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Speaker 1: to confirm that Pate State Investigates has received credible information

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Speaker 1: that the SEC could have been overrated. Language is important,

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Speaker 1: in the media world. So Pate State Investigates is looking

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Speaker 1: into the SEC. How about that the SEC being investigated

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Speaker 1: for a change. Hey, we got a final four, people,

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Speaker 1: We got a final four in our hands. We're jampacked.

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Speaker 1: We're high topa Chile, downtown Nashville, Tennessee, proudly brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Academy Sports and Outdoors. Notre Dame just finished

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Speaker 1: off Georgia. We will talk about it. I have got

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Speaker 1: things to your Oregon Ducks. I will discuss that. I

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Speaker 1: Or is someone going to be proactive in this whole sport.

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Salem, Oregon, Albany, Georgia, Harrisburg, PA. Now listen,

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Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl right off the bat. Two bits of information,

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Speaker 1: Those are the facts. What you do with these facts

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Speaker 1: for the team in green, good looking uniforms. But it

429
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Speaker 1: was a long afternoon. So I misread it part one

430
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Speaker 1: in thinking that Chip Kelly would go about his play

431
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Speaker 1: calling a different way. I misread it part two in

432
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Speaker 1: thinking that because they didn't get to Gabriel the first game,

433
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Speaker 1: that Jim Knowles would look at it the second time

434
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Speaker 1: around and say, I'm not going full feast or famine.

435
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go after him. I'm gonna make them

436
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Speaker 1: sustain long drives. Jim Knowles looked at that and said

437
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Speaker 1: l L And then they just got after him. And

438
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't like they were sending the house all afternoon either.

439
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: They just the defensive line frankly played the way that

440
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Speaker 1: most people, including me, thought they'd play all year. Like

441
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Speaker 1: I picked this team to win the national title back

442
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: in the summer because I thought this was the level

443
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,239
Speaker 1: of play they'd get. But you know what else, there

444
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: was a lot of talk about the Michigan game, which

445
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 1: I know is just dirty word now, but there was

446
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about the Michigan game afterwards and

447
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: whether or not Ohio State needed that. You can't go

448
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,239
Speaker 1: back in time and change the past. The mark of

449
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: a winner is you learn from and grow from your mistakes.

450
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Speaker 1: If that's what they needed to remind themselves of who

451
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: they are and what they're capable of, it's puzzling to me,

452
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Speaker 1: but I'll accept it because if it's going to bring

453
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Speaker 1: this out in you, then whatever, I know, there's a

454
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Speaker 1: little void in your heart, even if you go on

455
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Speaker 1: to win a title by a million that you can't

456
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 1: fill unless you beat Michigan. Although a national title would

457
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,959
Speaker 1: be a nice consolation prize. But if that's what it

458
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: took to wake this team up and to pull the

459
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: complete like animalistic nature out of them that we're seeing now,

460
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: so be it. But they did not offensively or defensively,

461
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Speaker 1: really come in with the plan that I thought they would,

462
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: and they were two for two in the way they

463
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: went about it. And I don't know if my way

464
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: would have worked or not, but it's a moot point.

465
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Speaker 1: Where is Oregon? Where's Oregon? Dan Lanning said yesterday, Sometimes

466
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Speaker 1: you have it and sometimes you don't, and we didn't

467
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Speaker 1: have it. And they did. And it's so funny because

468
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: he was asked about Ohio State Michigan. He was asked,

469
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Speaker 1: how did a team that lost to Michigan suddenly look

470
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Speaker 1: like this? And then Landing says, well, we didn't have

471
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Speaker 1: ours today, just like they didn't have theirs against Michigan.

472
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Speaker 1: I saw someone just clip that quote, which was totally

473
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Speaker 1: out of context. Shocker, an internet shocker, a clip taken

474
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: out of context. But he's right about that. I mean,

475
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: we saw with our own eyes this team beat that

476
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: team earlier this year, and yesterday looked like they could

477
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: have played the game one hundred times and it would

478
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: not have happened. You would have gotten a hundred out

479
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: of one hundred. Maybe that's not true, but it looked

480
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Speaker 1: that way, it felt that way. But here's what's crazy

481
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: about it all. I saw folks just dumping on Dan

482
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Speaker 1: Lanning in Oregon and not even realizing Oregon probably wins

483
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: the national title if this was one year ago, if

484
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Speaker 1: they have this team one year ago in the old format,

485
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: they probably win the title. Because as the ranking stood,

486
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Speaker 1: Ohio State doesn't even make it in So how far

487
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: away is he? How far away is a team that

488
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: loses like that. It is my belief that you're never

489
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 1: as far away as a result like this makes it

490
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: look like you are, because we score in threes and

491
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,399
Speaker 1: we score in sevens, and especially it's like watching a

492
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: NASCAR race. It's way different than dry I've in, you know,

493
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: in eight lane traffic downtown where your peak speed is

494
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: thirty miles an hour when you're on like Talladego, when

495
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: you're at Pocono. Do they still run at Pocono? I

496
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: don't know. Anyway, super Speedway, you're upwards of one hundred

497
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: ninety miles an hour. So if you're off pace even

498
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: a little bit, if something's wrong with your car, even

499
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you just drop down to one seventy,

500
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: it's like you disappear off the screen. Because the speeds

501
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: are so high that any mild variance, any subtle flaw

502
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: stands out, sticks out like a sore thumb, and you're gone,

503
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: and then you're lapped. Well, when you're playing teams like

504
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: Ohio State, that is the equivalent of a finally tuned

505
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: automobile going one hundred ninety miles an hour. Now hopefully

506
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: yours can go that fast as well. But if it's off,

507
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 1: if there's a wobbly tire. If there's anything that's the

508
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: least bit wrong, you're gonna get embarrassed because the margins

509
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: are not like that of an Iowa versus Northwestern game. Again,

510
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: mountains of respect to both of those programs, but the

511
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: caliber of football, in the style of football you'd be

512
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: watching there is such that if you don't bring your

513
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: a game, the final score may still be like sixteen

514
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: to thirteen or something like that, thirteen to nine. If

515
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: you don't bring it against Ohio State, it is thirty

516
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: four to nothing and the nice in the side of

517
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: your neck and you have no clue what just hits you.

518
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: So they got two more to go. Ohio State's got

519
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: two more to go. The benefit of this format for

520
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: Ohio State is it literally gave them second life because

521
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: the previous format would not have had them in and

522
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: would be sitting here asking ourselves after they undressed someone

523
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: in a bowl game. Could Ohio State have won the

524
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: title if we had an expanded playoff. Well, we've got

525
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 1: an expanded playoff. They can win the title. They're the

526
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: current odds on favorite at FanDuel to win the title.

527
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. As much as this format benefits

528
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State in giving them an access door, it also

529
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: requires them to play two more games. Now you may

530
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: look at that and say, hey, who cares. If they're

531
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: playing like they've played these past two games, then they'll

532
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: cake walk to the title. They sure will if they

533
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: play like they've played these last two games. So the

534
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: struggle for Ohio State was always going to be just

535
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: like it is with anybody who had to play four rounds,

536
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: but especially with this draw, they were going to have

537
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: to beat four high level teams. They didn't get the

538
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: Boise's in the Indianas, they didn't get SMU, they got Tennessee,

539
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: they got Oregon, They've now got Texas, and they'll face

540
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: either Penn State or Notre Dame in the final if

541
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: they make it there. And if you do not bring

542
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: it at that high level four times in a row,

543
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: you will lose one of these games. I know it

544
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: sounds really impossible right now. This is not an invincible team.

545
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: It's just a red hot team that's the most talented

546
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: team by a wide margin. It's got the best roster

547
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: by a fairly wide margin. That's left in the tournament.

548
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: I would want to be in no other shoes than

549
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: Ryan Day's shoes. Right now, Please do not misunder stand me.

550
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: You just got to bring it two more times now.

551
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: As much as I said that, that's just me trying

552
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: to be cautious, because I tell you what the vibe

553
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: around that team was. I was around them a fair

554
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: amount last night. That vibe is very eerily similar to

555
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,719
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen LSU. I'm not meaning that to compare the teams.

556
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: Forget about comparing the teams. That's always dumb. I'm saying

557
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: the vibe around twenty twenty four Ohio State right now

558
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: is very similar to when LSU got on a roll,

559
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: because it was just like a bussaw rolling downhill, and

560
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: it turned out there was no point spread big enough,

561
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: there was no obstacle that was anywhere near high enough.

562
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: They just steamrolled everything and everyone. They went past Georgia,

563
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: Oklahoma just they splattered them all over Atlanta. They go

564
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: play Clemson in the title game in the Super Dome,

565
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: pretty easy work. There's nothing that anyone could do, and

566
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: you end up feeling like Oregon felt last night. You

567
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: had a good season, you had no shot. Oregon had

568
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: no shot against them. If this is that kind of

569
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen lsuvibe, then Ohio State's gonna win the national championship.

570
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: You got two more games. They got to sustain this

571
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: level of performance for two more games and title will

572
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: be theirs. Remember this is not a tournament that now

573
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: has Nick Saban in it. This is not a tournament

574
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: where Kirby Smart's still in it. We've got Ryan Day,

575
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: We've got Steve Sarkisian, We've got James Franklin, and we

576
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: got Marcus Freeman. None of those guys have ever won

577
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: a title. We are now guaranteed to have a first

578
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: time national title winning head coach. And mind you, I

579
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: think I've heard I've heard it about Day, I've heard

580
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: it about Franklin, I've heard it about Freeman. I have

581
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: I heard it about Sark. I've heard at least three

582
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: out of these four guys can't win a title, can't

583
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: win it. So you guys better hope Sark wins one.

584
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: And that's if you haven't trash talked Sark because some

585
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: of you, oh yeah, we're four for four. Let's just

586
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: call it like it is. Someone who you cannot win

587
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: a national title, according to the Internet, is about to

588
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: win a national title. And all the tweets that will

589
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: be deleted. I'm not deleting mine. I picked Georgia to

590
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: win the whole thing. It's done. It's not looking good

591
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: for me right now. But as we all know, in

592
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: times like these, the protocol around here is that I

593
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: prefer credit and not blame. And so the protocol around

594
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: here is henceforth, I want us reverting back to my

595
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: preseason predictions as the prediction of record. Jesse, remind me,

596
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: who did I pick to win the national title in

597
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: the preseason? It was Ohio State. Oh, it's crazy, Okay,

598
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: so lucky meet Due to the new rules instituted moments ago,

599
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: I had very little to do with it, but rules

600
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: are rules. As we know, my pick to win the

601
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: national championship is now favored to win the National Championship.

602
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: It's crazy how quickly this game can turn, how quickly

603
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: this whole broadcast theme can turn. Academy Sports on a

604
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: much more ethical note, Academy Sports and Outdoors sort of

605
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: a paper popper of a partner for us because Academy

606
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: had a lot of you dressed very elegantly this week. Now,

607
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: elegance on this show obviously means something totally different than

608
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: elegance out there in the more management style circles, just

609
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: a different strati of society, if you will. We don't

610
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: need all that, okay, So elegance for us is do

611
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Speaker 1: I look festive and do I look presentable at my tailgate?

612
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Speaker 1: And if you want to check that box, Academy Sports

613
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Speaker 1: and Outdoors will help you. Do I want to stay

614
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Speaker 1: dry at my tailgate? They can also help you there, chairs, canopies, coolers, grills,

615
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Speaker 1: They've got it all. Now. I do know that it's

616
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Speaker 1: just now January twod and I know that spring sports

617
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Speaker 1: season a little ways around the corner. Never too early

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Speaker 1: to prep equipment boom. Academy Sports and Outdoors, As you covered,

619
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Speaker 1: Academy's been there for us. Should we basically say forever?

620
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Speaker 1: They've been there for us forever? They really have, because

621
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Speaker 1: I used to shop at Academy as a young JP

622
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Speaker 1: before I ever had a show, much less before I

623
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Speaker 1: partnered with them, And so we appreciate them, and you,

624
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: I guarantee will appreciate them. I can't legally say I

625
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: guarantee it because I think you guys could own a

626
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: show if you just say you don't like it. But

627
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Speaker 1: I love Key guarantee it. That's totally different. Legally, it's

628
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: totally different. Okay, let's move right on along. Texas gave

629
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: up thirty one points, huh and still won thirty nine

630
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: to thirty one. The Peach Bowl turns into an instant classic.

631
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Speaker 1: We don't do Chalai ratings for playoff games. I don't

632
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: know why, because we could change that right now. But

633
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: if I were to do at Chili rating, this you

634
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: could argue was a five Chalai classic. And I felt

635
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: very weird watching it. And I know I'm not alone

636
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: here because I've talked to a couple of you in

637
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: my trip home AKA. Some of you on the flight

638
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: had watched the game and you had things to say

639
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: about it. I felt weird watching it because it's the

640
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: kind of game where a team wins and you got

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Speaker 1: to give all due credit, all due credit to Texas,

642
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Speaker 1: and I will, but it's the kind of game where

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Speaker 1: you leave thinking du I kind of feel better about

644
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: Arizona State. I kind of feel like I have more

645
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: positive things to say about Arizona State. I kind of

646
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: think that sometimes Memo's old adage rings true, and that

647
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: is that losers never win, but winners sometimes lose. Arizona

648
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: State is a winning program that just lost yesterday, and

649
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 1: you needed your stars to play an a level game

650
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: in Camp Scataboo has like the stat line of the century,

651
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: thirty thirty carries. Okay, so just toaded the ball thirty

652
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Speaker 1: times for one hundred and forty three. He caught it

653
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Speaker 1: eight more times for ninety nine. He had a forty

654
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: two yard touchdown pass thirty nine touches. It got the

655
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: MVP award and they lost. Unbelievable. Okay, oh, I thought

656
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Speaker 1: when Texas went up fourteen to three that the game

657
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: was over. I think many of you thought that you

658
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: had the deep pass and then you had the special

659
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: teams play. And I'm just thinking, because I'm standing on

660
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Speaker 1: the field in the Rose Bowl, and by the way,

661
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: what a setting to watch a game. I'm not saying

662
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: it's a screen that's the size of Jerry World or anything,

663
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: but you're sitting in the actual Rose Bowl. They haven't

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Speaker 1: opened the gates to the public yet and you are

665
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: just watching and it's like the best theater in the world.

666
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: It's great. Concession's not open. It's the only downside, but

667
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Speaker 1: you're watching it. It goes up fourteen to three, and

668
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: I remember I was telling Gelbie, who has produced for

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Speaker 1: us on the road for a long time, I said,

670
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Speaker 1: here we go again, and he agreed for the record,

671
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: and no, it was not that. And so Texas I

672
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: thought needed about a B to a B plus level

673
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: performance from quinn Yewers. It turns out they could not

674
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: run the ball, and it turns out they need quinn

675
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: you Weers a level game. Fortunately they got it. Now,

676
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: it's not a stat line to end all stat lines,

677
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: but quinn Ewers hasn't been elite all year. So twenty

678
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: of thirty for three twenty two, three touchdowns, including that

679
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: man that throw in overtime, that's big time. I have

680
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: questioned the lack of use of arch Manning, but there's

681
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: a reason. There's a reason why Sark's loyal to that

682
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: guy because he feels like he gives him the best

683
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: chance to win. And I will guarantee you Sarks probably

684
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, I've got one guy right now that

685
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: I would trust to make that throw, and it's the

686
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Speaker 1: guy who just made the throw. So he needed it.

687
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: They needed every bit of it. I can't believe this

688
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: game went to overtime. I really can't believe it. It's the

689
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: kind of game where you think, oh, they may make

690
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: him sweat a little bit, but there's no way they're

691
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Speaker 1: actually coming back. Oh what's that They just came back.

692
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Speaker 1: Oh it's tied. Joe Tests just dialing it up to

693
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Speaker 1: a million. Joe Tests throwing one hundred and three degree

694
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: heat on the black. Unbelievable college football play by play

695
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: guy today, And the arguments that I get opposed to

696
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 1: that are invalid. Not to say your opinion is wrong,

697
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Speaker 1: but I strongly disagree with your opinion. Joe Tess is

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Speaker 1: friend of the program, so I am biased. But Joe

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Speaker 1: Tess is bringing it yesterday like I thought he he

700
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: visually and audibly enhanced the presentation of that game. I

701
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Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. So I watched the outcome,

702
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: and I'm watching it in bits and pieces. This was

703
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Speaker 1: the game. This was a game where I could not

704
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Speaker 1: watch the whole thing because remember, so, so here was

705
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Speaker 1: my experience. Yesterday we had the attack in New Orleans

706
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Speaker 1: in the morning, we are at the Rose Bowl, and

707
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: then you've got all kind of rumors about what is

708
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: and isn't happening with the kickoff of the Sugar Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and so we're having to go on air, We're having

710
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Speaker 1: to do live hits. Not to mention, we're doing pregame

711
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: live hits leading up to the rose Ball. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm holding the mic in my hand. I'm i'm a

713
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to watch the game on the big screen,

714
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Speaker 1: but I'm getting bits and pieces of it. So I

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Speaker 1: get to the end of the game. I watched the end.

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Speaker 1: I know that Texas is just won, but I'm not

717
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Speaker 1: aware of how wild this box score looks. So we

718
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: have padlock stats on the show, but we also have

719
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Speaker 1: badlock stats. A padlock stat is a stat that would

720
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: have told you everything you needed to know if you

721
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Speaker 1: knew it before the game happened. A badlock stat is

722
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Speaker 1: the kind of stat that would have fooled you into

723
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Speaker 1: losing money betting on a game. This was like the

724
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Speaker 1: badlock stat game of the year. Arizona State five ten

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00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 1: to three, seventy five yardage edge. They outrushed Texas two

726
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: fourteen to fifty three. It is mind boggling. They had

727
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: a fifteen minute time of possession edge, which doesn't really matter.

728
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: I just throw that stat in there because I know

729
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: it drives some people crazy. They ran ninety seven plays,

730
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Speaker 1: Texas ran sixty. They got three sacks and eight tackles

731
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Speaker 1: for loss. This was a team that was in the

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Speaker 1: one twenties in quarterback pressure. They got to when you

733
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Speaker 1: were three times on the ground, eight more times tackles

734
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Speaker 1: for loss. Texas defense allows us season high in points

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Speaker 1: and Texas had ten penalties and two missed field goals.

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Speaker 1: All that happened in the same game, and Texas found

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Speaker 1: a way to win. How How And then we've got

738
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Speaker 1: the whole targeting thing. I'll give you my take on that.

739
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: A lot of you were asking about that, and we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of people watching live by the way,

741
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: including many for the first time. Please subscribe to the channel.

742
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: It's that easy. You just click and then you forget.

743
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: It's like a Ronco grill. You set it and then

744
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: you forget it. You click it and you forget it,

745
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 1: and it helps us and it doesn't cost you anything.

746
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. So the targeting call, it probably changed

747
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: the outcome of the game. I struggle on this because

748
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: I struggle with how targeting is enforced in college football.

749
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: So targeting right now is broken. It's been broken for

750
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: a while. It's broken because it's not properly worded, and

751
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 1: it's not properly structured. There should be tiers, there should

752
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: be levels of targeting. There isn't. It's just black and white.

753
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: It's just is it or is it not? So either

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00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: it is, and it's fifteen yards and you're out of

755
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,720
Speaker 1: the game. Just the stupidest thing we do, well among

756
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: the stupidest things we do. Or it's not targeting. That's it.

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00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: There's no other option. So it doesn't matter if you

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00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: were accidental or malicious with the hit. I could go

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00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: out there and just play hard and you lower your

760
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: body at the last moment. Unfortunately I make contact with

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00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: your head. I suffer the same fate as if I

762
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: go out their XFL style and trying to capitate you.

763
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: Just dumb. Everybody knows it's dumb, but no one's got

764
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: the stones to step up and actually say, all right,

765
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Speaker 1: we're gonna change the rule. We're gonna add some nuance

766
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: to the rule. So here is my stance on the

767
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: targeting call yesterday. It was targeting. It was absolutely targeting.

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Speaker 1: By the letter of the rule. It was targeting. I

769
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Speaker 1: have not seen a rules expert that disagrees with that yet.

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Speaker 1: Here's where I struggle. I have always said if I

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Speaker 1: was an official, I'd have a hard time keeping my

772
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: bias out of this particular topic. I'm all for rules

773
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: and following the rules. I'm all for that. This is

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Speaker 1: an area I'm just admitting to you i'd have trouble

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00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: with it because in a moment like that, where I

776
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Speaker 1: watch a hit that I know is not malicious and

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00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: it's just a kid trying to make a hard nosed play,

778
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: and what happened constitutes the definition of targeting, even though

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00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: I wholeheartedly disagree with the structure of the rule, I'd

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00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: have a hard time throwing the flag. I'm admitting that

781
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: to you. I know for legal reasons why the rule

782
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: is worded the way it is, and so I am

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00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 1: admitting this is why I can't be a college football official.

784
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: I would take matters into my own hands. Therefore, I

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00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: was not all that upset when those officials did that.

786
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: It's got nothing to do with bias for or against anyone.

787
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: And if you feel like your opinion should be irrelevant,

788
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: the rule has to be adhered to. Got no problem

789
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: with it. Totally understand that. Ninety nine times out of

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00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: one hundred I'm with you on that targeting. I just

791
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: hate the way it works in college football. So if

792
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: you disagree with me, I know what you're yelling right now.

793
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: You're yelling. It doesn't matter what you think the rules

794
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 1: should be. It matters what the rule is. You're correct,

795
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: you are correct. I'm just admitting to you I would

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Speaker 1: probably do what those officials did, so I can't get

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00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: overly mad at them. Now, I'm also admitting to you

798
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: that's a little unethical, and therefore I probably shouldn't be

799
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: officiating games. But then again, also, what is officiating in

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00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 1: college football these days? Texas needs a different level of play.

801
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 1: Texas about to go face Ohio State. Now here's what's funny. Okay,

802
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: So FanDuel comes to us last week and they said,

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00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: here are the lines, all the lines hypothetically for the

804
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: semi finals, like they put the games up. You could

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00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: have bet this. Texas was favored by one and a

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00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: half I believe against Ohio State. Now I want you

807
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: to listen to me. I'm not just making that up.

808
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: You could have bet Ohio State plus one and a

809
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: half on the hypothetical market against Texas last week. Now,

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00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: what is it? Jesse's at five and a half or

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Speaker 1: six and a half. Ohio State's favored in the aggregate.

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00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 1: That line has shifted almost a touchdown. That's almost unprecedented

813
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: over a one week sample size, where like a quarterback

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00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: didn't go down to injury, and yet many people think

815
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Speaker 1: the line is still not high enough. Ohio State's favored

816
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: by either five and a half or six and a

817
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: half right now. Cotton Bold. It's got to be a

818
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: roster game for Texas. So you you had one team

819
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: that had a whole bunch of stuff go sideways for him.

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00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: They found a way to win, but they looked very

821
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: unimpressive doing it. Then you have another team that just

822
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: looked like a machine. History in college football says that

823
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 1: there is a progression and regression to the mean, especially

824
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: when you have rosters that are this comparable talent wise. Now,

825
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: Ohio State has got a superior roster, but there are

826
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: a handful that can compete with them. Texas has got one.

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Speaker 1: It's just if Texas can play to the level that

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00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: I think they're capable of playing too, we'll see. But

829
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: that one is the Cotton Bowl. So Texas they get

830
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: it in their home state, and I have it on

831
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: good authority that many a Longhorn fan forsook a trip

832
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: to Atlanta because they were saving up for a trip

833
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,799
Speaker 1: to Dallas. That's a drive versus a flight. As you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a moment of truth for that program. It's a

835
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: moment of truth for Sart, for Quinn viewers, because they

836
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: are going to have a tough time moving the ball

837
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Speaker 1: against Ohio State. Period. If they can't run it, they

838
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: will not move the ball against Ohio State. I got

839
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Speaker 1: all the respect in the world for Steve Sarkezian, but man,

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00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: that's going to be a tough, tough task. Not tough

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00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: to get there though. Quick Trips got you covered. Quick

842
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: Trip comes to me a couple of days ago and

843
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: they said, hey, we're in a mood. And I said

844
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Speaker 1: immunity and they said no, no, no, no, no no,

845
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: they laughed. They said, no, we're in a mood. Just

846
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Speaker 1: give away a ton of gas. I said, say no more.

847
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: If you guys follow me on Twitter, you saw this,

848
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: Josh Pate CFB, I just I just put out the tweet.

849
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Quick Trip feels like giving away a

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00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 1: ton of tanks to free gas. Reply if you want

851
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: some no strings attached. You don't have to sign up

852
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: for anything. It's the best kind of giveaway, and they did.

853
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: They just gave I don't know how much we gave away,

854
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: but we gave away a ton of free guess We've

855
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: been doing it all year. I mean, if you're not

856
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: following me on the socials, you are missing out because

857
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: we do this frequently at Josh Pate CFB. So they

858
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: fueled the whole New Saturday tour all year. We went

859
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: out to LA and back. We're headed to Miami next week,

860
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: we'll go to Atlanta for the championship game. Who knows

861
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: where we'll go in the spring. Pete State Speaker Series

862
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: on tap again. Already getting that in order. But we

863
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: appreciate them, man, they've made They've made a lot of

864
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: things possible for us, and made a lot of things

865
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: possible for you guys, because I know, trust me, I

866
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: know what it's like to reach in your pocket and realize, ooh,

867
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: I don't even have two quarters to rub together right now?

868
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: How am I going to have enough gas to get

869
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: to work in back? Well, if quick Trip swoops in,

870
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: they take care of it. You know, it's a really

871
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,720
Speaker 1: really good proposition there, because they don't require anything in return,

872
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: although I would highly recommend you visit their establishment, if

873
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 1: not for the gas, for the cold brewin tap my goodness,

874
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: so appreciate quick trip. Okay, Colin, do you have that

875
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: question someone asked me about? Yeah, yeah, Michael, Michael hit

876
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: me with a question that a lot of people were

877
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: talking about. Michael hits me, He says, after going out

878
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: to Pasadena, what do you make of people saying the

879
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: National title game should always be played at the Rose Bowl? Oh, Michael,

880
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: I got takes on this. I used to scoff at this,

881
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,439
Speaker 1: I used to laugh at it. I used to think

882
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: this place was overrated. Mind you. I'm growing up in Georgia,

883
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: so Pasadena, California was like Okinawa, Japan to me. I

884
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: don't know where either is on a map. I'll never

885
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: go to either. And these West Coast people need to

886
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: stop glorifying this place and realize that. You know, the

887
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,439
Speaker 1: sooner you realize the South invented college football, the better

888
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: off you'll all be. That was my mentality. Then I

889
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: went and my mind changed. Many of you have not

890
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: been to the Rose Bowl. Many of you have been

891
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: to the Rose Bull and disagree with what I'm about

892
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:40,720
Speaker 1: to say. Now, I'm not so hardcore on the concept

893
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: that they should host the national title game. I'm only

894
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: like sixty forty on that. I know some people like Klatt.

895
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: He plants this flag in the ground every January. First

896
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: I look at it and I go, oh, I don't

897
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: have a problem with it. That's kind of the way

898
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: I am. It's like Spaghettio's take them or leave them.

899
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: I like them, I don't need them. Pisquetio's excuse me,

900
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: take them or leave them? Rose Bowl National Championship always

901
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: being there. I could take it, I could leave it.

902
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: However I have. I cannot overstate this enough. The immense,

903
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: like most amount of respect that you could possibly have

904
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: for an entity, I've got that for the Rose Bowl.

905
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: I could not respect the Rose Bowl anymore. I cannot

906
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: love the Rose Bowl anymore as an entity, as a game,

907
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: as a brand, as a stadium than I do. Everything

908
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: about that is perfect, Everything about the setting is perfect.

909
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: But I'm not talking about the sunset that they fawn

910
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: over on TV. But it is fawnworthy, But I'm not

911
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: talking about that. I'm talking about the people. I'm talking

912
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: about the mentality of the Rose Bowl. I am sick

913
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: to death of watching college football cave. Anytime this corporate

914
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: wind blows this way, or nameless like faceless bureaucrats pull

915
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: it that way in the name of progress, aka, their

916
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: pockets get deeper. It's like nothing nothing is sacred. There

917
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: is no tradition that can't be bull College football is

918
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: like fern Gully, and the Rose Bowl is the tree

919
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: that they will not let you cut down. I love

920
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: them for it. I love them for it for the

921
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,800
Speaker 1: same reasons I used to hate them for it, because

922
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: I used to be brainwashed into thinking that these people

923
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: were standing in the way of progress. They're not. They're

924
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,280
Speaker 1: they're adhering to something that this sport used to claim

925
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: it was built on tradition. The Rose Bowl is steeped

926
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: in it. The Rose Bowl is New Year's Day, after

927
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: the Rose Parade in the to me, the grandest setting

928
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: that college football has to offer. And we're gonna kick

929
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: the thing off at two pm Pacific, and we're gonna

930
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: play it on the same day every year, and we're

931
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: gonna have the same procedures. And if you like it, fine,

932
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: if you don't like it, tough, it's our game. We're

933
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: not gonna change the way. We do it to fit

934
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 1: what you are. Because what you are changes every thirty

935
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: five seconds. What we are has been the same and

936
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: will continue to be the same. That is the mentality

937
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: that used to be a lot of what was good

938
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: about college football. Sure, there's change that needs to happen

939
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: every now and then, and at the Rose Bowl they've

940
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,720
Speaker 1: done that. But I'll tell you what they have also

941
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 1: done with the Rose Bowl is they long ago define

942
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: their values, their principles, their traditions, what they believe in,

943
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: what was non negotiable, and they will not negotiate it.

944
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: I love them for it. So if that means we

945
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: host the national title there every year, I'd be okay

946
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: with that, because there's no venue that I appreciate more

947
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: that I would love to bestowing that honor upon anymore.

948
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: One of the counters to that is, well, Josh, you

949
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: can't let you can't let fans be made to travel

950
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: that far. The committee could not care less about the

951
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: typical fan anymore. Do you see what's happening right now?

952
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: Do you understand if Penn State is to win a

953
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: national title, their fans will have had to buy hotel

954
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: rooms in State College during graduation week to play SMU.

955
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 1: They will then have had to fly to Glenday, Arizona,

956
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: and book hotels and airfare and get tickets there for

957
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: the Fiesta Bowl. Then you're gonna go down to Miami,

958
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: which climatologically sounds great, but that's another couple of thousand

959
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: out of your pocket. And then they're gonna go to

960
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: Atlanta for the National Title Game. You seriously think getting

961
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: priced out of trips is at the forefront of the

962
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: decision making. Anyway, of course, it's not so the Rose Bowl.

963
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: Whether they ever get that game or whether they never

964
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: get it again. I could not have any more respect

965
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: for those people, And I would just ask you, if

966
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: you get convinced or you're kind of you get I

967
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: call it brainwashed, because that's what I thought I was.

968
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,439
Speaker 1: If you get brainwashed into bashing those people because they're

969
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: so hard and fast in their stance, ask yourself what

970
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: the alternative is. Like, I had to do this. It

971
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: was my own admission that I was wrong. I had

972
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: to ask myself years ago, what is it I'm mad

973
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: about the Rose Bowl for? And I realized all I

974
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: was mad at them for was adhering to the same

975
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: things that I was mad the rest of college football

976
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: was sacrificing. How hypocritical is that? So I changed my

977
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: stance on it. Now. I will tell you I talk

978
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: to people at the Rose Bowl about this. They don't

979
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: think that this is ever going to happen. They don't

980
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 1: need it to happen. They're not fighting for it or anything.

981
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: And the reason the Rose Bowl people think they will

982
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: not have the national championship every year is the most

983
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: the most college football playoff reason ever. They don't have

984
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: enough sweets. Just the first rule, This the first thing

985
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: given to me. We don't have enough swets. Man. Of

986
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 1: course you don't. Of course you don't. So on a

987
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: related note, I have it on good authority that they're

988
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: struggling to sell their allotment of suites in Atlanta for

989
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: the title game this year. Just a little birdie flew

990
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: in my ear and told me that this morning. So

991
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: the one percent of suffering too Rose Bowl national title.

992
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: I'd be on board with it. I don't have to

993
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: have it there. I'd much rather have it there than

994
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: Santa Clara, California. Ever, again, I'll tell you that. So

995
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: if someone can make it, look, here's what I'll promise you.

996
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: I will be college football commissioner. It's not going to

997
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: be Nick Saban, sorry, James Franklin. It will be me.

998
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: It could be one year, could be two years, but

999
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: I will be college football commissioner. This is something that

1000
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm happy to put to a vote. I will be

1001
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:25,240
Speaker 1: a benelevant a vanella. I've always struggled with the word benevolent. Benevolent. Yes,

1002
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: I will be a benelevhant whatever. I will listen to you,

1003
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 1: and I will be happy to put this to a

1004
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: fan vote. My vote counts for two, but I will

1005
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: be happy to put this to a fan vote. And

1006
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: if you guys want it out there, fine, If you

1007
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: don't want it, they're fine. But I will be happy

1008
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: to at least put this on the table, because the

1009
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:46,760
Speaker 1: way it is right now, it's not even on the table.

1010
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: What is on the table, as much as I just

1011
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: mentioned ticket prices, is the fact that it doesn't have

1012
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1032
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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. Now. Lost in all the

1033
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: playoff hoopla is the fact that the transfer portal is

1034
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: still churning. It's closed technically, but there are a lot

1035
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: of guys in it who were coming out of it.

1036
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: Casey conception On, for example, it's a guy we've been

1037
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,839
Speaker 1: tracking no more. That number six receiver in the portal

1038
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,439
Speaker 1: has gone to Texas A and M. Now two years ago,

1039
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: he's had eight hundred and thirty nine receiving yards. Last

1040
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,720
Speaker 1: year NC State was terrible. He had four hundred and sixty.

1041
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: But A and M has now added three wide receivers

1042
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen, and they've lost some pieces in

1043
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,879
Speaker 1: the portal, they've gained some pieces. Really interested to see

1044
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: how A and M's offense looks this upcoming year. I

1045
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 1: talked to Mike Elko about this when I was out

1046
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: there this year. I asked him, off the record, Yeah,

1047
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 1: there's nothing privileged here. I was always curious, anytime someone

1048
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: takes over a job, how much of the program that

1049
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: you want can you have in year one? Like how

1050
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: much churn? How much overturn? And he was really honest

1051
00:55:57,960 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: about it. Basically, the crux of his message was, you

1052
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: cannot do it overnight, Like you cannot do it staffing wise,

1053
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: you cannot do it roster wise overnight. So it's a process.

1054
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: It's stages, and this is another stage for Texas A

1055
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: and M. Nebraska also adding some wide receiver help. So

1056
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: Dane Key, this was a guy I had an eye

1057
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: on number four receivers. So he's sixty three, he's two ten.

1058
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: He had forty seven catches for seven hundred fifteen yards

1059
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: on a bad Kentucky team this year except when they

1060
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Speaker 1: That's the number seven class in the portal. They lost

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Speaker 1: expected to end roll there. Number one running in the

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Speaker 1: would tell you they still feel like there's a lot

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Speaker 1: could have been At Alabama these past two years. I

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Speaker 1: happen to agree with that assessment. That's why I present it.

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Speaker 1: So you're taking him up there, they will utilize it.

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Speaker 1: They have no problem utilizing running backs the right way

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Speaker 1: Just putting that out there. This is a top heavy

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Speaker 1: Listen to this that top five there, they have thirty

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Speaker 1: six through number twenty five combined. So a large contention

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Speaker 1: But to watch the odds market and how it's changed,

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Speaker 1: I want to do one more thing here, as you

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Speaker 1: can tell. I don't feel great, not because I'm sick,

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Speaker 1: but because predictions didn't go so hot for me the

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Speaker 1: past two or three days. So I need a solid

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Speaker 1: I just need to pull some others down with me,

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Speaker 1: because there's no saving me at this point. Because my

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Speaker 1: remind a lot of people that you also had bad

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Speaker 1: predictions this year. That brings this piece of paper into

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Speaker 1: play time for four more busted bold predictions from the summer.

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Speaker 1: First up, this one was a doozy. This one was

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Speaker 1: a ten on the boldness scale. Tennessee, said John. Tennessee

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Speaker 1: beats Georgia and Alabama by a combined thirty points. They

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Speaker 1: did beat Bama by seven. They lost to Georgia by fourteen.

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Speaker 1: This was never in the cards. This prediction basically banked

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Speaker 1: on Nico Iamaliava just exploding. He did not, and they

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Speaker 1: did not. So they went one for two against those two,

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Speaker 1: so that was good. But this was a ten. This

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Speaker 1: was a ten for a reason, and it was I

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Speaker 1: don't think it was ever gonna happen. John, We've got

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Speaker 1: some text right now coming in late breaking texts that

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Speaker 1: could just as easily have waited until the show ends.

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Speaker 1: Chris from Atlanta, GA, friend of the program, but a

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Speaker 1: busted prediction here. Nonetheless, the prediction was Ohio State misses

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Speaker 1: the playoff after Dan Lanning takes down the bucks in Uja.

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Speaker 1: That did happen, James Franklin finally gets his signature win.

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Speaker 1: That one did not quite happen, and Michigan wins their

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Speaker 1: fourth straight and a stunner at the Shoe. So while

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Speaker 1: this is a busted Bold prediction, a lot of it happened.

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Speaker 1: It's just the middle one there, it's just the jelly

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Speaker 1: in the middle. You needed James Franklin to hold onto

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Speaker 1: that ten to nothing lead they had and they couldn't

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Speaker 1: do it. So I put a nine point seventy five

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Speaker 1: on this one. Chris, you came so close, but so

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Speaker 1: close does nothing more than get you ridiculed on this show.

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Speaker 1: Happens to me all the time. You're in good company.

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Speaker 1: Next up, this one hurts. Josh loved the name from Bowersville, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: loved the state. He said. After looking at North Carolina

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Speaker 1: schedule this fall, they're going to go ten and two

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Speaker 1: and contend for the ACC title. Max Johnson will be

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Speaker 1: a top three ACC quarterback. Max Johnson was lost for

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Speaker 1: the season. In Week one, North Carolina lost to James Madison.

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Speaker 1: Even though they scored fifty, they still lost by twenty.

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Speaker 1: That really happened in football. They lost to Duke, they

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Speaker 1: lost to Pitt, they lost to Georgia Tech, Boston College, Yukon,

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Speaker 1: NC State, Matt Brown lost his job. It was a

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Speaker 1: bad year. I don't know what else to say. And

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Speaker 1: the reason that they were thought to be maybe a

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Speaker 1: sneaky contender is because the schedule did not have Clemson,

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Speaker 1: Miami or Syracuse on it. But it didn't really matter lost.

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Speaker 1: The quarterback season was down the dream and oh we

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Speaker 1: got more more. That was the way it is. I

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Speaker 1: put a nine on that one because, like you know,

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Speaker 1: anything's possible with a softer schedule, but it did not

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Speaker 1: happen there. And the last one from Austin, Texas, the

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Speaker 1: Big Twelve will have a team in the National Championship Game. No,

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Speaker 1: they will not. It turns out they did have a

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Speaker 1: team in the quarterfinals, and that was Arizona State because

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Speaker 1: last odds to win the conference and they end up

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Speaker 1: winning the conference and getting in the Team Talent composite ratings.

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Speaker 1: Really interesting, Like this was why I put this at

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Speaker 1: a nine point seventy five in the preseason. The idea

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Speaker 1: title game was way too far from me. The most

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Speaker 1: So remember not making the playoff. To make it to

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Speaker 1: And that's the same reason that a Cinderella will never

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Speaker 1: happen in the college football playoff, and it's the reason

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Speaker 1: that the Big Twelve is very highly unlikely to get

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Speaker 1: a team there as it's currently constructed. Now, if I'm

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Speaker 1: elected commissioner and we put teams back where they're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be, who knows, maybe Oklahoma will make a run

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Speaker 1: through the Big Twelve. But as it stands right now,

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Speaker 1: they're not even in the Big Twelve. So that's where

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Speaker 1: we are appreciate you guys watching tonight. Let's see schedule wise, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be back Sunday, and then I think we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do our Tuesday show next week from down in

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Speaker 1: we'll have some my finals to talk about. So we

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