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Speaker 1: love tonight's show. It's very how should I say contemplative show?

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Speaker 1: And you know how rarely I use that word. We're

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Speaker 1: on this Thursday night, June twenty sixth, the over lad

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Speaker 1: we have in the works? Well, we were sitting around

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Speaker 1: earlier today and you're all talking about all these teams

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Speaker 1: and you're thumbing through your preview magazines and media days

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Speaker 1: are almost upon us. What do you want to know?

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Speaker 1: You want to know are they going to be better,

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Speaker 1: going to do that, which I don't think we've ever

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Speaker 1: why it only took us five years. I got some

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Speaker 1: chaos scenarios on the show tonight. I have got bold predictions.

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Speaker 1: We do that this time of year. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: I saw some content, some would call it propaganda. I

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Speaker 1: would just call it good old fashioned content floating around

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Speaker 1: the other day, not from us, but from someone else.

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Speaker 1: They were talking about the toughest places to play in

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Speaker 1: college football, and the I don't know how else to

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Speaker 1: put it, it was wrong. The list was just wrong. Your

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Speaker 1: opinion is wrong, and that's an absolute fact. As Memoi

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Speaker 1: toughest place is to play in college football are when

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Speaker 1: we haven't even released our list at PAYT State. But

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Speaker 1: do you hear how thick that stack of papers is.

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Speaker 1: We got it in here, We got everything in here.

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Speaker 1: Tonight're watching us in Youngstown, Ohio, Acilla, Georgia, Modesto, California.

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Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg, Florida is tuned in. I promise you this.

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Speaker 1: You may think that when the season gets here, that's

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Speaker 1: our busy time of year. It is June twenty sixth.

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Speaker 1: I'd be willing to bet for reasons that you'll find

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Speaker 1: settle down a little bit crazy. All good things, mind you,

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Speaker 1: all good things, but nevertheless, it's a busy, busy time

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Speaker 1: of year. So let's dive into the show tonight. Because

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Speaker 1: you don't really care about that. You care about this.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be better than you were last year?

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be worse than you were last year?

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Speaker 1: Is your record gonna be the exact same as it

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Speaker 1: I got four teams at least to start off with that.

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Speaker 1: and these are some of the teams that we're thinking

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Speaker 1: at FanDuel right now. Is that team gonna be better

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Speaker 1: everyone's gonna look at nus Meyer rightfully so, and everyone's

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Speaker 1: they're out of conference as no joke. They opened against

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Speaker 1: to say about the ACC strength of schedule, like, no,

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Speaker 1: They play Florida State on October fourth. Big deal. Okay,

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Speaker 1: to Notre Dame, who Miami opens with. Notre Dame went

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Speaker 1: They didn't accomplish anything. You've got a new quarterback. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think amplacency is an issue up there whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: And it's a three game season in terms of teams

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Speaker 1: it's a legit upset. They go to Miami Week one,

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Speaker 1: that's a very athletically competitive game. They've got amm coming

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Speaker 1: going same record for Notre Dame. Academy Sports and Outdoors

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be saying is USC just bounced way back,

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Speaker 1: and we just signed a top five recruiting class, and

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Speaker 1: we're debuting brand new facilities, and everything's pointing up for

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Speaker 1: Southern Cal football. That's what you're supposed to be saying.

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Speaker 1: But all those tumblers have to fall into place. Most importantly,

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Speaker 1: you got to win on the field or I'll take

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Speaker 1: it all fall off the cliff. Then what do you

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Speaker 1: do with Lincoln Riley? I have no answer for you.

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Speaker 1: It's not in my game plan. When I'm forecasting right now,

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Speaker 1: I am not forecasting that for USC. And so if

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Speaker 1: I'm forecasting seventy five degrees tomorrow and I wake up

438
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Speaker 1: and it's forty six, I don't know what to do.

439
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: I'm not dressed for it, I'm not prepared for it.

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00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. So that would truly

441
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Speaker 1: be a chaotic scenario. And remember you're in the Big ten.

442
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 1: The Big Ten's not gonna sit around and just kind

443
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Speaker 1: of chill while you get your you know what figured out.

444
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,199
Speaker 1: It leaves you in the dust. You don't have the

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Speaker 1: benefit of knowing no one's gonna pull away from you.

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00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: They will pull away from you. Now, some would argue

447
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: they already did. But the counter to that, And I

448
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: know this because we had Lincoln Riley on the show

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Speaker 1: a couple of months ago and he said it. He said,

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Speaker 1: anyone who believes that, did you watch us play last year?

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Speaker 1: And I nodded my head. I agree with him. But

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Speaker 1: that's all based on the kind of concept. Okay, well,

453
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Speaker 1: they'll bounce back this year if all that's right. But

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Speaker 1: if they're not right, they won't bounce back, and that

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Speaker 1: would be chaotic. So whoever sent that to us? Yeah,

456
00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: valid points there, valid points you guys being tuned in live. Hey,

457
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Speaker 1: we run a fair amount of polling on our show.

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Speaker 1: We're not the only show that figured out the polling

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Speaker 1: mechanism on social I saw our good close friends over

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Speaker 1: there at the Dan LeBatard Show today. This is how

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Speaker 1: you know you're making an impact. All we want to

462
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Speaker 1: do is we want to talk college football year round,

463
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Speaker 1: and we want to make a positive impact on the world. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we do one and then to achieve the other

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Speaker 1: we try and enhance the vernacular of this great society

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Speaker 1: of ours. Everybody talks about the public education statistics and

467
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: how everything's in the gutter. Well, all we can do

468
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: at Peyton State is try and rectify that. So we

469
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Speaker 1: speak the Queen's English around here. We're speaking proper English.

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Speaker 1: You hear me say the word hoopster every now and

471
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Speaker 1: then sometimes I'll throw in the hoopstaff And then if

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Speaker 1: you're really advanced in the four thousand level course, we'll

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Speaker 1: do the double apostrophe. Whomstead of? It's just a way

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00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 1: to save time? Who would have that takes so long?

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Speaker 1: Whomstead of? Whomstead of? Funk it? Dan Lebattard and Company

476
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Speaker 1: ran a poll this morning. Have you ever used the

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Speaker 1: word hoomst? Now these results may discourage you that only

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Speaker 1: forty four point nine percent said yes, while fifty five

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Speaker 1: point one percent said no. But you need to know,

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Speaker 1: before I brought this to the public's attention, we were

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Speaker 1: down like thirty seventy. The yes is we're down bad.

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Speaker 1: So just know out there, if you had a bad

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Speaker 1: day at work today, if the family situation is not

484
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Speaker 1: what you wanted to be, if my financial situation is

485
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Speaker 1: not what you want it to be. If your favorite

486
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Speaker 1: team is not even projected to make a bowl game,

487
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Speaker 1: this fault. You can at least rest comfortable tonight knowing

488
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Speaker 1: that in some small way we are making a difference.

489
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Speaker 1: Our voices are being heard. I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that helps a tough family dimic

491
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: at home or not. But we're making a difference somehow,

492
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: in some small way. Okay, that was a very lighthearted moment.

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Speaker 1: But it's about to get serious. I feel like I

494
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: paused there because we were going to play some sound effect. No,

495
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: but it's about to get serious. Let me calm myself.

496
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a second sip of zevia. There is,

497
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: by the way, hidden meaning to the color of this

498
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Speaker 1: can tonight. I didn't realize that until right now, But

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Speaker 1: there is all right here we go. I was told

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Speaker 1: the other day that our friends at EA Sports committed

501
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Speaker 1: a hate crime against several universities, and I said, well,

502
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: that sounds serious. What happened. Well, it turns out they

503
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: did the worst thing that you could do. They released

504
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Speaker 1: the Toughest places to Play in College Football list and

505
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Speaker 1: didn't put everyone at the exact proper order that everyone

506
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Speaker 1: believes they should be placed. And so I had to

507
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Speaker 1: go look for myself. And I gotta be honest. Sometimes

508
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 1: there's false outrage in this great sport of ours, which

509
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: is great. I participate a lot. This is not false outrage. Okay,

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00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: they just got this wrong. Now. I don't know exactly

511
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Speaker 1: how they define toughest places to play. It could just

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Speaker 1: be who has the best winning percentage at home, It

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Speaker 1: could be that over the past five years. It could

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Speaker 1: be any of a number of things. But I got

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Speaker 1: to tell you, Bradley, throw that back up for a second.

516
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Speaker 1: I got to tell you something. There is some mild

517
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: oversight here. There's some mild under and overrating, but there

518
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: is some egregious oversight. So if you're listening on podcasts,

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Speaker 1: let me quickly tell you they're one through ten, LSU,

520
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: Penn State, Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, it's already terribly flawed.

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Speaker 1: Clemson six, Florida seven, Oklahoma eight, Oregon nine, Michigan ten.

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Speaker 1: All right, keep that up, Bradley, immunity, you hope. What

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Speaker 1: are we doing with Ohio state number three? LSU one,

524
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: no problem, Penn State number two, no problem? Mind you.

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Speaker 1: I go to all these places I stand on the field.

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Speaker 1: This is an intentional flex. Got the greatest job in

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Speaker 1: the world. I am uniquely qualified to comment on these

528
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: matters because to the I go to all these places

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Speaker 1: when they're at their best theoretically, so I've seen most

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Speaker 1: all of them. Ohio State is not a top five.

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Speaker 1: Ohio State wins all the time because Ohio State's really good.

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Speaker 1: So if you're telling me Ohio State belongs in the

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Speaker 1: top three because their home winning percentage just through the roof,

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Speaker 1: I would encourage you to look at Ohio State's winning

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Speaker 1: percentage no matter where they're playing. So if that's the case,

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Speaker 1: we have different criteria. What I'm talking about is like,

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Speaker 1: how much better is a team at home because of

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Speaker 1: the environment that is created there. How worse is a

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Speaker 1: team when they go into your building than they would

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Speaker 1: have been elsewhere. Like, that's what makes a tough place

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Speaker 1: to play. When I'm standing next to someone on the

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Speaker 1: sideline and I'm trying to talk to them and they're

543
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: staring right at me but still going I can't hear you,

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Speaker 1: I can't. That's a tough place to play. Ohio State's great,

545
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Speaker 1: but it's not top five. George's not top five either. Bama,

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Speaker 1: although better now that Saban's gone and everyone doesn't sit

547
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Speaker 1: on their hands and just yawn and take for granted

548
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Speaker 1: that they're gonna win. Bama's not top five, So three

549
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Speaker 1: four five they will be out. I'm about to release

550
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Speaker 1: mine in a few minutes. By the way, Clemson is okay,

551
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: Florida is okay, Oklahoma. I went back and forth. I

552
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Speaker 1: was there for the Tennessee game last year, very lively.

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Speaker 1: I still thought maybe a tick off of the upper

554
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Speaker 1: echelon elites. Oregon absolutely belongs higher than number nine. Michigan

555
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Speaker 1: does not belong in the top ten. And I've seen

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Speaker 1: Michigan with Ohio State in town, a phenomenal atmosphere. But again,

557
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Speaker 1: you're talking about going against the heavyweight cathedrals in the sport,

558
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: and some of these places are built up and your

559
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: place is built out. You got four hundred thousand people

560
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Speaker 1: in there. But I think architecture hurts you a little bit.

561
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Speaker 1: They they went further than that, like they went all

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Speaker 1: the way to I believe a number twenty or something

563
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Speaker 1: like that. I'm just quickly going to tell you A

564
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Speaker 1: and M at eleven properly rated. The crime against humanity

565
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Speaker 1: is Tennessee at number twelve. But we're gonna make it

566
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Speaker 1: right in just a second. Texas at thirteen, all right,

567
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Speaker 1: Florida state fourteen, all right, Wisconsin fifteen. Never been there,

568
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: so I gotta take your word for it. South Carolina,

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Speaker 1: it belongs higher than sixteen. Auburn and Washington at seventeen

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Speaker 1: and eighteen. Make me wonder if anyone's ever even been

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Speaker 1: to those places. Iowa at nineteen. I could say the

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Speaker 1: same you taw at twenty. Okay, listen, when you watch

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Speaker 1: someone getting beat up on the side of the road,

574
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: you can either take pictures of it and post it

575
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Speaker 1: on the gram or you could go break up the fight.

576
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Speaker 1: So I saw this happening, I saw legitimate harm being

577
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Speaker 1: done to this great sport of ours, tongue in cheap

578
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: or it is, and I said, I gotta go break

579
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Speaker 1: this up. I gotta do something about this. I know

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Speaker 1: all these places, I've seen all these places. I know

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Speaker 1: which places are the toughest to go play. So you

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Speaker 1: know what, I got it right here. The toughest place

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Speaker 1: is to me. And this is definitive. And we all

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Speaker 1: agree that I'm the authority on this right, speak up now,

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00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: all right, Jesse Bradley, I don't hear anybody, Okay, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: we all agree that I'm the authority on this. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go twelve to one because that's the amount

588
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Speaker 1: of teams that we can fit on the graphic and

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Speaker 1: make it look good. I have got Georgia at number twelve.

590
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: Georgia this year has an opportunity to skyrocket up this

591
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Speaker 1: list because Georgia finally has a really, really legitimate home plate.

592
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: They've got Texas coming in there, they got Ole miss

593
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: coming in there, they got Bama coming in there. Georgia

594
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Speaker 1: that can get a ton of big games at home.

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Speaker 1: They they're kind of like Bama has been for a

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Speaker 1: long time. When is Georgia threatened, Georgia rarely feels threatned

597
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: Tennessee game kind of sometimes like last year. But buy

598
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Speaker 1: a large note. So I put Georgia at twelve with

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Speaker 1: a ton of room to vault back up. Texas A

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Speaker 1: and M. I've got at eleven. Texas A and M

601
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Speaker 1: is one of the more underrated places in the country,

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Speaker 1: both as the program's potential and also home field. People

603
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: always have an ax to grind about the culture, and

604
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: they really emphasize the first four letters in the word

605
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Speaker 1: culture when it comes to Texas, A and M. But

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Speaker 1: I got no problem with it because I just call

607
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Speaker 1: that tradition. You call it culture, I call it tradition.

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00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: Place is insanely loud. And I also think that they're

609
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Speaker 1: just sort of at the period now where they can

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Speaker 1: get back into competing, they can get back into the

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Speaker 1: groove of like being a contender, and so you'll get

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Speaker 1: to see Kyle Field on display a lot more. But

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Speaker 1: I've been there, I know what it's about. So I

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Speaker 1: got it at number eleven. I put Ohio State at

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Speaker 1: number ten. While I'm not as high on Ohio Stadium

616
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Speaker 1: in terms of an vironment as EA, it's still a

617
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Speaker 1: really really good environment, so make no mistake about it.

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Speaker 1: Like I've been there for several big games, including night games.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, people think I haven't been there for

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Speaker 1: a night game. I've been there. I was that was

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Speaker 1: there for the Tennessee game that was a playoff game

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Speaker 1: last year. So yes, yes, Well will gladly put the

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Speaker 1: horse Shoe in the top ten, just not the top five.

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Speaker 1: It's partly a credit to the fact that you guys

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Speaker 1: have won for so long that again, you don't feel

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Speaker 1: threatened a whole lot. And then I've been in there,

627
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: you know when Michigan's come in there, and you know,

628
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: good and well you're supposed to beat them. So there's

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Speaker 1: this nervousness, very very surreal. But yeah, Ohio Stadium, top ten,

630
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Speaker 1: just not top five. Clemson at number nine, clembs in

631
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: great atmosphere, got no complaints. I also think that it's

632
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Speaker 1: just a wonderful thing that we get to see that

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Speaker 1: place in Week one this year. LSU going to Clemson,

634
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: not Atlanta, not New Orleans, great American cities, but college

635
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: football needs to be played on home CAMPI plural of campus,

636
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Speaker 1: and we get to see Clemson in all of its glory.

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Speaker 1: So release the balloons, Dabbo outrun his entire roster down

638
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: the hill. Let's go Clemson at number nine. I got

639
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: Alabama at number eight. I think last year's Georgia game

640
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: sort of re emphasized what Bryant Denny Stadium is supposed

641
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 1: to be. Bryant Denny Stadium for a long time because

642
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 1: of the guy the field is now named after, had

643
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 1: fallen down this list. It is a consequence of continued success.

644
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: It's tough to go in there and feel threatened when

645
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: you're favored by double digits every week. Then you got

646
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: an entire season, like a generation now really of season

647
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: ticket holders and students and alumni that have become conditioned

648
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: to it. Well, then last year, all of a sudden,

649
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: you're not conditioned to it, and you feel very vulnerable,

650
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: and then Georgia comes in there and place is just

651
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: on fire. It may have been the best atmosphere we

652
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: experienced all of last year was that Georgia Alabama game.

653
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: Now I'm putting Bama at eight because I need to

654
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: see more for it. Here's what I think about Bama.

655
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: I think that place was louder before they finished the

656
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: full enclosure of the end zone construction projects, because they

657
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: hadn't become conditioned to be in a national title favorite

658
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: every year. Back then. The trade off to all the

659
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: enhanced amenities and the increased capacity was you got that

660
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: because Sabin was winning a whole lot, which just means

661
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and one thousand people that are fairly into

662
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: it does not out audible eighty eight thousand people that

663
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: are really into it. But you could have both. You

664
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: could have both. Number seven, Oh, this ought to go

665
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: over well down there Auburn. Auburn is at its best,

666
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: one of the best in the country. I'm going to

667
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 1: have people who are going to throw Auburn's home record

668
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: in my face. They're going to point out that Diego

669
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,439
Speaker 1: Pavia and New Mexico State went in there, and one

670
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: having a G eight home field atmosphere being a tough

671
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: place to play doesn't overcome your team sucking. There's no

672
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: amount you could just line jet engines up around the

673
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: field and if your team sucks, they just suck. And

674
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: the place is gonna look like a COVID game by

675
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter cause there're gonna be five feet between

676
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: every spectator that's left, mainly family and close friends of players.

677
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: But when Auburn is decent to good and you get

678
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: a big game in Jordenhair Stadium, the only people who

679
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: doubt that are people who haven't been in there. A

680
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: Jordenhare Stadium is just insane. It may be low at

681
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: number seven, really, it may be low at number seven.

682
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: Call up Kirby, Smart, call up Saban, call up less

683
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: miles back in the day when LSU would go in there.

684
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: So jorden Haare Stadium gets slept on because their team's

685
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: not perennially good. Auburn's good in flashes, so you only

686
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: get to see what I'm talking about in flashes. But

687
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: when you see it, and especially if you've experienced it,

688
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: if you've ever been in there, you know what I'm

689
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: talking about. The next place. Take everything I just said

690
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: about Auburn, and it applies even more to the next place.

691
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: They didn't have Washington in the top ten. Washington is amazing.

692
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: Husky Stadium. When Washington's good and there's a big game there,

693
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't care what the capacity is. Most of you

694
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: will doubt this. I don't think you've ever been there.

695
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: I hadn't for a long time. Until two years ago.

696
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 1: I had never been up there, so I mocked people

697
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: when they talked about how loud and intimidating Husky Stadium

698
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: wasn't like pretty much everything Washington did to me two

699
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: years ago. I got my mouth shut when I went

700
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: up there for the Oregon game. I don't need it

701
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: explained to me in physiological terms or even terms of architecture.

702
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, it sounds like it sounds like a

703
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: runway at SeaTac, which is the airport up there. It's

704
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: just amazing. Unbelievable sustain decibel level. And so not only

705
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: do you get beautiful scenery, you get an incredibly loud

706
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: and hostile and intimidating environment. You are going to have

707
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: people from Okalla, Florida and Spartanburg, South Carolina who are

708
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: going to argue this till they're blue in the face

709
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: and they've never been there. Go to a game there,

710
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: a big one where Washington's good and it's competitive through

711
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 1: four quarters, and you won't come back feeling the same way.

712
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 1: Washington is an insanely hard place to go play. Oregon's

713
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: right there with them, two of the most lively hostile

714
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: places that I ever have been to watch college football games,

715
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: Seattle and Eugene. I put Oregon right here at number well,

716
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: actually I got one in between them. Oregon's four. Give

717
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: me Florida at number five. EA had Florida properly rated.

718
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: I think they had him at like seven or something

719
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: like that, just a little bit higher on Florida. And

720
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: this is again with the caveat that if Florida's not good,

721
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: there's really not much the swamp can do to help

722
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: the team. But if Florida is good, there is a

723
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: ton the swamp does This was not something that needed

724
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: to be debated in the nineties and the two thousands,

725
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: it was accepted. Then Florida had a downswing for an

726
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: extended period of time and people forgot about the swamp.

727
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: People started sleeping on the swamp. And that's a mistake.

728
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 1: That's a big mistake. I am a believer that the

729
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: Texas game this year is the Swamp's opportunity. That is

730
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: Florida's opportunity to re establish the home field environment and

731
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: the home field edge that's always been there. It's just

732
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: waiting to be taken advantage of. The Miami game was

733
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: their opportunity last year, but they tripped over themselves. It

734
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: got dominated by Miami, is another way to put that.

735
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: So I got ben Hill Griffin's Stadium down there the

736
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: swamp at number five. I got Austin Stadium before we

737
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: went up there for the Ohio State game this past year. Incredible, incredible.

738
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: I was with several Ohio State people, let me just

739
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: leave it at that, before, during, and after the game.

740
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: Mainly before and during the game. I was with a

741
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: lot of Ohio State folks that obviously they've been to

742
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: the Shoe a lot, and they came out there and

743
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: it was like they might as well have been taken notes.

744
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: They saw what game day's supposed to be, and it

745
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: was good. It was good for Ohio State to go

746
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: out there and see that, and it was good for

747
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: everybody with the ability to make decisions to go out

748
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: there and see that. Sometimes you just need to get

749
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: your shoulders shaken a little bit. And they went out there.

750
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: They lost a competitive game, a great game, but more

751
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: importantly for what we're talking about here, they went out

752
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: there and saw this place has a fraction of the

753
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: capacity as our place, and its louder. It's crazier in here.

754
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: Why is that? Well, that's part of the beauty of

755
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 1: college football. You don't always have to have a solid

756
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: reason why. But Oregon's number four, Penn State at number three,

757
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: noon game, after noon game, after noon game, which you

758
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: know what, they still deliver. But what do we know

759
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,439
Speaker 1: about that Oregon game? This year? They get the white

760
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: out game in primetime. That's Week five, right, Jesse. It's

761
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: early in the season, but it's the NBC. It's the

762
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: seven thirty games. So anyone who's forgotten hadn't been that long.

763
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: But anyone who's forgotten what that place is under the lights,

764
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: white out conditions. They've they got a little reminder coming

765
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: when Oregon goes in there. That's the same night at

766
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: the same time as Bama at Georgia. What a day

767
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. So I got Penn State at number three.

768
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: I know it feels like I'm kind of skipping over them.

769
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like a whole at eulse needs

770
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: to be said. I remember we went up there a

771
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: few years ago. My first game at Penn State was

772
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,720
Speaker 1: a whiteout game. It was weird. I think like Auburn

773
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: went up there and played or something like that, and

774
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: that was a white out game. I remember the way

775
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: I the way I experienced it was it was it

776
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: was like a football game but also a rock concert

777
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 1: and a major pro wrestling event. That's the way I

778
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: experienced it. That's the way I came back and explained

779
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: it to my buddies who hadn't been there. Give me

780
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 1: LSU at number two. LSU's one of the things that

781
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: gets hyped up a lot. Death Valley at Night is

782
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:19,879
Speaker 1: one of the things that gets hyped up a lot

783
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: in this sport that's not overhyped. There is really not

784
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: much justice that I could do it until you've experienced

785
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: it in person. Now, if you're an LSU fan, it's

786
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: a fun experience. It's a very very intimidating and hostile

787
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: experience going in there as an opposing fan, much less

788
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: a player, which I always thought college football should be.

789
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: It's not the worst thing in the world. Like you

790
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: should you never put your hands on anyone else. And

791
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: don't do what that little small cadre of OKC fans

792
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,919
Speaker 1: did to the little Pacers kid the other night. Don't

793
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 1: be doing all that. But outside of that, you shouldn't

794
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: feel all that comfortable when you're going into a road

795
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: teams building. That's what it's like going into LSU. The

796
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: smells are wonderful, the sounds are wonderful, the food beforehand

797
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: is wonderful. The game's usually wonderful. Just make it a

798
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: point to do it, make it a point to go there.

799
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: Just some of the most if you like, if you

800
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: cut college football open, you want to know what bleeds

801
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: out of it. That right there, that's kind of what

802
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: you should see bleeding out. Go ahead and throw it up, Bradley,

803
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: I don't. I got all the respect in the world

804
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: for the folks at EA. To have Tennessee outside the

805
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: top ten of toughest place that's playing college football is

806
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: evidence of drug use. Not only is Tennessee top ten

807
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: neland stadium is the toughest place to play in college football.

808
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: Don't start with me. You can go argue with this

809
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: wall over here. I've been there for the best of it.

810
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: This right here is not footage that we rip from

811
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: a network. That is that is straight from the eye. Josh,

812
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: I shot this myself. I've been there, I've been a

813
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: part of it. Deafening. And also there is the psychological

814
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: factor of the fact that Rocky Top's the most annoying

815
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: sound in the world to anyone who's not a Tennessee fan.

816
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: So you practice with it all week, blaring on the

817
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: loud speakers, and everyone's drilling it into your head. Gotta

818
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: go beat Tennessee or this is what you're gonna hear.

819
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: And it's great if you go beat him and shut

820
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: them up, but if you don't, do you know what

821
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: it's like to be trailing Tennessee. Tennessee takes the lead

822
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: on you in the fourth quarter and they're just blaaring

823
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: Rocky Top. You got one hundred plus thousand people singing

824
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: it at the top of their lung. Psychologically, it does

825
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: something to you because you convinced yourself all week we

826
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: ain't letting that happen, and then it starts to happen.

827
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: I've never been in an avalanche before, but I imagine

828
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: Tennessee taking the lead on you in the fourth quarter

829
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: and Rocky Top blaring during one of the nine minute

830
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: commercial breaks you're gonna take depending on the network. That's

831
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: what an avalanche of orange feels like, Bill Martin, avalanche

832
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: of orange. Get the marketing ready, get the promotion machine ready.

833
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: So I not only do I have them top ten,

834
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: Not only do I have them top five, I got

835
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee as the number one toughest place to play in

836
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: college football. These are non negotiable. They are not debatable.

837
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: These are not opinion. This is fact. You take that

838
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: to the bank and it's stats. It's it's fluid, it

839
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: could change year to year. But these are the definitive

840
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: rankings right now, not even ratings. These are rankings, and

841
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,240
Speaker 1: you can take that to the bank. So congratulations to Tennessee.

842
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: Someone loves you, at least someone you know. Mainly just

843
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: the people who are paying attention. Quick Trip got two

844
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: of them. I think if we drove from here to

845
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: to not Soul, we got at least two of them

846
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 1: that we would go by. Not only would we go by,

847
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: then we would go inside and we would fill up outside. Okay,

848
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: first off, we need car fuel and then we also

849
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: need me fuel and that comes in the form of

850
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: col brew on tap or maybe are you not a

851
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: cold brew fan? Well, well maybe if you're not a

852
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 1: cold brew fan, go get your little protein shake or

853
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: just a normal coffee or one of fifty seven different

854
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: varieties of slushies or flavored teas. They really really got

855
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 1: you covered. And then you go get a various various

856
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: roll over there on the roller grill, or just some

857
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: good old fashioned pizza, maybe some trail mix, whatever your flavor.

858
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: Quick Trip has you covered. We appreciate them. Had a

859
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 1: meeting with them today, had a meeting with with QTJ today.

860
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: He knows who he is, He knows whom he is.

861
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:43,479
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue on more questions? Are so ready

862
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: to get answers? So ready? Oh the orange cream sickles

863
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: ev is calling me. Jesse has got to be a

864
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: record number of SIPs on the show tonight. You know,

865
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: I asked you for some of the biggest questions in

866
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: college football this year, and someone just got straight to

867
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: the point. Charles said, can Dabo capitalize with a roster

868
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: that gives him his best national title shot since twenty nineteen?

869
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: You know what, Charles, good question. I would put this

870
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: up there with the most intriguing questions of this college

871
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 1: football season. Really, if you think about what we're looking at,

872
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: where else would you rather be? Like if you were

873
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: placing your hope somewhere? Just let's say you walk in.

874
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: You're an agnostic fan. You don't really side with anyone.

875
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: You're just kind of figuring out, all right, well, what

876
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: can I depend on the most? Well, why not Clemson?

877
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: When are they going to do it again? If they

878
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: don't do it this year? They're number one in returning

879
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: production from a team that won the conference last year.

880
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: You got like a third year starter at quarterback who

881
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: was great last year down to stretch. His same coordinator

882
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: is there again. They added Tom Allen On the defensive side.

883
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: They got NFL guys at all three levels of the

884
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: defense they have. In fact, I would call this a

885
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: paper popper stat They got twenty one underclassman that played

886
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: two hundred plus snaps. I had a hiccup there. Let

887
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: me repeat in case anyone wanted to clip that twenty

888
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: one underclassman got two hundred plus snaps last year for Clemson.

889
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: Those guys will be back this year. That led FBS.

890
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: So here's what's really really intriguing about this. To me,

891
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: you can feel however you want to about it. It's

892
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: a classic fork in the road moment because if they

893
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: win the national title this year, I don't know that

894
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: I've ever seen a bigger I told you so in

895
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: the history of this sport. If Dabo Swinney, after several

896
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: years of having people tell him he's going about the

897
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: portal era the wrong way, he's going about the nil

898
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: era the wrong way. After all that, I'm included in that.

899
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: So I am over here with the people who to

900
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: a certain degree said that about him. For all that,

901
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: not only does he stay afloat, but he wins a

902
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: national title. I don't remember a bigger I told you

903
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 1: so in the recent modern era of college football. It's

904
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: one thing if he ignores it all, stays the course

905
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: and just keeps his head above water. If they win

906
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: the whole thing, the storybook says he drops the mic

907
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: and rides off into the sunset and goes and signs

908
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: with ESPN and takes over on college game day for

909
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: Lee Courso or something like that. I don't know that

910
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: he would ever do that. I'm just saying that's what

911
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: the storybook ending would be, because he certainly has nothing

912
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: left to accomplish. He already has his legacy sealed. It's

913
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: not even a legacy thing, it's just it would be

914
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,919
Speaker 1: a testament to about ten different things you could teach

915
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: a college course if Dabo wins the national title this

916
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: year on the lessons learned along the way. However, what

917
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: if they fall off this year, what if they're just

918
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: like nine and three or eight and four, not terrible,

919
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: but well off the pace, Well, then you'd probably look

920
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: at it. It wouldn't be disastrous. What it would be

921
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: is a pretty telling sign that Clemson's time in that

922
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: conversation may be done. And that'd be okay. Yeah, not

923
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: for a Clemson fan, they'd hate that. But as the

924
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 1: onlooker that's outside the bubble, you would look at it

925
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: and you'd say they had a multi year run, they

926
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: won a couple of national titles, they were the standard

927
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: bearer in their league for a long time. Still are

928
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: by the way, good for them. That was a good

929
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 1: solid run. Probably over they're probably back in the pack now,

930
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: but it was a good solid run. So you can

931
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: clearly tell why that's intriguing because you've got you got

932
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: this fork in the road and you can go one

933
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: way or the other way. Now there is a third path,

934
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: which is just I guess not a fork in the

935
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: road where they're kind of equal to what they were

936
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: last Year'd be good enough to win the conference, make

937
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: the playoff, but nothing more. And that kind of leaves

938
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: you in the nether world, like in between. But that's

939
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 1: why it's so intriguing. Can go a number of different ways,

940
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: but they legitimately could win the national title this year.

941
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: I was doing something with Cuberlic the other night where

942
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: we just turned on zoom and rambled for like an

943
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: hour and a half and he recorded it and then

944
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: he uploaded it on the Cube Show YouTube channel try

945
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:28,320
Speaker 1: and encourage you to go check out. But one of

946
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: the things he did, I was like, I was holding

947
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: up a piece of paper of the preseason rankings. He said, hey,

948
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: hold that piece of paper up of all those teams

949
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: who do you feel most comfortable with? And I said Texas.

950
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: For a second, he said, you know mine is clumsing.

951
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: And the more I thought about it, I said, yeah,

952
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: I want to change my answer. I think it's clumsing too.

953
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: Doesn't guarantee anything. It's a long season, you know, So

954
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: even if they go beat LSU thirty seven to twenty

955
00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:01,479
Speaker 1: in Week one, it's a long season. It's just man,

956
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: that expectation level. If they meet it or exceed it

957
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: this year versus if they regress it, it so heavily

958
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: determines the next five years. And it so heavily determines

959
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: how Dabos talked about, you know, not legacy per se,

960
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: but like if there's a second chapter to the Dabbo legacy,

961
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: well that's that's the core of it. The twenty twenty

962
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: five championship run. You know how hard it is to

963
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: ever win a national title period, much less winning two

964
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:38,439
Speaker 1: of them, what nine years apart, and there was another

965
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: one in between, but like the first and then maybe

966
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: the last one nine years apart, and how much changed

967
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: and how little you changed? Talk about pride. That would

968
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: be a point of pride. All right, let's move on

969
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: a lot of orange in the show. I didn't plan

970
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: it this way, including the ZBA. I didn't plan it

971
00:53:55,800 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: this way, but it just turned out this way. One

972
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: of our most popular segments that's been recurring lately, Oh

973
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Like that has been the Truth

974
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: Teller Series. It so I might continue it tonight. Bradley,

975
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,760
Speaker 1: here's a good endpoint for you. Let's continue the Truth

976
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: Teller Series. I would like us to tell the truth

977
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: about Josh Hypel, head coach at Tennessee. Josh Hypel, what's

978
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: the truth? What do you think about him? He has

979
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: thirty wins over his last three seasons. Okay, so just

980
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: to give you some Tennessee context, that is the most

981
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: they've had since the Golden era of Tennessee really in

982
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: color TV history, and that's nineteen ninety six through nineteen

983
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: ninety eight, the Philip Fulmer era won a national title

984
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: during that stretch. Well, Hypel's won thirty games over his

985
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: past three years. That's the kind of stuff they were

986
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:49,439
Speaker 1: doing back then. People wouldn't put him on par right

987
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: now with where they had Phil Fulmer in the late

988
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: nineties early two thousands. Of course, you got to win

989
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 1: a title, you know, ten or trash title or bust.

990
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: You know. I when I hear people tell the Hypel

991
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: story or they give their opinion on him, it's like

992
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: some of some of his history's memory hold to me.

993
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: If that makes any sense, I'll tell you what I

994
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: mean by that. He to me, Josh Hipel to me,

995
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,280
Speaker 1: is an example of right guy at the right place

996
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: in time, because he came there from UCFS, as did

997
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: his ad. So Danny White was the AD at UCF,

998
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: and Tennessee hires him, and then Danny White hires his

999
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: head coach at UCF, Josh Hipel. But here's what people

1000
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: sometimes forget. They had just gone six and four at

1001
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,760
Speaker 1: UCF in twenty twenty. I think their record had fallen

1002
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: off a little bit each year since he took over

1003
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: for Frost. Since he got there, there were whispers around

1004
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 1: Orlando that if they didn't significantly pick up the pace

1005
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: the following year, that Hypel would be in the hot

1006
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:01,320
Speaker 1: seat conversation. And it's hired by Tennessee and it becomes

1007
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: a moot point. And I'm sitting there thinking to myself,

1008
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 1: that's peculiar. But yet the guy who hired him is

1009
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: the guy who knows him better. Than anyone, So I'm

1010
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: gonna trust Danny White on this one. That was that

1011
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: was the extent of my reaction when josh Hipel got

1012
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: hired and he's gone there, and from two thousand and

1013
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: eight to twenty twenty one, prior to josh Hipel's arrival

1014
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: in Knoxville, from eight to twenty twenty one, they didn't

1015
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: have a single double digit win season. Two of his

1016
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: first three years have been double digit win seasons. But

1017
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:38,760
Speaker 1: think about this, in that thirteen year stretch where Tennessee

1018
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 1: was out wandering in the wilderness, it's like there are

1019
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 1: the Israelites, there's Tennessee kind of following them. Eight of

1020
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: those thirteen seasons, they were five hundred or worse inexcusable

1021
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: amounts of ineptitude at Tennessee, which just goes to show

1022
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: you how bad the wrong hire can compound matters. And

1023
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 1: then when you follow the wrong higher with another wrong

1024
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: hire with another wrong higher, oh, just flaming bags of

1025
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: trash in your winning loss records when you pull up

1026
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: the Wikipedia page. And then josh Hipel came in and

1027
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: he's rectified it. So they're in a very weird spot

1028
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: right now. To tell you the truth, about how I

1029
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: feel about Tennessee. They're in a very weird spot. On

1030
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: one hand, I think it could be a transition year

1031
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: for them this year. I'm not as high on Tennessee

1032
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: this year as the oddsmakers are, as many people around

1033
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: here are. Since I live in Nashville, I hear a

1034
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: ton of Tennessee talk. I'm not as high on Tennessee

1035
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: as some people are. That's not the terrible thing. It's

1036
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen in college football. That's transition. That's gonna

1037
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: happen every now and then. The reason I say that's

1038
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: a weird spot is because I'm very high on Tennessee's program,

1039
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: and I'm extremely high on what happened last year. All

1040
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: people remembers they got blown out at Ohio State. That's

1041
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: the way they ended the year. But that's one game.

1042
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: What I remember is for all to talk about how

1043
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,240
Speaker 1: big an offensive genius Josh Hypel is, and he is

1044
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: that how'd they win last year? They were good offensively,

1045
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: but there were several extended periods last year of offensive drought.

1046
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: Defense is what won him games. They had a top

1047
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: ten defense last year. To me, one of the surest

1048
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: signs of upward mobility of upward trending as a team

1049
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 1: and a program is when the side of the ball

1050
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: you don't specialize in starts to elevate. Lincoln Riley is

1051
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 1: a classic example of the other side of this coin.

1052
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley scored fifty every game at Oklahoma, but they

1053
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,439
Speaker 1: needed to because they were given up forty five every game.

1054
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: And now he's gone to USC and to a certain extent,

1055
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: he had the same problems at the outset. They were

1056
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: terrible defensively. He made the proper HighRes and it looks

1057
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: like they're getting better there. But at Tennessee, like Hypel

1058
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: last year, it's it's defense. It was a defensive oriented team,

1059
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: and so that on one hand makes me feel good

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00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: about the trajectory of the program. Even if they have

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00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: a temporary hiccup this year, I still feel that about Tennessee.

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00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: Now could be wrong. They could go eleven and one

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00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: this year, but I'm just saying, even if they're eight

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00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: and four this year, I still feel the same way

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Speaker 1: about him. Now, speaking of the way people feel about him,

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00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: the Niko Iamliava stuff is still fairly fresh in everyone's mind.

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00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: But Batt'll fate in the public's mind. They got too

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00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: much else going on in their lives. They're worried about

1069
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: their own team, or they're worried about everything else that

1070
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: they're not going to remember intimate details of how Josh

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00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 1: Haipel handled the nico I Amaliava drama in spring of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Tennessee fans will so that really endeared

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00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: him to Tennessee fans, as it should, because he finally

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00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: stood up when so many other coaches were bending a

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00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: knee to players and representatives of players asking for this

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01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: and that, and Josh Hypel finally just chested it up

1077
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, go on, go on. You know what,

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01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: even if we have to take a step back this year,

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01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: go on, we don't need that here. And he got

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01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: a standing round of applause from his fan base, and

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01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: I applaud him too, even as I looked at it

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01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I'm not a believer this

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01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: will necessarily help their overall record this upcoming year. It

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01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: may help their standing as a program overall. And I

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01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: want you to also think about this. If Tennessee is

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01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: the kind of team that's just scrappy, and they got

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01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: they got the hateful three stars, which are worth their

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01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: weight in gold if they just got enough of those

1089
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: sprinkled with some foreign five star talent. But if if

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01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: they're nucleus just decides to go all in for Josh Heipel,

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01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: and they're the kind that'll take your kneecaps out in

1092
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: a close game, then you may find yourself late in

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01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,919
Speaker 1: the year and Tennessee's just battered and bloodied, but they're

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01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: still coming from more and they're still in the fringe

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01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: of the playoff ray. You may find yourself saying, you know,

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01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:05,439
Speaker 1: those kids are playing for him in the way they are,

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01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: partly because of how he reacted in the spring to

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01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: a guy that didn't necessarily want to be all in.

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01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: I could see that. I could see that. So that's

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01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 1: the truth to me about Josh Hipel. Right now, Bradley

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01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: showed you the odds for Tennessee to win the SEC.

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01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: Not great odds. Right now. However, it may be that

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01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: you're sitting home in Kingsport or Johnson City or Memphis

1104
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: and you're saying, you know, that last thing you said

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01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: about Tennessee, I think that's right. I think there's going

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01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: to be an intangible nature to the grit and just

1107
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: the hard nosed determination of this team this year that

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01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: they want to play and they want to fight for

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01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:49,959
Speaker 1: a guy who stood up for him in the spring,

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Speaker 1: and I think they're going to overachieve. Well, you're in

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Speaker 1: luck because you can go bet on all those sorts

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Speaker 1: If you saw that list and you said, oh wait,

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Speaker 1: they have that for every team over there, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a big better. I just want to go look. Yes

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Speaker 1: you can go look as well. Penalty free, you can

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Speaker 1: go look. But if you want to go bet over there,

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Speaker 1: with bold predictions. Everything is a nine or bowlder on

1143
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: this particular show tonight, Bradley, here's a good endpoint bold

1144
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: prediction season the things that you believe that you have

1145
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: agreed to let me put on the air tonight in

1146
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 1: hopes of December glory. Let's take a look at the

1147
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: first one. This comes to us from our buddy John

1148
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: JD for sure right here in Tennessee and Tazewell Ole

1149
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 1: mess in Florida in the SEC Championship game. I'm gonna

1150
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 1: make that a nine point five on the boldness scale.

1151
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: These are the number five and number six teams and

1152
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: the odds to win the SEC right now at FanDuel.

1153
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: They do play each other in the regular season. What

1154
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: are we counting on here, Well, we're counting on Florida

1155
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 1: to overcome what is, in our estimation, the toughest schedule

1156
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: in the country. And we're also counting on Austin Simmons

1157
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: and Ole Missus defense to shine. That's just a lot

1158
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: to count on. So I mean, they're up there, like

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01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a stunner if either or made the

1160
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: SEC title game, but for both of them to make

1161
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: it over the likes of Texas or LSU or Alabama

1162
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:40,000
Speaker 1: or Georgia, it's a little bit tougher for me to see.

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01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: That's a nine point five. Next up, this one I

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01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: wrestled with a little while today, Carson from Houston, Texas.

1165
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: He said, Jeremiah Smith breaks the all time receiving yards

1166
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: record of over two thousand yards due to the expanded

1167
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: playoff adding more games. Okay, so Trevor Ensley at Nevada

1168
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: a while back, I think late nineties he set the record.

1169
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: The record is two thousand and sixty receiving yards in

1170
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: one season. I think he did it in twelve games.

1171
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: I think now what we're saying here is okay, But

1172
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith's probably gonna play more than twelve games, so that,

1173
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: in part is why he's gonna break the all time record.

1174
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: I only made this a nine on the Bolden scale,

1175
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 1: Like you're telling me a guy's gonna break a record

1176
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 1: that stood since the turn of the millennium, and it's

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01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: only a nine. That should tell you how good he is.

1178
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith won the Heisman in twenty twenty. He played

1179
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 1: thirteen games. He had a little over eighteen hundred receiving yards.

1180
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith he averaged one hundred and forty two point

1181
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: eight yards per game last year. That pace over sixteen

1182
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 1: games comfortably gets him the record. In fact, he doesn't

1183
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 1: even need to be close to one hundred and forty

1184
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: per game for him to get the record. It's just

1185
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: does he sustain that over an entire year? Does he

1186
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 1: stay healthy and does Julian Saying have the kind of

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01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: game that it takes to get him the ball like that,

1188
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: I certainly can count on Ohio State to have the

1189
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: supporting cast where they're not trying to force him the

1190
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: ball enough. I also look, I think if Brian Hartline

1191
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: sort of in the back of his mind decides this

1192
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: is one of my goals. I want to get that

1193
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 1: kid the Heisman. I want to get that kid records.

1194
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: Even in the games they know we're gonna be blowouts.

1195
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: That's just when you feed him the ball ten times

1196
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: in the first half so he gets his as you

1197
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: know he's gonna be on the bench in the second half.

1198
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a nine on that one. The next

1199
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: one would be sad Alan from Melbourne, Florida said, sadly,

1200
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: there you go, his words, not mine. Mike Norvel gets

1201
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: fired before the end of the season, that is a

1202
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: nine point five to me. Is it a disaster season?

1203
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: Because if it is, you know, there's really no limit

1204
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:56,240
Speaker 1: at that point. It would be two of them in

1205
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: a row. Is it just an up and down season? Though,

1206
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 1: if it's an up and down season, I don't think

1207
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna get fired before the season's over. He may

1208
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: not be fired at all, but if he was fired,

1209
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: it wouldn't before the season's over. Bradley, if you've got

1210
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: Florida State schedule, show me for a second, because I

1211
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 1: just want you to look at this. So they don't

1212
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: Their bye week is after the Stanford game, So if

1213
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 1: they're going to fire him, my point is, if they

1214
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: don't do it after the Stanford game, there's not another

1215
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: bye week the rest of the way, and there's really

1216
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 1: no FCS game, Like, there's no convenient place to do it.

1217
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: They go Wake Forest at home, at Clemson, VA Tech,

1218
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 1: at NC State, at Florida. Their schedules backloaded, so the

1219
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: the biggest risk games are on the back end, Like

1220
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 1: they should win some games to start off the season

1221
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: at least not be terrible. And then if they want

1222
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: to fire him, do you fire him the week you're

1223
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 1: about to go on the road in conference play? You

1224
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: fire him the week you're about to go to Gainesville.

1225
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: I just even if they're gonna do it, I don't

1226
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna happen during the season. And I

1227
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 1: know that's the new trend to do it and go

1228
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 1: ahead and rip the band aid off and let's get

1229
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 1: the search started and maybe they will. Maybe it'll be

1230
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 1: a moot point and Florida State wins nine games, but

1231
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: I make that a nine point five. And lastly, h

1232
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:24,600
Speaker 1: oh yeah. South Carolina. Okay, so this was from Lexington,

1233
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:27,760
Speaker 1: South Carolina. South Carolina has a top ten offense, a

1234
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 1: top fifteen defense and makes the playoff. And there was

1235
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 1: some Lenora Cellar stuff too. Let's just go with that.

1236
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: That's a nine point seventy five. South Carolina was sixteenth

1237
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 1: in defense last year and lost a bunch, so we're

1238
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:45,639
Speaker 1: asking them to improve despite all the draft departures. They

1239
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:49,120
Speaker 1: had the forty fifth offense last year, and I don't

1240
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 1: know who in the world they're gonna count on for

1241
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: depth at wide receiver. The tailback situation is still a

1242
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 1: little weird because of the eligibility thing, and they just

1243
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: have to significantly improve offensively. Yeah. I don't think this

1244
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,160
Speaker 1: is gonna happen. They could make the playoff without this happening. However,

1245
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: you would think if this does happen, they're a lock

1246
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 1: to make the playoff, Right, No Ole Miss did this

1247
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 1: last year? Do you know that Ole Miss was top

1248
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: fifteen in defense? Top ten offense, they didn't even make

1249
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: the playoff. Tennessee was the other one. So the defense

1250
01:09:24,439 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: just lost a lot. And on the offensive side, the

1251
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, the running back position. You just count

1252
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: on Lenora's sellers becoming that much better this year. If

1253
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: any of that doesn't happen, you got no shot at

1254
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: a top fifteen offense. So I'm gonna make that a

1255
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 1: nine point seventy five on the boldness scale. Good stuff,

1256
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 1: good stuff, as always, all right, we will be back

1257
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: what Sunday night. We'll be back same time we're supposed

1258
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:55,599
Speaker 1: to be, and we really appreciate it. So much going on. Oh,

1259
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: make sure you're following on social at Josh Pate CFB.

1260
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Speaker 1: There's so much going on. It's all good stuff. I

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Speaker 1: would even go as far to say great stuff. Heavily involved,

1262
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 1: but great stuff, and you'll know all of it before

1263
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 1: the season starts. In the meantime, we've got to go home.

1264
01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 1: It's dinner time. So for producer Jesse Director Bradley, I'm

1265
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 1: Josh Pate. Take care, have great start to your weekend,

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