WEBVTT - College Football Rivalry Week Recap 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.560 Navy Federal has a mission to put its members first 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:09.000 by making their financial goals the priority. Receive a lifetime 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.240 of membership benefits to help you and your family accomplish 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.400 your life missions like a full suite of financial products 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.279 designed to fit your needs, twenty four to seven, live support, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.880 and access to over three hundred branches on or near 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.600 military bases. 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My man Dan Rubinstein, sir, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.279 how are you tie? 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:14.759 Like ed Orzron? I am tired. I feel disheartened at 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:20.360 certain things. Yeah, but ultimately I'm resolute and inexplicably still 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:21.520 covered in gatorade. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.600 We're a little bit tired, Dan, are we not. It 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.160 was a late night, not just because of the in 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.919 my case Notre Dame game, the Notre Dame win over USC, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.679 which we'll get into and winding down from that game, 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.960 but then also I get back to the house because 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.640 I watched with Mama aged and solid wife, and lay 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.639 down in bed ready to turn in for the evening. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.000 Another successful day of college football week thirteen. By the way, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:02:01.240 we been a while since I played that sound, but yes, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.880 as we kind of get towards the end of November 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.800 here and particularly on Thanksgiving weekend, need to play it. Anyway. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.040 I'm laying in bed, ready to turn in for the night. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.960 Another successful college football weekend. And then I look at 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:18.240 my phone, and I look at Twitter coming alive at 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.480 the prospect of septuple overtime. That's seven overtimes in the 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.000 LSU Texas A and M game. A and M eventually 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.840 did end up winning that football game seventy four to 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.880 seventy two. We'll get into that as well. But a 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.480 little bit of a later night for us old goats here. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.280 It was, indeed, ty, it was indeed. I think we 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.080 are better for the wear. I don't think we're worse 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.079 for the wear. But we've got a lot to run down. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.280 And luckily I was fortifying my brain with what was 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.160 what four days, three and a half days of college 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:54.240 football weirdness. So I am, I am strengthened, and I'm ready. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.480 You are correct. Why don't we start here where we 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.920 always do on a Sunday. Let's get into your week thirteen, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.959 your rivalry week, your Thanksgiving Day week, reverbs. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:10.880 Have a listen, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim. I'm not mad, Jim, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:17.120 I'm just disappointed. He this is where calling from the 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:17.760 horse roop. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.400 Hi, this is Adreams from New York City. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.959 Hey, everyone, Bourballer's world at Large. Alex from Shanghai calling Patty. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.960 This is Sarah from Houston. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:28.920 Listen. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.960 Jim Harbaugh is a dork and he will never ever 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:33.839 be Ohio State. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.040 What was your favorite Michigan run up the middle for 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:37.760 no game? 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.000 Summarizing Ern Myers press conference, it takes a tough man 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.760 to make a tender chicken fo Hi. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.560 I'm a Michigan State fan, Okay, I'm going to. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:50.160 Hang up now. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.840 As a Hawkeye fan living in Lincoln, Nebraska, I just 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.520 want to take some time to reflect on this Nebraska 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:57.720 finishes four and eight. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.280 God, that feels good to say that this. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:01.440 Is Michael and Madison. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.600 Let it be known that nobody beats Minnesota sixteen times. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.480 In a row, which it looks like for the second 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:08.040 year in a row. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.880 I like Indiana is going to be able to save 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.080 the day for a ball game. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.120 If you took the under in the OU West Virginia game, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:21.360 number one, what were you thinking? And number two, I'm sorry, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.880 I'm so sorry. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.320 And then like to report the entire West Virginia offense 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:32.080 today losing effort. Do you think that the long worn 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.479 defense knows that there's four quarters in a football game? 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.480 Do you do you think they know that they're wie 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.839 up on the pollute? At any moment, the yetti will 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.640 walk onto the field of the Washington Warston Safety game 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.760 because it's beginning to look more and more like a 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.000 natural habitat. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.279 It was a rough night for Washington State. Not only 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.839 did they eliminate themselves from playoff contention this year, but 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.360 they disqualified themselves from participation in the twenty twenty two 0:04:58.760 --> 0:04:59.920 Beijing Winter Olympic. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.039 Oh the weather outside is frightful and Miles Gaska looks 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.520 so delightful four oh eight in the West. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:12.080 Coast, and the location of the Territorial Cup is still 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.240 in Tempe, Arizona, Utah. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.039 Youth's offense is why I have trust issues. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.320 The Notre Dame fighting Iris have fulled off victory and 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.000 the last possible second, as I was afraid this game 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:25.480 would go. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.200 I congratulates this to the USC for playing an out. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.760 Of the ball game, and that game might have been garbage, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.160 But holy Notre Dame is going to the playoffs, and 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.719 I don't know what to do with my head. I 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:38.400 can't believe it. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.600 My hockey stole one from the law. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.520 Who's good Greek for a game. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.719 I don't even know what it's going to take to 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.960 get the common wealth back in Charlotte'sville anymore. They're the 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.960 better team, everything's in their favor, and they still find 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:56.160 a way to lose. You guys are great, alburn Sun. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.360 The all time I'd like to afford a crime I'm 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.799 here between the head is when someone just got murdered. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.200 You know it's rivalry week. You can throw out those 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.520 records and throw out those players in the egg bowl, because. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.719 Wow, there was a fight, and my aggis are about 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.960 to go into seventh over time, and then I really 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.280 want to win and. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:24.839 Beat those Tigers. I really just want to go to bed. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:29.159 They're finally over seven overtimes. Thank god. After the seven 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.880 overtime game in college station. I'm very grateful for college football. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.479 Just left Caylefield and I don't smoke, but I need 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.839 me a cigarette after that. You're twenty eighteen l Street 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.800 Tigers just played in the high school in the FBS history. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.680 So there's that. Just calling to find out how to 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:51.520 mark myself safe on Facebook after surviving this Texas A 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:52.720 and MLSU game. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.560 Alrighty, there you go, a lot of messages. Yes, came 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.680 through last night. Hats off to our boy Tooler down 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.000 there in DC doing yeomen's work cutting all those up, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.440 mashing them together into our fine segment that we'd like 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.200 to call the Reverbs again. Thank you for calling in 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.240 four we eight verbal one. The WNE will be open 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.480 next weekend as well, and if you don't get through 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.320 or don't want to call in, you can always find 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:21.360 us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, all usual hotspots. Just 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:28.600 send us an email. Soliverbal at gmail dot com, Dan OKAKATAVOMMI. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.400 This week with those reverbs that indescribable fifth flavor tie. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.280 That's right. So here is the state of affairs through 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.000 thirteen weeks of the season. Number one, number two, and 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.240 number three Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame all one. Michigan 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.240 number four lost in blowout fashion, which we'll start with here. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:53.240 Lsu I mentioned the overtime loss, and also Wazoo, who 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.320 was eight. They lost in the Apple Cup UCF one. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.960 They were ninth, but they lost Mackenzie Milton to a 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.160 really bad knee injury. Hopefully he recovers quickly from that. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.360 And then everyone else in the top ten one, which 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:11.720 means Georgia probably moves up to fourth, Oklahoma probably to fifth, 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.560 and I would assume Ohio State now to number six. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.840 So we can get into how all of that works 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.800 together here as it relates to the playoff as we 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.360 go through all of our recaps, but a couple teams 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.200 three to be exact in the top ten all go 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.600 down in rivalry week. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.480 Yes, and if nothing else, this week really did stamp 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.199 the fact that there is no real upper middle class 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.640 college football this year. We've got the top of the 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.319 top and then we've got pretty good. But looking at 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.040 Florida's going to be a top ten team. Texas is 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.559 going to be borderline top ten, Kentucky's going to be 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.440 borderline top ten. This is a it's just a there's 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.840 a gap. This was the gap year tie. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.680 This was the gap year. Let's start though with the game. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:07.360 Who just got murdered? Ohio State sixty two, Michigan thirty nine. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.360 The only good news for Michigan. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:11.320 Oh, I'm ready for this. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.199 Desmon Howard moved them up to second in his polls. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.000 What can you hear? 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.360 Desmon Howard's argument on game day? Well, this was before 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.839 the game, Before the game. Yeah, I was telling a joke, Dan, Yeah. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.000 He had nailed it. You got me. I thought he 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.480 did it after the fact. Where it's Ohio State one, 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:31.240 Michigan two. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.800 I mean he might. I heard his argument on game 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.200 day yesterday. It's not beyond the realm of possible. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.760 I honestly didn't. What did he say. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.880 He made the same argument you did about Michigan potentially 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.160 jumping Notre Dame, but he did a much poorer job 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:45.480 of it. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.000 I would like to recant upon for the review my 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.160 stance that Michigan should be ahead of Notre Dame. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.880 Here is the bad news for Michigan. In addition to 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.440 the fact that they lost and gave up sixty two 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.600 points and five one hundred and sixty seven yards, they're 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.880 now zero to four in the Jim Harbaugh era against 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.280 Ohio State. So, I know, we make a parody of 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.479 the does X have a Y problem? 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:13.120 Right? 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.679 You probably could make a decent case at this point 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.599 that Michigan does have a legit Ohio State problem. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.600 I mean, they have probably deeper problems than that, which 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.640 is very strange to say. And we can talk about 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.160 this game specifically within the context of that statement that 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.480 I just made. But Michigan had a very good year. Yeah, 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.880 they did, had a very very good year. And if 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.760 you haven't read the piece, and I speak to you, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.959 and I speak to anybody listening by, I think it's 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.640 Mike Rosenberg at SI about you know, Michigan looking inward, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:47.040 that they have done plenty to have entirely successful years 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.760 in the Big Ten. They finished the season going what 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.200 ten and two, with a lot of dominating victories over 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.760 conference opponents, But they have their season book ended against 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.920 Notre Dame and Ohio State, which, to be clear, these 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.000 are playoff caliber teams that Michigan is not on a 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:08.200 level to hang generate points consistently and adjust defensively against 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.160 the very best, and that appears to be the Michigan 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.400 Wolverine bar historically competing against the very best, competing against 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.680 Ohio State, who they have not beaten in now what 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.160 seven years, and they've lost fourteen to fifteen. So Michigan 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.440 is at this weird inflection point where they need to 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.840 figure out how to go from very good to great. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.640 Because this is a conversation we had after Notre Dame. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.920 They looked better after Notre Dame, but after yesterday, and 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.960 to me, the story is still very much Ohio State's 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:46.199 dominance rather than Michigan's lack thereofed agreed, but Michigan wise, 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.400 it's that conversation that needs to happen internally because they 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.040 looked on both sides of the field stubborn in struggling 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.560 to keep up with what we saw to be capital 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.040 g great Ohio State, which we have not seen terribly 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.920 often this year. We have not know but when Ohio 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.760 State is playing on that level where they're getting the 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.640 ball to speed, where they are trusting Dwayne Haskins and 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.320 making him comfortable and defensively attacking and making plays in 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.480 the open field. This is a team that once again 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.640 looks to be playoff caliber and ready to be shut. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:20.680 Out in the playf. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.360 Dwayne has that was that was mean, But I do 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.480 I do credit Ohio State because they looked excellent in 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.960 every phase, including special teams. Chris o'lave yes was the 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.080 one who has worked his way into the receiver rotation. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.200 Also had that that punt block that went for a 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.640 touchdown early on that really opened the game up for 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.319 the Black Eyes. You can't say enough good things about 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:49.800 the degree to which Ohio State pulverized whatever setting you 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.720 prefer on a blender tie right. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:56.360 Well, So Dwayne Haskins, by the way, three eighteen through 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.920 the year, five touchdowns, he sets a Big Ten record 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.840 for passing touchdowns in the season with forty one. So, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:03.040 by the way, Drew. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.600 Brees thirty nine in thirteen games. So Dwayne Haskins actually 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:06.760 did it. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.840 Quicker, Yeah, I mean Dwayne Haskins. How quickly we forget 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.880 that this was his first full season as a starting quarterback, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.480 So clearly they've caught some lightning in a bottle here 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.720 with him. We saw flashes of it last year in 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.000 spots when he would come in, but Haskins has had 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.640 an incredible season. Ohio State's real liability at this point 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:32.640 is their defense. But nonetheless, sixty two to thirty nine, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.280 they take it to Michigan. They are now headed to 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.880 the Big Ten Championship game. Next week. They will square 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.120 off against the Northwestern Wildcats, who won twenty four to 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:48.520 sixteen over Illinois Yep. Isaiah Bowser had another good game 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.600 on the ground eighteen carries one hundred and sixty six yards. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.040 I am very curious to see how that game plays out. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.280 With the way that Ohio State has looked on offense, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.920 I think the natural assumption is that they'd go out 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.160 there and they blow the doors off Northwestern. But what 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.240 we've seen from Northwestern time and time again is these 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.560 games where it looks like they're overmatched, they just don't 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.640 end up being overmatched. They find a way to keep 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.719 the game close. And at least as of now, I 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.920 haven't seen a spread or anything yet because it's early 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.760 on a Sunday, My assumption would be that they'd find 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:20.840 a way to keep that one close. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.280 Sure, no, that makes sense in a terrific season, from Northwestern, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.600 who clinched the West a couple weeks ago now, and 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.080 I mean, we're not going to belabor anything with the 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.960 Illinois game, but I think that's right. Northwestern has come 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.360 to play against the best teams on their schedule and 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:43.480 not necessarily acron but against playoff caliber teams in Notre 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.000 Dame unless home Michigan, Northwestern has made plays consistently, especially 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:48.560 on defense. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.400 So there you go. There's your Big Ten championship. The 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.840 way it is setting up Ohio State against Northwestern, Michigan 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.040 had a shot. They had a shot. They had to 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.920 win two games. They could have made it to the playoff. 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.920 Quite frankly, I'm disappointed that they didn't. I know, we 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.880 make fun of Michigan here and there, but a good season. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.000 I really wish it would have worked out for them. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.960 It'll be a serious what it's Taylor Twelman who had 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.800 the rants after US national team. What are we even doing? Yeah, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.600 that will be the off season for Michigan, you know, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.440 depending on what happens with the bowl game. And they 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:23.960 could still go to the Rose Bowl and win the 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.760 Rose Bowl and go eleven and two. That's not the 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.720 worst thing in the world. Great season, but these past 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.840 twenty four forty eight hours whatever, and this week will 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.080 be what are we even doing for Michigan fans. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:42.720 Oklahoma fifty nine, West Virginia fifty six West Virginia. Yeah, 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.960 on Friday, West Virginia had over seven hundred total yards 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:51.480 and lost. As you can tell from the final score, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.440 as you could tell from just West Virginia's yard total. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.960 Oklahoma didn't bring a whole lot to the table in 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:04.240 terms of defense, but they did score two defensive touchdowns, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.680 which were absolutely enormous in this game. I was thinking 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.560 about this all weekend. You know, the one matchup, well, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.800 one playoff matchup outside of you know, my team, Notre 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.040 Dame and whoever they have to play, But the one 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.320 playoff matchup that hypothetically could happen that intrigues me to 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:28.800 no end is Oklahoma against Alabama. Of course, I feel 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.840 like I turned a corner with this Oklahoma defense. Now, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.880 they're not good, they're not good, They're aggressively not good. Yeah, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.680 we're under no illusions here that the Oklahoma defense is 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:43.520 any good. But when you change the framing of that 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.400 point a little bit, if we treat their lack of 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:51.520 defense as more of a stylistic decision and less of 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.280 a real deficiency. It's a lot easier to just manage 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.960 that mentally. And all of a sudden it shifts from Wow, 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.880 Oklahoma's defense really stinks to oh, Oklahoma, they don't play defense. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.840 That's just how they win football games, right, that is 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.080 how they won this football game fifty nine to fifty six. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.480 A ton of points, a lot of fun almost annoyingly 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.159 offensive in this football game, like there was just no 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.280 defense whatsoever. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.960 Yeah, I think that's right. And you know, I obviously, 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.879 and I was tweeting about this come down on the 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.359 side of I much prefer this, at least to the 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.680 hopelessness that is nine to six football. That's my personal decision. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:28.960 To me. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.720 College football is largely a TV sport living in New York, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.760 so that's the lens through which I view it. And listen, Oklahoma, listen, 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:43.119 I'm so sorry. Yes, Oklahoma plays a defense, not unlike 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.520 what a lot of teams who are actually incredibly successful 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.160 on offense are forced into doing because they score such 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.800 a big problem to have too quickly, right, and that 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.280 defense has to say on the field a long time. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:59.480 Oklahoma plays a wait for it, defense where they just 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.399 have to fit figure out some spots where they have 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.399 to take chances, go for turnovers, blitz all out, or 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.959 you know, jump routes to try to force turnovers and 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.680 flip the course of the game. It worked against West Virginia, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.800 it hasn't worked so well in past games, but they've 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.720 still managed to pull out all but the Texas game, 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.160 which they also almost pulled out against West Virginia. Specifically, 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.240 you know, West Virginia didn't make those way for it 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.280 plays and Oklahoma did. And I also would point to 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.639 the huge I think it was fourth and five. I 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.000 want to say Oklahoma decides to go for it, West 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.040 Virginia rushes how many they rush? 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:39.399 Three? 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.800 They rush three? Kyler Murray buys himself enough time and 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.600 basically ices the game in that moment. But to me 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.919 an incredible watch for most of this I would have 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.119 preferred forty five forty two instead of fifty nine fifty, 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.840 so a little bit more just West Virginia coming up 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.240 with a pick six something like that to really stem everything. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:07.040 But ultimately it's been a crazy pleasure watching Kyler Murray, Willgrier, 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.120 their assortment of receivers and running backs all season long, 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.600 and the game delivered what it sort of promised to do. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.360 Just getting back to my earlier point, Oklahoma might need 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.920 to score eighty If they play Alabama, they wouldn't score eighty, 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.520 but in order to win that game, they might have to. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.360 I just think it's such an interesting clash of styles 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.520 and yeah, very clearly the best offense in college football 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:34.080 Oklahoma up against an Alabama team, a defending national champion. Again, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.240 this is all hypothetical, but I think that's the matchup 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:38.919 that I would be most interested in watching. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:44.040 But look at the defense as they're playing pop. Yes, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.919 that would be crazy interesting because of the mind of 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:51.480 Lincoln Riley against Nick Saban's defense. And I don't believe 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.360 Oklahoma's receivers are all that big, which has been part 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.120 of the formula to competing with Alabama. But I listen, 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.520 this is what twenty eighteen has done to stop Hollywood Brown. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:02.400 Not much. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:06.040 Nope, not much much. Okay, Oklahoma is going to get 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.240 a chance to avenge their earlier loss to Texas when 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.240 they played next week in the Big Twelve Championship. Meanwhile, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.520 West Virginia they finished eight and three. They had a 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.199 game against NC State earlier in the year. You might 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.840 Remember that was canceled due to weather, so they are 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:27.280 effectively done at eight and three. A good year for 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.000 the Mountaineers, but just couldn't get over the hump here 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.360 ran into a buzz saw against Oklahoma. 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:33.400 Correct. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.440 Texas, by the way, did win their game against Kansas. Now, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.600 the final score was twenty four to seventeen. You look 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.040 at that and at first blush, you're like, Wow, held on, whoa, 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:49.600 what's that about. Kansas scored all seventeen of their points 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.720 in the fourth quarter, so Texas had the Jayhawks at 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.320 arms length for a good chunk of this football game. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.240 You look at the box score, nothing jumps out at youth. Statistically, 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.479 not a whole lot to report here. I think we 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.280 expected as much. But Texas does formally knock off the 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:05.639 Jayhawks twenty four to seventeen. 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.800 Yeah, the takeaways to me, sam Ellinger's shoulder does not 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.800 look anywhere near one hundred percent and little sloppy and 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.160 careless with the ball, which he has not been basically 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.240 since the Maryland loss to open the season. I don't 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.360 know how much of a concern that is against Oklahoma's defense, 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.480 but when Texas is at its best, it's Sam Ellinger 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:28.359 doing nothing but willing this team and making plays to 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.520 get them in the win column. I'm concerned about Texas's 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:35.080 ability to close, which has been the concern all season long, 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.680 and they managed to barely hold on against Oklahoma. We'll 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.520 see if that formula stays intact in I believe the 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.520 games at Jerry World in Arlington. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:48.760 Texas, Oklahoma, Red River Shootout Port duh, we'll decide the 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:53.560 Big twelve. Let's move over to the SEC. Alabama fifty 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.960