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Speaker 1: he hasn't had time to totally make it his own program.

430
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: He's a holdover from the Horrorball era, which everyone else

431
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: thinks is a negative. Michigan folks would think that's a positive.

432
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: And he's got the Ohio State win under his belt,

433
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 1: and he just got Bryce Underwood's commitment, and so because

434
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: of those things, it may be that he's pulling higher.

435
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:31,119
Speaker 1: It may be that sixty five percent is low. Tough

436
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 1: to know how this NCAA thing's going to go. I've

437
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: got my feelings on it. Many of you disagree on that,

438
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 1: And although that shouldn't be tied to Sharon, it will

439
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: be tied to him. He also could be involved in

440
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: it from a show cost perspective. I literally have no

441
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 1: clue how that's going to go. So a lot of

442
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: that will be linked. But they got a game in

443
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 1: Week two at Oklahoma. They go to USC this year.

444
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about those games a little bit

445
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: later on. So the Sharon More era should be just

446
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: getting started there. I'd say the win over Ohio State,

447
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: they beat Bama in the bowl game, I didn't even

448
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: mention that. Sixty five to seventy percent I think is

449
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: what I would put him at there, and the ones

450
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: that are holdouts, they're not necessarily thumbs down as much

451
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: as they are let's just wait and see. I think

452
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: that would be the attitude next up. They've seen at USC,

453
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: they've seen a fair amount of Lincoln Riley. I got

454
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley at sixty percent approval amongst USC fans, but

455
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 1: I think I'll get pushed back because the ones who

456
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: don't approve of him really disapprove of him, and they

457
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 1: will argue there's no way six out of ten of

458
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: us approve of him. But here's the key difference. The

459
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: USC didn't have the kind of season that FSU had

460
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: last year, but they did underachieve. But the difference is

461
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: they were competitive in every game and there is huge

462
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,199
Speaker 1: recruiting momentum, which means there's reason to believe amongst the

463
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: fan base that the change is either just around the

464
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,919
Speaker 1: corner or it's already here. They made a change in

465
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: the GM's office a year ago. They made a change

466
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: on the defensive side. It yielded immediate results. You would

467
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 1: expect that to improve this year and so also, Lincoln

468
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: Riley's got a proven track record at the power for

469
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: slash two level. In a sense, what I'm saying is

470
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: you've seen him do it before, so you're not trying

471
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: to guess whether he can win now. What you are

472
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: trying to do is you're trying to guess, Okay, can

473
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,719
Speaker 1: he win in a style that's complementary enough to not

474
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: just be flashy enough to make the playoff, but to

475
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: win a national title yet. That's fair though, but we're

476
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: just trying to get the thing righted out there first

477
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: and foremost. I think a majority of the fan base

478
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: believes he can do it, and I think there's a

479
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: lot of energy. It's sort of a subcurrent of energy.

480
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: The rest of the country is not picking up on

481
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: it right now, but if you're close to USC football,

482
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: you know there's a huge subcurrent of energy that he's

483
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: benefiting from. It's because of him in many cases, and

484
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: he's benefiting from it. In his approval rating. So got

485
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: him at sixty percent, I would go down to Miami.

486
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: I moved around on this one some I went higher

487
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: than this at first, but I got Mario Cristobaul at

488
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: an eighty percent approval rating amongst Miami fans. I would

489
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: be thumbs up on him because the talent's gone up.

490
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: If I'm a Miami fan, that's indisputable. The results have

491
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: gone up three consecutive years, that's indisputable. The buzz around

492
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: the program, all that stuff's gone up, It's indisputable. That's

493
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: why I would approve. However, I do think there is

494
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: a small collection that may disapprove because they feel the

495
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: cam Ward season was wasted last year in a sense

496
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 1: that they should have achieved more, you know, for all

497
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 1: the ability to explain that away as we failed on defense. Well,

498
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: the person who disapproves of him would say, yeah, but

499
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: you hired Lance Guidry, so that's on you, which is fair,

500
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: don't I don't have a problem with that. But I

501
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: do look at it in sort of a zero sum

502
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: with Mario without Mario, and I know what it was

503
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: like before he got there, so with him here, I

504
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: don't know how you can't approve of what he's done

505
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: so far. You can approve of what he's done and

506
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 1: also say, but I want to see more. That's okay.

507
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: That would be my stance if I were a Miami fan.

508
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,719
Speaker 1: I love the trajectory we're on. I approve of that,

509
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: but I think we're capable of more and want this.

510
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: I want this cat you brought in at defensive coordinator

511
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: from Minnesota. I want him to return to us playing

512
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: a style that I recognize on the defensive side. And

513
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: you know, if that's the case, Carson Beck's healthy and

514
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: you're telling me he is, then we should be good

515
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: to go this year. That'd be a fair stance. Mario

516
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: came from Oregon a few years ago. Dan Lanning is

517
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: now at Oregon. Dan Lanning's at eighty five percent. It's

518
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: tough to find an Oregon fan who disapproves of Dan Lanning,

519
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: but as we all know, if you look long enough,

520
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: you will find disapproval of almost any coach. And so

521
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: I would say the eighty five percent who approve of

522
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: him approved for obvious reasons. If I'm right and there

523
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: is a all like five percent subset out there that disapprove,

524
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: they would point out the consecutive losses to Washington two

525
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: years ago. They would completely forget that he went undefeated

526
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: and won the Big Ten in the regular season. They

527
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: would remember the lasting image of Dan Landing and that

528
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: is them getting blown out in the Rows Bowl against

529
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State, and for five percent of people, the last

530
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: thing they saw is the only thing they remember. That's

531
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: why Dan would probably be at eighty five instead of ninety,

532
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: which is the max. But Landing and Franklin are both

533
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: the Big Ten coaches that we talked about there that

534
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: are at eighty five. We didn't do Ryan Day, but

535
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: I think they would be at eighty five. So there

536
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: are some really really high approval rating coaches at major

537
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: big ten institutions right now. And it's just funny as

538
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: you try and speculate into the future, you don't see

539
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: any of them falling off, but yet history says at

540
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: least one of them will. You don't just cruise there forever.

541
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: And if I'm to believe what the Portland and IL

542
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: are doing to the tops of the tallest trees the sport,

543
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: you don't just stay there forever. I just don't know

544
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: where it's gonna happen. So there are your approval ratings. Now.

545
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: We started to show tonight talking about how they're changing

546
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: the playoff structure whatnot for twenty twenty five. Excuse me,

547
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: we popped the top on the zvia. I came up

548
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: here with this thing in my pocket because I got

549
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: big pockets and I was worried it was gonna spew

550
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: all over the place. But it did not. So let

551
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: me take one sip, and then the second sip is

552
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: just dedicated to the haters who claim I only take

553
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: one sip. So there we go. Zero sugar cream soda.

554
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: Had a relative of mine come up here. He very young,

555
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: very young, impressionable child less than ten years old, tried

556
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: the cream soda zvia and did not speak glowingly about it.

557
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: Kicked him right out of the apartment. He didn't even

558
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: say it was bad. He claimed it was something other

559
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: than the best zero sugar soda he's ever had, and

560
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: that wasn't acceptable in my apartment. Hold, that's not acceptable.

561
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: So he got put in time out. So try ZeVA.

562
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: If you love it, let me know. If you don't

563
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: love it, just keep your thoughts to yourself. That's all

564
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: we ask. That's all we ask. Now, as for Colin,

565
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: here's your endpoint. The state of college football. Funny thing

566
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: right now, state of college football is such that I

567
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: went off on this on the last show. And it's

568
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,479
Speaker 1: a very complex situation because if you know me, you

569
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: know I've got my beefs about where we are, just

570
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: like the rest of you do. And I've been outspoken

571
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: on some of them, and they're familiar themes on the show.

572
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: But here's where I've always come back to, my north

573
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: star on all this has been what does Saturday feel like?

574
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: For all the complaints I have here and there and

575
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: everywhere in between, as long as my Saturdays in the

576
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: fall still feel like Saturdays in the fall, you still

577
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: got the sports you love. And my stance is I'm

578
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: on the road every week the biggest game in the country.

579
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: Those games still feel like they always have. The tailgate

580
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: scene still looks like it always has. The vibe in

581
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: the building still feels like it always has third down

582
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: and a key moment, still feels like it always has,

583
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: the fight songs and whatnot. The student section like it

584
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: still feels the same to me. So college football is

585
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: still good, Like its core is still good. There may

586
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: be thirty seven things that suck right now, but the

587
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: core is still good. So I put that up on

588
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: Twitter this morning. Actually, normally Sunday's a light traffic day,

589
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: but I took a video from the last show. I'm

590
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: gonna show it to you in a second, but I

591
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: said college football is messy, but when anyone claims it's ruined,

592
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: I always ask the same questions. Do fall Saturdays feel

593
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: the same? And I'll show you this clip. It was

594
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: from another segment on the show, and I kind of

595
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: went down this road and I thought it was a

596
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: good standalone video, so I clipped it. I put it

597
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: out this morning. I'm gonna have column play it for

598
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: you to remind you what I said, and then I'm

599
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: gonna show you. So many people disagreed with this, and

600
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: I think we got to acknowledge there may be some

601
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: merit to it. But first, here's what was said to

602
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: prompt all of this. There's Ohio State. Let's say Michigan's

603
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: in town, and let's say it's midway through the third

604
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: quarter and they're deadlocked at seventeen and it's fourth and

605
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: one on your own thirty eight yard line and they're

606
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: opting to go for it. Clock's ticking down, huddle breaks

607
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: five four, three, crowds at full throat. Just pause, right

608
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: there is anybody thinking about whether Ohio State had ota workouts?

609
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: Is anybody thinking about how much the left hackle's making

610
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: You're not? So the point is the game hasn't really

611
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: been ruined at all. If that moment feels different, If

612
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: that moment is ruined, then college football has ruined itself.

613
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,239
Speaker 1: But I think college football is extremely resilient, like it

614
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: is extremely strong. It's the redwood. You could chop a

615
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: redwood down, but you don't do it with five or

616
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: ten swings. You don't do it with five thousand or

617
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: ten thousand swings. It take a lot to chop down

618
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: a redwood, all concentrated, all at one spot on that tree,

619
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: and don't do it because you'll get arrested. But point being,

620
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: it takes a lot to ruin college football. That's a

621
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: byproduct of how great it is, so pretty simple stance.

622
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: There can be a lot wrong, there can be a

623
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: lot you have a problem with, but the sport's still

624
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: great and it is still what you love. So that's

625
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: where I stand. Apparently many of you don't now I

626
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: will acknowledge it is may so anyone who's talking hardcore

627
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: about college football right now is a hardcore fan. Hardcore

628
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: fans tend to love the sport the most, take ownership

629
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: of the sport the most, and therefore most readily point

630
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 1: out the flaws and I think it's a lot like

631
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: a city council meeting. If you've ever attended a city

632
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: council meeting, or you ever watched one on public Access TV,

633
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if ninety five percent of the citizens

634
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: of a town are happy. The five percent that are unhappy.

635
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: Those are the folks who are going to be at

636
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: a city council meeting, which is okay. They deserve the

637
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: platform to speak their mind. However, if your only impression

638
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: of that town is a city council meeting, you'd think

639
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: the town's terrible. Similarly, if your only impression of college

640
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: football is the people who are critical of it in May,

641
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: you're not really getting an accurate representation of how the

642
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: public at large feels. But that doesn't discredit what I'm

643
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: about to show you. So I played that video on

644
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: Twitter earlier today some other platforms as well. I'm mns

645
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: show you some of the responses we got, and what

646
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm showing you. I'm showing you because one response equals

647
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: like a thousand responses that were similar. So the first

648
00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: kind of response I got to me asking Saturdays feel

649
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: the same was like Brad, he said, Ohio State just

650
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 1: finished fourth in their conference lost to their biggest rival,

651
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: but still won the national title. Ruined feels like the

652
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: right word. It's not even close to the sport we

653
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: enjoyed fifteen years ago. What Brad is saying there is

654
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: the regular season games have relatively speaking, less meaning. He's

655
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: not wrong about that, But that doesn't mean it's ruined.

656
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: Because see, I was at several Ohio State games last year.

657
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: I was at the Oregon game where they lost. It

658
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: still felt like it had maximum leveraging consequence on it.

659
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: The Ohio State Michigan game. If you're telling me that

660
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 1: that thing was meaningless, I would encourage you to listen

661
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: to Ohio State fans after that game. Because they knew

662
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: they were going to the playoff. It didn't change that

663
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: half of them were ready to run Ryan Day out

664
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: of town. Like you can tell me the games have

665
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: less meaning, don't tell me they have no meaning in

666
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: that they're ruined. And Brad, by the way, you're talking

667
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: to someone whose chief pushback against expanding the playoff was

668
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: that we were going to devalue regular season games. So

669
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: you and I agree, we're not disagreeing. But the difference

670
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: is I'm in these buildings, I'm on the field for

671
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: these games, I feel it. I know what I'm experiencing.

672
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: I know what I used to experience. And while it's

673
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: true the volume may have gone from ten to eight

674
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: and a half, it's still an eight and a half,

675
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: and for those big games, it's still a ten. I

676
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say about that, but I

677
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: do know a lot of people told me that a

678
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: lot of people responded like that. Here's another kind of

679
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: response we got. Gamecock Lifer hit me and said, no,

680
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: these games don't feel the same, Saturday doesn't feel the

681
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: same anymore. Part of the fun of college football was

682
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: getting to know players over three to four years and

683
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: watching them develop. That's mostly gone. Now your team and

684
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: your rivals teams are filled with a bunch of mercenaries,

685
00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: and my school is better at retention than most. You're

686
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: not wrong about this, and if this is not corrected,

687
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: this is going to go from a somewhat of a

688
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: problem to a major problem, because this has only just

689
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: begun to happen. And what we're talking about here, I

690
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: think is pretty obvious. If you've grown up loving college

691
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: football up until about ten minutes ago, you knew if

692
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: a guy committed to you out of high school. Chances are,

693
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: unless he gets hurt, a ninety five percent likelihood he's

694
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: going to be there two years from now. Most of

695
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: them are going to be there three or four years

696
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: from now. So you got to know them. You followed

697
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: their recruitment, you watched them commit, you read the early

698
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: practice reports about how their red shirt season was going,

699
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: and then they got on the field for special teams

700
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: as a sophomore, and then as a junior they go

701
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: from spot duty to starting by mid season, and then

702
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: they shine as a senior. And what you're saying here

703
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: is right. Those stories still do happen, but they're much

704
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: fewer and further between. And what that does over time

705
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: is it loosens the attachment between between you and the team.

706
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: Because your attachment to that team was somewhat tied into

707
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: attachment to the loyalty that you were seeing between the

708
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: player and the team. You were both attached in different

709
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: ways to that team. But now what you're saying is

710
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: you're watching this kind of mercenary free agent culture, not

711
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: once every three years, but once every you know, basically

712
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: Spring and even beyond that, where Kud's just kind of

713
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: move around, go to the highest bidder. Now that's not

714
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: quite as you know, not quite as frequently happening as

715
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: many indicate, but it's happening and it's a problem. Now

716
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: here's the follow up. I think we're on the precipice

717
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: of figuring out how to fix that. And I think

718
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: the revenue sharing model is going to greatly reduce the

719
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: amount of roster churn because I think the incentive structure

720
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: to stay on one roster for several years is going

721
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: to be such that guys are far less likely to

722
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: move around. You'll never do a way with transferring. But

723
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: you don't have to pass rules or laws or even

724
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: try to. You just have to fix your incentive structure.

725
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: And at that point, I think a lot of that

726
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: can be solved. So that's one area where I don't

727
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: think you're past some point of no return. I do

728
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: think if that doesn't get fixed, it is a major,

729
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: major problem. And here's the follow up on that. And

730
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: this is another big problem because of what he's talking about.

731
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: It has ruined recruiting for many people, and it is

732
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: a huge problem about overall fan interest. And this is

733
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: not covered a lot, but it should be. Following recruiting

734
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 1: used to be to college football what following the NFL

735
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: Draft was to the National Football League. You had to

736
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: know one to know the other. You had to follow

737
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: recruiting if you were really going to have any depth

738
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 1: of understanding about the sport. But you don't have to anymore,

739
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,240
Speaker 1: And in fact, people are actively turned off by it

740
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: because they think, to themselves, why should I invest time

741
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: and energy in knowing South Carolina signing class when recent

742
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: history is showing me seventy percent of them aren't gonna

743
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 1: be there in two years and any given point, any

744
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: of them can leave at any time, Like, why would

745
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: I invest my time and energy. I can't fault you

746
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: because I feel the same way. I don't pay any

747
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: attention to recruiting like I used to. We don't talk

748
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 1: about it on the show. We talk about it a

749
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: couple of times a year. And the reason is because

750
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 1: of that, because I don't think the commitment, even once

751
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: Penn hits paper, is worth what it used to be worth.

752
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: No one could push back on that. No one argues that.

753
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: And here's the problem with that is that is kind

754
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: of like taking away a spring game. It doesn't destroy

755
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: the sport. I'm still watching on Saturday, But man, you

756
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: just removed one of the layers that used to exist

757
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: in the conduit between me and the sport. Okay, then

758
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: you get rid of the desire to follow recruiting sports,

759
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: not destroyed, but you remove yet another critical connective layer

760
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: between fan and sport. And you can't continue to do that.

761
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: You can't, and it's got to get fixed. And I

762
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: think it will get fixed. So that's why I'm hopeful

763
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: on that. The volume of consensus here was eye opening, though,

764
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: because I got to be honest with you. I put

765
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: that video up, and I put it up because that's

766
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: how I feel. And then so many of you, thousands

767
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 1: upon thousands, responded with disagreement by saying, oh, no, you're wrong,

768
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 1: Saturdays do feel different for me already. I think there

769
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: may be a little hyperbole behind some of your sentiments,

770
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: Like some of you just flat out said the sport's ruined,

771
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: I don't watch it anymore. Well, yeah you do. You're

772
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: lying about that. However, many more of you just articulated

773
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: how you felt, and I can't ignore that. You may

774
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: feel different than me. But if if like a million

775
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: of you feel different than me, and in my opinion,

776
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter, it's the overwhelming majority over here that matters.

777
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: And I don't have the power to change that, but man,

778
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: I have the power to use the platform to express it.

779
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: You got a big, big, like underlying sort of bubbling

780
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: problem that I think sort of come into the forefront,

781
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: and that is that there is a critical moment that

782
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: you can reach in fan attachment and interest in the

783
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: sport past which there is no return. We are not there.

784
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: We are not there, and I hope we don't ever

785
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: get there. But the temperature is warmer on that threat

786
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: today than it was yesterday. And it's much warmer today

787
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: than it was this time last year. And I'm telling you,

788
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: and I'm telling anyone who has any power to pull

789
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: a lever to do anything about it. You're not in

790
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: the weeds day to day with your constituency. Most of

791
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: you never rub elbows with the common fan. I do.

792
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: I've got a show in an audience full of them.

793
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: I am one of them, and I know that what

794
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 1: has been will not always continue to be just because

795
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of connectivity. The attachment between a

796
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: college football fan in this sport is very delicate, but

797
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: it's also multi layered, which means you can remove one

798
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: of the layers, just like a Jenga block, and the

799
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: thing doesn't automatically tumble to the table, but it's closer

800
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: to tumbling than it was before you remove that block.

801
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: And similarly, when you have a more mercenary type feel

802
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 1: about your roster than a loyalty based feel, it matters

803
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: to fans. When you have the desire to follow recruiting

804
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: hardcore all but erased in the typical fans mind, it matters.

805
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: It matters because there's not as connected to the players

806
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: and not as connected to the product as they used

807
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: to be. And they're still watching. They're still watching, but

808
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: they're they're watching more lean back whereas they used to

809
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: be watching on the edge of their seat. And those

810
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: are your diehards, you know, those are your ones twos,

811
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that you can count on the

812
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: time to address that is not once the alarm goes off.

813
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 1: This is the alarm going off. I would encourage anyone

814
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: who doubts me go look at the replies to that

815
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: tweet today. It was overwhelming. I was very surprised by it.

816
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: It was overwhelming. That's why we put it in the

817
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: show tonight. You guys claim I didn't listen. Some of

818
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: you said, he's just gonna go on the show and

819
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: tell us we're all wrong. Well, you're not wrong in

820
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: how you feel. How can you be wrong and how

821
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: you feel? If I feel it's cold in here, but

822
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,439
Speaker 1: the thermometer says sixty six, I still feel cold, even

823
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: though you may think it's plenty cold enough. I'm not

824
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: turning this down any lower than sixty six. So it's

825
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: a problem. Are we gonna address it or we're just

826
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: gonna sit there and cash checks and just hope it

827
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: magically figures itself out. We'll see Quick Trip they do

828
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: not approach life like that. They saw people getting drowsy

829
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: on the roads and they said, cobraw on tap, put

830
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: it in done. You got gas in the parking lot

831
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: for your car. You got gas on tap for your

832
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: You know that didn't come out the way I wanted

833
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: it to. It really didn't. Figuratively speaking, gas in the

834
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: way of caffeinated fuel for your tummy. That's what they

835
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: have at a Quick Trip. And look, if you have

836
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: another issue, if you have gas related issues, I'm sure

837
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: on the medication iile they have something for that as well.

838
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: It's just not as glamorous to talk about in an

839
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: ad read. So I mainly gear towards the food and

840
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 1: the beverage selection and the great fuel options, just those

841
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: classic fuel options, and the best logo in the game.

842
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: Don't let any animal on a billboard tell you otherwise.

843
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: It's the best logo in the game, and we appreciate

844
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: them so much. All right, let's move on. Tough question here.

845
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: Tough question. I think a couple of people tweeted this

846
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: at US, so I just decided, all right, let's talk

847
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: about it. Question from the masses here. Top five returning

848
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks for this year from Statesboro, Georgia. Now, notice the

849
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: word returning, so like, there's no room for Arch Manning,

850
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: even if you think he's gonna win the Heisman. Arch

851
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 1: has no place in this conversation because it's returning quarterbacks.

852
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: There are a lot of them returning. There are no

853
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: huge superstars returning. Kate Klubnick could be that this year.

854
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: So I got Kate Klubnick on this list. There was

855
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: a major year one to year two jump for him

856
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,479
Speaker 1: last year, like he went from nineteen touchdowns to nine

857
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: interceptions in his first year of starting to thirty six

858
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: touchdowns to six picks in his second year, his legs

859
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: were a big factor. He could be He could win

860
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 1: the Heisman this year. Clemson could win the national title

861
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,879
Speaker 1: this year because of him. He's got it the best

862
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: receiver room they've had there in a while. He's also

863
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say they have a weakness at running back.

864
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: They're very unproven there and because of that, he may

865
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: have to shoulder more of the load. And you know what,

866
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: they should feel comfortable asking a third year guy under

867
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: the same coordinator again to do that. I'm extremely high

868
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 1: on DJ Lagway now that I went down to Florida

869
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and had all my injury

870
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: concerns eased. I think DJ Lagway's on this list. I

871
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: think he's in a great spot. He took over midway

872
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: through last year because Mertz got hurt and so he

873
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,479
Speaker 1: had flashes. This is the year I think he could

874
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: really explode. Got a good offensive line, They're gonna have

875
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: a good running game. He's got good receiving options to

876
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,720
Speaker 1: throw it too, so he could be a Superman type player.

877
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: But this is not a situation where he has to

878
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: be That is my point. They're not asking him to

879
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: go Cam Newton circa twenty ten and just carry everyone.

880
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna have a huge jump this year.

881
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that Florida is not on everyone's

882
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: national title radar or anything like that. There's a chance

883
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: that he ends up being the most dynamic player at

884
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: his position in the country. And if he is that,

885
00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: then Florida is They're a contender to being seriously in

886
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: the playoff conversation tough schedule or not if he is

887
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: what I think he could be this year, and Florda's

888
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: gonna be really tough out Drew Allers on here. Drew

889
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: Aller's in an interesting spot, kind of similar to James Franklin. Honestly,

890
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: it's funny that he plays for him. So you know,

891
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: Franklin has been really good but not elite for a

892
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: long time. And if you keep being really good and

893
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: you're someone that people want to be elite, they end

894
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: up criticizing you. Drew Aler's been really good, but since

895
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: he was five stars out of high school, people will

896
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: expect and accept nothing less than elite from him. But

897
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: he hasn't been elite yet, but he's been really good.

898
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: Thirty three hundred passing yards last year twenty four to

899
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: eight touchdown to I sixty six percent completion guy. They've

900
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: got an enhanced wide receiver corp. I think this year

901
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: his legs are also a factor. They were a little

902
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: bit more of a factor last year. He had three

903
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards. I still don't think he needs to

904
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: be elite this year. I mean to qualify as one

905
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: of the top five returning starters at the quarterback position.

906
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: There aren't five guys. I mean, we don't go five

907
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: deep on this list and not have Drew Aller on there.

908
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: And that's without the possibility that he could elevate his

909
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: game this year. I'm just sitting here saying, even if

910
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: he's just more of what he's been, he belongs on

911
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 1: the list. If he elevates his game, he really belongs

912
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: on the list. What about Garrett Nusmeyer at LSU, Garrett Nusmeyer,

913
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: the tools are there for him. He cannot be as

914
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: turnover prone as he was last year. Twenty nine to

915
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: twelve touchdown to it. They got to have a better

916
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: ground game because they've got to have a more balanced

917
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 1: offense for him. And that's not really on him. I mean,

918
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: he's got to take care of his business. But that

919
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: offensive staff has got to put him in a good position.

920
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: They've got the players, they should be able to do it.

921
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: The turnovers. If they stop, then he's gonna have lsu

922
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: in position to be playing really, really meaningful games late,

923
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: and if they are, he's a big part of it.

924
00:49:58,000 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: So I don't really think it's much of a question.

925
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: Garrettnusmeyer belongs on this list. And also, you know who

926
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: else I put on here. I could have put John

927
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: Mattier on here, but he's such a question because I've

928
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: only seen him do it at Washington Statement. I'm really

929
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: high on him. Leonora Sellers at South Carolina potential star.

930
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 1: I wonder about his receiving talent. Sam Levitt at Arizona

931
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: State could have easily put him on there. I'm putting

932
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: Carson Beck on the list though Carson Beck's throwing at Miami.

933
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: He'll be healthy, he'll be ready to go by the

934
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: time the season starts. And you know, most people expected

935
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: Carson Beck to be in the NFL by now, and

936
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: he's not. It's a really funny thing because if you're

937
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: mentally weak, then that can cripple you. If you have

938
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: a little toughness about yourself, mentally, it can do the

939
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,479
Speaker 1: same thing that it did to cam Ward last year.

940
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: Cam Ward went to Miami because he did not like

941
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: the feedback he got. He didn't like where he was

942
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: to go in the draft, so he went down there

943
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: dominated to become the number one overall pick in the draft.

944
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:05,959
Speaker 1: Carson beckdon have to be the number one overall pick.

945
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: What he does have to be is wired the right

946
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: way to where that guy's got a lot of doubt.

947
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: There's a lot of criticism out there, partly because of

948
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: on the field stuff. A lot of it's because of

949
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: off the field stuff and it personal life stuff that

950
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with football. But nevertheless, this is

951
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: the real world. So your personal life is like public knowledge.

952
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: So when some Instagram influencer breaks up with you, people

953
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: know about it. When you leave Georgia and you go

954
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: to Miami and you didn't go to the NFL and

955
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: people know about it. And when you had your worst

956
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: games last year in the biggest moments against Florida or Bama,

957
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: even though you let a big comeback there or Texas,

958
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: people let you hear about it. Well, my point there is,

959
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: if you're wired the right way, you're about to go

960
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: play for Shannon Dawson. You're about to go face acc defenses.

961
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: Playing for Shannon Dawson. You got a chance to explode

962
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: this year. You got a chance to have the best

963
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: year of your career this year. So a lot of

964
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: their production this year obviously will rely on Carson back.

965
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's so much the physical stuff,

966
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: because I think he'll be good to go physically. It's

967
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: from this point on the body up, neck up, how's

968
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: he wired. He's a different dude than Cam wod. He

969
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: is not the kind of guy that's gonna come in

970
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: there and take the offense by the throat. He is

971
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: a lot quieter, a lot more probably introverted is a

972
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: good word. But you know, if you can play, then

973
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: you can play. It's just that there's a lot that

974
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: still remains to be seen about him. As high a

975
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: profile of player as he's been, there's still a lot

976
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: to be proven from Carson Beck. I think he'll be

977
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: pretty good this year, so I put him on that list.

978
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Anderson, South Carolina, Glendale, Arizona, Tacoa, Georgia.

979
00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: We appreciate it, Steven said. The girlfriend thing was done

980
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: in the chat Stephen, Buddy, you and I might as

981
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: well be co hosting a show. I agree with you.

982
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: I don't care about it. I'm merely mentioning it because

983
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: it was a very very high profile breakup. I mean,

984
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: who's to mongst Us hasn't been part of one. But

985
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you that if people are talking about

986
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: your personal life, it affects you unless you don't let

987
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 1: it affect you. So we got to find out about

988
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: Carson Beck. Segondent's already over Collin, but we gotta find

989
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 1: out about Carson Beck. Will he let it affect him?

990
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 1: Maybe it affects him in a positive way. Whoms to

991
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: amongst us knows, We'll see. We had a very riveting

992
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: question about the schedule this year, and I figured tonight's

993
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: a good show to put it in. Mark from Hoover, Alabama.

994
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: What's the best game of each week? It's May and

995
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: I need it. Well, you know what, I'll skim through

996
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: these right quick week ones. It's I've got an answer

997
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: for you. It's not easy. I went Texas at Ohio State,

998
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: but you could easily sell me on LSU at Clemson

999
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: Texas Ohio State to top two in the playoff odds

1000
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,439
Speaker 1: it's a rematch from the playoffs last year. They're both

1001
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,280
Speaker 1: replacing so much so there's a lot of just wild

1002
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: card unknown about it. All huge brands. You could be

1003
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: saying a lot of the same things about LSU Clemson.

1004
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: I went Texas, Ohio State there. What about Week two?

1005
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: It's got to be Michigan at Oklahoma for me. There's

1006
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: so much pressure on this Oklahoma staff this year. This

1007
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,240
Speaker 1: will be where we learn about the whole John Matteer

1008
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: experiment at quarterback, the Ben Arbuckle experiment at offensive coordinator.

1009
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: And now they would argue, what do you mean experiment?

1010
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: We've already proven ourselves. And then everyone else is gonna say, yeah,

1011
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: you did in Pullman, Washington, this is the SEC. And

1012
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: then Michigan's gonna say we're a big ten team. See

1013
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation going on, But I'm going Michigan Oklahoma.

1014
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:54,280
Speaker 1: Big helmet game there. Huge game for Venables is Michigan

1015
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: starting a true freshman quarterback on the road in Norman

1016
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: against Brenton Vinibles remains to be seen. Three. A lot

1017
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 1: of options here. I went Texas A and m at

1018
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I would love to know if any of

1019
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: you know, let me know, did Notre Dame beat Miami

1020
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: in Week one? That's the first thing I want to know.

1021
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: Second thing I want to know is I want to

1022
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 1: know about Texas A and m and their legitimacy because

1023
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: this is a huge test for them. Remember this game

1024
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: last year in college station they lost it. This is CJ.

1025
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: Cars Well, it's not his introduction because he will have

1026
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: already played Miami, but we get to see him against

1027
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: Marcel Reid. But dude, this is a potential matchup, maybe

1028
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 1: of the two best ground games in the country this year,

1029
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: and so I love that one Week four a game

1030
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: I was at last year, a game that who it

1031
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: was ugly to start the year. Week four, I got

1032
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 1: Florida at Miami. This was a brutal schedule draw for Florida.

1033
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: Florida goes to Miami this week. You know what Florida

1034
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 1: does the week before they go to Baton Rouge. You

1035
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:02,439
Speaker 1: got at LSU at Miami. Back to just rough. Uh,

1036
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 1: I'm telling you straight up. And I was down in

1037
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: Florida a couple of weeks ago and I did some

1038
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: shows down there. Florida fans have this game circled as

1039
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: a must win. It's not a conference game, but based

1040
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: on what happened last year, they got it circled as

1041
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: a must win. It's a huge test from Miami's defense. Man.

1042
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,280
Speaker 1: It may be a more unique test for their defense.

1043
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 1: Even the Notre Dame is gonna be Week one because

1044
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: DJ Lagway is a different cat than anyone else has

1045
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: on their roster. So I would go Florida Miami Week five.

1046
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: This is a one A, one B. This is Oregon

1047
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: at Penn State, but it's also Bama at Georgia. I

1048
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: went Bama at Georgia only because I think the one

1049
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: of the hidden but out in front of your face

1050
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 1: stories in the SEC over the last several years is

1051
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: that's been the biggest rivalry in the conference. But it's

1052
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: not a historic rivalry, but yet it has been. I mean,

1053
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: it's been that matchup's been the face of the conference

1054
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: for the last few years. Whereas Oregon, look, it's one A,

1055
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: one B, but Bama at Georgia I also think, I mean,

1056
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,879
Speaker 1: you got Kirby still struggling to get over the hump

1057
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: against Alabama, but then on the other side, you got

1058
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:10,720
Speaker 1: Debor and sort of reimagined offensive approach with a new quarterback,

1059
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:12,359
Speaker 1: and you got to take him into Athens to face

1060
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: Kirby on the road. Georgia has not lost a home

1061
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: game since twenty nineteen. Quick trivia question, who was the

1062
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: head coach of the team that beat him? Would have

1063
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: been your South Carolina game, Cocks. I think must Champ

1064
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: was still there. So, yeah, it's tough to win on

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00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: the road at Georgia, and we got a lot of

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00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: You got a lot of wild card there. You got

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00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: two new starters at quarterback in that game. The next

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00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: week is one that I am very excited about. Texas

1069
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: hardly ever plays Florida most of the time. They hadn't

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00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: been in the same conference last year. This game happened

1071
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: and it was a blowout, but that was cause Lagway

1072
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: didn't play. He went down, he was hurt for that week.

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00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: I think it's what happened, and so it was a

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00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: non competitive game. This right here could end up being

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Speaker 1: one of, if not the toughest road games that Texas

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00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: has played under Sark. If the dynamic is right now,

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00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: if they go in there and get up seventeen to

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00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: nothing early, forget about what I just said. But if

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00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: they go in there and you mark my words, Florida

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00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: scores early, that right there will be like the manifestation

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00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: of what the Arkansas game was like for Texas a

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00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: few years back, where you just walk into it and

1083
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: you get drowned and you can't get up, you can't respond. Now,

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00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: Texas is a lot better now than they were that

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00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: year when they went to Arkansas. That may be in

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00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: the first year even under Stark, but that right there

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00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: is one of the underrated games of the year because

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00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: if Florida figures out a way to win that game,

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00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: and if they played it right now, I think the

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00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: line would be under a touchdown Texas favored, but under

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00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: a touchdown if they win that thing. First off, if

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00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: they were capable of beating Texas, they're capable of beating anyone.

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00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,439
Speaker 1: And secondly, they'd be off to the races because they've

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00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: already played multiple high profile games there and we don't

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00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 1: know what they've done to this point. But I just

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00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: I got Texas Florida circles as one of the biggest

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00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: games of the year the next week, Week seven. I'm

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00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: gonna roll the dice here a little bit. Second Michigan

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00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: game already. I got Michigan at USC I've just got

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00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: a feeling here that USC is gonna be undefeated, and

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00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: if that's right, then they would be six and oh.

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Speaker 1: And if Michigan is going into Los Angeles and USC

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00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: is six and oh, the coliseum will be sold out.

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00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: That will be the premier game of the day. We

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00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: will be asking if USC is back, whatever that means,

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00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: And for the first time in a few years, the

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00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: focus of the college football world will be on USC.

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00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: And if I'm right about that leading up to this,

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00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: it will be now. It would help if Michigan beat Oklahoma,

1110
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: like if Michigan's also undefeated here, which could be the case,

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00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: then it goes without saying that's the game of the week.

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00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: This is also OU Texas week, though this is also

1113
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: Bama at Missouri, this is South Carolina at LSUS. There

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00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: are a lot of other big games this week, but

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00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to Chigan and USC. Week eight, I've got

1116
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: the game of the year in the Big twelve. It's

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01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: the third Saturday in October. So we got Tennessee Bama,

1118
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 1: we got USC, Notre Dame on this day, Ole miss Georgia.

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01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: But I didn't go with any of them. I went

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Speaker 1: with Texas Tech at Arizona State because I think it's

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Speaker 1: the biggest game in that conference this year, and these

1122
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: other games are big, but this right here is the

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Speaker 1: biggest game in a conference this year. To me, I

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Speaker 1: think that both of these rosters are the two rosters

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Speaker 1: that stand the best shot of having fringe national title

1126
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: potential in that conference. You could talk about Kansas State

1127
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: having the same odds to win the Big Twelve. You

1128
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Speaker 1: could talk about Baylor having the same odds to win

1129
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. They don't have the kind of rosters,

1130
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Speaker 1: even at their best, to compete for a national title.

1131
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: The Arizona State may not either. Texas Tech may not either.

1132
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: They've got more high level athletes than any other teams

1133
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: in those conferences do, so they're playing each other on

1134
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: this day. This could be the biggest Saturday of the season.

1135
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 1: By the way, Week eight may be the biggest Saturday

1136
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: of the season. Week nine. This is a real good game.

1137
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: Last year I chose Bama at South Carolina for this week.

1138
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: This was down to the wire. Last year. South Carolina's

1139
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 1: getting Bama the week after Bama plays Tennessee. So Bama's

1140
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: coming up a big rivalry game. They got to go

1141
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 1: on the road. This is a season defining stretch for

1142
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: South Carolina. In order, they go at LSU, Oklahoma at home,

1143
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: Bama at home at ol mess just boom boom, boom boom.

1144
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: Four games tougher than several teams will play in one

1145
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: week all year. So and it's Williams Bryce Stadium. Williams

1146
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: Brice Stadium gets a two week stretch here of Oklahoma

1147
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: and Bama coming in and they get to flex. And

1148
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: you know what rarely has Williams Brice Stadium had a

1149
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,959
Speaker 1: chance to flex for the country where they didn't come through.

1150
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: And I'm pausing so that you guys can clip that

1151
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: for the hype video. I know the proper authorities will

1152
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:16,919
Speaker 1: get their hands on that next week, pretty straightforward. And

1153
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna kick off early in the day, so make

1154
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: sure you get up with plenty of time to spare.

1155
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: Penn State at Ohio State. Other big games this day,

1156
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 1: none of them are bigger than Penn State at Ohio State.

1157
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what your schedule and what your win

1158
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 1: loss record looks like to that point, but this is

1159
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:33,439
Speaker 1: one of the games of the year in the Big Ten.

1160
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: We were at this game last year. Ohio State goes

1161
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: up there it gets down ten to nothing and Jesse

1162
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 1: and them could not hold on to the lead, and

1163
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: shame on you and let them come back and let

1164
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 1: it let them. Ohio State came back and took the game,

1165
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: and so now we get to build up, build up,

1166
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: build up. But here's the difference for everybody saying James

1167
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: Franklin can't win a big game. They've already played Oregon

1168
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: by this point, so maybe they've already beaten Oregon, so

1169
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 1: they've already won the big game. They don't normally win,

1170
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: even though they got better odds to win the league

1171
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: than Oregon, and they will have been at home and favored.

1172
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: But I digress. They go to Columbus. You've got the

1173
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 1: uber experienced, seasoned veteran team against a bunch of unproven

1174
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: but really talented guys for Ohio State that have probably

1175
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: found their way by now. Week ten Penn State Ohio

1176
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: State Week eleven. Always one of my favorite games to

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01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: go to LSU at Bama this weekend. Inevitably just a

1178
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 1: huge spot for both head coaches Brian Kelly, Caylin de boor.

1179
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 1: I don't really think we need to say much about this.

1180
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 1: One of the great rivalry games down in that conference.

1181
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: They still play it every year. So I'd go there

1182
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: Week eleven, Week twelve, i'd stay down there. I'd go

1183
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 1: Texas at Georgia. And I was talking about this a

1184
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 1: little bit earlier in the show. I mean, of course,

1185
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: these teams played twice last year, and Georgia blankedon two

1186
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: and zero. They went into Austin and won. They won

1187
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: in Atlanta with their backup quarterback the second half. Georgia's

1188
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: last home loss was twenty nineteen, and this year they

1189
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: played Bama at home, they played Texas at home, they

1190
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: play Ole Miss at home. So there are wide ranging

1191
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: opinions on Sandford Stadium out there. Some people say Sandford

1192
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: Stadium is not one of the premier environments in college football.

1193
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: I think they haven't felt nervous at home enough lately,

1194
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 1: because I promise you when you're at a Georgia game

1195
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: where the home fans legitimately feel like there's a threat

1196
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 1: they can lose, that place can be electric. And the

1197
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 1: reason that I mentioned that is because there will be

1198
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Speaker 1: some spots on the schedule this year where they've got

1199
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: a chance to shine for the entire world, and I

1200
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: think they will, especially for this game a week thirteen,

1201
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 1: Oh give me USC at Oregon. USC at Oregon. I

1202
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: don't know why, but I completely forgot they played two

1203
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 1: years ago. I had just had it wiped from my memory.

1204
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: But they did go up there. USC lost, and they

1205
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 1: go up there again this year, and there is such

1206
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 1: a hatred, just pure hatred. Hatred, but in sports the

1207
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: way God intended it to be. Oregon looks at USC

1208
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Speaker 1: and they say, you're in Los Angeles, California. You ought

1209
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Speaker 1: to have all the advantages over us in the world,

1210
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Speaker 1: and we still beat you in recruiting. And USC looks

1211
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Speaker 1: up the coast at Oregon. It says, well, you have,

1212
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: but that's about to change because we made the proper

1213
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Speaker 1: adjustments internally. Maybe they're right, but if USC is back

1214
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Speaker 1: to being a Big Ten title contender for the first

1215
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Speaker 1: time or a playoff caliber team, this is the kind

1216
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: of game where you got to show it. And you

1217
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: know what else, They are going to return to recruiting

1218
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: against each other a whole lot more than they had

1219
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Speaker 1: for a few years. And so every prospective athlete is

1220
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Speaker 1: watching this game as well. And the last week Week fourteen,

1221
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Speaker 1: Ohio State at Michigan. I mean I was at Texas,

1222
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Speaker 1: Texas and last year on this week, but Ohio State

1223
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Speaker 1: Michigan ended up being the game to be at, and

1224
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Speaker 1: that will be the game to be at in all

1225
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Speaker 1: likelihood again this year. And not much more that needs

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Speaker 1: that thing. I think it's five and a half, Jesse.

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Speaker 1: If you wanted to bet that game right now, Ohio

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Speaker 1: over under win totals, and that market will expand obviously

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Speaker 1: with some bold predictions, shall we? Oh, let me check

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Speaker 1: on one thing? Uh? All right, good deal? So bold

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Speaker 1: prediction season is here. Bold prediction season on this show

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Speaker 1: just means what's pretty bold, but you actually believe it'll happen,

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Speaker 1: and you'll let me be public with it. So like tonight,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of boldness on the show. Tonight.

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01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: I've got three out of four predictions that are nine

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01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: point five or bolder. The first one is very disrespectful

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Speaker 1: to LSU. I just gotta be honest. From Medford, New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Clemson beats LSU in Week one by three plus touchdowns.

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01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: Well okay, Now, famously LSU is allergic to winning Week

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01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,599
Speaker 1: one games. They haven't won an opener since twenty nineteen.

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01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 1: But man, you're gonna beat them by twenty one plus.

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01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,599
Speaker 1: We're just gonna For the sake of argument, we'll say

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01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 1: three touchdowns is twenty one plus. Both of these teams

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01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 1: are top twenty five returning production. Both of them are

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01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: very plus at the QC or quarterback, offensive coordinator, defensive

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01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: coordinator spots. Head coaches are the same there that they've

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01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 1: been for several years. The LSU portal class number one

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01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:39,640
Speaker 1: in the country. Now, if you're telling me you think

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01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna take a while for all of those pieces

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Speaker 1: for LSU to gel and Clemson's gonna be a well

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Speaker 1: oiled machine out of the gate. Plus it's Clemson at

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Speaker 1: home at night. I believe that game will be okay.

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Speaker 1: I just don't know about a twenty one point blowout.

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01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: So I'm putting a nine point five on the boldness

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01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 1: scale there. Next up, this one gets a ten for me.

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01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,439
Speaker 1: All college football from Brunswick, Georgia said. Georgia and Penn

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01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: State face off in the national title game with identical

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01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: fifteen to zero records. Now that's a ten specificity there.

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01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: That's a ten. Even if you just told me Georgia

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01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: versus Penn State for the national title, I would have

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Speaker 1: put like a maybe a nine point twenty five on that,

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Speaker 1: But they are the third and fifth teams in the odds,

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01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,639
Speaker 1: so it's not crazy. It's not some crazy prediction. But man,

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Speaker 1: both of them being undefeated. Do you know, Georgia to

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01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 1: be undefeated would have to beat seven of the preseason

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01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: top twenty five teams in the odds. Just in the

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01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: regular season, Georgia will have played seven of the top

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01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: twenty five teams, then they will have played another one

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01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 1: in the SEC title game. That's eight, and then they

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01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,679
Speaker 1: will have played two more prior to the national title

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01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 1: game to get there. So that's Georgia going ten to

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01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 1: oh theoretically against top twenty five teams. Many of those

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01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 1: would be Top ten caliber teams. And meanwhile, Penn State

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01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 1: will have had to beat Oregon, Ohio State, Iowa, probably

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01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: Ohio State or Oregon again in the Big Ten title game.

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01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: Then they have to play two games prior to the

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01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 1: national title game. So it's just it's so unlikely, so

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01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:17,799
Speaker 1: I put a ten on that. Next up, This hasn't

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01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:21,639
Speaker 1: happened in a long time, but apparently the drought is over.

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01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:25,280
Speaker 1: Rowan Oake, Virginia checking in twenty twenty five. Season for

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01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: Notre Dame will be like twenty sixteen for Clemson. They

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01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:30,680
Speaker 1: reached the national title game the year before, they came

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01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: up short. They come back the next year they win

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01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: it all with a program changing quarterback at the helm.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty vivid, Okay, so huh, I'm putting a nine

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01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 1: point five on it because it's hard to win a

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01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: national title. Notre Dame has the seventh best odds tied

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01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: for the seventh best odds to win it all. They

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01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 1: are eligible to have a first round by remember this year.

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01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: With the way the format is, they play three like

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01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: really really high level opponents. They play Miami week one

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01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: on the road, they play A and M a few

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01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: weeks later at home, they play USC at home. Elsewhere.

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01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: Their schedule is very manageable. It's the best skill profile

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01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 1: that they've had there in a long time. Now. CJ.

1335
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: Car is a first year starter at quarterback, but when

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01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 1: you look at the running game, he'll have the O line,

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01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: he'll have in front of him, the pass catchers that

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01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: are better there than they've been in a while. If

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01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 1: they get there again, it means all that's validated. Like

1340
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: if they're in the game, that means it's all validated.

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01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: So I got no doubt if they get loose in

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01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs, I got no doubt about that. It's just

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01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 1: getting back there that's tough. So I'm gonna put a

1344
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 1: nine point five on Notre Dame winning the whole thing

1345
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: and the last one here got some Mississippi State flavor

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01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: in the show from Jackson, Mississippi. Mississippi State wins two games,

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01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:52,719
Speaker 1: they finish dead last in the SEC, and they fire

1348
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: Jeff Levy after two seasons. I put an eight point

1349
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: seventy five on this, all right, So they're gonna win

1350
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 1: two games. They're over under win totals three and a half,

1351
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: so by Vegas standards, it's not crazy. They've gone from

1352
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: nine to four to five and seven to two and ten.

1353
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:11,680
Speaker 1: Last year was Levy's first year, so they went too

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01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 1: and ten in his first year. Here's the thing I

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01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:16,200
Speaker 1: want you to know about Mississippi State. If you want

1356
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:20,720
Speaker 1: real Mississippi State coverage, you listen to us because up

1357
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 1: to an including Brandon Walker, I'm giving you more thorough

1358
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 1: Mississippi State analysis than anyone on the national scene. The

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01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: thing you'll notice about Mississippi State this year it looks

1360
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 1: way different than last year, is defensive line depth. They

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01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: also added three coaches with former head coaching experience. It

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01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 1: will make a difference. Their roster is not there yet,

1363
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: but it will look leaps and bounds better this year

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01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: than it did last year. And for them to only

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01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:50,160
Speaker 1: win two games, Look at the schedule, So they play

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01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: an SEC slate, so that's eight tough games. They play

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01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: Arizona State, that's a ninth tough game. So they got

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01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,519
Speaker 1: to lose like all those games. And then they got

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01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:03,040
Speaker 1: to lose two out of three to Southern miss Alcorn

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01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: State in Northern Illinois. Well, they got to lose one

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01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: of those games, and that's if they lose all nine

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01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: of the other ones. I just think they're gonna be

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01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 1: better than that. So I got I got an eight

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01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 1: point seventy five on that. And do we have a

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01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:16,720
Speaker 1: fifth tweet? Someone said we had a fifth tweet, but

1376
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't. We normally just do four. Blake hit us

1377
01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: with a fifth prediction. Blake from Nashville. I think Brandon

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01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: Walker will gain more pounds during the season than Mississippi

1379
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,400
Speaker 1: State will have wins. We don't. We don't do that.

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01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: We can't do that on this show. To a friend

1381
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 1: of the program, we can't do that. So Colin and I,

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01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: I just ask that you take that down. We gotta

1383
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 1: we gotta get that off screen. We got they're telling

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01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 1: me the screen's frozen. So you're telling me that we

1385
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: have to keep the Slanders prediction about Brandon Walker up

1386
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 1: because our system messed up at the end of the

1387
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: show and now Blake's calling for Brandon Walker to gain

1388
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 1: more pounds than Mississippi State has wins this year, something

1389
01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 1: I'm totally opposed to being said on this show. And

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01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: you're telling me we can't even take it down. We

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01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:07,640
Speaker 1: don't have that power. I apologize, I hate this, but

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01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, since we got it up, let me do

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01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 1: this where I can screenshot that later for personal use.

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Speaker 1: All Right, that's our show tonight. We appreciated everyone. Look,

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Speaker 1: the system's working again, just in time. We got to

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Speaker 1: show Tuesday night. Until then, enjoy the start to your week.

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Speaker 1: For producer Jasse direct Colin, I'm Josh Bate, Take care,

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