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Speaker 1: the street and get to an academy. You do have internet.

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Speaker 1: I know that because you're watching the show where you

428
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Speaker 1: can go to Academy dot com. So here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: Not only do they have most everything you need for

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Speaker 1: outdoors stuff, a lot of stuff you need for indoors,

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Speaker 1: they carry a big league chew. So that's point one,

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Speaker 1: two and three point four is they make the show free,

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Speaker 1: and they've done it for a long time. They are

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Speaker 1: our presenting partner, and so we've been in business with

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Speaker 1: Academy for a long time. They watch the show like

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Speaker 1: they're watching right now, and they are ones of us.

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Speaker 1: I say ones because there's more than one. They are

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Speaker 1: ones of us, and so I would appreciate it when

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Speaker 1: you guys have that need in your life. Just check

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Speaker 1: out Academy and Academy dot com if you can't get

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Speaker 1: there in person. Okay, let's continue to roll on. I

442
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Speaker 1: know we got a lot of people watching live. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you're subscribed, and then if you think you are,

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Speaker 1: check anyway, because a lot of you aren't, because that's

445
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Speaker 1: the way that these platforms work these days. So I

446
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Speaker 1: don't want to go to the water jug so early

447
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Speaker 1: in the show. But my goodness, Michigan USC was a classic,

448
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: a four point five chalai classic. I bordered on making

449
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 1: this our first five chaalai classic of the season. Who knows, man,

450
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: maybe it was who This one was down to the wire.

451
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Speaker 1: Everything we thought we'd get now I couldn't help, but notice,

452
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Speaker 1: as you hear that phrase come out of my mouth,

453
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Speaker 1: a lot of you did not get what you thought

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Speaker 1: you were going to get here. I couldn't help but

455
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: notice the jarring gap in reaction. There were some people

456
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Speaker 1: genuinely stunned at this outcome. And as MEMI used to

457
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Speaker 1: always tell me, Joshua, reaction is based on outcome mixed

458
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Speaker 1: with expectation. And so what was the outcome? Michigan wins

459
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Speaker 1: the football game? But Colin I guess the second part

460
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Speaker 1: of that equation is we've got to find out what

461
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Speaker 1: our expectation was. Let's roll it. And then I think

462
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: about the story and the lessons that college football teaches

463
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: me every year around this time, around week three and

464
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Speaker 1: week four, I think, somehow Michigan's going to find a

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Speaker 1: way to win this game. Out right. I know that

466
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: doesn't compute right now. This is college football. This is

467
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Speaker 1: the way it works. A team like Michigan, with the

468
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Speaker 1: pride of that program, does not get double digit losses

469
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Speaker 1: hung on them two times in September at home History,

470
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Speaker 1: Know your history. That is not the way the sport works.

471
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Speaker 1: USC is much improved, but USC's run defense did not

472
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Speaker 1: meet the freeze point. First freeze point reference of the year,

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Speaker 1: probably not the last. The freeze point is what we

474
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Speaker 1: use on this show, loosely stolen from college football nerds,

475
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Speaker 1: but properly applied on this show to describe the minimum

476
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Speaker 1: baseline standard you have to be in a certain aspect

477
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Speaker 1: of this sport in order to contend. So, for instance,

478
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Speaker 1: with the run defense, just pretend it's a thermometer. Okay,

479
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Speaker 1: we're trying to get the freezing thirty two point four

480
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Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit. Let's say last year you were sixty degrees

481
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Speaker 1: and this year you're thirty eight. You've improved significantly, but

482
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because until you get to thirty two

483
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Speaker 1: point four, that water is liquid, just like it was

484
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Speaker 1: last year. And similarly, USC's run defense, USC's overall level

485
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: of physicality and offensive line defensive line play in general

486
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: is better than it was last year. Their run defense

487
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: is better, their tackling is better than it was last year.

488
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Speaker 1: But it did not meet the freeze point to play

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Speaker 1: a team like Michigan, and I don't find that all

490
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Speaker 1: too difficult to have seen coming now. Even if that

491
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Speaker 1: was the case, like it was in this game yesterday,

492
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Speaker 1: that did not guarantee a Michigan win. But what it

493
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Speaker 1: did guarantee is a Michigan game, a Michigan afternoon. It

494
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Speaker 1: guaranteed USC was gonna have to win playing Michigan style

495
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Speaker 1: of ball in their backyard, with Michigan's back against the

496
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Speaker 1: wall already, and at the half, Michigan had one hundred

497
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Speaker 1: and ninety nine to minus sixteen rushing yardage advantage. That's

498
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Speaker 1: worth a paper pop because that's one of the padlock

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Speaker 1: stats of this game. And it was immediately glaring. If

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Speaker 1: you were watching or if you were at the game,

501
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,239
Speaker 1: it was immediately glad airing. Yeah, it looks like that

502
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: team in blue still got a pretty significant edge on

503
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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Oh, it's really apparent that team

504
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: in blue has still got a pretty sizable edge on

505
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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Now, last year, this game would

506
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Speaker 1: have been a lot uglier. Yesterday, it was ugly at times.

507
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Speaker 1: But when you play that style, the trade off with

508
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Speaker 1: trying to win a game with brute physicality and just

509
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Speaker 1: saying pass can't even spell the word much less try

510
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Speaker 1: and use it as a play. The risk you run

511
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Speaker 1: is you better be perfect doing it because you can

512
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Speaker 1: dominate a team physically. But that's because of that style

513
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Speaker 1: of what it entails. It could still be a one

514
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Speaker 1: possession game, and that's what it ended up being yesterday.

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Speaker 1: This is insanity. This is like the badlock stat of

516
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Speaker 1: the year. Badlock stat is a padlock stat that's misleading.

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Speaker 1: Alex Orgy starts at quarterback from Michigan, which we liked.

518
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Speaker 1: We liked the move. We thought it was going to

519
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Speaker 1: clear some things up for him, and it did. So

520
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Speaker 1: you look at this and you see alex Orgy was

521
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Speaker 1: seven of twelve for thirty two passing yards. What in

522
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: the first quarter. No, that's the game. That's the game.

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Speaker 1: This is not a Service Academy team either. Like they

524
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Speaker 1: theoretically they believe in the forward pass. But when they

525
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Speaker 1: announced alex Orgie was gonna be the starter, what do

526
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Speaker 1: we talk about? On the Tuesday show, I said, they

527
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: are going to look horrifically bad throwing the ball, but

528
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 1: they already did, and in the aggregate, they were actually

529
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Speaker 1: hamstringing themselves from doing the only thing they can do

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Speaker 1: at a high level, and that is running the ball.

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Speaker 1: This had to be a radical offensive approach. It had

532
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Speaker 1: to be a radical offensive game plan. And what I

533
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: mean by that is it took Michigan looking in the

534
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Speaker 1: mirror and saying, we suck throwing the football. We're terrible,

535
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Speaker 1: and our best receiver, Colston Lovelin's gonna be out this game.

536
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: We shouldn't throw it. We shouldn't throw it. Don't throw

537
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Speaker 1: the ball. We're just gonna run it, and we're gonna

538
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: rely on the fact that we watched this guy get

539
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Speaker 1: taken out behind an alley and beat to literal death

540
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: last year. That was USA Football last year. So the

541
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: guy goes and gets taken out behind an alley and

542
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: gets the full beat out of him. And that was

543
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: like two months ago, and so all we know about

544
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: him since then is he got himself a gym membership

545
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: and we hadn't seen him for two months. If you're

546
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: a Michigan, you think to yourself, well, it's two months.

547
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: It's not five years, Like, how much stronger could he be?

548
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: How much different could it be. I'm gonna bank on

549
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: the fact that that short amount of time has not

550
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 1: turned this guy into Schwarzenegger's cirk a predator, and so

551
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the sledgehammer to his face again.

552
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: And they did, and it worked not quite as effectively

553
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: as it would have last year, but it still worked

554
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: enough for him to win the game. They just cleared

555
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: the mechanism. They did exactly what Kevin Costner did in

556
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: for Love of the Game Baseball movie. But it still applies.

557
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: You stand on that mound, you're in Yankee Stadium, fifty

558
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: thousand people, full throat, and you just breathe in and

559
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: you breathe out, and you clear the mechanism and everything

560
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: goes quiet. That's what Michigan Football did and they realized

561
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: we aren't that thing. We can be this thing. It's

562
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: the only way we're going to swim instead of sink.

563
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: Clear the mechanism, forget about what anyone says about it,

564
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: and let's just play our style. Let's see what happens.

565
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. We still think we're pretty good defensively.

566
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,479
Speaker 1: We still think we can run the ball pretty well.

567
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. Well, they did it. They did it,

568
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: and they ended up winning the game. But I got

569
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: to tell you something about usc Judging by what I

570
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: saw from my text and whatnot, I must have watched

571
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: a little bit of different game. I watched this whole

572
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: game this morning on the flight home, and I watched

573
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: a lot of it yesterday in the stadium leading up

574
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Speaker 1: to kickoff. Miller Moss's a stud. Miller Moss went twenty

575
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: eight to fifty one in this game for two eighty three,

576
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: three touchdowns and a pick. And that's not the most

577
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: pop off the sheet stat line in the history of

578
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Speaker 1: this sport. Nick Bumgardner with the Athletic put out this

579
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: stat to give you a little context. He had fifty

580
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: five dropbacks in this game and was pressured twenty four

581
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: of those and still had him in the game, still

582
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Speaker 1: put them up with seven minutes to go in the

583
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That third and sixteen throw to put USC

584
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: up After all that minus sixteen rushing yards at the half,

585
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: you're just getting beat on him, beat on him, beat

586
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: on You got a guy back there getting beat on

587
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: and getting harassed constantly, and he has got you with

588
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: the lead, with the lead midway through the fourth quarter,

589
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: USC last year would have been down forty five to

590
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Speaker 1: sixteen in that spot, Michigan would have been able to

591
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: name the score and roll in the backups, get some

592
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: walk ons work, and USC would have been pants on

593
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,959
Speaker 1: national television because physically they would have been over and

594
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: they didn't, and that they certainly weren't physically up to

595
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: the challenge, but they were a whole heck of a

596
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: lot more competitive than they ever could have been last

597
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: year to the point where they got the lead. People

598
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: will talk about this game. You watch and see what

599
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: I tell you. People will talk about this game like

600
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: it was total and sheer domination and it was all Michigan.

601
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: It wasn't all Michigan. If it was all Michigan, they

602
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been trailing halfway through the fourth quarter at home.

603
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: It was a really, really hard fought game. You got

604
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: teams strengths and weaknesses very much on display here, and

605
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: Michigan gets the better of them. But this thing's like

606
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: forty five to sixteen last year. And so afterwards I

607
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: watched the Oklahoma Tennessee game, so I'm not really getting

608
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: feedback on this game until well afterwards. I'd get back

609
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: to the hotel at like two o'clock in the morning

610
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: and I turn on the TV and I don't know

611
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: what show was on, but I turned on TV well

612
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: after the game's over, and the first words out of

613
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: someone's mouth are something along the lines of, well, one

614
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: of the things we found out today is USC is

615
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: not a Big Ten championship contender. Dude, USC is more

616
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: of a championship contender in the Big Ten than Michigan is,

617
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: and they just lost to them. I don't know what

618
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: people think they saw yesterday. I know what I saw.

619
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: I saw Michigan play their game. I saw Michigan just

620
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: repeatedly punch USC in the mouth to the point where

621
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: you say, how are they still getting up? And I

622
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: saw USC take all that have the lead in the

623
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and then lose on a fourth and goal

624
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: with time almost expiring. That's the shift in perception based

625
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: on one play in this sport is totally insane, Like

626
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: people are out of their minds. You know, good and well,

627
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: the same folks who are going to tell you Michigan

628
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: dominated this game and it was not even a contest

629
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: if Michigan doesn't convert the fourth and one are telling

630
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: you for USC night and day different. Lincoln Riley early

631
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: contender for Coach of the Year. What a Stone's moment

632
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: for the USC football program to go in there and

633
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: gut it out and get that win. They played the

634
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: same game. Differences one play, one play matters because the

635
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: outcome matters. Does it make them a totally different team

636
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: or program? Does it make them capable or incapable of

637
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: vastly different things because of that? I don't think so.

638
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: And let me remind you something else. It's a long season.

639
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: First off. Secondly, let me remind you that Michigan still

640
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: got Ohio State and Oregon and USC plays neither one

641
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: of them. So if anyone thinks the loser of this

642
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: particular game yesterday is out of Big ten contention. If

643
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: not mathematically, then in theory, and the winner is I

644
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: don't know what we're watching. We're watching different sports. I

645
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: guess USC's got a stud quarterback, and in time, I

646
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: think he's gonna give them a chance to win the

647
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: remaining games that they play. They may lose two of

648
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: them for all I know, but they were in this

649
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: one yesterday. They already won one in week one, and

650
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: so I did not change my opinion of USC at all.

651
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: Michigan validated what I thought about him because I thought

652
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: they'd win the game. And by the way, I don't

653
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: want to gloss over how huge a moment it was

654
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: for Sharon Moore. It calmed a lot of the nerves

655
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: up there. I think from a recruiting standpoint, you probably

656
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: needed that one. You needed it because you needed to

657
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: be able to sell some proof of concept in year

658
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: one under this new staff, because opposing staffs on the

659
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: recruiting trail, all they can do so far is say, well, yeah,

660
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Michigan, but all the good parts of

661
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: Michigan are gone, like these new guys, that's not Michigan.

662
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: Well yesterday, that's Michigan. So it's really fundamental from that standpoint,

663
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: but the future of both of these programs this year,

664
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: these teams, not programs. These teams this year still got

665
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: a lot to play for. I think USC ceilings hired

666
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: than Michigans this year, and they went lost to them yesterday.

667
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: That's okay, that happens sometimes. But I don't think an

668
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: ounce less of USC. I don't think their offensive line

669
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: is good. I don't think from a developmental standpoint, I

670
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: don't think that unit is up to the standard it

671
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: should be at USC. So I'm not heaping praise on them,

672
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,280
Speaker 1: like there are fundamental aspects of that team that are flawed.

673
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: Whoever thought that it would be anything different than that

674
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: this year. I think they've improved quantum leaps defensively. They

675
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: are what they are on the offensive line, and maybe

676
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: that cost them, maybe it will, but man, I'd much

677
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: rather take my chances with the crew I saw yesterday

678
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: than the one I saw various times last year. So

679
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: now I can take a sip of water. This is

680
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: the time of year. If we can get over the

681
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: hump of like week four, Week five, Week six, then

682
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 1: the voice will hang in there. But to this point

683
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: it's still too early. It remains to be seen, so

684
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: we take a little sip there. Good to go, Cubulic

685
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: text disrespectful as always. Yesterday quick Trip took us to Oklahoma.

686
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: Now they're headquartered in Tulsa, but I stopped at one

687
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, More Oklahoma, actually side of two EA

688
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: five tornadoes in the last twenty five years and home

689
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: of the late Toby Keith. And I had a great

690
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: visit there, had a mango slushy. I would do it again.

691
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: And they are powering our entire whole New Saturday tour. Yesterday,

692
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: of course we're in Norman. The week before that we

693
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: were in Columbia. But Colin with baited breath, everyone wants

694
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: to know, not about two weeks ago, or not about

695
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: last night. Where are you going this week? Well, we're

696
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: going to tuscal Loose, Alabama this Saturday night. Everybody else

697
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: is why wouldn't we Georgia versus Alabama? For those of

698
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 1: us who grew up on the actual Chattahoochee River, which

699
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: is the state line between these two states, it gets

700
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: no bigger, it gets no bigger than this community. And

701
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: we've watched several of these games play out in years past,

702
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: and I'm going to talk about it a little bit later.

703
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: Pretty unprecedented move for us on a Sunday show. But

704
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: this is the kind of game that gets the you know,

705
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 1: the five star treatment around here and in college football,

706
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: it gets that. I don't know what kind of number

707
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: they're going to do on this thing Saturday night. All

708
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: I know is going to be very, very very big,

709
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: and it should be. Now, there is a weather situation

710
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: that I am monitoring. It's probably going to be an

711
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: issue this week. I'll talk about it a little bit

712
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: later in the show. But yes, we will be at

713
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: Alabama this Saturday night. I've been asked to do some

714
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: things there Friday. You know what. The last two weeks

715
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: we've done all kind of extracurriculars. Who knows what we'll

716
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: do there over the couple of days that we'll be

717
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa. Should be a fun trip, though, always is

718
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: when we go to Alabama. All Right, let's stay in

719
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: that state. Let's change our tone dramatically, I mean dramatically.

720
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: Arkansas went to Auburn yesterday at one of the most

721
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: disastrous looking football games that we've seen in the modern era.

722
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: I give it one, shall I? Actually that's not even plural.

723
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: I just give it one shalice on a one to

724
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: five rating scale. Bowling shoe ugly, as Jim Ross would say,

725
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: turnovers all over the place. Now remember on the Ramindle Express.

726
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: One of the few games that we lost this week

727
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: was this one. We thought the total was too low.

728
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: We thought fifty six and a half it was going

729
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: to go over that, and it didn't get anywhere close.

730
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: Here's the part that's maddening. We got the game we

731
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: thought we would get. I thought it would be turnover filled.

732
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: Most of the time, when you have two teams that

733
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: you can actually bank on turning the ball over most

734
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: of the times, increase in turnover rate will equal increase

735
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: in scoring. However, if they just turn it over in

736
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: plus territorial whole lot and there are no defensive scorers

737
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: and whatnot, well then you're screwed. And so we were screwed. Yesterday.

738
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 1: There were seven turnovers total, and I think three or

739
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: four turnovers on downs five to two. That's your padlock

740
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: stats right here. Auburn five turnovers, Arkansas two. That's your

741
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: padlock stat. You know that Friday, in a game you

742
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: think is going to be close, you know the outcome

743
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: Arkansas is in an interesting place right now. I'll trust me,

744
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: trust me, I'll talk about Auburn and Hugh Freez in

745
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: the second. Arkansas is in an interesting place, are they not?

746
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: I mean they are three and one. The game they

747
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: lost was the game at Oklahoma State where they had

748
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: six hundred and forty eight total yards. Somehow, some way

749
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. We don't believe

750
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 1: and should have won on this show. But man, that's

751
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: their game to take and they did not take it.

752
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: But now they're three and one. Taylorm Green could be

753
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: great or really bad. So it's really roller coastere a

754
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: lot of variants in the equation. When you got at quarterback,

755
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: what Arkansas has at quarterback Jaquinin Jackson. He is the

756
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: number one running back in the conference right now in

757
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: yards per game. He's a load man. Arkansas's got some talent,

758
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: Arkansas's got some pieces. I would love to just run

759
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: an experiment. I thought this was going to be Florida,

760
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: but maybe it's Arkansas. Where we take Arkansas a team

761
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: that's not going to compete for the SEC. But if

762
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: we took him and dropped him in the ACC or

763
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: the Big twelve, just like, how would they do. I'm

764
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: not saying they'd win it, I'm asking how would they do?

765
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: It would be an interesting little case study. And your

766
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: response to me is going to be, I'll tell you

767
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: how they do. They'd lose because I already saw him

768
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: play Oklahoma State. That wouldn't be the worst point in

769
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: the world. So we like to talk about the winners

770
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: on the show a lot. However, that's not what most

771
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,240
Speaker 1: people were talking about at the conclusion of this game.

772
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: So I heard you. Your voices have been heard out

773
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: and clear. I think probably on the order of between

774
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: fifty and one hundred of you asked me, did you

775
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: hear Hugh Freeze throw his players under the bus after

776
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: this game? And I know the sound you're talking about.

777
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: If you aren't familiar with Hugh Freeze's remarks after this game, Colin,

778
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: let's play it for the viewers and listeners.

779
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, this is what I know, and I know that

780
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 2: there's people open, and I know that we're running the football,

781
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 2: and we got to find a guy that won't throw

782
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 2: it to the other team, and we got to find

783
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: running backs that hold on to it.

784
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: They are horrific. Turn the ball over right now, so

785
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: are we mad that he's wrong? Are we just mad

786
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: that he said it? Because he's right, He's obviously right.

787
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,479
Speaker 1: So a lot of people were really up in arms

788
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: with him for saying that, and they said, well, he

789
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: shouldn't have said it. So my retort that I just

790
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: copied and pasted to a lot of you, was is

791
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: he wrong? And then your most common responsible it's not

792
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: about whether he's right or wrong, it's whether he should

793
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: have said it. So then well, why shouldn't he have

794
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: said it? Well, these are college kids, and you're not

795
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: shouldering the blame. You're throwing it off on those kids.

796
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: Well in that sound bite, yeah, you're right about that.

797
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is that bite was part

798
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: of an entire press conference that I went and listened

799
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: to where he talked about how bad he and his

800
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: staff had done at coaching this team. Thirty six seconds

801
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: into the thing, he's there, the first one taking responsibility

802
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: for it. So, yeah, he threw dudes under the bus.

803
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 1: He sure did. He threw his staff under the bus,

804
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: threw himself under the bus. There's not much good about

805
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: the Auburn football program right now, so there's a lot

806
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: of blame to go around and maybe I am hearing

807
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: it differently than some of you. I will say I

808
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: went and listened to the whole thing, which I would

809
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: recommend all of you do anytime you're commenting on a

810
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 1: press conference. He's not wrong, guys, like, it's not middle

811
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: school football. Like at some point there's this line of

812
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: demarcation where you have to get stuff done. They are

813
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: paying these guys money to play football. It's not pro football.

814
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: But it's not strictly amaturism anymore. And when you're getting

815
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: money to play and you're getting coached at a level

816
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: that's probably high enough. But there would be argument about that.

817
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: I understand that. But Hugh Freese is looking at it

818
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 1: like this. He's saying, I'm coaching the same way I've

819
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: coached in the past. We're running the game schemes we've

820
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: run in the past. I've seen these things work before.

821
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: It's not working here. What is the variable in the equation?

822
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: To him, It's understandable that he'd look and say the

823
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: variable is the player. Now here's the follow up that

824
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a problem with. If you looked at

825
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: him and said, you're the one who stood pat with

826
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks. You didn't go get one out of the portal.

827
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: So don't be looking at your quarterback room and saying, no,

828
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: well we're good, we'll go to war with what we have,

829
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: and everyone screams, no, we need a portal quarterback, and

830
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: you say, no, we're good, we're good with what we have,

831
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: and then they're terrible and you get mad at him

832
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: from being exactly what they are. That's on you, that's

833
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: not on them. I don't have a problem with that

834
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: train of thought. Don't have a problem with it. But

835
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: the follow up is, as I said in the spring,

836
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: and as I'll reiterate now, I didn't have a problem

837
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: with him not going through the portal to get a

838
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: quarterback either, only because I thought, and I think he

839
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: feels the same way, that they were more than a

840
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: quarterback away, and so those resources were best invested in

841
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: this next cycle. Now, I think maybe the difference there

842
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: is I'm not an Auburn fan, so I can look

843
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: at it like that. If I were an Auburn fan,

844
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: I'd be a lot different. I'm not willing to just

845
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: sacrifice the season, nor should you guys be willing to

846
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: do that. So I'm not saying you need to be

847
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: okay with it. But my default position on Auburn this

848
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: year was they were going to be a really bad team.

849
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: I went down there this spring, I met with Hugh Freeze,

850
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: and I met with a lot of the folks in

851
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: the program, and they were brutally honest about what they

852
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: thought they had and what they thought they didn't have.

853
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: And let me tell you what they didn't think they had,

854
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: and that's an SEC Championship contending team. They didn't think

855
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: they had that then, they certainly know they don't have

856
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: one now. But they had a plan that was laid

857
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: out very well that leads to having won. And so

858
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: people have had plans before that have gone awry. I'm

859
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: not telling you that these are written on the Dead

860
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: Sea scrolls and you need to blindly adhere to it.

861
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying I had baked into my opinion if Hugh Freeze,

862
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: and baked into my opinion of where Auburn's going, the

863
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: idea they were going to be really bad this year.

864
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: So nothing about this has surprised me. Therefore, I don't

865
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: have any knee jerk reaction to it. I still think

866
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: the guy will build a winner there. I still think

867
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 1: they'll be fine. I still think through high school football

868
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 1: and selectively through the portal. Hugh Freeze will build a

869
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 1: winner at Auburn. It's not coming this year. What can

870
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: derail it is to toxicity. This is where you have

871
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,439
Speaker 1: to be really careful. This is where I don't envy

872
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: you if you're an Auburn fan, because you're doing everything

873
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: that your Georgia and Bama buddies do. You're investing your

874
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: energy and your financial resources. You're giving to the degree

875
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: that they want you to give, just like your buddy

876
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: does in Tuscaloosa and Athens and whatever. And they're getting

877
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: return on their investment. And you're not, and you're angry

878
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: about it, and you should be, and I would be. Two.

879
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: So you got two options for those of you who

880
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: are saying, well, this is not acceptable at Auburn, Okay,

881
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: So Option one fire him. You're not going to do that,

882
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: and you can't do that, nor should you. Option two

883
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,479
Speaker 1: is buy in. Don't have to be happy with where

884
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: it is right now, No one is. I'm not and

885
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: I'm not even involved in it. I don't like it

886
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: just because I grew up close to there. I actually

887
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: like Auburn to be good and they're terrible right now.

888
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: So I don't like it either, But you got to

889
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: buy in to the idea because you're not getting rid

890
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: of him, nor should you. He's the right guy for

891
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: the job. I firmly believe that. I had a very

892
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: big argument with someone today about this. He's the right

893
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: guy for the job. They're just not gonna win this year,

894
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 1: but they will win. But the only way you derail

895
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: that is internal toxicity, is internal cultural rot. And what

896
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: I mean by that is they're gonna build it through

897
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: high school recruiting, and they are recruiting very very well

898
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: right now. I mean Auburn recruiting is rolling right now.

899
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: The only way that gets knocked off the tracks is

900
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: if I'm committed there and I start sensing dissension within

901
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: the Auburn ranks because I can go to Florida, I

902
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: can go to LSU, I can go to A and

903
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: M I can go to Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and plenty

904
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: of those places don't have that. So in a lot

905
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 1: of cases, the slippery slope here is not whether Auburn's

906
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 1: gonna make a Bowl game or not. The slippery slope

907
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: is whether, despite the poor results, that are still gonna

908
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: come this year because they're not done losing games, whether

909
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: the Auburn fan base stays bought in because we've seen

910
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: this happen before. When you've got a bad team, you've

911
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: got a bad team. They don't get in any more

912
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: bad than bad. When you've got a bad team by

913
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: week three or week four, there's just going to be

914
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,919
Speaker 1: bad all year. What you cannot do is watch them

915
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: if they lose to Oklahoma or Georgia or Missouri or

916
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: A and M or Alabama or a combination of a

917
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: bunch of them, you don't reassess the entire thing after

918
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: every outcome. A bad team's going to lose a whole

919
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 1: bunch of those games. It's just a bad team, that's it.

920
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: So if you make your diagnosis in week five and

921
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: the results continue to match the diagnosis, you don't up

922
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: this severity of the diagnosis twenty percent after every loss.

923
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: What that does is it leads to this threshold over

924
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 1: which things aren't able to be brought back and you're

925
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: not able to pull it back on the rails. That's

926
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: happened before. That's led to coaches getting fired, that's led

927
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: to recruiting classes falling apart. So That's what I'm watching

928
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: with Auburn right now, because you got some really, really

929
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: tough results still to come. I think unless we see

930
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: one of the most miraculous turnarounds of the sport is

931
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: ever delivered. And yet you also need to have positive

932
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: energy around the program. So it may sound a little

933
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: pep rallish around here, but that's cause I do want

934
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: Auburn to be good. But they're gonna be bad this year.

935
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 1: They are bad this year, and there's no quick fix there.

936
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: There is a fix, that's the good news, it's just

937
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: not quick. You know where they're watching us. They're watching

938
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: us in Lawton, Oklahoma. I was almost there last night.

939
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Jackson, Mississippi. They're watching us in

940
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: Saint Paul, Minnesota. Thank you guys so much. We roll

941
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: along because we still got a lot of show to go.

942
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: As evidenced by how heavy the pack of paper still is.

943
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: Clemson did some unspeakable things to NC State last night.

944
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: Slash yesterday. Fifty nine to thirty five is the final here.

945
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a one Chalice on a scale

946
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: of one to five. No one watched this outside of

947
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: Clemson fans. I know this was like a party for

948
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,839
Speaker 1: you guys, But outside of you guys, no one's watching this,

949
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: which is a testament to your team's performance. By the way,

950
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: Clemson has been either up or down by three possessions

951
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: at the start of every fourth quarter of a game

952
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: they've played this year, So the fourth quarter has been

953
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 1: just total and utter nail filing time. If you're a

954
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: Clemson fan or viewing. There were games Clemson scored a

955
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: touchdown on six of their first seven drives. We'll go

956
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: ahead and paper pop. That game is long since over.

957
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: It's fifty nine to fourteen at the end of the

958
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: third quarter. Just guys. N C State was supposed to

959
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: be a little sneaky contender in the ACC and they

960
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: were secret garbage instead. I hate to say it, but

961
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: they are a bad football team. Four ninety three to

962
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: two thirty the yardage edge at the end of three

963
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: Clemson had seven plays of twenty plus yards. This is

964
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: an important stat because it seems like and it's a

965
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: limited sample size against some bad teams, but does it

966
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: seem like the explosivity is a little bit back here

967
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: for the Clemson offense. They had several more plays of

968
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,439
Speaker 1: ten to twenty yards Clemson had a different receiver lead

969
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: them in every game so far this year too. So

970
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: there are signs. I don't want to go overboard. I

971
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: want to be responsible here. There are signs that things

972
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: are coming together now. We need to be responsible, not

973
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: just me, you guys, you need to be responsible here.

974
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: There are few truths that I think we can all

975
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: understand and agree to. Clemson offensively is improving. That much

976
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: is blatantly obvious. The killer instinct is obviously still there

977
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: because they actually killed a team yesterday. They're no longer

978
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,399
Speaker 1: with US. NC State is gone, app State and NC State.

979
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: Here's another truth. Those are bad teams. Somehow, both of

980
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: them are bad. So you dominated bad teams, which is

981
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: what good teams do. And you've got Stanford coming up,

982
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: and you go to Florida State, and you go to

983
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: Wake Forest, and you got Virginia, and then you've got

984
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: a bye week which will challenge you more than some

985
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: of those teams will. And then you got Louisville at home.

986
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 1: And I need to remind you. While the Clemson Louisville

987
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: game looks like one of the big marquee matchups of

988
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: the year in the ACC, and it is, it is

989
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: one of the biggest disproportionate buy advantages that any team

990
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: has in the sport. This year, Clemson will be at

991
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: home off a bye when Louisville comes to town. Louisville

992
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: will be playing their seventh consecutive game and will be

993
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: on the road. So there is no high level test

994
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: for Clemson until the ACC Championship game. Stop. What you

995
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: just heard in all likelihood is what I didn't say.

996
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: These things happen sometimes, so it helps to root it out.

997
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: I said there is no high level test for Clemson

998
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: until the ACC Championship game. What I didn't say is

999
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 1: they won't lose until the SEC Championship game. They could.

1000
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: What I did not say is they'll be in the

1001
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: ACC Championship game. They may not be. All I'm telling

1002
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: you is this conference does not have a high level

1003
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:08,919
Speaker 1: playoff caliber test to offer this team until they played

1004
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: Miami if they play them, and that would be not

1005
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: in the regular season. So Club Nicks, I think one

1006
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: of the most important players as we move forward in

1007
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 1: the sport because it looks like they found something, and

1008
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: if they have, it's a night and day different team.

1009
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: If Clemson has found themselves offensively, they you take what

1010
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: you saw in Week one against Georgia. For all we know,

1011
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: they could play again. At some point. I was telling

1012
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: Jesse earlier, it'd be really fun in this new expanded

1013
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: playoff where you've got a more possibility of matchups and

1014
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: whatnot to watch that matchup happen week one and it

1015
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: was just night and day difference between those two teams.

1016
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: And then what if they play again on a neutral

1017
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: field the second or third week of December or early January, Like,

1018
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: how different could the game look? It may look the

1019
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: exact same. There's still a lot unknown. Some of the

1020
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: things that we do know are trending positive. Clemson has

1021
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: the second best odds to win the ACC right now

1022
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:11,240
Speaker 1: at FanDuel Miami number one. Louisville's number three. And oh,

1023
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: I just realized, Jesse, it's not a typo, is it.

1024
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: Florida State's not not even in the odds. I need

1025
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: a second. It's just depressing. And Florida State won yesterday.

1026
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: They didn't get klahasseed. They defeated the woke agenda. If

1027
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: you weren't following what happened all week, the cal folks

1028
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: took the political divide in this country that currently exists

1029
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: and leveraged it to their advantage and possibly the most

1030
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: effective manner I've ever seen. I laughed at it all week.

1031
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: Just an unbelievable job. They did everything but win the

1032
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: football game. So Florida State is still not like in

1033
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: the top ten of the odds and cal is so anyway,

1034
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: hats off to Clemson. They got it done. So far,

1035
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: so good after the Georgia game, and all of their

1036
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: preseason goals are still in front of them. Moving right along.

1037
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: Also want to remind you guys, we are back in stock,

1038
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: briefly out of stock, back in stock of everything at

1039
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: paytstatematerial dot com. I just give a subtle shout out

1040
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: because if I shot it from the mountaintops, you guys

1041
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 1: always shut the website down. So peytstatematerial dot Com is open.

1042
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: I had a very lengthy conversation Friday, several new items

1043
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: on the way. We just put some introductory stuff in there.

1044
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: I got some hats you're about to love. I think

1045
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: we're about to We're about to show out a little

1046
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: in the hat category. So paystatematial dot com. There you go.

1047
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: All right, that's good. Let's not shut the site down.

1048
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: Although it's me. It makes me happy when it gets

1049
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: shut down. It's just, you know, I hate for someone

1050
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: to go unclothed because our store was broken. Did you

1051
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,800
Speaker 1: see this Colorado game last night? Did you see Baylor?

1052
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:02,760
Speaker 1: The audacity of dave a Randa. We were on Baylor

1053
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 1: plus one and a half and they just melt down

1054
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: completely at the end of the game. And we still

1055
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,919
Speaker 1: made a ton of money despite being on the wrong

1056
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: side of that treacherous defensive performance by Baylor. And I

1057
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: do mean treachery the keyword there. Colorado is like the

1058
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: talk of every press box. I don't know if you

1059
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,399
Speaker 1: guys realize this. It probably do, because it's the talk

1060
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: of your social circle too. Everyone who saw the way

1061
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: this game ended last night of talking about it. I

1062
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: was in Hypel's postgame press conference, and like you're watching

1063
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 1: people like lean over and show each other their phones.

1064
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 1: They're not looking at the Tennessee Oklahoma box score. They're

1065
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: looking at Travis Hunter single handedly changed the direction of

1066
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,879
Speaker 1: a football game and they still got no run. Game

1067
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 1: should or Sanders is still under constant duress, but man,

1068
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: they got number twelve. They got Travis Hunter, and Travis

1069
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 1: Hunter's got the stuff you can't coach. Anyone who has

1070
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: coached knows that's what I'm talking about. You've got players,

1071
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the players who play for you. You

1072
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,760
Speaker 1: coach them, and you draw up plays, and you scheme

1073
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,479
Speaker 1: and you design, and you want those players to play

1074
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: within that framework. And that's how every player is supposed

1075
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: to be. However, every now and then, if you're lucky,

1076
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: you'll have one or two players who come along in

1077
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: your career, basketball, baseball, football, I don't care. They can

1078
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 1: do things you cannot coach, and so they have a

1079
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: little athletic creativity that you afford them because you know

1080
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: their maximum potential extends beyond the framework of your system.

1081
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: And so Travis Hunter did a lot of stuff all

1082
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: season last year and this year that's not necessarily drawn

1083
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,359
Speaker 1: up on a play sheet. And last night he did

1084
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: it a couple of times. It's not drawn up on

1085
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: a play sheet. He's just that special. He'd have my

1086
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: Heisman vote right now if I had one. I don't

1087
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: apparently know enough about college football or have a big

1088
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 1: enough following to have a high vote as some local

1089
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: papers in the South, dude, but if I had one,

1090
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,919
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter would have my vote. Right now, they're gonna

1091
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 1: They're gonna go play UCF. Colorado plays UCF this week.

1092
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,800
Speaker 1: This was a conference game. This was their first conference

1093
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: game this year, and they won it thirty eight to

1094
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 1: thirty one. Last night, and Colorado storm the field. Man,

1095
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: they stormed the field, and somehow, Someway I got asked

1096
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: more about them storming the field than I got asked

1097
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: about the football game. I don't care if they storm

1098
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: the field. I wrote it down. This quote that I

1099
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 1: had a DM to me was from a Georgia fan.

1100
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 1: He said, we would never do that after beating Baylor. Well,

1101
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: you weren't one and eleven before Kirby Smart took over?

1102
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: Were you? You can remember your last championship. A lot

1103
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: of them can't, So all due respect, I couldn't care

1104
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: less what a Georgia fan thinks about Colorado storm in

1105
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: the field. My advice to Georgia or any other program

1106
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: out there is if you don't feel like rushing the field,

1107
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: don't rush the field. They felt like doing it a

1108
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: couple of times, so they did, and I don't care.

1109
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: I like watching it. I don't know if we'd storm

1110
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 1: the field at Peyton State, we wouldn't get fined for it,

1111
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. But who cares? Man? Look they

1112
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: don't care. But I don't care either. I'm just asking

1113
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: why why does anyone care? This is not it doesn't

1114
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: have to be a one size fits all, you know,

1115
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: college football. I don't want to do this, Jesse. I'll

1116
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: get on a soapbox. We'll be here at ten o'clock.

1117
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: The great thing about college football is how unbalanced it is,

1118
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: how different it is one town to the next, one

1119
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: conference to the next. That's the beauty of this sport.

1120
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: Some places, a win over Baylor means something totally different

1121
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: then it would mean in another place. One place, the

1122
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: fan base has experienced things fifteen times that the fans

1123
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: in another place have never experienced. So all due respect,

1124
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: if you're a one and a half point favorite, and

1125
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: you got your backs to the rope, and when you

1126
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: were a freshman, you guys struggled to win a game,

1127
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, coach primes here and

1128
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: two years in, everyone's watching every game we play, and

1129
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: we just won in miraculous fashion. And it's rain in

1130
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: any way, So who cares? Everyone loses their minds in

1131
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: the rain. To begin with, if you don't believe meat

1132
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: drive in Nashville. I'm storming the field and if you

1133
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: don't like it, turn the channel. I'd be willing to

1134
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: bet most of you didn't. So that was the Colorado

1135
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: side of this. I got a lot of show left,

1136
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: but I would be remiss if I did not comment

1137
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: on Dave Randa. Most people, I would say a vast

1138
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: majority of people believe the outcome of that game last

1139
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 1: night sealed Dave Randa's fate. You may be right, I'm

1140
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,439
Speaker 1: not quite there. I'm more interested in how they play

1141
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: this weekend because there were a lot of positives to

1142
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: take away from Baylor's performance last night. They lost, that's

1143
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: the ultimate takeaway, but there were positives to take away.

1144
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what's gonna happen this weekend. They

1145
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,400
Speaker 1: played Brigham Young this Saturday. They don't have a buy.

1146
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: They gotta hear right back up. We've been on Brigham

1147
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: Young all year. We've met him every week. They've won

1148
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 1: for us every week. They're red hot, they're in the

1149
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: Big twelve two. You know, they're undefeated too, you know,

1150
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: And so how they play this Saturday, I think will

1151
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: go a long way in determining dave A Randa's future.

1152
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: The counter to that, I know what you're gonna say

1153
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: out of Waco. You don't need to tell me what

1154
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna say to that is this Saturday's result should

1155
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: be irrelevant. We've already confirmed he's not good enough to

1156
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: be our head coach. It doesn't meet our minimum baseline standard.

1157
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: If that's the way you feel, that's the way you feel,

1158
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: that's your program. That's not my program. And you may

1159
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 1: be right by the way you know better than I do.

1160
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I think this Saturday's result will teach

1161
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: me a whole lot about that. It just depends on

1162
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: the internal standard there. If the internal standard is they

1163
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 1: were three and nine last year, so even just getting

1164
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: to six and six this year is not good enough.

1165
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: He needs to do better than that, Well, then he's

1166
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: not your head coach anymore. You need to get rid

1167
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: of him if that's the way you feel. Several added

1168
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: takeaways from yesterday. Jesse, you did not play for Utah yesterday, right,

1169
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 1: you didn't start in Oklahoma State. You guys beat him

1170
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: anyway twenty two to nineteen. How did that happen? I

1171
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: have no idea. Last week we took a fair amount

1172
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: of criticism, believe it or not, towards the JP pole

1173
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: because I haven't had Oklahoma State in the top twenty five.

1174
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: The AP had. They had him at twelve, which was

1175
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: a joke. Oklahoma State won the twelfth best team in

1176
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: the country. They hadn't been a top twenty team. But

1177
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: because they were undefeated and you are what your record

1178
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: says you are, then the AP had him up there.

1179
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: So Utah proceeded to march in there without their starting

1180
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: quarterback and beat him anyway. That vaunted offensive line. I'm

1181
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: making fun of us, by the way, because we touted

1182
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 1: them as well, and Oli Gordon I didn't tout him.

1183
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: He won all the awards last year as being the

1184
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: best running back in college football. They can't run the ball.

1185
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: They hadn't been able to all year. They had fifteen

1186
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: team carries for forty eight yards. Yesterday they gave up

1187
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: to forty nine. So we know it wasn't a slow track.

1188
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 1: It just was for Oklahoma State. They had ten drives

1189
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: of three plays or less. Paper pop that stat. That's

1190
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: a good padlock stat. Kyle Whittingham went in there and

1191
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: got his game. It was almost like Michigan didn't even

1192
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: matter who play quarterback, like they were just kind of interchangeable.

1193
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: As long as we play our game, it doesn't matter

1194
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: who plays. We'll flip a coin. Cam Rising is not

1195
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: going today. He could have died last week and we

1196
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't even know. But we'll be fine anyway. You know,

1197
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: we're Utah, and they're right, they were fine because they're Utah.

1198
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: There is a big game coming up this Saturday. Oklahoma

1199
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 1: State goes to Kansas State this Saturday. That because both

1200
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: of them just lost a conference game that may end

1201
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: up being a conference title elimination game. Maybe we all

1202
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: know Iowa States the class of that conference. We're just

1203
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: trying to figure out beneath them how things are going

1204
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: to shake out. I will hear no debate on that point.

1205
01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: Next up. I did not eve out Friday night. I

1206
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 1: watched I watched what Illinois did. What a game, What

1207
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: a game up there in Lincoln. I didn't have my

1208
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: opinion sullied of the Huskers here. I just thought I

1209
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 1: thought it was a really good football game. Good team

1210
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: at Nebraska. Dylan Royola just got put in a lot

1211
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 1: of firsts, a lot of first situations, and that's what

1212
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 1: you do with a young quarterback Illinois, they Jesse, this

1213
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 1: is one of those situations where I stumble over my

1214
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: words and it sounds like I'm stuttering. Really, I'm buying

1215
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 1: myself time to read my handwriting. I think this says oh,

1216
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: it says Illinois at Penn State Penn State minus seventeen.

1217
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: Illinois goes to Penn State this week. Penn State's favored

1218
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: by seventeen. Luke Altmeyer was really bad against Penn State

1219
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 1: last year, but Luke Altmeyer's played a whole lot better

1220
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: than he played last year. Just development. Everybody touts the

1221
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: best of the best, but there are random programs out

1222
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: there that just have it figured out, and Illinois apparently

1223
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: one of them. Also, if you were listening on podcasts,

1224
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: you didn't see the slider Colin just had on the

1225
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 1: screen that was a number next to Illinois's name. That

1226
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: was a number. They're ranked, They're ranked? Will they be

1227
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: power rated? Tuesday night? We have added five points in

1228
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: the jpepole to Illinois's power rating, so there's that we

1229
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: have significantly upgraded them. Missouri survived against Vandy yesterday, thirty

1230
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: to twenty seven in overtime. Missouri also not a top

1231
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: ten team in the JP pole, and we received a

1232
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: lot of flak for that. And those people are quiet

1233
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: now why because Missouri is not one of the ten

1234
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: best teams in the country. They never should have been.

1235
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: They're undefeated, but they never should have been up there.

1236
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: Vandy didn't even do anything overly spectacular in this game.

1237
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: They just kind of kept breathing and they were there

1238
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,720
Speaker 1: in the end. Missouri is better than this, so this

1239
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: is the positive side. I think they're better than this.

1240
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 1: I know they've stumbled around, and I know man Brady

1241
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: Cook's missing some wide open guys. Their passing game should

1242
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: be so much more than it is right now. This

1243
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: is a team I'm not writing off. Everybody thinks I'm

1244
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 1: down on Missouri. No, I'm lower on Missouri right now

1245
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: than AP voters are. There is a much higher ceiling

1246
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: on this team, and they may have to lose a

1247
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 1: game before they get woken up. But part of playing

1248
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: a softer schedule is people talk all spring and summer

1249
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 1: about how softer schedule is. Sometimes your players hear it

1250
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: and they buy into the idea that, well, we can

1251
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: tune up until you know the middle part of the season.

1252
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: We don't play A and M until what October. Oh dude,

1253
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: we'll just coast. You don't think that happens. You're crazy

1254
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:53,040
Speaker 1: that can happen. And so we're gonna find out if

1255
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 1: I'm right or not. Because if I'm right, there's a

1256
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: different gear that Missouri can hit, and they will hit it.

1257
01:05:57,480 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: I think they will. I think they will be a

1258
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: top ten team at some point this year, but they're

1259
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 1: not playing like one now. They're not at that level

1260
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,959
Speaker 1: right now, and maybe they never will be. But I'm

1261
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: not selling my stock on them. They're like a more

1262
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: extended version of what Oregon was the first two weeks

1263
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: of the season. How about the Kansas State Brigham Young game?

1264
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: How about it? What happened? Well, what happened was Brigham

1265
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 1: Young won thirty eight to nine despite being outgained by

1266
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty yards. Brigham Young won thirty eight

1267
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 1: to nine despite being out rushed two twenty four to

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Speaker 1: ninety two. We took Brigham Young to win this game, outright,

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Speaker 1: We took it in the Romanudel express. I loved BYU

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Speaker 1: in this game, and it's because I baked turnovers into

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Speaker 1: the equation. So we take BYU plus seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: We put it on the Romanuel Express. Something called Horned

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Speaker 1: Gators on Twitter said BYU plus seven and a half

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01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: might be the worst pick I've seen this week. I

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01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: screenshat it for reference, which is the past tense of

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01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: screenshot for those unfamiliar. And I'm thinking about putting that

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Speaker 1: on a Christmas ornament, sending it to my mom, maybe

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Speaker 1: keeping it for myself, maybe making copies. You know what,

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Speaker 1: might we have found a new item there for the

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Speaker 1: holiday season in the Pate State store. Perhaps perhaps we'll

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Speaker 1: send one to horn Gator minus three turnovers. That'll do

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Speaker 1: it for you if you're Kansas State. I thought they

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01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 1: turned the ball over in this game, rolled the dice

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I watched Avery Johnson in Kansas State

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Speaker 1: versus Arizona. I was not impressed at all, and they

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01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: never had to throw the ball, and I thought Brigham

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01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 1: Young may make them a little bit more, or make

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01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 1: them take risk a little bit more, and they turn

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Speaker 1: the ball over, and Brigham Young made them pay for it.

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Speaker 1: BYU is not as good a team as Kansas State.

1291
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:56,480
Speaker 1: I thought on this night it wouldn't matter, and it didn't.

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01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: And so this upcoming week will be the real gut check.

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01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 1: Because Kansas State plays Oklahoma State at home, Brigham Young

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01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:09,920
Speaker 1: goes on the road to Baylor lastly, a game that

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01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 1: none of you watched, Miami dominated USF fifty to fifteen.

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01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: Who cares about a blowout? I do. I care for

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01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: the same reason I care about what Ole Miss is

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Speaker 1: doing quietly out of the spotlight. We've got teams that

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Speaker 1: we think are top ten teams who are doing what

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01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:31,560
Speaker 1: top ten teams should do, and that is totally disposing

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01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,679
Speaker 1: of opponents where you're never even tuned in the fourth quarter.

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01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: That's the way it's supposed to be done. Cam Ward

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01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: was twenty four to thirty four, over four hundred yards

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Speaker 1: passing in three touchdowns, and they're doing natic quarterback, They're

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01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: stopping the run, they're excellent at pass rush. This is

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Speaker 1: a high level SEC team that is playing in the ACC.

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01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: Some of you still don't believe that because they haven't

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01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 1: played high profile enough games. Well, if you don't believe

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01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 1: it now, there is no way for me to sell

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01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 1: it to you because their schedule is not going to

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01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,639
Speaker 1: give me the opportunity. And it's okay if you don't

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01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: believe in them, because if they are worth what I

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01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 1: think they're worth. They'll be in the playoff and then

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01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 1: we'll find out together. I did want to talk to

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01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 1: you about a couple more things, and I am going

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01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: to get you a best bet momentarily hanging in their

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01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:24,600
Speaker 1: voice wise, so Colin, is this audible by the way

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Speaker 1: that the chair sounds like an old wooden ship. We'll

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Speaker 1: get some WD forty on it. Jesse make a note.

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Speaker 1: I I don't know if I've done this. I don't

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01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: talk about the AP. I don't check the AP. God

1322
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Speaker 1: is my witness. Friday, I tweeted out, I just looked

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01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 1: at the AP in totality for the first time. Several

1324
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: of you called me a liar. I was not lying.

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01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: I've looked at the AP when it's been like on

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01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:54,120
Speaker 1: a website or something like that, like breaking news. The

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01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: AP's out Texas is number one. I see the headline.

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01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: I have not all year until lately. Last week looked

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01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: at one through twenty five on the AP, and then

1330
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: I did, and I just laughed out loud. I lolled.

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01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,599
Speaker 1: UCF's not ranked. I did not know that. I thought

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Speaker 1: UCF was ranked. JP Pole has them eighteenth. This week,

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Speaker 1: the AP has them still unranked. And it's not even

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Speaker 1: that they're twenty sixth or twenty seventh. Aren't they like

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01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: thirty sixth or something? Jesse, They're not even close. You

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Speaker 1: people are high drugs, the apeople brought to you by

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Speaker 1: drug use. Thirty sixth. No, that's wrong. It's not even

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Speaker 1: a matter of opinion. It's just wrong. Oklahoma State, they

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01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:43,599
Speaker 1: dropped from fourteenth to twentieth after their loss yesterday. They're

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Speaker 1: still ranked. By the way. We didn't have them top

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Speaker 1: twenty five last week when they were undefeated. They shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be top twenty five this week. They're not a good

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01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: football team. The preconceptions you had about them were wrong.

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01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 1: I thought their offensive line would be really good too,

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01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,639
Speaker 1: they're not. We're wrong. Get rid of them. I thought

1346
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: their tail back in their running game would be really good.

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01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,640
Speaker 1: We're wrong. Get rid of them. They should not be

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01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:11,879
Speaker 1: in your top twenty five. The Arkansas game further misled

1349
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: you people, because, for all intents and purposes in terms

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01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 1: of predictability, in terms of win expectancy, they lost the game.

1351
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 1: They got credit for the win in the stat sheet,

1352
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: as they should. But trying to figure out how good

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01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 1: these teams are I guess a lot of people got

1354
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: fooled by the Arkansas game. Oklahoma State still in the

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01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:34,639
Speaker 1: top twenty five. Kansas State dropped way too far. AP

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01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: dropped them from thirteen to twenty three. We had him

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01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 1: fourteenth last week. We've spoiler alert. We've still got them

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01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: fourteenth this week. Now. We do do one modification for

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01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: updated injury information on Monday, so these numbers could change very, very,

1360
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 1: very slightly. It's unlikely to change a whole lot. Unless

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01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: Avery Johnson retires. That rating is not going to change

1362
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: a lot. They just had a total stink bomb of

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01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: a game yesterday. Turnovers very atypical for Kansas State, the penalties,

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01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 1: the turnovers, and so I don't think they're any worse

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01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: of a team. So we kept them right where they were.

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01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 1: So the AP dropped them probably too far twenty thirds,

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01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 1: way too far down for Kansas State. Clemson, they've been

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01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 1: all over the map with Clemson. We had them eleven

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01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 1: last week, we've got them eleven again. This week. The

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01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: AP had them twenty first, they're up to seventeenth. Now.

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Speaker 1: There aren't sixteen teams in the country better than Clemson.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I need to say that out loud,

1373
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: but I have to say that out loud, and also

1374
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:45,360
Speaker 1: to not to cast dispersions here. This is not just

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01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 1: some East Coast bias thing, because you know who else

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01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: they don't have ranked. The AP does not have Rutgers ranked.

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01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 1: Is Lance no longer works here, but I hope Lance

1378
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: is watching Lance. This is for you, buddy. Rutgers is

1379
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,639
Speaker 1: getting a chef tier our poor friends in Piscataway, New Jersey.

1380
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: They're not in the top twenty five in the AP.

1381
01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,719
Speaker 1: They're not in the top thirty in the AP. They're

1382
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 1: not in the top forty in the AP. We've got

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01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: them twenty sixth. Rutgers is a really good football team

1384
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,680
Speaker 1: right now. We got them JP poll twenty sixth in

1385
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: the country, and THEAPS like don't exist. They don't exist.

1386
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Speaker 1: Why they're Rutgers. Now. Here's what's funny. If I were

1387
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: to give Oklahoma State Rutgers record so far and outcomes,

1388
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: that'd be probably top ten because no one in the AP,

1389
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 1: at least enough of them are willing to maneuver off

1390
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: of their default positions in the preseason. I'm as steadfast

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01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 1: about my preseason stances as anyone, But the difference is

1392
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:47,599
Speaker 1: I'll sit here and tell you I value one week

1393
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 1: of football in the fall more than six months of

1394
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: magazine reading and camp and spring game watching. That stuff

1395
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, It doesn't stack up. It only matters until

1396
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: you've got real football documented that you can watch. I

1397
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 1: don't really think these folks believe in that Brigham Young

1398
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: is not one of the twenty five best teams in

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Speaker 1: the country. And I've been on them every week, Jesse,

1400
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: have we not been dead on the money with BYU

1401
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:17,559
Speaker 1: every week? There is not a team in the country

1402
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 1: that we have been more spot on with than bring

1403
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 1: him Young. I'm telling you they should be around thirty

1404
01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:26,719
Speaker 1: to thirty two. That's where they should be right now.

1405
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 1: And instead, nobody watched the Kansas State game yesterday. You

1406
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: just saw that they won big. You have no clue

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01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 1: how it happened. And so we got to put them

1408
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: up there, don't we. Plus that's a cute little story. Okay,

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01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:44,040
Speaker 1: Well I got them thirty second, you got them twenty second. Illinois,

1410
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:46,320
Speaker 1: this is a roll of the dice. I don't have

1411
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: them ranked excuse me, power rated. You've got them ranked nineteenth.

1412
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: This is one I want to be wrong on just

1413
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:57,640
Speaker 1: being honest with you, I do want Illinois to be good.

1414
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: So we've got them. It's like thirtieth or something like that.

1415
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: The AP's got them nineteenth. I want the AP to

1416
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 1: be right. You guys deserve one. I want the AP

1417
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: to be right. Illinois going to Penn State this weekend.

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: They are a seventeen point underdog. This will be a

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01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,839
Speaker 1: really good case study. Here's what I think is probably

1420
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I think Illinois is probably gonna go up there,

1421
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 1: be competitive, lose. The AP is gonna drop them. I'll

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01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 1: raise them if they're competitive, and we'll probably meet at

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01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:33,200
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Speaker 1: on Sunday night, I like to give you an early

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Speaker 1: we got Georgia at Bama this Saturday night. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be there on the sideline Bryant Denny Stadium. I am

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Speaker 1: monitoring closely the situation in the Gulf. I believe we'll

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Speaker 1: have a hurricane by this time two days from now.

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01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 1: I believe it will make landfall later this week. I

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: believe it could impact this game. I've got my eyes

1461
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: on it, so you don't have to worry about it.

1462
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,799
Speaker 1: This is gonna be an environment that challenges for environment

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Speaker 1: of the year. When these two teams play, it is

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01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 1: like a one game season. It's been incredible that I've

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01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: been able to have a career covering college football period,

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Speaker 1: and to grow up in the South and to be

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Speaker 1: able to do it, and for like my personal elevation

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01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 1: to coincide with what those two teams have become, especially

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01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:13,280
Speaker 1: under Sabin and Kirby and now Debor and Kirby, and

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Speaker 1: being able to watch all those matchups. I've been at

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Speaker 1: every one of those games except the one in the

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Speaker 1: COVID year. I've been at every one of those games

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Speaker 1: in person. I've seen them playing multiple national championships and

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Speaker 1: SEC title games in person. So here's the question. As

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01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: we start to get into this game week, we'll predict

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01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: the game in full Tuesday night. Here's the multimillion dollar question.

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01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: In the South, everyone knows Kirby's one and five against

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01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:40,120
Speaker 1: that crimson A since he's come to Georgia. The question

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01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 1: is is he one and five against Alabama or is

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01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: he one and five against Nick Saban? Because there has

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01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: been a very popular school of thought for a long

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01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: time amongst Georgia circles that if Saban stayed at Alabama,

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01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 1: they believe they'd eventually pass, they'd eventually catch and surpassed

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01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 1: Nick Saban. They believe that they got some confidence in

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01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: their program. But the second part of that is they

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01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:08,680
Speaker 1: knew Kirby's way younger than Nick Saban, so he's going

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01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:11,839
Speaker 1: to be around after Nick Saban retires. And all Georgia

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01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: folks know that while they enjoyed the challenge of trying

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01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 1: to catch and surpass the greatest of all time, they

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01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:22,719
Speaker 1: really relished in the idea of what they'd be capable

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01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 1: of once he was gone, because the assumption was there

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01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 1: is no other Nick Saban. So whoever takes over at Alabama,

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01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 1: even if they're good, it's not gonna be Nick Saban.

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01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: And if we're already going punch for punch with Saban

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01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 1: and recruiting and on the field, these games are razor tight.

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01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:42,920
Speaker 1: So if we're already like that with him, now, just

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01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: by default, whoever they find to replace him, whether they

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01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:51,640
Speaker 1: nail it or with we will elevate permanently to the

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01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:54,960
Speaker 1: top of this conference. And no one's touching us. So

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01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 1: that sounded great. From Clayton to Valdosta, Augusta to Columbus,

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01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: that's always sounded great. Is it real? That's the question

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01:20:02,520 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 1: that we don't get the final answer on this Saturday night,

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01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: but we start to because I can tell you from

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01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,599
Speaker 1: a psychological standpoint, it matters a whole lot more than

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01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:14,320
Speaker 1: a record's keeping standpoint. From a records keeping standpoint, Georgia

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01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: could go in there and lose thirty to twenty. That

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01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: still be among the best in the odds market to

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01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: win the SEC to win the playoff, So nothing would

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01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: change on that front. Psychologically. If your first shot at

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01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 1: Bama without Nick Saban with Carson Beck coming back as

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01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: your quarterback, by the way, ends up in a loss.

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01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: That's tough. That's a tough pill to swallow. It is

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01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 1: a gut check moment for Georgia. The way they look

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01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:44,759
Speaker 1: the last time they played on the road against Kentucky,

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01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: the way people have talked about that offensive line, the

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01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 1: way folks including myself have talked about the fact that

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01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: even when they get those defensive guys back, that's not

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01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:57,760
Speaker 1: vintage Georgia, and me knowing full well, a bunch of

1519
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: those starters watched this show because I hear from them.

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01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,479
Speaker 1: Every time they overachieve in the game, I hear from them.

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01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: So I love you, guys. I don't think you're as

1522
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: good as the former versions of your team, so feel

1523
01:21:09,479 --> 01:21:12,599
Speaker 1: free to prove me wrong on that. But also, it's

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01:21:12,600 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 1: showtime for Alabama. This is the first shot in a

1525
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:19,400
Speaker 1: major moment for Kaitlin de Boor and his version of

1526
01:21:19,439 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: Alabama got a lot of the players sab and left him.

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01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:25,719
Speaker 1: It's not fully Debor's Alabama yet, but it's his team.

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01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:30,599
Speaker 1: And I think that game against Wisconsin small sample size

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01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:33,320
Speaker 1: so far, is about as thorough a performance as they've

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01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: given so far this year, they've got an emerging superstar

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01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: at wide receiver and Ryan Williams. That offensive line looks

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01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 1: now when healthy, what a lot of us thought they'd

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01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: look like to start last season. Running game is very good.

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01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:51,839
Speaker 1: Defense is fast. Defense is going to have a bowling

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01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: ball thrown at him this Saturday night, and I'm very

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01:21:55,920 --> 01:22:00,360
Speaker 1: very much looking forward to seeing that matchup. Just raw physicality,

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01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 1: It's always been that in these games. Last year, Bama

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01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 1: beat them in the SEC Championship game because they owned

1539
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: them on the line of scrimmage. Specifically, that offensive line

1540
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: rounded into form and leaned on Georgia and ended up

1541
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:18,880
Speaker 1: owning them in that battle particularly, which decided the SEC

1542
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: Championship game. Not a blowout, it never will be with

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01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:25,200
Speaker 1: these teams, but the margin was large enough where that

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01:22:25,320 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 1: decided it. So here's what happens. When a team like

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01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 1: Georgia ends up being second best physically. It is hallatious

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01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: for the next however many months it is, until you

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01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 1: get another shot at that team, and they get their

1548
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: other shot at them this Saturday. Everything that's happened in

1549
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: that weight room, everything that's happened from a nutrition standpoint,

1550
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:51,639
Speaker 1: everything that's happened in workouts on and off the field,

1551
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:55,719
Speaker 1: every bit of extra film work. It's all geared towards

1552
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:59,959
Speaker 1: knowing there's someone in Tuscaloosa who right now calls themselves

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01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 1: the reigning champions of this conference. It's supposed to be ours.

1554
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: They got it, and now the schedule maker says we

1555
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 1: got to go in their building and take it from them.

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01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: That's not really what happens this Saturday night on the

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01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 1: stat sheet and in the rankings and standings, but psychologically,

1558
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: that's what it's about. Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia Alabama.

1559
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: Those three matchups I've been on the field for all

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01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 1: of them several times over the last few years, are

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01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: unlike anything else this sport has to offer. It is

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01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:33,600
Speaker 1: the best show that college football could give you. I

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01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:36,439
Speaker 1: don't care what the playoff brings, I don't care what

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01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 1: the National championship brings. There is no environment like Premiere

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01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:45,800
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Football in the Southeastern Conference, specifically when these

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01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,880
Speaker 1: two teams are on the field. So you want to

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01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: know why we we revolve our coverage on this show

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01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 1: around Saturdays in the fall. I will present this Saturday

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01:23:57,040 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 1: Night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as exhibit A. That's not our

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01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 1: we'll break the game down this Tuesday night, but we

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01:24:02,040 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: are very much looking forward to it. Okay, I got

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