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Speaker 1: let's get to news. We had real breaking news. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do it the disservice of the falsetto
Speaker 1: because then it's almost cartoonish. This is very serious what
Speaker 1: we've got going on here. So postponements are not anything
Speaker 1: new at this point, right. Florida Ellis's a pretty high
Speaker 1: profile one, right, we previewed it. It wasn't until like
Speaker 1: I think, Wednesday, naturally, after we released the last podcast,
Speaker 1: that they made it official. Of course, there is a
Speaker 1: bit of an ironic spin to it, seeing as how
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen wanted a packed house at the swamp the
Speaker 1: ultimate story of twenty twenty here, as this game is
Speaker 1: going to be postponed, we're not going to get it.
Speaker 1: We hope everyone's okay, who has it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, December twelfth, I think is the date, right, That's
Speaker 2: where they're That's what I saw too. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: The bigger story though, I guess around the world of
Speaker 1: college football is at Nick Saban and athletic director at
Speaker 1: Alabama Greg Byrne both tested positive for the coronavirus. So
Speaker 1: Nick Saban did an interview shortly thereafter. He was on
Speaker 1: camera he said, look, you okay. It was a surprise
Speaker 1: to me that I tested positive, but I got the
Speaker 1: news and now I'm in isolation at home. This is
Speaker 1: obviously a big story in like eight different levels, not
Speaker 1: the least of which is perhaps the most prominent coach
Speaker 1: in college football has contracted this disease which has upended
Speaker 1: so much of our everyday lives here, not just here,
Speaker 1: but around the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: As a secondary point to that, this is kind of
Speaker 1: on the eve generally speaking of the biggest game of
Speaker 1: the year for the Alabama Crimson Tide against the George Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: It's a matchup of number two versus number three. There
Speaker 1: is obviously a ton of doubt now with regard to
Speaker 1: how is this going to work for Alabama, Who's coaching
Speaker 1: Are they going to come up with some setup for
Speaker 1: Nick Saban so that he can still participate in the
Speaker 1: game planning and the game day decision making. A lot,
Speaker 1: I think remains to be seen at time of recording here,
Speaker 1: but this is a big deal. Then it's a huge
Speaker 1: to the line if you are interested in such things.
Speaker 1: When we record, so when we saw the open it
Speaker 1: was at four and a half by the time we
Speaker 1: recorded the Wednesday preview show, it had gone up to
Speaker 1: about six and a half. In the immediate aftermath of
Speaker 1: this news becoming public, I saw it dipped all the
Speaker 1: way down to three three and a half, So clearly
Speaker 1: something that is weighing on on the minds of not
Speaker 1: just college football fans and humans in general, but certainly
Speaker 1: college football betters alike.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And I don't know if I've seen anything
Speaker 2: indicating he is symptomatic on any level. So we're happy
Speaker 2: about that if that is pointing to the fact that
Speaker 2: he's feeling okay and just quarantining and hopefully he's going
Speaker 2: to be fine throughout the process. Alabama was on the
Speaker 2: road certainly the Florida situation. Scott Strickland, the Florida a
Speaker 2: D pointed to the fact that travel may have caused
Speaker 2: the issues that cropped up in Gainesville. So both of
Speaker 2: these teams were on the road, and LSU was as well,
Speaker 2: but Florida was the team with issues. Seems there. I
Speaker 2: did see he'll be able to sort of run practice remotely,
Speaker 2: but he will have no ability to communicate with anybody
Speaker 2: on the team, coaches, players, whatever. For ninety minutes before
Speaker 2: the game and the duration of the game. So okay,
Speaker 2: unless that is skirted somehow through nefarious means, it's going
Speaker 2: to be a sark Alabama game day experience, for better
Speaker 2: or for worse, and sark with control. The Alabama offense
Speaker 2: has been damn amazing record setting. Even so, Alabama's offense
Speaker 2: in good hands. We'll see about the game day stuff,
Speaker 2: will see about end game decision making for Alabama. But
Speaker 2: I think the most important thing here is Nick Saban,
Speaker 2: who was very publicly, you know, asking for people to
Speaker 2: remain vigilant so the season could continue a pace. He
Speaker 2: himself now came down with it, and I assume he
Speaker 2: was as careful as can be, but it just sort
Speaker 2: of goes to show that everybody's susceptible. So I hope
Speaker 2: he's all right and hope everything is able to move
Speaker 2: forward for Alabama. But huge, huge still came by the way,
Speaker 2: this came on the heels of me saying SEC has
Speaker 2: done a pretty good job. And I guess everybody does
Speaker 2: a good job until they don't. And I guess if
Speaker 2: there's any sort of silver lining to this that we've
Speaker 2: had programs, you know, in the sun Belt and the
Speaker 2: big twelve, but not enormous programs have cancelations. Florida LSU
Speaker 2: and Nick Saban having their weekends canceled, postponed whatever hopefully
Speaker 2: serves as a wake up call to not just the
Speaker 2: teams that are playing to just stay vigilant, but also
Speaker 2: the teams who are about to start and come back
Speaker 2: and begin playing. No.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I think that's fair, And you know,
Speaker 1: we'll continue to watch this as it progresses. I am
Speaker 1: not totally convinced that there won't be some sort of
Speaker 1: like Oculus Go set up for Nick Saban where he's
Speaker 1: on the sidelines virtually, or some sort of cryptic How.
Speaker 2: Do you monitor something like that? That's the interesting thing
Speaker 2: to me, Like how do you monitor Nobody set up
Speaker 2: to monitor that? Come on, like Nick Saban could very
Speaker 2: easily get patched through right to the headsets.
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's online one. He's got some ideas. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you that they can find some way if they want to.
Speaker 1: I need to investigate more why he's unable Why in
Speaker 1: trick kit.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, so Nick Saban. Okay, here's the way
Speaker 2: you skirt it. Nick Saban does not communicate with the team.
Speaker 2: Nick Saban has a plant in the stadium, he has
Speaker 2: an in between or time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's.
Speaker 2: Not communicating with the team, He's communicating with somebody who's
Speaker 2: communicating with the team.
Speaker 1: Plausible deniability the other thought that crossed my mind. I
Speaker 1: know they used to do this in a lot of
Speaker 1: corporate settings. It was more of a proof of concept.
Speaker 1: But you know, some companies like Cisco would offer like
Speaker 1: a robot that somebody who was working remotely could control
Speaker 1: and go through the hallways, and it was like, yes,
Speaker 1: of course, your telepresence mm hmm. It wasn't always the
Speaker 1: most effective thing, but it was kind of neat, and
Speaker 1: why not have a robotic Saban. He's sort of a
Speaker 1: robot anyway, wouldn't be that big a departure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He Also if Sark wears a mask the entire
Speaker 2: time or most of the crucial times, you won't be
Speaker 2: able to read his lips. If he says something like Nick,
Speaker 2: what should we do here? Because he'll be wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: What about Nick Saban wearing a Sark mask? I think
Speaker 1: then he and dangers like wear like I'm impossible style. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with the skin that peels, you.
Speaker 2: Know, as somebody who is tested positive. I still don't
Speaker 2: think that's all that thoughtful. No, Okay, be on the
Speaker 2: sideline wearing a fake Sark skin mask.
Speaker 1: Ty come on, Tye, let's I'm an idea guy, Dan,
Speaker 1: this is what I do.
Speaker 2: I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking more.
Speaker 2: Maybe Nick Saban uses the Mission Impossible style voice changer.
Speaker 2: So whatever voice is off the line, if the SEC
Speaker 2: is monitoring the Alabama headset situation, that it's a voice
Speaker 2: changer where it's just like, you know, a deeply British
Speaker 2: communicator saying we should go for on four. Isn't it
Speaker 2: something like that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: So that's the way, that's the way to me, obviously,
Speaker 2: if Nick Saban is healthy and everybody's good to skirt
Speaker 2: the issue.
Speaker 1: Some other quick kidbits here before we get into our
Speaker 1: undaunted Friday orbit. Yes, I saw that the NCAA has
Speaker 1: granted an extra year of eligibility for all winter sport athletes,
Speaker 1: and they are also avoiding the rule that you need
Speaker 1: to be five hundred to qualify for a bowl game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's only seventy eight spots, I believe. So there
Speaker 2: are years where there are reasons a team is five
Speaker 2: and seven or four and eight and finish really strong
Speaker 2: and become really interesting, and maybe they get a quarterback
Speaker 2: back who wasn't there at the early part of the
Speaker 2: season that maybe it's a major program. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I remember what Nebraska a couple of years ago where
Speaker 2: they finished an interesting four and eight. That's a shirt
Speaker 2: that we should make for Nebraska fans, an interesting foreign eight.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, I guess it's a little bit
Speaker 2: more of a wild Wild West Bowl scenario. Let's just
Speaker 2: get through this week.
Speaker 1: And speaking of which, Texas Tech has turned it over
Speaker 1: to Henry Colomby and his wonderful head of hair Columbe.
Speaker 1: However you say it.
Speaker 2: I looked it up.
Speaker 1: It's Colombie Colombie, Okay. He is taking over for British
Speaker 1: comedy legend Alan Bowman.
Speaker 2: Possibly COLUMBI. I know it's something like Colombo, but with
Speaker 2: an eye.
Speaker 1: He has completed seventy four percent of his passes thus
Speaker 1: far for three touchdowns, and he's played pretty well, I
Speaker 1: think in a relief effort when our boy, British comedy
Speaker 1: legend Alan Bowman has been injured.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's interesting. Transferred from Utah State. I do
Speaker 2: have breaking news, TI like legit breaking news. Please Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: Tulsa has been postponed. Okay for the athletic Cincinnati and
Speaker 2: the athletic college football team, So one of those matches
Speaker 2: I think I was looking forward to after Tulsa's win
Speaker 2: against UCF and Cincinnati's strong start to the season. So
Speaker 2: that's a bummer. Hopefully everybody's okay.
Speaker 1: There, I said, undaunted Friday, Orbit at the top, Dan,
Speaker 1: this is an honor of pluckiness, not just in college football,
Speaker 1: but in our solar system, in our universe.
Speaker 2: Is there a sound under us right now that I
Speaker 2: don't know about it? There's okay, good, love it, great,
Speaker 2: great job.
Speaker 1: I'm giving a shout out right now to just some
Speaker 1: of the pluckiness in the solar system and beyond. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about mercury, Dan closest playing it to the Sun.
Speaker 1: It is blasted constantly by the rays from the Sun,
Speaker 1: but it keeps trucking hell when it goes in retrograde.
Speaker 1: Solid wife Kate's talking about things just feeling strange, things
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit off. Don't know if there's any
Speaker 1: science there. There's definitely a believe there that mercury and
Speaker 1: retrograde they kind of plucky, keeps on tratrograde.
Speaker 2: Mean, I don't even I'm not smart.
Speaker 1: It's when it spins the other way.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about Pluto? Is Pluto a planet? Well, it
Speaker 1: used to be not anymore, got demoted then dwarf planet,
Speaker 1: but then it got a flyby from one of our satellites,
Speaker 1: got some pictures of it. It looks freaking awesome. It's
Speaker 1: just out there doing its thing. Man doesn't care what
Speaker 1: we think about it here on Earth.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for you to figure out how to compare
Speaker 2: excellent photographs of Pluto to an early college football performance.
Speaker 2: And then we zip all the way down we get
Speaker 2: that like the particle level. I got this from Chief
Speaker 2: Astrover Buller John mm hmm, who's talking to me this
Speaker 2: week about planet tesibols?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. You know what that is? I didn't, not
Speaker 1: even a little bit. They start off no bigger than
Speaker 1: a grain of sand and a giant disc of other
Speaker 1: grains circulating a star, sort of the violent young days
Speaker 1: of the star. If you will, Okay, maybe they link
Speaker 1: up with other grains. They get like a snowball thing going.
Speaker 1: They get bigger and bigger and bigger. Maybe they get
Speaker 1: blasted away by a proto star or something. But maybe
Speaker 1: they just get bigger and bigger and bigger, and then
Speaker 1: waym they get linked up with another even bigger Plantesmo.
Speaker 2: Okay, in a way recruiting, I don't know if there's
Speaker 2: like a real connection. I mean, they're recruiting grains coming
Speaker 2: together with a common purpose.
Speaker 1: I saw more of a conference realignment angle there. But oh,
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 2: It also works.
Speaker 1: My point is this, there's pluckiness all around us, and
Speaker 1: certainly within the world of college football. So what I've
Speaker 1: got here is a list of seven teams that I
Speaker 1: would like, at the end of this discussion to have
Speaker 1: an official power ranking of pluckiness that we.
Speaker 2: Can go find pluckiness.
Speaker 1: For me, pluckiness is just gritty. I think you used
Speaker 1: the word last time. They're gritty. I don't so much
Speaker 1: equate it to being a disappointing team per se. But
Speaker 1: let's say teams that perhaps were written off a little
Speaker 1: too soon, that when we did our previews, maybe we
Speaker 1: didn't take as seriously as we should have, and now
Speaker 1: we find each and every week they're performing at a
Speaker 1: level high enough to push their competition right you want
Speaker 1: to talk about it interesting four and eight. A plucky
Speaker 1: team is an interesting four and eight. They might lose
Speaker 1: eight games, but they were in all eight or most
Speaker 1: of those games anyway. They could have won a lot
Speaker 1: of them one score games. A couple bad breaks here
Speaker 1: and there that didn't go their way. But these are
Speaker 1: teams that are probably better than their record would indicate.
Speaker 2: So not full on ball of fire, but sparks are flying, correct.
Speaker 2: There's embers embers afoot.
Speaker 1: There are embers a foot. So let me start here. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's start with an obvious one from what we saw
Speaker 1: a week ago. Let's talk about ole Miss.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Ole Miss obviously a new coach going into the year
Speaker 1: with Liane Kiffin. They have changed up their offense and
Speaker 1: they are running with an alarming tempo at this point.
Speaker 1: Not to say they didn't do that before, but what
Speaker 1: I saw against Alabama is like NASCAR level crazy, right.
Speaker 1: Didn't play any defense, per our friend Roger Sherman, forty
Speaker 1: one yards.
Speaker 2: Of defense prevention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, resistance knob all the way down. They're one and two.
Speaker 1: They scored thirty five points on Florida. They straight up
Speaker 1: beat Kentucky on the road and They scored forty eight
Speaker 1: against what we thought was a really good Alabama defense.
Speaker 1: So they don't play much defense for themselves, but it's
Speaker 1: apparent that they can score and they're fun to watch.
Speaker 1: They're going to be hard out. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about an ole Miss and what they've done so far
Speaker 1: this year versus the Jerky Boys and Boston?
Speaker 2: So I think Boston College better exemplifies your term of
Speaker 2: plucky because Ole Miss does something already excellently. Ole Miss
Speaker 2: doesn't have any like, they're no sparks, there are no
Speaker 2: embers to ole Miss's offense. It's full on fireballs, shooting
Speaker 2: in every direction. There's it's I'm not encouraged by ole
Speaker 2: Miss as a full on growing as a full team
Speaker 2: situation because their defense. There's nothing plucky about their defense.
Speaker 2: So okay, they they fall more into half team, but
Speaker 2: as a complete unit they are. They're plucky television. They're
Speaker 2: exciting television. But I don't know if this full on
Speaker 2: falls under grit or pluck because that implies to me
Speaker 2: improving construction and I don't see that with all Miss
Speaker 2: because the offense is already there.
Speaker 1: Offense is there that they're a fun watch and you're
Speaker 1: saying a better TV show than necessarily Plucky Team.
Speaker 2: Right, We're not seeing incremental improvement with ole Miss. Right,
Speaker 2: We're only seeing fireballs shooting in every direction. So we're
Speaker 2: aimless comments. It would be my space comparison. Whereas some
Speaker 2: of the other teams you listed, I feel like, Okay,
Speaker 2: they did this week one and then this week two,
Speaker 2: or they did this in twenty nineteen, and they've improved
Speaker 2: this here, like, oh, this is what they did really
Speaker 2: poorly in twenty nineteen, and they've already showed an ability
Speaker 2: to improve on that in twenty twenty. That to me
Speaker 2: is where the grit and pluck comes from.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's start there and just based on
Speaker 1: those two teams, we'll put BC as our top of
Speaker 1: the pluckometer and ole Miss at the bottom. Just based
Speaker 1: on that definition right now, Yes, let's see if we
Speaker 1: can fill in the gaps.
Speaker 2: So distance to the pluck sun. Boston College is mercury.
Speaker 2: Ole Miss is currently the dwarf planet Pluto.
Speaker 1: Right one pluconomical unit.
Speaker 2: Yep, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech is an interesting case.
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: We do we want to talk about Boston College.
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to talk about Georgia Tech and Boston College.
Speaker 1: Kind of gotcha in the same comparison here sok, same conference, right?
Speaker 1: They do play each other next weekend, I believe so
Speaker 1: we will get a battle of the plucky, a new rivalry.
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech is currently two and two. They knocked off
Speaker 1: Florida State on the road week one is a big deal.
Speaker 1: Sixteen thirteen got cream by UCF, lost the following week
Speaker 1: to Syracuse, then had to buy and one this past week.
Speaker 1: An earlier week game against Louisville forty six to twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Big effort there. There is no doubt that they are
Speaker 1: playing better. They are playing hard for Jeff Collins. We
Speaker 1: saw that last year. The question then, is how do
Speaker 1: you compare a team like Georgia Tech and their level
Speaker 1: of pluck dan mm hmm to what we've seen out
Speaker 1: of Boston College In year one, three and one beat
Speaker 1: pitt on a goofy missed extra point. They were very
Speaker 1: close against North Carolina at home a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I think they are taking some of us, many
Speaker 1: of us by surprise. That year one new coach had
Speaker 1: a bunch of holes to fill new quarterback they are.
Speaker 1: You know, say whatever you want about who they've beaten,
Speaker 1: but three and one is three and one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think Boston College exhibits a little bit
Speaker 2: more pluck than Georgia Tech, just because Tech, Georgia Tech,
Speaker 2: excuse me, has been embarrassed this year already, Like losing
Speaker 2: to Syracuse comfortably does not show it's not great a
Speaker 2: tremendous amount of pluck. I know it is on the road,
Speaker 2: I know it's a strange year, but losing to the end,
Speaker 2: I think they lost by almost twenty points to Syracuse,
Speaker 2: so and losing big to UCF is not a big deal.
Speaker 2: UCF is a very good program, but that loss to
Speaker 2: Syracuse I think limits the pluck. Whereas Boston College right now,
Speaker 2: with where their offense was and where their defense was
Speaker 2: at times, it's sort of vacillated that one year they'll
Speaker 2: have like a really interesting offense, you know then and
Speaker 2: like I think last year their offense was fine, the
Speaker 2: defense was a nightmare, and obviously in years prior it
Speaker 2: was flipped. And so the consistency, the early consistency, and
Speaker 2: I think their offense is ahead of the defense early
Speaker 2: on and I expect the defense to improve under Jeff Halfley,
Speaker 2: but early on for Boston College, I think they get
Speaker 2: that pluck because they're a little bit more competitive. They're
Speaker 2: staying in games, they're you know, they're hanging around to
Speaker 2: potentially take advantage of mistakes from the other team. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to give the edge. And they can't run
Speaker 2: the ball at all, not at all. But Fildjerkovic has
Speaker 2: been largely good, if not a little inefficient, but largely good,
Speaker 2: and the defense against the pass has been pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: I think I agree with you, not just because I'm
Speaker 1: all in on this whole jerky boys goodiness, right like
Speaker 1: I think Georgia Tech is interesting. You look at the
Speaker 1: teams they've beaten. Louisville plays no defense and Florida State's
Speaker 1: kind of a mess. They've got a really tough stretch
Speaker 1: coming up. The true test of their pluckiness will be
Speaker 1: in their next five games.
Speaker 2: Listen to this give me the give me the pluck
Speaker 2: the pluck oh meter for Georgia Tech. If they are
Speaker 2: truly plucky, they will either win or come up just
Speaker 2: short against Team X, who is the bell Weather pluck.
Speaker 1: I think we could use Pitt as the go by
Speaker 1: here because bost Boston College has already played and beaten Pit.
Speaker 1: But listen, listen to these next five games for Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get answer to this question pretty soon. Okay, Clemson,
Speaker 1: which we know about, we previewed next week on the
Speaker 1: road at Boston College, so we'll get a heads up
Speaker 1: matchup there the week after against Notre Dame. That game
Speaker 1: is in Atlanta. We'll see what they can do there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then a bye week, and then Pitt at home on
Speaker 1: the road at Miami. Next five weeks are going to
Speaker 1: tell us if they can hang with some of those
Speaker 1: squads that might be inclined to put them above Boston College.
Speaker 1: But so far I'm looking at what BC has done,
Speaker 1: and BC has hung around. They beat Pitt, they were
Speaker 1: close enough against North Carolina. They're gonna have opportunities here
Speaker 1: in the next few weeks against Virginia Tech, against obviously
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, Clemson, and Notre Dame as well. So right
Speaker 1: now Edge goes to Boston College, but Tech's gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance to usurp the Eagles.
Speaker 2: I think it's Miami well, especially because what Georgia Tech
Speaker 2: beat Miami last year, right, this year's Miami team has
Speaker 2: shown interesting upside. I think that's the measuring stick. If
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech is again competitive with Miami what we believe
Speaker 2: to be an improved Miami team and improved Georgia Tech team.
Speaker 2: That to me, even if they lose twenty seven to
Speaker 2: twenty four, or even if they know if they win
Speaker 2: an ugly fashion, whatever the case, PITT does not necessarily
Speaker 2: have their act together. I don't think we'll find out
Speaker 2: more about PITT Miami. I suppose this weekend. So all
Speaker 2: these sort of proxy measurements, but I'm looking at Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech Miami as a measuring stick to see. Okay, this
Speaker 2: is where Georgia Tech is. If they lose thirty eight
Speaker 2: to ten, that's where they are. I know the game's
Speaker 2: at Miami, I believe, so PITT to me is winnable,
Speaker 2: whereas Miami doesn't seem on that level yet.
Speaker 1: A new challenger has emerged in the form of Kansas State. Okay,
Speaker 1: Kansas State to me when I put this list together
Speaker 1: was I thought the odds on number one in the
Speaker 1: pluck Oometer. And it's not just because they beat Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: In Texas Tech and TCU. Obviously they lost Week one
Speaker 1: in Arkansas State. We're just gonna like close their eyes in.
Speaker 2: That gloss undefeated, big twelve Kansas State.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. But I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: denying the fact that this is already a way better
Speaker 1: performance from k State in twenty twenty that we expected.
Speaker 1: This was a team we talked a lot about them
Speaker 1: taking a huge step back, and in the early going
Speaker 1: they've been very good. Now they lost their quarterback. They
Speaker 1: lost their quarterback, which in a sense is going to
Speaker 1: give us an even better gauge of pluckiness because they're
Speaker 1: not going to be able to rely on that veteran
Speaker 1: leadership from Skyler Thompson to keep the offense hit it.
Speaker 1: They're going to have to game plan around that void.
Speaker 1: So we know that they're three and one, they're undefeated
Speaker 1: in conference, they've got a game coming up next week.
Speaker 1: They're off this week, but they've got a game coming
Speaker 1: up next week against Kansas which I would expect them
Speaker 1: to win handly. After that, though, then it starts to
Speaker 1: get dicey because they close out their final five games
Speaker 1: are at West Virginia, which who knows West Virginia. We
Speaker 1: could maybe talk about them, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Baylor
Speaker 1: in Texas. Probably not as vicious a closing slate as
Speaker 1: we thought given where Texas is at, but nonetheless, at
Speaker 1: least in terms of projected win probability, they are fair
Speaker 1: to lose all those football games. So where do we
Speaker 1: stand on k State?
Speaker 2: I believe they scored one offensive touchdown against TCU, They
Speaker 2: had a couple of field goals in a pick six.
Speaker 2: So the pluckiness place Matt has been set tie the
Speaker 2: table for an interesting, gritty, plucky season with Kansas State,
Speaker 2: especially with now I guess Deuce Fawn the face of
Speaker 2: that offense with Skyler Thompson out, and I don't think
Speaker 2: the passing game is going to be all that interesting.
Speaker 2: I think the test for Kansas State moving forward now
Speaker 2: with this freshman quarterback is, I guess you gotta be Baylor.
Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta beat Kansas. You have to beat
Speaker 2: Kansas no matter who's playing quarterback for you. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: wet West Virginia on the road. You give them a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. Kansas State's off this week, you get
Speaker 2: a little bit, you get your feet wet a little
Speaker 2: bit more against Kansas at West Virginia is the true
Speaker 2: pluck test for Kansas State moving forward, because that's an
Speaker 2: improved West Virginia team with a really interesting defense. I mean,
Speaker 2: we can talk about West Virginian pluckiness is like a bonus.
Speaker 2: I guess that's the pluck test to me, because if
Speaker 2: Kansas State can't move the ball forward, if they can't
Speaker 2: generate more than one offensive touchdown against an Okay to
Speaker 2: pretty good TCU team, then they.
Speaker 1: Might be bad. Yeah, they might be. I hope not.
Speaker 2: They might be.
Speaker 1: See what, Well, West Virginia is an interesting game. Iowa
Speaker 1: States to me even a little bit more interesting. It's
Speaker 1: also on the road. Iowa State's another team that is
Speaker 1: so that's.
Speaker 2: The class of the Big twelve though, ty don't that's.
Speaker 1: Fair fair enough, But it's interesting because because Iowa State
Speaker 1: is sort of like a graduate of the pluck ometer. True,
Speaker 1: just saying a little bit of symmetry there. Okay, are
Speaker 1: we content to put Kase State above Boston College?
Speaker 2: Are we content to put Kase State above Boston College pluck? Yes,
Speaker 2: in terms of pluckiness, I think so because they pluckily
Speaker 2: beat Oklahoma and even with a different quarterback. You got
Speaker 2: to give credit where it's due, and that was a
Speaker 2: that was a win by a team not nearly as
Speaker 2: talented as the team they beat.
Speaker 1: Where do we stand on Arkansas? Now?
Speaker 2: How I have Arkansas thoughtstyle?
Speaker 1: Arkansas lost big in their first game to Georgia. But
Speaker 1: you know, new coach at Arkansas and it's Georgia.
Speaker 2: And they were in that game. It was an ugly
Speaker 2: like first half of that game. Now that counts as
Speaker 2: pluck uggling up something.
Speaker 1: A week after that, they're on the road. They're going
Speaker 1: against the Mississippi State team that everyone's written into the
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff. Absolutely after a monstrous showing. But Kja
Speaker 1: Costello and Mike Leach in year one of the air
Speaker 1: raid and they win twenty one to fourteen, really good
Speaker 1: defensive effort. Now folks are like, hey, this is a
Speaker 1: great win for Arkansas. They haven't won an SEC game
Speaker 1: in three years. What do they do? They go on
Speaker 1: the road the next week against Auburn. Now we can
Speaker 1: say whatever we want about Auburn, but Auburn's got more
Speaker 1: talent than Arkansas. There's there's no denying that. Now Arkansas
Speaker 1: could have won that game. They lost thirty to twenty eight.
Speaker 1: It was a game they were in. It was a
Speaker 1: tight game, thirty to twenty eight. They've clearly got their
Speaker 1: work cut out for them moving forward, right all miss
Speaker 1: this week. They've got games against A and M, Tennessee, Florida, LSU, Missouri,
Speaker 1: and Alabama left on the schedule. So I don't it
Speaker 1: may be a little too soon to gauge where Arkansas
Speaker 1: rates on this scale. Maybe the bell Weather is a
Speaker 1: game against like A Tennessee. But what are you, Arkansas? Thoughts?
Speaker 2: Felipe Franks is a real quarterback. It's been a while
Speaker 2: since Arkansas has had a real quarterback. He succeeded downfield
Speaker 2: against even though an Auburn defense that took a step
Speaker 2: back this year a peers to have taken a step back.
Speaker 2: Real quarterbacks count for a lot, Real coordinators count for
Speaker 2: a lot. A real head coach that is inspiring, it seems.
Speaker 2: I mean Arkansas was rushing the passer against against Auburn.
Speaker 2: They were forcing mistakes. They were I like that running
Speaker 2: back number twenty two. I think his last name is Smith,
Speaker 2: Is it Trelon Treylon Smith? He was really good in
Speaker 2: an all purpose role against Auburn. And watching the Hogs
Speaker 2: early on this season feels like did you have an
Speaker 2: amazing professor that you loved in college, which is like
Speaker 2: taking his or her class made that subject matter come alive?
Speaker 2: Had I definitely did.
Speaker 1: I had one professor because they kept changing my major
Speaker 1: round and restructuring it where I liked the professor a lot,
Speaker 1: and because of some of the clerical errors, I was
Speaker 1: able to take the same class three times, which we
Speaker 1: want to talk about. The pluckometer was, Yes, that was
Speaker 1: a plucky decision.
Speaker 2: Gaming the system is definitely plucky.
Speaker 1: And then I've talked about Frank Clemente at Penn State before.
Speaker 1: Anyone who's been the Penn State knows Frank Clemente. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of Christ, everyone has that professor.
Speaker 2: So watching the Hogs against Auburn made it seem like
Speaker 2: somebody and I don't know if it's a coordinator thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a Sam Pittman thing. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's just a general culture thing. Somebody
Speaker 2: made learning and playing football fun for Arkansas. Somebody, like
Speaker 2: if somebody made geometry fun, Like if you have a
Speaker 2: terrible math teacher, it's the most dry experience in your life.
Speaker 2: But if you make Isauci. These triangles come alve time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're into it. You're into it. And there was something
Speaker 2: about rushing the passer against Auburn, there was something about
Speaker 2: misdirection on offense. Felipe Franks felt empowered to me, and
Speaker 2: so that's what I'm into. In terms of pluck for Arkansas,
Speaker 2: it seems like we're watching an overhaul that suddenly somebody's
Speaker 2: schedule opened up with great professors, and so I don't know.
Speaker 2: The bell Weather game, I suppose for Arkansas could be
Speaker 2: an improved Miszoo team that's on the road later on
Speaker 2: in the year. But to make sense of everything, because
Speaker 2: they should have come away from that Auburn game with
Speaker 2: a win, I think it's Tennessee. I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I think if you're hanging around with Tennessee, certainly not
Speaker 2: a complete team, certainly not a finished product. If you're
Speaker 2: hanging around with Tennessee at home, I think that cements
Speaker 2: that gritty plucky status.
Speaker 1: I think the Arkansas win over Mississippi State and the
Speaker 1: close loss against Auburn is enough to put them in
Speaker 1: front of Georgia Tech, but not quite above BC.
Speaker 2: Arkansas is going to have a fascinating year in terms
Speaker 2: of they're the bell Weather right to see if, like
Speaker 2: you know, Mississippi State, are they for real? They played Arkansas? Nope, Auburn.
Speaker 2: Was it just a slow start and you know going
Speaker 2: up against a heavyweight Georgia team and a decent Kentucky defense.
Speaker 1: No, Auburn may have some issues.
Speaker 2: Alburn needed a lot. So maybe it's not Arkansas looking
Speaker 2: outside for measuring sticks. Maybe Arkansas themselves in the ultimate
Speaker 2: Plucky reversal. Wow, they're the measuring stick.
Speaker 1: This is like plucky naval gazing. So you want to
Speaker 1: put Arkansas? We could put Arkansas too, just because of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, all right, State on retrograde.
Speaker 1: Ky State, Arkansas, Boston College, and Georgia Tech. We got
Speaker 1: three other teams to two other teams on here. Excuse me?
Speaker 1: Okay about South Carolina? How you feel about South Carolina?
Speaker 2: Not amazing in terms of pluckiness.
Speaker 1: They're better than expected, at least for me, I've been saying,
Speaker 1: that's who you expected. Yeah, I think the team as
Speaker 1: a whole has been better than expected. The offense, you know,
Speaker 1: from an efficiency standpoint, is certainly not there, right, it
Speaker 1: is not there. But I have enjoyed watching the Colin
Speaker 1: Hill to shy Smith connection.
Speaker 2: Not against Florida. You probably didn't.
Speaker 1: I guess there was some dropsies. Yeah, not against Florida.
Speaker 1: I like what I saw to Kevin Harris in the
Speaker 1: running game. Yeah, I think that's important. I could use
Speaker 1: shy Smith getting like longer passes right now, he's just
Speaker 1: getting a lot of dink and dunk type stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could use a little bit.
Speaker 1: More of that. But I feel like they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough out even if they're not necessarily beating teams
Speaker 1: Like the game against Tennessee. I think I locked up
Speaker 1: Tennessee and may have won that opening week game because
Speaker 1: it was like a three and a half spread and
Speaker 1: they won by four. But they were way in that game,
Speaker 1: much more than expected. The Florida game, we kind of
Speaker 1: expected more of a blowout. They covered the spread there.
Speaker 1: They covered the spread against Vanderbilt, if memory serves, are
Speaker 1: probably undefeated. Cool, but they're gonna have chances here now
Speaker 1: over the next few weeks against the likes of Auburn
Speaker 1: and LSU, and there's a Georgia game at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. I think, in looking at this schedule,
Speaker 1: the measuring stick for me is probably gonna be LSU
Speaker 1: on the road. What can they do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't find Will musk Champ teams to fall
Speaker 2: in that plucky, gritty category. The best of Will must
Speaker 2: Champ teams play good defense, but there is something about improving.
Speaker 2: There's something about incremental change that I just never really
Speaker 2: see from Will muss Champ teams. And so maybe that's
Speaker 2: being more broad and vague about Florida and South Carolina combined,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't fall under the like they were a
Speaker 2: nightmare and now they're interesting. I don't know how interesting
Speaker 2: I am. I might put them. I loaded up different galaxies. Tie.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're a tadpole Galaxy team. Maybe they're a cartwheel galaxy.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're a CAA eighty two galaxy type teams. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the MESSAA eighty two the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he played for the Rangers. Yep, he did.
Speaker 2: Indeed, there's also Messia sixty three.
Speaker 1: Just he might be sixty three at this point, but continue.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, there's nothing feel good about watching South Carolina
Speaker 2: football under Will must Champ. And I get some good
Speaker 2: fields watching Boston College. I get some good fields watching
Speaker 2: Arkansas because you like to see players figuring it out
Speaker 2: and I suppose other than getting off the field against
Speaker 2: Tennessee on third down consistently, there's nothing I'm talking about
Speaker 2: the defense in a good way. There's nothing I love
Speaker 2: about watching South Carolina football. There's nothing that gives me
Speaker 2: those warm fields, the warm fuzzies, And so I don't
Speaker 2: think it falls for me. I don't you know. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna need to see more against a pretty good team.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if I understand Sea sixty three is my ruling,
Speaker 1: Messa six. Okay, great, So does that translate then to
Speaker 1: putting South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Below Ole Miss correct? Yes, all right, so we've got
Speaker 2: a new something plucky out driving. There's something plucky about driving,
Speaker 2: Nick Saban, absolutely bonkers.
Speaker 1: Yes, final team, I've got final team. I've got here,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we could do this all day. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Miszoo. Now here's an important distinction that I
Speaker 1: need to get out of the way, right right out
Speaker 1: of the shoot. There is a certain grit and fire
Speaker 1: and pluckiness to Eli Drinkwitz.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, especially on signing day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially on signing days. So it's I think we
Speaker 1: need to try and uh like separate decouple the two
Speaker 1: for the purposes of this conversation, even if that culture
Speaker 1: emanates down from the top, we're not talking about the coach.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the team. So what we've seen so
Speaker 1: far from Miszoo has been like, uh, not great, Like
Speaker 1: lost pretty badly to Alabama. Okay, fine, lost pretty badly
Speaker 1: on the road at Tennessee. Okay, beat LSU in that
Speaker 1: upset forty five to forty one. Yeah, they're off this week.
Speaker 1: They're at Florida next week. Looking at their remaining schedule
Speaker 1: at Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a chance here against some really good teams,
Speaker 1: uh in the SEC. I like their quarterback Connor Basilak.
Speaker 1: I can't even say his name, Basil Basia Yeah, basilc Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like him. And my sense is that Miszoo has
Speaker 1: an opportunity to improve throughout the course of the year.
Speaker 1: So LSU is not where we thought they were going
Speaker 1: to be, And there are other teams in the schedule
Speaker 1: who are kind of in a similar vein. I think
Speaker 1: Missoo's going to improve. I think they're gonna play hard.
Speaker 1: I think they're kind of like a low key top
Speaker 1: three pluckiness style team here. I think that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna see moving forward. Now. Have they been there yet?
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you are looking at plucky futures with
Speaker 2: Miszoo a little bit, little bit twenty plus to Tennessee.
Speaker 2: And I know what Connor Bezlac came in early in
Speaker 2: relief of Sean Robinson. It just wasn't working out for
Speaker 2: Robinson under center and the win against LSU. LSU might
Speaker 2: be another sort of measuring stick team, where like, if
Speaker 2: you're not moving the ball against LSU, something is wrong
Speaker 2: with your offense, which is a very strange way to
Speaker 2: interpret the Tigers this year, but it's I think it's
Speaker 2: based in reality a little bit. So I am great
Speaker 2: with assigning pluckiness to Connor Beslac to be sort of
Speaker 2: unsheathed with very little warning and to look very comfortable
Speaker 2: and very good. But yeah, you're looking at plucky futures
Speaker 2: because the defense is going to take a minute. I
Speaker 2: think the defense in Columbia is going to take a minute.
Speaker 2: But in terms of you know, getting receivers back, because
Speaker 2: they were without receivers against LSU, So I think there
Speaker 2: is that that gritty upside to Missoo. But you're right
Speaker 2: about the schedule because you lose comfortably to Alabama. That's
Speaker 2: not an indicator of anything, but it's what Florida on
Speaker 2: the road Georgia. So the measuring it might be Arkansas,
Speaker 2: it might be some sort of Ozarkian measuring bowl near
Speaker 2: the end of the year. Uh Now, I think it's Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Kentucky at home after Florida Halloween. If Miszoo wins or
Speaker 2: is competitive in that game, and I know that specific
Speaker 2: matchup is fraught with recent history drama, I think we
Speaker 2: have a good indicator of where Missouri stands. Maybe Missoo
Speaker 2: is Earth Mars. Hmm, well, I think they're orbiting in
Speaker 2: relatively close proximity.
Speaker 1: But that implies that things are getting better on Earth.
Speaker 2: So what I mean Mars is the one with the
Speaker 2: upside right to colonize, so Miszoo has the the upside.
Speaker 2: So I'll say Missoo and Mars are entangled, romantically entangled.
Speaker 1: Really Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Cool? Well, so I've I'm gonna put Missoo in front
Speaker 1: of Old miss because we're not sure if Old Miss
Speaker 1: that makes in this category, but not in front of Georgia. Tech. Here.
Speaker 1: Here is what I've got, and I think we can
Speaker 1: agree upon this power rating. K State one, Arkansas two,
Speaker 1: Boston College three, Georgia Tech four, Maszoo five. You've convinced me,
Speaker 1: hm ol miss six, South Carolina seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, South Carolina sixty three in the South Carolina sixty three. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I really hope it's pronounced Messia, not miss you or
Speaker 2: something stupid. Messia would would be the best.
Speaker 1: Mark message fifty nine.
Speaker 2: By the way, there are other teams, and we're not
Speaker 2: going to go into them, just because we don't want
Speaker 2: this to be a two hour show, but there are
Speaker 2: other teams that are worth having a conversation about at
Speaker 2: this point. Coastal Carolina, fresh off a win against Louisiana, undefeated.
Speaker 2: You don't just get an internship at Grayce and McCall
Speaker 2: without putting in the work. Ty, Yeah, yes, Coast Carolina,
Speaker 2: I mean de facto Big twelve champs. With the win
Speaker 2: over Louisiana, I stayed in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many of our listeners out there
Speaker 1: are fully up to speed with what's going on with
Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina and the shot I know on the and
Speaker 1: they're deeply teal pants. They're deeply teal pants, right. I know.
Speaker 1: On the Discord server last night, folks were watching the
Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina victory and getting all into them. So four
Speaker 1: and oh, I think you gotta rank them. I to
Speaker 1: rank them at this point, definite pla.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State is able to win without a starting quarterback.
Speaker 2: I think their defense eliminates them for luckiness because it's
Speaker 2: been so strong early on. But that's a conversation with
Speaker 2: having I think the other case, by the way, for
Speaker 2: Kansas State being strong is winning a game without your
Speaker 2: starting quarterback in one offensive touchdown.
Speaker 1: It's pretty plucky, I would agree.
Speaker 2: If you're can accomplish that, that's interesting across other conferences.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have somebody specific beyond that,
Speaker 2: you mass pretty plucky for canceling and restarting a season
Speaker 2: all in a short amount of time. I don't know
Speaker 2: how good they're actually on the field. Uh, Otherwise, I
Speaker 2: think that's all I have. I don't think there's another
Speaker 2: clear case for pluckiness. Yeah, Texas A and M might
Speaker 2: be pretty good. It's hard to be plucky this far
Speaker 2: into a coaching tenure. That's what I think screwed up
Speaker 2: screwed me up with South Carolina. Like. I like the
Speaker 2: Sam Pittman, I like the Lane Kiffin element. I like
Speaker 2: the Jeff Halfley, I like the Jeff Collins element because
Speaker 2: Plucky implies, you know, quick improvement, quick competitiveness, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, we're in what you're three of Jimbo, We're
Speaker 2: in you're what five six of? Will must Champ. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like that the early What I like the comparison
Speaker 2: to the Planet Testimal. Tie is that what it's called?
Speaker 1: I have no idea what that is?
Speaker 2: What did you what was the term the grain of sand?
Speaker 1: Oh, planet testimal? You're right, Ve right, every.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Planet Testimal. Yeah. I like that because those are young,
Speaker 2: gathering momentum situations. All right, So that's like like the
Speaker 2: Chris climbing situation exactly.
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