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Speaker 1: earlier the week too Slate it was pretty clear to

427
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Speaker 1: know where we were going. We were going to Texas Alabama.

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Speaker 1: But I do not think it's clear at all. In fact,

429
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Speaker 1: I should have straw poled the staff and said, staff,

430
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Speaker 1: where do you think I'm going the Once Upon a

431
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Speaker 1: Saturday Tour. What we want to do is we want

432
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Speaker 1: to get to as many places as we can, we

433
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Speaker 1: want to see as many teams as we can. We

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Speaker 1: want to be at an impact game that weekend. Hopefully

435
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Speaker 1: we're at a game that comes down to the last possession.

436
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Speaker 1: And this weekend, there were, as I saw it, three

437
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Speaker 1: really evenly matched options. Now full disclosure, Penn State at

438
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Speaker 1: Illinois was going to be the pick if Illinois beat

439
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Speaker 1: Kansas Friday night. But Illinois did not beat Kansas Friday night,

440
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Speaker 1: and so Penn State's going to roll into there as

441
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Speaker 1: a fifteen point favorite. But we will not be there,

442
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Speaker 1: So where will we be? I have never in my

443
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Speaker 1: life been to a football game at the University of

444
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Speaker 1: Missouri dot dot dot until this Saturday. Because the Once

445
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Speaker 1: Upon a Saturday Tour is headed to Missouri when Kansas

446
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Speaker 1: State comes to town. More out of conference action does

447
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 1: not bode well for Missouri, just because they have an

448
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Speaker 1: SEC sticker on their health and the SEC is like

449
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: zero for a million in out of conference games. Well,

450
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee beat Virginia, but by and large, it's been a tough,

451
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: rocky start. Maybe it's Eli Drinkwooz and company that turn

452
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Speaker 1: it around. I saw Kansas State in person one time

453
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Speaker 1: last year and they totally body bagged Oklahoma State. So

454
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Speaker 1: please be careful, do not take these folks lightly at

455
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Speaker 1: Kansas State. Kansas State's best football is in front of them.

456
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Speaker 1: I know they've been kind of off the radar, they

457
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Speaker 1: haven't played a marquee game yet. There is a not

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Speaker 1: so quiet confidence inside that program. They love what they

459
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Speaker 1: have right now, and there's always confidence around Missouri. So

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Speaker 1: we'll be up there. It's an eleven am kickoff. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Look who gets to get home Saturday night? Never been there,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it. Once upon a Saturday tour coming

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Speaker 1: to Missouri. Okay, we were not in Miami yesterday, but

464
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Speaker 1: there was a lot going on down there. So Miami

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Speaker 1: beat A and m forty eight to thirty three. If

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Speaker 1: I told you Miami was eight. You would have said, wow,

467
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Speaker 1: they must have run the ball for half a mile.

468
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Speaker 1: They did not. They did not. They in fact, they

469
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Speaker 1: had a very very subpar day on the ground running

470
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Speaker 1: the ball seventy seven yards Miami had one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen yards, and penalties as well. Didn't matter. They still

472
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Speaker 1: hang nearly half a hundred. Absolutely insane. How different Miami

473
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Speaker 1: looks this year. When we did that show down there,

474
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Speaker 1: when we went and sat down with Mario, he led

475
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Speaker 1: us in there to watch some stuff in the summer

476
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Speaker 1: and talked to some people in the summer. Some of

477
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Speaker 1: it I could tell you about, some of you I couldn't,

478
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Speaker 1: or some of it I couldn't, but I was impressed. Okay,

479
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing about it, that's summer work in

480
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Speaker 1: shorts and T shirts. Every college athlete looks good doing

481
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Speaker 1: that stuff. When you've got two new coordinators coming in,

482
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Speaker 1: and you've got you've got so many moving parts, and

483
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 1: you got so many young guys, for instance, that you're

484
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Speaker 1: gonna have to rely on, they totally retool their offensive line.

485
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Speaker 1: It's just natural to think to yourself, Okay, in time,

486
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Speaker 1: they'll be better. But I mean, how much better could

487
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Speaker 1: they be right out of the gate. It's like night

488
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Speaker 1: and day difference, right out of the gate. I watched

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Speaker 1: their whole game against Miami of Ohio and I was

490
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Speaker 1: ultra impressed. But it was Miami of Ohio, so I

491
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: didn't really come and beat the drum on the show.

492
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Speaker 1: People think I'm a cane's homer anyway, you know, because

493
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Speaker 1: all of us who grew up in Harris County, Georgia

494
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Speaker 1: just just bleed orange and green. We love Miami and

495
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Speaker 1: Harris County, Georgia. Don't know what it is. Probably the beaches.

496
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 1: We have the beach at Callaway Gardens man made, and

497
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 1: they got the real thing down there. So there's that

498
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Speaker 1: natural connection. Night and day, different team, could not be

499
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Speaker 1: more impressed. And so yesterday they're fastballs not there. They

500
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Speaker 1: cannot run the ball on A and M, and so

501
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: what happens is Tyler Van Dyke just goes off. So

502
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: listen to this. Here's how good Miami was offensively. They

503
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Speaker 1: had ten penalties for one hundred and fifteen yards. That's terrible. Okay,

504
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Speaker 1: that's not good. That's terrible. They had a blocked punt

505
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: that ended up being a touchdown. They had a muffed

506
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Speaker 1: punt that ended up being a touchdown. These are things

507
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Speaker 1: going against them. And this is a team that lost

508
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Speaker 1: to Duke. Last year, they lost to Middle Tennessee State,

509
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Speaker 1: So these sorts of things sound like recurrences of last year.

510
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Speaker 1: And you would think against a quality team like A

511
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: and M, that means blowout. No, they did the blowing

512
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Speaker 1: out because Tyler van Dyke goes twenty one to thirty three,

513
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Speaker 1: seventy four or five touchdowns a week after he trademarks

514
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Speaker 1: the name Tyler van Dime. Mind you, great business school

515
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: down there at Miami, and that offensive line looks the

516
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Speaker 1: way it does, and that dude James Williams and Cam

517
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: Kitchens at safety is about as good as it gets

518
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Speaker 1: in the country. Right now, all over the place. It

519
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: seems like there are four or five of those guys

520
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: back there. So what I'm trying to tell you is

521
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: they upgraded. They totally overhauled their roster to the point

522
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Speaker 1: where they're not close to play in fully disciplined football.

523
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Speaker 1: They're not close to executing how they really want to.

524
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 1: They're just they're more talented to the point where they

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00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: can do what they did yesterday. I sat down with

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Speaker 1: Shannon Dawson, their offensive coordinator in the spring. He was adamant. Man.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Van Dyke's a really good quarterback if I put

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Speaker 1: him in the right position, Like if we can get

529
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Speaker 1: these receivers to work in this offensive line, Jels he

530
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: can do whatever he wants to, and man, he pretty

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Speaker 1: much did yesterday. They threw the ball to win. I

532
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Speaker 1: did not think that was going to be the story

533
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Speaker 1: coming out of this game, but they did so. I

534
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: told you last week, look at the nervous patting of

535
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: the microphone. If you're listening on a podcast, this right here,

536
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: this is the left hand pointing at the right hand.

537
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Speaker 1: This is the kind of nervous energy that builds when

538
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M loses the first game of the year,

539
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: because you know what's coming. And I said last week,

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Speaker 1: you want to see it get ugly. Watch Texas A

541
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 1: and M lose this game and you'll see ugly. Well,

542
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: Texas A and M lost the game, and it's ugly.

543
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: It's ugly. And they got half a hundred hung on them,

544
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: and their defense looked woeful and they couldn't tackle, and

545
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: the secondary got roasted. And DJ Dirkin has taking a

546
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: ton of heat and people are writing thank you notes

547
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: to Mike Elko because we never realized how much we

548
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: appreciated you until now, or should have appreciated you. There

549
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: is no way that defense should look that bad. No way.

550
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: Miami's got a lot to do with that. But man,

551
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 1: let's check out how many other times Miami does that

552
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 1: to other teams this year. I would guess not too

553
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: often to that degree. I think this is going to

554
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: be a standout performance. It could be a high water

555
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: mark offensively for them. Who knows, and it comes against

556
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: you Texas A and m and all that five star

557
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: talent all over the place. The padlock stat here Miami

558
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: had two hundred and forty one yards after the catch yesterday,

559
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: just horrific tackling. The only thing that stopped Miami half

560
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: the time was the back of the end zone. I

561
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,479
Speaker 1: could have just run into the ocean. I was watching

562
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: this game on a monitor that was muted, so I

563
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: couldn't hear what Joe Tess and the crew were actually saying.

564
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: Hopefully they were nice enough, but man, I was tough

565
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: to watch. Just like again again. The ACC is trending

566
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: up pretty hard right now, the ACC. I have to

567
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: do a radio hit with Danny Knell every Monday morning,

568
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: and what I thought would be jovial fun times for me,

569
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: and it's just it's pin another tail on the canal

570
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: every Monday morning has really turned sour. I don't like this.

571
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Speaker 1: I don't look forward to this, because the thing about

572
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: it is, it did not matter how many years the

573
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: ACC was awful. When they finally re emerged, Canell was

574
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: gonna find the biggest bass drum in the room and

575
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: pound that thing like there's no tomorrow and put ACC

576
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: stickers on both sides of it. And shamelessly he has.

577
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: And honestly, I just hope Dusty de Vorceek does most

578
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: of the talking in that head tomorrow. But A and

579
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: M here's what I was gonna talk to you about earlier.

580
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: They talk about cleaning up. This has become a very

581
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: overused phrase in college football. Well, we just got to

582
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: clean up tackling. I had a college coach asked me

583
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: the other day, you ever think about how stupid that is?

584
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: And I said, uh, kind of continue, he said, who

585
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: cleans up tackling? Like? Think about it? Who's bad at

586
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: tackling in football? In Week two? And then all of

587
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: a sudden good at it? In week six. This is

588
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: not the kind of stuff you clean up. It just

589
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. If you're a bad tackling team in week two,

590
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: you've got a I'm not gonna say it's always gonna

591
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: be equally as bad every week, but you're gonna have

592
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: a pretty consistent problem. Same thing with procedural penalties. The

593
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Speaker 1: teams that are getting flagged in week two are usually

594
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Speaker 1: the ones still getting flagged with the same stuff in

595
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Speaker 1: week eight. Just the way it is. And so it's

596
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: not a first year coach, it's not a second year coach.

597
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very uncomfortable around there. I get it.

598
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what the outcome is going to be.

599
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: Like I said, with Bama long season ahead, But I

600
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: heard our buddy Billy Lucie. I call him William, you

601
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: can call him Billy Lucci. I was listening to their takeaways,

602
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: one of the very few, very few shows outside of

603
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: ours that I will listen to on a Sunday, So

604
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm always interested in what they have to say about

605
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: the A and M scene. And he said, yeah, there

606
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: is a long season left. Sometimes that is really good.

607
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes that means there's room to improve. But what people

608
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: don't realize when they say, oh, it's a long season,

609
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: is they're also saying that means there's a lot of

610
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: time for it to get worse. It's not just automatic

611
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: that there's nowhere to go but up. You could keep

612
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: losing games. You could lose to Auburn, you could lose

613
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: to Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, or miss Mississippi State LSU.

614
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: These are all losable games that Texas A and M plays.

615
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: So what's gonna happen? Well, I don't know. That's why

616
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: we play the games. But remember all spring and summer

617
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: we've talked about how things would be fine until it

618
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: got wobbly a little bit, until they lost a game. Now,

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Speaker 1: what we thought was we thought that they'd lose games

620
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Speaker 1: just because of the offense not clicking. It was not

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Speaker 1: necessarily foreseen that A and M was going to have

622
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Speaker 1: touchdowns rained all over them by Miami. But that's where

623
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: we are a lot of different ways to lose a game,

624
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: and they're finding more and more ways, it seems like

625
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M. But congrats to Miami. That

626
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: sets up it changes kind of the acc helmet grid

627
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: schedule because all of a sudden games. You weren't looking at.

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Speaker 1: Now you're looking at and it could be a really

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Speaker 1: got you covered well, they did it. They did it.

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Speaker 1: Colorado won again, Colorado thirty six, Nebraska fourteen. I could

665
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Speaker 1: talk about Jeff Simms, but I'm not. I'm gonna talk

666
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Speaker 1: about Colorado to lead this off. We had a bold

667
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Speaker 1: prediction during the series of bold predictions we had in summer,

668
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Speaker 1: and someone predicted that Colorado would start off two to zero.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was crazy, So I said, that was

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Speaker 1: a nine and a half on the boldness scale and

671
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Speaker 1: the scale only goes to ten. So what am I

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Speaker 1: thinking at the time, Well, I have no clue how

673
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Speaker 1: good Colorado is going to be. And I'm also thinking

674
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: to myself TCU is going to be favored by three touchdowns.

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00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: At the time, Jesse, I think Nebraska was about a

676
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Speaker 1: touchdown favorite. So I'm just thinking, what are the odds, like,

677
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: what are the raw mathematical statistical odds that they pull

678
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: that off? Slim? Not none, but slim. And now they've

679
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 1: done it. They have done it. And what I said

680
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: in that video, because I had to go watch it

681
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 1: earlier today to make sure I didn't say anything too egregious,

682
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: is I said, Hey, if they do this, Shador Sanders

683
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: is going to have to play out of his mind.

684
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: I got your padlock stat here through two games, seventy

685
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: eight percent completion percentage, nine hundred and three passing yards,

686
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, zero interceptions. He's also run the ball affair amount.

687
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: So Shaudor Sanders has played out of his mind and

688
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: it's really aggravated people when he has said so far, hey,

689
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: this hasn't been quite the step up in competition. I

690
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 1: thought it would be. Well, here's my motto and always

691
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: has been about that sort of stuff. As long as

692
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: you are going to play every Saturday, as long as

693
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: you have to back up your talk, talk as much

694
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: as you want to. What I don't want to hear

695
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: is second string guys running their mouth. No one cares

696
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: what you think. You don't matter right now to that degree,

697
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: Shodoor Sanders is in the spotlight. He touches the ball

698
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: every play. You talk as much as you want to,

699
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: because if you're wrong, you'll get humbled, and if you're right,

700
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: you deserve to say whatever you want to. This was

701
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: the largest crowd in Folsom Field for a football game

702
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: in fifteen years. Travis Hunters the headliner on this team

703
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: and for good reason, and he had another good day yesterday.

704
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: But man, it is not a one or two man

705
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: show there. Like Jimmy Horn Junior, really really good player,

706
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: Xavier Weaver back to back hundred yard games. So they've

707
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: got names popping up all over the place that if

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00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: you follow recruiting or the portal really hardcore, you already

709
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: know most of you guys don't follow it to that degree.

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00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: So you're watching a Colorado game and you're saying, Xavier Weather,

711
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: what say if you're who Weaver? That kid's good, that

712
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: kid's really good. It's not just Dion's kid and Travis

713
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: Hunter is it? No, No, it is not. And the

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Speaker 1: more you watch them, the more you realize that you know,

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00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: they got Colorado State this week. Now, this is the

716
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Speaker 1: spot where Colorado gets to be the big favorite. They

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Speaker 1: get to be the three touchdown favorite, and then they

718
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Speaker 1: go to Oregon. Breathe that breathe that fresh new PAC

719
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Speaker 1: twelve air while you still can out there. Oregon's about

720
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Speaker 1: to go to the Big ten, Colorado's about to go

721
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Speaker 1: to the Big twelve. They're gonna play a PAC twelve

722
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Speaker 1: matchup in two weeks. Just get past Colorado State. This

723
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Speaker 1: is not a team that can be overlooking anyone. No

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00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: one ever should. But Colorado can't be afford to do that.

725
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: I think they'll win Saturday. And if they go into

726
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Speaker 1: Oregon four and oh, how fun is that gonna be?

727
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: How fun is that gonna be. So I warned you

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Speaker 1: about something with Colorado, and it's happening. I warned you

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00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: right before the season started, and then again after they

730
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Speaker 1: eat TCU. There is a thing that college football fans

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Speaker 1: sometimes do that's called recalibration of expectation. That's this thing

732
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Speaker 1: where you win one game last year Vegas put your

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Speaker 1: over underwin total at three and a half or whatever

734
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Speaker 1: it was, and people say you'll start zero to two.

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00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: Then you win the first game. Then you win the

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00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: second game, and those same people who thought you'd lose

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Speaker 1: start saying, well, yeah, but you only beat TCU. Well yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I mean, Jeff Simms is terrible for Nebraska, you

739
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: only beat Nebraska. Stop that. You don't get to do that.

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Speaker 1: If you expected them to come out on the short

741
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: end before, you can't explain it away. When they don't.

742
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Speaker 1: You don't get to recalibrate your expectations. Because what happens

743
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: is Colorado ends up way overachieving relative to the preseason standard.

744
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: But then you just change the standard on the fly

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, and you retroactively get

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Speaker 1: to call them a failure. Still, that's not the way

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00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: that works, but it's happening. It's going to can tend

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00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: you to happen. How many people, how many people have

749
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: you already heard as Deon Sanders gets praised and this

750
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: team gets praised. How many folks have you started to

751
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: hear say, well, yeah, but they only beat TCU. Dude,

752
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: tc you played Georgia in a national championship last year.

753
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: This team sucked horribly. They were a one win team.

754
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: Different teams entirely, aren't they. But you don't get to say, oh,

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00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: they it was only TCU. You don't get to say

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00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: it was only Nebraska when that team was favored by

757
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: a touchdown over him in the preseason odds market. You

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00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,240
Speaker 1: don't get to do that, but people are doing it anyway. Now.

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Speaker 1: I do want to address this one thing about Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: I've got some dear, dear friends of mine who are

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00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: noted Matt Rule on apologists, or as you would call

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00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: them on the streets, haters, and uh, they're telling me

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Speaker 1: Matt Rule is a joke. They're telling me Matt Rules

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00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: a fraud. He's been exposed. People just thought too highly

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Speaker 1: of him. At Baylor. He tricked people they were seeing

766
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 1: him from fifty thousand feet but didn't really see him

767
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: on the ground on level and now everyone's seeing him,

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00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: everyone's not seeing Matt rules. Nebraska. We haven't even peeled

769
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Speaker 1: the sticker off of this program under Matt Rule yet.

770
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: They could go three and nine for all I care.

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00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: That doesn't tell me anything about how bad he is.

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00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: They were terrible at Baylor's first year temple where he was.

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Speaker 1: I think they were terrible his first year. It's always

774
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: taking him a year to turn it around. What are

775
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: they doing year two? So my big question when Nebraska

776
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: was could the portal speed that up a little bit

777
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: for him? This year? It looks like maybe no, still

778
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: kind of early in the season. I have not I

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00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: have not seen a thing that dampens my view of

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Speaker 1: Matt Rule. I think the dude's a wonderful coach. I

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00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: think you will get it turned around there. And year

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00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: one is year one. I don't know what else to

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00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: tell you. I mean, how about this, how about the

784
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: folks who are saying that. Tell me what you think

785
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: about Steve Sarcusian right now, and then tell me what

786
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: you were saying about him in year one. You know,

787
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: so this happens all the time. You're not learning, or

788
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: you're not drawing final conclusions on coaches. I hope you're

789
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: not based on what they do at a college program

790
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: in their first year. They're watching us in Wayne, Nebraska. Meadville,

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00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: Mississippi is tuned in. Jefferson, Georgia is tuned in. Thank

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00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,439
Speaker 1: you guys so much. Remember we've got a big live

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00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: audience tonight. Like the video and subscribe to the channel.

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Speaker 1: That's all you have to do. It keeps it free.

795
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Speaker 1: We don't ever make people pay for this stuff, and

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Speaker 1: we don't ever want to make you pay for it.

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Speaker 1: There's a world out there. You have noticed this. You've

798
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Speaker 1: they speak for themselves. All right, let's continue. What a

807
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: game yesterday could be talking about a number of them? Right?

808
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: What a game in Lubbock, Texas, yesterday. Oregon goes in

809
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: there and wins thirty eight to thirty. Oh, just a

810
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 1: dagger to the ribs in the back door cover department,

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Speaker 1: by the way. But if you don't bet on this stuff,

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00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: or you didn't bet on this game, you don't care

813
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: about that. But I'll tell you what you should care about.

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00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: You can always tell. You can always tell the folks

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00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: who know college football versus the more casual mind him

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00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: by how they view games like these. So Oregon's a

817
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: better team than Texas Tech. Oregon's got a better roster

818
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: than Texas Tech. Oregon was favored in the game, more

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00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: is expected of them. They go in there, they're in

820
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: an absolute dogfight. They end up pulling it out late.

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Speaker 1: They are the beneficiary of plus four turnovers. In other words,

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00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: this is a loss for Oregon. It just so happens

823
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: in college football. Sometimes you win some of your losses.

824
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: It's a crazy sport. I know that sounds weird to you.

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00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: This is a game that about eight and a half

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Speaker 1: or nine times out of ten, Oregon loses if it

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00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: plays out the way it played out. But they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They found a way to win. And here's where rubber

829
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: meets rode on that if you lose a game, everyone's

830
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: willing to question everything. But if you win a game

831
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: that's played the same way the loss was played, and

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00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: the ball just bounces your way once, some people refuse

833
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: to accept truth. That's what Dan Lanning's gonna find out

834
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: about this team. There are messages that he would have

835
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: been able to get across clear as day had they

836
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: lost this game last night. But they ended up winning it.

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00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: But they were a mess some of the time. Kenny

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00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: still get it across. The best coaches can. The best

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Speaker 1: teams are very receptive to it. The best teams are

840
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: not outcome oriented. They're process oriented. So we'll start to

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00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: find that out about Oregon. They allowed five point four

842
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: yards per carry. They only put up three point six

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00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: yards per carry. They had fourteen penalties for over one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards. They did a lot of the

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00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: stuff that you do to lose a football game, especially

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00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 1: on the road. They were playing a team in Texas

847
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: Tech that was in desperation mode, wounded animal mode. This

848
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: is where if you know college football, you know why

849
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: this was a fight. Texas Tech goes and loses to Wyoming.

850
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: That was the worst thing that could happen to Oregon.

851
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: Texas Tech comes home and backs against the wall. We

852
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: use wounded animal mode all the time because that's exactly

853
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: what it's like. You ever dealt with a wounded animal,

854
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: it will do anything it has to do to continue living.

855
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: That's the same way desperate football teams are, especially when

856
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: they're at home, especially at night. And Oregon dealt with

857
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: it last night. Oregon may find themselves in that position

858
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: at some point this year and someone will have to

859
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: deal with Oregon. They don't hope that, but it does

860
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: happen that way. Bow Knicks is going off man like.

861
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: Bow Knicks is writing a Heisman early conversation as he

862
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: should be thirty two to forty four three point fifty

863
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: nine two touchdowns through the air, had another forty six

864
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: on the ground. That's the That's the third time he

865
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 1: has led team passing and rushing at six explosive passes

866
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: by the way yesterday of twenty yards or more three

867
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen yards after the catch, So Oregon's offense lost.

868
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: Kenny Dillingham. He goes and becomes the head coach at

869
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: Arizona State. Through two games, they put up big numbers.

870
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: The defensive tests will get a little more stiff. But

871
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: Troy Franklin's also another guy that Look. I watched Troy

872
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,399
Speaker 1: Franklin play for Oregon, and I think that guy could

873
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: win the Bolitnikoff Award. I think he's that good and

874
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: it's not like they're underutilizing him. I just hope he

875
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: gets the opportunity on some big stages to make his

876
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: mark because he's good. Man. Troy Franklin is really good.

877
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: Their defensive line allowed rush yards yesterday, but they forced

878
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: turnovers too, so they were plus four turnovers and in

879
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: large part due to that defensive line being disruptive. But

880
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: the offensive line kind of the same thing with Bama.

881
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: You expect of them and you got mixed results early

882
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: in the season. Is this an offensive line that will

883
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: round into form? They've got time. They play Hawaii this week,

884
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: but then they got Colorado come into town. There's a

885
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: difference in what you can be and what you are,

886
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: and in a developmental sport like football, especially at the

887
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: college level, units are ever evolving, and the offensive line

888
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: chief among them. It's ever evolving. You don't just sell

889
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: on one because it's not what you want it to be.

890
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: By mid September. That's very foolish, especially with a bunch

891
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: of new parts. Texas Tech zero to two for the

892
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: first time since nineteen ninety and yet I feel great

893
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: about the program. I feel great about the trajectory, feel

894
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: great about Joey maguire love. Where they're at is just

895
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: they've been on the short side of the stick two

896
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Neither of those games or conference

897
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: losses though, so not that I doubt the guy's ability

898
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: to motivate regardless, but it should be very easy to

899
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: continue getting those guys up because every thing they want

900
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: to play for is in front of them. I don't

901
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: really know many people who had Texas Tech going to

902
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,800
Speaker 1: the playoff this year. So like, if this were Ohio

903
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: State and they've got two losses already, it is a

904
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: crisis in Columbus, Ohio. This is Texas Tech. Man, they

905
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: want to be a big twelve championship contender and let

906
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: the chips fall where they may elsewhere. They've lost zero

907
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: conference games. They'll beat Tarlaton this weekend and then they'll

908
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: tune it up and they'll get ready to go into

909
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: conference play. And it's you know, it's not the toughest

910
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: conference schedule in the world either. So they're still wants

911
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: to play for out there. I think Texas Tech's still

912
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: a really good team. Oh boy, is it that time

913
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 1: of the show? Oh no, all right, well, I guess

914
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this. I can't believe we're about to

915
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 1: be talking about this. A hearty sip from the chalice

916
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: is needed. If you have not been checking the news today, Boy,

917
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: do I have a bombshell for you. Almost to the

918
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: point where I have to be careful what I say.

919
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. So Mel Tucker, as it

920
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: turns out, at Michigan State, has been being investigated for

921
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 1: sexual harassment for a long time, and the details are

922
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 1: some of the wildest I ever remember reading. So Mel

923
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: Tucker was the Big Ten coach of the year back

924
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, there that magic season. It's been

925
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: pretty rough since then. They bring Brenda Tracy and this

926
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: is reported, and this is out there. You can go

927
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: google it because there's some of the report. I'm not

928
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: even gonna I'm not even going to articulate on air

929
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: some of this report. I kid you not. I kid

930
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: you not. Some of the stuff Mel Tucker is accused

931
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: of doing and has admitted to doing The details he

932
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: disagrees with, or maybe the semantics he disagrees with, but

933
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: the details he's admitted to. Some of the things he's

934
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: admitted to, I'm pretty sure if I say them on

935
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: air it's an HR violation for me. What are we

936
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: to do? I guess go read it on CBS Sports

937
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: dot Com. I don't know if I can say it

938
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: on this show. But they bring Brenda Tracy in there,

939
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: who is a sexual assault activist and herself has been

940
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 1: a victim of it in the past, very very high

941
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:20,720
Speaker 1: profile person and story and does wonderful work. They bring

942
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: her in to speak to the team. They bring her

943
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: aboard as an ambassador of sorts, and mel Tucker ends

944
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: up being accused of sexually harassing the woman and doing

945
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: certain things on this device I'm holding. This would be

946
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: an eye tuck for him. It's an eye Josh in

947
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: my hand. And as I said, you want the details, Oh,

948
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: they're out there, go read them friends after the show.

949
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: So anyway, they call an emergency press conference today. This

950
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 1: news broke earlier this morning and it was first reported

951
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: he was fired, and trust me, he probably will be.

952
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, he's just been suspended in death,

953
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: definitely without pay. Harlan Barnett is now going to be

954
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: the interim head coach up there. Get this, Mark D'Antonio

955
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: coming out of the garage. He's gonna do something with

956
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: the program. And I'm gonna be blunt here. I'm going

957
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 1: to totally dance around the key issue here. The key

958
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: issue is the sexual harassment. But I also know you

959
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: don't tune into this show to hear me talk about

960
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: social issues. This is a college football show. So with

961
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: immense amounts of due respect to the more weighty and

962
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: more serious matters in the room, we're gonna put those

963
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: over there for a second. Okay, Respectfully, Michigan State is

964
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: going to probably end up benefiting from this massively. That

965
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 1: athletic department was in no man's lamb because this football

966
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: program was going nowhere. Their best players were transferring out.

967
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: They are on the hook for a massive amount of money.

968
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,720
Speaker 1: His buyout was fully guaranteed, and you now have calls

969
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: to fire him in all likelihood and you're not gonna

970
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: owe him a dime. That's what's happening up there. That's

971
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: what every fan's thinking, That's what everyone else is thinking,

972
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it out loud. That's the deal. It's

973
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: a really serious matter. I trust it's being treated as such.

974
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, as it relates to Michigan State

975
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: Spartan football, the program's probably in the long run going

976
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: to end up benefiting if that's the way things go down.

977
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: It turns out they knew about this for a while.

978
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: They said in the report they'd known about it says

979
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: last year. That means they went through spring practice and

980
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: they were knowing about this. They came to Big ten

981
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: media days, we had Mel Tucker on the show, and

982
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,479
Speaker 1: I didn't pick up on it. For what that's worth,

983
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: I didn't know they went through fall camp. I always wonder,

984
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: by the way, when you find out about various scandals,

985
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: it's never that they happened in the past week. Find

986
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: out about them, and then you find out the investigation

987
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,280
Speaker 1: has been going on, or the story itself centers around

988
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: things that happened a year ago, and you're like, wait

989
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: a second, this has been boiling under the surface for

990
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: a year and we didn't know about it. Also, how

991
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: do these people sleep at night? I don't mean that

992
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: as the guilty conscience sort of thing. I literally mean

993
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: with the stress that must put on you, which you

994
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: deserve if you're guilty of that sort of thing. But

995
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: nonetheless it's stressful and you're running a football program. How

996
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: that must be unhealthy. That's gotta be terrible. Again, if

997
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: you brought it on yourself, you brought it on yourself.

998
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: So I'm all about due process. Let's let it play out.

999
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: It does not sound good for Meltucker right now, I'll

1000
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: tell you what's much better for us though. College football

1001
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: is just wide open this year. I'm talking about wide open,

1002
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: like there may be a dozen teams that can win

1003
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: the national title right now. Jay hit us up and

1004
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: he said, does this season seem as wide open as

1005
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: we've seen in a long long time. I think it does, Jake.

1006
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: I think it does. Now, here's what we have not seen.

1007
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: There are still some teams we have not seen challenged.

1008
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: We have not seen Ohio State challenged. We have not

1009
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 1: seen Georgia challenged. We've seen Bama pushed, We've seen Clemson,

1010
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: We've seen LSU. Now some would argue that, well, Dukes

1011
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: shouldn't have pushed Clemson. My point is we've we've seen them.

1012
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: There could be flaws in these other teams we don't

1013
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: know about yet. So we've seen Texas pushed. We know

1014
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: they're legit. Oklahoma played a really good SMU team yesterday.

1015
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: I know some of you were underwhelmed with that score.

1016
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,799
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have been. SMU is better than half the

1017
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: conference opponents Oklahoma will have this year. But the SEC

1018
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: has got several flat tires, man like. They are struggling mightily.

1019
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: They are three and six and out of conference play

1020
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: so far this year, and the wins are Tennessee over Virginia.

1021
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: Mississippi State went to overtime against Arizona and won in

1022
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: Startville last night. And Auburn was all the way out

1023
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 1: on the West coast and they snuck by cal hanging

1024
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: fourteen on them, not fourty fourteen, excuse me, And we've

1025
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: seen Here's what's crazy about this. So the SEC thing notwithstanding,

1026
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: just think about the power programs, and think about the

1027
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,879
Speaker 1: fact that again I'm holding my phone in my hand

1028
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: and Cole Kublick hasn't texted me. I hope he's okay.

1029
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: So I'm holding my phone in my hand. It's not

1030
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: November tenth, guys, it is September tenth. And we've seen

1031
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: Clemson fall, We've seen LSU fall, we've seen Bama fall.

1032
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: These are top ten preseason teams by virtually any metric

1033
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 1: out there except the jpeople. And there's so much football

1034
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: left to play, And so how crazy is it we're

1035
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: writing teams off already. I say we, I don't literally

1036
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: mean that. I mean a lot of people are. So

1037
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 1: much is about to happen. So the ACC, I think

1038
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: is the biggest single story right now, because that's a

1039
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: conference I've told you it has has missed their opportunity

1040
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: as much as anyone over the last fifteen years. And

1041
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, FSU is answering the bell North Carolina.

1042
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: I don't look down on them for struggling against app

1043
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: State yesterday. We took app State in the points. I

1044
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 1: expected that to be a close game. They're two to zero.

1045
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: That's the point. Oh there's cublic. He did text me

1046
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 1: he's good. Well, he meant to say we're good bro.

1047
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: He actually typed we're hood bro. So many ways I

1048
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: could take that, but I won't take him any which

1049
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: way because I want to get back on track here.

1050
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: The ACC could be the story of college football through

1051
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 1: two weeks. The Pac twelve has looked magnificent out there.

1052
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: And also, here's what's really fun. Penn States as shine

1053
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: so far. You got Ohio State still blemish free, but

1054
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: everyone's questioning the quarterback play and everyone's questioning the offense.

1055
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: And my point is, if there's one big if out there,

1056
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 1: if Michigan or Georgia don't stumble, then you're not gonna

1057
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: have a ton of competitive balance in the national championship picture.

1058
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: You're just gonna have a handful of teams capable of

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00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 1: winning it like you always do. But it's early, guys.

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00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: If we get to a point like if Auburn goes

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00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: or if Georgia goes to Auburn in two weeks and

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00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: it's a dog fight in the fourth quarter out of nowhere,

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00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: or if Michigan plays like who they play Jesse Nebraska

1064
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: or someone like that, if they just out of nowhere

1065
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: against Minnesota get tripped up, think about what your national

1066
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 1: championship picture looks like. You could have the biggest field

1067
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,399
Speaker 1: of potential contenders that we've had in any playoff year,

1068
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: like an seven vibe, but that was pre playoff. In

1069
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve, man, we're through two weeks. I think

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00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: Southern Colis played three games. We are no closer to

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00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: figuring out that picture out there. Utah, Oregon State, Oregon, Washington,

1072
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: USC Any one of them could still win it. Nil

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00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: though in the portal. That's what I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: to you for a second about. I'm seeing a lot

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00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 1: of folks say, oh, look at that NIL in the portal,

1076
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: doing exactly what we said they would do. We told

1077
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 1: you guys, when NIL entered the equation, when the transfer

1078
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: portal opened up, none of these, none of these mega

1079
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: power teams would be able to withstand it. Look at Bama,

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00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: Look at Clemson. That's the NIL and transfer portal. Well,

1081
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: first off, with Clemson, they have voluntarily forsaken the transfer portal.

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00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: That's not a it's not even a good comp with Alabama.

1083
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: Alabama hasn't lost their ability to recruit anybody. My point

1084
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: is the transfer portal and NIL has not thus far

1085
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: elevated any additional teams into primetime contention that weren't already

1086
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: capable of it. Texas never had the sport tilted against them.

1087
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: Texas just sucked for a long time. Florida State. The

1088
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: sport is built to their advantage. They just sucked for

1089
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: a long time. They just got their act together. They

1090
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: were like little privileged levers at the control in those programs.

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00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: All they gotta do is pull them. You can't do

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00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: that at AKRON. You can do it at Texas. You

1093
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: can't do that at FAM. You you can do it

1094
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: at FSU. And they've done it. Okay, we're not all

1095
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: due respect. Now, we're not talking about teams that previously

1096
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: have never competed for anything now competing for things. The

1097
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: TCU story was a good story last year. Start bringing

1098
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 1: me that every year. Then I'll talk to you, like,

1099
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: have Arkansas make a magical run through the SEC West

1100
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: this year. Then I'll start talking to you about how

1101
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: Portal and the Niols fundamentally transformed the national title picture. Look,

1102
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: maybe it's still early, and maybe I'm just skeptical on that.

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00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: I happen to think that the same well resourced outlets

1104
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,919
Speaker 1: will and outfits will always acquire the talent. You're gonna

1105
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: have some anecdotal examples of guy's going elsewhere where they

1106
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: normally wouldn't. But these are mega power programs that have

1107
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: gotten out of their own way and are now competing again.

1108
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: That has virtually to me, nothing to do with nil

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00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: on the portal, evening things out where little Old Texas

1110
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: gets a chance to succeed or Little Miami gets a

1111
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: chance to succeed. Man, they were the reasons they weren't succeeding.

1112
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: Now the other teams I'm interested in. Oklahoma looks really

1113
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: good so far. Notre dame looks really good so far.

1114
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's got Ohio State in two weeks. By the way,

1115
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: two weeks. You know what, Colin, I'm looking forward to it.

1116
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: And the reason I said, you know what, Colin, I'm

1117
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: looking forward to it is cause that's where he's gonna

1118
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: cut out of the video when we put it on YouTube.

1119
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: But that is just a transition for me because I

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00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: have another piece of paper in my hand and it

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00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: says R and E on it. That stands for Rama

1122
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: Noodle Express. Friends, we made a boatload of money yesterday

1123
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: and if you didn't watch Friday Night Lines, you didn't

1124
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: profit as much. So make sure at Lake Kick Josh

1125
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: on Instagram, make sure you're following there. But I got

1126
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: three early best bets. We moved on four games last Sunday.

1127
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: I got three of them. We need to move on

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01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: right now, Georgia Tech is plus twenty and a half

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01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: at ole Miss this week. Schedule First off, Georgia Tech's

1130
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: not a bad team. Secondly, schedule model is looking at

1131
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: schedule dynamics there. Not surprisingly, you build up that two

1132
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 1: lane game and Ole Miss goes down there and takes

1133
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: care of business. Okay, they got Bamma next week, and

1134
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: you just got Georgia Tech sandwiched in between. Ole Miss

1135
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: is fine winning by eleven or thirteen this week, So

1136
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: take Tech plus twenty and a half. Central Michigan goes

1137
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: to Notre Dame. Another scheduling dynamic situation. Notre Dame's got

1138
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: Ohio State coming in. Get out of this thing healthy

1139
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: with a comfortable wim. We're taking Central Michigan and Jim

1140
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: mcelwaine plus thirty one and a half. And lastly, we

1141
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: just think this number is too high. Mississippi State opened

1142
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: as a nine and a half point dog. We got

1143
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: him at nine against LSU eleven am kickoff over there

1144
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 1: in Starkville. By the way, we're taking Mississippi State plus nine,

1145
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: Central Michigan plus thirty one and a half, Georgia Tech

1146
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: plus twenty and a half. What a weekend of college football.

1147
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: We've we've still got so many weeks ahead, so happy

1148
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: about that, Happy to have you guys along. I am

1149
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: also happy that I was able to power through this

1150
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: show because candidly, there's not a lot of voice left here.

1151
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go and eat some lozenges for dinner

1152
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: and drink some thorough flu to wash it down. Even

1153
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: though I don't have the flu, I just think it

1154
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: really coats the throat in a nice soothing way. And

1155
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: I will be back here bright and late Tuesday night.

1156
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: Make sure you're following at late Kick, Josh, cause it

1157
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: feels like it feels like the kind of week where

1158
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of activity, depth charts, changing

1159
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: scandals left and right, and all the while we're just

1160
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: out here bathe and it it's soaking it all left.

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Speaker 1: So for producer Jesse, for director Colin, I'm Josh Bait.

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Speaker 1: Take care, have a great start to your week, and

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Speaker 1: God bless