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Speaker 1: Georgia and only saw it on TV, is they're better

429
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 1: than you, but they know it, and they don't have

430
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 1: to tell you. They're like waffle House, And this is

431
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: a supreme compliment where I come from. Waffle House famously

432
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 1: spends zero dollars per year marketing. They don't have to

433
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: tell you they're the goat. Everyone else will tell you

434
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 1: for them. The Rose Bowl doesn't have to tell you

435
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 1: how great they are. I'll tell you for them. And

436
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 1: it's really a beautiful place to be in life. So anyway,

437
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,479
Speaker 1: I'm with Herbstreet on that I would not mind if

438
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 1: we just made that the permanent national championship home. And

439
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: I understand that that is a little bit it's a

440
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: little bit strong of an opinion. It's a little radical.

441
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just an opinion. I don't think

442
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,920
Speaker 1: it's fact. It's not right or wrong. It's just the

443
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,360
Speaker 1: way that I lean right now. Okay, the other game

444
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: that happened yesterday, and boy do I have some things

445
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: to say about this. Washington thirty seven, Texas thirty one.

446
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 1: Remember when we were previewing this game, and I said,

447
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 1: I think the country is a ni reaction. Is Texas Washington,

448
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 1: gimme Texas talent roster, gimme Texas. And then I said,

449
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 1: a lot of the country is going to do a

450
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: deeper dive on the game and they're going to go,

451
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: oh oh, matchup problem for Texas pass defense in the nineties,

452
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 1: best pass offense in America. And then I said, there's

453
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: a fine sliver of the college football public that will

454
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: do a double deep dive and they'll go, is Texas's

455
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 1: secondary really that vulnerable? Weren't a lot of these passing

456
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: yards put up in garbage time or in situations where

457
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: teams were in catchup mode and to that I said,

458
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Well, friends, we found out padlock stats

459
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: all over the place. Michael Pennix was a padlock stat

460
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: in this game, twenty nine of thirty eight, four hundred

461
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 1: and thirty yards, two touchdowns. Washington had half a dozen

462
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: guys with three plus catches. Not last month, last night,

463
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: just last night, that half a dozen guys catch three

464
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: balls or more. A donze went off like all the

465
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: usual suspects went off. They had zero sacks. And it's

466
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: not because Texas didn't get pressure. It's just because Michael

467
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: Pennix is kind of sort of a wizard, does some

468
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: things that shouldn't really be capable of being done on

469
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: a football field. Unbelievable. You watched the game just like

470
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: I did. Nine passes of fifteen plus yards. But here's

471
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: what's even more impressive, Souse. Sometimes, if I got extreme

472
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 1: talent at running back and wide receiver, I can toss

473
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: the ball out in the flat and you guys can

474
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: take it twenty five yards downfield and it looks like

475
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: I lit you up through the air when I didn't.

476
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: Pennix was seven of eleven for two hundred and fifty

477
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: seven yards on passes that went fifteen yards or more

478
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: in the air. That is insanity. That is a video

479
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: game stat line. You're not supposed to do that in

480
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: Week three against Portland State, much less against Texas. So

481
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: it turns out Texas's past d was that vulnerable, and

482
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,120
Speaker 1: it turns out Washington was more than ready to meet

483
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: the challenge there, and that matchup advantage for Washington negated

484
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: all the other edges Texas had. Remember I I don't

485
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: know if it was last week or week before, we

486
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: were doing this little exercise where I was talking about

487
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: talent mattering, but talent being misinterpreted. So a lot of

488
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: times people take talent to just mean let me go

489
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Speaker 1: to twenty four to seven sports dot com. There we go,

490
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 1: let me look up the team talent composite. All right,

491
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 1: there it is, Oh, Texas is near the top and

492
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: Washington's in the twenties or thirties ballgame. That's not the

493
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: way football games are played. Though there's nothing incorrect about

494
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: those metrics. I believe in those metrics, but those are

495
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: just a resource, that's just a guideline. That's not the

496
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: rule of how a game plays out. Because matchups style,

497
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: in other words, dictate how fights go and the style

498
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: of this game. Really early on dictated that we've got

499
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 1: race horses at wide receiver here and you can't cover them.

500
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: So it doesn't really matter if you're tied end this

501
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: better than ours. It doesn't matter if you have two

502
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: or three corners that were four star or higher and

503
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: we don't. You can't guard these guys, you can't touch

504
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: our quarterback. The rest of it. As long as we

505
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: just hold serve, as long as we're competitive, will be fine.

506
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: That's how football games play out. That's how teams that

507
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: don't recruit on your level necessarily can beat you. Washington,

508
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: having said that, flirted with utter disaster in the fourth quarter.

509
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: So I was leaving the Rose Bowl. I'm watching the

510
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 1: game in the car. I have, of course, watched the

511
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: entire thing since then on the flight home this morning,

512
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: but I'm watching it live in the car, just Gelby

513
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 1: driving us through the back streets of Pasadena, because Gelby

514
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: is a SoCal native. Actually, Gelby's lived all over the world,

515
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: but he currently resides in southern California. That's as specific

516
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: as I'd like to get about Gelby's location. But I'm

517
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: watching the game, and then as we get back downtown

518
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: to our hotel. I'm driving by bars and stuff, and

519
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: you see thirty one twenty one Washington. Uh oh, back

520
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: up to the hotel room thirty four to twenty one,

521
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: I believe it was. And then here comes Texas and

522
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: the way that fourth quarter unfolded it was very interesting

523
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: because this was not a game. If you look, okay,

524
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: if you look at thirty seven thirty one Washington, and

525
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: you knew Texas was favored by four four and a half,

526
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: and you thought they had the talent edge and whatnot,

527
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: you may think Washington must have found a way to

528
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: sneak around and win this game. They must have just

529
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: stayed within punching reach, and then all of a sudden

530
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: they got him at the very end. No, no, Washington

531
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: owned the game. It was Texas trying to sneak in

532
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: the back door. It was Texas trying to do to

533
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: Washington whatever teams had to do to Texas this year.

534
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: Texas got up big on some teams and then they

535
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: got back in the back door and they made it close.

536
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: And it was Texas folks trying to convince you this

537
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: game wasn't really as close as it looks. It's Washington

538
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: today saying this game wasn't as close as it looks.

539
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: They're right, They're right, those points count, But they're right.

540
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: Texas trailed by nine points with a minute ten to

541
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: go in this game, and they didn't recover an on sidekick. Like,

542
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: how in the world did they have multiple throws to

543
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: the end zone to win it? Well, I thought, candidly,

544
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: Washington made a terrible decision to throw the ball on

545
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: third down. And then you have a freak occurrence where

546
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: you have a running back get hurt in a portion

547
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: of the game where frankly, you could have been taking

548
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: knees and leaving Texas with almost no time on the clock,

549
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: and so you lose your best tailback. And that's not

550
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: a factor in this game. It could be in the

551
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: next game. But more importantly, Texas gets the ball with

552
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: time to do something, even with no timeouts. And it

553
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: was a nervous, nervous time, so much so that I

554
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: had I had two twins ready to fire off, because

555
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: that's really what it comes down to, you know, is

556
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: what are you gonna say right when the game ends?

557
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: So I had the Koala with the mouth hanging open

558
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: and the leaves hanging out of his mouth. I just

559
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: need to know which team's logo I was gonna put

560
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: on his chest. There turned out to be a Washington

561
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: Husky logo. I am in a weird way. I'm glad

562
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: that the game ended the way it did. Even though

563
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: I picked Texas, those Washington deserved to win the game.

564
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: So I'm glad Washington did win the game. That throw

565
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: to ad Mitchell Man. I did think five was gonna

566
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: end up making some kind of miraculous play for Texas,

567
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: because that's all he's done his entire career. Washington just

568
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: got their tenth straight win of ten points or less,

569
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: which is a record probably on this planet and every

570
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: other planet. What can you say the same thing I

571
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: just said about Michigan, I could say about Washington. I've

572
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: seen them in person twice this year, just the Oregon games.

573
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: That's when I oh three times we went to the

574
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: Oregon State game. Anytime Washington played a team from the

575
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: state of Oregon. I was there this year. And there's

576
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: a there's an element about that team that's the same

577
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: as mission and it does not show up on paper,

578
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: and it doesn't show up in a statistical model, but

579
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: there is an intangible quality about teams that end up

580
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: being the best at the end, and it's it's really

581
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: hard to put your finger on a lot of times,

582
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: it's guys who have been together a while. It's really

583
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: supremely good coaching staffs, but there is an intangible that

584
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: you can feel when you're around them, and you see

585
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: it in close games. Teams don't accidentally win ten close

586
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: games in a row. Never happens. And so Klin de

587
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: Bor's got his team in the National Championship game and

588
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: also in the last year of the four team playoff era,

589
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: they're doing something that people claimed we needed an expanded

590
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: playoff to see happen, which is like an Alanismore set

591
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: level of ironic. But also he's on the precipice of

592
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: doing a lot of stuff that we've never seen done.

593
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: And that's just in terms of overall talent, roster makeup

594
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: and and what we thought was possible versus what wasn't

595
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: possible in college football. But that's Washington's side, the Texas side.

596
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: Remember early in the year, red zone was a big

597
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: issue for Texas. Okay, and we wondered aloud in this game,

598
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: will it be an issue for him? Well, it wasn't

599
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: to start off with their first four opportunities in the

600
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: red zone, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, But they got down

601
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: there the last two drives. I think, Jesse, I think

602
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: they had seven plays down there, and obviously you saw

603
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: how things worked out. But also they had ten penalties

604
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: in this game. They had two second half fumbles. Give

605
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: Washington credit for those, but they had two second half fumbles.

606
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: And the story of the Texas season is where they're

607
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: a team. When it clicked, you said, no one's beating them.

608
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone can beat them. But it didn't

609
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: click enough. That wasn't the rule. The clicks were the

610
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: exception and the rule. It was a talented team with

611
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: a lot of promise, but shot themselves in the foot

612
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: a lot, and as a result, they couldn't take control

613
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: of like the Kansas game, well not the Kansas game.

614
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: Wasn't the world I thinking of the Washington game last night,

615
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: but also if you look at their schedule this year,

616
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: think about the Oklahoma game, which was their only blemish

617
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: in the regular season. What happened. They got down in

618
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: the red zone, couldn't take care of business. It's hard

619
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: to do It's hard to do that over twelve game season.

620
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: I don't care how soft you think someone's schedule is.

621
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: It's hard to do. Florida State fans are steadily listening

622
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: to this right now, saying, oh, really, going undefeated, that's

623
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: a hard thing to do. Huh, Yes, friends, I will

624
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: address you a little bit later on. So we've got

625
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: it now, we got Washington, Michigan. Hoom'st amongst us whom

626
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: stood a funk it not me? In fact, I need

627
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: to compose myself because we have to do something here.

628
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: It's dead air, I know, Colin. I just need to

629
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: sit here and sidle for a second. So I think

630
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: one of the biggest misnomers about me that floats around

631
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: the Internet and sometimes my own social circle from time

632
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: to time is I have trouble admitting when I'm wrong,

633
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: and you believe that someone would think that about me. No,

634
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: reality is I'm just usually right, full stop. I'm just

635
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: usually right. I don't know what else to tell you. However,

636
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: I am wrong from time to time, and I want

637
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: you to know from me to you when I am wrong,

638
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: I can admit it. The problem is I have been

639
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: fantastically wrong about Washington and Michigan all year. Hold on

640
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: just a second, since someone shipped us these, I might

641
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Speaker 1: as well use them. There are no two teams I've

642
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Speaker 1: ever been more wrong about in the history of college

643
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Speaker 1: football any year than Washington and Michigan twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: And it just so turns out that those asteroids have

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Speaker 1: collided and they're about to meet for a national championship.

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Speaker 1: And so I was looking through with the staff earlier

647
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Speaker 1: today and we were trying to figure out Michigan, Bama, Texas, Washington.

648
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: What was the Sarah McLachlan special. But you know what

649
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Speaker 1: I thought about the more I dug into it. If

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Speaker 1: you go, if you go zero for seven picking against

651
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Speaker 1: teams in a given year, you are the Sarah McLaughlin Special.

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Speaker 1: And I can't believe this is happening. I can't believe

653
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Speaker 1: it's come to this. But Colin, do what you have

654
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Speaker 1: to do. But I am actually gonna take the road

655
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Speaker 1: team here. Thought I was gonna go with Washington. The

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Speaker 1: more I started looking into those staff profiles, the more

657
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Speaker 1: my opinion flipped. I think this is the spot where

658
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Speaker 1: Washington goes down. I think Oregon's gonna win, and I

659
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Speaker 1: think Oregon's gonna cover. That is my pick for the game.

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00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Texas to win, big, Penn State to

661
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Speaker 1: lose to Ohio State. I think they're gonna beat Michigan

662
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Speaker 1: outright Saturday. I'm going to Ohio State to win, and

663
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Speaker 1: therefore I'm also going to Ohio State to cover. Statistically,

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Speaker 1: All right, So we had the semi finals happened yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot of viewership, and we had a

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Speaker 1: lot of opinions, didn't we? So I need to do

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Speaker 1: two things. I need just a moment from you because

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Speaker 1: I got in from LA today at like two thirty

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Speaker 1: on air. So hold on. I feel like I should

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Speaker 1: pause and say something so the podcast doesn't cut off.

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00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: All right, we continue? Okay, that's that. So the other

712
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: thing I need from you is I need you to

713
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Speaker 1: go back about three weeks after conference championship Saturday, but

714
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: before the selection happened on Sunday, remember where your mind was. Okay,

715
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: with that in mind, Colin showed me that question we got.

716
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Speaker 1: This ought to be fun. Gabrielle Randall, beautiful name there,

717
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: hit me up and said, have you seen these FSU

718
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: fans yesterday? And they they're saying that yesterday proved they

719
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: should have been in. Well, I did see it. It

720
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: was brought to my attention several times people said it

721
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Speaker 1: to me directly, and so what do we think about this? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think much of it at all, because I

723
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: don't think yesterday proved anything. So my point is I

724
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: don't think that the playoff or Bowl results matter at

725
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Speaker 1: all within the context of how the Bulls should have

726
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: been seeded or the playoff should have been seated. Now

727
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Speaker 1: I can say this authoritatively or confidently, at least because

728
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: I already said this for years. I've said this, and

729
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: I'll say it again, just like I said it week

730
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Speaker 1: and two weeks ago and three weeks ago. What happened happened.

731
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Speaker 1: You either think it was right or wrong. When Selection

732
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: Sunday came around and that Bama logo flash and that

733
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: Florida State logo wasn't there, you either think it was

734
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: right or it was wrong. And I'm cool with either

735
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: way because I was on the fence either way, and

736
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: I walked you through my logic and you can agree

737
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Speaker 1: with her to disagree with it, but afterwards, I don't care.

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Speaker 1: Sixty three to three, I don't care Florida State got

739
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: drug in the Bowl game. That didn't changed my mind.

740
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: Bama makes it last night but loses. I don't mill

741
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: Row barely throws for one hundred yards. I don't care.

742
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: It doesn't prove anything about who should or shouldn't have

743
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: been in. If Florida State should have been in, they

744
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 1: should have been in. If Bama won by fifty last

745
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: night or lost by fifty last night, and vice versa.

746
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: Whenever people do this stuff, whenever they try and retro

747
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: fit the selection process to meet what ended up happening

748
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: in bowls and playoffs. To me, it's like if I

749
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Speaker 1: were to interview you for a job. He walks in

750
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Speaker 1: and he sits down, and he gives me his resume,

751
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Speaker 1: and I check his references, and we walk him through

752
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: a tryout or two, and he performs admirably enough, I

753
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: hire Bradley. Okay, if Bradley goes and blows a car

754
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Speaker 1: up in the parking lot three weeks into his tenure here,

755
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: and Jesse walks in and says, see, I told you

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have hired him. That's proof you shouldn't have

757
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Speaker 1: hired him. Well, if it's said on that resume, I'm

758
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: gonna go blow a car up in three weeks, I

759
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't have hired him. The point is you can't make

760
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: your informed decision. Without that information, you quite literally don't

761
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Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. Playoffs and bulls are seated or

762
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: selected based on criteria that includes resume up to that point.

763
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: It's not seeded based on a crystal ball. You don't

764
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. So, like I said, if you

765
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 1: think FSU should have been him, you should have thought

766
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: it three weeks ago. A lot of you did. Okay,

767
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: but who in the world has their mind changed? The

768
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: answer is nobody. People who thought FSU should have been

769
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: in conveniently used yesterday to say she had told you

770
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: they should have been in and that same crowd was

771
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: dead silent when they got body bagged by Georgia. Why

772
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: because that result doesn't matter. That's not indicative of the

773
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: season that we put together. You were right when you

774
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: said that, but you'd also be right to keep your

775
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: mouth shut when you talk about how Bama struggled. Understand

776
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: how much better you would have done. What in the

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00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: world do we We're not doing anything. We didn't say

778
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: that because I didn't participate in it. Because it's laughable.

779
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. So a lot of folks

780
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: run around and talk about who would and wouldn't be favored.

781
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 1: I do that, but I do it in power rankings

782
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,720
Speaker 1: or power ratings, and I tell you they're not rankings.

783
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: So I'm exempt from the point I'm about to make.

784
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: I just want the credit. I don't want to blame.

785
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: I got a lot of folks out there who say

786
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Speaker 1: I'm tired of hearing who would be favored and who

787
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't be favored. There was a tweet out earlier today

788
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: someone asked, would Georgia be favored over in Michigan or Washington. Well,

789
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: yeah they would, and yeah it doesn't matter because they're

790
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: not in the playoff, nor should they be in the playoff.

791
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: I don't think they should be in the playoff. So

792
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: people are taking that opportunity to say it's so dumb.

793
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: At some point on field results have to matter. It

794
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who would be favored or wouldn't be favored.

795
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. But to me, talking about whose

796
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: quarterback would throw for more yards if they were in

797
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: a playoff game is dumber than talking about who'd be

798
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: favored in the game. You got even less skill in

799
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: knowing the first thing than the second thing. At least

800
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: I do know who would be favored. I could hit

801
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: fan duel up right now and ask them to just

802
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: pump out any hypothetical line I wanted. In fact, that

803
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: may be a pretty good exercise for us next year.

804
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 1: But brock Glenn would have thrown from more yards than Milroe. Okay,

805
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: well what if he was down twenty seven to ten

806
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: while he was doing it? Like, who in the world cares?

807
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: The other part of this, and this is just my

808
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: take on the Florida state thing is I really wish

809
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: folks would shut up about it. Now. Half of you

810
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: already hate me, so I'll just shoot you straight. No

811
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: one cares anymore from the national side of things, like

812
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: from outside your gates, no one cares anymore. I am

813
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: telling you like it is. They watched two classic games yesterday.

814
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: That's what most of the public wants. They don't care

815
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: that they think you got screwed. Even the folks who

816
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,839
Speaker 1: think you did get screwed enjoyed yesterday and they were

817
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: secretly glad you weren't in it because they don't think

818
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: you would have been competitive. That's reality, whether you like

819
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: it or not, that's reality. Now. You can't change what happened.

820
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: You hate it, you should hate it. I'd hate it

821
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 1: if I were you, but you can't change you. You

822
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: do best to harness this instead of continuing to whine

823
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: and complain about it online all day every day, because

824
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: it just makes you look worse and worse each day.

825
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: The Florida State brand has an opportunity to harness what

826
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: just happened the way Central Florida did different contexts, totally

827
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen. I think Central Florida did it beautifully.

828
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: I think Florida State had reason for about a week

829
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: to just have free reign to say whatever they wanted to.

830
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: But man, it's gotten old. It has really gotten old,

831
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: and you're teetering. You may not be there yet, but

832
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: you're teetering on people kind of looking at you like

833
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: you're just a little bit soft. Don't be soft. It'd

834
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 1: be hardened by it. Don't be soft. Florida State'll be fine. Man,

835
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: They'll be in the conversation every year. Those Mike Norvel

836
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: is the real deal. I will say this. They showed

837
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: up and played that game and got blown out. And

838
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: there were folks who seriously thought they wouldn't show up.

839
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much consideration was given to that.

840
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 1: I'd be fascinated to know whether that was seriously talked

841
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: about internally, because it did that program no favors to

842
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: show up and have done to them what was done

843
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: to them by Georgia. But they're recruiting, Well, they're fine.

844
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: They went and DJ Leangola lay out of the portal.

845
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: By the way, We're going to talk about that in

846
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: a second. They they'll be fine. I'm just talking about

847
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: Florida State fans. Now. There is another portion of the

848
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: Florida State fan base who has just sworn off like

849
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: every college football personality out there, which is cool. The

850
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,959
Speaker 1: claim is that you must think what you think about

851
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: Florida State because it is clickbaiting, which is one of

852
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: the most misunderstood terms in the history of humanity. At

853
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: this point. It's not clickbaiting, man. People just think what

854
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: they think. I think what I think about Florida State,

855
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: and I've already explained it would take me five minutes

856
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: to do it again, but I will say this, I

857
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: would probably Jesse. I would say ninety seven percent ninety

858
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: five to more than ninety five percent of the behind

859
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: the scenes interactions that we get from FSU folks are

860
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: either I agree with you, or I disagree with you,

861
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: but respect the tape or whatever. There's just a few

862
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: like nameless, faceless people on Twitter who are very, very vocal,

863
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: and I'm fine, I see through all that. I get that,

864
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,479
Speaker 1: and I get message boards don't reflect the entire fan base,

865
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: and I get all that too. I will just say though,

866
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: that even for the minority understand, for better or for worse,

867
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: the public judges a fan base based on that vocal minority.

868
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: So take heed, take headed of keed head these words.

869
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: It's a play on a scene from the office. For

870
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: those unfamiliar, they're watching us in Kirkland, Washington. They're watching

871
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: us in Norfolk, Virginia and Albany, Georgia. Thank you very much. Now,

872
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: I've got several other things to get to, but I

873
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: got to talk to you about the transfer portal for

874
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: just a second. I'm gonna get you some early championship

875
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: game thoughts. We've got three radical opinions that I need

876
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: to get to tonight, not my own, yours. I just

877
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: happen to agree with some of them. But first, transfer

878
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,720
Speaker 1: portal is still churning, and we've got the quarterback scene

879
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: really starting to settle now, cam Ward. I'm gonna start

880
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: with him because that was the big domino that everyone

881
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: was waiting on. So since yesterday was playoff Monday, you

882
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: may have missed. Cam Ward, the quarterback from Washington State

883
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: declared for the NFL Draft. I don't know if he's

884
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: hired an agent yet, but we're going to assume he's

885
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: off the board. Miami was involved there, Ohio State was

886
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: involved in. Auburn was a sneaky contender there. So number one,

887
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 1: we got to pay attention to what they're doing. In

888
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: number two, it means that one of like like I said,

889
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: one of the biggest dominoes that could have been a

890
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: college football player may not be playing college football this

891
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: upcoming year. So then you look at dj ui Arndlala,

892
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: who was at Clemson then went to Oregon State and

893
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: played very well last year. He has committed to Florida State. Again,

894
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you didn't catch this because

895
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: it's happening, you know, and being overshadowed by the college

896
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: football playoff. So you got brought Glenn down there as

897
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: the backup, and you got a true freshman coming in,

898
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: big name true freshman, and you've got probably like a

899
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: one year rental type situation here with DJ, so keep

900
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: an eye on that. And also you may or may

901
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: not know kJ Jefferson from Arkansas committed to hoomst Ucf

902
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: and Gus Malson. If you know Malson's track record, you

903
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: know anytime Malson gets a new transfer quarterback, it's usually

904
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 1: a reason to keep your eyes peeled for Gus Malson's program.

905
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: He's done it before. And Nick Marshall played dB at

906
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: Georgia and Malson took him in and won with him

907
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. So with that in mind, we have

908
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: the quarterback market starting to thin out. But the problem

909
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: is there's still a lot of demand. There's just not

910
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: enough supply. And as we know, basic market forces would

911
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: dictate that some quarterbacks may take a look at all

912
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: of that demand and none of that supply and they

913
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: may say I'll be the supply. And Caden Salter has

914
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 1: done that. Quarterback at Liberty went thirteen and one this

915
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: year Conference Champs. He just hopped in the portal and

916
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: he's got a couple of years of eligibility left. And

917
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: this is I think it's a response to a precious

918
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: dwindling supply and there's a lot of demands still out there,

919
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: and hey, that dude played at Liberty and his head

920
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: coach who was at Liberty two years ago, Hugh Freeze,

921
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 1: probably still needs a quarterback at Auburn. So let's just

922
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. That's one of those other

923
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: quarterback Domino's and who knows, we may see other quarterbacks

924
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: still enter the portal. Lance heard is a name I

925
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: want you to keep an eye on. That's a five

926
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: star offensive tackle, six six, three forty. He played in

927
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: twelve games for LSU this year. The problem, if you

928
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: want to call it a problem, is just got depth there.

929
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: LSU's got depth there, and he was probably going to

930
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: be a casualty of that depth now in a former life.

931
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: That would just be a sign that LSU's recruited and

932
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: developed well and he's gonna stay there in battle for

933
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: position whatever. I'm not casting aspersions. This is twenty twenty

934
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: four college football. So he's in the portal and offensive tackles.

935
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can walk in chew gum at

936
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: the same time, there's a huge market for you. So

937
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a huge market for him. We'll see

938
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: how that turns out and Nick Scourton, number one edge

939
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: player in the portal right now out of Purdue, led

940
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:33,240
Speaker 1: the Big Ten in sacks. This is a very important player.

941
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 1: I want to remind you that Florida State has a

942
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: young man by the name of Jared Verse. And Jared

943
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: Verse was a stalwart for Florida State and you know

944
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: his name. How many of you watched Jared Versu at Albany.

945
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 1: My point is perdue in a little different strata of

946
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: the football society than Albany, but we have precedent for

947
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: one of these big defensive names, these edge guys coming

948
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: up from lesser ranks. In versus case, it came up

949
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: from Albany, but you got the number one overall edge

950
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,479
Speaker 1: player in the portal right now. With a visit lined

951
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: up to A and M, Florida State, Missouri, Oklahoma. All

952
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: of those visits are scheduled. He's going to go to

953
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:14,919
Speaker 1: A and M on the third, and then Florida State

954
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: on the fourth, and then Missouri on the fifth, and

955
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: then Oklahoma on the sixth. That's almost as much travel

956
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: as I've done this week. There are a number of

957
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: big names. I know the portal's about to close, but

958
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: there are a number of big names still in this thing. Currently,

959
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Transfer Portal rankings ole Missus number

960
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: one and then followed by Colorado, Louisville, TCU, and Purdue

961
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: and now you know the Transfer portal. Okay, let's keep

962
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: the show moving. I've I've got some early thoughts here.

963
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: I've got actually another thought that just popped into my mind.

964
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: I would love nothing more than for you. And I

965
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: know we got a bunch of new viewers to this

966
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: show to subscribe to the channel because it's free and

967
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: doesn't cost you any thing, and it keeps the show

968
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: free and like the video, and that's it. That's all.

969
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: I thought that tonight would be a good time to

970
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: take an early look at the National Championship game Michigan

971
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:20,320
Speaker 1: versus Washington. Washington versus Michigan in Houston, Texas. Totally divergent

972
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: styles in this game. Big question who implements their style

973
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: the best? I think if you've watched Washington this year,

974
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 1: you know what they want to do. If you've watched Michigan,

975
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: you know what they want to do. What does Washington

976
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 1: look like in a rock fight? Probably very uncomfortable. What

977
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: does Michigan look like in a shootout, probably very uncomfortable.

978
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: You know, this is the first national championship game that

979
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: doesn't feature an SEC team since twenty fourteen, and I

980
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 1: think that was who was that Oregon, Ohio State. Yeah,

981
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: that was the first playoff year. So we almost went.

982
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: We went the entire playoff era, and we bookended it.

983
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: As it turns out, with SEC liss national Championship games.

984
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: I know that breaks a lot of people's hearts. Michigan

985
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: last won a title in ninety seven that was split,

986
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: Washington last won a title in ninety one that was split.

987
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,359
Speaker 1: Either way, we're gonna have history here. One of these

988
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: team's gonna win a title for the first time this

989
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: millennium and certainly in the playoff era. But also I

990
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: think about coaches. The moment that Saban got put out yesterday,

991
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: we were looking at a world where either Harball Sark

992
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: or Kaylen de Boor was about to win a national championship.

993
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: And now we've thinned the herd out even more, and

994
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: we're either gonna watch Jim Harbaugh hoist a national championship

995
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: trophy and just hit everyone in the head with it,

996
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: or we're gonna watch Kaylen de Boor half the country

997
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: still doesn't know anything about him, and we're gonna watch

998
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 1: him win a national championship. I'll get to the point

999
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: spread in a second. But matchups, man, Matt, you want,

1000
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: you want that matchup, you want that must see matchup.

1001
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: I got it for you. Michigan number two pass defense

1002
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: in the country. Guess who's got the number one passing

1003
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: offense in the country. And it probably doesn't come as

1004
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: a shock to you if you watched the game last night.

1005
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 1: It is the University of Washington. This will be by

1006
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 1: far the most potent quarterback that Michigan will have seen

1007
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: all year. And conversely, you can say the same thing

1008
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: defensively about Michigan versus Washington. Two seeds And I think

1009
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: this stat's totally irrelevant, but Jesse handed it to me,

1010
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna read it. Two seeds are three and

1011
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: zero versus one seeds in the college football playoff. And

1012
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: you know what, because I've been so out of my

1013
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: mind wrong about both these teams all year, why don't

1014
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: I just base my entire decision on stats like that.

1015
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,439
Speaker 1: We may do the previews show Thursday where I picked

1016
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 1: the game, and I may just choose the most laughable

1017
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: stats imaginable. Or I've even thought about making my pick

1018
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 1: and folding it up and putting it in an envelope

1019
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: and not unveiling it until after the game. I could

1020
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: do the Johnny Carson Karnak thing and just rub my

1021
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: head and make a prediction that way. I don't know

1022
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: I'm under on that. But FanDuel not so breaking news

1023
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: because it was out yesterday, but semi breaking news. FanDuel

1024
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,240
Speaker 1: has hit us up and they're letting us know. Michigan

1025
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,839
Speaker 1: minus four and a half is the opening number here,

1026
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: and for those of you interested in totals, the over

1027
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 1: under is fifty five and a half. I think this

1028
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: is going to be a really really good game. I

1029
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: don't always Here's the thing about a good game. I

1030
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: think it's a good matchup, Like it's a very fascinating matchup.

1031
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,919
Speaker 1: You could have a fascinating matchup and have the final

1032
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 1: score be thirty three to thirteen. The Michigan Bama game

1033
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: set up to me as a game that was pretty

1034
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: guaranteed to be close in the fourth quarter. This game

1035
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: could be down to the wire. Classic game could be

1036
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: over a mid third quarter like that. Sometimes when you

1037
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: have those divergent style kind of games. They could be ugly,

1038
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: they could be instant classics, and neither option would surprise you, really,

1039
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: But we'll be there. We will be there in Houston,

1040
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: Texas next Monday night, and I am I'm gonna be

1041
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: there with Canal. Do you realize that is there a

1042
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: less desirable person to be spending a weekend with right

1043
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 1: now in all of college football than Danny Cannell? And

1044
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: I have drawn the short straw. But you know what

1045
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: takes a big man to work with Danny Canell all weekend,

1046
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,240
Speaker 1: and I will be that big man for the company hashtag,

1047
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: for the brand management. Are you listening? Yes? I am

1048
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: stepping up as only I could do. You want to

1049
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 1: know about radical opinions. You want to know about clickbait,

1050
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: You want to know about just popping off of the mouth.

1051
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: You guys are great at it. I say that not disparagingly.

1052
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 1: That's a compliment. I hold in my hand three of

1053
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: the most radical opinions that you guys submitted last week

1054
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: when I asked you, and I'm going to hit three

1055
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: of them right quick. I want you to listen to

1056
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: this because I've ended up the fun thing about this exercises.

1057
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 1: I've ended up agreeing with you guys a lot on this.

1058
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: Harrison hit us up and said, conferences they just shouldn't

1059
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: exist in major college football. Schedule your rivals yearly, but

1060
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: hand over scheduling the rest to a central body. First

1061
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: question would be who's the central body, how are they formed,

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00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 1: where does their power come from? Blah blah blah. Yeah,

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00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: you get the problem with that. But let's just say, Harrison,

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00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: that the centralized body did exist. Me. I'm the commissioner

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00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: and someone hands me scheduling power. I don't think I

1066
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: like this. There's nothing wrong with conferences. I like conferences.

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00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: I hate when they're misinterpreted and people think all conferences

1068
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: are the same and it's as easy as slapping a

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Speaker 1: sticker that says power five or G five on them.

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00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: That part's dumb. But as for conferences themselves, that's one

1071
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: of the parts of the fabric of the sport. And understand,

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Speaker 1: the bedrock of college football is tradition. And what is tradition.

1073
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: It's not just a buzzword. Tradition is born to me

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00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: and college football through pageantry and through years and years

1075
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: and decades and decades of something's happening over and over

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00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: again and that is annual rivalry matchups, not just Ohio

1077
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: State Michigan. Okay, but I'm talking about secondary and here's

1078
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: a good word, tertiary rivalries and fortiary rivalries. I don't

1079
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: even know what the word is for four. You need, like,

1080
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: you need a lot of these matchups where teams have

1081
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: a thirty three and twenty eight record versus SO and

1082
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 1: so since nineteen sixty three. That's not bad. It's not

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00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: bad at all. I like that. Now. The other part

1084
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: that's kind of gonna solve itself here that I think

1085
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: Harrison is hinting at is he's probably just tired of

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00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: watching folks play water down schedules. He's probably tired of

1087
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: watching Michigan, for example, do what they did this year

1088
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: where they had like two big games and the rest

1089
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: of the games were two ups. Well, Harrison, if you

1090
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: are hinting at such things, do yourself a favorite. Go

1091
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: look at Michigan schedule next year, because as soft as

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00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: you think they were this year, buddy, they got it

1093
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: coming to him next year. Or maybe everyone on their

1094
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: schedule has it coming to them. Who knows, but you know,

1095
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: Michigan plays who do they play? They play Texas next year?

1096
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: They go to Washington next year. They got Ohio State,

1097
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: they got a ton of fuks, they play well. They

1098
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: got Ohio State every year. But I think the expanded

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00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: playoff era is going to have come with it a

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00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: lot more aggressive scheduling model. And also, as you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the entire scheduling process is going to be

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00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: upended in the not too distant future. Anyway, all right,

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Speaker 1: next one, Huh, I'm undecided on this one, even as

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Speaker 1: I even as I read it, so Daniel Daniel hit

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Speaker 1: us and said, I hear me out. Y'all are going

1106
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: to hate this, and selfishly I would hate it too.

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00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: But with the current landscape of college football, players should

1108
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: be able to get drafted at any time, even out

1109
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: of high school. The ultimate goal of ninety nine percent

1110
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: of these players is not to get a degree point taken.

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00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: I do think that number is a little high. I

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00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: don't think ninety nine percent of college football players have

1113
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: NFL aspirations. A lot of them are real with themselves

1114
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: and they do understand that that classic phrase go pro

1115
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: in something other than sports is in their future. But

1116
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 1: but yes, you are right, a lot of guys go

1117
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: to college football with NFL dreams. And a lot of

1118
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: them are going to have them realized. And in some

1119
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: cases you got to Brock Bowers out there, Kelvin Banks

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Speaker 1: out there, who know after there's sophomore years they could

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Speaker 1: go pro. They legitimately could play professional football even though

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Speaker 1: they're just juniors in college. I've never had a huge

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Speaker 1: problem with this. What interests me more about this proposal

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Speaker 1: is Number one, I'd love to find out how many

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Speaker 1: guys would actually be drafted high, and not just drafted

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01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: drafted high, because you may have some guys make some

1127
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: pretty poor decisions to test the NFL waters and they

1128
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Speaker 1: end up getting drafted fifth round, whereas their junior year

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Speaker 1: or senior year would have greatly improved their stock. And

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Speaker 1: we already see that anyway with the way it's currently

1131
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: set up. But what I'm interested in is are there

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Speaker 1: any underlying ramifications to this? And what I mean is

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01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: how does that impact antitrust laws if at all? Because

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01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: right now, a college football player, if you try and

1135
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 1: block them from transferring or try and block them from

1136
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: this or that, they could retain legal counsel and they

1137
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: would challenge that, well, they can't go play pro ball

1138
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: because there's this arbitrary rule that says they have to

1139
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: be three years removed from high school, and therefore you

1140
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: can't block their ability to earn off their name, image

1141
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: and likeness. And I just wonder if the NFL was

1142
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: an option, could someone look back and say, we're not

1143
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Speaker 1: blocking them from anything. He's not forced to go to college.

1144
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: He's choosing to go play college football. He can go

1145
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:53,920
Speaker 1: try and be a pro football player right now if

1146
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Speaker 1: he wants to. There's nothing stopping him. I don't know.

1147
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Speaker 1: I got to hit up Dan Lust, I don't know

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Speaker 1: sports Trust. Are you out there. You're out there, Dan,

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Speaker 1: it's a live show. I know you can't hit me

1150
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Speaker 1: up right now, but I'd be more interested in how

1151
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 1: that would impact things as opposed to well, I wonder

1152
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: how many offensive tackles would get drafted as freshmen. Third

1153
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: radical opinion. This one I disagree with, but it's a

1154
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: good it's a good exercise. Brian said, nil was just

1155
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: Pandora's box to the end of college sports. I don't

1156
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: agree with this, but I think a lot of the

1157
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: fears have been realized. However, I think this was college

1158
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: football's Gordon Gecko moment Gordon Gecko movie Wall Street. For

1159
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: those unfamiliar. He walks to the podium at a shareholders

1160
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Speaker 1: meeting and he is hostily taking over a company in

1161
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 1: the process, but he says, hey, am I greedy? Yes,

1162
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Speaker 1: I am, But greed is good, Greed is right, greed

1163
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: cuts through well. I don't necessarily think he was quoting

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Speaker 1: scripture at that moment, but in some ways in the

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Speaker 1: business world, he was accurate there, and I've I think

1166
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: he'd be accurate in talking about NIL in similar terms.

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01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 1: There was a lot about college football that just needed

1168
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: to be weed whacked, like a sling blade needed to

1169
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: be taken to a lot of the weeds in college football.

1170
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 1: And NIL has been part good, it's been part disaster

1171
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: because of how it's been implemented. But I think it's

1172
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Speaker 1: leading to something. Okay, we're not out in the abyss.

1173
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: We're not a ship without a sale. It may feel

1174
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: that way right now, but I tweeted something out the

1175
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:33,440
Speaker 1: other day. I'm gonna get more into this on the

1176
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Speaker 1: Thursday Show. I have never been more confident, guys, that major,

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Speaker 1: major change is on the precipice of happening in college football,

1178
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Speaker 1: in college sports, because too many people have had their

1179
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Speaker 1: shoulders shaken pretty violently by the current makeup of things,

1180
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 1: and they know we're headed towards a cliff, and they

1181
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: know the only way to continue cashing the checks they

1182
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: cash is to avoid that disaster. And it's coming. It

1183
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: is coming, and it's going to be collective in nature.

1184
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: And I think that what's happening with Nil right now

1185
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: and the portal and the college football calendar, all that stuff,

1186
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 1: I think it is all coming to a head. And

1187
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Speaker 1: it's ugly in the here and now. Just like when

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Speaker 1: you make a smoothie. You ever looked at that stuff

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Speaker 1: That doesn't look good, But when you pour it out

1191
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Speaker 1: I think the product we pour out in a few

1193
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Speaker 1: years is going to end up being pretty all right.

1194
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Speaker 1: And I think the new age of college football, once

1195
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Speaker 1: you get used to it and once we get it

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Speaker 1: delivered to us, is not going to be so bad.

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Speaker 1: And in some ways, you may look back ten years

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Speaker 1: from now and say, dude, I thought our I thought

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Speaker 1: college football was screwed a few years ago, But wow, huh,

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Speaker 1: this isn't so bad. It's different. It's different. On the

1201
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Speaker 1: on the periphery, but at the core, we've been able

1202
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Speaker 1: I don't think nil's a Pandora's box to anything other

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Speaker 1: than major change. Don't be fooled into thinking all the

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Speaker 1: has been poor. Don't make any mistake about how I

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Speaker 1: feel about that. I'm not in love with some of

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Speaker 1: the currency of college football, some of the current status

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Speaker 1: make the college football playoff and win a semi final game.

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame did not make the playoff. They did not

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Speaker 1: win a semi final game. But I'm not gonna dunk

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Speaker 1: all over Rob, because you know what, Notre Dame was

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Speaker 1: pretty good team this year. That's what they were. They

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Speaker 1: were a pretty good team this year in this in

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Speaker 1: this great or trash world we live in where there

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Speaker 1: is no in between, Notre Dame was in between, and

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Speaker 1: they were closer to great than they were to trash.

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Speaker 1: They went ten and three. They were two and three.

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Speaker 1: Against ranked teams in the season than they beat Oregon

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Speaker 1: State in the bowl game and Lee. They had one

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Speaker 1: possession of losses to Ohio State and Clemson. I was

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Speaker 1: at the Ohio State game that things decided via walkoff.

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Speaker 1: Fashion could have been a totally different season for him.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. But the point is they were the quietest

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Speaker 1: good team I think in the country this year. We

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Speaker 1: had empower rated I think top ten to end the year.

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Speaker 1: So nothing more and nothing less. But no, they did

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Speaker 1: not win a playoff game. Next up, Oh, a cautionary

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Speaker 1: tale here. This is tough, so I always tell you

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Speaker 1: one of my biggest rules if I were making a

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Speaker 1: prediction is don't predict the exact record. Matt from Charleston,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina said, Missouri goes nine to three. No, Matt, No,

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Speaker 1: you could have just said they're gonna win at least

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Speaker 1: nine games and you would have been right. As it

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01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: turns out, you were wrong because you didn't believe enough.

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Speaker 1: In Missouri, they went eleven and two. The over under

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Speaker 1: was six and a half, so just saying over nine

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Speaker 1: would have brought you immense street cred. And instead you

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Speaker 1: have to sit there Matt and ask did I learn

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Speaker 1: a lesson. Yes, I did believe in Missouri, but don't

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Speaker 1: put a ceiling on your belief. Oh. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Eli Drinkwitz contract extension, someone's thinking clearly at Missouri. They

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Speaker 1: locked him up, and Missouri is active in the portal,

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Speaker 1: and that'll be a really fun program to watch. I

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Speaker 1: mean they were this year. Hey, we were there when

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Speaker 1: they beat Kansas State figure kicker style sixty one yard

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Speaker 1: walk off field goal. Remember that they stormed the field.

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Speaker 1: We were there, first trip ever to Missouri. I want

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Speaker 1: to take the Speaker Series to Columbia in the spring.

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Speaker 1: We haven't been invited yet. I am. I am doing

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Speaker 1: the most uncouth thing known to man, and that is

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Speaker 1: seeking an invitation. You know, I'll never ask to be

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Speaker 1: invited to your wedding. All I want to be is

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Speaker 1: invited to campus for the spring Speaker Series. I'm just

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Speaker 1: putting it out there. Stuck, Let's go to the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve while we still can. This one came to us

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Speaker 1: from Oklahoma City. Oklahoma will make the Big Twelve championship game.

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Speaker 1: Oh hold on, I read that wrong. Oklahoma will take

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve championship with us on our way out

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Speaker 1: from the conference and play in a playoff game, Brent

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Speaker 1: Venables proved the haters wrong. Well, Venables did prove some

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Speaker 1: of the haters wrong because they went from five and

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Speaker 1: six to ten and three, but they didn't make the

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Speaker 1: Big Twelve championship game. They almost did, and they beat Texas,

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Speaker 1: but there was that little two week kickup stretch at

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Speaker 1: Kansas and at Oklahoma State and then they were done because,

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, they needed Oklahoma State to lose

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Speaker 1: in the final week and it looked like they were

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Speaker 1: and then they didn't. And that's the day Texas won

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve because the only team beating them possibly

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Speaker 1: was going to be Oklahoma. So look, Oklahoma had a

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Speaker 1: really good season. I think it steadied the ship in

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Speaker 1: many ways and things are looking up there. Hopefully Jackson

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Speaker 1: Arnold era begins at quarterback. But nope, not quite. Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve champs in college football playoff and now they moved

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Speaker 1: to the SEC. Last bold prediction was from Noel from

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Speaker 1: Fort Myers, Florida. My bold prediction for this season is

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Speaker 1: Louisville win's ten games and Jeff Brom's first year as

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Speaker 1: head coach. Boom nailed it and they had an over

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Speaker 1: under eight and five. Boom, play that guy in couple's Retreat,

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Speaker 1: Boom boom. Jeff Brom had a great year up there,

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Speaker 1: and he he did a lot of things that I

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Speaker 1: think if you dove into the schedule in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: you could kind of maybe sort of see coming. And

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Speaker 1: they started off with one, two, three, They start off

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Speaker 1: six and oh, and then they lost that pit and

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Speaker 1: that's a game we called remember that two week stretch

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Speaker 1: where like Louisville beat Notre Dame. We were all over

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Speaker 1: that one. And then they go to Pitt and they lose,

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Speaker 1: and we were all over that one. And this is

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Speaker 1: the kind of show where I really need to stress

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Speaker 1: where we were right, because we have teams that we've

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Speaker 1: been wrong about all year about to play for national championship.

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Speaker 1: But that you know, the last thing you probably remember

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Speaker 1: is FSU beat him sixteen to six. But it was

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Speaker 1: a good year for a lieu of them. And it

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Speaker 1: was a good year if you predicted them to go

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Speaker 1: ten and two, because that's what they did in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. They went ten and two. It was a

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Speaker 1: tough day, tough day, cross country flight, but we're in here.

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Speaker 1: We got a show in the cam we got another

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Speaker 1: one coming up Thursday, and then we got to go

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Speaker 1: to Houston. We get we get to go to Houston

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Speaker 1: for the National Championship Game. Appreciate the support. Met a

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Speaker 1: ton of you out in Pasadena over the weekend. Both

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Speaker 1: fan bases represented very well and we had a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun out there. And it is always fun because

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Speaker 1: we just get to talk about college football for a

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Speaker 1: living and that's because of you and big, big, big

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Speaker 1: to tell you about some of it, and then I

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Speaker 1: can tell you. In the meantime, I'm going to sleep.

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Speaker 1: For a direct column for producer Jesse, I'm Josh. May

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