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Speaker 1: Do you want what is best for you? Do you

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Speaker 1: want what's best for college football? Is what's best for

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Speaker 1: see where I'm going with this? Because I'm looking around

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Speaker 1: like that it happened. Marina on that and we'll dive

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Speaker 1: into the show. We're jampacked high top sunny South Florida.

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Speaker 1: I'm down in Fort Lauderdale. We did some college football

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Speaker 1: playoff rankings reaction on HQ this morning's Sunday, December eighth,

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Speaker 1: the year of our lower twenty twenty four. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: some directions you expect me to maybe some other directions

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Speaker 1: you don't expect me to. I just think that you

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Speaker 1: beyond that when we have big picture topic and issues

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Speaker 1: such as this in college football. You know, they played

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Speaker 1: conference championship games yesterday, and we already got in the

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Speaker 1: the back half, but I'm putting it all on the show.

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Speaker 1: I've got I got some thoughts on these early round

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Speaker 1: in Clayton, Georgia. Who else we got here? Tyler, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, Tempe, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: I was in Dallas yesterday. The least competitive Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: if you are college football playoff rankings, there you go

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Speaker 1: their final. There's a lot of talk out there about

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Speaker 1: Ninety eight percent of you know what that is. But

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Speaker 1: all I'm talking about is the fact that Boise State

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Speaker 1: of a sudden number three in the bracket. Why is that? Well,

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Speaker 1: Before they addressed this thing, a lot of talk about Alabama.

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Speaker 1: So they really cast the die last Tuesday, and that

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Speaker 1: them personally. I can promise you the folks around the SEC,

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Speaker 1: whether it makes you happy or sad, the folks around

429
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Speaker 1: the SEC are not going to sit around knowing the

430
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Speaker 1: investment they have in football, knowing that they just did

431
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Speaker 1: what they always do. This year, I think they signed

432
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Speaker 1: fifty eight of the top one hundred players in the

433
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Speaker 1: country just that conference alone. It's more than the rest

434
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Speaker 1: of the P four combined. Most of the premier talent

435
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Speaker 1: is in the SEC. The highest paid staffs mostly are

436
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Speaker 1: in the SEC, The biggest venues, the most rabid environments

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Speaker 1: mostly in the SEC. And they look around and they say,

438
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Speaker 1: hold up, people think nine and three down here is

439
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Speaker 1: just nine and three. People think you are what your

440
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Speaker 1: record says you are. There's no way. That is the

441
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Speaker 1: overwhelming sentiment around the SEC, whether you agree with it

442
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Speaker 1: or not. But they have the power and stroke to

443
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Speaker 1: change this fundamentally, and they're going to. And I think

444
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Speaker 1: there's a school of thought that I happened to believe

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Speaker 1: that they already had the solution, they just needed to

446
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Speaker 1: find the problem. The solution that a lot of them

447
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Speaker 1: want is to head to that world that's much akin

448
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Speaker 1: to the AFC versus n FC, only it's SEC versus

449
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Speaker 1: Big ten. A lot of them want ahead towards that world.

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Speaker 1: A lot of them at the very least want to

451
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Speaker 1: head to a postseason format where they're guaranteed a certain

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Speaker 1: number of seats at the table, which you would think

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Speaker 1: I'd support. I don't. When I tell you I don't

454
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Speaker 1: want any automatic bid. I mean, including the SEC. None

455
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Speaker 1: of them should have guaranteed spots. But they want them,

456
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna get them. The Big ten will as well.

457
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Speaker 1: They're gonna get them. This right here will just service

458
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Speaker 1: precedent down the road for them to say, we did

459
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Speaker 1: not go all in on this, so that, all due respect,

460
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Speaker 1: Boise State and Arizona State can be given first round byes.

461
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Speaker 1: We did not go all in on this so that

462
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Speaker 1: a three loss ACC team because they played in the ACC,

463
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Speaker 1: got an auto bid by winning their inferior conference championship. Meanwhile,

464
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Speaker 1: we got Ole Miss and South Carolina and Bama sitting

465
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Speaker 1: at home. That's their mentality and they will get changed

466
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Speaker 1: based on this. So enjoy it. Why you can. I

467
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Speaker 1: guess I have no clue what it's going to look like.

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Speaker 1: I just I have a sneaking suspicion it doesn't look

469
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Speaker 1: like this very long. Academy Sports and Outdoors does they

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Speaker 1: do Yes, Academy Sports and Outdoors, although they do upgrade

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Speaker 1: and they do overhaul, largely They are there for you

472
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Speaker 1: this year, just as much as they were there for

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Speaker 1: you last year. Look at the look at me presenting

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Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors. There. They are there for Bowl

475
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Speaker 1: season tailgating needs. They're there for playoff tailgating needs. They're

476
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Speaker 1: there for you to gear up. They're there if you

477
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Speaker 1: don't even care about football, in which case I really

478
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Speaker 1: appreciate you. You watch and there listening to the show. They're

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Speaker 1: partner virtually since the beginning. They are as much a

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Speaker 1: part of our show as this Peate State logo. And

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Speaker 1: they watch the show, they listen to the show. They

485
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Speaker 1: are of us, They are us, and so we appreciate them,

486
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Speaker 1: always have, always will. Let's move merely along. I'm keeping

487
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Speaker 1: an eye on this poll because I think I just

488
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Speaker 1: sent a lot of folks over there. Yeah, the poll

489
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Speaker 1: is now over eleven thousand votes, still about the same.

490
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Speaker 1: I got some early thoughts on these first round playoff games.

491
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Speaker 1: Do you understand Indiana's going to Notre Dame? This is

492
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Speaker 1: the Friday night game. By the way, this is December twentieth.

493
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Speaker 1: That is a Friday night eight o'clock Eastern Time first kick.

494
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Speaker 1: Almost talk about it like a baseball game. Notre Dame

495
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Speaker 1: open is a seven and a half point favorite here,

496
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Speaker 1: so it's this like high school football kind of feel.

497
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Speaker 1: It's an in state rivalry if you want to call

498
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Speaker 1: it that. It's Friday night under the lights. Crowd will

499
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Speaker 1: be a little bit bigger than your normal high school

500
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Speaker 1: tilt up there in Indiana. Notre Dame strengths I don't

501
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Speaker 1: think are streaky. If I see a team that is

502
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Speaker 1: really really prolific and high powered, high octane, they move

503
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Speaker 1: the ball through the air a lot. I worry about

504
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Speaker 1: them when they have time off late in the year,

505
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Speaker 1: and I worry about them when it's going to be really,

506
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Speaker 1: really really cold outside. That is not Notre Dame. They

507
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Speaker 1: don't even pretend to be that. So the parts of

508
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame that are effective will always be affected. They

509
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Speaker 1: can be beaten, but I don't think they're going to

510
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Speaker 1: be beaten because run defense all of a sudden doesn't

511
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Speaker 1: show up, you know, or their ground game all of

512
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: a sudden doesn't show up. If they get beat, it's

513
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: because they either turn the ball over or they face

514
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Speaker 1: the better team is Indiana. That team, Indiana statistically number

515
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Speaker 1: one run defense in the country. We went through this

516
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Speaker 1: already with Ohio State. You know, does their stat profile

517
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Speaker 1: match what we see on the field. It didn't that day.

518
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Speaker 1: It didn't that day, but that's it. Indiana regrouped and

519
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Speaker 1: they got right back to work and they earned themselves

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Speaker 1: a spot here. I thought I'd have a problem with

521
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Speaker 1: it back then, but as the field worked itself out,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with it. What did they

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Speaker 1: learn from that Ohio State game though, because they all

524
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Speaker 1: went through it. You know, they went through the build

525
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Speaker 1: up and they were a little bit bigger a dog

526
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Speaker 1: in that game than they are here. But they went

527
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Speaker 1: into a hostile environment, they faced a superior roster. They

528
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Speaker 1: got handled very thoroughly. Started the game as scripted and

529
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: still got handled thoroughly. So what did they lose? Like,

530
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Speaker 1: what can you really apply from that? It's what I'm

531
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Speaker 1: asking you say. It's not that the you know, it's

532
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Speaker 1: not that it's not that the team of Ohio State

533
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Speaker 1: compares perfectly with the team of Notre Dame. The other

534
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Speaker 1: thing is it's a prove it game for Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: You know, as much as everyone loves to be in

536
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Speaker 1: the home position and be favored, well, the trade off

537
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Speaker 1: with that is you better win. You can't let them

538
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Speaker 1: come into your building and win, because all of a sudden,

539
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Speaker 1: then you've got the Northern Illinois loss that everyone's willing

540
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Speaker 1: to forget because that's a long time ago. And we

541
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Speaker 1: rectified the situation. We won all our remaining games. We're

542
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Speaker 1: in the playoff. That's wonderful. But then what if Indiana

543
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Speaker 1: comes in there and just wins thirty to twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Your season's over. You did all this, It feels like

545
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Speaker 1: for nothing, and you're left wondering is this a hollow season?

546
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Speaker 1: I mean, were we really what we thought we were?

547
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Speaker 1: And then conversely, over on the Indiana side, if they

548
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Speaker 1: go in there and they get handled, what does that

549
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Speaker 1: say about them? Well, the recalibration of expectation crowd would say, oh,

550
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Speaker 1: it means they're a fraud. No, it doesn't. It still

551
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Speaker 1: means if they get me fifty to nothing, it still

552
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Speaker 1: means they vastly exceeded expectation. That's what it would mean.

553
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Speaker 1: This one is a standalone game. There's nothing else that

554
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Speaker 1: day other than that game. Who knows if we'll be there.

555
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Speaker 1: Quick Trip fueling obviously, the whole New Saturday Tour Quick

556
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Speaker 1: Trip is they're on the hook for a lot with

557
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Speaker 1: me because I've logged over. We're getting close to twenty

558
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Speaker 1: five thousand miles this year. Now, they're not on the

559
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Speaker 1: hook because they don't have a debt. They've already they've

560
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Speaker 1: already fueled us. We appreciate them. They've fueled many many

561
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Speaker 1: a trip for you guys. I think we fueled two

562
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: more of you gave two free tanks of gas out yesterday.

563
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Speaker 1: Quick Trip's been phenomenal to work with. We need to

564
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Speaker 1: cook up something. We need to cook up something for

565
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Speaker 1: next year that just goes above and beyond. I got

566
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Speaker 1: some ideas if you've been on a Quick Trip lately.

567
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Speaker 1: I mean, I talk about the gas all the time,

568
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: but the cold brew station they have is phenomenal. I

569
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Speaker 1: think they've rolled it out pretty much nationwide now. That

570
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: cold brew on tap is amazing. I think it makes

571
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Speaker 1: a good decorative piece in one's house, even if it's

572
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Speaker 1: not hooked up to a cold brew tap. That's how

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Speaker 1: much I love it. Appreciate Quick trip. We'll announce where

574
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Speaker 1: we're going for these first round games in due time.

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Speaker 1: All right, Next up SMU playing a PENNS eight. Huh.

576
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Speaker 1: This is what happens. You lose the Big ten championship game,

577
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: you get SMU. I kid because I care, all right,

578
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: love our folks at Penn State. This is a Saturday,

579
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Speaker 1: first day of winter, twelve twenty one. It's a noonkickoff,

580
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Speaker 1: Eastern time. Graduation is that weekend at Penn State. I'm

581
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Speaker 1: told that there are hotels available in Detroit roughly. That's

582
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: as close as you can get a hotel room. Wonderful, wonderful. Look.

583
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Speaker 1: I think about this, and I've already made my thoughts

584
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Speaker 1: known on how ridiculous the autobid thing is as it

585
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: relates to how it sets up the rest of the structure.

586
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Speaker 1: I've talked about that, all right. What about the matchup?

587
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: I hate it for SMU. I hate the matchup for them.

588
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: Weather is going to suck, even on the best days

589
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: up there. It sucks this time of year. SMU's run

590
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: game in the cold weather against this defense. Aside from Oregon,

591
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: no one's really run the ball all that effectively. And

592
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: I think we understand why Oregon ran the ball effectively.

593
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: They bring a little different caliber firepower than est will.

594
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Speaker 1: Penn State's offensive line has matched pressure really well this year,

595
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: or they've prevented it, I guess is the better way

596
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: to say it really well this year. But speaking of pressure,

597
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: pressure is a plenty here. Pressure's on James Franklin again.

598
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Speaker 1: So walk with me through this. Penn State gets Ohio

599
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Speaker 1: State in Beaver Stadium earlier this year, we were there

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Speaker 1: and competitive game, Ohio State wins, and Franklin's walking off

601
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Speaker 1: the field, the fans, some of them booing him, and

602
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: then they end up regrouping. They play really good ball

603
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: and they earn themselves a right to go to the

604
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Speaker 1: Big Ten championship game. And they played Oregon tough and

605
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: had some calls go against them, but they lost again,

606
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: a little less shocking to the senses because they knew

607
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: they were already in the playoff, but they lost again

608
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: last night. Okay, So after failing their two biggest tests

609
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: this year, they go and they get a playoff game

610
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Speaker 1: at home against sam and they're over a touchdown favorite.

611
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: You've got to win. There's no other option here. You've

612
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: got to win because this is a situation where to

613
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: this point, the games that Franklin's been losing in these

614
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: big moments, they've been an underdog. Again. I don't have

615
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: a problem with it. I wish that they'd win some,

616
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: but technically, you know, if you're going the supposed to route,

617
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: they're not supposed to win those games. They're supposed to

618
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: win this one. It's a playoff game, first one they've

619
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: ever been in because it's expanded. It's a playoff game.

620
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: Gotta win that one, and then they got to go

621
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Speaker 1: win the next one. Like I think, there's legit pressure

622
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: here to where there's always pressure to win. You need

623
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: to understand. When I say pressure, I mean like legacy pressure.

624
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: I mean the way that you're remembered, the way that

625
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: a lot of these seniors are remembered. You get Smu

626
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: and Boise, potentially back to back. If you're Penn State,

627
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: one of them at home, the other one neutral, you

628
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: got to go win both of them. SMU could shock

629
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: the world here. SMU. It feels like this great weight

630
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: is lifted off their shoulders. The question around us you

631
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: was would they make it? Would they make it? Would

632
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: they make it? Well? They made it? Okay, Well you

633
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: can't go sigh of relief now and go get roasted

634
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: thirty to seven. Now, you got to get ready. You

635
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: got a little bit of time, and you got to

636
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: go play your best game of the year. They got

637
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: down early to Clemson last night and they had to

638
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: fight and claw and they got back in at credit

639
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: to them, but their entire game script got thrown all

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Speaker 1: out of whack because well, I mean, they haven't had

641
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Speaker 1: that happen to him really this year. The only other

642
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: time was the Duke game, and that's kind of when

643
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: they turned the ball over half a dozen times. Got

644
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Speaker 1: to prevent that. Got to prevent that in the highest

645
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Speaker 1: leverage spot of the year for you. Moving merrily along here,

646
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: this one, this one's going to be fun. Clemson plays

647
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: at Texas in round one. It's a four o'clock game

648
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: Eastern Time, that Saturday. Texas favored by eleven and a half.

649
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: Now you know Davoswinny. I know Davoswenny. We've watched him

650
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: at Clemson for a long time. There is nothing that

651
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: those folks thrive on more than doubt, and they're being

652
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: given double digits worth of it here Dabosweney in the

653
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: same building as Matthew McConaughey as a double digit dog,

654
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: all kinds of off the rails potential in this one.

655
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: Texas does, I think, let me make sure I put

656
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: this the right way. Texas does what I wish Clemson

657
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 1: would do, because Texas recruits and develops through high school

658
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: very well, that's what Clemson does. But then they go

659
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: and they leverage the portal as well. Like Texas's offensive line,

660
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: it's homegrown. Some of those wide receivers, aren't. Some of

661
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: those DB's aren't. They do a healthy amount of both,

662
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: and we get to see one way of doing things

663
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: versus the other way of doing things here, even more

664
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Speaker 1: so than Clemson versus SMU versus FSU. It's a big

665
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: quarterback referendum game. I think I didn't know this. I

666
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: think it was Lucie earlier today who was talking about

667
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Speaker 1: the fact that Quinn Youwers and Kay Klubnick faced each other.

668
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: They're back in Texas high school playoff ball, so now

669
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Speaker 1: they get to face each other in Austin, so still

670
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: in the same state in the first round of the

671
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: college football playoff. Texas does not allow explosive plays, and

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00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: Clemson needs them. They needed them last night, and they

673
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: got them against SMU. They needed them against South Carolina

674
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: they got some, not enough. They'll need them here. Texas

675
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: doesn't allow explosives. Phil MafA may be banged up, the

676
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: running back for Clemson. Will have to see about that.

677
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: But also that Texas offense is it's not clicking in

678
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: a lethal way. So it's not a game of keep up.

679
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: It's not Texas doing to Clemson what Clemson did to

680
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Speaker 1: SMU last night. In all likelihood, it probably is a

681
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: lower scoring game. And it's Steve Sarkjan again having to

682
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Speaker 1: look at quinn Ewers, who did not play terribly last night.

683
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: But when you've got to back up like arch Manning

684
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: and you don't use him, it just kind of makes

685
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: me question things. I wonder now you got to couple

686
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: of weeks. I wonder now is arch Manning factored in

687
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: a lot more in the game plan for Texas in

688
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: the postseason, because I think to win a national championship,

689
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: he's got a factor in to Texas's game plan. A

690
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: lot of you, I was working all last week on this.

691
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: I knew the secondary ticket market was going to be insane.

692
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: So the playoffs we've never had them before. On campus,

693
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: and so a lot of you are season ticket holders

694
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: or you know, you've bought packages to games and stuff

695
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: like that, but you were wondering, like how do I

696
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Speaker 1: get tickets? In fact, the entire impetus for what's on

697
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: this piece of paper in front of me is a

698
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: lot of you were asking how do you get tickets

699
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Speaker 1: to playoff games? Well, I would assume that if you're

700
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Speaker 1: not a season ticket holder, you're going to have to

701
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: use the secondary ticket market. So I got you a

702
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Speaker 1: little discount. I got you ten percent off over at

703
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Speaker 1: seat Geek. Now this is for playoff tickets, but honestly,

704
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: if you want to go to a concert, I don't care.

705
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: You buy any ticket over there right now and use

706
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: the promo code paid State ten, not ten like the

707
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Speaker 1: number ten. I'm getting you ten percent off everything. It

708
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: doesn't matter when it doesn't matter what it is. I

709
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: know a lot of you are looking for playoff tickets.

710
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough ticket to get into

711
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: the horseshoe. It's going to be a tough ticket, especially

712
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: if you're traveling. If you're a road team, trying to

713
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: get some of you road fans tickets there, I can't

714
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: help you with the airfare. I can help you with

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00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: the gas we quick trip, but I can help you

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Speaker 1: with the tickets. So paiate State ten. That's ten percent

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Speaker 1: off any tickets. Don't care if you're a new customer

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00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: or you're an existing customer. And so some of you,

719
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: in fact, many of you are going to buy those

720
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: tickets anyway, head over to seat Geek to do it.

721
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Speaker 1: And that's where I've got you the promo code paid

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Speaker 1: State ten for ten percent off. All right, this is

723
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Speaker 1: the most uh you can argue with me on this.

724
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 1: I think probably the most attractive game of Round one

725
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: is Tennessee at Ohio State. Ohio State opens as a

726
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: seven and a half point favorite. That is an eight

727
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: pm game, I think December twenty first, So there's one

728
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: game on Friday, there's three games on Saturday. This is

729
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: the last game of all the first round playoff games.

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Speaker 1: What is the state of mind for Ohio State. There

731
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: are some people who expect them to be in a

732
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: complete mental shell after the Michigan debacle. There are other

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Speaker 1: people who expect them to be shot out of a

734
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: cannon come playoff time. I don't know for sure, but

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00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: I will tell you I think we have a data point,

736
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: and I think it's two years ago. Last time they

737
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: played Michigan at home, they lost, and then they missed

738
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Speaker 1: out on the Big Ten title game. They went to

739
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: the playoff, they faced Georgia, and I thought they played

740
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: the best game of the year. It's just Georgia was

741
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: one point or two points better than them, whatever it was.

742
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: They missed a field goal to win the game, but

743
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: they played with their hair on fire, played at an

744
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: insanely high level. CJ. Stroud was an incredible that night,

745
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking to myself, you know, good for

746
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Day, good for this staff because they got their

747
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: guts ripped out and then got right back up and

748
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: played at a high level. That's what they have to

749
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: do here, and believe it or not, if they do that,

750
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: they could still win it all. Michigan's not in this postseason.

751
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: You know what a sigh of relief. You wouldn't have

752
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: to face Michigan. All you gotta do is face like

753
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee Oregon k qualt Man. We can handle all that.

754
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: It's just Michigan we can't handle. I kid, because I care.

755
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee comes in there and they are going to be

756
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: the least talked about team that could actually win it

757
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: all Tennessee. So Tennessee is the kind of team that

758
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: could be eliminated round one or win the whole thing.

759
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: Neither would surprise me because of the bracket position they're in.

760
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: It is a situation where at quarterback they have the

761
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: raw talent to replicate what Oregon was able to do

762
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: to Ohio State. Now listen to me. They have the

763
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: talent at quarterback and the talent at receiver to do that.

764
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: It's been a lot more inconsistent with Tennessee than it

765
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: has been with Oregon this year. But if you're asking

766
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: me one four quarter game, let's turn it loose. Nico

767
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: can do that. Dylan Sampson Junior, he can run it

768
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: for one sixty on you. He can. It's hard to

769
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Speaker 1: do against Ohio State good defenses. Here. This total is

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Speaker 1: in the upper forties. I think it's the lowest total.

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Speaker 1: I think I got to check that. Though it's a

772
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Speaker 1: pretty low total. Let me put it that way. It

773
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: is okay, So forty seven and a half was the

774
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Speaker 1: FanDuel over under points tough to come by. We've seen

775
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: both of these teams and games like that this year.

776
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: So it wouldn't be unfamiliar territory for either one of them.

777
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: The ramifications cannot be overstated as to the pressure on

778
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day in this game. I keep saying that, like

779
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 1: there's not pressure on other coaches, there's obviously an entirely

780
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Speaker 1: different kind of pressure on Ryan Day here than there

781
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: is on Josh Hipel. The playoff format being changed is

782
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: the only thing that is offering Ohio State another opportunity.

783
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: If this team existed two years ago, they're out of it.

784
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: If it existed last year, they're out of it. But

785
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: because they live in the world of the twelve team playoff,

786
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: they're in it. What do you do with it? Because

787
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: no one's really going to care that the format change

788
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: was what saved you down the road. If you know,

789
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Speaker 1: a month and a half from now, you're playing in

790
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: Atlanta on National Championship Monday night, no one's going to

791
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: really care. But if they lose it in their home building.

792
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,280
Speaker 1: I think it was Herbstreet who said this earlier today,

793
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: it'd almost be healthier if they could go on the

794
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: road and play, because man, if they lose again in

795
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: front of the home fans there again as over a

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00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: touchdown favorite Ohio State It's a seven and a half

797
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: point favorite in this game. Toxicity, toxicity, and you know

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Speaker 1: how to wash it down or ice cold zva. Since

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Speaker 1: I'm in Florida, actually I found the vanilla cola on

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Speaker 1: the shelves. Zevia obviously available at Walmart's nationwide. Take a sip.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, it really hits the spot after you've spoken

802
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Speaker 1: as long as I have. So a lot of you

803
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: wanted to know how long does this little contest you're

804
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Speaker 1: running go? Well, we're running it, I think through this week.

805
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Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I got a bunch of free

806
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: stuff to give out, including three child Live Supremacy. Go

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Speaker 1: to Walmart, purchase some Zvia, take a picture of yourself

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00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: in the parking lot. Tag me on social you gotta

809
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: hit them. Here's the hashtag with my fingers. You got

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Speaker 1: to hit them with Zevia. Pate state in the hashtag.

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Speaker 1: When you do that, twenty five of you are gonna

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Speaker 1: win just a flat out one hundred dollars gift card

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Speaker 1: to Walmart. Really helps. In December, I'm told three of

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Speaker 1: you are going to win that plus an entire case

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Speaker 1: of my favorite flavor. Plus three of you're gonna win

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Speaker 1: a Child Live Supremacy. If you're new to the show

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Speaker 1: and don't know what that is, that's okay, find out anyway.

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Speaker 1: So appreciate our friends there at ZEBA. Did you see

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Speaker 1: me pat the top of the can like it was

820
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Speaker 1: a little bobblehead doll bobblehead Zevia cans. Let's get on that.

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Speaker 1: We've got odds all over the place. So I gave

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Speaker 1: you some of the early round odds there. Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you some of these other odds over at FanDuel.

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Speaker 1: So the odds to win it all? Right now, Texas, anybody, no,

825
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Speaker 1: you're surprised. Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Ohio State, Penn State, Like,

826
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Speaker 1: these are the teams with the best odds to win

827
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Speaker 1: it all? Now, Jesse, I want you to double check

828
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Speaker 1: for me. Are those in order the best odds to

829
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Speaker 1: win the whole thing? Yes? They are so. Texas and

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Speaker 1: Georgia are now tied for having the best odds to

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Speaker 1: win it all. Oregon is behind them slightly, very slightly.

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Speaker 1: Is that shocking to you? Well, Ohio State is fourth,

833
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: Penn State fifth, Notre Dame sixth. Let's see, Boise's got

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Speaker 1: the longest odds. I don't think that's a big shot.

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Speaker 1: There are other lines over here of interest FanDuel, the

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Speaker 1: exclusive odds provider of the show. Obviously, there are some

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Speaker 1: other lines over here of interest Semi final specials Penn State.

838
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: To give you an idea of how favorable the draw

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Speaker 1: is for Penn State. Keep in mind, to make it

840
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Speaker 1: to the semi final, Penn State has to beat SMU

841
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: at home and they have to beat Boise at a

842
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: neutral site. They'll be heavily favored to do both. They

843
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: are minus one seventy eight to make the semi final.

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Speaker 1: It means you'd have to bet one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: eight to win one hundred. That's all that means, so

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Speaker 1: Penn State, if you could be favored to do such

847
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 1: a thing. Penn State is favored to get to the semifinals.

848
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,760
Speaker 1: Why because they lost the Big Ten championship game instead

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Speaker 1: of winning it. The only teams with better odds to

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Speaker 1: All right, so that is that is in the future.

867
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Speaker 1: As for yesterday, we had SEC Championship, we had Big ten,

868
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: we had acc I was at the Big twelve. That

869
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: wasn't much of a game, although congrats to Kenny Dillingham

870
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: and the boys. So I got in earlier today and

871
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: we just did our recaps on all of those games.

872
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: So what I thought I'd do is because I know

873
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: a lot of you been busy today. I thought I

874
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: would put those in this show as well. So I'm

875
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead. I'm gonna tell you after the last one,

876
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: the show will be done. I'm gonna say goodbye to

877
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: you now. We'll be back Tuesday night, same time as usual. YadA, YadA, YadA.

878
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone here in Fort Lauderdale, Appreciate everyone in Nashville.

879
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 1: Here are our recaps of pretty much everything that happened yesterday.

880
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: Oregon Big ten Champs headline from five years ago, and

881
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: you get drug tested Oregon forty five, Penn State thirty seven.

882
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: So we do padlock stats a lot. I can't call

883
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: it a padlock stat. I just want to call it

884
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: a can you believe it? Sort of maybe a bad

885
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: luck stat. That's what we call these sometimes. Just imagine

886
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: it's Friday and this is a four chalice game Challi

887
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: plural of chalice, and so we know we're gonna have

888
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: a really, really good game on our hands. But imagine

889
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: me telling you couple of things. Firstly, I think these

890
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: are worth paper pops. I walk up and I tell

891
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: you Penn State's hanging thirty seven. Wow, I'm gonna tell

892
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: you Penn State's going to be a Big ten champion,

893
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: and they're gonna do it. With two ninety two on

894
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: the ground five eighteen total. Penn State's offense comes alive

895
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: at the right time, they're gonna win the game. Then

896
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: I tell you, hold it, hold it. Oregon touchdowns on

897
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: four of their first five drives, Well, then I'm gonna

898
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. If you're watching on YouTube, Dan

899
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: Lanning hoisting a trophy, yellow confetti, green confetti. How did

900
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 1: this happen? Well, it happened because, well, a football game

901
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: got played, and then things happened and people adjusted and

902
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,280
Speaker 1: there is a crowd out there. I think you've probably

903
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: seen them. I've seen them many times where a game

904
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: happens and let's say someone predicted Oregon to win this game,

905
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,919
Speaker 1: and then the game happens and Oregon wins the game,

906
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: and then someone tries to say, oh man, Penn State

907
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: was close, though, and that person says Penn State was

908
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: never going to win that game. Well, sometimes that's true.

909
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,479
Speaker 1: Most of the time, it's a pretty dumb thing to say,

910
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: because most of the time, if you get into a game,

911
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: especially when it ends up a one possession game in

912
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: a sport like football. It's not ping pong, it's not tennis.

913
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: It's sport like football, a lot of moving parts, there's

914
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: a lot of variants. There are a lot of different

915
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: outcomes that could result at any given point in this game.

916
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: If we went back to it, if I went back

917
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: to four minutes to go in the third quarter and

918
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: start of the game over, it's not like it would

919
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: always play out like it did. So the whole Penn

920
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: State was never going to win this thing. No, Penn

921
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: State was probably never going to win seven times out

922
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: of ten or something like that. But there were scenarios

923
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,720
Speaker 1: where they could win, but they didn't. And the reason

924
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,959
Speaker 1: they didn't is because Oregon found a way, as they've

925
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: done all year. This style of game is a perfectly

926
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: constructed game for Oregon. So Oregon goes into this thing,

927
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: you want to dominate in everything, but it's a conference

928
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: championship game. They got really good defensive players, they got

929
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: a really good tailback to their quarterback could pop at

930
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: any moment. So it may be that the game script

931
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: has to be adjusted, and it was, and then Dan

932
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: Lanning and his guys they got it done. Anyway, I

933
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: don't think that as far as I could tell, and

934
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: texting with some buddies that people properly interpreted what they saw.

935
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: There is this kind of working feeling that if you're

936
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: a one seed and you're favored, you're just supposed to

937
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: annihilate everybody. Maybe that's the way it works in Xbox,

938
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: but it does not work that way in real life.

939
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: It's a Big ten championship game and we have no

940
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 1: more divisions, So whoever's there across the field from you

941
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: deserves to be there more than any other team in

942
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: the conference. Penn State fit that description what you thought

943
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: about them or what you expected from him at the

944
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, But think about what you took

945
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: from them. You took both their tailbacks rushing for over

946
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: one hundred yards. You took Drew Oller, by many accounts,

947
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: playing the best that he's played all year. You took

948
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: all that, and then you not only withstood it, but

949
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: you just you had an answer. And then some I

950
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: thought Tess Johnson and Evan Stewart against the Penn State

951
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: secondary was the big matchup to watch. Forget about Evan Stewart,

952
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: not disrespectfully, but forget about Evan Stewart. It was just

953
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: Tess Johnson eleven catches, oneint eighty one and a touchdown.

954
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: They had no answer for him, and they tried. Man,

955
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: it's not like they sat there and just pressed the

956
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: same coverage button all night. They tried, they had no answer.

957
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what really stood out is Dylan

958
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: Gabriel in this game was always a step ahead of Oregon.

959
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: He killed that secondary. That was the mat we wanted

960
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: to watch. That was the matchup I thought would decide

961
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: the game. It did decide the game. He was twenty

962
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: two to thirty two, two eighty three, four touchdowns. But

963
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: did you notice how frequently Penn State almost gets to

964
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: him and he either gets the ball off in time

965
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: or he eludes the rush. That right there is worth

966
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: untold amounts of points per game. You never know if

967
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,760
Speaker 1: if Dylan Gabriel was a step slow in his physical

968
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: process or a step slow in his progression process, if

969
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have had four sacks on him last night.

970
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: In fact, I think they would have, and that fundamentally

971
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: changes the game, maybe by like ten to twenty points.

972
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: But it didn't. That's why they went to the portal

973
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: to get him. That's where Oregon goes and finds the

974
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: right guy, and we make such a big deal about

975
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: it when he comes up there. I remember when Dylan

976
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: Gabriel committed to Oregon, Dante Moore did as well. We

977
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: did several segments on it. This is just like when

978
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: JTT committed to Ohio State a few years ago, and

979
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: we did. We made a big deal about it, and

980
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: there were some folks who say, you're making too big

981
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: a deal about this, like why you keep talking about this, Well,

982
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,959
Speaker 1: it's because they're going to go on to be game

983
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: changers in big games. That's worth its weight in gold

984
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: in college football. So Oregon's going to be the one

985
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: seed here. Penn State. I've seen them projected anywhere from

986
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: five to nine, and we've found that out now. I

987
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: recorded this earlier today if you're watching the live show,

988
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: But I have this weird feeling in my mind that

989
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: I feel better about Penn State. I feel the same

990
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,879
Speaker 1: way about Oregon as I did. I never viewed them

991
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: as a flawless team. There is not one this year.

992
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 1: But they're undefeated and that's what matters. And huge, huge

993
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: credit to Dan Landing in Oregon. Everyone talked about how

994
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: the Big ten and a you're going to adjust to it.

995
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: And we said for media days and we said, right

996
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: through this game, Big Ten's got to adjust to them

997
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: a lot more than Organ's got to adjust to the

998
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: Big Ten. They are the top recruiting power in the

999
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: Big Ten right now and moving forward until something changes.

1000
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: I think they're the top pro in the Big Ten

1001
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: now and moving forward until something changes. Not a huge gap.

1002
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 1: Ohio State's a very very respectable and worthy opponent competitor.

1003
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: They got their own Michigan problem. But Oregon they're where

1004
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: they should be. Penn State, I've got this weird feeling

1005
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: that in terms of a national championship, think about nothing

1006
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: more than that for just a second. If you were

1007
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: to just ask me nothing more than how likely is

1008
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: Penn State to win a national championship? I think they're

1009
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: more statistically likely to have a shot at doing it.

1010
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: After seeing them get up off the mat and respond

1011
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: in this game, then I would feel if they won

1012
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: a thirteen to nine defensive turnover fest and Oregon was

1013
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: like minus three turnovers, Penn State wins. They win thirteen

1014
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: to nine typical Penn State game, they win the Big Ten,

1015
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: they got the first round by they may even be

1016
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: the one seed. I'd feel less confident in them if

1017
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: they won that way, then I do in them now.

1018
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: And they lost. They play game that I've always thought

1019
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: was there, but they've never had to play it, and

1020
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 1: they had to respond yesterday and they actually did. Okay.

1021
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 1: So they don't give you anything for almost They don't

1022
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: give you anything for a good, solid effort, and they're

1023
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: gonna make you play an extra game in the playoffs.

1024
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: But there's a heartbeat still there, there's a pulse still there.

1025
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: Let's see what they do with that. Georgia, Georgia. Ray

1026
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: Charles had it right, Just keep saying Georgia twenty two

1027
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: to nineteen SCC champions, Georgia four and a half CHAI

1028
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: on the one to five ratings scale. Some of you

1029
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: called this ugly, probably the same crew that called that

1030
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: what was it, twenty eleven LSU Alabama overtime game ugly?

1031
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: Different strokes for different folks, as me and mom would say,

1032
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: this one was a conference title game that went to

1033
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: overtime minimum for Chaali and I put a half on

1034
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: it just to make people map. You have to cut

1035
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: the head off the snake is a sentence that I

1036
00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:00,320
Speaker 1: found myself saying about Georgia nineteen times this year, twenty

1037
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: six times this year. It's such an imperfect team. It's

1038
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: such a flawed team. It makes it so much more

1039
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: beautiful when they win, because you know what's winning the G.

1040
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: That's what's winning Thursday and Tuesday, I said to myself,

1041
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 1: I need the game where the G shows up because

1042
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: I've gotten past the point where I expect individual star

1043
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: efforts from Georgia. If I get it, that's wonderful, but

1044
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: I don't expect that from them. I need the game

1045
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: where the G shows up. That's the kind of game

1046
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: where you watch it and you say, boy, it feels

1047
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: like become hell or high water. Somehow, some way, the

1048
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: cumulative weight of this program is winning this game for us.

1049
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: You saw it. It was the SEC championship game. You

1050
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: shaw it. There was like a double barrel middle finger

1051
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 1: to the entire world, apparently also the commissioner of the SEC.

1052
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: Some would say me, I wouldn't. Some would say me

1053
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: because I had the audacity to pick Texas to win

1054
00:54:55,200 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: the game twice. This just competitive culture. So you know

1055
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: how when there's been off the field issue with Georgia,

1056
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 1: the arrests and stuff, people have questioned Georgia's culture, and

1057
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: I've understood where they're going with that now. My retort

1058
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: has always been, I think Georgia's got a rock solid culture.

1059
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 1: I think They've got a problem within the culture that

1060
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 1: leads to things like that happening. And I've had people

1061
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: come back at me saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's

1062
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: just culture top to bottom. Well that's stupid. It's not

1063
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: because there's a difference in competitive culture. Competitive culture was

1064
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: on display in Atlanta last night. Competitive culture is the

1065
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: kind of thing where your quarterback's arm is hanging on

1066
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: and he wasn't really playing all that great to begin with,

1067
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: and you've got a kid named Gunner Stockton that the

1068
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: broadcast crew is having to lick their index finger and

1069
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 1: flip through their nose to see where he's even from.

1070
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,839
Speaker 1: And you trail at the half Texas got you down,

1071
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:52,720
Speaker 1: and yet somehow, some way, you can't do anything great

1072
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: except defense, and you ride it to a win in overtime.

1073
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: I thought it was one of the great moments in

1074
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: the history of that program. And like every Georgia game

1075
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:04,919
Speaker 1: my entire life, not the best because they've won national championships,

1076
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: but it's such a program moment. You didn't need that

1077
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: to beat TCU, you needed it to beat Texas yesterday.

1078
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: Unbelievable moment. Man to watch like Nate Frazier doing what

1079
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: he was doing, ETN. If you could just bottle up

1080
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: whatever Trevor ETN feels towards Texas and unleash that on

1081
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: your biggest enemies in your life, your enemies won't be

1082
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: around longer. If the aten has got five touchdowns this

1083
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: year against Texas, he's got four against everyone else. So

1084
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: I wondered, in this game, we're gonna pay per pop

1085
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: ahead of time padlock stat incoming. I wondered in this game.

1086
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 1: I even thought, in this game, Texas is going to

1087
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 1: run the ball better. Texas thinks that physically they can

1088
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: handle themselves a lot better than they did the first

1089
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,760
Speaker 1: go around. And man, make no mistake, live bullets flying

1090
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: in this game. Ultra physical. But you know when the

1091
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: dust settles there, it is right in front of me.

1092
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 1: Texas against Georgia, round one, one one point one yards

1093
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:06,240
Speaker 1: per Carrey, Texas against Georgia in round two, right there again,

1094
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: about one and one point one yards per carrey. Texas.

1095
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: TheInk had four turnovers the first time. They were turnover

1096
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: prone the first time. Three more turnovers Texas. This game

1097
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: allows six more sacks, fifteen more tackles for loss. You

1098
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: get quinn Ewers, you get Steve Sarkisian behind the chains. Really,

1099
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: Georgia gets anyone behind the chains. They're gonna have a

1100
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: tough time, especially this team, because they don't have a

1101
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: difference maker at quarterback. They've got a future difference maker,

1102
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: probably at quarterback, but that guy was on the bench

1103
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: last night. Inexplicably they did not choose to use him.

1104
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: But I'll talk about Texas in the second Georgia Football

1105
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. It's been like watching Denzel in Flight

1106
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: the whole time. Great movie. Surprisingly even Jesse has seen it,

1107
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: so there's no excuse for you not to have seen it.

1108
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: If you're watching with your girl. Fast forward through the

1109
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: opening scene, tank couple. Josh's word for that. Just fast

1110
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: forward through the opening scene, go back and watch it later.

1111
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: But the rest of the movie is is spoiler alert kids.

1112
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: It's been out like fifteen years. Man. The plane's crashing

1113
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: and engine's gone, other engine's gone. My copilot's freaking out

1114
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: over here. He's a rookie. I got to invert the plane.

1115
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: I'm flying it upside down. I'm trying to Oh, they're

1116
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: a system's failure. Oh avi Onyx is out? What am

1117
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: I supposed to do? I got no shot here, there's

1118
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: a field. Let's put it down over there. We're gonna die.

1119
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna die. We're gonna die. Wake up three days

1120
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: later in the hospital bed. Some people didn't make it,

1121
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: but a lot of folks did. How'd you do that?

1122
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: That's what I think about, Kirby Smart, How how have

1123
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: you done this? Did you see the collective? Like, did

1124
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: you see the collective outpouring of emotion last night when

1125
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: that team won that game. I'm not saying it's a

1126
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: team that thought they had no business. They certainly got

1127
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: business winning the game's Georgia, it's the SEC championship game.

1128
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: But to do it and just to be so proud

1129
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: that it's a program win, man, it's a block g win.

1130
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: It's a Georgia. A guy like Gunner Stockton comes off

1131
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: the bench just to fight and fight and fight. I

1132
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: don't know. I said it was one of the best

1133
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: moments in the history that program, and some of you

1134
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: disagreed with me. I think you need to look so

1135
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: much broader than just what kind of quality of game

1136
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: you think you just saw. And you also got to

1137
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: understand the quality of opponent Texas is. There are these

1138
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: statements made in vacuums, and there's this thing that playing

1139
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: against another really good team does, and it is it

1140
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: can make you look really wobbly. What I'm trying to

1141
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: tell you is, I'm not quite sure if Texas was

1142
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: on the field against a UNLV last night, they would

1143
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 1: have been limited as much as they were. That's what

1144
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you. So Texas supremely disappointed me

1145
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: in this game. It was their game, man. They outgained

1146
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: Georgia two sixty to fifty four in the first half,

1147
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 1: Georgia minus two rushing at the half, and Texas led

1148
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: six to three. Knowing full well Georgia is a second

1149
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: half team they have been all year. YEA this season

1150
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: is four and two when trailing at the half. Georgia

1151
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: they could go like a decade under a guy like

1152
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: Smart not trail six times at the half. In regular

1153
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: season games, They've trailed half a dozen times at the half.

1154
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: This year they've only played thirteen. They've trailed six times

1155
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: at the half. They've won four of them. The two

1156
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 1: losses were Bama and Ole Miss. They've won every other one,

1157
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: including this one. I can't. I can't put my finger

1158
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: on it. With Texas, I can, I can, but it

1159
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 1: still surprises me because I expected a little bit more

1160
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: this time around. Carson Beck's out the entire second half.

1161
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: You've got the lead going into the second half, You've

1162
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: tripled them up, you've quadrupled them up in total yardage,

1163
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: and you just can't finish the job because you can't

1164
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: make it happen in the red zone and you can't

1165
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: make it happen downfield. I said something I rarely say,

1166
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: because I rarely even tweet during games because most of

1167
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: the time I'm add another one and I can't watch.

1168
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,439
Speaker 1: I rarely tweet during games. But I said last during

1169
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: this game, after Beckett already been knocked out and gunner

1170
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: Stockton was in and quinn Ewers in that offense was

1171
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: doing nothing explosive, I said, I expect to see backup

1172
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 1: versus back up here in a second. I was floored

1173
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: that they never put arts manning in this game. Floord

1174
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisan has forgotten ten times more about his team

1175
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: or about this sport in general than me. I know

1176
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: that that's why I so rarely questioned things, But I'm

1177
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: questioning that. I wonder, if he had it to do

1178
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: over again, would he insert a different dynamic at quarterback

1179
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: into this game. It wouldn't be like Gunner Stockton. They

1180
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: were forced to play him. If you're Georgia and Gunner

1181
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: Stockton hadn't played hardly all year or in his career.

1182
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: Quinn Ewers has and not by force. They have chosen

1183
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: to use him. They chose to use him on the

1184
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: road in College Station last week. And I think he

1185
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: gives a much different threat, much more in line with

1186
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: what a Haines King gives at quarterback. That gave Georgia

1187
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: Fitz than quinn Ewers. And they kept writing quinn Ewers

1188
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: and there was no concern from Georgia. They hit one

1189
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: slant across the middle, really really well designed play and

1190
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 1: they take it to the house and everyone started mouthing off,

1191
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 1: what now? What now? Is the exact same is what

1192
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: has been. You do not have a dynamic threat at quarterback.

1193
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: You got the best defensive mind in the game across

1194
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: the field, and even if he doesn't have the best

1195
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 1: players he's ever had. The players he does have are

1196
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: plenty good enough to stop that and to bottle that up.

1197
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: So I was very surprised by that, very surprised they

1198
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: brought him in. They brought arts Manning in once to

1199
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: start overtime, gained a few yards, never saw him again.

1200
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I know they trusted their preparation

1201
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: just like they did the first time. They're zero for

1202
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: two on trusting that preparation against this team. So it's

1203
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: a small sample size, it's two games. Texas has got

1204
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: themselves a little Georgia problem now, which I kind of

1205
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 1: made akin to the whole Georgia being dominant other than

1206
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: when they face Nick Saban and then Saban's gone, so

1207
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: no one cares about that anymore. Well, Texas may have

1208
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: that problem, Sark may have that problem with Kirby smart

1209
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: with Georgia until further notice. I've got to believe that

1210
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: Georgia gets to go heel up now as much as

1211
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: they can. We'll see on Carson Beck they played it very,

1212
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: very smart. We talked Thursday about what you're gonna have

1213
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: to do if your quarterback, if Drew Aller or Dylan

1214
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: Gabriel or Carson Beck went down in a big moment.

1215
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: Those were the three that we thought really stood out.

1216
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: You have to hide the injury, and Georgia did a

1217
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: good enough job of masking the injury, which I think

1218
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: is pretty serious to Carson Beck, but we'll see. Because

1219
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: you only got to buy yourself twenty four hours. You

1220
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: cannot allow the committee to get win that there's a

1221
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 1: season ending injury and then adjust or calibrate their grade

1222
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: of you, like they did with FSU last year. So

1223
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: congratulations to Georgia. Such a program win. I can't emphasize

1224
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: enough that one I think will echo through the halls

1225
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: there and mean a lot more to a lot of

1226
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: those folks than the TCU national title win did. Like

1227
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: they won the national title when they beat Ohio State

1228
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: that year, they just it was semantics. It was a

1229
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: formality when they went to wherever we were at to

1230
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: win the title. This game last night, for what it

1231
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: means and represents for that program, I think that night

1232
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: last night means more than that national title win means.

1233
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: That sounds crazy, but that's how I feel about it.

1234
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: They did it. They did it, Clemson thirty four to

1235
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: thirty one. A final looked like it was going to

1236
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: be a runaway ACC championship. It's still an ACC championship,

1237
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: three and a half Chaali on the one to five scale.

1238
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: I thought we were headed for like two Chalai territory.

1239
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: But the rating of this game got enhanced by the

1240
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: way it ended. Said Tuesday, Clemson has been sort of

1241
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: living and dying by these explosive plays. And then I'm

1242
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 1: looking at the first eight minutes of the game. Here,

1243
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: touchdown play thirty five yards, touchdown play forty three yards.

1244
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: It's twenty one to seven at the end of the

1245
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: first quarter. I was on my flight last night watching it.

1246
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: Say he found a way, he found a way to

1247
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: do it. Now. I never wrote SMU off because I

1248
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 1: thought SMU was candidly. I thought they were the better

1249
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: team coming into the game. But they didn't win last night,

1250
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: and the game script got really out of whack on

1251
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: them really quick. You look around and in the world

1252
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 1: we live in now in college football, unfortunately, everything's viewed

1253
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: against the backdrop of the playoff. You can't just win

1254
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: a conference championship and celebrate the conference championship. It just

1255
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,680
Speaker 1: immediately goes to Okay, but what are you seeded? Okay?

1256
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a first round by It's just so stupid.

1257
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: So I'm congratulating Clemson on winning the national championship. I

1258
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: don't have to immediately revert to here's what I think

1259
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 1: they will or won't do in the playoff, or there's

1260
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: another school of thought out there, like, man, this team

1261
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't have won blank in years past. They wouldn't have

1262
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: won this or that in year's past. Here's what you

1263
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 1: have to do in sports, in college football period. You

1264
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: have to be better than the second best team that

1265
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 1: given year and whatever it is you're competing for. So

1266
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 1: SMU is the second best team in the ACC, as

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01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 1: it turns out, and Clemson beat them. So Clemson wins

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Speaker 1: the ACC championship, and you hear that. That's it. That's

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Speaker 1: that's the conversation. There's nothing else. And kid club knit

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01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: credit to him. I think he had his best game

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Speaker 1: in that uniform. Two sixty two through the air, four touchdowns.

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01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 1: They as an offense handled the pass rush well enough,

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Speaker 1: they handled they handled the SMU pressure well enough. Not

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Speaker 1: perfectly like SMU did get home, but they were gonna

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Speaker 1: do that. SMU was the number one pressure team in

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Speaker 1: FBS coming into this game, they were gonna do that,

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Speaker 1: but it did not fatally hurt Clemson. Quite the opposite.

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01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 1: They were comfortable most of the game until the very end.

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01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:41,040
Speaker 1: Back in spring, we were talking about signees and early

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Speaker 1: enrollees and we mentioned a couple of receivers and one

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Speaker 1: of them was Bryant Westco, who, even though they were

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Speaker 1: going to be true freshmen, we thought were going to

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01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: fundamentally alter the Clemson wide receiver room. They immediately brought

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01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: a different athletic profile than any other player that they've

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01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: had there in a few years. Westco last night eight catches,

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01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: one forty three to two touchdowns. He's the difference in

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Speaker 1: the game. He didn't do it single handily, but he

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Speaker 1: won the ACC championship for Clemson. He punched Clemson's ticket

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Speaker 1: to the playoff. It's been a very imperfect, bumpy, flawed,

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01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: up and down year, but when it mattered the most,

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Speaker 1: they had one of their youngest guys come through. And

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Speaker 1: it goes to show you in the vintage Clemson years

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: or in this year, when you're going to win a title,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be difference makers at the wide receiver

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01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:29,240
Speaker 1: position that have done it for Clemson. I think that

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Speaker 1: it's very imperative to view this through the proper spectrum.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know that people are going to be

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Speaker 1: able to do it, but I'm going to try and

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Speaker 1: do it. Just appreciate the hearing. Now. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of time to talk about playoffs. You've got all spring

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Speaker 1: and summer to talk about where this Clemson team ranks

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Speaker 1: and whatever. I don't know why people like to do it,

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Speaker 1: but they do. It's all about comparatives and lists and stuff.

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Speaker 1: They're going to give you a ninth ACC Championship trophy

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Speaker 1: under Dabbo. He's nine to one in this game now,

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Speaker 1: and you're going to put that on your shelf there

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Speaker 1: and they can't take it away. No one can come

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Speaker 1: take it away. You get blown out thirty to ten

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Speaker 1: in whichever playoff game you play out, doesn't matter. They

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Speaker 1: can't take that away from you. So congrats to Clemson.

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Speaker 1: As for SMU, it was kind of weight and See

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Speaker 1: mode with them. I had a lot of confidence in

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Speaker 1: them coming into this game. But I was wrong. I

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Speaker 1: was wrong to have the level of confidence I did.

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Speaker 1: Let me say that. The weight and See was they

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Speaker 1: hadn't played Miami this year. They hadn't played Clemson. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: they hadn't played Cues, they hadn't played Georgia Tech. They

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Speaker 1: had not played the best teams in their conference. They

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Speaker 1: had not been mightily challenged out of conference by a

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Speaker 1: high level roster. They played Brigham Young and lost, but

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Speaker 1: Brigham Young does not fit that description either, So we

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Speaker 1: were kind of waiting to see them against this caliber

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Speaker 1: of roster and they didn't hold up well. We needed

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Speaker 1: to find out about them. We found out they didn't

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Speaker 1: hold up well the game. Dynamics got crooked early. I

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Speaker 1: did think they were on the wrong side of officiating

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Speaker 1: was the color of this logo behind me all night,

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Speaker 1: and with good reason. He had reason to be aggravated.

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Speaker 1: But nothing fundamentally changes here with either team. To me,

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Speaker 1: I don't really feel much different about either team. Probably

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Speaker 1: in the aggregate, feel a little bit lesser about SMU

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Speaker 1: and how they match up because I thought I just

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Speaker 1: So that's it. I think that's more credit to Clemson

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Speaker 1: and credit to dabos Wwenny. Nothing fundamentally changes here. I

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Speaker 1: know that this probably reinforces in Dabos's mind that his

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Speaker 1: was it was either already the right way or it

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Speaker 1: wasn't the right way. And this doesn't change it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about a field goal at the buzzer to

1342
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Speaker 1: win what ended up being a very competitive game. But

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Speaker 1: your take your philosophy on the portal, or you're the

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Speaker 1: entire way you construct your roster. It doesn't change game

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Speaker 1: to game like this, your opinion on the guy, my

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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. If I were to go eat lunch with you,

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Speaker 1: then if I went to lunch with you today, it's

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Speaker 1: no different. The future of Clemson football is really no different.

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Speaker 1: If you think that they're going to continue cruising at

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Speaker 1: can just be Clemson won in ACC Championship and we

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