WEBVTT - Week 0 Recaps, New Starters, and Group of Five 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:06.000 Welcome to the solid verbal. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.440 I'm that for me. I'm a man, I'm forty. I've 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:10.680 heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.440 You want to be happy for Dake Edith State. Is 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:14.480 that whoo whoom? 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:20.880 And Dan and Tie welcome back to the Solid Rebel 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.720 Boys and girls. My name is Ty hilden Brant, joining 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.880 me as always my man over there in beautiful New 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:31.920 York City. The week before the season, Dan Rubinstein sir, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:32.440 how you doing. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.920 I think we're in the season technically, even if you 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.920 ignore week zero because it's not a full regular week, 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.880 we're in week one. This is the week one run up? Right? 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.600 Did you get into the later start or the later 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.360 finish to the week zero game? Were you awake for that? 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.840 Ty, Let's back up? Was I awake for the second 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.240 half of Florida Miami? The answer is a resounding no. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.720 The answer is a full on It's halftime. I was 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.360 at a hotel on the Jersey Shore. I had just 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:11.800 finished C C minus pizza and said to myself, I 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.959 have a limited amount. You know, when you plan a RPG, 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.320 you have certain you have this much life, this much health, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.440 this much stamina, this much weaponry, that kind of thing. Yeah, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.800 as a newly minted father and just general old man, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.240 I have so many late night college football nights just 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.399 available to me this season. Was I going to waste 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.040 it on Week zero? I was not. So I just 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.399 found the full versions of both Florida Miami and then 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.959 Arizona Hawaii the following day and watched it at my 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.760 own leisure and now have many many thoughts. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.440 Absolutely as do I I will say, as not a 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.920 new father, yeah, but a resident of a new state 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.640 in which sports gambling is now legal. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.720 Oh okay, this I'm going to change the dynamic. 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.440 I may have had a rooting interest in the final 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.120 moments of that Florida Miami game, and let me tell you, 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.720 both final moments were great, but yeah, both were great. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.120 But the Florida Miami one, from an over understandpoint, had 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.760 real significance. And brother I aged about fifteen years on 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.640 that last sequence, which we can get into here momentarily 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.760 if we want to talk about that. But yeah, an 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.519 interesting occurrence of events on both fronts. Really, no matter 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.880 which game you were into, we are going to go 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.720 through news on this show. We're going to talk about 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.480 those two games very quickly as well. As some of 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.480 the new starting quarterbacks that have been named in the 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.480 run up two week one, and then we are going 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.000 to cover the group of five. Now, we haven't done 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.520 the full deep dive of like sixty group of five teams. Instead, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.840 what we've done is go through and look at, okay, 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.320 who are the top dogs, who are some of the contenders, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.320 the pretenders, And we're going to try to cover it 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.680 from that perspective because I know y'all love the show. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.960 We love the show too, there are only so many 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.359 hours in the day. We can't cover all the teams 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:07.480 we've received. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:12.840 Since January, we've received an email, maybe five emails a 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.119 day strictly asking when we were going to deep dive 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.160 the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, of course, and we've been putting 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.079 it off. Yeah, we've been putting it off. I think 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.040 the deep dive will be next year. I think the 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.600 deep dive on Tulsa will be next year. But well, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.480 first of all, do we have housekeeping? Do we want 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.280 to get into week zero? What is the order of 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:31.119 operations here? 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.040 Well, first and foremost the order of operations is we've 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.080 been waiting to throw this one out into the podcast 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.240 oh sphere for a couple of weeks. But the Wondering News. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.160 We talked about the Wondering News. We're very excited to 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.320 be joining the Wondering podcast Network. It's exciting for us. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.200 What it means though, is if you're listening at home 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.560 and we always get this, how can we help? Here's 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.960 how you can help. Go to wonderre dot com slash survey. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:04:00.600 That's won d e r y dot com slash survey, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.480 and there's a survey there. You can fill it out. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:05.760 You'll have the opportunity to talk a little bit more 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.360 about our show and what you like about it, what 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.240 you like to hear more of, and also give us 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.119 a sense for what you're into and not into. It'll 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.240 help make the show a better experience moving forward. Again, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.800 the show is not changing much, but that survey will 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.479 help us out a great deal. Wondery, of course, is 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:25.320 home to a number of great podcasts. Chief among them 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.480 we'll show you might have heard of called Sports Wars. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:28.000 Is that correct? 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.960 Dan correct? I do host Sports War as a show 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.320 about sports rivalries that's narrative, about four or five six 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.479 episodes per story. We've done like Kobe Shack. We've just 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:42.480 finished a college football arc with Texas, Oklahoma and Florida, Georgia, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.800 or the other way around, depending on your fandom. But 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.520 we did those neutral site, big long historic rivalry games, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.000 so they're really good to listen to in an evergreen 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.440 kind of way. You don't want to be in the 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.680 moment listening to college football or basketball or whatever. You 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.880 just want to remember a rivalry. Maybe you've got some details. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.320 Sports Wars, sports Wars, So there you go, sports Wars 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:08.039 fully indoctrinated into the old Wondery podcast ecosystem. We're very 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.919 excited about it. The other thing that I should point 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.000 out here is that the reverb line's going to be 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.400 open this coming weekend. Four weight Verbal one saw a 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.120 few people called in during the couple of games we 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.719 had this weekend, not going to get a chance to 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.520 play those apologize because we're still doing some maintenance, but 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.000 we'll take care of that in time for all the 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:32.360 week one action. As always, you can follow along on Facebook, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.480 on Twitter, on Instagram, and of course the subreddit. If 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.400 you're an overballer, there is a teaming community Overballers that 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.719 keeps the conversation going. Really if you're going out to 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.080 reddit dot com, slash our slash solid Verbal had a 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.680 chance to meet our good friend Peter who runs the 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.880 soliverbal subreddit down in DC during our live show. And oh, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:55.440 by the way, if you haven't listened to the live 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.760 shows yet, it's long. Show dropped at early morning on Sunday. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.000 But you get the flavor for all twenty four picks 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.160 that Dan and I made in our Fantasy Things draft, 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.919 spread out over two nights between Dallas, Texas on August 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.840 the seventeenth and Washington, DC on August the eighteenth. That's 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:14.240 out there. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.960 We're already seeing. We're seeing points roll in already, we 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.919 are seeing points are probably already been. I saw because 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.680 I selected not spoiler alert, I selected Marty Smith committing 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.920 to a bit. Oh yeah, he's going to be calling 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.800 Louisville Notre Dame from a blimp. I believe, Yeah, is 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:31.520 that what's happening? 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.000 I believe that's the yes. In celebration of the college 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.480 football one fifty thing, he will be up there with. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:43.760 Yeah McGee I in promoting the Fantasy Things show on Twitter, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.599 I just did a simple search of Marty Smith gift 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.160 and it is literally all all the gifts that are 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.320 presented are Marty Smith committing to a bit. There's no 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.039 just like Marty Smith looking just like waving at the camera. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.200 Marty Smith Hams commits to the bit. It's oh, he's 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.080 committing to the bit. So that was a fantasy thing 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.080 I selected and that's already pang dividends and check out 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:05.760 the fantasy thing. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.920 Show mom aged Tex. She texted that Chris Collinsworth was 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:14.240 selling some sort of NBC drama. Oh really, he doesn't 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.720 call on a Yeah, I didn't see it, so I 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.360 have to go back to football see if I can 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.600 find it. But Chris collins Worth on whatever Sunday night 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.240 football broadcast they had going was. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.160 Now he's Kirkhurbs Street selling Wendy's Spicy Nuggies. Is that 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:29.680 what's happening? 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.920 I don't know if that's well, probably to mainstream, yeah, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.000 to get points for you. But it's happening, man, It 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.280 is all happening here. College football is going to be 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.240 in full swing before we know. It's all sorts of 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.720 ways you can connect with the verbal. We're also going 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.360 to have a pickup game. People have asked about the 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.480 pickup game of the process of getting that set up 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.040 with their friends over at Chalk Line so stay tuned 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:51.560 for that. The link will be up on the website 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:52.119 before long. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.640 Yeah, I mean this fantasy thing that we're referencing is 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.960 a broadcaster becoming a spokesperson for like a company that 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.120 is not one of the three or four or five 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.760 industry leaders in that category. Because it was like Laura 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:11.200 Rutledge and Marty Smith for Academy Outdoors Sports. I believe 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.800 that was. So if brock Heward is doing dunk a 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.560 Use commercials, yeah, you better believe that counts. That's what 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.160 we're looking for. So Daniel, shall we get rolling here? 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:20.960 Let's do it. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.960 We have sort of stundi breaking news. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:31.600 I don't know what that could be. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.120 Well, we had Florida. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.320 That's right, we're doing this Monday. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.720 Yeah, Florida knocking off Miami. This one took place at 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.760 Camping World Stadium in Orlando. The first, I guess really 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.319 big game of the year happened on Week zero. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.720 Great Drone shot opening the game up. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.400 Great drone Shot was an interesting scenario for young Jaron Williams, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.080 the new starting quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes. I thought 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:03.199 showed some promise, but ultimately Miami's offensive line overwhelmed by 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.320 Florida's defensive line and something like ten sacks in that 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:11.440 football game, and it really was incumbent on Florida to 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.960 just win the game at the end, to win the 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.040 game at the end, to not try to lose, which 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.480 is sort of what they tried to do. Felipe Franks 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.000 with a horrible backbreaking interception. If not for a non 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.640 sportsman like conduct penalty that went against Miami, perhaps the 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.600 situation would have been a little bit more favorable towards 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.319 the Hurricanes. But a last they get the ball back 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.320 late in the game, Jared Williams has a chance to 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.840 win it. There are a couple pass interference calls. Nonetheless, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.640 Florida ends up getting the w. Dan Mullens said as 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.280 much at the end, basically what I said in the beginning, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.720 Like man, I aged a lot on that last drive 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.760 and route to Florida starting off the season one and zero. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.520 What was your takeaway just generally from a very high 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:56.599 level of this game. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.599 I just everything was pretty much sloppy. I mean, we 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.920 say explosion plays that were largely a result of bad tackling. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.640 We saw Miami all out fail to protect Jaron Williams 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.040 in his first start at quarterback, and I am hopeful 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.800 we'll start with We'll start with Florida. Flabe. Franks threw 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.560 some bad passes, but seemed to be improved in terms 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.080 of command and accuracy overall. I mean he threw he 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.720 had that one ridiculous pass up the seam, which is 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.120 you that's the Felipe Franks experience. You're like, ah, this 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.280 guy's kind of all over the place and green and rocky, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.840 and then he just throws an absolute dime. He seemed 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.240 to be more poised in control early against a very 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.960 good Miami defense, So I like to see that neither 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:42.520 team could really run, and just the slop and inconsistency 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.000 of playing your first game of the season against a 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.960 legit opponent showed itself pretty pretty clearly. So from Florida perspective, 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.280 you get the win. That's great against a what should 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.880 be a pretty good Miami team, and from Miami, hopefully 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.360 Jaron Williams stays alive all year long. Behind that life 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.360 was really rough. It was a rough watch because I 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.160 thought they game planned, especially early on, pretty well for him. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.520 A lot of quick passes and screens. Just get it. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.200 They knew what they had and what they didn't have 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.040 from this offense, and there's only so much you can do. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.240 That kind of thing only works for so long if 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.800 you don't have a next move, and Miami really struggled 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.559 to find that next move. So I get a couple 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.960 explosion plays, they go down the field a couple times successfully, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.760 but ultimately Florida just had the best thing in this game, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.320 which was the favorable matchup defensive line against offensive line. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.840 Florida with four turnovers in this game, which is something 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.560 they obviously need to clean up. You see a big 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.760 improvement between week one and nine two, in this case 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.320 week zero in week two. Whenever Florida plays next, I 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.560 would expect that Dan mullen is going to clean some 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.439 of the stuff up. Miami, as he said, has a 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.959 pretty good defense, so we'll see how they progress from 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.760 this point forward. But Yeah, definitely a sloppy showing to 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.920 start things off and ends to the other game that 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:07.559 we saw on oh Saturday evening between Yeah, Arizona and Hawaii. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.440 Arizona got in a very early hole down fourteen to nothing. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.320 It went exactly the way I think you expect a 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.200 lot of Arizona games to go this year, where kind 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.000 of devolves into a shootout. Before you know it, it's 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.880 all on the arm or legs of Khalil Tate. Khalil 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.199 Tate scrambles towards the goal line on the last play 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.400 of the game, ends up being stopped one yard short 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.560 of scoring potentially the tying touchdown, and Arizona starts off 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.880 on the wrong foot, on a sloppy foot in their 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.680 own right, losing by seven on the road in a 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.880 Loja stadium to the Warriors. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:48.000 Can we fully comprehend how difficult it is to win 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:52.079 the turnover battle by four turnovers and put up over 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:56.280 five hundred yards of offense and have the most dangerous 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.760 dual threat quarterback in a major conference and lose to 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.840 a team in the Mountain West that is not a 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.400 Mountain West power. Hawaii is certainly a team on the 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.520 come up. They have a lot of returning guys that 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.840 should win games this year, but the degree of difficulty 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.920 in doing that, And as I was watching this game 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.079 fully knowing the result, as I said, I went to 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.160 sleep at halftime in Florida, Miami. No shame well fully 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.120 watching this entire game play to play, thinking how in 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.880 the hell is Arizona going to give this away and 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.280 then you see a backbreaking pick here, then you see 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.160 a bad third down play there, and just situationally, Arizona 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.280 when they had opportunities, they just blew so many of them. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.800 I think they had nine or ten penalties. And that's 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.080 a week zero thing or a first game thing, but 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.679 degree of difficulty, like not even mad, kind of impressed. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.880 Kind of impressed, wild yeah, kind of impressed by the 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.520 way Khalil Tate three sixty one through the air, oh 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.480 one awight on the ground. Any losing effort, yeah, oh 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.160 my god. To open the season with that kind of 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.240 losing effort. So Arizona will be dangers on offense there. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.680 I think they look deeper than ever skill position wise 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.440 from where they've been these past couple of years. Defense 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.400 is raw, That secondary was rough at times. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.760 All right, So as we now turn the page and 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:16.320 move into week one mode, fully, hm, let's talk about 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.360 some of the starting quarterbacks that have been named. I'm 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.880 gonna run little list here and just give me any 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.200 hot takes or just regular takes if you have them. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.160 Ben Hicks will be your starter at Arkansas. Some thought 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.280 it might be Nick Starkle, but it's going to be 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.000 Ben Hicks instead played. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.720 For played for Chad Morris at SMU. So there's the 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:41.480 he's a familiar guy under Yeah, that's fine. I don't 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.640 think it'll make a difference either way. Matt McKay will 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.200 be your starter at NC State. Yeah, McKay was going 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:48.080 to be the guy. McKay. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.080 I don't think that was too much to Yeah. Yeah, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.360 So here's one. Is it Michael Pennix or Michael Poenix 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.400 Junior winning the job at Indiana? 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.280 I believe it's Pennix. Damn, I know, I'm so sorry, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.120 eleven year old Dan Anti. He has won the job 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.800 over Peyton Ramsey. He has in coming quarterback Peyton Ramsey, 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.920 who put up numbers, who had, you know, put together 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.560 nice drives and streaks of action. But I think it 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.440 was long considered that Pennix was the superior talent. He 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.080 came in as a pretty highly touted recruit and Tom 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.680 Allen familiar with him from his time recruiting in Florida. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.880 So it makes sense that once healthy, because he I 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.000 think he tore his ACL last year against Penn State, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.560 that he was going to be the guy if he 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.520 was fully ready to maximize his skills. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.680 He's also a lefty, which good to see at quarterback. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.600 Not enough lefty quarterbacks out there. Correct, Michael Pennix will 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:45.120 be your starting quarterback for the Indiana Hoosiers. Hopefully he can, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.840 you know, get the ball to my boy Nick Westbrook 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.080 down the field. Maybe they can generate some explosion plays, 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.040 stretch the field a bit. That'd be nice for Indiana. Okay, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.840 Florida States they are going with James Blackman. You might 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.680 remember that Alex horny Brook came over from Wisconsin as 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.160 a grad transfer. Wily Taggert told me to have a 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.520 chance to compete for the job. I think I said 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.120 at one point he represented a clear upgrade over James Blackman. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.000 Apparently that is not the case, Wooly Taggert gonna go 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:17.160 back to James Blackman. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.520 Yeah, I think Alex Harnybrook was going the wrong direction 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.960 from good starter town to great backup Ville or whatever 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.800 I said during the SEC preview. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.880 Let's go with Wisconsin here and Jack Cone Hm wins 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.360 the job over Graham Mertz, who was the all world 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.040 everything freshman Jack Cone as we know him here in 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.800 the show. King Cone played in five games, started four 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.520 last year when Hornybrook was hurt mostly gave the ball 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.120 to Jonathan Taylor tailback. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:51.680 Yeah, I was not super impressed with him, though he 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.920 made plays against Miami. And I believe the pin Straight 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.240 Bowl your an America's favorite bowl game on the Eastern seaboards. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.440 So yeah, has the experience has has shown Flashes is 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.520 probably too strong. Twinkles, what's a minor version of a flash, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:11.520 Twinkles of upside, So perhaps it's a glasses get Hurtz 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.760 comfortable and maybe by the time October. You know, I 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.720 don't think it's going to be a long leash for 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:18.520 for Jack Cone. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:24.680 Your boy Gaja Gubrud, No, Sir, has lost the starting 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.679 job at Washington State. Instead it goes to Anthony Gordon. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.359 He's a fifth year senior. Yeah, was a junior college transfer. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.440 Mike Leech going with mister Gordon the fisherman. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.840 Yeah, looked better. And I think Gaja Gubrud is coming 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.240 off of some tricky foot situations where he was hurt 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.879 last year. Was beat up in the spring, so I 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.000 don't know if it was a health thing, But apparently 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.240 Anthony Gordon is the guy and generally when Mike Leach 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.439 selects a quarterback, he throws for four hundred thousand yards, 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:55.840 so he must be confident in him. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.439 Chase Garber's you're starting quarterback at Cal. He eats now 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:05.440 Devin Monster kind of a supreme on Devon Moster. Excuse me, yes, 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.520 a little surprising, but Devon Monster wasn't. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.879 Starting at UCLA. He came in thinking he'd have a 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.120 chance because quarterback play has not been strong suit for Cal, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.359 and I guess Chase Garber's just was better. I'm not 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.600 all that confident after watching him last year that their 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.879 offense is going to be appreciably better, but you know, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:23.920 always open to it. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.560 Hank Bachmeyer the new starting quarterback at Boise State. We'll 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:33.200 talk about Boise a little bit more as the show progresses. Formerly, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.200 a four star recruit head offers from a couple big schools, 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.280 ends up going to Boise, ends up winning out the 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.400 starting job. He beat out Chase Cord, who was redshirt 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.520 sophomore and a senior Jalen Henderson. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.960 And so he's a freshman. He's true freshman. I believe, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:47.560 true freshman. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:48.000 Correct. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.600 All right, that'll be interesting. We got a couple true freshmen. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.320 I mean, we talked about bo Nicks at Auburn and 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.800 now Hank Bachmeyer here we'll see I am. I am 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:02.200 optimistic that Brian Hearson is not just going with somebody 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.560 because he he came in as a touted recruit or 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.439 gives them the biggest opportunity to grow at quarterback. He 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.879 is the dude, and I imagine they're going to be 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:10.360 pretty good. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.280 All right. A couple ones that I think were pretty obvious, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.760 but I'll just list them anyway. Sean Clifford getting the 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:22.119 nod at Penn State, Jacob Eason getting the nod at Washington. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:27.280 Tommy Stevens officially named starter at Mississippi State. We knew 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.960 about Brandon Wimbush. We'll talk about Brandon Wimbush a little 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:31.600 bit more here on the Group of Five show, but 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:36.320 he will be your starter at UCF. Ryan Willis is 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.679 again going to be the starter at Virginia Tech. Here's 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:44.520 one that was somewhat interesting. Brandon Peters. Brandon Peters starter 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:45.359 at Illinois. 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.680 Right, Brandon Peters starter Illinois. There was a couple freshmen 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.720 in the mix. I don't think ILLINOI is gonna be 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:57.360 very good with or without Brandon Peters, but hopefully he realizes, 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.560 you know something, closer to what he looked like against 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.960 Purdue a couple of years ago. Outside of that, yeah, 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.120 he's a guy we know. His name should be noted 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.280 that Jake Hayner transferred the guy now who is going 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.280 to be behind Jacob Eeson. I imagine he thought he 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:14.919 was going to win the competition and they gave it 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.840 to Easton or Easton earned it, and Haynah was like, yeah, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.119 I'm out, I'm out, I'm gone, So Washington down and 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.080 that's going to happen. We saw it in Nebraska last 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:27.000 year where somebody just does not win the quarterback competition 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.800 and they go elsewhere to find their place in the 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.360 college football world. I saw what Josh Jackson official Maryland. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:34.879 Josh Jackson official at Maryland. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.360 Yes, that's good. West Virginia, Austin Kendall, the Oklahoma transfer, 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.080 Justin Fields, Ohio State, Jalen Hurts Oklahoma all obvious. Jamie 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.520 Newman at wake YEP over over Sam Hartman. Jamie Newman 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.159 I think looked a little bit more promising near the 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:50.960 end of last season. So a couple surprises, a couple 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.920 young couple young freshmen that get the nod. We'll be 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.439 interesting to see, especially now that one of them is 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.080 starting arguably the biggest game of the weekend for Auburn 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.040 against Oregon. But good to see the competitions coming to 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.760 a close and excited to see some new faces. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.240