WEBVTT - Introducing: The UFO Show 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:07.720 To walk second Students Turing Snow pushas t Minor Snow. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:17.840 Welcome back to Oh oh, what is this show we 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:18.360 have here? 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:23.639 It's a new intro. Friday is upon us. You know, 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.040 last year we did a show called The tues Cruise 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.520 conveniently on a Tuesday today, though, Dan, As we've been 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.879 teasing all throughout the long, cold, dark off season. That 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.400 was amid the coronavirus in this pandemic and uncertainty. We 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.360 always had this in the back of. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.120 Our minds, Dan, Yeah, that's true. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.839 What about a space themed college football show each and 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.720 every week? How does that work for you? Oh? 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.280 Well, I mean it's been working for me since we 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.880 discussed it in probably January, we think. So plotting this 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.959 out for a while, I actually remember hitching you on 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:05.319 a transition from twos Cruise to whatever. I mean we're 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.080 calling it UFO. But I think what we're gonna do 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.240 is change with the U stands for because we didn't 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.839 come up with anything that we really loved. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.400 What does the season Friday. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.920 Or Football Friday? I think Friday, Yeah, because we have 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.440 the twos, so let's also go with the Friday Yeah. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.520 So Friday Orbit yeah is where we're going with the 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.759 F and the oh. It is, of course Week two, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.720 but week one really for the Power five teams that 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.880 are going to be playing this weekend. So what is 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.600 the you gonna stand for this week? 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.880 I'm gonna say underway. I'm going to say underway because 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.399 it's the only real chance. Well, I guess maybe before 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.200 the SEC and Big twelve teams play conference games. But 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.640 I'm going to say right now, because the season is 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.440 underway and is continuing to get underway. It feels like 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.520 the right move to say it's the underway Friday Orbit 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.520 because it's also the start of the UFO. Right, I 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:03.280 think that's good. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.840 I don't know if there's a better space or cosmic 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.880 themed words starting with a you that doesn't need to 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.880 be that we could do right. It doesn't matter because 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.399 it's our show. We can do whatever we want. We're 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.679 excited to have our our bawlers here as we get 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.200 ready for this new season, and again, whatever format it 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.480 takes on, I am tie that guy over there in 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.000 beautiful Chicagoland is the one and only Dan Rubenstein. Don't 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.760 forget to subscribe to the show. 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Also, follow along on 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.880 social media Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, We've got a subreddit. A 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.440 lot of fun stuff going down right now as we 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.840 build into this brand new season. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:12.280 Daniel. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.080 Yeah, and as you are listening to this now, this 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.359 UFO show. The newsletter of intent is in the mailboxes 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.560 of people who have already subscribed. And it's a pretty 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.240 fun one, I think, right it's I got some updates 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.040 from our end, and I know a podcast. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.120 I know a guy. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:30.840 Yeah, I got a. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.839 Sneak pink and oh yeah, it's good. It's not bad, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:35.560 it's good. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.120 I like to hear that. Also I'm very excited to 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.600 use the word unctious as a U word ahead of 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.840 Friday Orbit at some point this year. I don't know 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.160 when it's going to be, but that's in the Quiver's 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.360 a vocabulary. Unkempt is wonderful. Yeah, So we've got a 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.680 lot planned here what we're doing today though, So the 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:59.240 UFO show each week is going to be a very 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.600 specific I know, we did three different segments on the 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.040 two's cruse last year. We're going to be a little 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.800 bit more specific and do one big segment and then 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.360 add on a weekly Q and A to the UFO 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.880 perhaps sip in some libations time. My working title for 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:19.040 that is the Bruine, but it's not finalized. It's not finalized. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.560 So I really wanted to focus and drill down today 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.119 like the movie Armaged and drilling on a celestial body. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.760 Right, you know they you know that, you know, the 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.040 true asteroids of no gravity. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.200 Why did JJ Abrams lie to us? 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.760 It's an operative question. Yeah. By the way, the reason 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.280 for the space theme we should point out for those 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.240 who don't know, is I've got something of a fascination 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.200 with the Cosmos. Yeah, and I think that's what launched 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.400 this whole thing. Two's cruse just rhymed. This is more 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.839 of a pet project for me, so to the extent 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.880 that I can be, I'm very excited to in part 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.839 some just weird sp themed things on you. There will 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.840 be a quiz at the end of this show. I 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.640 don't know if I've prepared for that, but I've prepared 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.520 five questions that we're gonna ask you, just to we 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.919 hope to educate not only you, but all the rebawlers 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.120 out there on outer space as we're going on this 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:17.480 on this voyage. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.680 Yeah, I was gonna say good transition type because it's 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.880 time to talk college football, and I wanted to drill 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.479 down on what we usually call group of five teams, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.440 but because of the cancelation of the Mountain West and 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.000 the MAC, it's more of a group of three this 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.839 season with the Sun Belt Conference USA and Portupuesto, the AAC, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.960 the American Athletic Conference. So I want to drill down 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:48.640 on things like matchups, teams, games, mobility upwards or downwards, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.200 and just where your mind is as it relates to 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.560 group of three as an idea. The group of three 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.320 has an idea with now a group of three Power 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.920 three teams existing as well. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.760 Yeah, it doesn't roll off the tongue the way it 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:03.160 used to. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:08.400 No, no, it does not. So you have a name 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:09.520 for this segment, right. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.440 This is the group of three Voyager Dan. This is 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.880 in honor of the famed NASA Voyager one and two 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:22.280 missions that are currently still in operation to some extent 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.640 exploring interstellar space. So they have left the Solar system, right, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.880 they have clearly ascended to bigger and better things. They're 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.799 out there farther than any other man made object, exploring 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.120 the great unknown of the cosmos. And it's quite thematic. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:44.120 Now as we talk about teams in the Group of three, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:48.840 what we are essentially looking for is teams that we 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.640 think are going to separate themselves, whether in terms of 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:57.080 intrigue or ceiling from what we perceive the class of 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.440 the Group of three to be. So essentially, which of 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.240 those teams is going to rise above and really make 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.200 a name for themselves in this weird season. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.760 I'm very happy that you did not make a I 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.400 don't know, Gasparilla Bowl or Boca Ratone Bowl or Motor 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.600 City Bowl reference to interstellar space being quite far away, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.600 perhaps from the top of college football tie. That's where 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.600 my mind went. And you are better than I. So 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:22.320 here we are. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.360 Here we are. So when we look around the group 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.040 of three, Daniel, are there any teams that jump out 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.840 at you? You know, I'll throw a few out there 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.880 that I think are in the conversation to be that 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:40.160 cream of the group of three. Crop Cincinnati, we know 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.200 about their defense UCF, we know about their national championship. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:48.600 Of course, Houston has been there, wasn't last year, and 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.880 Deeric King won't be there this year either. But SMU 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.000 had a pretty good campaign under Sunny Dyke's Memphis now 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.880 moving on with a new coach after Mike Norvel went 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.679 south to Tallahassee. There's Fau in the post Lane Kiffin era. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.640 There's app State in the post Eli Drinkwitz era. We've 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.920 got the Louisiana team that we talked a little bit 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.440 about on our preview a few nights ago. Anybody else 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.000 maybe that I am missing, But those are just a 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.480 few of the teams that I think bubble up when 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.400 we start thinking about, all right, who's really going to 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:22.040 rise above? 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.280 Yeah, I mean we've seen it from Navy, you know, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.600 a recent group of five to three whatever team, But 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:29.320 We didn't see it. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:35.000 Against Port No Factoid, not against BYU. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.040 Not against BOYU. But we saw it out of Navy 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.360 as recently as last year, Malcolm Perry. We've seen it 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.400 from teams and I don't know how we want to 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.240 you know, Army was there, not a group of three 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:48.480 specific team because they're in an FBS independent team. Tulane 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.800 has had some moments. I'm interested to see from this 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.160 group because really we're talking about the American, the top 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.920 of the American or the top or the middle, top, middle, 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.960 upper class, whatever, and a couple of teams from Conference 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.880 USA and the Sun Belt where there seems to be 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.400 at least from the American a bit of a talent 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.079 or at least depth drop off. I think we start 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.640 at that top, though, we start at the top of 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.120 the American in terms of intrigue because it is it's 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.320 Cincinnati's defense. It's how balanced UCF has been, and we 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.320 saw UCF really proved that last year, even though Stanford 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.480 wasn't that good. How Dylan Gabriel absolutely shellacked almost one 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.960 man bandit. I mean it was a balanced offensive attack, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.600 But how good Dylan Gabriel was as a freshman against 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.040 a team like Stanford, and it didn't perform against Pitt obviously, 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.199 but we see the potential of a team like UCF 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.959 for SMU Cincinnati. I mean, it was all sort of 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.240 highlighted with that SMU Memphis game, which I think was 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.240 a fifty four to forty eight primetime Saturday night game 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.080 last year. So just all sorts of offensive fireworks. So 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.960 what the American has to me, especially at the top, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.599 is it's sort of the archetypes of an entertaining, interesting 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:02.199 power conference and that you have defense powerhouses and interesting quarterbacks. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.880 Not even necessarily at the top, but just in the 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.640 conference in general. You know, I have a crush on 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:10.000 Holton Baylor's at East Carolina. So it's really interesting in 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:15.680 the depth of fascination to me the American. Yeah, I mean, 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:17.160 here's the thing. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.680 When you look at a team like a Cincinnati, I 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.240 think they're my answer here. By the way, if you 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:23.679 do have an answer and you just want to throw 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:24.959 it out there, we're going to play the sound. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:26.959 Oh I like that. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.200 Okay, I'm going to communicate it. But okay, that's communicating 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.000 with the voyager satellite. Yeah, not a lot of people 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.640 know I'm just making this up. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.120 No, no, No, that's good, Tyle. Let's sell it. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.480 That's it. That's the signal. HM, we can hear it. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.920 But Cincinnati to me is very intriguing because they bring 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.560 back ten starters from a defense that was already very, 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.840 very good. And I remember previewing some Cincinnati games last year, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.560 even in the run up to the twenty nineteen season, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.800 we looked at this team and it was like, h 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.240 Luke Fickle's building something there might not be the most exciting, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.520 but we know the defense is going to be rock solid. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.240 You know, he's a defensive minded coach, and we know 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.400 he's got some other guys that he is trying to 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.320 build around to take that offense to another level as well. Well. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.240 The defense is back now, ten starters are back, and 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.760 so that in and of itself is very exciting. But 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.760 I've had a thing for Desmond Ridder ever since he 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.160 took over that quarterback position and was a little banged 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.520 up down the stretch, a little bang down the stretch 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.480 last year. But it's just he's always had the feel 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.480 to me like they have not fully tapped his potential 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.720 and when they can't, they can crack that code. He 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.199 does bring a dimension to the offense that would make 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:43.559 them more dangerous. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.760 Unfortunately, that is not completing passes down for you. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.440 Maybe I'm wrong about that, right, Okay, but I've always 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.160 had this thing for Desmond Ridder, and if Cincinnati can 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.839 bolt on a better offense than they've had, that makes 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.200 them a very dangerous opponent. You know, take this year 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.600 out of it, and who knows who's playing whom on 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:14.160 which week's given circumstances surrounding the coronavirus. But Cincinnati is 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.480 absolutely positively one of those teams in normal circumstances where 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.240 they're playing a Power five school. That's that's a score 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.160 I'm watching for on the extra size supersized bottom line 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:25.800 on ESPN. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.480 They were supposed to play in Nebraska this season, and 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.720 you exactly penciled in a Nebraska win. So I don't 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.240 know how much faith you actually have in Cincinnati. That's right, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.719 Ty calling you out as a group of three fraud No, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.960 you penciled in Nebraska win and then you I guess 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.400 like Nebraska to improve this season. But yeah, I might 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.239 pick is Memphis just because the addition of Mike McIntyre 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.839 on that defense is interesting to me, because if there 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.520 was that week link last year it was, and then 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.240 they had to win some shootouts. They had to win 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.760 some shootouts to get by Ultimately, you know, Penn State 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.200 takes them down in the bowl game and they gave 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.959 up a lot offense to Penn State. So I'm interested 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.280 to see what Ryan Silverfield and taking over for Mike 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.200 Norvell but retaining Brady White under center, and that offense 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.160 should even without Kenny Gainwell, who they lost to opting 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.040 out of the season for public health concerns. I'm interested 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.760 to see what kind of momentum they can keep in 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.600 twenty twenty with the schedule that they have, and if 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.079 they're able to in the way that Mike McIntyre improved 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:30.760 Ole Missus dreadful defense, if he can work similar miracles, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.400 but similar improvements into the Tiger defense, that suddenly becomes 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.400 a more interesting complete team on the level of what 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.280 UCF ceiling has been these past few years. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.439 So I'm looking at our friend Bill Connolly's sp Plus rankings, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:52.520 and again this is not coronavirus adjusted. He's got in there. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:59.480 Memphis at number twenty five, okay, number twenty five, with 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.280 a projected win total of seven point four games. They 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.480 play ten as a lot of schools will be As 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.680 I look through this schedule, I honestly don't know you 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:17.800 know who outside Cincinnati. I feel good about beating Memphis. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.000 I think Memphis is gonna be very good for many 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:24.800 of the reasons. In Cincinnati, there at Cincinnati Nippert Stadium, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.880 the Nippert Stadium, but I feel pretty good about that 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.560 over if you were to set it at seven and 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.480 a half. I don't know what Vegas has it at currently, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.480 but the only two on here that really jump out 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.400 at me as being perhaps surefire losses if you want 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.240 to go that far, would be Cincinnati and UCF. And 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.239 even that might be a stretch to say surefire. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.000 Oh yeah, it's definitely a stretch to say sure fire. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.800 But the thing that I'm concerned about with Memphis actually 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.560 is the schedule, just because of how loaded up on 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.840 the back end it is. As I read here, I 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.760 have at SMU, you see Temple, which Temple loses a bunch, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.720 especially on defense, but a rod carry defense should still 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:11.000 be pretty formidable. At Cincinnati, then it's USF, which it's 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.200 year one of Jeff Scott Navy on the road in 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.000 Tulane on the road. This is a quality, quality stretch 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.360 to finish out a good chunk of the season. That's rough, TI, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.880 that's rough, week after week after week. They have a 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.600 bye between Navy and Tulane. But still, I man, that's 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.920 a bit of a murderer's row. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.320 It is for sure one team that we have not 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.320 thrown out, by the way, for anyone wondering, Cincinnati is 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:39.600 thirty fourth on Bill's sp plus rankings, and again not 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.600 coronavirus adjusted. Ohio State and Penn State and Wisconsin and 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.720 some Pac twelve teams are still in there, but thirty 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.520 fourth is where they ranked relative to some of the 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:55.360 other teams here. Bill has them at I think around 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.240 the same. Yeah, seven point one out of ten games. Okay, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.960 so commit that to memory. The team that we have 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:11.440 not mentioned yet, which some may find surprising, as ucfure 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:17.480 UCF is the highest ranked team in this sp plus ranking. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.880 They play nine games this year because they're Week one 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:27.400 game against Florida International was postponed, so nine as of now, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.560 he's got them at a seven point one average win total. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:37.920 I am assuming one of those games is either Cincinnati 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.520 or Memphis. The other could be Georgia Tech, although I 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.359 don't know how great I feel about Tech beating UCF. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:53.880 Interesting schedule though they're at Georgia Tech, they are at Memphis, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.040 they are at Houston, and they're home later in the 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.240 year against Cincinnati. So again within the context of the 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:08.680 group of five, knee group of three, three road games, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.320 including that one against Georgia Tech, is not the easiest 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:11.920 slate for them. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.960 I would go as far as saying this is abo tie. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.240 This is American bangers only even at a Tech game, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.560 it's ECU, which is not a full banger. It's a 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.000 half banger. But that offense could be pretty dangerous because 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.480 again my crush on Hold Naylor's is very well known 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.800 by now. But Tulsa is better than what their record 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.440 showed last year, a lot of close losses, and I 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.280 think they're going to be improved this year. And then 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:41.040 at Memphis, Tulane, at Houston, Temple, Cincinnati, and then they 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.760 finish at USF, which is again year one, but still 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:49.400 there is no obvious pseudo bye week to me, which 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.280 is interesting. I like this tie. I like entertaining week 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.879 to week, we're getting at least one or two super 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.359 interesting American matchups. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:03.200 Tulane is an interesting name as well, for sure. Willi 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.960 Fritz has done a really good job over the last 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.560 two years, back to back Bowl wins. I think for 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:15.080 the first time in program history. It should be a 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:20.240 pretty good defense. And if you look at this again 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.840 in terms of the UCS schedule, they've got Tulane in 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.080 a sandwich spot there, they're on the road at a 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.159 Memphis team that'll be a big game for them. The 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.719 following week, they're on the road against Houston. Now Houston 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.560 wasn't great last year, but Houston's dangerous, if only because 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.120 Dana Holgerson's there and he knows how to generally build 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:41.000 an offense. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.240 Returning quarterback as well. 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.680 Yeah, in between, granted it's homecoming, but in between, you've 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.000 got a two lane team that I don't know if 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.480 plucky is the right word, but they play good defense. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.479 They will again this year, and you know, it seems 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.919 like Willi Fritz is building something with that program. So 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:04.160 the green Wave perhaps washing over Spectrum Stadium in Orlando. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.000 New quarterback, interesting talent on offense, really intriguing front, and 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:09.800 that's the way it's been these past couple of years, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.280 as you've mentioned, and their offensive coordinator Will Hall is 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.879 creative and super well regarded. I remember he interviewed and 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.919 almost got allegedly the Oregon offensive coordinator job. So he 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:25.280 is being looked at as a potential bigger job type candidate. 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.119 And so for what they have to replace now in 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.800 Justin McMillan at quarterback, they're in a good spot that 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.960 they have the momentum, they have the recruiting momentum. This 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.480 is I like the Green Wave. They are plucky. Might 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.719 be right, but I think they're ascending in terms of 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.760 what we'd categorize as a team that's ascending. It'd be 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:46.600 hard to argue against Tulane right now. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.560 The one wild card for me, and I'm going to 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:52.680 need some help from you, and we're exactly to place 0:19:52.720 --> 0:20:00.359 them is SMU. I did not realize that Shane Shell 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.440 was getting legit NFL hype going into the twenty twenty 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.920 season his senior campaign. I just I don't know why 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:12.239 I didn't realize that. Perhaps it's still a little too 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.320 fresh in my mind that he left Texas, and I 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.960 don't know, I don't know if it's out of sight, 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.240 out of mind, but Shane Baschelle threw for thirty four 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.560 touchdowns last year in an air raid system, but a 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:29.639 thirty four to ten touchdown to interception ratio through for 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.600 almost four thousand yards. Anytime you've got a guy like 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:39.400 that going up against generally defenses that are a bit porous, 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.720 that's a competitive advantage. They've also got a really good 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:49.080 receiver in Reggie Roberson, coming back love Reggie Roberson. Last year, 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.680 their top target on the receiving corps had one hundred 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.320 and sixty six targets and one hundred and eleven catches. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:01.480 Reggie robersony Proche, that's right, James Proche. Reggie Roberson didn't 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.800 quite get there. He was only at sixty four targets, 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.520 but as the leading returning receiver, you can bet that 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.080 he's going to see a lie and share of those 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:15.040 looks from Shaggy Shane bschell. I have no idea, no 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.280 idea what kind of defense Sunny Dix is trying to build. 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.960 But whenever you've got that tandem on offense that you 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.800 know you can at least start with, that's very promising. 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:27.960 Yeah. Oh, they're going to be maybe the most entertaining 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:30.520 team because of what their defense has allowed and what 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.320 their offense does to other defense is week to week 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:35.760 SMU I think just like last year and they beat 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.680 up on a not so great first half of their schedule. 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.320 All apologies to TC in the Iron Skillet, that was 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.840 a very close game though. We're going to see a 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:45.440 lot of that with We see a lot of forty 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.760 one thirty eights with SMU. Once again, I don't have 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:49.920 a ton of faith in their defense taking a step forward. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.880 But the reason we're seeing Shane Baschelle get interest from 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.560 the next level is one, I don't know. There are 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.680 thirty two backup jobs in the NFL every year, right 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:02.159 there are thirty. He's got a film and phill If 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:03.560 he's a fifth round pick, they're not going to be 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:07.520 paying him a lot of money, so sure, absolutely, Yeah, 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:11.239 there's interesting talent where you remember Sonny Dyke's also was 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.679 instrumental and developing Jared Goff. So his reputation as a 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.239 quarterback developer during his career is it precedes him. So 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:20.960 I get it. He also kind of got a raw 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.400