Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal. Come that for me. I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be happy. You want to be happy
Speaker 1: for Dake Edo State.
Speaker 2: Is that woo whoom?
Speaker 1: And Dan and Tye.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls. My name,
Speaker 3: as always is ty Hildebrand. Joining me over there on
Speaker 3: the eastern shores of the solid verbal. It's frigid, it's blustery.
Speaker 3: It's New York City, and that can only mean that
Speaker 3: it is Dan Rubinstein, sir, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good, Ty, I mean, I'm all right. But the
Speaker 1: mere fact that we're getting into our two hour Mega
Speaker 1: quick Lane Bowl Special, Yeah, how about it. I'm feeling juice,
Speaker 1: Duke and I you. I believe the fine city of Detroit.
Speaker 1: It's all happening. So I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3: It's all happening. Indeed, thank you to everyone out there
Speaker 3: for tuning back in. We are now squarely in the
Speaker 3: Bowl pre viewing segment of our solid verbal season. We
Speaker 3: don't have games to discuss, at least not this coming Saturday,
Speaker 3: but we do have ones that are on the horizon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get in on the bullpool.
Speaker 3: We've got links posted out on the Facebook page, We'll
Speaker 3: post it on Twitter. We'll continue posting it on our
Speaker 3: web page as well. Forty one games for you to pick.
Speaker 3: We're going to do our best here to try and
Speaker 3: talk you through them and at least give you some
Speaker 3: sense of who Dan and I are going to pick.
Speaker 1: On tonight's show.
Speaker 3: We've got some news to discuss that we didn't discuss previously.
Speaker 3: We've got a whole slew of games to discuss here, Dan,
Speaker 3: do we count these up?
Speaker 1: Do you know how many we've got tonight? We have?
Speaker 1: I think we're into double digits, ten twelve games. We
Speaker 1: got a bunch a heavy lift tonight in terms of
Speaker 1: Bowl games. Dan, eight, nine, ten, I'm eleven twelve. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing twelve games. Tie, geez yeah, Ken ready, I have nuggets, Tie,
Speaker 1: I have so many nuggets about these. I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: some sauce, Tig. I'm gonna have some spicy sauce from you.
Speaker 3: A little Chick fil a sauce with those nuggets sounds
Speaker 3: good to me. Do you know what chick fil a
Speaker 3: sauce is? Is that a rhetorical question?
Speaker 1: You know? I don't know, But do you know what
Speaker 1: comprises Chick fil a sauce. I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 1: Do you like Chick fil ace? I love it. It's great.
Speaker 1: I want to say it's a like a barbecue honey
Speaker 1: mustard hybrid. Okay, I believe that is the case. It
Speaker 1: looks like Okay, officially, the copycat recipe says, whisk together
Speaker 1: a little bit of mayonnaise, honey mustard, lemon juice and
Speaker 1: barbecue sauce. That's not too too bad. I could probably
Speaker 1: make that on my own. I mean, you're making your
Speaker 1: own Franklin barbecue sauce. I am. What can't you do?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: We got a lot of nuggets here to talk about
Speaker 3: in Bowl country, and we'll get to those. I promise.
Speaker 3: We'll get to the news, I promise. But the only
Speaker 3: bit of housekeeping news that we must discuss first is
Speaker 3: that the live show is currently sold out. If you
Speaker 3: go on out to the Facebook event, if you go
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Speaker 3: We're trying to hold some back for people who might
Speaker 3: be coming to Atlanta for the game and for just
Speaker 3: other folks in Atlanta who might decide at the last
Speaker 3: minute that they want to come that a lot will
Speaker 3: go back on sale after we know who's playing in
Speaker 3: the National Championship game. But as we've said time and
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Speaker 1: Let us know. Yeah, Atlanta, friends of ours I mean
Speaker 1: when I say friends of ours, I mean for ballers.
Speaker 1: You guys, grab these tickets quickly. Oh, they're going like hotcakes. Dan,
Speaker 1: I figured we'd given enough people lead time to be like,
Speaker 1: all right, we've got a few weeks till that. Like, No,
Speaker 1: it was like two days they were all gone. So
Speaker 1: I was impressed. I was as well, I'm very excited
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Speaker 1: like charging money is a thing that we were very
Speaker 1: thankful that we're able to do that and people are
Speaker 1: able to support the show. So we are trying our
Speaker 1: best to give you not just us sitting there and
Speaker 1: giving you a Q and A, but an actual capital
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Speaker 3: I'm thinking space opera like in Star Wars episode three. Mmm,
Speaker 3: fully nude, very thematic this week by the way, Yes,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: The Star Wars the news, not the nude. Correct. All right,
Speaker 1: well on that now, Oh we have older but still
Speaker 1: breaking news.
Speaker 3: We talked a lot about the debacle, the raging tire fire,
Speaker 3: the dumpster fire, whatever superlative you'd like to use. At
Speaker 3: Tennessee regarding their coaching search, we talked about all the jokes.
Speaker 3: We didn't talk about the actual coach. The actual coach
Speaker 3: is Jeremy Prewett. They hired him away from Alabama. I
Speaker 3: believe Prewitt will still be coaching in the playoff, Is
Speaker 3: that correct?
Speaker 1: That is the early word, though subject to change as
Speaker 1: we know what happens with the Alabama coordinator right subject
Speaker 1: to change.
Speaker 3: But Jeremy Prewitt has had a pretty successful run at
Speaker 3: at Georgia, at Florida State, most recently at Alabama. He's
Speaker 3: coached at a very high level. He's been a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: The early read on him is that he's going to
Speaker 3: bring I'm laughing as I say this, but a more
Speaker 3: aggressive hacking mentality. Hell yeah, with him from Tuscaloosa up
Speaker 3: there to Knoxville after spending however many years now under
Speaker 3: Butch Jones, that is something that I think.
Speaker 1: Tennessee fans could get pretty excited about.
Speaker 3: So Jeremy Prewitt at long last tabbed as the new
Speaker 3: head man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the ceiling is pretty high. Tennessee has phenomenal facilities.
Speaker 1: They can attract a lot of talent. The big thing
Speaker 1: to me is, and this has been impressive early with
Speaker 1: what can Jeremy Prewitt attract in the way of assistant
Speaker 1: coaches and support staff, strength and conditioning. He just hired away.
Speaker 1: I don't have his name in front of me, but
Speaker 1: the sort of de facto GM of LSU football, who
Speaker 1: I think is a Tennessee native who helps out with
Speaker 1: operations and recruiting, and so you have to assume or
Speaker 1: not assume. But I would say that the optimist looks
Speaker 1: at Jeremy Prewitt and says he's worked with three top
Speaker 1: level coaches and Mark Rick, jimbo Fisher and obviously Nick Saban.
Speaker 1: What has he taken from them organizationally? How will he
Speaker 1: deal with people? Is he perhaps more mature than he
Speaker 1: has put out there in the years past. So I
Speaker 1: think ceiling wise, it is exceptionally high with how he's
Speaker 1: been able to hire early on, and I am exceedingly
Speaker 1: curious at this point without a full staff, how he
Speaker 1: rounds out the recruiting class, which I know we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about momentarily just reporting in general, both with
Speaker 1: this early signing period that begins next week. I think
Speaker 1: it's the twentieth to the twenty second, and then the
Speaker 1: more standard signing day in early February. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be optimistic about, I guess cautiously optimistic about
Speaker 1: with hiring somebody without head coaching experience, but a ton
Speaker 1: of high level experience in that region.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned recruiting. This seems like a natural
Speaker 3: segue to talk about what's going on in the recruiting world.
Speaker 3: They're basically reformatting signing day as we know at the
Speaker 3: signing period as we know it. And we did have
Speaker 3: a question come through, is this something that we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about? Well, yeah, it's college football. We will
Speaker 3: be talking about it next Wednesday, as that's kind of
Speaker 3: the the new signing day. Is that how they're trying
Speaker 3: to brand this thing now?
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a they trying anything, but
Speaker 1: I think schools in general are treating this like it
Speaker 1: is the traditional signing day. You have the three days,
Speaker 1: which gives you know, recruits and coaches whatever flexibility early
Speaker 1: on just to make sure everything is in order by
Speaker 1: the twentieth, twenty first, or twenty second. It hurts I
Speaker 1: think prospective kids who would have more time to take
Speaker 1: visits and see how things shake out after high school
Speaker 1: football season's end and bowl season ends, so there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of flexibility gone. I think in general, the
Speaker 1: bigger programs, Power five type programs will have rounded out
Speaker 1: their class maybe like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen kids out
Speaker 1: of an average of about twenty five. So yes, it
Speaker 1: is the de facto signing day. This is what we
Speaker 1: will be paying attention to, I think more, but certainly
Speaker 1: more to come. It hurts schools like Stanford Notre Dame
Speaker 1: with more rigorous academic requirements because a lot of the
Speaker 1: times kids are waiting to find out and get their grades,
Speaker 1: waiting on a school and so schools like that, And
Speaker 1: I know David Shaw has spoken out against this that
Speaker 1: it really does hurt them. So we'll be curious to
Speaker 1: see how many kids don't sign early in hopes that
Speaker 1: if they want it to go to a place like
Speaker 1: Stanford or Notre Dame. Those are the two biggest I
Speaker 1: think academically right now, you know how that affects their
Speaker 1: their own timing. So it should be interesting to see.
Speaker 1: And do you have you been paying attention at all
Speaker 1: to this?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Minimal? Okay, real quick, ty, this is and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of commitments will be happening. Will obviously be
Speaker 1: reviewing it after the fact. Here's your top twelve team
Speaker 1: rankings and this one subject. This is an.
Speaker 3: Important primer because you know my stance on recruits generally,
Speaker 3: It's not that I'm not into it. Wait and see, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just not into it until I absolutely have to
Speaker 3: be into it. Recruiting being the lifeblood of college football,
Speaker 3: you can't avoid it. It's important. I just haven't looked
Speaker 3: into it. It's it's kind of coming early this year
Speaker 3: because this new format.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you're absolutely right. Here is the twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven composite rankings right now, Ohio State, Texas, Hey, Texas, nice,
Speaker 1: Miami makes sense. Georgia, Penn State and Notre Dame at
Speaker 1: five and six, Oklahoma seven, Auburn, Alabama. Oregon's at ten.
Speaker 1: They were a little bit higher, but have had some
Speaker 1: decommitments after Willie Taggart left. Washington right there at eleven
Speaker 1: and Jim Harbaugh and Michigan at twelve. So I think
Speaker 1: a pretty familiar group. But Texas at number two, certainly
Speaker 1: they have the regional talent to justify. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: all feels about right. And quarterback wise, it looks like
Speaker 1: a lot of the a lot of the guys that
Speaker 1: you would recognize team wise. I mean, Clemson has the
Speaker 1: top quarterback in the class, Georgia has number two, Washington
Speaker 1: has two top like fourteen quarterbacks, Oregon got their guy,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame has Phil Jerkovic. Yeah, right, is that his
Speaker 1: name yep. Interestingly enough, Utah has a top ten quarterback
Speaker 1: in the country. Saw that quarterback? Yeah? So yeah, Michigan
Speaker 1: State with the number fifteen overall quarterback. So that's cool
Speaker 1: to see if they can sort of keep that quarterback
Speaker 1: play at a high level. And Justin Rodgers appears to
Speaker 1: be a top five guy for TCU. So looks like
Speaker 1: a pretty good class of guys going all over the
Speaker 1: country to powers.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we're going to talk about this in
Speaker 3: much much more detail on the show we do next week.
Speaker 3: I guess that'd be December twentieth. We'll also preview Bowls
Speaker 3: on that show, which means it's going to be a
Speaker 3: longer podcast than you and I would typically do, but
Speaker 3: we want to make sure we cover all the relevant
Speaker 3: information recruiting and bowl season. We got a bunch of
Speaker 3: previews that we've started to look at for next Wednesday,
Speaker 3: so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question real quick before we
Speaker 1: move on? Sure, what do you think of the Jeremy
Speaker 1: prout Hire for Tennessee? I like it.
Speaker 3: I think that bringing some sort of toughness with him
Speaker 3: from his last role is something that Tennessee fans should
Speaker 3: should be excited about. To your point, he has coached
Speaker 3: at a very high level. But the question always remains
Speaker 3: he hasn't been a head coach previously. Sure, so not
Speaker 3: everyone ends up being Kirby smart. Will there be an
Speaker 3: adjustment period? How will he deal with being in the
Speaker 3: fish bowl that is Tennessee. It's not an easy job.
Speaker 3: So I will wait and see on that front, how
Speaker 3: he handles not only that increase in responsibility but also
Speaker 3: just that spotlight that he's going to be under.
Speaker 1: We don't know. That part remains to be seen true,
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough? I mean that they were down
Speaker 1: to and I say that in a weird, facetious way,
Speaker 1: but they had taken to interviewing SEC defensive coordinators. Another
Speaker 1: one of the big names was I think Kevin Steel
Speaker 1: from Auburn. So certainly they had finished setting their sites
Speaker 1: at high ish and weird choices at head coach with
Speaker 1: guys with head coaching experience, perhaps at Rutgers, and then
Speaker 1: Dave Dorn and David Cutcliffe and Mike Gundhy, and then
Speaker 1: they were sort of zeroing in on perhaps more realistic
Speaker 1: in the way of coordinators that, to their credit, won't
Speaker 1: cost as much more money for assistance, you know, more
Speaker 1: runway to prove themselves early on as a head coach
Speaker 1: instead of needing immediate results. So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world. I am. I'm curious,
Speaker 1: I like it. I am reserved about loving it same
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: The only other bit of coaching news that I wanted
Speaker 3: to discuss, Sunny Dikes is going to be taking over
Speaker 3: at SMU Chad Morris left for Arkansas. Yep, Sunny Dikes
Speaker 3: is going to be coaching the Bowl game for SMU.
Speaker 1: This is It's a rare move.
Speaker 3: It's not entirely unprecedented, but certainly not the kind of
Speaker 3: thing that I can ever remember discussing in the ten
Speaker 3: years of us doing this podcast. A new coach coming
Speaker 3: in nothing to do with the program previously, will now
Speaker 3: be coaching the Bowl game for SMU against Louisian Tech.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you the option to change your pick
Speaker 3: from SMU to Louisiana Tech because I had LA Tech
Speaker 3: to begin with. I'm on this thing now where I'm
Speaker 3: not going to go too heavy on teams that lost
Speaker 3: to coach, and in the case this game, even though
Speaker 3: SMU was favored, I was gonna go law Tech. But
Speaker 3: this to me seems like a historically terrible decision, despite
Speaker 3: the fact that nothing's really riding on this game. I
Speaker 3: just don't see how a team can come in and
Speaker 3: feel good about its chances with a brand new coach
Speaker 3: for one game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick. Well, No, I'm gonna say law Tech.
Speaker 1: I think this has the makings for a just a mess.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Ty, I am a little bit
Speaker 1: disappointed in you for not knowing your You're Brian Kelly history.
Speaker 1: But he coached Cincinnati like two weeks after being named
Speaker 1: the head coach there. He arrived there from Central Michigan.
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, that's right, and he did coach Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and I forget which ball, let's assume it's like the
Speaker 1: Motor City bawl. I think that's a fair guess, but
Speaker 1: that I did not come up with that myself. I
Speaker 1: saw somebody else sweet that out and just looked it
Speaker 1: up myself. But yeah, Brian Kelly did it at Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: so there is recent precedent, and I guess he followed
Speaker 1: up that real quick coaching job with a real quick
Speaker 1: exit when Cincinnati went undefeated and went on his way
Speaker 1: to South Bend. This is true. He was there for
Speaker 1: four seasons. That is true. He was there longer than
Speaker 1: your boy Willie Taggert. He was. That is factory tie
Speaker 1: facts only.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, if any other news breaks, we will
Speaker 3: be sure to bring it to you. I would advise
Speaker 3: changing your pickaway from SMU. I think that's gonna be
Speaker 3: potentially a mess, but we shall wait and see. Before
Speaker 3: we get to bulls, though, Dan, we do need to
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Speaker 1: Done. There you have it. We have picks to make.
Speaker 2: Time.
Speaker 1: I am excited for these games. Yeah, yeah, why not?
Speaker 1: What's getting you juiced? I'm getting juiced.
Speaker 3: About the Bad Boys Mower Gasparillo Bowl still Gasparilla.
Speaker 1: I love the double L. I'm going to be Spanish
Speaker 1: with that double L. Dans. Yeah, are you excited? This
Speaker 1: used to be? Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 3: This used to be the Saint Petersburg Bowl. For a
Speaker 3: hot minute, you and I exchanged a few messages on
Speaker 3: the old g chat machine about how much it might
Speaker 3: cost to sponsor this bowl, because you'll remember they didn't
Speaker 3: have a sponsor. They were openly courting new sponsors for
Speaker 3: this bowl game.
Speaker 1: I want to say, was it two years ago? It
Speaker 1: was the Bitcoin Bowl, Yeah, I believe. And then Bitcoin
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, we just we're gonna We're gonna shoot
Speaker 1: our value through the roof and I'd spend a day.
Speaker 1: As soon as they decided to part ways with the
Speaker 1: bull scene boom value through the roof. Bitcoin could buy
Speaker 1: the entire city of Saint Petersburg right now, correct economics. Okay,
Speaker 1: December twenty first, at eight pm on ESPN, we got
Speaker 1: the Bad Boys Mowers Gasparia Bowl. I don't care. We've
Speaker 1: got to match up.
Speaker 3: Here between Temple at six and six and Florida International
Speaker 3: at eight and four. Temple is currently about a seven
Speaker 3: and a half point favorite DAN. Before we get into
Speaker 3: the analysis, it is our gift situation for this contest.
Speaker 1: AH our owl friends will be perusing a gift suite.
Speaker 1: They will be going home with an Oakley backpack and
Speaker 1: a neck pillow. A neck pillow. Do you own a
Speaker 1: neck pillow? I do own a neck pillow. They're pretty
Speaker 1: good also, f I used the Golden Panthers. It's not
Speaker 1: just the owls who will have access. But I'm mixed
Speaker 1: on the neck pillow. I think I just need a
Speaker 1: better one. I'm for the idea of a neck pillow.
Speaker 1: I just haven't found one that I really like.
Speaker 3: I'm pro neck pillow. I've used it at home too,
Speaker 3: just when it's laying around the house. Damn, look at you,
Speaker 3: casual tie. Here's what we know, ty Owls offense not good,
Speaker 3: no good, We're not all that different. But the fact
Speaker 3: that they couldn't run this year, and they really could
Speaker 3: for a good chunk of Matt Rules time there in
Speaker 3: Philly is disappointing, to say the least. In Jeff collins
Speaker 3: first season, they couldn't really pass it all that much.
Speaker 3: The defense wasn't bad, which is to be expected with
Speaker 3: Collins's background and.
Speaker 1: What Matt Rule left that team with. Decent on third down,
Speaker 1: Sharif Finch had a nice year on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: Temple beat Navy, Tye, that's the thing, okay, so you
Speaker 1: know transition here. I would say for the Owls FIU
Speaker 1: offense not bad. They also couldn't run, so whoof If
Speaker 1: you like running the ball, you might want to watch
Speaker 1: a different game. But they threw the ball well. Alex
Speaker 1: McGuff top half of the conference. Usaqquarterback ladder Thomas Owens
Speaker 1: may be the best receiver in the conference, could have
Speaker 1: looked like their rock. And here's the good news. Ty
Speaker 1: fi used defense was all crash awful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety second ranked according to Bill Connolly's S and
Speaker 3: P plus metric.
Speaker 1: Yes, and FIU did be marshall, they beat you TSA.
Speaker 1: So but in this specific game, we have trash on trash.
Speaker 1: We call this the trash compactor game. Dan, Yes, we did.
Speaker 3: Shut them all down. Shut them all down, Dan, We're
Speaker 3: all stuck in a trash compactor here for Temple, and
Speaker 3: they're one hundred and fourth rated offense against FIU's ninety
Speaker 3: second ranked defense. I believe in physics you would refer
Speaker 3: to this as the stoppable force versus the movable object.
Speaker 1: I think that's correct. I think that's correct. Yeah. Butch Davis,
Speaker 1: Jeff Collins, Tigh Quality coaches seven and a half points
Speaker 1: spread for Temple. Uh, I think I'm gonna take those points.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna feel a little bit shootouty with
Speaker 1: FIU's ability to move it through the air.
Speaker 3: How's that I'm inclined to go points, But again, keeping
Speaker 3: in mind that we've got a confidence pool, true, I'm
Speaker 3: going to go thirteen points on the owls of Temple
Speaker 3: in a close one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's about right. Not a lot of confidence.
Speaker 1: I think I think Temple might edge them with some defense.
Speaker 1: Moving on to the Bahamas Bowl, Dan m and not
Speaker 1: a Chick fil A Bahamas bawl anymore.
Speaker 3: No, you've ever been to first off? Was it ever
Speaker 3: the Chick fil A Bahamas Ball? I don't think it was.
Speaker 3: It was, okay, I don't think it was the Popeyes
Speaker 3: Bahamas Bowl.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what it is. Damn it. I'm a bad person.
Speaker 3: There are so many check and sponsors though in these
Speaker 3: bowl games that I can't blame you for getting them confused.
Speaker 1: Oh fair? Do you have a preference between Chick fil
Speaker 1: A and Popeyes? I've never been to a Popeyes?
Speaker 3: Is that really? There is a Popeyes nearby. I was
Speaker 3: able to locate one, but I've never actually gone to it.
Speaker 3: So my experience is fairly limited to just Chick fil A.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, go to a Popeyes. I've been to it.
Speaker 1: I've been to a Crowns Fried Chicken down in downtown Philly.
Speaker 1: Now go to Popeyes. Popeyes is wonderful.
Speaker 3: The Bahamas bull sans a Chicken sponsor. They played this
Speaker 3: one in Thomas Robinson Stadium on Nasau, December twenty second,
Speaker 3: at twelve thirty in the afternoon on ESPN, we've got
Speaker 3: the Ohio Bobcats at eight and four, a seven and
Speaker 3: a half point favorite over the UAB Blazers. They finished
Speaker 3: the year at eight and four. This is, you know,
Speaker 3: an interesting game for a variety of reasons. But we
Speaker 3: got to give a shout out to UAB because the
Speaker 3: program was dead, and by dead, I mean literally dead
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. Now they're back, They're eight
Speaker 3: and four. They're going bowling. They're going to the Bahamas.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty cool story just on its own. What
Speaker 3: is our gift situation here for the Bahamas bull Dan.
Speaker 1: Well, they'll be going through a gift suite. They're getting
Speaker 1: our favorite at Sandal brand I associated with bull They
Speaker 1: are getting some ice slides, yes, drawstring, backpack, a beach towel,
Speaker 1: and a bullpin, which makes me think that there are
Speaker 1: not a lot of gifts in the gifts suite. They
Speaker 1: are highlighting the bullpin, so bullpin indeed. Either way, cool
Speaker 1: story for UAB, solid season for Ohio. UAB does not
Speaker 1: move the ball all that well, but they're pretty good
Speaker 1: running the ball. Big fresh and running back in Spencer Brown.
Speaker 1: Good defense, especially against the run. They did not allow
Speaker 1: more than twenty five points. First Conference USA teams after
Speaker 1: November seventh. They beat North Texas. Excuse me, after the
Speaker 1: North Texas game on November seventh, they beat Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 1: They beat Southern Myss. They did. Yeah, absolutely they did.
Speaker 1: They beat UTSA. Everybody has a good win over UTSA,
Speaker 1: who is also somehow good. But yeah, really cool story
Speaker 1: for UAB to be back bowling after returning to FBS
Speaker 1: football Ohio. They themselves a better offense, I would say,
Speaker 1: than UAB, which is why they're favored in this game.
Speaker 1: They themselves are particularly good running the ball. And Nathan Rourke.
Speaker 1: What do you know about Nathan Rourke? Felt like feels
Speaker 1: like he's been there forever, thousand yard rushing quarterback. Tie Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: at yeah, yeah, yeah. The defense is pretty good. They're
Speaker 1: a solid team, and they've had maybe the most impressive
Speaker 1: MAC win of the season with a comfortable, comfortable win
Speaker 1: over Toledo. So I think there's a lot to like
Speaker 1: about the Bobcats here. I'm thirty one points in favor
Speaker 1: of the Bobcats. I like him outright.
Speaker 3: I like him minus the points. I think their rushing
Speaker 3: game is too much for UAB. Okay, I'm rooting for
Speaker 3: UAB because of their story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's sort of strength on strength running the ball
Speaker 1: versus good run defense in this game.
Speaker 3: Shout out, shout out to them. But I think the
Speaker 3: rushing games a little too much for UAB. And I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go Ohio here yep. I don't think about thirty one.
Speaker 3: Maybe mid twenties famous Idaho Potato Bowl and Albertson Stadium
Speaker 3: in Boise, Idaho. This one is also played on twenty
Speaker 3: second of December. They played a little later in the
Speaker 3: day at four pm Eastern on ESPN. We've got the
Speaker 3: Wyoming Cowboys, We've got the Central Michigan Chippewas, and at
Speaker 3: last check, we've got to pick them.
Speaker 1: Dan. We do have a pick them. We have In
Speaker 1: speaking of picking, they can pick through a gift suite.
Speaker 1: They can pick Oakley sunglasses. Should they choose an under
Speaker 1: armour backpack and a beanie? Because you're playing a ballgame
Speaker 1: in Idaho and that that feels like a good choice
Speaker 1: to wear a beanie, So it's a good matchup.
Speaker 3: I have a question for you play guarding this game.
Speaker 3: Do we know if Josh Allen's going to play, I
Speaker 3: honestly do not know. That seems to be the question.
Speaker 3: He's dealt with injuries this season. He hurt his throwing
Speaker 3: shoulder against air Force towards the end of the season
Speaker 3: and it's been touching go ever since. He sounds like
Speaker 3: he wants to play in the game, despite the fact
Speaker 3: that you know, he's probably headed for the NFL reasonably
Speaker 3: high pick and I would assume the first round in
Speaker 3: the NFL draft. But it sounds like Josh Allen wants
Speaker 3: to play in this football game. I like Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's playing be where the chippiwas though.
Speaker 1: I always pick against Central Michigan, you know, I hold
Speaker 1: that long standing grudge against the Chippewa. Beware the chip Awas, Daniel,
Speaker 1: they have the better of the two quarterbacks in this
Speaker 1: game too, Morris, Beware.
Speaker 3: The chip Awas. They closed out the year they won
Speaker 3: five straight. They beat Osio, they beat Ohio. We just
Speaker 3: talked about it's a pretty good team. They beat Northern Illinois,
Speaker 3: who I'm gonna pick to beat Duke Okay a little
Speaker 3: later on great defense. Yeah, in the podcast, I can
Speaker 3: see them having trouble moving the ball against Wyoming, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ride that Chippewah wave Dan. We got to
Speaker 3: pick him here, give me the chip Awas outright. Excuse me,
Speaker 3: Let's go Central Michigan to the tune of five confidence points.
Speaker 3: So I like him, I just don't like him that much. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Central Michigan's offense is pretty rough, although they do need
Speaker 1: and they get Shane Morris big passing play, so that's good.
Speaker 1: And you're right. They started the season pretty slowly at
Speaker 1: two and three and they finished winning six to seven,
Speaker 1: so they do have a little bit of momentum if
Speaker 1: you believe in such things. They do a good job
Speaker 1: against the pass on defense, and similar story, Wyoming starts
Speaker 1: out very sluggish. Of the Iowa game Oregon, they give
Speaker 1: up forty nine, but giving up forty nine points to
Speaker 1: Oregon after that, nobody else scored twenty five against Wyoming.
Speaker 1: This team was led by its defense. They beat Colorado
Speaker 1: State in a very strange sixteen to thirteen defensive slugfest.
Speaker 1: They lead FBS teams and turnover margin, and they have
Speaker 1: a Pisman finalist tie. By the way, when I say
Speaker 1: that this dude is not. He's large. He's like six five,
Speaker 1: two fifty five. He was a former converted receiver, right
Speaker 1: he is. He's just a very good defensive places. If
Speaker 1: he's got moves, crazy moves, he's got crazy moves. The
Speaker 1: offense for Wyoming was largely trash this year. It was
Speaker 1: just they lost too much from twenty sixteen. But the
Speaker 1: defense is really good, especially against the run. They're very
Speaker 1: good on passing downs up front. They're just they swarm.
Speaker 1: I like them a lot, and I think there's something
Speaker 1: about Big Sky Country Oo Sky Conference, that region. I
Speaker 1: think there's a little bit of pride there. Wyoming to Idaho,
Speaker 1: I'm taking I'm taking the Cowboys here. We disagree me
Speaker 1: like maybe like seventeen eighteen? Whoa, yeah, how about that?
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the Birmingham Bowl. They
Speaker 1: played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Hmm, December twenty third,
Speaker 1: at high noon on ESPN. We've got the Bulls of
Speaker 1: South Florida at ten and two, a nice year, a
Speaker 1: two and a half point favored over the Texas Tech
Speaker 1: Red Raiders. They come into this matchup at six and six. Damn,
Speaker 1: what's our gift situation? Please? Birmingham Bowl. We have a
Speaker 1: gift suite, Oakley Sunglasses, Beanie and a big game football,
Speaker 1: So nothing that really jumps off the page.
Speaker 3: Tie, I'll tell you what jumps off the page to
Speaker 3: me in this one, Dan, Yeah, give me them points, Baby,
Speaker 3: give me all them damn points. I think we're looking
Speaker 3: at a shootout here. I am taking the path of
Speaker 3: least resistance and I think that's USF and their offense
Speaker 3: and Quentin Flowers against the Texas Tech defense.
Speaker 1: I am not confident, at.
Speaker 3: Least not overwhelmingly so in their ability to win this
Speaker 3: game outright, because it could be a contest where whoever
Speaker 3: has the ball asses whoever ends up winning. But I
Speaker 3: like USF a little bit more. I think Charlie Strong
Speaker 3: knows how to coach against that Texas Tech offense. So
Speaker 3: give me the bulls to the two to fourteen confidence points.
Speaker 1: Here. We don't have a drive chart to review because
Speaker 1: there have been no games since our last show, correct
Speaker 1: but ty, but if do you have that that tune
Speaker 1: like queued up? This is the ranking the S and
Speaker 1: P plus rankings of South Florida's wins. Here we go
Speaker 1: of those teams.
Speaker 2: One twenty nine one eighteen, eighty six, one, twenty three,
Speaker 2: one oh three, ninety one, nineteen, one sixty.
Speaker 1: They did not beat any good They did not beat
Speaker 1: a single top I guess seventy five team this year.
Speaker 1: The best team they beat was Temple. Again, not their
Speaker 1: fault how other teams are, but they had a shot
Speaker 1: against Houston. They lose that game, a winnable game ish
Speaker 1: they lose that game twenty eight to twenty four. Obviously,
Speaker 1: UCF an extraordinarily tough team. They lose that game in
Speaker 1: a shootout and looked very good doing so against a
Speaker 1: top ten team, But there really is no game. We're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe in South Florida they beat this team, so
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. But yeah, South Florida had a
Speaker 1: very nice year. You know, the crazy UCF loss. Who
Speaker 1: are you? I think I'm gonna go Texas Tech? Wow,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go Texas Tech. I was not
Speaker 1: crazy about the offensive transition from USF, but I do
Speaker 1: like the fact that defensively both of these teams got better.
Speaker 1: I like the momentum that Texas Tech has after beating
Speaker 1: Texas to finish out the year. I think there is
Speaker 1: a reinvigorated sense among that team. They have stud offensive
Speaker 1: skill guys Kiki Kut, Justin Stockson. I like them both.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Texas Tech low low, something like eight
Speaker 1: nine points. You are once again seduced by the deep
Speaker 1: blue eyes.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Cliffs, Yeah, blue eyes deep like the sea,
Speaker 3: Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean I think Charlie Strong might already
Speaker 1: have wandering eyes in Tampa. So we'll see. All right,
Speaker 1: we disagree, Let's move on.
Speaker 3: Also, on December twenty third, the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces
Speaker 3: bull at M and G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker 3: This one's at three point thirty in the PM on ESPN.
Speaker 3: We got San Diego stayed at ten and two against
Speaker 3: the Army Knights at nine and three. They had a
Speaker 3: nice season. They're only giving away a gift suite in
Speaker 3: this game, dam which feels wrong to me.
Speaker 1: Well, it feels like they're hiding something. Ta Lockey Martin
Speaker 1: is they're giving away something good. We're just never gonna
Speaker 1: find out. You gotta sign an NBA before you get
Speaker 1: that gift suite. Huh here is yes, here's the great
Speaker 1: news about the Armed Forces ball given how Army and
Speaker 1: San Diego State play. Schame's gonna take like two hours.
Speaker 1: Schame's gonna go by real quick. It's just run, run, run, run, run,
Speaker 1: run pass. Nope, he scrambled and stayed and bounds run.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, it me great. We got the
Speaker 3: Aztecs against the Black Knights here.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be at Greg Max start.
Speaker 3: Jeff Bnkin's done a really good job at Army. We
Speaker 3: don't talk about it a whole lot here, but had
Speaker 3: a huge win over Navy again this season.
Speaker 1: It's just good to see him back in a ball.
Speaker 3: You can't root against Army, and I'm not rooting against
Speaker 3: Army per se in this football game. My cause for
Speaker 3: pause is it's such a tall order to slow down
Speaker 3: or shot Penny. This is a dude for San Diego
Speaker 3: State finished fifth in the Heisman and for good reason.
Speaker 3: Over two thousand yards rushing on the year, nineteen touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Not sure Army's got enough of a running defense to
Speaker 3: get that job done. That to me feels like a
Speaker 3: bridge too far for this Black Knights team. I love them,
Speaker 3: I love them, I really do. But I gotta go
Speaker 3: San Diego State to the twoe to thirty seven confidence
Speaker 3: points here.
Speaker 1: Dan, Yeah, I think that's right. I like San Diego
Speaker 1: State by about thirty confidence points, not thirty points in
Speaker 1: this game. San Diego State beats Stanford Northern Illinois, they
Speaker 1: beat Arizona State. They had the bad loss to Fresno,
Speaker 1: and the offense wasn't fantastic or shot Penny was fantastic,
Speaker 1: but the offense as a whole was not wonderful. It
Speaker 1: was basically just like I guess we'll give it to
Speaker 1: a shot Penny left right that as I understand it,
Speaker 1: that was the offense this season. Yes, yeah, so that's fine.
Speaker 1: Good wins. And you know Army had you know, Army
Speaker 1: beat Duke A Bowl team, Navy Eastern Michigan whatever, the
Speaker 1: last second lost to North Texas. You know, real fun
Speaker 1: rushing offense. I'm with you, though Ty. The defense, the defense,
Speaker 1: the defense, or I guess in the Armed Forces Bowl
Speaker 1: the defense is not great. So I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go San Diego State here with yeah, about thirty confidence points.
Speaker 3: And finally, on December twenty third, another game, a lot
Speaker 3: of action, this one at seven pm Eastern on ESPN
Speaker 3: the Dollar General Ball from beautiful lad Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 3: We've got Toledo the Rockets at eleven and two, an
Speaker 3: eight point favorite over Appalachian State. They come into this
Speaker 3: one at eight and four. Talk to me about this
Speaker 3: gift suite, Dan, I suspect we're going to have a
Speaker 3: disagreement here, all right, So.
Speaker 1: Dollar General Ball, we have the Amazon Echo, Maui, Jim Sunglasses,
Speaker 1: Timely Watch Company Watch, and a Wilson Football. So the
Speaker 1: good news for all of the app State and Toledo
Speaker 1: players is all your data will be collected and stored
Speaker 1: and put away, and your conversations potentially recorded. But you
Speaker 1: could turn on your lights with your voice with the
Speaker 1: Echo's that's great. Listen, there's a reason why, Well, was
Speaker 1: it wearable or was it voice activated? Was in our
Speaker 1: garbage bracket, our secret garbage bracket? I think it was
Speaker 1: voice acting. I think it was voice activated technology. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I this does not appeal to me, the voice activation
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: You are surprisingly afraid of new technology. I'm technology surprised
Speaker 3: by that. Do you put a piece of tape over
Speaker 3: your your laptop camera? Come on, Tying, who.
Speaker 1: Is interested in looking at me? I am that's for
Speaker 1: sure other than you, ty You just got to take
Speaker 1: precautions and I'm just what who is answer me? This?
Speaker 1: Riddle me this? Dan? Who is interested in looking through
Speaker 1: my camera? I don't know, Ty, Brian Kelly, you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna see if you look through my camera, if you
Speaker 3: hack into my matrix, break into my computer, access the
Speaker 3: onboard camera pointed usually at me. You know what, You'll
Speaker 3: probably see a wall. You will see a blank wall
Speaker 3: with no.
Speaker 1: Art on it. That's what you'll see here in my studio.
Speaker 1: I think at a certain point people are gonna be
Speaker 1: able to spy your your podcasting setup. There's nothing to say.
Speaker 1: What filter is he putting? There's nothing here? Oh who
Speaker 1: is Ty talking to to get all this podcasting advice?
Speaker 1: I yeah, I don't. I'm not a big believer in
Speaker 1: letting everybody into my world. And the Amazon Echo is
Speaker 1: part of it. Sorry, Ty, that's not for me.
Speaker 3: Whatever, what Jim sunglasses? Are they they sound?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sunglass branded sunglasses? Are they edgy? I assume Sammy
Speaker 1: Hagar owns some? Yeah, Okay, No, they're not edgy. They are.
Speaker 1: They are very like luxurious vacation or sunglasses. All right.
Speaker 3: Timely watch a good name for a watch. We've talked
Speaker 3: about Timely before. And then the Wilson football. It's better
Speaker 3: than big game football, if only because I'm familiar with Wilson.
Speaker 3: So here's what I noticed when I looked at this game,
Speaker 3: outside of the fact that they're giving away a cool
Speaker 3: device like an Amazon Echo Dan, Yeah, we've got two
Speaker 3: good quarterbacks in this game. I suspect who's ever calling
Speaker 3: this football game will be all over the fact that
Speaker 3: both Logan Woodside and Taylor Lamb have collectively had fifty
Speaker 3: five touchdowns and only eleven interceptions this season. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: feels like that will be so much the headline in
Speaker 3: this game that we need to give Logan Woodside Taylor
Speaker 3: Lamb some sort of celebrity couple.
Speaker 1: Nickname Lamb wood Lambside. What about in like a Logan
Speaker 1: and out like a Lamb Ty, I'd like to announce
Speaker 1: my official resignation from the Come on, if you want
Speaker 1: to go for it, I will not stop you. I
Speaker 1: cannot partake Ty, I cannot go I'll go Lambside. Okay, Lambside.
Speaker 1: So app State, I've always loved me some app State.
Speaker 1: You know that, I know you've got a really unhealthy
Speaker 1: thing for them. You reach into a grab bag of
Speaker 1: app State wins this year and you're coming out with
Speaker 1: hard candy. There's not much there. There's no fun size Snickers,
Speaker 1: there's no Sweethearts. You're just getting maybe a Werthers, maybe
Speaker 1: a Werthers. They're the best thing app State basically did
Speaker 1: this year was they lost close to Wake Forest and
Speaker 1: you mess. That's that's the highlight at this point. They
Speaker 1: they're all right on the ground. Jalen Moore is pretty good,
Speaker 1: Taylor Lamb as you mentioned, nice year, a good receiver,
Speaker 1: and Ike Lewis. It was I think a down year
Speaker 1: for Scott Sadderfield and the app State defense. But listen,
Speaker 1: Toledo's a good team. There's no shame in matching up
Speaker 1: against Toledo and bowl season perhaps not coming out on top.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Logan Woodside, Terry Swanson, Deontae John some real
Speaker 1: good receiver you can run on Toledo. That's the interesting
Speaker 1: thing to me is what app State will be able
Speaker 1: to do on the ground. But uh, the Toledo defense
Speaker 1: pretty good. First the pass this is this is a
Speaker 1: good game for lower level stardom, and that's unfair to
Speaker 1: call that, to call Logan Woodside that, But I think
Speaker 1: this should be at the very least fun.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about this football game. I think Toledo's played
Speaker 3: better teams as you were hinting at I, They're definitely
Speaker 3: more battle tested. I am going to go Toledo outright,
Speaker 3: but again, because of that rushing component that you mentioned,
Speaker 3: an eight point line here seems like it's too much,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go Upstate with the points. But I
Speaker 3: do like Toledo outright, and I'm very confident in that.
Speaker 3: To the tune of thirty three confidence points.
Speaker 1: Dan, Yeah, I'm gonna go Logan Woodside and Toledo by
Speaker 1: high twenties, early thirties in like a Logan out like
Speaker 1: a lamb. Okay, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 3: Moving on to the Hawaii Bowl in Aloha Stadium.
Speaker 1: In Honolulu, Hawaii, Dan, Mala khaliki maka oh. I do
Speaker 1: like that song. It's the thing to say.
Speaker 3: On December twenty fourth, at a thirty pm Eastern time
Speaker 3: on ESPN.
Speaker 1: Mala is the thing to say.
Speaker 3: That's right, m hmm, the thing to say when you've
Speaker 3: got Houston at seven and four, when you've got Fresno
Speaker 3: at nine and four. H I think Houston's about a
Speaker 3: two and a half point favorite here, Dan, and We've
Speaker 3: got an interesting selection of gifts here.
Speaker 1: We do in the Hawaii Bowl, the Hawaii Hawaii Electronics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gift sweet nothing, voice activated hopefully, Oakley backpack and sunglasses.
Speaker 1: Tory Richard Aloha shirt. Who is Who's Tory Richard? Tory Richard?
Speaker 1: I think is Let's see if Tory Richard is a
Speaker 1: known I'm gonna judge based solely on this website. Honolulu
Speaker 1: based resort wear company that loves color and pattern. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking. It's a good looking website. Tie, good
Speaker 1: looking Prince. I would wear some of this men's gift guide. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to send some Tory Richard Lounge and vacation.
Speaker 1: Where to tie in myself? I've never worn a Hawaiian
Speaker 1: shirt in my life. Are do you see yourself transitioning
Speaker 1: at no point? And that's a good question too, But no,
Speaker 1: the answer is no, not necessarily to Hawaiian shirts. Tie.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about like the broader genus, the broader
Speaker 1: phylum of that kind of comfort where later in life
Speaker 1: I don't think I could ever do that. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're twenty six now, Tie. I'm talking about later on
Speaker 1: down the road, when you're in your your late fifties,
Speaker 1: early sixties. Maybe you're a young grandfather something like that.
Speaker 1: Are you going to do you see yourself going into
Speaker 1: that kind like I've already made the move on the
Speaker 1: weekends to the ath leisure lifestyle. That's how I've done that.
Speaker 1: I'm doing that right now, absolutely so that's just the
Speaker 1: next functional step.
Speaker 3: But you can you can go to Wegmans in the
Speaker 3: ath leisure in a way that you can't go to Wegmans.
Speaker 3: If you're part of the larger, broader genus phylum of
Speaker 3: Hawaiian shirts, Tommy Bahama shirts and things.
Speaker 1: Well, you're not gonna You're not gonna wear casties on
Speaker 1: the weekend. What are you gonna wear when you're sixty three?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm asking. Are you gonna go like you're
Speaker 1: like Tony Soprano's number five guy, and you're gonna wear
Speaker 1: all like the Valure No, God, No, I think as suits. No.
Speaker 3: I think what I'll probably find myself doing at that
Speaker 3: advanced stage is probably I have a really nice pair
Speaker 3: of slippers, like moccasins. I could see myself wearing the
Speaker 3: slippers out places you wouldn't normally wear them. They're not
Speaker 3: actually that shoes with lounge wear, but they look like
Speaker 3: they could be shoes. I think I'll push the envelope
Speaker 3: as far as that goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm talking up top. You're not gonna wear
Speaker 1: a breathable material. It will definitely be breathable, it won't
Speaker 1: be this breathable. It won't be Tory Richard breathable. I will.
Speaker 1: I will tell you, low key the thing I will avoid,
Speaker 1: probably the most in later in life, when you know
Speaker 1: you maybe want to hydrobelly a little bit. That kind
Speaker 1: of thing. The coaches polo. Oh my god, well I
Speaker 1: avoid that, Like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I had coaches polo is sent to me. I threw
Speaker 3: him out, that's the word.
Speaker 1: Like I'd see people our age wearing coaches polo, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Don't do that? That looks horrible.
Speaker 1: You're giving up already. Yeah no, uh so on that
Speaker 1: tangent who's playing in this game again, Also a beach towel,
Speaker 1: pro Athletics surf trunks performance T shirt that does a
Speaker 1: good suite. Not bad. That's a that's a good collection
Speaker 1: of gifts. Bad. This this game is President State in Houston. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really good. I mean obviously transition here for Houston, and
Speaker 1: they beat USF, They beat Navy, smu Arizona, Texas Tech, Tulane, Memphis,
Speaker 1: all winnable for Houston. So schedule, I mean, listen, their
Speaker 1: record tells the story. But they've been all over the
Speaker 1: places here. Houston has. Yes, they benched Kyle Allen. I
Speaker 1: think at the end of September, Kyle Postmo was pretty
Speaker 1: good do catalog the Texas transfer. They ran all right
Speaker 1: with him, A couple good senior receivers, real good upfront
Speaker 1: with that Oliver, especially against the run. So a good
Speaker 1: Houston team, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I trust in Fresno a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Two of their four losses came against Alabama and Washington.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: So I think they're a pretty good team. Jeff Tedford
Speaker 3: has done a really good job there. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: Fresno outright to the tune of fifteen confidence points here.
Speaker 3: A little bit of a shorter jaunt for them to
Speaker 3: get out to a Lolaha stadium as well on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, Houston Big Airport might be a little
Speaker 1: bit easier.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but the Big Airport does not move
Speaker 3: them any closer geographically speaking to an island in the
Speaker 3: middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1: So I like Fresno State, but we disagree. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go Houston here. I don't know if I fully trust
Speaker 1: Marcus mcmarion is a good quarterback against a pretty good defense.
Speaker 1: I just burped, excuse me, And Fresno's good running the ball.
Speaker 1: I think the defensive improvement they had this year. I
Speaker 1: think the defensive coordinator. Look, I tweeted this earlier primarily
Speaker 1: not even primarily exclusively CFL experience. Yeah, great, great love.
Speaker 1: I love the steps that Fresno State took this year.
Speaker 1: They win one out of two against Boise, They beat
Speaker 1: San Diego State, which is an impressive win. Wyoming another
Speaker 1: impressive win. But at that same time, I think I
Speaker 1: trust the overall talent level and the younger Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like the Fresno coaching staff, but I'm going Houston here
Speaker 1: with the basically the exact same confidence about fifteen. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl. Dam
Speaker 3: we got another chick Chicken, Yeah, chicken sponsor the Heart
Speaker 3: of Dallas Bowl. They played in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Speaker 3: It is the day after Christmas, Boxing Day. Mm hmm
Speaker 3: if you well, one thirty pm Eastern time on ESPN.
Speaker 3: The Utah utes at six and six, a seven point
Speaker 3: favorite over West Virginia at seven and five. West Virginia
Speaker 3: without Will Greer has been a real treat. And by
Speaker 3: a real treat, I mean definitely not a treat at all. Now, now,
Speaker 3: I did see some speculation he could play in this game.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's confirmed.
Speaker 1: Don't do that, Will Greer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for now, if he is out, and that is
Speaker 3: my assumption, I am going to go Utah and Tyler Huntley.
Speaker 3: He missed the final game of the year due to
Speaker 3: an undisclosed injury. I am going to assume he's coming
Speaker 3: back for this football game. So basically a ton of
Speaker 3: assumptions at work here.
Speaker 1: As I pick Utah.
Speaker 3: To the tune of twenty five confidence points, I like
Speaker 3: them better if Will Greer is out. Even if Will
Speaker 3: Greer is back, we don't know what state he will
Speaker 3: be in, all.
Speaker 1: Right, I think we agree, ty I really do. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the Zaxby's heard of Dallas balls, gift
Speaker 1: suite and a football and probably a lot of chicken.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming this suit chicken. I've we'd say this every year.
Speaker 1: I don't think either one of us in the last
Speaker 1: year has finally had Zaxby's for the first time.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Never. Every time I'm in an area, a city of
Speaker 1: town with a Zaxby's, there's always the Bojangles or a Can's,
Speaker 1: or a Popeyes or a Chick fil A, And I
Speaker 1: just would always rather have that, And have heard Zaxby's
Speaker 1: is fine. I've just always rather have those other chicken establishments,
Speaker 1: So that's cool. Yeah, a weird year for Utah, a
Speaker 1: very un Utah year. They beat Arizona, which was their
Speaker 1: only top fifty win on the season. They lose six
Speaker 1: to seven in October November. Good running back in Zach Moss,
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley as you mentioned, and being beat up, but
Speaker 1: he did flash when he was healthy. Darren Carrington didn't
Speaker 1: make a huge difference the transfer from Oregon, but all
Speaker 1: around a pretty good defense for Utah, which is probably
Speaker 1: the most normal thing in West Virginia. Had their big
Speaker 1: wins against Iowa State, which is very strange to say,
Speaker 1: and Texas Tech and yeah, you mentioned it, well, Greer
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, that offense is really fun. And good,
Speaker 1: really good trio receivers. Dia is mostly okay, but I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to Utah here. Utah is I still
Speaker 1: believe in our theory that you do not want to
Speaker 1: play Utah when you have cracks, and literally West Virginia
Speaker 1: has cracks. So I'm going to go with Utah as
Speaker 1: a touchdown favorite, probably in the seventeen eighteen range. Moving
Speaker 1: on to the Quick Lane Bowl.
Speaker 3: We had promised a two hour special standalone podcast talking
Speaker 3: about the Quick Lane Bowl at Ford Field. Yep, I
Speaker 3: don't think we were serious about doing that extended podcast.
Speaker 3: Oh Bo December twenty sixth, also in Boxing Day, this
Speaker 3: one at five point fifteen pm Eastern on ESPN. We've
Speaker 3: got Duke at six and six, four and a half
Speaker 3: points the favorite over Northern Illinois. The Huskies finished the
Speaker 3: year eight and four. This is what I would classify
Speaker 3: as an elite level gift suite situation.
Speaker 1: Ty, You're not wrong. You're not at all wrong. The
Speaker 1: Quick Lane Bowl is giving away one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five dollars gift certificates to best. Okay, not bad. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: First of all, if that was it, Ty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's better than the Zager What was the Zaxby's
Speaker 3: bull football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, let's go the Quick Lane Bowl. JBL Bluetooth headphones,
Speaker 1: big year for Bluetooth. Those are probably really good headphones.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't review Bluetooth headphones, but I assume
Speaker 1: JBL makes a quality pair. I don't assume. Yeah, life
Speaker 1: size fat head decal for each participant of his own likeness.
Speaker 1: I would that is the only gift and be totally cool.
Speaker 1: Hold up your own head at a basketball game after
Speaker 1: the fact. That's perfect. I want nothing more in life.
Speaker 1: An Ogio backpack, though, with the tag would be nice
Speaker 1: and good news. The Quick Lane Ball's giving them away
Speaker 1: a mini helmet, a hoodie, a workout pair of workout
Speaker 1: short it's a winter hat, and a vintage football. You
Speaker 1: know what, Quick Lane Ball. That's a that's a big
Speaker 1: fat salute from the solid verbal you know it? Baby?
Speaker 3: All right, Northern Illinois has a d that I think
Speaker 3: I like more than anything else.
Speaker 1: In this game, Dan, they were.
Speaker 3: Really good shout out Sutton Smith. Yeah, they're really good
Speaker 3: all year against the run. Take a look at a
Speaker 3: game they played earlier in the year against San Diego State.
Speaker 3: We talked about them before we talked about Rashad Penny
Speaker 3: before him being fifth in the Heisman Trophy balloting, blah
Speaker 3: blah blah, over.
Speaker 1: Two thousand yards rushing. Only two teams all year that.
Speaker 3: Held him under four and a half a carry. One
Speaker 3: of them was Boise, the other was NIU. Right, And
Speaker 3: that's important to note here because Duke was much more
Speaker 3: effective as a running team this year than they were
Speaker 3: a passing team. We talked so much about Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: and how he's got so much promise for Duke. Well,
Speaker 3: he was a much better runner this season than he
Speaker 3: was a passer. And I think that's an interesting matchup
Speaker 3: here that definitely favors the Huskies.
Speaker 1: I like a close game. I like Niu outright to
Speaker 1: the two to seventeen confidence points. Dan, I really wanted
Speaker 1: to believe ty because that I defense is really really good.
Speaker 1: It's hard to know because what Duke's defense was very
Speaker 1: good this year. They took a lot of chances, they
Speaker 1: brought a lot of heat, they confused a lot of quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: they shut down a lot of running games. The problem was,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned and alluded to, Daniel Jones might not
Speaker 1: just have been a bad passer. And led by his feet.
Speaker 1: He may have been the worst throwing quarterback in the
Speaker 1: ACC this year, I know was. He had disappointingly abysmal
Speaker 1: So that is worrisome against the NIU team. But I
Speaker 1: do think there is a talent differential. I like the
Speaker 1: fact that David Cutcliffe, as a steadying influence there now
Speaker 1: has a defense time to game plan. I think he's
Speaker 1: all right. I like that NIU beat Nebraska. They had
Speaker 1: the nice win against Western Michigan, a different Western Michigan
Speaker 1: team this year, obviously, But I'm going to go with
Speaker 1: Duke here. I'm a little bit more confident than you
Speaker 1: are here. So Duke finished out the season pretty well.
Speaker 1: They beat what Northwestern early wake later on, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go Duke with about I don't know, nine or
Speaker 1: ten points here are confidence ten points? Huh? Yeah? How
Speaker 1: about that? We just agree moving on three more bowl
Speaker 1: games here? Yeah? Also, by the way, can I make
Speaker 1: a very quick request about the Quick Lane Bowl? Ish? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Detroit in late January for a wedding
Speaker 1: because obviously, who doesn't go to Michigan in late January.
Speaker 1: I need to know where to get the best Detroit
Speaker 1: style pizza in the greater Detroit area. All right, I
Speaker 1: know some people say Buddies is like a popular place.
Speaker 1: I want to know because I've had good Detroit pizza
Speaker 1: outside of Detroit. I want to know in the greater
Speaker 1: Detroit area where to get that best like that caramelized
Speaker 1: cheesy crust kind of thing. That's what I want. Sorry, continue,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 3: Also on Boxing Day, December twenty sixth, nine pm Eastern
Speaker 3: on ESPN, We've got k State the Wildcats at seven
Speaker 3: and five, a two and a half point favorite over
Speaker 3: UCLA at six and six. I think in underrated gift
Speaker 3: suite here, Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Cactus Bowl is doing a pretty good job
Speaker 1: taking care of its players. You have the the yetti
Speaker 1: cooler and tumbler. Something to keep you cool out in
Speaker 1: the desert. Sure, keep your keep your liquids cool. You
Speaker 1: got a fossil watch, an Ogio backpack, legendary hat, JBL
Speaker 1: flip for a speaker, a blanket. It does get chilly
Speaker 1: at night in the desert. Tie it's a miss. I
Speaker 1: don't know that. It's this cloud cover, right, you got
Speaker 1: no cloud cover. It does get chili. You get that
Speaker 1: that that low pressure. I think it's low pressure that
Speaker 1: comes on into the desert. So yeah, this is, you know,
Speaker 1: Kansas State UCLA A strange matchup. I don't know, because
Speaker 1: I know there are Kansas State coaches making their way
Speaker 1: to UTEP. The offensive coordinator, I think he's staying on
Speaker 1: for this game. But there are eyes elsewhere on the
Speaker 1: Kansas State staff. Bill Snyder announced or there are rumblings
Speaker 1: that he is coming back for next year at seventy seven,
Speaker 1: seventy eight, seventy nine years old, whatever he is now.
Speaker 1: And you say like going through their own transitions, So distractions,
Speaker 1: I would say, but two teams that had strange years.
Speaker 1: I think Kansas State's a little better.
Speaker 3: They had strange years. You already know my philosophy on
Speaker 3: bowl games and coaches who.
Speaker 1: Leave or are findered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's no way I could possibly go with
Speaker 3: UCLA in this football game. I Am going to go
Speaker 3: k State outright. The other interesting factoid that mainly interests
Speaker 3: Tie Hill de bramt Oh. I have not heard any
Speaker 3: chatter about Josh Rosen being held out of this game.
Speaker 3: By all accounts, he's healthy, he's practicing. It would not
Speaker 3: surprise me if he caught a wicked case of the
Speaker 3: flu before kickoff and just couldn't play.
Speaker 1: You've got the black lung pop.
Speaker 3: It would not surprise me if that happened, because, in
Speaker 3: case you haven't looked, Josh Rosen is projected to be
Speaker 3: a top five pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rightfully, so when he is on, he is incredible.
Speaker 1: You sla though, Yeah, you're right, the big mess. They
Speaker 1: beat A and M and it was all downhill from there.
Speaker 1: They do beat Oregon, but it's with no Justin Herberts,
Speaker 1: I think the offense had a nice enough with Jed Fish.
Speaker 1: I think they made some they took some strides forward.
Speaker 1: Jordan lastly had a breakout year. The defense was just
Speaker 1: a joke.
Speaker 3: Tie. Yeah, I was gonna say, it's probably safe to
Speaker 3: assume that whatever case State runs on offense, UCLA is
Speaker 3: not going to stop it.
Speaker 1: Not in a game. It doesn't mean anything. You know,
Speaker 1: when you reach into the back of your fridge and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like oh this is still here, this,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it has developed a colony. There is
Speaker 1: a lost city in this topperware of meatballs. That's the
Speaker 1: UCLA's run defense. That's where they hang out the back
Speaker 1: of your fridge. And Kannastate isn't great. They beat Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State and Iowa State, two very good wins, but up
Speaker 1: and down in the air. I like the steps that
Speaker 1: the receivers took no matter who. The quarterback was pretty
Speaker 1: stout up front. So I'm going to go with just
Speaker 1: the consistency of Kansas State here. I think they went
Speaker 1: a close one. I'm going to say low teens thirteen
Speaker 1: fourteen point confidence here, I'm going to go eighteen. Okay. Also, also, Ty,
Speaker 1: if you are visiting the the Greater Phoenix area for
Speaker 1: this game, Pizzeria Bianco or Peteleta both great pizza places
Speaker 1: or great Pizza town. Two more games.
Speaker 3: Let's move on to December twenty seventh. Yes, at one
Speaker 3: point thirty. Also in ESPN, we've got Florida State at
Speaker 3: six and six, a fifteen and a half point favorite
Speaker 3: over Southern Miss. They come into this game at eight
Speaker 3: and four. Your gift situation, Dan.
Speaker 1: Your gift situation in the Independence Bowl is fine, gift
Speaker 1: sweet timely watch new era skull cap in a football
Speaker 1: It's fine, nothing great.
Speaker 3: This is an interesting matchup for me because you know
Speaker 3: how I feel about coaches when they leave and what
Speaker 3: that does to bowl teams. I don't know if that
Speaker 3: plays too much of a factor here. I don't think
Speaker 3: the problem with Florida State was that they were looking
Speaker 3: to mail it in. I feel like the guys who
Speaker 3: are out there played hard, but by virtue of not
Speaker 3: having a quarterback and maybe by virtue of just not
Speaker 3: being as good collectively as we thought preseason. It didn't
Speaker 3: show on the win loss record, but they were playing
Speaker 3: hard for the most part. I think they're good enough
Speaker 3: to win this game to cover this spread, even if
Speaker 3: it's just cam Akers twenty five times.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, fair enough, I mean there is I mean,
Speaker 1: it goes against your rule kind of right, it does?
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 3: This is one exception where I am going to go
Speaker 3: FSU despite the fact that they lost a coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good defense. Florida State signature win, barely beating Wake.
Speaker 1: What's up? What a year? Also signature win that time
Speaker 1: they had to reschedule a game. They decided not to
Speaker 1: reschedule because they really wanted to get into a ball game,
Speaker 1: keep a weird streak alive. So yeah, what a weird
Speaker 1: year for Florida State. Southern miss pretty good year. I
Speaker 1: like Ito Smith, good running back Corey Robertson. I would
Speaker 1: say maybe best receiver in Conference USA. He and Thomas
Speaker 1: Owens very good receivers this year. What do you know
Speaker 1: about Rakkeem booth Ty? What do you know about rokey
Speaker 1: on Ty? Amazing linebacker for Southern Myss. The talent differential
Speaker 1: I think is going to be too much. You're right.
Speaker 1: I think Florida State keeps as simple. I think they
Speaker 1: are energized by a new era. By the way, this
Speaker 1: game is sponsored by walk Ons Bistro and Bar. It's
Speaker 1: the walk Ons bstro and Bar Independence Bowl. I didn't
Speaker 1: even give the name of the bowl, did I? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you said Independence Bowl. Okay, yeah, walk Ons.
Speaker 1: It's a bistro and bar. Right, it appears walk Ons.
Speaker 1: I've never been to. I don't think I've been to
Speaker 1: a walk Ons. Maybe I have, I don't know. They're
Speaker 1: in Louisiana and Texas. It is a sports bar. They
Speaker 1: have waffle fries. Van Pelt appears on their website, so
Speaker 1: he is affiliated with them in some fashion. They spell
Speaker 1: bistro in a way too cute eaux way yea they
Speaker 1: that thing. I'm not listen. You want to you want
Speaker 1: to say, go Tigers with the g e a u X.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. That's cool. Not with it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's too much. It's asking a lot so
Speaker 1: good look in restaurant as far as I can tell,
Speaker 1: independence bawl. I'm going to take Florida State here low twenties.
Speaker 1: And finally, you did you mention a new era at
Speaker 1: Florida State? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did, perfect segue to talk about the New Era
Speaker 3: Pinstripe Bowl. They played in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
Speaker 3: They play this one on December twenty seventh at five
Speaker 3: point fifteen pm Eastern Time on ESPN DAN A clash
Speaker 3: between two seven and five Titans. Yes, we've got the
Speaker 3: Iowa hawk guys a three point favorite over the Boston
Speaker 3: College Eagles. Everyone is going to make fun of this game,
Speaker 3: and they're going to make fun of it because it's
Speaker 3: between Iowa and BC and it's not an exciting matchup.
Speaker 3: They're going to make fun of it because the gift
Speaker 3: suite is only a variety of New Era products. People
Speaker 3: are going to make fun of it sight unseeing, so
Speaker 3: they just don't want to watch it. There's really no
Speaker 3: sex appeal here. But in fairness, I really do like
Speaker 3: the year that Nate Stanley had for Iowa.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely what a campaign as a sophomore, only six interceptions
Speaker 3: the full season. Iowa maybe not the most exciting team
Speaker 3: this season, but they had a quality win over Ohio State.
Speaker 3: They damn near beat Penn State if it weren't for
Speaker 3: a touchdown in the back of the end zone to
Speaker 3: close out the game and lose twenty to nineteen. This
Speaker 3: is a good football team that went toe to toe
Speaker 3: against some of the better teams in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3: And despite the fact that BC sort of invented itself
Speaker 3: as like this power rushing attack behind aj Dillon, I
Speaker 3: am still gonna have to go Iowa here, gotta beat
Speaker 3: my heart Dan.
Speaker 1: Okay, really good model ideas with slogan ideas for Iowa football. Listen,
Speaker 1: not that bad. Nah, Hey, they had a quality win.
Speaker 1: Hey they almost beat this team. Just I can see
Speaker 1: it on the poster now. Yeah, yeah, this game is fine.
Speaker 1: I think there's good stories here. I mean, Iowa obviously
Speaker 1: had the signature, went over Ohio State, they had the
Speaker 1: early good win against Iowa State. It wasn't a great offense.
Speaker 1: It was a disappointing year. I think for Ackronwadley and
Speaker 1: the running game on the ground, But yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: Nate Stanley was a revelation at times. The defense played
Speaker 1: really well up front. I think they only gave up
Speaker 1: twenty five plus points once in Big Ten play and
Speaker 1: that was to Wisconsin. Game got real ugly, real quick,
Speaker 1: but otherwise really nice here in the Big Ten. Boston
Speaker 1: College I think low key a very good story as well.
Speaker 1: In the ACC they beat Northern Illinois, which, again, especially
Speaker 1: to you, that must be impressive. Sure they beat Louisville,
Speaker 1: they beat Florida State, Yes they were down years down.
Speaker 1: Defense for Louisville and Florida State was a mess, but yeah,
Speaker 1: AJ Dillon was really nice. The duo of Zach Allen
Speaker 1: and Harold Landry was wonderful, maybe one of the best
Speaker 1: three bookend defensive line duos in the ACC with Clemson
Speaker 1: and maybe I don't even know who else. Who else
Speaker 1: was good? NC State had NC State lined, Yeah, Boston College.
Speaker 1: If Daniel Jones was not the worst passing ACC quarterback,
Speaker 1: it was probably Anthony Brown. It just yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a reality hit. A couple of good games but
Speaker 1: mostly disappointing. I'm going to go Iowa as well. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Hawks as well. And in addition,
Speaker 1: if anybody is visiting New York, Ty will give you directions.
Speaker 1: It's a quick drive to Allentown and the Eastern PA,
Speaker 1: the area in which Ty lives, and he will put
Speaker 1: you up. It's real. He's got a big couch. No,
Speaker 1: if you're coming to If you're coming to New York
Speaker 1: for this game, tweet us or tweet me. If you
Speaker 1: need any food recommendations, happy to help. There's a ton
Speaker 1: of good food. Don't eat at the three story Olive
Speaker 1: Garden if you're coming to New York. That's all I ask.
Speaker 1: Fair enough. So, yeah, Iowa, are you picking? God? I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not super confident this game. I'm gonna go like
Speaker 1: ten to eleven. All right, I'm gonna go Iowa nineteen points.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, there you have it. Uh, thank you
Speaker 3: for bearing with us. Fun show covered a bunch of
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Speaker 3: do our next show, there will be bulls that are
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Speaker 3: about some additional Bowl games that you might be on
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Speaker 3: my knowledge, don't lock, which means that obviously the games
Speaker 3: that you've selected that have been played, you can't change those,
Speaker 3: But the ones that have yet to be played, you
Speaker 3: can change those. You can move them around a little
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