Speaker 1: case you're keeping track at home, Yes, in the quarterfinals
Speaker 1: of the playoff, there's one game, then no games the
Speaker 1: next day, then three games the day after that because
Speaker 1: we can't play a game on the same day that
Speaker 1: the NFL does. I don't know who you know etched
Speaker 1: that and stone, but we can't do it. So again,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna editorialize on that front. You already know
Speaker 1: how I feel about that. But that Friday, here's here's
Speaker 1: where the Rose Bull comes into play. There is a
Speaker 1: noon eastern kickoff that will not be the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1: The Rose Bowl will either be a four pm or
Speaker 1: an eight pm Eastern kickoff, because those are the games
Speaker 1: the DESPN has. Now, the Rose Bowl means something to me.
Speaker 1: I need to put this pin down. I'm holding it
Speaker 1: like a weapon. The Rose Bowl means something to me.
Speaker 1: As a local youth in rural Georgia growing up, I
Speaker 1: saw the Rose Bowl. But the Rose Bowl did not
Speaker 1: mean to me what it came to mean to me.
Speaker 1: It was Sugar Bowl country. Like in the SEC, the
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl was the big game. But yeah, of course
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. But
Speaker 1: as I was growing up, I remember when the BCS
Speaker 1: was launched, and then we had the fourteen playoff and
Speaker 1: more recently, you know, a playoff expansion. I was young, Jesse,
Speaker 1: I was ignorant. I was unwise far different from me
Speaker 1: now obviously, but I fell for the propaganda. The anti
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl crowd closely aligned with the current playoff expansionist crowd.
Speaker 1: And here's what they used to tell me about the
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. They used to say, the Rose Bowl is
Speaker 1: standing in the way of progress. The Rose Bowl is
Speaker 1: the only thing holding college football up from implementing a
Speaker 1: better way, a better world for us all. If only
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl would get out of the way. And
Speaker 1: I fell for it. I used to think, shame on
Speaker 1: all those crotchety old people at the Rose Bowl standing
Speaker 1: in the way, clinging to their tradition. Shame on them.
Speaker 1: And man, did I flip on the Rose Bowl. I'm
Speaker 1: arm in arm with the Rose Bowl now. I could
Speaker 1: not respect the Rose Bowls worldview or the Rose Bowls
Speaker 1: stance anymore. So. The Rose Bowl means something to me. Firstly,
Speaker 1: let me tell you as it relates to this year,
Speaker 1: I'm not all that freaked out about it. I'm a
Speaker 1: huge Rose Bowl sunset guy, huge Rose bul sunset guy.
Speaker 1: I will have my sunset this year. Okay. I'm either
Speaker 1: gonna have it if it kicks off at what four
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern, I'm gonna have it in the second half
Speaker 1: like I would normally have it, because if it's a
Speaker 1: four o'clock Eastern kickoff, it's very very close to the
Speaker 1: time the Rose Bowl would normally kick off every New
Speaker 1: Year's Day anyway. But if it's an eight pm Eastern kickoff.
Speaker 1: That means a five pm Pacific kickoff carried the three two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's five pm Pacific kickoff. I'm still getting my sunset,
Speaker 1: Mitch is just an early It's like a kickoff sunset
Speaker 1: sort of thing. So I'll get my sunset. I'm not
Speaker 1: that upset about that, as long as it's not the
Speaker 1: noon eastern kickoff where we have a Rose Bowl sun rise.
Speaker 1: I wasn't emotionally ready for that, and it appears that
Speaker 1: that's not in the cards, So I'll get my sunset.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. The Rose Bowl is Brett Hart
Speaker 1: to me, Brett Hart, when I was very very young,
Speaker 1: was one of the top guys in WWF. In the
Speaker 1: years slash decades since, Brett Hart developed a little bit
Speaker 1: of a reputation in the wrestling commentary and podcast community
Speaker 1: as a guy who took wrestling two series. It's a work,
Speaker 1: bro It's a work. After all, the outcomes are predetermined.
Speaker 1: Stop taking and stuff. So seriously, man, it's not a
Speaker 1: real sport, Brett. This is performance. We're just putting on
Speaker 1: a show. And Brett Hart had this reputation of a
Speaker 1: guy who had way way too much pride in the
Speaker 1: performance aspect of pro wrestling, and he respected the traditions
Speaker 1: way way too much. And then the entire industry exposed itself,
Speaker 1: and the entire industry couldn't get out of its own
Speaker 1: way quick enough to tell you that it was fake
Speaker 1: and to tell you that it's a work. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, people who used to make fun of
Speaker 1: Brett Hart started looking at Brett Hart saying, wait a second,
Speaker 1: the very things I used to make fun of about
Speaker 1: Brett Hart are now the things that are in such
Speaker 1: precious short supply in the rest of this ecosystem that
Speaker 1: Brett Hart has become like the north Star. I wish
Speaker 1: we had more of Brett Hart. And that is the
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl to me. The Rose Bowl. I used to
Speaker 1: look at it and I used to say, what is
Speaker 1: with these people talking about their sunset, talking about their
Speaker 1: New Year's Day guaranteed spot, and they can't even maneuver,
Speaker 1: they can't be a little bit flexible. And the Rose
Speaker 1: Bowl was like, no, no, and no, here's what we are,
Speaker 1: Here's what we believe in, Here's where we're willing to
Speaker 1: bend in no area are we willing to bend a lot.
Speaker 1: There are values and traditions that we have that have
Speaker 1: been this way for one hundred million years. Dinosaurs basically
Speaker 1: used to fight in this stadium, and it's been that
Speaker 1: way since the beginning of time and it's going to
Speaker 1: continue to be that way. And if you don't like it,
Speaker 1: tough man. We need a whole lot more than in
Speaker 1: college football. College football kind of used to sort of
Speaker 1: be that way. It was never totally that way. But
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl is a microcosm for what college football lacks.
Speaker 1: The Rose Bowl defining what it is, defining its non
Speaker 1: negotiables and not bending it for anyone, including people with
Speaker 1: the playoff logo on their lapels, that is a beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: just like Brett Hart clinging to the things he believed
Speaker 1: in even as they completely evaporate every world's in pro wrestling.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing. So it means something to me,
Speaker 1: Jesse the Rose But it's still real to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still real to me, and I will get my
Speaker 1: son set this year. They're watching us in Prague. Do
Speaker 1: you realize that that is allegedly in the Czech Republic.
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Woodlands, that's in Texas, and they're
Speaker 1: watching us in Racine, Illinois. Cope go. What was the
Speaker 1: Racine team in the league of their own? Rockford was
Speaker 1: the Peaches. I don't remember Racine kit got traded to him,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember the name of the team. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we move on another good question. The inbox was flooded
Speaker 1: with quality this week. Jake in beautiful Western Florida. His
Speaker 1: words and mine. He said, I'm a twenty four year
Speaker 1: old Canes fan, and I want to know from your perspective,
Speaker 1: how you personally felt about Miami in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1: Was the hate really that crazy? I despised Miami. I
Speaker 1: at a cellular level, I thought Miami was everything that
Speaker 1: is wrong at the time modern sports. I was raised
Speaker 1: to believe this, Jesse. I was raised to believe this.
Speaker 1: I was raised to believe that college football and sports
Speaker 1: were supposed to look a certain way, pretty much the
Speaker 1: way I look in the mirror. And I was taught
Speaker 1: that college football was supposed to be presented a certain way,
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be played a certain way. And
Speaker 1: then Miami started playing in a way that was totally
Speaker 1: antithetical to all that, and it wasn't right. I'll go
Speaker 1: a step further. It was wrong. Miami played the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I was not alone. A vast swath of the country
Speaker 1: felt this way. Now Miami today is not universally adored,
Speaker 1: but the relative hatred that is felt about Miami today
Speaker 1: pales with all caps p al ees, pales in comparison
Speaker 1: to what people felt in the nineties and early two thousands.
Speaker 1: So you're twenty four years old, so that has you
Speaker 1: born right around the time Larry Cokers went in their
Speaker 1: national championship, their last national championship, as it turns out,
Speaker 1: and that's, you know, sort of the tail end of
Speaker 1: that run. And they weren't done, like, they still had
Speaker 1: some good years. But man, I am a kid growing
Speaker 1: up in the deep South. Miami is not the South,
Speaker 1: but Miami is further south than the South. Miami is
Speaker 1: not the South. Miami is its own portion of the country.
Speaker 1: And the way they played was different onto any other
Speaker 1: place than the country, and it it had it had
Speaker 1: like worldview implications. And that is what I remember as
Speaker 1: a kid. I remember the way that I was taught
Speaker 1: college football is supposed to look and the way I
Speaker 1: was taught it was supposed to be played. And here
Speaker 1: was the fact of the matter. The fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is when Miami started doing what they were doing,
Speaker 1: not only were they doing it in a way that
Speaker 1: really really flew up people's backside sideways, as me Mam
Speaker 1: would say, they were winning while they were doing it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that they were playing that way but still losing.
Speaker 1: They were dominating folks doing that. And once you see that,
Speaker 1: there's this slippery slip, there's this snowball effect that oh man,
Speaker 1: like everything we believed was wrong. Wait a second, I'm
Speaker 1: told that that's not supposed to work. If you play
Speaker 1: like that, you're going to suffer the consequences of losing. Well,
Speaker 1: they played like that, and everyone else suffered the consequences,
Speaker 1: and it was a tough time. It was a tough
Speaker 1: pill to swallow. And I don't really I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you understand now when you look back on it, why
Speaker 1: it was the way it was, why it rubbed people
Speaker 1: the wrong way. It's not even an elephant in the room.
Speaker 1: It's just that's right there in the middle of the room.
Speaker 1: Like everyone kind of gets it now, but when you
Speaker 1: were in it, people kind of didn't want to admit it.
Speaker 1: Mike Rump on the show tonight, No one gives better
Speaker 1: tours than Mike Rump. Mike Rump knows the name of
Speaker 1: every tree on that campus. And I know because he's
Speaker 1: loaded me up in a golf cart and he has
Speaker 1: taken me around that campus and showed me the Banya
Speaker 1: trees and then quizzes me on what the name is
Speaker 1: of the trees. Here is how loaded Miami was back then.
Speaker 1: They've got former first round draft picks giving recruiting tours
Speaker 1: on campus to this day. That's how loaded they were
Speaker 1: back then. So yeah, an unbelievable time. But were they hated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in fact, I I'm not quite sure you could explain it,
Speaker 1: because words are one thing, but the overall feel, like
Speaker 1: the overall vibe, the overall shock to the landscape, like
Speaker 1: measured on the Richter scale. Back then it was an earthquake,
Speaker 1: like it was a figurative earthquake in sports and enough,
Speaker 1: where they made two thirty for thirties, they made like
Speaker 1: a full sixty for sixty. Miami unbelievable time. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that we could ever recreate that. We were
Speaker 1: talking earlier today about stuff that happened before we were born. Really,
Speaker 1: we were looking at TV ratings of some of the
Speaker 1: biggest finales in history. Because I'm on season eight of
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. Lwan was watching it publicly. He was
Speaker 1: just like live tweeting his way through it. I've been
Speaker 1: quiet about my Game of Thrones journey, but I am
Speaker 1: starting season eight tonight actually, and I was looking back
Speaker 1: and that got what Jesse a little over nineteen million
Speaker 1: viewers the finale when it originally aired, MASH had like
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty million viewers, which is just an
Speaker 1: ungodly number. That's over half the population at that point
Speaker 1: in time. I think something like that, and you can't
Speaker 1: have that anymore, is the point. Even as the population
Speaker 1: of the country has exploded, No one thing, not even
Speaker 1: I mean short of the Super Bowl, no one thing
Speaker 1: commands like a monocultural levels worth of attention like that
Speaker 1: did back then. I don't know that we could ever
Speaker 1: have something happened in college football that gets the kind
Speaker 1: of reaction Miami did back then. Nil in totality has
Speaker 1: probably had that impact, Like people feel a certain way
Speaker 1: about it, and then you go down the road of well,
Speaker 1: what should players have the right and not have the
Speaker 1: right to do? But that's like a whole topic. This
Speaker 1: was a team Miami was a team that commanded that
Speaker 1: level of reaction, So I don't think it could ever
Speaker 1: happen again. Yeah, it was real. It was very real.
Speaker 1: Everything they say is real. And then some let us
Speaker 1: move on. Man, what a moment. Friday. We had our
Speaker 1: Thursday show. We talked a little bit about that Senate
Speaker 1: bill and what's happening in college football and is anything
Speaker 1: going to get fixed or not? And Mike from appropriately
Speaker 1: from Washington DC hit us. He said, what are your
Speaker 1: takeaway from Greg Sankey's comments on Fine Bomb? Man? He
Speaker 1: said a lot. So Greg SANKEI the commissioner of the
Speaker 1: SEC goes on Paul finebamb for a full thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: well with a commercial break baked in, but an extended
Speaker 1: period of time on Friday, And dude, he let loose,
Speaker 1: like Greg Sankie ought to talk more. Some of these
Speaker 1: conference commissioners hide and SANKI should talk more because even
Speaker 1: when I disagree with him, Dude, that good that the
Speaker 1: guy's really really good at presenting his viewpoint. So Greg Sankie,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play a couple of sound bites from it
Speaker 1: if you missed it. He was sort of reacting to
Speaker 1: what had been a pretty pretty news filled week last week,
Speaker 1: a pretty eventful week last week, we got another one
Speaker 1: coming up this week. And so my feel on Greg Sinki,
Speaker 1: even though I have kind of found myself on the
Speaker 1: opposite side of the arguments as him in this particular
Speaker 1: set of events, Greg Sankie is always a guy that
Speaker 1: I usually just agree with him, but when I don't
Speaker 1: agree with him, he is one of those guys who
Speaker 1: always makes you pause and rethink your position because he's
Speaker 1: always got really really good logic and like seemingly fact
Speaker 1: based reasoning behind his argument, or at least fact in
Speaker 1: a sense that it's a fact he's thought this through
Speaker 1: and he feels this way. So Greg Sankie's the best
Speaker 1: commissioner in college football at doing his job, even if
Speaker 1: sometimes him doing his job and requires him to do
Speaker 1: things that I don't like. So two sound bites stood
Speaker 1: out to me to answer the question. Two soundbites stood
Speaker 1: out to me, And I'm going to just play him
Speaker 1: here and then I'm going to react to him. But
Speaker 1: this is Greg Sanki. After a whole week of this
Speaker 1: Senate bill being public and a lot of people coming
Speaker 1: out for it, and a lot of people coming out
Speaker 1: against it. Nick Saban broke ranks. He comes out on
Speaker 1: the opposite side of the SEC and the SEC's media
Speaker 1: partner who currently employees Nick Saban. So it was a
Speaker 1: wild week last week. Here is one of a couple
Speaker 1: of sound bites that I'll play you. This is Greg
Speaker 1: Sanky on Paul Finebomb Show on the SEC Network.
Speaker 2: And I think one of the flaws and the bill
Speaker 2: is to pick a point in time, which is like
Speaker 2: the most recent tax filings. There are two conferences that
Speaker 2: had over a billion dollars and revenue, and those two
Speaker 2: conferences are singled out and can't do certain things. One
Speaker 2: of my observations is, hey, you know what, if we
Speaker 2: can't do that, make that apply to the ACC in
Speaker 2: Big twelve. Make that apply to the Ohio Valley Conference
Speaker 2: and my old friends in the Southland Conference. We shouldn't
Speaker 2: be singled out because we're not having that conversation.
Speaker 1: So the point he's making i'd probably make if I
Speaker 1: had his job, but I don't, so I can just
Speaker 1: freely speak on it. It's pretty obvious why that bill
Speaker 1: singled out the SEC in the Big ten, because the
Speaker 1: SEC in the Big ten are unique entities unto any
Speaker 1: other in college football. So there are some people out
Speaker 1: there who keep making this point thinking they're breaking news
Speaker 1: to the rest of us, and the point sounds something
Speaker 1: like this, this bill is unfair because it's essentially asking
Speaker 1: the SEC and the Big Ten to somewhat subsidize the
Speaker 1: rest of college athletics. We know, Yes, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: it's asking them to do. Yes, that's full stop, that's
Speaker 1: what it's asking them to do. It's a funny thing
Speaker 1: when you're already two of the power entities in the
Speaker 1: sport and then you go and gobble up even more
Speaker 1: valuable properties and become super conferences, which they already are
Speaker 1: in and of themselves. Yeah, a crazy thing happens, and
Speaker 1: that is there are two shark fins in the pond,
Speaker 1: and everyone else just has to latch on or die.
Speaker 1: That's where we find ourselves. The entire concept, like the
Speaker 1: entire thinking behind the need for this bill. Let me
Speaker 1: remind everyone is two of the big complaints in college
Speaker 1: athletics right now are we can't enforce our rules, so
Speaker 1: we can't govern, and we're running out of money, which
Speaker 1: is insane. But that's where we find ourselves now. If
Speaker 1: I put one of these fingers down. I just go
Speaker 1: back to the governance part. We tried that several times.
Speaker 1: It was called a Score Act, and it died because
Speaker 1: it did not address the revenue part. And so to
Speaker 1: get bi partisan support on a bill, you had to
Speaker 1: bake in a way to pay for everything, not just
Speaker 1: the SEC and the Big ten's cost of doing business.
Speaker 1: But in order to get enough people on board, you
Speaker 1: needed several pieces of paper, aka a bill that at
Speaker 1: least had a mechanism baked into it that theoretically would
Speaker 1: fund everything, including the non revenue generating sports. Because once
Speaker 1: you put that on a piece of paper, it convinces
Speaker 1: enough people from both sides of the aisle again in theory,
Speaker 1: to sign off on it. The great caveat there is
Speaker 1: it really does not fulfill its ultimate purpose if the
Speaker 1: two biggest earners aren't on board, that's the SEC and
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. But then, understandably, the commissioner of one
Speaker 1: of those conferences, and really both commissioners, one is just
Speaker 1: better spoken than the other one. Greg Sank goes on
Speaker 1: TV and says, well, hold on, we don't think it's
Speaker 1: right that this bill is singling us out. It's understandable
Speaker 1: how you feel that way. It's also understandable that that's
Speaker 1: the only way that the bill really has the wheels
Speaker 1: under it that it needs to have. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of easy to see both perspectives there. I've got my
Speaker 1: feelings on it, but I'm not the commissioner of the
Speaker 1: SEC either. There was another sound bite, this one I
Speaker 1: think generated a little more attention. Again, I'll have Bradley
Speaker 1: roll it and then I'll react to it.
Speaker 2: And you know what's interesting, Paul, is we've more from
Speaker 2: talking even in this conversation, from some of the core
Speaker 2: issues that need to be addressed the return of national
Speaker 2: standards into a discussion about what different entities on the
Speaker 2: outside are pulling strings to accomplish their agendas rather than
Speaker 2: solving the core issues in college football. And you can
Speaker 2: decked the social media fodder that will follow this conversation.
Speaker 2: That's why I tell people go read the bill for
Speaker 2: yourself and make evaluations.
Speaker 1: Greg Sankie and I are both telling you go read
Speaker 1: the bill for yourself. I think I've said that about
Speaker 1: five times on the show. Just log off of social media,
Speaker 1: or at least mute the terms send it, don't mute
Speaker 1: college football, maybe mute both of those terms together right now,
Speaker 1: because it's just going to confuse you. Because, like I said,
Speaker 1: most people don't swim in these waters thankfully, it's bad
Speaker 1: for your mental health to swim in these waters too long.
Speaker 1: So most people don't know the intricacies of this bill,
Speaker 1: Like most people haven't read all one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: pages or whatever. And even if you did, a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff probably confuses you. Again, not because you're
Speaker 1: too stupid to understand it, but because it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of like trying to re foreign language in a lot
Speaker 1: of cases. And so if that's you, and I just
Speaker 1: describe most of us, if that sounds like you, you
Speaker 1: could get fool really easily. A lot of people could
Speaker 1: bring some pretty convincing arguments for or against and they
Speaker 1: sound like they make sense to you. That's what he's saying.
Speaker 1: That's what I've said. So go read the bill for
Speaker 1: yourself if you have time, okay, and if not, then
Speaker 1: don't worry, because you're not actually gonna have to, you know,
Speaker 1: sign your name on a dotted line. But he's talking
Speaker 1: about outside entities, and look, I know that sounds like
Speaker 1: the Boogeyman, and sometimes it is. He talked about private
Speaker 1: equity a lot. He talked about Smash Capital, the other group.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the name off the top of my head. Look,
Speaker 1: we've never taken private equity money. These are not rooms
Speaker 1: that we have to be in. Who knows what happens
Speaker 1: down the road, Jesse. We could get the knock on
Speaker 1: the door at any second. But like, we don't have
Speaker 1: to do this, or we don't have to traffic in
Speaker 1: this because you guys subscribe to the channel and you
Speaker 1: keep us, you keep us afloat. But this happens a lot.
Speaker 1: Like I think you'd be pretty ignorant to look at
Speaker 1: an enterprise like college football and to assume, well, no
Speaker 1: outside entities will ever take interest. Well, what am I
Speaker 1: an outside entity? I guess not because I'm a fan,
Speaker 1: so that has me inside the bubble? Or maybe because
Speaker 1: we bought a microphone and we have a well lit set,
Speaker 1: does that put us inside the bubble? Are we an outside?
Speaker 1: What's an outside entity? And what's an inside entity? Because
Speaker 1: I do have this small observation if college football is
Speaker 1: such a mess right now, after the inside entities got
Speaker 1: to run the asylum for oh, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: five hundred years, maybe the entities inside college football suck.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're not good either. So I'm gonna go very
Speaker 1: case by case is my point on outside entities, because
Speaker 1: you telling me an outside entity has taken a special
Speaker 1: interest here alone tells me nothing. Because it could be
Speaker 1: Satan himself that's taken an interest, and yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: a huge fan of that, or it could be someone
Speaker 1: who has deep pockets and very good intentions. That's why
Speaker 1: I encourage people to make me a billionaire, because I
Speaker 1: would be an outside entity with a lot of money
Speaker 1: who would have the best of intentions. I'd be a
Speaker 1: good billionaire, not one of the bad ones. I'd be
Speaker 1: one of the good ones. So that alone means nothing
Speaker 1: to me. So we got to get a lot more
Speaker 1: specific about who the outside entities are, what they're presenting,
Speaker 1: what are their ulterior motives? Where do they stand to gain?
Speaker 1: Because look, there's a lot of overlap here where college
Speaker 1: football improves because an outside entity had influence. That outside
Speaker 1: entity gets what it wants and I don't really care
Speaker 1: because it didn't detrimentally impact college football. Now, make no mistake,
Speaker 1: there are plenty other scenarios where an outside entity poses
Speaker 1: as being the best interest of college football and then
Speaker 1: accomplishes the goal and they get what they want, and
Speaker 1: I hate what it does to college football. That's why
Speaker 1: I haven't really written in sharpie on this piece of paper.
Speaker 1: Either way. On that front, you got to tell me
Speaker 1: more than just there's some shadowy outside entity, because that
Speaker 1: alone tells me nothing. Here's why this week's going to
Speaker 1: be really big, and I'm gonna move on, certainly, not
Speaker 1: spending twenty seven minutes on this again. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw this headline. It was Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1: You may have missed it, but you know, Ted Cruz
Speaker 1: and Maria Cantwell co authored this bill, this bipartisan bill,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty obvious that Cruise and especially Cruz maybe
Speaker 1: to a lesser degree, can't well, I just see Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz's name more. It feels like they've kind of reached
Speaker 1: the end of the bargaining road or the negotiation road
Speaker 1: with the Big ten in the SEC. And the reason
Speaker 1: I say that again as an outsider, is I don't
Speaker 1: know that Ted Cruz is extending an invitation to the
Speaker 1: SEC chancellors and presidents minus Greg Sanki and the Big
Speaker 1: ten chancellors and presidents minus Tony Patiti. If that isn't
Speaker 1: the case. The word unprecedented keeps getting used a lot,
Speaker 1: Like I've seen Ross Dellinger's reporting on this, and he
Speaker 1: has said like five different times after something has happened
Speaker 1: in this timeline. Now, guys, just so you know, this
Speaker 1: is unprecedented, buddy, This whole era has been unprecedented. But
Speaker 1: there was talk of a super league. The other day,
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz goes on a show and says, hey, I
Speaker 1: have spoken to Tony Pettiti and Greg Sank about the
Speaker 1: viability and the legality of a super league, and they
Speaker 1: want one, and I don't think they can do it,
Speaker 1: and I'd have the votes to stop it. And then
Speaker 1: both leagues came out pretty quickly and said, we haven't
Speaker 1: spoken each other. We haven't spoken about forming a super
Speaker 1: league at all. I think there's probably a little nuance
Speaker 1: that needs to be understood here, okay, and probably a
Speaker 1: little gaslighting going on to if your point is that
Speaker 1: the SEC and the Big Ten have not set in
Speaker 1: a room together and speculated about what it would take
Speaker 1: to print a big banner that says SEC, Big Ten
Speaker 1: super League and put it on the storefront. That's one
Speaker 1: thing and I'm fine agreeing with you there, because it
Speaker 1: would be illegal. Andy Staples has done a lot of
Speaker 1: writing on this, and I would encourage you to go
Speaker 1: read it, because Ted Cruise is right, Andy Staples is right.
Speaker 1: What a sentence I have begun coming out of my
Speaker 1: mouth here? That's illegal. They know that though, they know that,
Speaker 1: So it's kind of easy to gaslight people saying you
Speaker 1: haven't considered something that you already know would be illegal
Speaker 1: and it would be a waste of time to consider.
Speaker 1: But there's been way too much speculation and talking, in
Speaker 1: some cases on the record about breaking away and splitting
Speaker 1: away to try and convince me you haven't considered that
Speaker 1: in theory or that in concept. Yes, you most certainly have,
Speaker 1: and I don't even mind as long as you admit
Speaker 1: it publicly and you're honest about it. But when you
Speaker 1: try and gaslight me and say we haven't even thought
Speaker 1: about it super league, we've never even heard those words
Speaker 1: put together. There's a difference and ignorance and stupidity. People
Speaker 1: may be ignorant about some of the things happening here,
Speaker 1: but it requires stupidity to think that the concept of
Speaker 1: a super League in its real form has not been considered.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a lot that's going to happen this week.
Speaker 1: But I would also say, you know, when when you
Speaker 1: make the point, you may be out there and you
Speaker 1: may be of the mindset that well, the SEC and
Speaker 1: the Big Ten should never consider signing on to this
Speaker 1: because why should the SEC in the Big Ten want
Speaker 1: to subsidize the rest of college football. Well, they don't
Speaker 1: want to. That's why someone's trying to force them to.
Speaker 1: I would say, And this is the very very very
Speaker 1: small child in me, I would say, I would love
Speaker 1: that out of the goodness of their heart, they want to.
Speaker 1: But that's the child in me talking. The more jaded
Speaker 1: and skeptical adult version of me knows they are not
Speaker 1: going to do it voluntarily. But that word subsidize, Boy,
Speaker 1: the SEC keeps throwing that aar. The Big Ten keeps
Speaker 1: throwing that around, And I just want to caution some
Speaker 1: of you in SEC in Big Ten circles to be
Speaker 1: careful because you know, subsidizing happens within the SEC. You
Speaker 1: don't think the University of Georgia subsidizes Kentucky. You don't
Speaker 1: think Ohio State subsidizes Perdue. So you guys need to
Speaker 1: be a little careful. You could scream that word in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 1: You could scream that world or that word in Tuscaloose, Alabama.
Speaker 1: I'd be careful in Piscataway, New Jersey, screaming about how
Speaker 1: you have no business subsidizing the rest. You're not subsidizing
Speaker 1: anyone to begin with. You exist because the upper echelons
Speaker 1: of your conference are subsidizing you. That's why you're able
Speaker 1: to exist in the form you do right now. So
Speaker 1: I'm always cautious, or I'm always cautioning people beating their
Speaker 1: chest just cause that chest has an sec or a
Speaker 1: Big ten patch on it. Because if we do ever
Speaker 1: get to that world where you guys get the breakaway
Speaker 1: and you guys get the Super League, do we just
Speaker 1: know for sure that the SCC and the Big ten
Speaker 1: detached themselves as is? Do we know that? Because if
Speaker 1: we're going down that road, if we're going to embark
Speaker 1: on that frontier, everything's on the table at that point. Anyway.
Speaker 1: That's the extent of that. Not a twenty seven minute
Speaker 1: segment tonight, not a twenty seven minute I know why
Speaker 1: you're smiling, Jesse. Next up, we think this says Crabcake.
Speaker 1: We think that's what this name says. We do know
Speaker 1: that Crabcake one two three has submitted this question via
Speaker 1: the FanDuel discord, which means, regardless of how he spells
Speaker 1: his name, he's getting one hundred dollars in bonus bets
Speaker 1: dropped into his account courtesy of FanDuel. Anyway, here's the question,
Speaker 1: what programs are best positioned to become a top ten
Speaker 1: brand in college football within the next ten years that
Speaker 1: we would not consider top ten today. Texas A and
Speaker 1: M by a mile is my number one answer. I
Speaker 1: don't think Texas A and M is considered a top
Speaker 1: ten brand today. Texas A and M could easily be this.
Speaker 1: I fought this battle forever. I have long believed this
Speaker 1: has been the biggest sleeping giant program in terms of
Speaker 1: like national top ten, top five potential, cause they have it.
Speaker 1: But there is a portion of our audience. There's a
Speaker 1: portion of the college football public that refuses to believe
Speaker 1: something's possible until their eyes see it. Tom I plural
Speaker 1: of doubting Thomas's and I don't have to see it
Speaker 1: to believe it can happen. So Texas A and M
Speaker 1: would be there and I would ask, so, if you
Speaker 1: don't believe it's possible, what does it take to be
Speaker 1: a top ten program slash brand that they don't have?
Speaker 1: So mainly the answer is money, and they've got that.
Speaker 1: They've got a massive fan base. They put like three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people in that stadium every Saturday. Massive fan base,
Speaker 1: also unique culture. It was pointed out to me the
Speaker 1: other day that you cannot spell culture without cult as
Speaker 1: I was making an A and M point, which I
Speaker 1: thought was uncalled for at the least, and inappropriate at
Speaker 1: the worst. What you call cult like behavior, I just
Speaker 1: call tradition. So I've never had a problem with TEXTA,
Speaker 1: A and M. But yeah, absolutely absolutely, Like they're already
Speaker 1: kind of there. They just made like they were just
Speaker 1: in the playoff last year, so they're already knocking on
Speaker 1: the door of it, and I think the best is
Speaker 1: yet to come there. So Texas A and M's one.
Speaker 1: Could I interest you in Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech, I
Speaker 1: don't know if they've cashed it yet, but they have
Speaker 1: a seventy five million dollar check sitting on their desk,
Speaker 1: and that is no small chunk of change that I
Speaker 1: think is directly correlated to James Franklin taking the job there,
Speaker 1: and so James Franklin's at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech, once
Speaker 1: upon a time, in my youth was a national power.
Speaker 1: Some think they can't be again. But if you got
Speaker 1: that kind of money floating around, you can be anything
Speaker 1: you want to be, as Mema told me, and I
Speaker 1: didn't even have seventy five million dollars, and so I
Speaker 1: think that it would be a stretch to be top ten.
Speaker 1: I will grant you that. But just imagine if they
Speaker 1: go on a roll here and think about how up
Speaker 1: in the air and in a state of flux the
Speaker 1: ACC has been. Miami is not going anywhere. But you
Speaker 1: got room for more. I mean, they got like four
Speaker 1: or five of them in the SEC. They got multiples
Speaker 1: in the Big ten. You got room for more than one.
Speaker 1: Dabo and Clemson are on the clock. I got to
Speaker 1: see what they're going to do. But certainly James Franklin
Speaker 1: will improve Virginia Tech. Certainly he will do that. How
Speaker 1: much will he do it? And you need candidates for
Speaker 1: the answer to this question that aren't already there. So
Speaker 1: I would say Virginia Tech would at least be in
Speaker 1: the ballgame. And number three I think's easy too, because
Speaker 1: it's a brand that was once upon a time top ten,
Speaker 1: and that's Florida. If John Summer rolls the right hire
Speaker 1: at Florida, Florida will again be a top ten brand.
Speaker 1: Everything's there. We've already seen it happen. We saw it
Speaker 1: happen under Spurrier, we saw it happen again under Urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: So there's no doubt about the qualifications. This is like
Speaker 1: a car that has won multiple races, so it's proven itself.
Speaker 1: We just need to make sure the tires are right.
Speaker 1: We need to whatever they do when they peel that
Speaker 1: layer off the windshield so you can see. I don't
Speaker 1: know Florida can do it. Florida's done it. Florida just
Speaker 1: needs to be the best version of themselves, because that's
Speaker 1: plenty good enough to be a top ten brand. I
Speaker 1: continue to look at the State of Florida. Man, Miami's
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Speaker 1: world where we have at one point in time, Florida,
Speaker 1: Florida State, and Miami all elite, and so help me,
Speaker 1: I don't I cannot get it. I cannot seem to
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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap it up with bold predictions here.
Speaker 1: Bold predictions on this show work a little different in June,
Speaker 1: because it's not time for me to predict, it's time
Speaker 1: for you to predict. I just put a rating on it,
Speaker 1: and anyone who submits a bold prediction that rates nine
Speaker 1: point five or Boulder and it hits wins the coveted
Speaker 1: and elusive Chalice of Supremacy. We only gave three of
Speaker 1: them out all of last year, at least for bold predictions.
Speaker 1: First up tonight, this is from New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Not gonna attempt the name, but here's the prediction. Georgia
Speaker 1: wins the SEC again, but fails to win a single
Speaker 1: playoff game again, so this has been their last two years.
Speaker 1: They beat Texas a couple of years ago, Carson Beck
Speaker 1: goes down, they lose to Notre Dame in round one.
Speaker 1: Last year they beat Bama thoroughly, but then they go
Speaker 1: to the playoff and Trinidad Shambliss happens to him. So
Speaker 1: this year they win the SEC again. They are pretty
Speaker 1: much co favored to win the league with Texas. Those
Speaker 1: are the odds right there at FanDuel right now. Texas
Speaker 1: as of this Sunday night, is a very slight favorite
Speaker 1: to win the SEC. But that's very fluid, so they've
Speaker 1: got to win the league. Could easily see that happening.
Speaker 1: It's not hard to envision the second part either, because
Speaker 1: what if the SEC just feels like it did last
Speaker 1: year again this year, where it's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of great, but there's a collection of very good and
Speaker 1: the best of the very good teams wins the league
Speaker 1: and then Georgia they'll probably have a first round by
Speaker 1: if they win the league, and then they go and
Speaker 1: they just face a hot quarterback that's better than Gunner Stockton,
Speaker 1: and that's the difference in the game. None of that
Speaker 1: in and of itself is hard to envision. It's just
Speaker 1: both of them have to happen. And for that reason,
Speaker 1: I will put a nine on that. But it's only
Speaker 1: so bold when what you're predicting has happened too out
Speaker 1: of the last two years. Next up, this one's bold.
Speaker 1: Ben in Denver, Colorado, Miami and Penn State both win
Speaker 1: a playoff game. That's a nine and a half for me.
Speaker 1: That's a nine and a half. So I put nine
Speaker 1: in a quarter earlier in the day, Jesse, but I
Speaker 1: thought about it more. That's worth a nine and a half.
Speaker 1: It's a couple of things that have to happen here,
Speaker 1: So think this through with me. It requires Miami and
Speaker 1: Penn State to make the playoff. Now I'm not going
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on Miami because Miami
Speaker 1: is a playoff team to me. So Miami makes the
Speaker 1: playoff and they have to win a game that I'm
Speaker 1: okay with. The Penn State part of all this, I
Speaker 1: think people have to be careful differentiating Penn State's schedule
Speaker 1: versus Penn State the team, because it's really easy to
Speaker 1: talk about Penn State schedule, but the schedule is not
Speaker 1: the team. The team is the team that has to
Speaker 1: play the schedule, and they've got games they should win
Speaker 1: up until October tenth and seventeenth. That's when they play
Speaker 1: USC and Michigan back to back. But let's say they
Speaker 1: split those games, and I don't know, maybe even at
Speaker 1: ten and two, Penn State could make it. Certainly at
Speaker 1: eleven and one they would make it them that they've
Speaker 1: got to make it in and they got to win
Speaker 1: a game. And this is like a veteran Iowa State team,
Speaker 1: probably more depth than Star Power Meeting potatoes this year, Jesse, Yeah,
Speaker 1: meeting potatoes team, No desserts, meat potatoes. But make it
Speaker 1: in and win it Miami. I don't doubt you, guys.
Speaker 1: Penn state, making it and winning. That's worth a nine
Speaker 1: point five to me. I think you deserve a lot
Speaker 1: of credit if you predict that accurately. Next up, spin
Speaker 1: the Wheel, Adam from Beautiful Land from South Carolina. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Both Clemson and South Carolina will be looking for new
Speaker 1: coaches after this season. This is a veteran prediction because
Speaker 1: he did not say Dabbo and Shane Biemer get fired.
Speaker 1: He just said they're looking for new coaches. They could
Speaker 1: be fired, they could retire, one could join the Peace Corps.
Speaker 1: I don't know. One could just take a sabbatical. But whatever,
Speaker 1: the scenario is, Clemson in South Carolina both looking for
Speaker 1: new head coaches. Jesse, that's a nine point five for me,
Speaker 1: both of them happening in the same year. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine the turmoil in South Carolina? Both major programs, in
Speaker 1: all likelihood have fired their head coaches. So I guess
Speaker 1: since I know both of them, neither of them sound
Speaker 1: like they're ready to retired to me, so I assume
Speaker 1: they got fired. In this scenario, it's easier to envision
Speaker 1: for South Carolina because they're coming off a four and
Speaker 1: eight season, and if Shane were to go sub five
Speaker 1: hundred again. I think that probably would be it for him.
Speaker 1: I don't want that to happen, certainly. I mean, for
Speaker 1: all I care, double digit wins for Shane Beemer this year.
Speaker 1: Lock it in Leonora Seller's Player of the Year offensively,
Speaker 1: Dylan Stewart Player of the Year defensively. And there's Shane
Speaker 1: Beemer in Atlanta in the first Saturday in December, and
Speaker 1: he didn't even have to buy a ticket. Okay, but
Speaker 1: that's maybe not the real world. So this prediction here
Speaker 1: is they're bad again. It's the last go around with
Speaker 1: Leonora Sellers and Dylan Stewart. Enough people think well, if
Speaker 1: we couldn't do it this time, we're never gonna do it.
Speaker 1: And he gets fired. But Dabbo too. And this is
Speaker 1: the ultimate question. How bad does it have to be
Speaker 1: at Clemson this year for this to go down? Last year?
Speaker 1: What were they seven to five regular season? Jesse? So
Speaker 1: if they're so and five again, that's not to me
Speaker 1: bad enough to fire him six and six. The concept
Speaker 1: of firing Daboswiney is like a whole mountain of conversation
Speaker 1: in and of itself, And you got to find out
Speaker 1: how much equity is built up how bad does it
Speaker 1: have to be? Does it have to be like FSU
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four level bad, because I would think that
Speaker 1: it has to be a disaster, That's what it would
Speaker 1: have to be. And for both of these things to
Speaker 1: happen at the same time, that's a nine point five
Speaker 1: on the boldness scale. Maybe nine point seven five last
Speaker 1: up really really quickly to the point from beneath the Springs, Florida,
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech makes the playoff. Now, I don't doubt the
Speaker 1: team's going to be better this year. I don't doubt that,
Speaker 1: but there were three and nine last year, so they
Speaker 1: could be significantly better and still just barely make a
Speaker 1: bowl game. To make the playoff after going three and nine,
Speaker 1: that's a nine point five on the boldness scale. James
Speaker 1: Franklin making the playoff in year one at Virginia Tech
Speaker 1: would be just incredible. Theater. We were doing the fantasy
Speaker 1: booking of the playoff earlier today, and the only thing
Speaker 1: we regreted not being able to fit in is Virginia
Speaker 1: Tech at Penn State Round one of the playoff. You
Speaker 1: can't go wrong there, so the team's gonna be better.
Speaker 1: The schedules the problem they in the month of October.
Speaker 1: From October twenty fourth through the end of the year,
Speaker 1: they play at Clemson, at SMU, and at Miami, and
Speaker 1: it just strikes me as a classic candidate of a
Speaker 1: start fast but run out of gas kind of team,
Speaker 1: because I could easily see them being like five and
Speaker 1: oh or six and oh. I could easily see that happening,
Speaker 1: and then they're the story of the first half of
Speaker 1: the year, but then reality hits in the second half
Speaker 1: of the year. That stuff happens every year, but for
Speaker 1: them to make the playoff man from three to nine
Speaker 1: to I would think ten and two is what's necessary there.
Speaker 1: That's a nine and a half to me. Good predictions
Speaker 1: tonight are the three candidates for child live supremacy. Maybe
Speaker 1: multiple chalices aka childli the plural of chalice. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a busy week for pretty much
Speaker 1: no one here but me because I am going storm
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Speaker 1: you can follow along. I will give you a live
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Speaker 1: be an act. I've never been to North Dakota, and
Speaker 1: I think we're going to North Dakota, maybe even Canada,
Speaker 1: where I've also never been, so it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: But we plan on being back here Thursday for our
Speaker 1: normal Thursday show. So for those of you who are
Speaker 1: not passionate about atmospheric science, ignore the past thirty seconds
Speaker 1: of your life. For the rest of you, just come aboard.
Speaker 1: We'll be happy to have you until Thursday. Though. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys so much. For director Bradley, Producer Jesse, I'm
Speaker 1: Josh Pate, take care, let's have a great start to
Speaker 1: our week, and God bless.
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