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Speaker 2: are on the SEC Championship game right now. Alabama is

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Speaker 2: leading Georgia seventeen to seven. They just started the second

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Speaker 2: half in a third and one. Georgia on their opening

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Speaker 2: possession gets stone. Georgia coming into this game back to

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Speaker 2: back national championships, twenty nine game winning streak, and they

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Speaker 2: are definitely up against it today against an Alabama team

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Speaker 2: that he from defensively has dominated this Georgia team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's this was a crucial opening second half drive.

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Speaker 3: They decided that they were going to do a pitch

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Speaker 3: play for me as an offensive lineman and then as

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Speaker 3: an offensive player. Whenever we have third or fourth and short.

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Speaker 3: What I don't want to do is pitch the ball backwards. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that is the worst thing you can do. Now, you

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Speaker 3: can run it up the middle and not gain a yard,

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Speaker 3: but what you're not going to do is.

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Speaker 4: Lose three yards. Correct.

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Speaker 3: So now if you're on third and one and now,

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Speaker 3: you may think about going forward if it's fourth and one,

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Speaker 3: But if it's fourth and now three or four, because

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Speaker 3: you've you've lost three yards on a pitch play, then

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Speaker 3: you got to plant it. It just doesn't make sense

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Speaker 3: to me. And that's exactly what we just saw happened

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Speaker 3: to Georgia. They had momentum moving the ball down the

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Speaker 3: field the first drive of the second half, trailing like

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Speaker 3: they are, and they completely gave it away by pitching

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Speaker 3: the ball back.

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Speaker 2: By the way, what you're talking about is why Washington

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Speaker 2: beat Oregon last night. Every time they had a third

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Speaker 2: and short situation, if they were going to pass quick,

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Speaker 2: pass quick like you like, take it Ani boom right

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Speaker 2: there to get the first downs. All right, So what

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Speaker 2: does this all mean? Right now, let's bring you up

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Speaker 2: to dig because we've been telling you about this for

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Speaker 2: weeks on end, about the different scenarios as far as

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Speaker 2: this final time of a four school playoff for the

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Speaker 2: quote unquote national championship. All right, so Washington is in.

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Speaker 2: If Michigan beats Iowa. Now vision lose to Iowa, who knows.

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Speaker 2: But let's assume for a second that Michigan beats Iowa.

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Speaker 2: Obviously Michigan is in. So those are your two teams

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Speaker 2: that are in, Ephraim. Let's talk about Alabama winning this

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Speaker 2: game against Georgia. Texas, of course, blowing out Oklahoma State

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Speaker 2: today in the Big Twelve championship game. It would seem

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Speaker 2: hard to justify Alabama leaping over for Texas when Texas

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Speaker 2: not only beat Alabama, they beat him in Tuscaloosa. That part, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that part part okay. And then Florida State. Okay, let

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Speaker 2: let's play this scenari. I'm gonna play this with get out.

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Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to this ever since last night

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Speaker 3: and Washington taking care of business.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, all right, So I'm going to I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: do this. I'm gonna play this game, all right, Washington

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Speaker 2: is in, Michigan'll beat Aye. Well that's my prediction. I'm

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Speaker 2: really going out on a limb. They're three touchdown favorites.

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Speaker 2: Let's say even Georgia comes back to win this game

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Speaker 2: against Alabama Florida State with their third string quarterback eeks

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Speaker 4: But what if they.

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Speaker 3: Blow Louisville out though, let's not eke it.

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Speaker 2: I'm giving you different scenario. Okay, I don't think it's

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Speaker 2: going to blow him out with a third string, but

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Speaker 2: my apologies, you go ahead Louisville. Louisville's not great, they're good,

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Speaker 2: Our buddy carry Rose. Obviously, Louisville guy's hyping them up,

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Speaker 2: and I mean they're not great. They just lost again,

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Speaker 2: Florida State undefeated and ranked right behind him. So Oregon's gone.

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Speaker 2: Alabama would be gone if they lose this game to Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't look like it right now, but they would be gone.

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Speaker 2: That leaves you with the next two ranked teams, who

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Speaker 2: a difference between deserving it and earning it. If the

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Speaker 2: that's different than if you sort of deserve it because

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Speaker 2: you want undefeated. So if you had a last choice,

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Speaker 2: Florida State. They're undefeated, they're in Okay, let's I'll tell

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Speaker 2: all right, go ahead, So undefeated Florida State.

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Speaker 3: I would say Florida State wins their conference championship today.

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Speaker 3: I don't care who's that quarterback. They're undefeated, they belong

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Speaker 3: in oh period. I'll playing a Power five conference. That's

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Speaker 3: just what it is.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Let's say Florida State loses.

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Speaker 4: Okay, and your choice clears up the water.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and then you have to make a choice again.

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Speaker 2: This is what Georgia winning and they're losing by ten

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Speaker 2: right now, you would have to choose between Ohio State

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Speaker 2: have one loss, Texas lost Oklahoma.

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Speaker 4: Then I would give it to Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: I mean Ohio State is sixth this week and there.

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Speaker 3: Texas, I would give it to Ohio State because Ohio

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I would do. I would base it

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's get into the moment right now. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's say Alabama beats Georgia. Now Alabama winning the conference

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Speaker 2: championship with one loss at home to Texas. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Georgia didn't beat anybody of note this year. Mississippi was

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Speaker 2: probably was their highest ranked opponent. They only played one

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Speaker 2: miss Nick Saban was asked about this this week because

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Speaker 2: he was They were asking could you envision a playoff

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Speaker 2: without the.

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Speaker 4: SEC and what did he say? Of course, he goes, well.

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Speaker 2: No, he's basically saying, well, that wouldn't really be a playoff.

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Speaker 2: But let's play this out. If Alabama Michigan wins, Okay,

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Speaker 2: they're in Washington is in, Yes, Florida State wins, they're

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Speaker 2: in Alabama beats Georgia. So then you would have Alabama, Georgia,

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Speaker 2: Ohio State, and Texas all with one loss, and only

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Speaker 2: one of those teams gets in. Well, how would you

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Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you a question, Yes, which one

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Speaker 3: of those teams would ESPN?

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well, since this is the final year

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Speaker 2: television Force GOO playoff, I understand your answer, So what

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Speaker 2: would you do with it? So then then you're gonna

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Speaker 2: pick Alabama over Texas. It there, even though Texas beat

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Speaker 2: them in Tuscaloosis.

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Speaker 4: What this is? What will happen?

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Speaker 2: ESPN will get crucified.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like you said, this is the last year.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, so last year it would.

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Speaker 3: Ever remember when the BCS was over the last year

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Speaker 3: the BCS, Everybody's like, well, it doesn't matter anymore because

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Speaker 3: no matter what happens, no matter what the computer picks,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you this is going to play out

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Speaker 2: if Alabama wins this game, creating the scenario that I

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Speaker 2: just laid out for you. Yes, and again, they're up

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Speaker 2: seventeen seven with ten forty to go on the third quarter.

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Speaker 2: Then somehow, some way, they've got to have Florida State

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Speaker 2: lose because if Florida State loses, now it's easy. Now

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Speaker 2: you can put Alabama and Texas inep you know, with

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Speaker 2: Michigan and Washington would be done with it. Georgia is out.

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Speaker 3: Every single team that you mentioned right now is rooting

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Speaker 3: against Florida rooting for Louis Oh, yes, every single team.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because I agree with you what you said right

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Speaker 2: off the top. If Florida State is thirteen and oh,

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Speaker 2: you cannot deny it.

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Speaker 4: Do it.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, acc ESPN.

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Speaker 3: Power five, Power five, that argument for the others doesn't

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Speaker 3: It doesn't apply here.

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Speaker 4: I don't care who's that quarterback.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is just I mean, these are real

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Speaker 2: possibilities right now.

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Speaker 4: Right. So but again, right now we're watching down the stretch.

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Speaker 3: How many games if Florida State went without their quarterback,

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Speaker 3: without Travis this is to be They.

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Speaker 2: Won last week, right, they would win this week? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and last week they had a veteran backup is now

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Speaker 2: he's out. So you're going with it.

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Speaker 4: That's what's the kid's name, by the way, right.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but again, so we're we're saying Alabama's in, Georgia's out.

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Speaker 2: Remember how we kept saying for a long time that

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Speaker 2: even if Georgia were to lose the SEC championship game,

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Speaker 2: Georgia would be in Yeah. I don't say how it's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Alabama obviously is over them, and Texas is over them.

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Speaker 4: Man, Texas texts playing good football.

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Speaker 2: Are you looking forward to a twelve school player?

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Speaker 4: No, I am not.

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Speaker 2: I know you say it's too many.

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Speaker 3: Too many, but look if it was six or if

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Speaker 3: it was eight. Yeah, when the end tomorrow Sunday, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: next weekend, we'll look at what the top twelve schools

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Speaker 3: are and see would you want any of those top

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Speaker 3: twelve and did to have an opportunity to win a championship.

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Speaker 3: I don't think if you have three losses you should

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Speaker 3: ever be considered for national barely.

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Speaker 2: Two law you say that, but you played in the

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Speaker 2: National Football League. Yeah, this wild card teams like the Giants,

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Speaker 2: you know, all those those are all professional as nine

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Speaker 2: and sevent teams, I don't win. You have super athletes,

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Speaker 2: the professionals. Now a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of these teams are the level of competition isn't where

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Speaker 3: it needs to be. And that's the you know that,

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Speaker 3: that's the bottom nine of college all right, So we're

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Speaker 3: gonna be We just talked about Georgia and in their

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Speaker 3: road to where they are now to the championship game.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't difficult at all. No, it wasn't difficult.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine wins in a row and Georgia is in trouble.

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Speaker 2: They're driving right now though they've got the ball inside

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Speaker 2: the twenty yard line of Alabama. We got nine and

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Speaker 2: a half minutes to go in the third quarter of

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Speaker 2: this game. But if Alabama were to hang on and

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Speaker 2: win this SEC championship game, look out, we'll have to

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Speaker 2: figure this whole thing out. We're also going to have

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Speaker 2: the latest on the Heisman chase. Obviously, what happened last

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Speaker 2: night changed a lot of different things. We'll hear what

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Speaker 2: he from how to say about that. I'll get my

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Speaker 2: thoughts as well. On the other side, though, we'll catch

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Speaker 6: It's interesting, Steve, you bring him up because you would

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Speaker 7: He's gonna be okay.

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Speaker 6: He had over three hundred yards in four touchdowns. He

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Speaker 6: was phenomenal and flack of the thing is he comes

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Speaker 6: off the bus being able to throw the ball fifty

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Speaker 6: six yards on the line.

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Speaker 7: You're going to see them be aggressive.

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Speaker 6: Now. They're not going to throw the ball a lot

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Speaker 6: because from as you said, he hasn't been with the

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Speaker 6: team since last season the Jets, but he could always

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Speaker 6: throw the football. When they throw it, you're gonna see

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Speaker 6: them be aggressive downfield. And that's the that's the problem

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Speaker 6: with dtr and PJ.

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Speaker 7: Walker.

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Speaker 6: Walker they're really down on Obviously they skipped them. So

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Speaker 6: you're going to see them be aggressive against the Rams tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: All right, final question, This is really a joint question

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Speaker 2: for Ephraim and I. We would both ask the same question.

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Speaker 2: If the Chargers lose to the Patriots. Is that finally

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Speaker 2: enough for Brandon Staley to walk the plank?

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Speaker 4: Gotta go?

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Speaker 6: But again it's not even that questions, well, they wait

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Speaker 6: till the end of CS is what you're asking, and

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Speaker 6: the answers yes, okay, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, who are you picking in that game?

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Speaker 6: It's actually ticket broker's day off, so I don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff is always out of another big week in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. We'll talk to you next Saturday about it.

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Speaker 2: That's Adam Kaplan our Fox Sports Radio NFL, and side

463
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Speaker 2: had asked in the business absolutely best, we could go

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Speaker 2: literally five hours.

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Speaker 4: We can really have a whole hour show with him.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, he said almost every question we ask,

467
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Speaker 2: he can break it down for you know, fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 2: but he gives us the abridged version. But I had

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Speaker 2: asked that last question, right, But he's making it clear that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Staley will be gone at least by the end of

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Speaker 2: the year. All right, let's find out what is trending

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Speaker 2: right now. It is good to see Nick Cope in

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Speaker 2: the building here. Nick, it's great to be here. I

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Speaker 2: know you've been working UCLA football. You've been all over

475
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Speaker 2: the place. I had pointed questions. UCLA's defensive coordinator that

476
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Speaker 2: turned everything around, doubled his salary, went to USC and

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Speaker 2: then Dante More, their five star recruit. He's bolted, he's gone,

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Speaker 2: he entered the transfer portal. But chim Kelly's safe apparently.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, some tough times right now for going into the

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Speaker 8: big t market.

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Speaker 2: Mark my words. Right now, this is from a UCLA alt.

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Speaker 2: I'm wearing my Saturday UCLA shirt. Four and eight.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a really tough schedule four and eight, not

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Speaker 8: just the Big ten you've you know, Hawaii is not great,

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Speaker 8: but you have to make the trip to Hawaii non

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Speaker 8: conference you are in at LSU road trips to Penn State.

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Speaker 8: I believe Nebraska as well in there. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 8: gonna be it's gonna be really interesting next year for

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Speaker 8: you LA Ball the Gronk Bowl or the.

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Speaker 2: Shreeport you go down for that independence. Yeah, it looks

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Speaker 2: like it's one of the other LA Bowl.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, the Boise State they just beat un LV, so

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Speaker 8: that would be the potential matchup there the Mountain West champion.

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Speaker 8: And then if you go to Shreveport, though, you're gonna

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Speaker 8: play a big twelve team maybe at Texas Tech or

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Speaker 8: inn Iowa State, so tougher to get to maybe a

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Speaker 8: more interesting game.

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Speaker 2: Who knows, well, enjoy that one. What's happening, how's this

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Speaker 2: game going?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 8: We just had a really big swing here, you had

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Speaker 8: Alabama was driving and then Jalen Milroe got sacked back

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Speaker 8: near midfield, so they were forced to punt. And then

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Speaker 8: Georgia they faked the inside hand off, a little flip

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Speaker 8: from Carson Beck to the receiver coming around, but it

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Speaker 8: was bobble drop. So Georgia recovers the fumble. They've now

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Speaker 8: got a third to nine here from the ten yard line,

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Speaker 8: going into the end zone, leading seventeen to ten. This

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Speaker 8: third quarter is going fast. They're already in the final minute.

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Speaker 8: I'll just call it here real quick. Milrow has pass.

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Speaker 8: It looked to be a little bit short there, broke

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Speaker 8: it up, so it looks like Alabama's gonna have to

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Speaker 8: settle for a field goal to try and go up

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Speaker 8: twenty to ten here late in the third quarter. Now,

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Speaker 8: Boise State, they had no problems with UNLV to win

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Speaker 8: the Mountain West, and they did it with an interim coach,

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Speaker 8: Spencer Danielson coming on and he won three straight games

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Speaker 8: for Boise State, so they win the Mountain West. You

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Speaker 8: also earlier had Miami beating Toledo for the MAC Championship,

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Speaker 8: and then of course number seven Texas blowing out Oklahoma

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Speaker 8: State to win the Big Twelve forty nine to twenty

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Speaker 8: one the final. There quinn Ewer's Texas quarterback. He set

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Speaker 8: Big twelve conference championship game records with four hundred and

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Speaker 8: fifty two yards and four touchdowns. Other championship games going on,

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Speaker 8: SMU just kicked a field goal. They lead Number twenty

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Speaker 8: two Toulane seventeen to fourteen five minutes to play in

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Speaker 8: the third quarter in the American Athletic Championship. That game

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Speaker 8: of note, especially because Tulane is a top rank Group

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Speaker 8: of five team, so if they can come back and win,

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Speaker 8: they are in line to reach a New Year six Bowl.

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Speaker 8: Troy leading app State twenty one seventeen in the Sunbelt

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Speaker 8: Championship near the end of the third quarter. There By

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Speaker 8: the way, the field goal was good for Alabama. They

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Speaker 8: lead Georgia twenty to ten. Quickly, let's go to college basketball.

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Speaker 8: I know it's college football day, but there's been a

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Speaker 8: ton of upsets in college basketball. Number three, Marquette goes

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Speaker 8: down to Wisconsin number eighteen. Villanova lost to Drexel fifty

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Speaker 8: seven to fifty five in Philly. He also had Georgia

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Speaker 8: Tech beating number seven Duke and maybe the most surprising

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Speaker 8: one at rupp Arena. UNC Wilmington beats number twelve Kentucky

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Speaker 8: eighty to seventy three. Finally, guys, just a couple quick notes.

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Speaker 8: In the NFL, Bengals coade Zach Taylor said receiver t

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Speaker 8: Higgins will play Monday against the Jaguars. For Jacksonville, coach

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Speaker 8: Doug Peterson said he expects running back Travis Etn to play.

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Speaker 8: Chiefs have ruled out running back Jerick McKinnon. They've got

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Speaker 8: the Packers on Sunday Night. Football.

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Speaker 2: Back to you. You know, when you talk about college

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Speaker 2: basketball here as we get the month of December started. Look,

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Speaker 2: I love my cute hoops some of UCLA guy, obviously,

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Speaker 2: but when you think about last year's final four, could

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Speaker 2: anyone have predicted that the final four would be San

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Speaker 2: Diego State, Florida, Atlantic, Miami and Yukon. Anybody have that?

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Speaker 4: I mean, well, I had one of those teams.

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Speaker 2: Well you know, I know that, you know, and you

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Speaker 2: know I feel about Dutch and I was so could

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Speaker 2: not have been more excited for him, one of my

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Speaker 2: all time favorite people. But that's how unpredictable.

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Speaker 4: I mean.

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Speaker 2: I love talking college hoops right now, but the March

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Speaker 2: Madness is what it's all about. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: we'll ever get there as far as the kind of

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Speaker 2: interest in a college football playoff that we have in

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Speaker 2: March Madness, but maybe see that's why a guy like

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Speaker 2: Rich Hornberg, I know you're totally against this, even he

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Speaker 2: would like to see like a sixty four team tournament

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Speaker 2: in college.

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Speaker 3: No, please start bringing that up. Please one's doing that.

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Speaker 3: No one even wants to see that.

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Speaker 2: All right, So I'm going to be with him tomorrow and.

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Speaker 4: Tell him I said, cut it out, cut it out.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's again play out some of these scenarios

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Speaker 2: going on. So Alabama is leading Georgia twenty to ten

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Speaker 2: inside a minute to go in the third quarter, so

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Speaker 2: really it's pretty clear, let's again. Jim Harbaugh is being

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Speaker 2: interviewed right now. He's back on the sidelines for Michigan

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Speaker 2: for this Big Ten championship game against Iowa. Their twenty

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Speaker 2: two point favorites. They should beat Iowa. By the way,

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Speaker 2: you want to hear my favorite Iowa stat. We would

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Speaker 2: talk about how inep their offense has been this year.

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Speaker 2: How about this stat They lead the nation with sixty

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Speaker 2: three and outs. Now, think about that number. That's averaging

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Speaker 2: five a game for a twelve game schedule, and yet

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Speaker 2: they're ten and two. Kirk Ferance has done one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest coaching jobs in history. But they've had sixty

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Speaker 2: three and outs this year in twelve games. That's five

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Speaker 2: a game. That's unreal that they're sitting at ten and two.

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Speaker 2: But again, if Michigan wins, Washington is in. If Florida

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Speaker 2: State wins, they're in. And if Alabama beats Georgia, Texas

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Speaker 2: has already one. Sorry Alabama, Texas is the next last

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Speaker 2: team they have to be, which would mean the SEC

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Speaker 2: gets shut out. That would be unbelievable. Yeah, but that's

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Speaker 2: where Now again, if Florida State were to lose, then

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Speaker 2: Alabama and Texas would both get into the playoff with

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Speaker 2: Michigan and Washington. Assuming that Iowa doesn't pull out some

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Speaker 2: tents in victory against Michigan. Would that be unbelievable. Harbor

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Speaker 2: comes back and they lose to Iowa. You George is

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Speaker 2: not looking good right now, are you from? No, it's

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Speaker 2: not offensively. And Nick Saban after they lost to Alabama

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Speaker 2: to Texas and remember Milroe, their quarterback was benched for

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Speaker 2: an entire game. For them to be in a position

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Speaker 2: to win the SEC championship just proves once again Nick

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Speaker 2: Saban is the master.

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Speaker 4: Is he not?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? He has an an uncanning ability to keep his

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Speaker 3: team focused.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. That's what it's about.

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Speaker 3: Right, And so you can in his halftime adjustments and

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Speaker 3: the things that he does in game puts him a

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Speaker 3: step above. And you know, you can go back to

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Speaker 3: the Tua and Jalen Hurts situation.

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Speaker 4: It just no coach would have ever done that.

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Speaker 3: No, you bench your heisman candidate, star quarterback for a

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Speaker 3: guy at the time like who I mean to me?

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Speaker 3: That's that's goat status type of that means you can

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Speaker 3: see the game differently than most of the people, most

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Speaker 3: of the opponent opposing coaches that you're going against.

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Speaker 2: When they threw that touchdown that we were watching fourth

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Speaker 2: and goal at the thirty one yard line against Auburn

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Speaker 2: to steal that game, maybe that should have been a

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Speaker 2: sign that team of destiny at least to win the

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Speaker 2: SEC championship.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because but again, in no way.

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Speaker 2: But that again, if Michigan stays undefeated and Florida stays undefeated,

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Speaker 2: they're in. That's why I'm we going to leave one

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Speaker 2: slot left. Alabama SEC champion versus Texas Big twelve champion,

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Speaker 2: and Texas beat him at Descalosa, Texas would have to

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Speaker 2: be the four team, all right. On the other side,

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Speaker 2: all right, So there's a lot of scrambling right now

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Speaker 2: to figure out which teams are going to qualify for

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Speaker 2: the College Football Playoff. It's going to come down to

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Speaker 2: a panel to vote on that. It's also going to

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Speaker 2: come down to a panel to decide who's going to

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Speaker 2: win this year's Heisman Trophy. I'm one of those voters.

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Speaker 2: What really, I don't like to reveal it, but once

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Speaker 2: in a while I let it leak out.

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Speaker 4: Who knew?

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Speaker 2: What did last night's Washington win over Oregon do in

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Speaker 2: the chase for college football's greatest individual prize? We'll tell you.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve hartmin and he from

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Speaker 2: Salam This is Fox Football Saturday. We're coming alive from

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Speaker 2: the Tirak dot com studios. All right, it is that time.

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Speaker 1: Countdown and co Heisman watch.

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Speaker 2: So normally this time I give you my top three

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Speaker 2: high but I can't this week because in no way

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Speaker 2: can I reveal what my final ballot will be. I

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Speaker 2: will actually submit my final ballot tomorrow to actually do

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Speaker 2: Monday morning, but all the games will have been played.

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Speaker 2: So i will submit my ballot tomorrow, and I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna even begin to hint in which direction I'm going.

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Speaker 2: I could get in trouble. But you can say anything.

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Speaker 4: I'd say anything.

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Speaker 2: So that's the case.

654
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 4: I can tell the people who you picked.

655
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 2: No, you cannot, Okay, I don't know you, all right,

656
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: so you have no idea.

657
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 4: All right.

658
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: So last night, going into the Oregon Washington matchup, which

659
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: Oregon was almost a ten point favorite, most people believe

660
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 2: that bow Knicks, who had been red hot, was gonna

661
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 2: light up Washington. Oregon's gonna win the game and bow

662
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 2: Knicks would win the Heisman Trophy.

663
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 4: That did not happen.

664
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: No, Michael Pennix, who I had number one on my

665
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 2: list what was it four or five weeks in a row,

666
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 2: completely dropped off my list last week. Last week I

667
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 2: had bow Nicks one Jayden Daniels too, Marvin Harrison Junior three.

668
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: And the reason I had dropped Pennix he just wasn't

669
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: playing that well. His last two games going into the

670
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 2: PAC twelve Championship game were subpar, to say the least.

671
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 2: That changed yesterday. So and by the way, Milroe, jyaln Milroe,

672
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: the Alabama quarterback. I'm sort of sitting here on him

673
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: as well, saying, well, what if Milroe beats Georgia, is

674
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 2: there a spot for him on my final three man ballot.

675
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 2: There's three slots on my Heisman ballot, and you got

676
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 2: to fill out all three. By the way, if you

677
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 2: don't fill out all three, it's not a valid ballot.

678
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 2: So they're very particular about that. But let's get back

679
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 2: to the idea of Pennix versus Daniels. So on one hand,

680
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 2: you have an undefeated quarterback Michael pennockx junior, and then

681
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 2: on the other hand, you have stat freak Jayden Daniels

682
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 2: leading the nation of both passing effish and sea Georgia

683
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 2: with a big play. Right now, I'm trying to get

684
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 2: back in this game twenty to ten Alabama or Georgia

685
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: eleven to fifty. Three to go in the fourth quarter.

686
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 2: So Daniels leads the nation of both total offense and

687
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: passing efficiency. So, assuming you had a Heisman ballot, do

688
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 2: you go with the stat freak Jaden Daniels versus the

689
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 2: undefeated quarterback Michael PENNOCKX junior? How would you roll in

690
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: terms of determining again the outstanding college football player of

691
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three staffreak?

692
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,439
Speaker 3: Going with the staff freak, Yeah, because it's it's about

693
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 3: the best player.

694
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 4: Doesn't say the best team.

695
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 2: That's an outstanding player, that's all it says.

696
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 3: So a lot of Heisman winners weren't the best, they

697
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 3: didn't have the best team.

698
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 4: But they were the best player. I believe you know,

699
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 4: Tim Tebow wanted would having three losses.

700
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: He did so the one the race that three men

701
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: went well, he had a couple losses.

702
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 4: Right, So it's about the best player.

703
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: RG three three losses. The one I compared to is

704
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, the year the Lamar Jackson three loss Louisville.

705
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: He beat out Deshaun Watson, and of course Clemson after

706
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: the Heisman was given out, would go on to win

707
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,439
Speaker 2: the national championship. And I remember a lot of people

708
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: after that were like, man, I should have voted for

709
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson or the award should be after all the

710
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 2: games are played and everything else. I disagree with that.

711
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: By the way, I think it's like every other award

712
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: in sports. There's a regular season award and then you

713
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 2: get the glory if you win a national championship. This

714
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 2: is a tough one. I mean, I'm not gonna reveal

715
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 2: which way I'm going. I understand what you're saying, and

716
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: there is precedent here. As you mentioned Tim Tebow the

717
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: year he won the Heisman his sophomore year, three losses.

718
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 2: They didn't even play in the SEC championship game that year.

719
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: Same thing with RG three three lost guy, But you know,

720
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 2: you put up some amazing numbers and he got to

721
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 2: recognize that. On the other hand, Washington has never had

722
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 2: a Heisman Trophy winner. And Michael Pennix junior, remember what

723
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: I said, what did you do in their biggest game

724
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 2: of the year. Well, he had two big games against

725
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 2: Oregon and he won of both and he played well

726
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 2: in both those games. Yeah, And if you're talking about

727
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 2: jayde and Daniels, well, his biggest game was against Alabama,

728
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: and if you look at the stats. Jalen Milroe had

729
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 2: actually better stats in that game than Jayde Daniels had.

730
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 2: So again, I I try to be truly to the idea.

731
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: Again is what did you do well in the biggest

732
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 2: game on your schedule.

733
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 3: This also goes back to the fact that you know

734
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 3: Marshall Folk was robbed for the Heisman.

735
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 2: Yes, but he was a stack guy. I remember that

736
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: was a five to five and one whack team. Think

737
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: about that, I get it, but didn't even get into

738
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 2: a player in Well, he's certainly a better player in Gino. Yeah,

739
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: but that was I mean, think about that. Would that

740
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 2: even happen today? A running back from San Diego State

741
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 2: on five to five and one team coming that close

742
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 2: to winning the Heisman as a sophomore. By the way,

743
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 2: when he was a sophomore, No sophomore it ever won

744
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 2: the award?

745
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 4: It probably.

746
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 2: The other problem was their last game of the year

747
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 2: was a head to head against Miami and he set

748
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: the game out with an injury. So that's why he lost.

749
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 2: All right, So you're saying you go with Jaydon dmis absolutely, Okay,

750
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 2: all right, Georgia has just scored, so we have got

751
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 2: ourselves the promise of a really good finish in this

752
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 2: SEC championship game. Now, if Georgia does come back to win, this.

753
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 4: Game solves a lot of problems.

754
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 2: It does solve a lot of problems because Alabama would

755
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 2: be out and Oregon would be odd and then it

756
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: would be very simple. Florida State wins. They're in you

757
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: would have four undefeated teams. That would be amazing, right,

758
00:39:55,239 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 2: four undefeated teams. If Florida State loses, now it only

759
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 2: be a question of this, would you pick Texas or

760
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 2: would you pick Ohio State? Because Ohio State is ranked

761
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 2: ahead of Texas this week, but they didn't play in

762
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 2: a conference championship game, You'd have.

763
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 4: To go with Texas, right, have to not necessarily.

764
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 2: Not necessarily.

765
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 3: Right, necessarily Wait a second, yet, the only loss that

766
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 3: Ohio State has is to Michigan.

767
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 4: A number three ranked Michigan.

768
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Speaker 9: Right, who would but the number to be either two?

769
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 9: I mean they'll be ranked to either be number one

770
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 9: or two depending on what happens.

771
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 3: Yes, and their game as well. They got to close

772
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 3: out their game later on today as well.

773
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if Texas gets beaten out by Ohio

774
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: State for that last slot?

775
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 4: I can't imagine it. I can see it.

776
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 2: Alright, how's this going to play out? We're followed the

777
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: SEC Championship Game two. It's finish. Keep it here. This

778
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Speaker 2: is Fox Football Saturday.

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789
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Speaker 2: end zone again. They're reviewing the play and it looks

790
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 2: to me like the balls on the goal line. Is

791
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: he short? Eyah, I think he's in. That's touchdown, all right.

792
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 2: We'll see what the ruling is going to be. His elbow,

793
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 2: I see the elbow. The elbow is short of the

794
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 2: goal line, all right, So we're gonna probably get a

795
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: a half yard away from Alabama trying to extend their

796
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: twenty to seventeen lead, nine minutes to go in the

797
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. Ephraim, we have been talking and we'll continue

798
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: to figure this whole thing out, of which teams are

799
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 2: eventually going to make it to the final four. Here

800
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 2: on the college football playoffs, here's the ruling on the field.

801
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: They are going to say that the ball was down

802
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 2: down the line. Yeah, the elbow was down clearly before

803
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 2: the goal line, and that's what it is. So we'll

804
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: have that touchdowns taken off the board. So first and

805
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: goal at the one yard line for Alabama. Jalen Milroe

806
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: is ten of twenty in this game, one hundred and

807
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: fifty six yards. He does have a couple of touchdown passes,

808
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 2: no picks. Is it enough for him to get a

809
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 2: seat in New York for the Heisman Show? Again, it's

810
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:53,479
Speaker 2: a very regional award voting, Ephraim. Remember Stetson Bennett last

811
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 2: year got enough votes to get a trip to New York.

812
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was crazy.

813
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 2: You know, it's like, okay, how did.

814
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 4: He come on? Guys?

815
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 2: Really well, but he got a lot of votes out

816
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 2: of the Well, I know there are Georgia fans out

817
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 2: there saying, how dare you the guy won back? To

818
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 2: back national championship. He had no help, of course wasted.

819
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 2: Yes he was. Who was in the fourth round? The

820
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 2: Rams took him, don't you remember.

821
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

822
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 2: Alabama's first attempt from first and goals not in. There's

823
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 2: short Georgia Stonium right up the middle. But they have

824
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: the right idea. But again, at the end of this day,

825
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 2: we're going to try to figure out which four teams

826
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: eventually are going to get into the college football playoffs.

827
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 2: So if you're just joining us right now, here are

828
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 2: the most likely scenarios in terms of how this is

829
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 2: going to play out, Which four teams are going to

830
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: battle for a quote unquote national championship still not an

831
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 2: official nationals championship. We know that Washington is in right now,

832
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 2: they're the only team that's in dose they finish thirteen

833
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 2: and o. Michigan is likely to go to thirteen and

834
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: oh if they beat Iowa and Alabama on that try,

835
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 2: they are signaling touchdown. So Alabama's scored, we're inside six

836
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 2: minutes to go, and Alabama is an extra point of way,

837
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 2: increasing the lead to ten points over Georgia. All right,

838
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 2: so Michigan will beat Iowa. We assume i guess Washington

839
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: is in. Florida State holds the key here. Florida State,

840
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 2: down to their third string quarterback, will play Louisville tonight

841
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: in the ACC Championship. If Florida State wins, boom, they're in.

842
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 2: Those are to be your three undefeated teams, Michigan, Washington,

843
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: Florida State. Who's next?

844
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 4: Wait?

845
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 2: Say it's got to be Alabama, right they won the

846
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 2: SEC championship.

847
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 4: Not so fast.

848
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 2: Wait a second, Texas just won the Big twelve championship

849
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 2: and Texas beat Alabama year on the road. Now, if

850
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 2: this committee, and this is the last year of this

851
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 2: four team beginning, has any credibility at all, you can't

852
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 2: ignore head to head, especially since the game was at Alabama.

853
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 2: You can't ignore that. Well, you can't keep you can't

854
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 2: keep the SEC out of the playoff.

855
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 4: Yeah you can.

856
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 2: This is coming from a Pac twelve guy who's only

857
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 2: seen two Pac twelve teams ever in the playoffs. This

858
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 2: is only the third time that the Pac twelve has

859
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 2: even gotten a school into the playoff. And honestly, you've

860
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 2: been watching this game, ephrom I have either one of

861
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 2: these teams blowing away right now.

862
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 3: No, but you can also chalk that up to the

863
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 3: level of competition. We know that these two are the

864
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 3: best programs in the country. Sure, with the majority of

865
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 3: next year first rookie NFL players throughout both of these teams.

866
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's not gonna be sexy and cute all

867
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 3: the time when you have this level of competition, especially

868
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 3: in college.

869
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 2: All right, so let's let's let's play this out. Let's

870
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 2: say Michigan wins in Florida State wins, So Michigan would

871
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 2: be the one seed, Washington be the two seed, Florida

872
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 2: State would be the three seed, Texas would be the

873
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 2: four seed. Is that a sexy semi final for you, Michigan, Texas,

874
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 2: Florida State versus Washington. But Florida State Washington is not

875
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 2: very sexy without Jordan Travis. No.

876
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 3: The only outlier is it's you know, Louisville can do

877
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 3: us a huge favor today.

878
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 2: Yes, Now, if Louisville were to knock out Florida State,

879
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 2: assuming Alabama wins this game against Georgia, then Alabama and

880
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 2: Texas would move on into the playoff. That would be

881
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 2: pretty easy. Ohio State fans, forget it, stop screaming you

882
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 2: lost to Michigan again out out, you would have four

883
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 2: conference champions Michigan, Washington, Alabama, Texas, Alabama the four seed.

884
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 2: How would you like to see a Michigan Alabama semi final?

885
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 2: That's what we're looking at. Yeah, oh yeah, Jim Harbaugh

886
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 2: versus Nick Safe sign of that?

887
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 4: Huh? Is that a see?

888
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: That's a play, But it's only gonna happen if Florida's

889
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: they were to lose, if Alabama hangs on. So Alabama

890
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: right now leading Georgia by a score of twenty seven

891
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 2: to seventeen. And to be honest with you, Georgia, look,

892
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 2: twenty nine wins in a row is an amazing record,

893
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 2: and Kirby Smart has done an incredible coaching job to

894
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 2: get Georgia to this level. There's a reason why no

895
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 2: team has won three straight national championships. Hard. It's hard

896
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 2: enough to try to win back to back, but three

897
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 2: in a row, It's never been done. I was on

898
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 2: that field at the Rose Bowl when us he had

899
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,240
Speaker 2: a chance to do it against Texas.

900
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 4: Not easy, not easy, not easy at all.

901
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 2: So we'll see how this plays out right now. Meanwhile,

902
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: I want to get back to a little of the

903
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 2: NFL news tomorrow. We were talking a little bit earlier

904
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 2: with Adam Kaplan about some of the games tomorrow. But

905
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 2: I want to go back to the game on Thursday

906
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 2: with the ephrom and the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys. This was

907
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 2: quite a shootout game, by the way, and Gino Smith

908
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 2: played a hell of a game. I'm still blown away

909
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 2: by Geno Smith. You know, I'm just just unbelievable to

910
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 2: me that Geno Smith. This is Geno Smith. Where was

911
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,919
Speaker 2: this guy for ten years? Where was this guy?

912
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 3: Opportunity? Situation? Well, I don't want to say opportunity, because

913
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 3: he had opportunity. It's just a talent around and you know,

914
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 3: you can't metcalf Well, you can't be good when you

915
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 3: have five six different coaches slash offensive coordinators early in

916
00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 3: your career.

917
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 4: It just is, it's not conducive to being great.

918
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: I told you that when he came out in the

919
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 2: draft out of West Virginia, and I thought he was

920
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 2: a little overhype because basically I remember I remember of

921
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 2: Western Virginia's offense. He was throwing these bubble screens to

922
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 2: Tavon Austin. He'd throw a five yard pass and then

923
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 2: he'd run sixty yards for a touchdown.

924
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 4: Yeah.

925
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: So I'm in New Orleans for the super Bowl and

926
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 2: I have a chance to do a one on one

927
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 2: taped interview with Gino Smith. Who is you know, expected

928
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 2: to be you know, in early in the draft somewhere.

929
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 2: So I said, down with Gino, just the two of us,

930
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,280
Speaker 2: and I asked him, I said, have you heard anything

931
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 2: yet about what teens might be interested in drafting you?

932
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 2: And he gives me this blank stare. Ephraim just look

933
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 2: at it. He's just looking at me. And I'm like,

934
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 2: have there been teams you know to talk to you?

935
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 2: And he says, and absolutely serious, looks at me. It

936
00:49:55,239 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 2: was you don't know that I'm going to be the

937
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 2: number one picking the draft. I said, well, yeah, you're

938
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 2: going to be a first round pick. But he goes,

939
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 2: he starts looking at other people. He goes, who is

940
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 2: this guy? You don't know that I'm the first pick

941
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 2: in the draft. He was dead serious, and I'm like,

942
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 2: look at him, like did I miss something near? And

943
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 2: so I played along. I said, so you've been assured

944
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:35,399
Speaker 2: of being your and he goes, I Honestly, I don't

945
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 2: know where we're going with this conversation. I mean, he

946
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 2: was just looking at me like I was like the

947
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 2: dumbest person on the planet, Like I'm the only person

948
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 2: on the planet that did not hear the story that

949
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 2: he was going to be the number one overall picking

950
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 2: the draft. Well, obviously he didn't even go in the

951
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,959
Speaker 2: first round. The first quarterback taking that year was EJ.

952
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 2: Manuel out of Florida State. So every time I see

953
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 2: Gina Smith, how could I not remember that one on

954
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 2: my one time?

955
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 4: Do you remind him of that?

956
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 7: No?

957
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 2: I haven't run into Gino to do anyone on one time,

958
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 2: But I love stories like this, a guy like Geno Smith.

959
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:12,919
Speaker 2: But then on the other side, we had the Dallas Cowboys, who,

960
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 2: by the way, have you know they haven't lost at home?

961
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 2: They continue their amazing home record. Dak Prescott played well again,

962
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 2: But I'm not buying into it. I'm just I'm not

963
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 2: buying into the Dallas Cowboys. Right now, We've got this

964
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 2: game between the forty nine Ers and the Eagles coming up,

965
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 2: and to me, when you look at the NFC right now,

966
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 2: those two teams are clear clearly a step above the

967
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys, clearly yep. In fact, because Seattle's now six

968
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 2: and six at least Dallas can say we beat a

969
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 2: team that's five hundred this year, because everybody else they've

970
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 2: beaten has a losing.

971
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 4: YEA, Seattle gave that game away. They should have Wait,

972
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 4: they gave that game away.

973
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 2: Richard Sherman, by the way, picked Seattle before the and

974
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 2: he had a lot of insight. Well he was a

975
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 2: former Seahawk obviously, But yeah, I thought the Seahawks had

976
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 2: that game. I just I'm not. I look at the

977
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 2: NFL right now, e from and to me, there are

978
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 2: four teams in contention to be in the Super Bowl.

979
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 4: That's it.

980
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 2: It's either going to be the Ravens or the Chiefs

981
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 2: and the AFC Eagles forty nine ers in the NFC.

982
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 2: I don't buy into the Dolphins. I don't buy into

983
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. The Jaguars, and Thewaians aren't quite ready for

984
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 2: prime time yet. Maybe in a couple of years. But

985
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 2: that's it, all right. So Alabama Georgia twenty seven to seventeen.

986
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 2: We're inside three minutes to go right now.

987
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 3: They can't get in an end zone. It's been first

988
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 3: in goal from the one second and goal from the one.

989
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 2: Georgia trying to get in the end zone to try

990
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 2: to make this a field goal game. And that play

991
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 2: was half a yard short. So this is what it's

992
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 2: going to come down, right, So let's keep it right here.

993
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 2: We got a fourth down inside the one yard line

994
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 2: right now, Georgia's last gaffs as we are inside three

995
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 2: minutes to go. If Alabama stones there, all right, e

996
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 2: from that's your call. You're the offensive coordinator for Georgia,

997
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 2: and make the call. It's going to get the ball

998
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 2: in the end zone.

999
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 3: You line up, you got a half a yard ight

1000
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 3: formation and snap the ball.

1001
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 4: Jump. Just reach the ball over.

1002
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 3: That's it. Just reach it over. It's less than the

1003
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 3: yard's half a yard six inches. Just reach it over,

1004
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 3: pull it back, reach it over, pull it back.

1005
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 4: That's it. All he has to do is break the

1006
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 4: plane right.

1007
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 2: So you never take the ball out of your quarterback's hand.

1008
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 4: No, you don't turn around, you don't hand it off.

1009
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 2: Why is this so difficult? By the way, the push

1010
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 2: is legal in college, is it not?

1011
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 4: Yes, it is.

1012
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 2: Why shouldn't teams be working on that push the way

1013
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 2: the Eagles have perfected it? Why don't more teams do that?

1014
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 2: The Eagles have done it to such perfection. Remember the

1015
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 2: bush push. Yes, Anesse beat Notre Dame, which was illegal,

1016
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 2: by the way in those days.

1017
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 4: There's a big play right here.

1018
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. So we're inside the one

1019
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 2: yard line, Georgia trailing Alabama by ten, twenty seven to seventeen.

1020
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 2: We got two fifty four to go in the fourth quarter.

1021
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 2: They got a half a yard on fourth end goal

1022
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 2: to score a touchdown. Carson Beck, their quarterback, is under center.

1023
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,320
Speaker 2: They're lined up in an eye formation, and that doesn't

1024
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 2: look like a fullback. That looks like an offensive lineman

1025
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 2: at fullback, and they're gonna hand the ball off straight

1026
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 2: ahead and he gets in the end zone. Touchdown.

1027
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 4: Georgia.

1028
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 2: All right, we got a game. We got a game

1029
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 2: right now, Georgia extra point away from making this a

1030
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 2: three point game. Keep it right here for all the latest.

1031
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Saturday.

1032
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 4: I formation.

1033
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: Morris the fullback, Milton the tailback.

1034
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 4: Back under center, hands it to Milton with the lead.

1035
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 2: Blocking, gets in standing up, drives in behind the block

1036
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 2: of Michael Morris off the right edge.

1037
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 7: Touchdown Georgia. Huge block right there by Michael Morrison.

1038
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 2: That's Scott Howard from Larfield right there. Georgia cutting into

1039
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 2: that Alabama lead twenty seven to twenty four, but Alabama

1040
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 2: is on the move again once again. Steve Harbin he

1041
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 2: from Salam with you Fox Football Saturday Company Alive from

1042
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 2: the tire rack dot Com studios. By the way, shortly

1043
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 2: after the show, our podcast is going up. If you

1044
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 2: miss any of today's show, be sure to check out

1045
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,120
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1046
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,640
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1047
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,600
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1048
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,439
Speaker 2: you get your podcasts to see this show posted right

1049
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 2: after we get off the air. All right, So Alabama

1050
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,720
Speaker 2: is in a position now where they can pretty much

1051
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:37,240
Speaker 2: run out the clocks over twenty seven to twenty four Alabama.

1052
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 2: On the first play, Jalen Milroe quarterback keeper. Then he

1053
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 2: runs for what twenty twenty five yards? Yes, and slides

1054
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 2: before he goes out of bounds to keep the clock running.

1055
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:51,439
Speaker 2: Smart play there.

1056
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 4: On the next pretty much it. On the next play

1057
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 4: he ran for another first down. Yeah.

1058
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 2: So Jaln Milroe, by the way, in this game actually

1059
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 2: had negative ears. It's rushing because he's been sacked several times,

1060
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 2: and sacks do counts rushing yards in the college game.

1061
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 2: Not the pro game. By the way, Yeah again, I

1062
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 2: look at Jalen Milroe as one of the great comeback stories.

1063
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 2: All Right, they're talking now about playoff contenders. George is out.

1064
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 2: They're done. I'm sorry. If Georgia loses this game, have

1065
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 2: to run. That's it, and that is it. They're taking

1066
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 2: the knee. The final seconds, final minute is going to

1067
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 2: be counting out down right now, and Alabama's going to

1068
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 2: win this game. George is out. They're behind Texas and

1069
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 2: obviously they're now behind Alabama. Their only hope of getting

1070
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 2: in is if Michigan were to lose to Iowa and

1071
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 2: Florida State. We're lose to little bit Florida State. They

1072
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 2: both have to losep That is Georgia's only chance now

1073
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 2: to get into the playoffs. The twenty nine game winning

1074
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 2: streak is done. Over three in a row not happening.

1075
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 2: You'll never see a school one three in a row.

1076
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 2: It's just not gonna happen.

1077
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 4: That is it.

1078
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 2: The final seconds are tacking down Alabama, and this is

1079
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 2: amazing story for Nick Saban and Alabama. Ephrom you know

1080
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 2: they lose that game to Texas. He benches mill Roll

1081
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 2: for an entire game, a lot of people were saying

1082
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 2: the game had passed them by, it's time for Nick

1083
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 2: Saban to hang it up, and he rattles off a

1084
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 2: huge winning streak to end up as SEC champions, but

1085
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 2: in the process may have eliminated the SEC from the

1086
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 2: college football playoff. There is no way that if it

1087
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 2: comes down to Texas versus Alabama for that four slot,

1088
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 2: if Florida State wins later undefeated.

1089
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 7: They're in.

1090
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 3: Let me tell you this, if that were to happen,

1091
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 3: Nick Saban is going to blow a gasket.

1092
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 2: Well he can blow a gas, but more people are

1093
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 2: going to blow a gasket. If it comes down to

1094
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: a one loss Texas versus the one loss Alabama both

1095
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 2: conference champions, and Texas beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa, There's no

1096
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: way a committee could walk out of there and say, well,

1097
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 2: Alabama's playing better football right now. They're not. Did you

1098
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 2: watch Texas today? I know Oklahoma State, I mean yours

1099
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 2: was almost I think he started the game eleven for

1100
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 2: eleven passing, So you can't even make that claim. Well,

1101
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 2: Alabama's just playing better football right now. They needed a

1102
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 2: miracle to beat Auburn last week, and they eat out

1103
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 2: a three point win today against the Georgia team that

1104
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 2: was a little overrated. They just didn't play a whole

1105
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 2: lot of ranked teams. They had one game against the

1106
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 2: top ten team that year and this year was Ole.

1107
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 4: Miss That was it.

1108
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 2: So this would be it would really be ironic that

1109
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 2: the Ford team playoff. This is the tenth and final

1110
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 2: year of this where the SEC has completely dominated this

1111
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 2: playoff system over the years. Could get shut out. Man,

1112
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 2: am I rooting for Florida State? If you if you're

1113
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 2: one of those that are really tired of the SEC,

1114
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 2: how much are you rooting for Florida State going to it?

1115
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1116
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 2: But if Florida, look at Florida.

1117
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 4: You're rooting for Louisville and you're rooting for no. We

1118
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 4: know this.

1119
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 2: If Florida State lose, we're gonna assume Michigan can handle Iowa.

1120
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 2: We're just assuming that. But if Florida State loses, then

1121
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 2: Alabama and Texas are in.

1122
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 3: If Florida State loses, listen to me, and this is

1123
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 3: what I'm going to tell you is going to happen.

1124
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 3: If Florida State loses, then Georgia and Alabama will be in.

1125
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 3: Listen to what I'm telling you over Texas. If Florida

1126
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 3: State loses, Georgia and Alabama will be in the College

1127
00:59:58,280 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 3: football playoffs.

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Speaker 2: All right, I know know what you're saying. I know

1129
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 2: exactly what you're saying, and I'm I'm not gonna laugh

1130
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 2: at that, because you're right. They would have Alabama as

1131
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 2: the three seed. Georgia is the four seed to set

1132
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 2: up a Georgia Michigan seven is going to be and

1133
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 2: then have Alabama.

1134
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 4: That's what it's going to be.

1135
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 2: And Texas gets shut out. Yep, that's what they get

1136
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 2: for bolting to the SEC. You realize how awkward some

1137
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 2: of these conference championship games were? Yeah, the PAC twelve

1138
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 2: championship game. Can I get Nick on here for a second, Lorena,

1139
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 2: Can you open up Nick's mike for a second here,

1140
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 2: because we were talking about this the outgoing Is he

1141
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 2: an outgoing commissioner of the PAC twelve, which is going

1142
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 2: to be the official of the PAC two next year?

1143
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 2: How is that work? Nick?

1144
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 8: That's a very good question. What's going to become of

1145
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 8: George Clayoff Coffe? Because in well, how awkward was that

1146
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 8: he wanted no part of that stage? She knew he

1147
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 8: had to be up there he didn't say anything. He said,

1148
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 8: Holly Row, you take care of all of this. And

1149
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 8: the second he handed that trophy to Kaitlin de Boor,

1150
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 8: he's scurried out of there like a little weasel, just

1151
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:12,959
Speaker 8: got out, didn't say a word, and you know he'll

1152
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 8: collect his regular paycheck as he has been. But yeah,

1153
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 8: the Pac Twolf's still gonna exist, or maybe they'll call

1154
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 8: it the Pack two whatever. But Oregon State Washington State,

1155
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 8: you know, they're given a two year grace period, so

1156
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 8: they're gonna be a two team conference.

1157
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 2: There's no rush. Now, they're gonna be playing a Mountain

1158
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 2: West Conference schedule for the large part is what the

1159
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 2: two schools are going to be doing. But for next year,

1160
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 2: but they will not be Mountain West Conference schools. He'll

1161
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 2: be in their own conference a two school calls.

1162
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 3: At least both of the schools will be in the

1163
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 3: conference championship. Somebody's gonna be a Pack twelve, a Pack

1164
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 3: two champion. Somebody's gonna be the first and only Packs champion.

1165
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 2: Will they actually have a conference championship game when you

1166
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 2: only have two teams in the conference.

1167
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, why not?

1168
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 2: So so you clinch your spot in the conference champions

1169
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: you're in before the season begins in now, that sets

1170
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 2: a precedent. Nick, Thank you very much on that. Actually,

1171
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 2: let's uh, let's find out what it's trending right now.

1172
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 2: Let's keep with Nick right now to try to give

1173
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 2: us his span a little update on where we stand

1174
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 2: right now on this championship.

1175
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 8: So I was just listening into a Nick Saban postgame

1176
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 8: with Jenny Dell on the CBS broadcast, and I just

1177
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 8: love how coaches of these high level programs find a

1178
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 8: way to say nobody believed in us.

1179
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 2: Or we had all these doubters, like they got all

1180
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 2: these five star recruits every single year, and yeah, how

1181
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 2: did Alabama turn that?

1182
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 8: Just can't just absolutely stunned. Alabama ends Georgie's twenty nine

1183
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 8: game winning streak, the first loss for Georgia since the

1184
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 8: twenty twenty one SEC title game. Also, of course against Alabama,

1185
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 8: we do have a couple of title games still going

1186
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 8: on at the group of five level. SMU leading tou

1187
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 8: Lane twenty three to fourteen, got three and a half

1188
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 8: to play, Mustangs may be able to ice this one

1189
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 8: with another score here and Troy, they have just finished

1190
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 8: off app State to win the Sun Belt title forty

1191
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 8: nine to twenty three. The final score finals from earlier today.

1192
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 8: Number seven Texas blowout win over Oklahoma State forty nine

1193
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 8: twenty one quinn ewers four hundred and fifty two yards,

1194
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 8: four touchdowns. Both those numbers are records. In the Big

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01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 8: twelve Championship game, you aus had Boise State with an

1196
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 8: interim coach b UNLV for the Mountain West title. Miami

1197
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 8: upset Toledo to win the MAC Championship, and then we've

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01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 8: got two more games coming up Michigan Iowa. That's five

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Speaker 8: o'clock Pacific time, eight East Coast on Fox. Also at

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01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 8: eighties turned the ACC Championship Louisville and Florida State. Some

1201
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 8: news in the NFL. Bengals coach Zach Taylor said receiver

1202
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 8: t Higgins will play Monday against the Jaguars. For Jacksonville

1203
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 8: coach Doug Peterson said he expects running back Travis Etn

1204
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 8: to play. Chiefs have ruled out running back Jerick McKinnon

1205
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 8: for Sunday Night A football against the Packers. Colts elevated

1206
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 8: running back Time Goodson and receiver DJ Montgomery to the

1207
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 8: active roster. They've got the Titans tomorrow at a baseball

1208
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 8: Dodgers and reliever Joe Kelly. According to multiple reports, they

1209
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 8: are finalizing a one year deal.

1210
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Speaker 2: Guys, back to you, all right, Nick, thank you very much.

1211
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 2: Once again, we're coming alive from the Tirak dot com studios.

1212
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 2: All right, to continue on with where you're going on this, Ephraim,

1213
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 2: you're making a lot of sense again from the very

1214
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 2: get go, the beginning of this four play four school playoff,

1215
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 2: I remember like it was yesterday, and I made this prediction.

1216
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 2: I said this, if you've been frustrated by the BCS

1217
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 2: Championship game, you're going to be twice as frustrated about

1218
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 2: a for school playoff because one, you have five power

1219
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 2: conferences and you only have a four school playoff, which

1220
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 2: means every year one of these conferences is guaranteed of

1221
01:04:56,360 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 2: being shut out. And then we we've had several years

1222
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 2: where we had two teams from the same conference, which

1223
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 2: means that two conferences have been shut out. I knew

1224
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 2: this was going to happen. I also knew this, and

1225
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 2: I've said this with all due respect to ESPN, it's

1226
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 2: their game. They'll put the schools in that they want.

1227
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 2: Thank you, And this gets back to what you were

1228
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 2: talking about. So let's play this out again. If Florida

1229
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 2: State wins, they're in, and that leaves one slot left

1230
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 2: and it's going to come down to Alabama or Texas.

1231
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 2: But if Alabama or if Florida State loses, that leaves

1232
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 2: two slots open. And I've been saying, well, then it's easy.

1233
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 2: Alabama and Texas both won their conference championships. They're both in,

1234
01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 2: and what you're saying is not so fast. Even with

1235
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 2: Texas beating Alabama, what's more attractive for ESPN? How about

1236
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 2: a semi final game between Georgia and Michigan and the

1237
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 2: other semi Washington versus Alabama. Is Georgia sexier than Texas?

1238
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 4: Yes?

1239
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 2: Yes, well, especially especially since ESPN controls two conferences, the

1240
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 2: ACC and the SEC. Paul Feyman is on twenty four

1241
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 2: hours a day talking about the SEC. Now, I'll tell

1242
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 2: you what if that plays out, Texas may leave the Union.

1243
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean they've they've been talking about it

1244
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 2: for years. You know, Texas like leaving That might that

1245
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 2: might end it right there. I mean, it would be

1246
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 2: weird bad enough if they just picked Alabama. But there's

1247
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 2: two slots open and they take Alabama and Georgia and

1248
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 2: leave Texas behind as a conference champion.

1249
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 3: So a good friend of mine, Brian, who's avid listener, listening,

1250
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:11,680
Speaker 3: so he says, it's not a chance, it's no shot

1251
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 3: that Alabama and Georgia gets in, and then.

1252
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 2: They could do whatever they want to do.

1253
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 4: That's the whole point. I mean, people, as you.

1254
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, a twenty eight and one over the last two years,

1255
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 3: twenty nine and one team Georgia who's ranked number one

1256
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:36,919
Speaker 3: in the country losing to Alabama by three by three

1257
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 3: is much sexier than a Texas team. That's just what

1258
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:46,800
Speaker 3: it I Look, hey man.

1259
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 2: Here here, I'll put it this way. If Florida State

1260
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 2: loses opening two slots and they pick Alabama and Georgia

1261
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 2: and leave Texas out, the guys in that room you're

1262
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 2: making that decision are gonna be running.

1263
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 7: Who would you want to be?

1264
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 2: Let me running out of that room so fast. No

1265
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 2: one will answer any questions. Lead the chairman of the boo,

1266
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 2: whatever his name, he's got to figure it out.

1267
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 4: You want to make Nick Saban Matt or Steve.

1268
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 2: Sharkisian sarcuming his former offensive coordinator.

1269
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 4: Like woo woo woo.

1270
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:21,759
Speaker 2: Well, I mean but it wouldn't be Alabama, would be Georgia.

1271
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,639
Speaker 2: I mean Georgia. Georgia walks off the field a loser.

1272
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 7: Today.

1273
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:30,639
Speaker 3: We just talked about a scenario. Would neither gets in.

1274
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:35,720
Speaker 2: Correct, because if Florida State wins and Michigan wins, that's

1275
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 2: three undefeated teams, leaving one slot open between two conference

1276
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 2: champions Texas and Alabama. And Texas beat Alabama, Bye Bye Alabama,

1277
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 2: Bye bye SEC. So we could have zero SEC teams.

1278
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 2: We could have all one SEC team or two.

1279
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 4: You want, it's gonna be. TV would give Florida State.

1280
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 2: There's Mike again because Neat you're there.

1281
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 8: Well, I just I feel like there's a possibility that

1282
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 8: Florida State wins and they're not in. You guys are

1283
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 8: saying they're in, and I wonder if if it's tight,

1284
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:16,480
Speaker 8: well that quarterback.

1285
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 2: The only reason I will say Florida State is in

1286
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:21,679
Speaker 2: it is again ACC is covered by ESPN.

1287
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 8: But if you're talking about maybe Florida State doesn't play well,

1288
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 8: they squeak by, they're down guys at quarterback, You've got

1289
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 8: Alabama maybe to look at there as well.

1290
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 2: If you leave out a undefeated Florida State team that's worse.

1291
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 2: That's worse than a one loss Texas team leaving them out.

1292
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 2: That's hard to explain a Power five undefeated team out

1293
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 2: of the playoffs.

1294
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 8: I'm just I'm just saying, if they're supposed to pick

1295
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,760
Speaker 8: the best teams, which is supposed to be their criteria,

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Speaker 8: So again, the question is is it the most deserving

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Speaker 8: or the best team? All right, let me ask their

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Speaker 8: criteria is supposed to be best?

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Speaker 2: Nick, let me ask you right now as we sit here,

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Speaker 2: right now, he from best four teams in the country.

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Speaker 2: Are best four teams in the country are right now?

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Speaker 4: Yes, best four teams in the country are Washington.

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Speaker 2: Washington, Michigan, Michigan.

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Speaker 4: I still think george is one of the best four

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Speaker 4: teams in the country.

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Speaker 2: Georgia and okay, Alabama, Right, so those are your four

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Speaker 2: best would those are the four best teams?

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Speaker 8: I would flip. I would take Georgia out, I'd put

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Speaker 8: Texas in.

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Speaker 2: So Texas is better than Georgia and.

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Speaker 3: Your do you if Georgia and Texas played, who do

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Speaker 3: you think would win? Honestly, who do you think?

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Speaker 4: I don't know who would win?

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Speaker 2: It could be a great game. Okay, No, I hear

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Speaker 2: I can tell you right now who would win. Let

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Speaker 2: me let me ask you this. I know that last

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Speaker 2: year we had the TCU upset against Michigan, which still

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Speaker 2: defies all logic, right, and then watch TCU lose to

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Speaker 2: Georgia sixty five to seven in the championship game. But

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Speaker 2: the Big Twelve by and large has been a zero

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Speaker 2: factor in the playoff. I mean, Oklahoma would lose first

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Speaker 2: round every time. Right, So if you're if you're asking

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Speaker 2: who would win a matchup in a playoff game between

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Speaker 2: Texas and Georgia, Georgia would be favored in that game,

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Speaker 2: am I right?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Right?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So if they're favored, then they would be expected

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Speaker 2: to win that game, sure, which I guess would make

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Speaker 2: the argument that Georgia is a better team than Texas.

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Speaker 4: That's what beat That would be.

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Speaker 8: The it's an argument, right, Oregon was a nine and

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Speaker 8: a half point favorite last night.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: The one thing we can throw out is they should

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Speaker 2: pick the foremost deserving teams that that has never been

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Speaker 2: in play. Then, from the beginning of this whole playoff thing,

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Speaker 2: that has never been the play. Who is the most deserving?

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Speaker 2: Did you know how they snuck in Cincinnati. Remember it

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01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 2: was during the COVID year. That's how they snuck them in. Said, say,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be a Power five conference. It

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Speaker 2: was a throwaway is what that was. Remember Alabama just

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Speaker 2: you know, boat raced everybody that year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: From You're right, I mean that would just be unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Look, man, I'm not saying it's.

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Speaker 2: You want to hear a worst scenario because of what

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Speaker 2: Nick said about Florida State. Imagine if Florida State wins

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Speaker 2: and they pick WASHINGA, Michigan, Georgia, and Alabama and leave

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Speaker 2: Florida State out undefeated, saying a one loss. Again, if

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Speaker 2: you had a one loss Georgia versus Florida State or

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Speaker 2: a one loss Alabama versus Florida State, who would be favored.

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Speaker 2: Georgia and Alabama would be double digit favorites in both games.

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Speaker 2: So they're they're already I guarantee you in that room.

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Speaker 2: What they're already doing is saying our game plan, it's

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Speaker 2: the last year. It's a throwaway year, right, it's last year.

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Speaker 2: Four best teams, and we do not think with Florida

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Speaker 2: State where their backup quarterback is one of the four

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Speaker 2: best teams and Texas is loading up in the Big twelve. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: they're not one of the four best teams. What about

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Speaker 2: their winning against Alabama? That was early in the year,

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Speaker 2: different Alabama team. This, how's all going to play out?

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Speaker 2: So I think I think you're onto something here, But man,

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Speaker 2: oh man, if that happens, all right, we still have Michigan, Iowa,

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Speaker 2: got Florida State and Louisville. How will those games play?

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Speaker 2: I keep it here. This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 7: And the white.

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Speaker 6: Flag has been waived from.

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Speaker 2: The Georgia sideline.

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Speaker 4: And what do you say, folks, let's get out of here.

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Speaker 2: Bema a winner over the torch of Bulldogs, claiming the

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Speaker 2: SEC title for the thirtieth time in school history.

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Speaker 7: Keep us out, I dare you.

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Speaker 2: That's Chris Stewart there from lair Field. Yes, Alabama defeats Georgia,

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Speaker 2: ending there twenty nine game winning streak Alabama, Knick Saban

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Speaker 2: and Company winning the SEC championship. This is Steve Harbin,

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Speaker 2: he from salav Fox Football Saturday. We're coming alive from

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Speaker 2: the tire rack dot Com studios. By the way, that

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Speaker 2: Randon our producer. Are you excited about your new Santuellie

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Speaker 2: if you finally have a manager with the Padres and

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Speaker 2: you have a coach at San Diego State ephrom are

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Speaker 2: you excited about stealing the demoted offensive coordinator of Dion

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Speaker 2: Sanders as the new football coach of your alma mater.

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Speaker 4: No, see, I'm the opposite. I am excited. I'm not okay, Lorena.

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Speaker 2: By the way, on the board, Lorena is a congratulation

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Speaker 2: of Lorena has now got a full time here Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radia. Well deserved. Thank you so much, Steve. Remember

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Speaker 2: where it started, right here, just say where it started.

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Speaker 2: But Lorena, we're excited for you, and I know the

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Speaker 2: hour is going to be extreme. The good news is

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Speaker 2: you're going to be working with some really, really talented people.

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Speaker 2: I've heard great things about the overnight shows. The overnight

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Speaker 2: shows here at Fox Sports Radio are phenomenal, So enjoy that, Lorena.

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Speaker 2: Are we not going to see you here on the

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Speaker 2: weekends anymore, what's going to happen. I'll be here for

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Speaker 2: at least two or three more months. We got to

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Speaker 2: get someone else trained. And you know how slow we go.

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Speaker 2: I know we're very We're yeah, it's not easy. I

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Speaker 2: would never be able to do what you guys do.

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Speaker 2: Nick Kope, of course, was in today. Good to see

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Speaker 2: Nick again given his commentary along with all the updates

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Speaker 2: throughout the show. By the way, I didn't ask you

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Speaker 2: this today, Ephraim. What did you think of Sports Illustrative

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01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 2: picking Dion Sanders as Sportsman of the Year. Social media

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01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 2: went crazy, like, gee, imagine if they win two games

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Speaker 2: in the conference next year? What awards? He's gonna win

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Speaker 2: three and zho start. He kept saying, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: keep her sipts. Then he goes one in eight in

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Speaker 2: conference play, they finished four and eight. They just lost

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Speaker 2: three top recruits, decommitted from Colorado, his offensive coordinator, who

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Speaker 2: demoted during the season, now the coach at yer alma mater,

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Speaker 2: San Diego State. But in the entire sports world, Deon

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Speaker 2: Sanders selected as the Sportsperson of the Year.

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Speaker 3: I can see it. I know why he galvanized college football.

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Speaker 3: He made college football outside of college football fans exciting.

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Speaker 3: My wife, who may have never sat down and watched

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Speaker 3: a college football game, was asking me what time the

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Speaker 3: Colorado play.

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Speaker 2: You know what is a bost impressive accomplishment. The Colorado

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Speaker 2: UCLA game of the rosebuld was sold out. You know

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Speaker 2: the last time Ucla outside of an SC game, had

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Speaker 2: to sell out at the rose Ball. Look it just

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Speaker 2: uh do you believe though that he can Look he

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Speaker 2: took over a one and eleven team to go four

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Speaker 2: and eight, but they were one in eight in the

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Speaker 2: conference and things really went south late in the year,

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Speaker 2: really bad. I mean, is he gonna turn it around

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Speaker 2: at Colorado? Are they going to be a bold team?

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Speaker 2: I mean, what is the future according to Ephraim Salaam

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Speaker 2: for Deon Sanders and the Colorado football.

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Speaker 3: I think having another year, another year of full recruiting

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Speaker 3: and transfers.

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Speaker 2: He's got to get an offensive lining.

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Speaker 3: Well that's that. Those those are the two positions that

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Speaker 3: take time. Offense and defensive line. You can find all

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Speaker 3: the skill positions players in the world, right run Cats

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Speaker 3: do all of those. Quarterback you can get those guys,

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Speaker 3: but the guys up front it's hard to number one

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01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 3: to steal those from other teams, So that means you

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01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 3: have to develop younger players. In order to do that,

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01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 3: you have to recruit five star guys out of high

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01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 3: school who some may not be ready to play at

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Speaker 3: that level.

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Speaker 4: Now, the good thing about it is.

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Speaker 3: People have been called that people want to go like

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Speaker 3: they want to go to Colorado.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but now they had three top recruits, including two

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks d commitment.

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Speaker 4: Well, even know the quarterback is going to be you know.

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Speaker 2: Well we know Shador Sanders will be the quarterback for

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Speaker 2: one more year.

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Speaker 3: But after that, look, I'm not sure how this thing

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Speaker 3: will play out. But I enjoyed the energy at ear

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Speaker 3: and of course early on. But you know, we you

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01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:55,880
Speaker 3: can't take the worst team in college football and make

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Speaker 3: them like people who didn't know the sport.

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Speaker 2: After the TCU got starting with your wife, they were

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Speaker 2: thinking they were chair They're going to the national tam

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, hey, slow down.

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Speaker 4: So this just pipe.

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01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 2: Said on this very show. All right, let's let's see

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Speaker 2: what happens once they get into conference play.

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Speaker 3: Because PAC twelve had one of the if not the

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Speaker 3: strongest conference of any conference in Power.

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Speaker 4: Five this year.

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Speaker 3: They finished last so yeah, I mean they won three

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Speaker 3: more games than they did last year. Yes, they did so.

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Speaker 3: But I understand about getting him giving him the Sportsman

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Speaker 3: of the Year award because he did something for college

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01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 3: football that we hadn't seen at on this level, without

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Speaker 3: winning with without without winning a national championship or something

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Speaker 3: like that. In terms of marketing, I mean, you couldn't

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Speaker 3: turn on the television on a Saturday without watching you know,

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Speaker 3: the sunglasses, pizza, Chicken, all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 2: I I'm like, who else would they have picked?

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Speaker 7: Yo kitch?

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Speaker 4: I mean, but how has that resonated? Why? Exactly?

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Speaker 2: That's my point. Look, my first reaction was I didn't

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Speaker 2: even know Sports Illustrated was still around, So is it?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I mean there's a reason that that.

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Speaker 2: I mean that you make outrageous choices. You know, there

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Speaker 2: aren't a lot of foreign eight football coaches on the

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01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:31,600
Speaker 2: college level to get named Sportsmen of the Year. But

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Speaker 2: if you do that, then you're gonna get a few

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Speaker 2: people at least talking about you out there. All right,

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Speaker 2: So your thoughts on Jim Harby could being back on

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Speaker 2: the sideline from Michigan.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, we can save his assistant coaches. Tears now,

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Speaker 3: so that's success a good thing. Oh goodness. It was

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01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:51,839
Speaker 3: like he was he had died or something.

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01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 4: Man. I'm like, well they at the hotel, wow. At home.

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Speaker 2: All I know is Jim Harbor. I can't get out

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Speaker 2: of Michigan soon enough.

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Speaker 4: They better win this game.

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Speaker 2: I know that he'll be back in the NFL next year.

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Speaker 2: For all the latest, keep it here. This is Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.