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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Bets on Campus Podcast. This is

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Speaker 1: the group of five Deep Dive. I'm your host, Mike

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Speaker 1: Calvary's I'm joined by the Action Network's Mike Ianello. The

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Speaker 1: band is back together. We made it through preseason. We've

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Speaker 1: made it through talking season. We've made it through teams

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Speaker 1: moving to different conferences. You know what, I don't care

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Speaker 1: about any of that at this point, because we have

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Speaker 1: real games this Saturday to bet on. Mike, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing? How excited are you to actually get some

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Speaker 1: of those bets in those digital slips all over the place?

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Speaker 1: Money fly in. We did it. This is the exciting

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Speaker 1: time of year. We finally did it.

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Speaker 2: We're finally here. Just keep checking the app like It's

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Speaker 2: finally here. It's finally here, back for our second season.

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Speaker 3: Week zero.

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Speaker 2: Haven't even made a bet yet, and we're already We're

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Speaker 2: already bulletin board material for Western Kentucky. They're already they're

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited to be back. I'm excited to be

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Big Bets on campus team. That

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Speaker 1: means Colin's Stucky, Brett McMurphy. We all came together. We

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Speaker 1: previewed all ten conferences. Obviously we did the heavy lifting

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Speaker 1: for the G five, but the rest of the team

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Speaker 1: putting it together, breaking out you know, divisions in the

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Speaker 1: SEC and the Big Ten. You can go through all

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Speaker 1: of that in our podcast channel. You can go through

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Speaker 1: wherever fine podcasts are sold you can find. You can

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Speaker 1: also have it over YouTube and watch some of the

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Speaker 1: video of that as well. All of those picks have

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Speaker 1: also been put together into a single episode, so you

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Speaker 1: can hear our best bets throughout the summer and all

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Speaker 1: the preseason odds, win totals, futures and situational plays for

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Speaker 1: September as well. I know the Colin Stuckey are bullish

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Speaker 1: on a few spots early in the season. So at

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Speaker 1: this point, what we want to do is we want

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Speaker 1: to set the table for what the big bets on campus,

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Speaker 1: specifically Group of five Deep Dive is going to look

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Speaker 1: like this season. And what that means is every single

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Speaker 1: of the week. And for the uninitiated, what that means

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Speaker 1: hands making the big plays that make the difference, at

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Speaker 1: least against the spread, that really help us cash those bets.

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Speaker 1: We want to make sure to give them their proper shine.

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Speaker 1: Then we transition into our Group of five round robin,

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Speaker 1: where we go through all of our bets you know

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Speaker 1: that week. Those five plays. We also get into best bets,

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Speaker 1: and we wrap it all up with G five underdog

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Speaker 1: moneyline parlay. That means you can hit you know, eight

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Speaker 1: to make you know your weekend, make your month all

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Speaker 1: let's reel back a little bit, and I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: with Mia the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, the pride of the Commonwealth.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, hell no, boy up and done.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, hell no.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Western Kentucky, your fan base has come

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Speaker 1: we got hit up by just about everybody. Beat Writers

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Speaker 1: going to talk two G five preseason heroes. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: college football players in the great State of Texas. Katie Davis,

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Speaker 1: They went six and six in the regular season, six

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Speaker 1: It's gonna start with Katie Davis. Let's go to you.

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Speaker 2: We named Jake Hayner our offensive player of the year,

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Speaker 2: So we will probably talking about these three a lot.

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Speaker 2: If you haven't read that article, go read it. Every

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Speaker 1: phenomenal player in the AAC last year. By the end

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Speaker 3: I'm doing another group pick here.

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Speaker 2: I'm grouping my second GEEP by hero as all of

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Speaker 2: the coaches who have come out in name their starting

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Speaker 2: to allose coaches. I'm gonna do this super quick for

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Speaker 2: those of you who haven't seen or aren't falling as

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Speaker 2: much as you know we are. Tanner Mordecai smu knew

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Speaker 2: Ty Keys is going to be a Southern Miss. Charlie

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Speaker 2: Brewer somehow still in college football. He was named the

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Speaker 2: starter at Liberty. Wylie Green was just named Rice's starter

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Speaker 2: the least you doubted for a second. Hayden Wolf officially

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Speaker 2: Old Dominion's quarterback. Never turn your back on the wolf Pack.

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Speaker 1: Wolf in the shotgun. He's got him asking you shall

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Speaker 1: receive my friends from Hayden Woolf.

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Speaker 2: So your bank on the wolf bang bang.

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Speaker 1: Well we'll see just how many games he starts for,

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Speaker 1: According to Colin Wilson, the presumptive Sun Belt champions. So

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Speaker 2: We're talking Minor Nation out in the West Texas town

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Speaker 1: Picks up Texas El Paso. This is a team that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually don't hate that at all, but because

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Speaker 2: He'll be happily celebrating his forty eighth birthday next month,

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Speaker 2: And if you look at him last year, in his

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Speaker 2: They lose Jacob County first team off conference. They also

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Speaker 2: So both if that happens again, we'll both win, which

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Speaker 2: is fine with me. North Texas won on a game

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Speaker 2: and you look at how UTEP moved the ball. Cowing

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Speaker 2: I love the way North Texas two. They come into

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Speaker 2: So you tell me North Texas won by three last year,

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Speaker 2: understand it's in UTEP, but I like North Texas money

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Speaker 3: I think the meingreen come out and they get this win.

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Speaker 1: I think you've convinced me to be honest. Kind of

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Speaker 1: They won so many close games. They were always that

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Speaker 1: So those kids have been hearing it, they've been getting

431
00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,760
Speaker 1: positivity on the offseason. And yes, if you want to

432
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,280
Speaker 1: play Hawaii, in my opinion, you want I want to

433
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,920
Speaker 1: play him either at the beginning of the season or

434
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,160
Speaker 1: the end of the season because the logistical element of it,

435
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 1: you can take so much more care in terms of

436
00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 1: turnaround time and when you get out there and practice

437
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 1: schedules and getting on the right sleep schedule, you can

438
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 1: do it if it's book end of the season. And

439
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 1: the last shout out I'll give to Colin Wilson here.

440
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 1: He did great work last year putting together metrics for

441
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:24,280
Speaker 1: home field advantage. It is an absolute debunked myth that

442
00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,159
Speaker 1: Hawaii has this great home field advantage. They do not.

443
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,200
Speaker 1: He had him ranked in the one hundred and twenties

444
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,440
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, the closing number against the

445
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,880
Speaker 1: spread and performance, and when you toss in the fact

446
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,239
Speaker 1: that they're playing in a practice complex that has like

447
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,159
Speaker 1: nine thousand seats. I did see on Twitter their athletic

448
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,239
Speaker 1: department was trying to pump everybody up. It'll be an

449
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,520
Speaker 1: environment like you've never seen. It's like Vanderbilt plays at

450
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,359
Speaker 1: Bryant Denny, they played Jorden Hair, they play in the

451
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,080
Speaker 1: swamp like they're gonna be ready for them, doing the

452
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 1: hakka and getting pumped up for this game. So, you

453
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 1: know what, the more I talk about this more I'm excited.

454
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: Talk me through a little bit of the personnel and

455
00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 1: x's and osen why you'd like Vandy so much here.

456
00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,640
Speaker 2: Well, it will be environment they've never they haven't seen

457
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:03,920
Speaker 2: since COVID year when there were no fans in the

458
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 2: stands anywhere.

459
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,400
Speaker 3: So they'll be going back to that.

460
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,679
Speaker 2: If you if you're hesitantly tiptoeing up to the window,

461
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 2: I'm in the back rolling my eye saying get out

462
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,520
Speaker 2: of the way so I can place this bet on Vanderbilt.

463
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:17,400
Speaker 3: I love this bet.

464
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 2: I bet it live on the show when Colin was

465
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,479
Speaker 2: talking about it, and the more I read about it,

466
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 2: the more I loved it. If you listen to that,

467
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,680
Speaker 2: you know Mountain West Preview, you know I'm very down

468
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 2: on WHI this year. Love Timmy Chang, but unless he

469
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 2: honestly if he was suiting up at forty, I'd be

470
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 2: a little more worried.

471
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 3: About my Vanderbilt bet.

472
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,360
Speaker 2: But there was such a mass excess from the Island

473
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 2: after Todd Graham killed their love and passion for football.

474
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 2: Their words, not mine, they said, that's what his players

475
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 2: said about him. They lost their quarterback, running backs, receivers, linebackers, corners.

476
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 2: They have just five returning starters, three on offense, two

477
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 2: on defense. Still don't know who their quarterback is. You know,

478
00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 2: could be Cam and Cooper, could be Brayden Schrager. The

479
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 2: fact that Cooper, who's a Washington State transfer, hasn't won

480
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,439
Speaker 2: the job is a little jarring, considering Braden Trigger was

481
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 2: horrible last year. They lose eight of their top ten

482
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,199
Speaker 2: tacklers for defense that was one hundred and thirteenth in

483
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 2: the country. And you know, yeah, okay, Vanderbilt's not great,

484
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 2: but you know they also haven't named their quarterback, but

485
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 2: at least theirs, it's like, okay, I think it's gonna

486
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,360
Speaker 2: be Mike Wright. He was much better than Ken Seals

487
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 2: eight touchdown, six picks. He's also very mobile, which I love.

488
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,399
Speaker 2: Every single running back that had to carry for Vanderbilt

489
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 2: is backed leading Russher Rocko Griffin's back. And you mentioned

490
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 2: that Colin Wilson wrote that piece about the biggest tarp

491
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 2: discrepancies in a week zero Bandy returned seventy five percent

492
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 2: of tarp on both sides of the ball. The commoner's returned.

493
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 2: It's seventy two percent of their pressures. Hawaii returns just

494
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 2: forty four percent of their ow alliance snaps. Vandy is

495
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 2: going to live in this backfield and on the flip side,

496
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 2: they bring back seventy percent of their passes defended and

497
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 2: Hawaii loses their entire passing attack. I don't know how

498
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,919
Speaker 2: Hawaii's going to score here. And you know, Vandy is

499
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,239
Speaker 2: going to dominate the trenches. Trenches and they're just going

500
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 2: to run down Hawaii's throat. And like I said, I

501
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 2: don't know how Hawaii scores, and you mentioned the home

502
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 2: field advantage, myth.

503
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 3: I looked it up.

504
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 2: Over the last seven years, teams are twenty seven twelve

505
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,719
Speaker 2: and two against the spread in Hawaii. It's people just

506
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 2: the numbers are always low because the public is just

507
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 2: like the public still sees Cult Brannan and they still

508
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 2: see that.

509
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,679
Speaker 3: Oh, you're going to the island.

510
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 2: You're going to the island, and it's easy, and the

511
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 2: numbers get inflated and teams just cover with these against them.

512
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm not.

513
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 2: A huge trends better typically, but if you are, SEC,

514
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 2: teams are seven and one against Hawaii all time, and

515
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: they're three and one on the island. So at the

516
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,719
Speaker 2: end of the day, Bandy's trash. But they're an SEC

517
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 2: team going up against what's essentially Hawaii's like backups because

518
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: all their starters left. So I'm pretty confident I'm with you.

519
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 2: I'll take it to nine and a half. I got

520
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 2: it at six and a half, and I love love

521
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,439
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt at the spot.

522
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: I also think it's a question of getting the attention

523
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: of eighteen to twenty two year olds where when you're

524
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,159
Speaker 1: going to Hawaii from Tennessee, everyone's like, Okay, that's a

525
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 1: huge deal. We need to prepare. There's a time change,

526
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: there's long flights, like no one's sweeping that under the rug.

527
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm more worried situationally, when it's like a West Coast

528
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: team playing at like a ten am body clock game,

529
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: you know in the Midwest or something like, those situations

530
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: can be a little sneakier. But Hawaii is just like

531
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: it's it's all they've been talking about for six months.

532
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 1: So I mean as soon as the off season program started.

533
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,120
Speaker 1: So I agree with you. I think we're you've now

534
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 1: four to five. My belief in the commodore's here, and

535
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 1: there's every time to get on the bandwagon.

536
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 3: Now is the time.

537
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: I certainly know it so much. Ill will thrown towards

538
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,199
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois for taking so many victories away from our

539
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: staff last ball. There could be some interest on Vanderbilt,

540
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 1: maybe catch with some points against Northernly we'll see how

541
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: they look in early September. Maybe they end up actually

542
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 1: being a favorite in that game.

543
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 3: Any mic go over their team total two and a

544
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 3: half by October first.

545
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: It's an interesting possibility. All right, I have exhausted the

546
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 1: picks on the board that I like. You know, there's

547
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: probably gonna be some player props that I may get

548
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: into on game day when they pop. As I mentioned

549
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: in Western Kentucky, if I get thirty eight, thirty nine,

550
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: just shy a forty, I'll go over on the team total.

551
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: But that's it. I don't want to get, you know,

552
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 1: two ahead of my skis here with week one just

553
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: around the corner and so many games going from Thursday

554
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: to Monday. But is there anything else on this board

555
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: that you like? I'd love to kind of kick the

556
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: tires on maybe one more option.

557
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate to do this, but I do have

558
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,479
Speaker 2: one more bet. I know we're trying to you know,

559
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 2: start the new season. We're all happy, go lucky. We're

560
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 2: trying to gain new listeners. If this is your first

561
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: time listening, I apologize if this is your last.

562
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 3: But what better way the year?

563
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 2: And you know, maybe you worked a summer job this summer.

564
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 2: Let you go ahead, and you got the money burn

565
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 2: in your pocket, go ahead and throw it away. We're

566
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 2: taking to Yukon. It's like twenty seven and a half.

567
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 2: I'm really open against the twenty eight, as if the

568
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 2: hook's gonna matter when it comes to Yukon.

569
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 3: But we're hoping for the twenty eight.

570
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: You know, Jim Mora takes over as the head coach,

571
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 2: former Falcons head coach, Seahawks head coach, UCLA head coach

572
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 2: Taekwon Robson's a new quarterback, former four.

573
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 3: Star from Penn State.

574
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 2: They bring in Will Knight, who was a jew COO

575
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 2: transfer running back. They still have Nathan Carter from last year.

576
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 2: They bring him out their top four receivers. They add

577
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: Nigel Fitzgerald from Old Dominion. The defense, you know, brings

578
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 2: back Jackson Mitchell, who's pretty good. They added some decent transfers.

579
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 2: They added transfer to Kentucky, you know when from Texas Tech.

580
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 2: Utah State got super lucky last year. We know that

581
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: We've talked about that in our Mountain West preview. They

582
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: lose Devin Tompkins, who is the nation's second leading receiver.

583
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 2: They lose their top three wideouts, they lose for their

584
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: top five linebackers. The day Utah State didn't really blow

585
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: teams out last year. You know, look at those teams

586
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 2: that are kind of power rated similarly to Yukon.

587
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 3: You know at the bottom.

588
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 2: They beat UNLV by four, they beat New Mexico State

589
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: by twenty two, They beat New Mexico by twenty five.

590
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, Yukon's not going to win, but they

591
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 2: can lose by twenty five and still cover the spread.

592
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: So if this hits twenty eight, I may be forced

593
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 2: to take the Huskies. I don't want to do it,

594
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,360
Speaker 2: but at some point you have to say. It's week

595
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 2: zero and I'm bet on Yukon football.

596
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: I'm actually hearing something come through my earpiece here. It

597
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: sounds like our producers letting us know. The last time

598
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: an Action Network employee advocated for betting on Yukon, it

599
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: resulted in the reception of this voicemail justin from reading

600
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: Yo stuck.

601
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 3: I listened to you one more time on anything involving Yukon.

602
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 3: I'm coming after you.

603
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: Take it easy. This is this is a tough one

604
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: to get behind. I'm trying to figure out the thought process. Yes,

605
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: Devin Tompkins not at Utah State. He was mister big

606
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: play for them last year. Down the stretch they did

607
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: blow out San Jose State. Shockingly, they blew out San

608
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: Diego State, you know, and their great defense in the

609
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: Mountain West Championship game. But I agree with you. They

610
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: clearly had a motive to take their foot off the

611
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: accelerator against some of the lousy teams they played, so

612
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: I do get that to a certain degree. I also

613
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: look at it in terms of, you know, their quarterback depth.

614
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,479
Speaker 1: They probably want to get some snaps behind Logan Bonner

615
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: in this game, so I don't necessarily see him playing

616
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: the full four quarters either. Yukon on paper should be

617
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: a little bit better, and if their quarterback play takes

618
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: that big leap, then yeah, so maybe you know what,

619
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and think about this. On the first

620
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: half line take getting two touchdowns. If I can get

621
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: the full fourteen points in the first half, I think

622
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: that may be a consideration.

623
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 3: Here's an important question we have.

624
00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: We may have to do a little bit more research

625
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 2: before you fully locked in this bet. Does Jim Mora

626
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: have the Randy Etzel contract where he gets bonuses for

627
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: like winning the turnover battle, or kicking the longest field goal,

628
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: or eating eating his pizza the fastest, or calling the

629
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 2: most time his timeouts the quickest. If he has these

630
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: little cheapy bonuses, then Yukon is incentivized to keep playing

631
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 2: late and even if they're down twenty five and Jim

632
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,239
Speaker 2: Mora knows he only needs one more sack and then

633
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 2: he has more sacks than.

634
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 3: The other team, which was a legitimate bonus.

635
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: Randy Ettel used to get Yukon's gonna be playing in

636
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 2: the final whistle because that's that's that's money in their

637
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: coaches pocket.

638
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: That was the best Easter egg I think we found

639
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: last year in the podcast. That was absolutely incredible, that

640
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: that was a real thing. I'm not going to be

641
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: joining you on this bet. I've really I've really tried

642
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: to give it the full weight of the podcast, but

643
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: I can't do it. We want to make sure that

644
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: we don't scare people off from what we're going to

645
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: get into it. It's not all the dregs. It's not

646
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Speaker 1: gonna be all new Mexico Yukon, all right, So we

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Speaker 1: do have some nice picks here. We're getting you started

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Speaker 1: probably the spot to get back on the seth Latrell bandwagon.

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Speaker 2: Let's just hope all of our listeners can find stadium

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Speaker 2: so we can watch that twenty four to ten North

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Speaker 1: God will all right, So that gets us started here

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Speaker 1: in week zero for the Big Bets on Campus podcast.

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Speaker 1: This has been the Group of five Deep Dive. A

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Speaker 1: shout out to all of our listeners. Subscribe like you know,

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Speaker 1: refer to a friend, refer to an enemy. We want

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Speaker 1: to get as many listeners as we can. This season

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Speaker 1: really starts to get the juices flowing. And for all

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Speaker 1: of those Week zero picks that go into even further depth,

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Speaker 1: Colin Wilson stuck, you're going to be dropping their week

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Speaker 1: zero preview in by the time you listen to this

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Speaker 1: about thirty six hours, so make sure to check your

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Speaker 1: feeds for that. I know we did it. We're back

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Speaker 1: in the saddle. Hopefully we can deliver a couple of winners.

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Speaker 1: We'll have upwards of ten picks for week one going

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Speaker 1: all through G five Land. Really excited to be back

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Speaker 1: here with you