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Speaker 1: it's only up from here. I've got a lot more

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth in the United States this year. We've

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Speaker 1: confirmed that date. By the way, Nakos didn't even get

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Speaker 1: that we scooped him, but Quick Trip will be there

431
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Speaker 1: for us all. I got a Quick Trip Christmas ornament,

432
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: by the way, pretty proud of that thing. I got

433
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: a ton of college football playoff reaction, and it spills

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Speaker 1: out above and beyond the rapid reaction videos we did,

435
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Speaker 1: so if you're looking for just immediate takeaway from the game,

436
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Speaker 1: I got the Alabama Oklahoma one up on the channel.

437
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Speaker 1: I've got Miami A and m up on the channel.

438
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Speaker 1: Those were like ten minutes. I had a ton of

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Speaker 1: spillage that I wanted to talk some more about, so

440
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna bounce around here. A lot of people

441
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 1: doubted Alabama coming into the playoff. It was completely reasonable

442
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: to doubt Alabama coming into the playoff. I had a

443
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Speaker 1: lot of fun with the build up to that game

444
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Speaker 1: because I picked Oklahoma to win it. Now, anytime we

445
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: pick a game on this show, everyone sees it, and

446
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: then when you're right, no one really says much. When

447
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: you're wrong. The team that you were wrong about when

448
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,199
Speaker 1: they win. They let you hear it. So that was

449
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: no different the other night. So we're on the field

450
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Speaker 1: there in Norman, Alabama's down seventeen to oh then they

451
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: come back, they win the game, and afterwards the granted

452
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,719
Speaker 1: it was playful, some of the coaches, some of the players.

453
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Speaker 1: Oh man, you doubted us. Now the fans were dead serious.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, you doubted us. Absolutely, I doubted you. Did

455
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 1: you watch Alabama down the stretch? Did you watch the

456
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: SEC championship game? Who in the world wasn't doubting Alabama?

457
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Speaker 1: So what it was up to you to do was

458
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 1: silence doubters by playing differently than you had because the original,

459
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, the Georgia game, the Auburn game, even to

460
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Speaker 1: an extent, left a lot of reason for doubt. And

461
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Speaker 1: you found a way to get off the deck and

462
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: you did that. Now you got to do it three

463
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 1: more times and they'll give you a national championship trophy.

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Speaker 1: That's how the tournament works. But it was going to

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Speaker 1: take something extra to me if that team's going to

466
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Speaker 1: make a run in the playoff, like if Alabama's going

467
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Speaker 1: to do something special in the playoff, I think it

468
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: was going to take something extra special to happen or

469
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Speaker 1: extraordinary to happen, but you never know what that thing is.

470
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Speaker 1: To put it another way, Alabama sort of cruising along

471
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Speaker 1: at the trajectory they were was not going to make

472
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Speaker 1: much noise in the playoff. They get down seventeen to

473
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Speaker 1: nothing and you're thinking to yourself, Oh, this is terrible.

474
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Speaker 1: But if you believe that there's something extra ordinary that

475
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Speaker 1: has to happen, like a trigger mechanism, you kind of

476
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: need to get put in that position. And if you

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00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,360
Speaker 1: don't answer, oh, well, your season's over. If you do answer,

478
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: it's a lot like Ohio State Michigan last year. The

479
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Speaker 1: Michigan loss, although you can't quantifiably prove this, probably propelled

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Speaker 1: Ohio State to becoming what they became in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: So with Alabama. The first quarter of the Oklahoma game

482
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Speaker 1: looked like the fifth quarter of the SEC Championship game.

483
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Speaker 1: They had three to three and outs. Those drives started

484
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Speaker 1: on their twelve yard line, fourteen yard line, and twenty

485
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: five yard line. Just like the SEC Championship game or

486
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Speaker 1: the first OU game. They get down, OU starts to

487
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: tilt the field. Conversely, Oklahoma had scoring drives that started

488
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Speaker 1: on their forty one their thirty seven and the Bama

489
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Speaker 1: forty six. So some of the same themes started to

490
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Speaker 1: be the themes of this game. And then it happened.

491
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Speaker 1: The extraordinary thing happened, and over the span of five

492
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Speaker 1: minutes and change, they go from dead in the water

493
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Speaker 1: to brand new ballgame, seventeen to all and then defense

494
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: took over five sacks in this game, and October Tie

495
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 1: showed up, which should be a trademark. October ty Simpson

496
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: was a legit Heisman ty Simpson. October Tie kind of

497
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: showed up in this game, didn't He got himself a

498
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Speaker 1: little bit of time still dealing with a pretty ferocious

499
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Speaker 1: OU front. Plays was full thrown. It was a very

500
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Speaker 1: very tough environment to walk into and ty Simpson makes

501
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: the throws and it's look. Lots Ofer Brooks was a

502
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Speaker 1: guy we talked about in spring. We went down there

503
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Speaker 1: and watching h practice in spring, and I came back

504
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: and I talked about number seventeen used to be Jalen

505
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: Waddle at Alabama. The guy we'reing seventeen there now is

506
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 1: lots Ofer Brooks, and that staff continued to tell us

507
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: he's a true freshman, not going to take the world

508
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Speaker 1: by storm first half of the season, but especially back

509
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Speaker 1: half of the season. That's where that guy, if he

510
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: doesn't hit the freshman wall, he could show up and

511
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: he was there and you need him because you have

512
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,479
Speaker 1: not gotten remotely what you would expect to get out

513
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Speaker 1: of Ryan Williams, and so you have to have backfields.

514
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive, by the way, that if you have

515
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Speaker 1: a talent like Ryan Williams that's not performing up to expectation,

516
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: you can still function as a pass game. But that's

517
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Speaker 1: cause you got five, and you got number one, and

518
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: you got number seventeen and Quavis was back. So it's

519
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Speaker 1: just interesting. We're gonna talk a little bit later in

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Speaker 1: the show about how that matters moving ahead, because it

521
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Speaker 1: could just be that Bama was playing a mediocre team

522
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 1: that was shooting itself in the foot and they'll get

523
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Speaker 1: boat raced by Indiana. I guess that's possible. It's also

524
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Speaker 1: possible that they were a rubber band that kind of

525
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: got pulled back, pulled back, pulled back, and then turn loose.

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Speaker 1: Don't know. That's why we're gonna play more games. It

527
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Speaker 1: is wild when you think about Oklahoma and how I

528
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: don't know how to put this It's crazy when you

529
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: think about Oklahoma and how detached their defensive DNA is

530
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Speaker 1: with their offense. Normally, teams are very complimentary, especially the

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Speaker 1: ones that are around this late in the season. They're

532
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: playing a very complimentary brand of football, and normally, if

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Speaker 1: you've got really, really high level defensive play, it's coupled

534
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: with a legit ground game. Oklahoma has high level defensive

535
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: play and they can't run the ball. It's just kind

536
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: of weird. You could say that to an extent about

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Speaker 1: Obama as well. It's very weird. And those two played

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00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: each other, you know, so it may be that that

539
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: versus that canceled each other out, and either team that

540
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: profiles like that stand to get killed when they play

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00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: teams that are more complimentary and more balanced. Could be

542
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: we're not necessarily picking that game tonight, but they finished

543
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 1: with thirty three carries for fifty five yards in this game. Oklahoma,

544
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: dem I expected them to get better running the ball

545
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: this year. They got worse. Statistically, they got worse. And

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00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: it's crazy because you remember in the spring you're talking

547
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: about them going to the portal. They get hot out

548
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: of out of cal and he never was really a factor.

549
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just thought this year that

550
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: would really ramp up. But offensive line is still a

551
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: pretty chronic issue for him. I just don't understand how

552
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: that could be a chronic issue for Oklahoma multiple years running.

553
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just doesn't square with me. And

554
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: yet they still made the playoff. So it sounds doom

555
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: and gloom, because that's the way it always sounds when

556
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: you end a season. It's not that. It's not that,

557
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of good, but there's still a

558
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: lot of climbing to be done. But if you remember

559
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: again in the preseason, people were looking at Oklahom, they

560
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: saw a really tough schedule. They didn't know about this

561
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: Materi kid that was coming in from Washington State. They're

562
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: bringing the coordinator with him. Had a pretty good year,

563
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: it had injury and so it went up and down

564
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 1: and up and down. Defense did what it was supposed

565
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: to do. You just got to capitalize on having that

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00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: kind of defense. We were also in College Station yesterday

567
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: from Miami's ten to three win over Texas A and

568
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: M Again, I did the full reaction on this already

569
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Speaker 1: on the channel. So this is like, in addition to that,

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00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: I said, I think fifty times during the game. Corey

571
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: Heatherman's name, that's the Miami defensive coordinator. Do you remember

572
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: last year? How much of you, all of you Miami

573
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: fans do how many of you remember last year's Miami team?

574
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: Cam Ward just throwing the ball all over the place,

575
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: running the ball all over the place. It felt like

576
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: they scored forty a game and they needed to because

577
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: they were get an up to forty a game. Can

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00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: you imagine a year later, or put yourself back in

579
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: your shoes last year, and imagine me telling you a

580
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: year from now, Miami's gonna make the playoff and they're

581
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: gonna go on the road in the first round, face

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Speaker 1: a legit opponent, an opponent that was top five very

583
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Speaker 1: late in the season. Their quarterback's gonna barely top one

584
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: hundred passing yards. They're gonna put ten points on the

585
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: board and that's gonna be good enough. Imagine me telling

586
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: you that they could not stop molasses in December defensively

587
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: last year, and now they're casually going on a road

588
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: and just completely vice gripping people. Now, they got a

589
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: challenge ahead with Ohio State, but they vice gripped Texas

590
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: A and M. They put Marcel Reid in a position

591
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: where he did not take the game over with his

592
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: legs at all. Miami's done that all year. We documented

593
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: five mobile quarterbacks that had to combine seventy four rushing yards.

594
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: Again them this year, and they did more of the

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00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: same against Marcel, and they made him throw the ball

596
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: and he threw interceptions, because that's what Marcel Reid did

597
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: multiple times, four out of his final six games. But still,

598
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: when you talk about the low output day that you

599
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: got from Carson back and that's still good enough to

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00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: win this game, crazy, crazy, double thumbs up, full throated

601
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: clap for Miami's defensive staff they had. I didn't see

602
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: any pre snap issues and that place was insanely loud.

603
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: I talked talked to Miami a little bit after the game,

604
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: and they were talking about changes they had to make

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00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,719
Speaker 1: in order to make sure they could function in that environment.

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00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: Because you could easily see five or six false starts.

607
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: You can see a procedural mess, you can see miscommunication.

608
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: You could have seen all that being an issue, and

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00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: it wasn't. For Miami and that staff and those players

610
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: deserve a ton of credit for that. Now, moving forward, word.

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00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: Look at the line of scrimmage in the playoffs, O line,

612
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: D line combined. Does Miami have the best combination of

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00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: that of any team left in the playoff. I'm gonna

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00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: leave that open ended because they're about a ten point

615
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: underdog to Ohio State, So just we'll break that game

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Speaker 1: down later a little bit. But congratulations to them. Four

617
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: consecutive years of progress. Now that kind of solidifies it.

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00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: It would have been debatable if they lost yesterday, but

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Speaker 1: they just won a playoff game, first time making the playoff,

620
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: first time winning a playoff game. A lot of people

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00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: said that's the biggest Miami wins since the National title

622
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: game of two thousand and two. I don't disagree with that,

623
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: and that now solidifies four consecutive years of climbing the

624
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: ladder under Morio. I think it was five wins to

625
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: seven wins, to a couple of ten win seasons, and

626
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: now this ten win season has a playoff win. So

627
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: eleven wins. Hats off and now a very very tough

628
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: task ahead. How will Mike Elko assess his quarterback situation

629
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: coming out of this game, coming out of the season.

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Speaker 1: You watched Marcel Reid yesterday, there was really nothing happening.

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00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: It's a tough defense to go against. Get it, but

632
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: he only threw for two twenty five or more in

633
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: one of his final six games. Four of his final

634
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: six games had multiplets. Marcel Reid is like a phenomenal person,

635
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: phenomenal kid. He is not a bad football player. I

636
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: had a Heisman ticket on Marcel Reid. It's always like

637
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: feast or famine when you talk about guys. It's not

638
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: that there's no there's not famine at all. When he

639
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: played really really good teams, they sort of locked down

640
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: on him, and you got to be a really really

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00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: good player sort of break through that ice. He hasn't

642
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: been that. I don't want to talk about his ceiling

643
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: because I don't know what that is. But he was

644
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: not that this year, all right, So you got to

645
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: look at that. Mike Elko knows way more about his

646
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: personnel and his team than me. He's losing his offensive coordinator.

647
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: They got to look at Marcel Reid. This is one

648
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: of those conversations we talked about when we entered the

649
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: NIL era. You're basically professionalizing college football, and it doesn't

650
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: make me feel great because I think that college football

651
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,439
Speaker 1: should feel different than the NFL. College sports should feel

652
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: different than pro sports. But when you professionalize it, you

653
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: start to have really different sounding conversations than you used

654
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: to having college football, because this ten years ago would

655
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: be Marcel's just got to get better. We got to

656
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: hope he makes a leap this year to next year,

657
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: and the stat's got to get behind him and support him,

658
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: got to build around him. Now it's well, if he's

659
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: not good enough, we'll just go get a guy out

660
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: of the portal and we'll shake hands with him and

661
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: tell him be on his way. I don't know that

662
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. What I'm saying is it's a

663
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: conversation that's going to happen in that building. It's absolutely

664
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: a conversation that's going to happen. And that's a place

665
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: that spends a lot of money on football players, and

666
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: that's a place that would be very desirable for portal quarterbacks.

667
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: And so that's why I'm asking it open endedly. That's

668
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: what Mike Elcho and his staff have to figure out.

669
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: It could be that they look at Marcella and they say, no,

670
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: absolutely not, We're a thousand percent behind him. And if

671
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: that's the case, great, I'd prefer it to be that way,

672
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: but I don't know that it's just some slam dunk

673
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: that it's going to be that way. You know, it's

674
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: wild is think about how different the sixth seed was

675
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: versus the seventh seed. A and M was the seven,

676
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: Ole Miss was the six. Therefore Ole Miss got to

677
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: play Tulane, and A and M had to draw Miami.

678
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: And you know, it was funny, like people people have

679
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: their jokes about Miami when we get to the playoffs.

680
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 1: I think about players. I don't think about your record.

681
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 1: I don't think about anything, cause very very clearly Miami,

682
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: the version of Miami that played SMU or the version

683
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: that played Louisville, I don't believe was the same version

684
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: that played yesterday. They play very very much up to

685
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: an opponent in those situations. That is something that is

686
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: an entire separate conversation. But I watched much of the

687
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: second half of this game with Rhet Lashley, who was

688
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: there doing work for ACC Network. I mean, they beat

689
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: Miami earlier this year, and just to hear the conversation

690
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: at Jimbo Fisher standing right there as well, to hear

691
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,439
Speaker 1: the conversation between those guys ill man. If I could

692
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: just record that, we could sell those form nineteen ninety

693
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: five apiece easily, just the unedited, unfiltered, off the record

694
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: coaches conversation. But I did not do that because my

695
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: battery was low. But yeah, I think that when you

696
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: got that caliber of player in the playoff, then I

697
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: didn't really care that they lost two games during the

698
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: regular season. That is an extremely tough draw as a

699
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: first round opponent. So also A and M was dealing

700
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: with staff turn and I don't know, I didn't listen

701
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: to eCos post game that staff turn at A and

702
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: M's no joke. They're not the only ones dealing with that.

703
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: And by that I mean their offensive coordinator has taken

704
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: another job, their defensive coordinator has taken another job. Now

705
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: they're still there. You know, they're coaching through the end

706
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: of the year. Those guys full focus are not in

707
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: the game. They're just not not in just the game,

708
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: the prep leading up to the game. You've only got

709
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: so much focus. And when you're trying to put together

710
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,959
Speaker 1: a whole new staff, like Colin Klein going to Kansas State,

711
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: how in the world do you think he's going to

712
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: be fully dialed in. This is no criticism of Colin Klein. Hey,

713
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 1: if I were him, I would have taken the Kansas

714
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: State job, And if I were him, I'd put as

715
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: much time as I thought was necessary into prep. But

716
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: my future is as the head coach of Kansas State,

717
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to staff, and I'm trying to fill

718
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,959
Speaker 1: that building. I'm trying to look at portal. I only

719
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: have so many hours in the day. And I'll tell

720
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: you where it gets really awkward. Where it gets really awkward.

721
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: Dan Landing's dealing with this right now, is when guys

722
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: leave your building, it's usually because you've been winning, and

723
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: you're usually winning because you got a lot of good

724
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: people in your building. And when some of those good

725
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: people leave your building, they don't just leave, they want

726
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: to take others of your good people with them. And

727
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: so imagine that dynamic. You're Mike Elko and on one hand,

728
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: like you wish your guys well, good for him, you

729
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: got a head coaching job. Don't be taking all my guys.

730
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: I've watched Kirby deal with this, Saben dealt with it

731
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: every year, and I guarantee you that that happened in

732
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: that building so you're trying to prepare for a Miami

733
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: teams fully locked in, didn't have any staff turn so

734
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: that's not an easy thing. Ole Miss and Oregon we

735
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: already talked about these games. Oregon basically got work in yesterday.

736
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: That's what that amounted to. Whatever you think about the

737
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 1: G five, I did a whole separate topic. If you're

738
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: just watching this individual segment. I did a whole separate

739
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 1: topic on this, So I'm not doing the whole G five.

740
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: Should they or should they not have been? In Ole

741
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: Miss at least got to exercise the whole lane Kiff

742
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: and cloud like, if there was anyone over there are

743
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: still mad or angry or they needed that washed clean

744
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: from their soul, well, I would imagine emphatically winning a

745
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: home playoff game. Did that? If I were an old

746
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: Miss fan, it would have. And I saw Mensi and

747
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,479
Speaker 1: he looked as happy as a clam. So things looked

748
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: good in Oxford yesterday. Was there even a cloud in

749
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: the sky? Looked looked like a chamber of commerce day

750
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: there in Oxford, Mississippi. So congrats to everyone who won.

751
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: Those were just some more thoughts I had. San Juan

752
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is tuned in. I can't roll my rs.

753
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: I've never been able to Frisco, Texas tuned in and Pensacola, Florida.

754
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. All Right, it's a weird

755
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: time of year. I'm not complaining that it's Christmas time.

756
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: Far be it for me to do that. And I'm

757
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: not complaining that it's the playoffs. It's a happy time.

758
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: We look forward to it every year. I have always

759
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: wished that somehow there was this alternate universe where we

760
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: did what we do in December from a societal standpoint

761
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: in March, like I wish the NCAA basketball tournament overlapped

762
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: with Christmas. However it doesn't. So we get to these

763
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: high leverage games and your calendar's thrown in a blender

764
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: and starting later this week, all the way through the

765
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: New Year's that's that period where you never even know

766
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: what day of the week it is because all of

767
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: your schedule, all of your norms are not norms. Kids

768
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: are out of school, you may be off work, or

769
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: you may be traveling. They're random bowl games on at

770
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday, which is

771
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 1: a good thing. Up Some say bowls are the best

772
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: of things. Anyway. I say all that to say, we're

773
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: not going to preview these games until after Christmas. We're

774
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: not going to do the in depth previews until after Christmas.

775
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: So what I wanted to do was just some early

776
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: thoughts on these games on the show tonight. That's kind

777
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: of what we do normally in the playoffs. Miami Ohio

778
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: State New Year's Eve seven thirty Eastern kickoff in the

779
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl. Extremely extremely interesting dynamic here, not just because

780
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: early in the season I said that there is no

781
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: team that really looks physically like Miami, and all the

782
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: Ohio State fans got up in arms about it, Like

783
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: I said, they look like a bunch of poverty kids

784
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: running around. I didn't say that. I just said, use

785
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: your eyes, stand on the field, watch Miami's athletes. I

786
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: don't see another team that looks like that. Ohio State

787
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: certainly looks comparable, very very clearly. Okay, so it's not

788
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: a soup kitchen they're running up there. Yeah, they lift

789
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: weights too, they recruit elite guys too, they eat well.

790
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: To point, being from a pure athlete versus athlete standpoint,

791
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: this is a phenomenal matchup Ohio State's team has been

792
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: I think fairly significantly better than Miami this year. If

793
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: the teams play at the exact caliber on average that

794
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,439
Speaker 1: we saw during the year, this point spread is right.

795
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: Ohio State opened as an eleven and a half point favorite,

796
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: it dropped to nine and a half. I think it's

797
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: the most intriguing game of the second round, and it's

798
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: the biggest point spread, just because athlete versus athlete I

799
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: value that stuff in the playoff. Staff edge huge edge

800
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: to Ohio State, both in terms of experience, and I'm

801
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: mainly speaking about the experience there, but Ohio State's staff

802
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: is superior until otherwise proven, until otherwise noted. I think

803
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: that's a totally fair thing to say. I think Mario

804
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 1: Christabaul would love that being said publicly, and I think

805
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: it's a fair thing to say with Ohio State. What's

806
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: going to change from the Indiana game? Follow up question?

807
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: Does anything need to change from the Indiana game? Because

808
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: they're not playing Indiana, They're playing Miami, So does a

809
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: whole lot need to change Indiana shrunking the field on them.

810
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: You guys watch the game. I don't need to rehash this,

811
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: but there weren't a lot of catbuster explosive plays. There

812
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: was one of them at the end. I think there

813
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: was one other play, but overall, Indiana said you're going

814
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: to have to work to earn it, and they didn't.

815
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: They put up what was it, Jesse ten points I

816
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 1: think it was, and Julian and saying got sacked five

817
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: times nine tackles for loss in that game. So I

818
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: know a lot of Ohio State fans watched that and said,

819
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: are you serious right now? Especially late in the game.

820
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: We got we got these guys out wide, and we're

821
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: not allowing them to try to take over the game.

822
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: You gotta let the horses run. It's not enough to

823
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: have the horses if you just keep them in the barn.

824
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 1: You gotta let them run. Is that the approach they take?

825
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: Do they need to take that approach? Because if Miami

826
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: is as a kneemck in this game offensively as they

827
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: were yesterday, they'll get shut out. So in theory, Ohio

828
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: State ten points can be plenty, which brings me to

829
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: my next question, Is that really, Carson Beck? Is that

830
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: really the Miami passing gain? Like, is that the offense?

831
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: Is that really what we're gonna get I know what

832
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: I watched yesterday, so I'm not being fooled by that.

833
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: I guess what could fool me is I still believe

834
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: they're capable of more than that. Like I think Carson

835
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: Beck is a better quarterback from that. Maybe it was

836
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: that Miami knew their defense was locking in and they

837
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: didn't want to press the issue. Maybe they looked at

838
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: it and said, Fletcher looks good. Let's continue to ride him,

839
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: especially late it was incredibly windy there, and maybe they

840
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: thought that we want to be risk averse and we're

841
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: not going to really put the ball in the air

842
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 1: a whole lot. Whatever the case is, like they better

843
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: be better than that. You just A and M defensively

844
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: pretty good. They're not Ohio State, so you get to

845
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: remove the wind as a factor. And it's not home field,

846
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: although I expect Ohio State to travel very well here,

847
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: so you get those two edges tilted a little bit

848
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: more towards you. You're facing a better team, that's the

849
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: trade off. The key issue from Miami here is yesterday

850
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: Miami was able to run to win the game. I

851
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: will have to see someone run the ball to win

852
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: the game. On Ohio State I'm not saying it's impossible.

853
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying I would have to see that because I

854
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: haven't seen evidence that that's possible this year. So my

855
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: guess is, no, they can't do that. So if they

856
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: cannot do that, if that run game gets pretty fairly

857
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: bottled up, Carson Beck's gonna have to win a game

858
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: for him. I don't know how much production he'll need.

859
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: I don't know how many points will be necessary. But

860
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: the A and M game, he's fourteen of twenty FO

861
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and three. Yeah, the conditions change here, so

862
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: does the opponent. I don't I don't know. I think

863
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: it gonna I think it's gonna come down to him,

864
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: though you could say it comes down to saying I

865
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: really think it comes down to Carson Beck. The secondary

866
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: skill players are another thing to watch here, because Jeremiah

867
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: Smith's the best player on the field probably, although Miami's

868
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: actually got some freak show athletes that could argue that

869
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 1: it would be like different positions, of course, but past

870
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, Ohio State is still more effective and deeper

871
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: than most teams are with their wide receiver one, so

872
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: they've got options. You get past Malachi Tony and Miami's

873
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: gonna have to have some guys step up in some

874
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 1: high leverage spots. But how many points will be enough?

875
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: So it turns out against Indiana they needed thirteen and

876
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: that was enough because they clamped down on Ohio State

877
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: and Ohio State did not take advantage of scoring opportunities

878
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: when they had them. Miami can do all that and

879
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: more so. Again, are we watching a game played in

880
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: the twenties or low thirties or are we watching a

881
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: game where the first to seventeen wins? Just some early thoughts.

882
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: If you want to go to any of these games,

883
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: I was looking around the secondary market today. If you

884
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: want to go to any of these games, I can

885
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: get you a discount on them. I know a lot

886
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: of you are going to travel to these games. A

887
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: lot of you have probably never been to Arlington, a

888
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: lot of you may have never been to Miami. How

889
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: about that travel for Oregon? You got to go to Miami.

890
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: Then if you win there, you gotta go to Atlanta.

891
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: Then if you win there, you gotta go back to Miami.

892
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: Who I'm sure they're happy to do it, though, if

893
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: you guys want to go there, I'm probably not going

894
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: to be able to get your discounted airfare, I can

895
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: get your discounted tickets. So no matter which of these

896
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: games you're going to, or if you just want to

897
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: go to a concert this Wednesday, go to seat Geek,

898
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: get your tickets, and right before you check out, enter

899
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: the promo code paate ten pat E one zero for

900
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: ten percent off of your order. I am told many

901
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: of you, many men took advantage of that this week.

902
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: And I can say that because I was hanging out

903
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: with fifty cent this week. Bradley, I didn't tell you that.

904
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: I just won't by. I didn't say anything, but yeah,

905
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: that happened. Next game. Let me take a little chuckle

906
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: of water. Which one should we do? If you had

907
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: to line these games up, what order would you go in?

908
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter. Oh those are my bcas from

909
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: earlier today. I didn't drink them. I'm going Texas Tech Oregon,

910
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: Texas Tech Oregon, New Year's Day. It's the first college

911
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: football game that you will watch in the Year of

912
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: Our Lord, twenty twenty six. It's a noon kickoff in

913
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl. It is the shortest point spread on

914
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: the board. Oregon favored by one and a half. Now

915
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: Oregon last year was kind of where Texas Tech is

916
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: right now. They had a buy and they were facing

917
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: a team that had to play in the first round

918
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: and they got splattered by Ohio State in the Rose Bowl.

919
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 1: So that's Texas Tech that got to sit around. Yesterday

920
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: they watched Oregon run it up on James Madison and

921
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: now they face each other in the Orange Bowl. Is

922
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: Oregon going to peak at the right time? That was

923
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,959
Speaker 1: the singular lesson they have to have learned from last year.

924
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: All of this is new for Texas Tech. This is

925
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: not new for Oregon. So Texas Tech, all right, that's

926
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 1: like the end of that point. Texas Tech their profile

927
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: is elite, their stat profile, So this this stuff right here,

928
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: Texas Tech is elite. Texas Tech profile is totally isolated

929
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 1: to the Big twelve. And if I have a concern

930
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: with Texas Tech, that's it. Now. It may not be

931
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: a thing at all. What I'm talking about is more

932
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: of an unknown than a concern. So the big un

933
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: with Texas Tech is most of their stat categories and

934
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 1: their stat profile looked like an elite team. The problem

935
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: is they didn't play any one of note out of conference.

936
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 1: So this is all isolated to Big twelve play. How

937
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: legitimate was the Big twelve this year? You have to

938
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: ask yourself that, and then you look at this stat

939
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: profile and you decide accordingly what it means to you.

940
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 1: They lost one game at Arizona State. That was with

941
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: their backup quarterback. Otherwise they beat everyone by at least

942
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,479
Speaker 1: twenty two. Their best rushing performance that they allowed this year,

943
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: Texas Tech defense's best rushing performance that they allowed was

944
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: Kansas State, and they gave up one hundred and twenty

945
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: six on the ground about four yards per carry. Now,

946
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. I believe Oregon's gonna do

947
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: significantly better than that on the ground against Texas Tech.

948
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: Just a thought I'm gonna throw out there, and we'll

949
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,280
Speaker 1: talk about it in the game preview after Christmas. Oregon's

950
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: pass rush, though, is another thing to watch because of

951
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 1: the same thing Texas Tech. Their stat profile, everything about them,

952
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,479
Speaker 1: it's isolated a Big twelve play. So again, I'm gonna

953
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: say that's a question that's not a weakness because it

954
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: could be that we turn on this game and Oregon

955
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,240
Speaker 1: is running into a brick wall and that run defense

956
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: is everything we thought it was It could be that

957
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: Organ's pass rush is really not able to get after

958
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: Texas Tech like we think it may be able to.

959
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: And you're saying, hey, it turns out that stat profile

960
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:33,399
Speaker 1: fully validated itself. This doesn't profile to be a huge

961
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: edge for them, is my point. Oregon's pass rush on

962
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: paper doesn't look like something according to this team's profile,

963
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: this should be able to take the game over. Organ's

964
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: personnel says, a different thing, tells a different story, and

965
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:53,479
Speaker 1: so it's different than anything Texas Tech is seen. These

966
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: kinds of athletes rushing your passer are different than what

967
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 1: the Big twelve was able to offer you. So Texas

968
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: Time played from ahead virtually the whole year. What happens

969
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: if they get behind, which means they got to throw

970
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: the ball a whole lot and Oregon's just able to

971
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: pin their ears back. I would go a step further.

972
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: What happens if it's a standard game and just on

973
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: any random third and eight Oregon's getting to pin their

974
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: ears back. What kind of pressure does that put on Baron? Morton?

975
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: Can he win high leverage situations? He didn't have many

976
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: of them this year. They didn't get pushed a whole

977
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: lot this year, which is a testament to them. They

978
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: were dominant in the Big Twelve. It's a good thing.

979
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: I absolutely believe they'll be able to scale that kind

980
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: of performance here. It's not like it's some blowout game,

981
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: but it is something to watch. Oregon is dealing with

982
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: the same stuff that Texas A and M just dealt with. Remember,

983
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: both coordinators have taken head coaching jobs, so they're gonna

984
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,839
Speaker 1: be there, will Stein, Tosh Lupoie, They'll both be there.

985
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: But mentally are they there? That sounds insulting. It's just

986
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: common sense. If I'm taking a head coaching job, I

987
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: don't have my full focus on Orgon right now. I don't.

988
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: You wouldn't either. Nobody would. So it's not I'm not

989
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: blaming him, No one would. Is that a real factor? Yes?

990
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: How real a factor is it? We'll see. This is

991
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: the number one portal class from this past year versus

992
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: the number four portal class Texas Tech number one, Oregon

993
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: number four. We got to keep a close eye on

994
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: that injury situation for Oregon. Evan Stewart. Do we think

995
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: we get him back? My guess is we're gonna see him.

996
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: That's my guess. That is not informed. I have talked

997
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: to nobody in Orgon about that recently at least, but

998
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 1: I think that we will see him. Texas Tech has

999
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: four wide receivers with forty five plus catches and five

1000
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty plus receiving yards, so they don't have

1001
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: that one dominant like sure Fire wide receiver one guy.

1002
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: They just got a lot of guys they can spread

1003
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: the ball to, which is interesting this game right here,

1004
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: the fact that this is the first game and it's

1005
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: it's like traveling to another country for both fan bases.

1006
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun, a lot of fun.

1007
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: That's you. You know, to have a playoff game kick

1008
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: off at nine am body clock time is pretty fascinating.

1009
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that there for organ I'm

1010
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: gonna get to the other two games. I do want

1011
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: to talk about the portal for a second. The transfer

1012
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: portal is just churning away right now. Technically it's not

1013
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: open yet, but guys can announce their intentions and we're

1014
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: still putting our ear to the ground. We're hearing a lot.

1015
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:31,959
Speaker 1: So Josh Hoover TCU quarterback, multi year starter. He's going

1016
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: in three thousand yard passer this year. Indiana looks to

1017
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,879
Speaker 1: be the clear favorite here. Pete Nakos does a great

1018
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: job of following this stuff, which I don't really get

1019
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: because I don't know that Pete has any more hours

1020
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,240
Speaker 1: in his day than we do, and yet he still

1021
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: finds time to track all this stuff as well. So

1022
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: Indiana looks to be the clear favorite according to Nakos,

1023
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: and stands to reason because this is going to be

1024
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 1: the third cycle in a row now where Kurt Signetty's

1025
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: going to go to the portal for a quarterback. Missouri

1026
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,800
Speaker 1: according to Nacos, at least Missouri and Tennessee probably a

1027
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: factor here as well. But I mean there's proof of

1028
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: performance right now with Indiana, and that is a very

1029
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: very coveted spot to land in. Like right now, I

1030
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: picture the quarterback recruiting process for Indiana as more of

1031
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,240
Speaker 1: a selection process. I picture them hearing this a lot,

1032
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 1: and it's portal quarterbacks or their agents saying, hey, can

1033
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: our guy come play for you? I would do that

1034
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: so I could see that big developments in state college.

1035
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: Chas Coleman, big time edge player, gonna go into portal.

1036
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: He was a rotational guy as a freshman. Jesse thinks

1037
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: that he's going to be the future Abdul Carter, or

1038
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: at least he has the high end potential to be that.

1039
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: He showed flashes of elite ability this year. Ohio State

1040
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: sounds like the favorite here. There's some people out there

1041
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: who want that rule where you cannot transfer from one

1042
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: team to another in the same conference, but that rule

1043
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: doesn't exist right now, so he is free to go

1044
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: to Ohio State. He's from Ohio. He's the number two

1045
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: player in the portal six four two forty six. Penn

1046
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: State wants to retain him. So to be clear, if

1047
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: you're not following this stuff, this is not a situation

1048
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: where Matt Campbell came in, looked at the personnel overlapped

1049
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: with their system and said, we don't really have room

1050
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: for you. We don't really have a role for you. No,

1051
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like that was the case. So it's Sam

1052
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: Levitt is the number one overall rated player in the

1053
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: portal and Chas Coleman number two. Really good player. Future

1054
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: star may very well be headed to Columbus, Ohio. We'll

1055
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 1: keep an eye on it. Rock obect he's in the portal.

1056
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: This is not a shot. He's been at Iowa State

1057
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 1: for a few years now. Matt Campbell, guy Campbell goes

1058
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,439
Speaker 1: to Penn State, quarterback, goes in the portal. You've got

1059
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: to think Penn State's going to play a major factor here.

1060
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: Excellent player in fourth quarter moments, excellent player, very heady player,

1061
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,760
Speaker 1: really high floor player, like if you add rock obect

1062
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: there is there's no crash and burn season unless he

1063
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: gets hurt, and so you get a high floor but

1064
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,879
Speaker 1: a very next level mentality too, kind of thinks more

1065
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: like an NFL guy. He's a coaches kid and a

1066
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: friend of the program Athony Beck by the way, So

1067
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: he's a coaches kid. So it's not a shock. I

1068
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: would say Penn State until otherwise noted there. But what's

1069
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 1: fascinating is Bo Pribula went in the portal as well.

1070
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 1: So Bo Pribula was Drew Aler's back up at Penn State.

1071
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 1: He transfers to Missouri, played last year until he got hurt.

1072
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: And this was a surprise to me. I did not

1073
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: know this was coming. I didn't see this coming. It

1074
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 1: kind of caught me by surprise. The last couple of

1075
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: days now, Nakos has talked about Virginia Tech. Pete Nikos

1076
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: on three's Pete Nikos has talked about Virginia Tech, and

1077
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 1: it takes about half a second for you to think

1078
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: about that and say, oh, that's right. James Franklin went

1079
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: to Virginia Tech. They're going to be in need of

1080
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Maybe Bo Prebula goes there, maybe he does.

1081
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: It's not the craziest concept in the world, but there's

1082
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: another quarterback. I got my own, a guy that I

1083
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: used to be so high on, and who knows, maybe

1084
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: I haven't lost all hope. Aiden Chiles, who followed his

1085
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: coach from Oregon State to Michigan State. Well, Jonathan Smith

1086
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: just got fired, and so Aiden Chiles he's hitting the portal. Cincinnati,

1087
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: Nebraska are sort of the early names out there. And

1088
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: there's this part of me, maybe it's a personal flaw.

1089
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: I can't give up. I can't quit some guys, and

1090
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: Aiden Chiles has just got something about him. I can't quit,

1091
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: and all of my instincts are saying, don't do it,

1092
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: don't do it, don't do it. Wherever he goes, I'm

1093
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 1: probably betting an over win total immediately. So yeah, the

1094
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: portal it is. It is Christmas season and portal season.

1095
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: It opens officially, I think January second, but let's just

1096
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: be real that thing's open right now. All right, let's

1097
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: get back to these games. Happy you're with us. By

1098
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: the way, if you're watching live, thank you so much.

1099
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell the live chat hello there. So

1100
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: it's Alabama, Indiana and the rosebul New Year's Day, four

1101
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: pm Eastern kickoff. Indiana. I told you they were going

1102
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: to be favored by about a touchdown. We told you

1103
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: that before the Obama OU game happened. Indiana is a

1104
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: six and a half point favorite FanDuel right now, do

1105
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: these teams have the three best wins in the country

1106
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: this year? Indiana went on the road and beat Oregan soundly,

1107
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: they beat Ohio State, and Bama went on the road

1108
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: and beat Georgia. I think A and M going to

1109
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: Notre Dame that's up there. I think these are the

1110
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: three best wins in the country this year, and all

1111
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: three belong to the participants of this game. So Alabama

1112
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: is facing a really good defense here in Indiana. Indiana

1113
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: has really kind of stunned some people this year. The

1114
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: one thing I will say about Alabama, they will have

1115
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: a very tough time against Indiana. Indiana will not stun

1116
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: them with the quality of defense they play, because Bama's

1117
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: played good defenses. They've played like an inordinate string of

1118
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: really high level defenses. They played Georgia twice, one of

1119
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: them on the road, the other one in Atlanta. They

1120
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: went to Auburn, they just went to Oklahoma. They went

1121
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: to Missouri when Missouri was healthy. They have faced some

1122
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: really really high level defenses. So Indiana's defense may have

1123
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: a great day here. It'll just be because they're very,

1124
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: very technically sound and they executed at high level. It

1125
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: won't be because it's a dash of cold water to

1126
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: Bama's face that stuns them. It won't be that. It

1127
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: is that for most teams. Indiana plays the wide receiver

1128
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: rotation for Bama. With Ryan Williams having the struggles that

1129
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: he's had, that's interesting to watch because with lots Ofer

1130
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,959
Speaker 1: Brooks coming on in Josh Quavis now with another nine

1131
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: or so days, ten or so days to get healthy.

1132
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: I think that's something to watch only because it's kind

1133
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: of something unique. Now. Ohio State had a great group

1134
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: of receivers as well. Ohio State didn't go into the

1135
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: game thinking we've got to throw the ball to win

1136
00:59:56,560 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: because Ohio State believes they can run the ball fairly effectively.

1137
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: Alabama knows they can't. So Alabama goes into this game

1138
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: they'll run the ball to maintain play calling balance. But

1139
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: Alabama already knows they got to throw the ball to win,

1140
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: so they'll be committed to it a little bit differently

1141
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: than Ohio State was, is my point. Jam Miller played

1142
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: I think eighteen or so snaps the other night against Oklahoma,

1143
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: really interested to see again what another nine or ten

1144
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: days means for him. They bought another week and a

1145
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: half for health. There was no team that needed it

1146
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: more than Alabama. That was kind of the thing going

1147
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: into the Oklahoma game. Now, I picked Oklahoma to win

1148
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: the game, but I did say if Alabama wins that game,

1149
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: then it becomes really interesting because you felt like they

1150
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: had enough time to get some guys at least on

1151
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: the field against Oklahoma. Those guys were still not one

1152
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: hundred percent. If they can get through that thing relatively healthy,

1153
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: they don't suffer any more catastrophic injuries, they're going to

1154
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,439
Speaker 1: give themselves about nine or ten more days. That's when

1155
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: it really gets fun. That's when you may start to

1156
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: see Alabama at the level at least that they played

1157
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: at midseason. Is that good enough to beat Indiana? I

1158
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 1: have no idea. The Indiana defense has got pressure all year.

1159
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: The Indiana defense is number one in the country in

1160
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: pressure rate. Now, there will be people who look at

1161
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: that and say, yeah, but that's because Indiana got big

1162
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: leads on people all year and teams had to throw

1163
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: the ball to try and get back in games. Therefore,

1164
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: those were situations that were tailor made for Indiana's pass rush. True,

1165
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, that's the game script Alabama has to

1166
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: follow no matter what. Most teams resort to throwing the

1167
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: ball because they have to throw it to stay in

1168
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: the game. Even if this game's tied, even if Bama's

1169
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: up by three or four, they got to throw the

1170
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: ball just because they can't run the ball. So you're

1171
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: gonna have Bama in the same position Indiana wants them in,

1172
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: and it's gonna come up or it's gonna come down.

1173
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: Rather to that offensive line doing what they were able

1174
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 1: to do a little bit in the second half against

1175
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and then Ty Simpson win what he did in

1176
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: the second half and towards the end of the first

1177
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: half and trusting protection and stepping up in the pocket

1178
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: a couple of times and making some throws. That's the

1179
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 1: key to this game to me, because it decides whether

1180
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a four quarter game or whether Indiana

1181
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: just makes it boring in the second half, Which is

1182
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: again surreal to be saying about those two teams based

1183
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 1: on what the past one hundred and fifty years have

1184
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: taught us about college football? How good will Fernando Mendoza be? Guy?

1185
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: Just won the Heisman Trophy, but against the top three

1186
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: passing defenses that he faced this year. Those were Ohio

1187
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 1: State and Oregon and Iowa. He was under two hundred

1188
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: and forty passing yards in all those games, threw at

1189
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: least one pick in all of those games. He did

1190
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: have some key plays, like the Penn State touchdown pass.

1191
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 1: He took a huge hit to start the game against

1192
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: Ohio State and still ended up winning the thing. So

1193
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: he hadn't been bad. He's actually been good. He's facing

1194
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: a very good defense here. Alabama's played very good, very

1195
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: situationally great defense this year, and so you got to ask,

1196
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: how good is he gonna have to be? Just played

1197
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State and thirteen was good enough. I think you'll

1198
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: need more than thirteen to beat Alabama. How good does

1199
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: he have to be? How good is he able to

1200
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 1: be against Alabama? This one's gonna be really fun. Man.

1201
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: The Rose Bowl sec big ten out there. I know

1202
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: that it just warms the heart of a portion of America.

1203
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll go to that one. I don't know.

1204
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: I haven't decided yet. I have decided this. I was

1205
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: at two games this weekend. I saw an alarming amount

1206
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 1: of our Christmas merch, partly because it was freezing in

1207
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: Oklahoma now I was just windy, and also partly because

1208
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: it looks really good. So a lot of you have

1209
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: gone to paystatemterial dot com and you snatched up the

1210
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: Christmas gear, and I appreciate it. It means a lot

1211
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: when you guys are wearing it, because there's only like

1212
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: a microscopic chance that you're going to run into me

1213
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 1: at a game. So a lot of you come dressed

1214
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: in case you run into me at the game, which

1215
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: begs the question, how many people are coming and dressed

1216
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: like that to the game that don't ever get to

1217
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: see We don't ever get to see each other. I

1218
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: appreciate you even if you're doing that. Thank you. Look

1219
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: it's December twenty first, right now, do not waste time.

1220
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: Paystatematerial dot com. There's a QR code right there. But

1221
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcast or you just don't trust

1222
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 1: QR codes, I just gave you the website. All right,

1223
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: Let's continue. More game, more game to talk about singular

1224
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: sorry noses, stuffy Georgia and Ole miss is the cap

1225
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 1: game the capper, if you will. On New Year's Night,

1226
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 1: eight pm Eastern kickoff into Sugar Bowl game already happened

1227
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: once this year. Georgia has opened as a seven and

1228
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. The totals fifty five and a

1229
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: half stands to reason. I think this final, what was

1230
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 1: it Jesse, like forty one to thirty five or something

1231
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: like that last time they played this right here now,

1232
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: this would be the shot at Lane Kiffin. You want

1233
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: to make Lane Kiffin curl up in the fetal position

1234
01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: in a corner go beat the team he was able

1235
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 1: to beat, despite the fact that he had a two

1236
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,439
Speaker 1: possession leading the second half earlier this year. Without him

1237
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: do that in the state that he now resides in,

1238
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: no less in the Superdome. The season ended here for Georgia.

1239
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: Last year, Gunner Stockton, remember he was starting, Carson Beck

1240
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: got hurt and they go down there. They played Notre

1241
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 1: Dame and Notre Dame beat him. So how does it end?

1242
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 1: Does it end here? This year it will for someone.

1243
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: Georgia sort of made an emphatic statement last time we

1244
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: saw him, and now they've gone dark because they earned

1245
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: the first round by so you didn't see him yesterday

1246
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: or Friday, and so Georgia just emphatically wraps a bowl.

1247
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: On the regular season, they win the SEC championship game,

1248
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: they're playing their best ball of the season, and then

1249
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: just dark. Is that where they pick up right where

1250
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: they left off? George is an extremely dangerous team, and myself,

1251
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: I'm including me when I'm about to say, folks just

1252
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: aren't talking about him enough. It's been about Ohio State

1253
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: or maybe Indiana or I don't know how this works.

1254
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: I don't know how Kirby Smart and Georgia get overlooked.

1255
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: How in the world does the world come to that?

1256
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,479
Speaker 1: But I'm part of the problem here, So I'm trying

1257
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: to talk about them now. Pass Rush came on very

1258
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: very effectively late in the year. They're versatile. They can

1259
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: beat you many different ways. They can outscore you, they

1260
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 1: can out physical you. Nobody cut the head off the snake.

1261
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: Several had shots. No One cut the head off the snake.

1262
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: And I think they've gotten everything they could possibly have

1263
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 1: hoped to get out of this team in terms of

1264
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: the level they're playing at. Now. They got to go

1265
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: win the games. That's the potential that's still unrealized. They

1266
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: limit quarterback run. It just takes a high level of

1267
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 1: precision to beat them. So if you turn that in, oh,

1268
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 1: George is beatable. But they're not beating themselves. It's a

1269
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 1: very mature team. It's a very player led team. All

1270
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 1: the things that you would want to say about a team.

1271
01:06:56,120 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 1: Ole mess however, already played them in Athens. They lost.

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Speaker 1: They forced Georgia to have a career day, and it

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Speaker 1: He ran the ball fifty nine yards. He had five

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Speaker 1: They outrushed almost two twenty one to eighty eight. Tight

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Speaker 1: Ends were huge in that game for Georgia nine catches

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Speaker 1: for eighty five yards and three touchdowns. But remember this

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Speaker 1: was Trendad Chambliss's first SEC road start, so he's come

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Speaker 1: a long way. This team's come a long way. They

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Speaker 1: There could have an absolute classic in the Sugar Bowl

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Speaker 1: And now that I've done you a favor, it's just

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Speaker 1: time to break some hearts. Here the worst predictions of

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Speaker 1: the season continue. It is a December tradition that ranks

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Speaker 1: right up there with Christmas itself. Some people say, some

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Speaker 1: people fervently disagree agree with that. I have in my

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Speaker 1: be mocked relentlessly. And it's time to go after some

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Speaker 1: folks tonight. First up, Austin from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Did you

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Speaker 1: really think, Austin that Ohio State was going to lose

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Speaker 1: four regular season games. Well, yes, you did, I know

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Speaker 1: that because you put it on the internet on May

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01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:33,679
Speaker 1: fourth at seven to nine pm. Well, Ohio State didn't

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Speaker 1: lose four games. They went twelve to zero. Ohio State

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01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:39,599
Speaker 1: has not lost four games since twenty eleven. And yet

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Speaker 1: Austin thought, coming off a national championship win, did that

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Speaker 1: that was going to take place. Now they were losing

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01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: both coordinators, they had a lot of production to replace,

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Speaker 1: and so Austin thought they were going to fall off

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Speaker 1: a cliff. This was going to have to require Texas

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01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: upsetting them in week one. If you really just look

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01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:00,599
Speaker 1: at the schedule, it was not a murderer's row. So

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Speaker 1: in order for Ohio State to lose four games, they

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Speaker 1: were either going to need to implode like Florida State

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Speaker 1: did a few years ago, which is not going to

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01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: happen ever under Ryan Day, or they were gonna have

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Speaker 1: to have Texas beat them, and Penn State beat them,

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Speaker 1: and Michigan beat them and then probably an upset somewhere

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Speaker 1: like at Illinois or at Wisconsin. Instead, every final score

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01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 1: looked just about the same, with the exception of poor

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Speaker 1: Grambling State, and so that one did not pan out. Austin,

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Speaker 1: That one did not pan out at all, nor did

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Speaker 1: the next win. And we did not have to wait

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Speaker 1: long for this one ball. Fake Guru from Beautiful Medford,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey said Clemson will beat LSU in Week one

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Speaker 1: by three plus touchdowns. Clemson did not score three plus

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in this game. They lost seventeen to ten. They

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Speaker 1: did not hit twenty one. In fact, there were only

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns scored in the game. So not only did

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Speaker 1: Clemson not do this, they didn't win the game at all.

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Speaker 1: And it was so bad that Brian Kelly won this

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Speaker 1: game and got fired mid season. Anyway, both seasons went

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Speaker 1: off the rails. They started the season one in three.

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Speaker 1: They then ran off a couple of wins before losing

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Speaker 1: two more in a row. They finished the season seven

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Speaker 1: and five and it was just a disaster. So no

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Speaker 1: twenty one plus. No. But man, that game seems like

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Speaker 1: so long ago. It was just a couple of months ago.

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Speaker 1: I just LSU. Man. People thought they were off to

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Speaker 1: the race. It's not so much. Next up in ws

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Speaker 1: Andrew from Gatston, Alabama said Texas and OU will play

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Speaker 1: for the SEC championship. They finished number five and number

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Speaker 1: seven in the league. Now one of them still went

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Speaker 1: to the playoff. The other one thought they deserved a

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Speaker 1: playoff spot, so neither had a disastrous season. Both of

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Speaker 1: them finished in the top twenty in the rankings, but

1386
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Speaker 1: they lost critical games and so neither played in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I only put a nine point twenty five on the

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Speaker 1: ball in the scale for this, I said only it's

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Speaker 1: always tough to predict the exact matchup. Now, as it

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Speaker 1: turns out, we got Alabama versus Georgia, which if you

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Speaker 1: had to predict the exact matchup probably would have been

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Speaker 1: a pretty popular pick, but it was not this one.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, oh no razorbackology burner from Hot Springs, Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: home of the Broyles Awards ceremony every February, shout out

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Speaker 1: Oaklawn said, Arkansas pulls off two top ten upsets. Friends, friends,

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Speaker 1: Arkansas pulled off two wins this year, and they were

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Speaker 1: against Alabama A and M. Not Alabama and A and M.

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Speaker 1: That would have been notable. No Alabama A and M

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Speaker 1: and Arkansas State. And then they didn't win another game

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year. So they won two in

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Speaker 1: a row, they lost ten in a row. They only

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Speaker 1: played one top ten team at the time, and that

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Speaker 1: was Texas A and M. It was a close game

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01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 1: they lost. They also happened to play Notre Dame before

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame became a top ten team and because of

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Speaker 1: the fifty six to thirteen splattering at the hands of Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame became the began their ascent to top ten status.

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Speaker 1: So I put a nine point twenty five on this

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Speaker 1: one only because I know Arkansas has been kind of

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Speaker 1: plucky in the past. This year they got plucked. Razorbacks

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Speaker 1: do not have wings or feathers, but you understand the analogy. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: all right, that reps Us tonight had some whale breaches

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Speaker 1: in the show because I've got a stuff. He knows.

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Speaker 1: There's one more for the road. I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: This is our last live show before post Christmas. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say New Year, but no, we'll be back

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Speaker 1: before that. Just stay tuned to the channel because, like

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Speaker 1: I know, a lot can happen. Michigan could randomly hire

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're following on the socials though, that's the

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Speaker 1: most important thing. This time of year. At Josh pat CFB,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much. I will keep you updated

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Speaker 1: on the show schedule again. Make sure you're following on

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Speaker 1: the Socials until next show. For director Bradley Producer Jesse,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. Enjoy your Christmas, travel safely, be smart,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll lock back in afterwards until then, God Bless.

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