Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal hull. That for me. I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm for it. I've heard so many players say, well,
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Speaker 2: And Dan and Tye, welcome back to the solid verbal
Speaker 2: boys and girls. My name is ty Hildenbrandt, joining me
Speaker 2: as always over there in beautiful Chicagoland.
Speaker 1: The one and only Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good. I've had my throat coat tea. I
Speaker 1: just had some raisin brands, so I'm feeling fibrous. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling throat forward, and I'm ready to roll. Can I
Speaker 1: tell you something real quick, Ty? Please go ahead? Anything.
Speaker 1: I was worried a couple of nights ago Jody with
Speaker 1: and I was going to go meet a couple of
Speaker 1: friends in the backyard. She pulled out of the driveway
Speaker 1: and said, I don't know that this rear left tired,
Speaker 1: feels not right. It's wobbling and and I don't think
Speaker 1: I should drive. And I looked at it, and indeed
Speaker 1: it looked pretty flat. Okay, I said, why don't we
Speaker 1: deal with this in the morning? And because that's what
Speaker 1: you should do, Ty, just kick the Calaburbia span down
Speaker 1: the road. And so we have a gas station with
Speaker 1: a service station attached to it, maybe sixty three seconds
Speaker 1: away driving. So I said, you know what, why don't
Speaker 1: I take this this car? It's not fully fully fully flat.
Speaker 1: Why don't I take it over and try to put
Speaker 1: in some air and we'll make a decision from there
Speaker 1: about where to go to change a tire or get whatever.
Speaker 1: Looked at and drove that sixty three seconds, which was
Speaker 1: more like seventy nine seconds. Pretty harrowing. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: know what was.
Speaker 2: Going to is Is this a giant drawn out metaphor
Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty college football season?
Speaker 1: It is in its own way, Ty, it is in
Speaker 1: its own way. Where you're pulling out of the street,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I don't know. I'm hoping for the
Speaker 1: best here. I'm hoping this this drive can be completed,
Speaker 1: but unclear about what's going to happen these next few
Speaker 1: hundred yards. And so we made it. I was able
Speaker 1: to change the tire with the help of an attendant,
Speaker 1: and there's a spa on there right now. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go get a new tire later tonight or tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: So the moral of this story is, I don't know,
Speaker 1: don't trust me with your cars. Yeah, I'm a dumb
Speaker 1: New Yorker for the last nine years or so, and
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm reacclimating to proper society. Well, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you made it. I'm glad you're back here to record.
Speaker 1: And look, I'm glad everyone out there is joining us
Speaker 1: as well. We are back here to record.
Speaker 2: It is the so called start to another college football season,
Speaker 2: albeit a very very weird and strange and quirky one
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty. Yeah, with the obvious backdrop of
Speaker 2: the coronavirus pandemic, we're gonna do our part to get
Speaker 2: through game previews, to get through a season, to do
Speaker 2: what we can to stay engaged with the college football ether.
Speaker 2: We all know that this is weird and there's going
Speaker 2: to be about one thousand disclaimers as we go through
Speaker 2: previewing these football games. But you know what, Dan, it's football.
Speaker 2: We're going to do our best to get through it.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to be here with you talking in front
Speaker 2: of our tens upon tens upon tens of thousands over
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Speaker 1: So let's just do what we know how to do. Man, Look, OK,
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Speaker 1: Now as we try to build some momentum here going
Speaker 1: into the new season, yes, absolutely, and there are I
Speaker 1: can't even count how many things I'm extremely excited for
Speaker 1: for this upcoming twenty twenty college football season, whatever shape
Speaker 1: and face it takes. So I don't want to be
Speaker 1: too wishy washy. I don't want to be too like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if they're every that I am excited, I'm
Speaker 1: going to try to focus on the excitement that that
Speaker 1: resides inside my brain. That's what I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 2: Focus, Dan, just for every ounce of you, I want
Speaker 2: you to focus on that. Okay, lasers, laser focus. Let's
Speaker 2: get the news.
Speaker 1: Okay we had pricket news. Yeah, do we do it
Speaker 1: boo boom, boom boom.
Speaker 2: That is the most exciting possible introduction to announce that
Speaker 2: the Tulsa, Oklahoma State game has been delayed by one week.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I hope everything gets situated. Also, yeah, there was,
Speaker 1: there's been a couple weeks. We had the smutc one
Speaker 1: before I thought I saw Temple Navy has been postponed
Speaker 1: as well for a little bit, so this is not
Speaker 1: going to be unusual for the fall. But hope it
Speaker 1: buys schools enough time to get things sorted out and
Speaker 1: people in to and out of quarantine.
Speaker 2: This is going to be really frustrating for us, oh
Speaker 2: selfishly yeah, selfishly speaking, it will be incredibly frustrating to
Speaker 2: try and put together a slate of games that we're
Speaker 2: going to preview only to have it change. This is
Speaker 2: one of the many disclaimers that I'm going to give
Speaker 2: on this show. Okay, everything, and I do mean everything
Speaker 2: is subject to change between recording and the time you
Speaker 2: are listening to it before presumably Saturday. Just keep that
Speaker 2: in mind, please commit that to memory, because all we
Speaker 2: can do is the best we can with these schedules
Speaker 2: that we've got in front of us here and We've
Speaker 2: already had a couple that are postponed, so more to
Speaker 2: come on that one. We'll talk about Tulsa, Oklahoma next week.
Speaker 2: The points pray was around twenty one, twenty one and
Speaker 2: a half.
Speaker 1: More to come, Yes, I mean, so it's less Heisman
Speaker 1: caliber running back for the moment, that's all it is
Speaker 1: right now. Correct.
Speaker 2: Elsewhere, We've got the number two rated NFL draft prospect
Speaker 2: opting out of his I guess springs season, Dan your
Speaker 2: boy Penney Sewell, Yeah said he's not playing.
Speaker 1: Did that surprise you at all? No? No, he was
Speaker 1: a no brainer top offensive lineman in this year's draft,
Speaker 1: and so with what he already has accomplished. He started
Speaker 1: from day one at left tackle at Oregon and won
Speaker 1: the Outland Trophy last year. So in terms of proving
Speaker 1: his ability and his value for the next level, it
Speaker 1: was done deal that he was a product ready for
Speaker 1: the next level, just when the timing was right, and
Speaker 1: so it feels like the right move. And I'm sad
Speaker 1: to see him go, but I feel like he's going
Speaker 1: to succeed at the next level. So happy to see
Speaker 1: what he does.
Speaker 2: Speaking of draft prospects, we've got Trevor Lawrence, Clemson quarterback,
Speaker 2: coming out releasing a two page statement on Twitter on
Speaker 2: behalf of college football fans in what he called for
Speaker 2: quote actionable steps to be taken to effect change related
Speaker 2: to racial injustices and systemic inequities. In the statement, Trevor
Speaker 2: Lawrence laid out a five point plan of action to
Speaker 2: be implemented centering around voting access, racial equality initiatives, and
Speaker 2: community outreach opportunities. This is one of the things that
Speaker 2: I know we've discussed here about Trevor Lawrence and how
Speaker 2: him and college football players as a whole finding their
Speaker 2: collective voice to not only speak out on behalf of
Speaker 2: student athlete rights, but also some of these injustices around
Speaker 2: the sport. I don't know, I just feel like this
Speaker 2: is going to be one of those things that has
Speaker 2: a longer lasting impact than just the scope of this
Speaker 2: weird twenty twenty season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really hope so. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: it can be overstated that Trevor Lawrence might be the
Speaker 1: most famous college football player at this point. He's played
Speaker 1: in multiple national championships, came in as the number one
Speaker 1: overall quarterback recruit whatever a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: This isn't an A'll do respect back to Alan Bowman
Speaker 1: or Lane Hatcher or Chase Garber's or whoever. This is
Speaker 1: the guy with the biggest platform, arguably even though Clemson's
Speaker 1: not the biggest school in a place that can be
Speaker 1: divisive in the South. And so I just I tip
Speaker 1: my cap to Trevor Lawrence for going to bat for
Speaker 1: college football players for issues that matter to college football players, past,
Speaker 1: president and future. And I hope a ton of good
Speaker 1: comes from this because he's not somebody with a lot
Speaker 1: to I mean, he is somebody with a lot to lose.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever Stancy takes probably isn't affecting Stancy does
Speaker 1: or doesn't take, isn't affecting his future. But he's putting
Speaker 1: himself out there in a really admirable way. So again,
Speaker 1: tip of the cap, and you know, everything was I
Speaker 1: think founded in reality, and really hope that he can
Speaker 1: be a part of affected change.
Speaker 2: For sure elsewhere in college football. Southern miss coach Jay
Speaker 2: Hopson signed one game into the season. He went to
Speaker 2: his athletic director Jeremy McClain. It was announced on Monday
Speaker 2: co offensive coordinator Scotty Walden is going to be taking
Speaker 2: over the interim renes of the Golden Eagles Dan. So
Speaker 2: they lost to South Alabama in their first game this year,
Speaker 2: and he decided it wasn't for him, and now Scotty
Speaker 2: Walden takes over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hobson was already sort of in a weird territory
Speaker 1: with the art Brial situation from earlier on at Southern
Speaker 1: Miss and his relationship with the president and Nicole Auerback
Speaker 1: broke a story about some of his recruiting practices or malpractices,
Speaker 1: so it did seem like this was not a long
Speaker 1: term situation for Jay Hobson or between Jay Hobson and
Speaker 1: Southern Miss and so good local talent area. I think
Speaker 1: the Southern Miss job is actually pretty good as a
Speaker 1: G five job. I have read about some investment or
Speaker 1: lack thereof at the school, so hopefully they can get
Speaker 1: that turned around if they are indeed trying to build
Speaker 1: something big with football. So excited to see because Southern
Speaker 1: Miss has as we've seen, as we saw, you know
Speaker 1: during the Todd Monkin era. They can win some games,
Speaker 1: they can score some points. There's there's available talent there.
Speaker 2: You ever see an actual Golden Eagle like in the
Speaker 2: wildlif so no, have you magnificent bird?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That would you say a top five burg because
Speaker 1: you're kind of into birds of your top five? Easy? Easy?
Speaker 1: Top five? Oh anything else surprising unusual in your top five?
Speaker 1: Let me think about that. I'm big duck guy, like
Speaker 1: the big duck, not the organ ducks per se. But
Speaker 1: you like a mallard. Yeah. Well, we'll talk about buffalheads
Speaker 1: a little later. All right, Oh, I'm excited. What a tease.
Speaker 1: Talk about that a little bit later. Hey, let's talk
Speaker 1: about some games, can we? I would love to.
Speaker 2: We had two that I just wanted to highlight here.
Speaker 2: Army one forty two over Middle Tennessee State. This game
Speaker 2: was a train wreck for Middle Tennessee State. They looked
Speaker 2: like they were out there flailing, didn't know which end
Speaker 2: was up. And then the game yesterday between BYU and Navy,
Speaker 2: BYU won fifty five to three.
Speaker 1: Who just got third?
Speaker 2: They outgained Navy five to eighty to one forty nine.
Speaker 2: So we've seen a couple of games like this in
Speaker 2: the early going. Now, if it's any indication of what's
Speaker 2: coming down the stretch here could be it could be
Speaker 2: a lot of rust In the first couple weeks of
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if that has maybe more to do with
Speaker 1: passing games, because obviously BYU ran rough shot over Navy
Speaker 1: over around three under whatever you name it. Byu was
Speaker 1: running it, so they weren't doing too many complicated things.
Speaker 1: It seemed. I was going back and forth with this
Speaker 1: game because I the ESPN graphics. I've been saying on
Speaker 1: social media, I gotta get over it. You're really having
Speaker 1: a bit with this, aren't you. They're so bad. But
Speaker 1: it didn't seem like they were doing a ton through
Speaker 1: the air. Zach Wilson was accurate, but why would you
Speaker 1: throw it if you can run it? So I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see interested to see whether this very strange offseason
Speaker 1: gives an advantage to teams with incumbent coordinators really nice,
Speaker 1: strong running games, maybe returning offensive linemen, because some of
Speaker 1: the schools that rely on the pass, perhaps disproportionately so
Speaker 1: had some moments of struggle and separation in situations where
Speaker 1: they should have. SMU couldn't, I mean, they went ultra conservative,
Speaker 1: couldn't pull away from Texas State. We saw Memphis have
Speaker 1: you know, starts and stops against Arkansas State, and so
Speaker 1: and that's also without Memphis's star running back Kenny Gainwell,
Speaker 1: who opted out of the season. So I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see and as we preview games, that might be something
Speaker 1: to consider that running games may be out noticeably ahead
Speaker 1: of passing games.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, with that as the backdrop, Yeah, are you ready,
Speaker 2: mister Rubinstein for this wild, wild ride of the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty season.
Speaker 1: I'm ready, damn time to help any of the week.
Speaker 1: Welcome to week two? Oh maybe sure? Yeah, welcome to
Speaker 1: week Welcome to Week X. Yeah, okay, bear with us postponements,
Speaker 1: positive tests and all the like. If you're thinking of
Speaker 1: betting on any of these games, maybe wait until kickoff
Speaker 1: to do that, because we don't know if any of
Speaker 1: these games are going to be played right now.
Speaker 2: It's part of the disclaimer here. It's also part two
Speaker 2: of the disclaimer in that a lot of these points spreads,
Speaker 2: and I don't even know how you make points spread
Speaker 2: right now, frankly, but a lot of this stuff is
Speaker 2: very much up in the air, and I just got
Speaker 2: to get that on the record. Okay, we've had a
Speaker 2: really hard time organizing for this show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're working with our game previews under the assumption,
Speaker 1: and I mean we can peel it back as far
Speaker 1: as we possibly can without getting in trouble from the
Speaker 1: FCC or whoever the hell governs this. We record generally.
Speaker 1: I mean right now, it's three to twenty Central time
Speaker 1: four to twenty Eastern time on Tuesday. So assume that
Speaker 1: we are working with Tuesday afternoon evening news for our
Speaker 1: weekly previews, and we can update any sort of reactions
Speaker 1: on Instagram or Twitter. So follow us there if there's
Speaker 1: something major that breaks between now and then, and listen,
Speaker 1: we're building out some video stuff tie, so we'll have
Speaker 1: updated stuff. But yes, we are working under the assumption
Speaker 1: that players are playing and if a games, yeah, if
Speaker 1: a game gets canceled, we're just going to act as
Speaker 1: if it happened and make up result. Correct. Correct. We
Speaker 1: are standing by our previews and declaring them wrong or
Speaker 1: right on Sunday mornings.
Speaker 2: So what we would do normally, as we're going through
Speaker 2: a weekly slate is look at all the games. We'd
Speaker 2: pull out the headliners. We'd give them the most love.
Speaker 2: This I think the headliner is truly just that we
Speaker 2: have football. So we're going to go through every game.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the ones that are most
Speaker 2: interesting to us. For some of these, we're obviously going
Speaker 2: to have more to talk about than others, but we're
Speaker 2: just going to do our part to recognize the ones
Speaker 2: that are being played.
Speaker 1: Also, I'm going to call out.
Speaker 2: Some fantasy things that maybe we can look for because
Speaker 2: I'm just a little sad that we couldn't do our
Speaker 2: live shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a couple here as well.
Speaker 2: All right, let's start at high noon on Saturday, Syracuse
Speaker 2: on the road at number eighteen North Carolina, Carolina a
Speaker 2: twenty two point favorite this game on the ACC Network.
Speaker 2: One interesting tidbit about this game. It has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the game, But I'm on a text thread
Speaker 2: right now with a bunch of friends. I suppose a
Speaker 2: lot of our listeners are on a similar thread, where
Speaker 2: like it's a bunch of Big ten fans and in
Speaker 2: our case it's Penn State not playing.
Speaker 1: Who should we root for? What do we do now?
Speaker 1: What is what is the protocol?
Speaker 2: My suggestion was North Carolina because this team's going to
Speaker 2: be fun as hell on offense, they're getting better on defense,
Speaker 2: they got a coach that everybody likes. They're going to
Speaker 2: be a dog in a couple of games. If you
Speaker 2: don't want to feel like a front runner, sure, why
Speaker 2: not come to the altar Dan and worship at the
Speaker 2: feet of the one true God in college football?
Speaker 1: Chazz Surrat? What is with you? And Chaz with chuckles Surat? Okay,
Speaker 1: chas are after whom all Charlie's and Charles's will now
Speaker 1: be renamed Chaz for this season only. I'm going that
Speaker 1: we've had Daz. We have a Daz, We've got a Chaz.
Speaker 1: I'm great with it. We have a Diami. M hmm.
Speaker 1: I think North Carolina is a likable team. They're going
Speaker 1: in the right direction. We can talk about this game
Speaker 1: in the context of the Syracuse Orange, who seemed to
Speaker 1: actually have an offensive line that's healthy. I think after
Speaker 1: last year's kind of nightmare along the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: well here. First of all, North Carolina opened with a
Speaker 1: tight win last year, and Sam Howell's first game as
Speaker 1: a starter understandable over South Carolina. I think those games
Speaker 1: Jake Bentley got hurt in Syracuse comfortably shut out Liberty
Speaker 1: in their opener last year. The interesting thing to me
Speaker 1: about this game is Syracuse's new defense. Can they give
Speaker 1: Sam Howell a touch of confusion, give them, make them
Speaker 1: think about things for an extra second. Running that three three, five,
Speaker 1: A lot of new faces, though the secondary was I
Speaker 1: think it's fine, it's experienced. We'll see if that gets
Speaker 1: exploited over four quarters and North Carolina can run the
Speaker 1: ball back to what I sort of talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: like that, maybe a running game is more of an
Speaker 1: advantage than usual with a very a rhythmic twenty twenty offseason.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna here's where I land with this and
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna land with a lot of these games.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the points. I am just I like
Speaker 1: going to play. I'm gonna grab the points. Syracuse doesn't
Speaker 1: have the depth, doesn't have the talent that North Carolina has,
Speaker 1: but this is essentially as deep as they'll be all season.
Speaker 1: And Week one is the week where nobody ever really
Speaker 1: is what they will become. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: good time for Syracuse to be getting North Carolina, whereas
Speaker 1: in Week five this could be a nightmare of an offense.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think North Carolina wins by a couple
Speaker 1: of touchdowns, but Syracuse keeps it relatively competitive.
Speaker 2: In general, if you're in a pick'm pool against the spread,
Speaker 2: or even if you want to throw a few shekels
Speaker 2: down on the games. I think taking the points this
Speaker 2: year is going to be at a premium, I really
Speaker 2: do sure. And maybe at some point Vegas will catch
Speaker 2: on and then that will affect things in the other direction.
Speaker 2: But just so much uncertainty. You know, the last time
Speaker 2: these two teams played in Syracuse, I guess two years ago.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty wild game, four thirty seven. That was
Speaker 2: amid a really good season by Syracuse. Last year not
Speaker 2: so much. They're installing this new defense, which worries me
Speaker 2: going up against an offense that brings a lot back.
Speaker 2: Would you have understood the pun if I said that
Speaker 2: the Sam Howell, Dazz Newsome, Diami Brown triumvirate is the
Speaker 2: original research triangle for North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I know what the research triangle is. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: three towns. It's what Raleigh, Winston, Salem. What's the third
Speaker 1: that means Durham, right, I don't know. I'm just wondering
Speaker 1: if that would have research triangle. Yeah, I know what
Speaker 1: the research triangle is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But if I loaded that up in the pun
Speaker 2: gun and just fired it up and fired it out
Speaker 2: without telling you. Would that have been funny or no?
Speaker 1: Man, judging from what I anticipate the reaction will be
Speaker 1: from the listeners, right, there's no not fully no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm a little rusty too. Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill the
Speaker 1: nine county region officially named the Rollig Durham Carry Combined
Speaker 1: Statistical Area, but it's Raleig, Durham and Chapel Hill.
Speaker 2: All right, give me the points here. You're taking points
Speaker 2: as well. We both think that UNC is going to
Speaker 2: win the game though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tommy Defito situation, Tommy Defedo right yeah.
Speaker 2: Also at high noon, Louisiana on the road at number
Speaker 2: twenty three Iowa State. The point spread here is eleven
Speaker 2: and a half. This game's on ESPN. Originally they're going
Speaker 2: to have fans at this one, Dan, but then they
Speaker 2: nixed that plan just a few days after they announced it.
Speaker 1: I guess one week ago on Monday.
Speaker 2: A lot of folks gonna look at this point spread
Speaker 2: and be very confused because it feels like Iowa State
Speaker 2: has been good the last couple seasons. They should be
Speaker 2: a bigger favorite, right, Well, Louisiana and Billy Napier won
Speaker 2: eleven games last year. This is a good football team.
Speaker 2: They've got a good offense with a sweet lefty quarterback.
Speaker 1: Which we love.
Speaker 2: A lot of guys, Levi, right, Levi, that's right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of guys back on both sides of the football.
Speaker 1: So I would not.
Speaker 2: Sleep on Louisiana here. I'm really interested in the matchup,
Speaker 2: especially with Iowa State's defense, because that defense could be
Speaker 2: the one of the best in the Big Twelve. That
Speaker 2: interesting matchup to me is in this game between the
Speaker 2: offense and the defense. Not sure how I feel about
Speaker 2: Louisiana scoring on Iowa State, but I think that push pull,
Speaker 2: at least in that one side of the ball should
Speaker 2: be enough to keep this one relatively close for a
Speaker 2: good chunk of the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you remember Iowa State with a disastrous
Speaker 1: start last year, I think it was Northern Iowa, where
Speaker 1: I think was eighteen sixteen, something not expected as a
Speaker 1: final result. Also something between these two schools common opponent
Speaker 1: last year, Louisiana, I guess the rage in Cajun's Louisiana Lafayette.
Speaker 1: I don't know what, I can never remember, but Louisiana
Speaker 1: edged out Louisiana Monroe Warhawks by one point in the
Speaker 1: Battle and the Battle on the Bayou. I believe Iowa
Speaker 1: State played Louisiana Monroe and beat him by fifty two,
Speaker 1: which you never see that in terms of like good
Speaker 1: teams each having a common opponent in that sort of
Speaker 1: stark difference in outcome. But you throw out those records
Speaker 1: in a rivalry game tie. Everybody knows this. Sure, Louisiana
Speaker 1: loses their defensive coordinator to Baylor, well regarded Ron Roberts.
Speaker 1: Interested to see if Iowa State can run it any
Speaker 1: better than they were able to do consistently last year.
Speaker 1: I know bres Hall ran it well against Oklahoma, but
Speaker 1: they weren't great on the ground, and that's where Louisiana,
Speaker 1: I think is more vulnerable. So I think that's an
Speaker 1: interesting matchup. I'm going to take the Clones by a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I think we have a slow starter of a season
Speaker 1: once again, but they they managed to win this game,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna take the points once again. We agree
Speaker 1: once more.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, this is a game won by Breese Hall and
Speaker 2: Rock Purty taking advantages of mismatches at tight end with
Speaker 2: Chase Allen and Big Chas Kohler.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, they've got some good tight ends also, like
Speaker 1: guys in the defense. Levi Lewis last year against conference
Speaker 1: opponents finished I think in like number twenty four in
Speaker 1: the country in terms of pass efficiency and overall finished
Speaker 1: got like top twenty. So you know what we've got.
Speaker 1: He can play, We agree. Okay.
Speaker 2: So here's where it gets weird because I don't have
Speaker 2: a point spread for Eastern Kentucky at West Virginia.
Speaker 1: So just give me something you want to see from
Speaker 1: West Virginia to make yourself like they should at least
Speaker 1: be doing this against a not terrific Eastern Kentucky squad.
Speaker 1: They should be getting more out of their running game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got to run the ball against KU for sure.
Speaker 2: Jared Deggi is back at quarterback, and they've got a
Speaker 2: bunch of guys who are returning at the skill positions,
Speaker 2: including Brown great name is running back and then three
Speaker 2: sophomores out wide and Sam James and Bryce Ford, Wheaton
Speaker 2: Winston Wright junior name.
Speaker 1: I love TJ.
Speaker 2: Simmons going to be back in the slot. So I
Speaker 2: look to see the offense as a whole improve. I
Speaker 2: think they got a nice little surge out of Deggi
Speaker 2: when he came in towards the latter half of last season.
Speaker 2: But if I'm focused on one thing here, I think
Speaker 2: they win. But if I'm focused on any one thing
Speaker 2: in this game and moving forward, it's going to be
Speaker 2: that running game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They lost fifty nine to nothing last week Eastern
Speaker 1: Kentucky to Marshall. Last year they lost forty two to
Speaker 1: nothing early on to Louisville on the road, and they
Speaker 1: had an okay season. I think they ended up winning
Speaker 1: six or seven games. But yeah, let's just see an
Speaker 1: impressive West Virginia when they really really should be. That's
Speaker 1: all I have.
Speaker 2: Moving on two thirty on NBC, let's play it. Get
Speaker 2: that old NBC theme music going for Duke at number ten.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Notre Dame a twenty point favorite.
Speaker 2: Here Dan, wait for the guitar there, it is twenty
Speaker 2: point favorite. I did the.
Speaker 1: Duke preview last week. I was very skeptical.
Speaker 2: There is a lot coming back for them, though, and
Speaker 2: I do is that like good. I do really shut up.
Speaker 2: I do really like the defense. They got killed by
Speaker 2: Notre Dame last year thirty eight to seven. Now now
Speaker 2: they're on the road, new quarterback Chase Brice coming up
Speaker 2: from Clemson. Like, there's a lot of push pull there.
Speaker 2: On one hand, I like that, there's a lot coming back.
Speaker 2: On the other, I don't like anybody on the road
Speaker 2: opening week, especially amid circumstances, especially against a good team
Speaker 2: that's going to control the trenches and throw, on top
Speaker 2: of that a new quarterback, Like too many factors. This
Speaker 2: would be a game where I would I would consider
Speaker 2: laying the point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Duke's offense was nightmare bad last year. This is
Speaker 1: a new year, this is a new situation. But they
Speaker 1: didn't score thirty points in the second half of the
Speaker 1: season once. Now we can say, well, maybe Chase Bryce
Speaker 1: will make a difference. I suspect he will not. That
Speaker 1: is my suspicion. Interested for Notre Dame to see who
Speaker 1: steps into bigger roles, especially out wide. You mentioned a
Speaker 1: number of the names in our acc preview about guys
Speaker 1: who could step into the sort of Cole Comet, Chase Claypool.
Speaker 1: That's who ian book tended to lean on last year. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: big moments, downfield stuff. So interested to see who steps
Speaker 1: into those roles, I suppose, and who really takes control
Speaker 1: in the backfield running the ball. And if they're a
Speaker 1: team that with continuity on the coaching staff, even though
Speaker 1: they have a new offensive coordinator, they promoted from within
Speaker 1: with tom and Tommy Reese is Ian book an exception
Speaker 1: to the rule of it's going to take some them
Speaker 1: in this very made up scenario that I have in
Speaker 1: my mind. I hope so, because it'd be nice to
Speaker 1: have a Notre Dame team come through against a Power
Speaker 1: five opponent and set the stage early on and get
Speaker 1: for that Clemson game. Speak you of Notre Dame. I
Speaker 1: have Notre Dame covering here.
Speaker 2: By the way, Okay, I'm going to take points because
Speaker 2: I always take points against Notre Dame. But okay, speaking
Speaker 2: of the Irish. When I did the Notre Dame preview
Speaker 2: a week ago, boy, howdy did I whiff on like
Speaker 2: eight fronts?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What's going on with you? Not going on? Man?
Speaker 1: I know, but this is in Notre Dame. Is your team.
Speaker 1: I know it was bad.
Speaker 2: It was bad, but I would say, get used to
Speaker 2: new starting running backs Kyen Williams and Chris Tyree.
Speaker 1: They're one and two in the.
Speaker 2: First depth chart that was released, and your wide outs
Speaker 2: at least for the moment are going to be Bennett's
Speaker 2: Scornic Brayden Lindsay and Lawrence Key.
Speaker 1: Is the third Larry Keys.
Speaker 2: I like Notre Dame to win. I'll take pins because
Speaker 2: they always take points here. But Notre Dame is in
Speaker 2: a good spot. They could control both sides.
Speaker 1: Of the line.
Speaker 2: That should be to their strength this season. And they
Speaker 2: also have a lot of veteran leadership coming back, which
Speaker 2: I think amid everything, like maybe they're installing a quasi
Speaker 2: new offense now that Tommy Reesis is on hand to
Speaker 2: save us all. I think, by and large, their veteran
Speaker 2: leadership should get them through a lot of that rusty
Speaker 2: stuff that we're.
Speaker 1: Going to see folks dealing with around college football. So,
Speaker 1: and Lou Holtz just received the Medal of Freedom. So
Speaker 1: the universe smiling down on Notre Dame. Right, Okay?
Speaker 2: Moving on three point thirty Georgia Tech at Florida State
Speaker 2: on ABC twelve and a half points to the favorite
Speaker 2: are the Knowle. So this is a game. This game here,
Speaker 2: this one between two Power five teams, I think is
Speaker 2: the one that I am the most interested in.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, okay, how do you feel about this one? Well?
Speaker 1: I definitely think and I don't know if you have
Speaker 1: the sound at the ready, but Georgia Tech, for sure,
Speaker 1: both this week and for the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: hopefully has some acc toilet snake potential. Thank you, go on.
Speaker 1: You were pretty quick on that, Okay, mostly because of
Speaker 1: their defense. Their defense was not terrible in year one,
Speaker 1: which was to be expected given Jeff Collins's background developing
Speaker 1: or helping to develop defenses and identifying defensive coaching talent.
Speaker 1: Florida State is not great, but they should score points.
Speaker 1: There's enough talent on that offense. The offensive line I
Speaker 1: know has been a disaster these past few years. I think, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm going out on limb here. I think they can
Speaker 1: go from disaster to below average by the time the
Speaker 1: season completes. Yeah, they should be able to score points.
Speaker 1: To me, so it's hard for me to see Georgia
Speaker 1: Tech keeping up. So I have Florida State barely covering.
Speaker 1: You said it was about a twelve points twelve and
Speaker 1: one half, okay, So I have them winning by a
Speaker 1: couple touchdowns something like thirty four to seventeen twenty somewhere
Speaker 1: in there. So you're taking Florida State to cover yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give those points. Yeah, I am interesting. Georgia
Speaker 1: Tech is still not good, and I actually have a
Speaker 1: fantasy thing tied to Georgia Tech. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you want to get into that now, Oh I do?
Speaker 2: You know I do, But let me just throw this
Speaker 2: out there please. Tech brings just about everybody back on defense, yep,
Speaker 2: and we know that that's where Jeff Collins really thrives.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll be thriving in week one
Speaker 2: of a or week two excuse me of a COVID
Speaker 2: adjusted season, but I do think we'll see market improvement
Speaker 2: on that side of the football for Tech. I would
Speaker 2: also posit that Florida State, in their first depth chart
Speaker 2: is very young, very young. The reaction over at Tomahawk
Speaker 2: Nation was basically that it doesn't matter who you are,
Speaker 2: what you did last season, you got to come to
Speaker 2: play and earn it, which is, speaking of fantasy.
Speaker 1: Things, a very very new coach thing to do to
Speaker 1: earn your spot. But I'm actually gonna go opposite side here.
Speaker 2: I think Florida State's better. They should win this football game,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to say something like thirty four to
Speaker 2: twenty four. I think tax is able to keep it
Speaker 2: within the number.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting they got destroyed last year with that's game
Speaker 1: one of the Jeff Collins era by Clempson. That's Clemson,
Speaker 1: that's not Florida State. The fantasy thing I was going
Speaker 1: to talk about was is a second year coach not
Speaker 1: a first year coach looking back on the first year.
Speaker 1: And this sort of falls in line with the strength
Speaker 1: coach fantasy thing from way back when where the strength
Speaker 1: coach is. I don't know what they were doing last year.
Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on. There is that
Speaker 1: element to second year coaches writing off year one of
Speaker 1: like we were just learning how to crawl and now
Speaker 1: it's time to walk. We barely cracked open our playbook.
Speaker 1: We're just we had to reteach them football. And I
Speaker 1: saw that from I think Scott Sadderfield and talking about
Speaker 1: the playbook and how we just had to start from square.
Speaker 1: They didn't know how to eat bread, and now year
Speaker 1: two is when, okay, they've learned how to eat bread
Speaker 1: and we are we're opening up that playbook in earnest
Speaker 1: Is this an official selection? Do I need to play
Speaker 1: the chime? You should play the Okay?
Speaker 2: So right, coach writing off year one as like, you know,
Speaker 2: just part of the process.
Speaker 1: We were just trying to put one foot in front
Speaker 1: of the other. Yeah, there's a lot of that from
Speaker 1: year two coaches right now, and that's fine. I probably
Speaker 1: would say the same thing if I were a year
Speaker 1: two coach.
Speaker 2: So the other one that I that I kind of
Speaker 2: panned over was coaches quote installing new system. Specifically, when
Speaker 2: it's referred to as installing a new system, that's a favorite.
Speaker 1: That's what it's called me. It's installation. That's the term.
Speaker 2: Three point thirty on FS one, Arkansas State the Red
Speaker 2: Wolves on the road at k State. Case State's a
Speaker 2: ten and a half point favorite. Here, Arkansas State has
Speaker 2: played a game, Oh yes, they have, thirty seven to twenty four.
Speaker 1: They lost on the road at Memphis. It feels like
Speaker 1: this is a game where it's weirdly close the whole way,
Speaker 1: does it not. Yeah, I mean I watched Kansas State's
Speaker 1: offense the back last year. I know they returned Skyler
Speaker 1: Thompson for the forty third straight season, but there are
Speaker 1: a couple of potential dudes. But I think they have
Speaker 1: a problem problem. As I've mentioned before that they don't
Speaker 1: have enough dudes with the ball who are legit pro
Speaker 1: problems UH to really make a mark in the Big
Speaker 1: twelve right now. Eventually, I think they probably will, but
Speaker 1: Arkansas State doesn't necessarily have that. But they've got a good,
Speaker 1: experienced quarterback Lane Hatcher lit it Up, did a really
Speaker 1: nice job as a freshman last year. They popped some
Speaker 1: big plays, and Kansas State gave up a bunch of
Speaker 1: those last year through the air. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's a meaningful matchup because Kansas State still has
Speaker 1: a talent advantage here, but Kansas State's new along the
Speaker 1: offensive line, somewhat new along the defensive line, and in
Speaker 1: the secondary. I think you're right. I think we agree.
Speaker 1: I think Kansastate pulls this out. But I'm I'm just
Speaker 1: wagering with the weird. So yeah, give me, give me
Speaker 1: k State by five. Here's the thing about this game.
Speaker 1: I have no real level of analysis to provide. There's
Speaker 1: nothing I could say here that would illuminate the discussion
Speaker 1: but much. But I'm gonna talk anyway because they ignore
Speaker 1: everything but after the butt. Yeah, yeah, that's correct. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk anyway because it's my show. Yeah, much the.
Speaker 2: Way that I rely on the occult forces of who
Speaker 2: wants to play this bowl game more when it comes
Speaker 2: to bowl seasons and bowl picks. I'm looking at this
Speaker 2: game and I'm just going to say Arkansas State has
Speaker 2: less rust right now. They've played a game. We know
Speaker 2: that they can play offense. KSE State, we expected a
Speaker 2: step back season, right, I mean, this was pretty common
Speaker 2: knowledge when we went through the previews.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're talking about year two KSE State, you know,
Speaker 1: and losing what they've lost, and you're also losing a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator that you know. They just they're not tailor
Speaker 1: made to make a leap in year two.
Speaker 2: I like, I like Chris Climbing, but I think they
Speaker 2: are prone to a step back season. So ten and
Speaker 2: a half points, I think they win, but I think
Speaker 2: it's like a four point win. Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 2: four point win here.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to take Arkansas State the Red Wolves cover.
Speaker 1: Moving on four PM.
Speaker 2: Speaking of teams that played already, we've got Austin p
Speaker 2: at Pitt on ACC Network. A bit of a different
Speaker 2: circumstance here, because Pitt's got a really good defense, like
Speaker 2: maybe one of the top three or four defenses in
Speaker 2: all the acc very very good. Took a while, took
Speaker 2: a while to get there under Paton Ardoozy, but I
Speaker 2: think it's there. The question that I have is how
Speaker 2: much can Austin p really score? Like Pitt's gonna win
Speaker 2: this game, but to what degree is the Pitt defense
Speaker 2: gonna show up and lock down.
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of thoughts about this game time.
Speaker 1: I just don't. Jamley Klyman's not playing because he opted
Speaker 1: out of the season, and he was looking like he
Speaker 1: is a special player for the Pitt defense. I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of thoughts. I'd like to see some
Speaker 1: impressive work from the Pit offense if I'm gonna feel
Speaker 1: decently about the Panthers season.
Speaker 2: Speaking of fantasy things, can I just on a whim
Speaker 2: draft please? Paton Ardoozy wearing his mask incorrectly?
Speaker 1: Oh that's a great candidate. Yeah, yeah, he is. He
Speaker 1: has it on his nose, but not his mouth. He
Speaker 1: has his mouth, but on his nose. It's upside down.
Speaker 1: It does a Pit logo, but it's upside down. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a number of mask fantasy things if you
Speaker 1: really want to dive deep right now, because I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot to say about. What's the governors of
Speaker 1: Austin p announcers awkwardly fumbling over and phrasing unavailable players
Speaker 1: due to Covida. I think that's going to happen. I
Speaker 1: mean it's already happened on this show. Yeah. Oh, it
Speaker 1: absolutely has creative mask messaging on the sidelines. Maybe a
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush area code, maybe messages I'll aah, Jeff hornseck
Speaker 1: to love ones. Maybe unapproved corporate logos, random players wearing
Speaker 1: a Polario mask. Political messages, political messaging that's not been
Speaker 1: necessarily approved by the school. Turnover masks. Ty, come on,
Speaker 1: I saw many Diaz talking about turnover masks. What are
Speaker 1: the turnover partition? Yeah, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna have some weird, uh, some weird situations. I have
Speaker 1: TV catching fans not abiding by mask and distance regulations
Speaker 1: and announcers awkwardly joking before realizing they should apologize about
Speaker 1: joking about stuff like that, Like we're doing right now, right,
Speaker 1: I have that down there. A team surprisingly rises from
Speaker 1: a cancelation list, like we wake up and BYU has
Speaker 1: scheduled cal due to some technicality, cal is now randomly
Speaker 1: playing somebody sneaking in an amazing cardboard cutout. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's purchasing or just bringing in if there's
Speaker 1: like a half and half situation, a combo situation of
Speaker 1: in person fans and cutouts and ran in places. Those
Speaker 1: are those are my big ones right now that I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to this year. All right, Yeah, those are
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do think that turnover partition. I don't know what
Speaker 2: that means, but I like the way it sounds.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the broadcast element this season is gonna be nuts.
Speaker 2: Like you were probably a year or two early on
Speaker 2: your selection of a sudden broadcast catastrophe. Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have guys who are broadcasting remotely more than ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have somebody. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: broadcast situation is. I think it varies by networks and
Speaker 1: region whatever. We'll probably have a situation like Adam Amean
Speaker 1: unintentionally had where Mac Brown just left the booth in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter a few years ago. Yeah, we'll have
Speaker 1: a situation where I don't know what they'll do. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna use backup play by play guys, gals, if
Speaker 1: somebody tests positive the day before for somebody local, or
Speaker 1: you're talking about the announcers testing positive, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the announcers testing positives. They're traveling to games and they
Speaker 1: test positive at the hotel. Wow, because it could call
Speaker 1: the Tom when the Tom Brenneman thing happened with the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds and that wasn't a health thing, but they
Speaker 1: had a backup announcer ready. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was the radio guy. I don't know. He's a minor
Speaker 1: league guy that happened to be there. But what's going
Speaker 1: to happen is somebody's just going to be dialing in
Speaker 1: remotely all of a sudden. I think it'll be interesting,
Speaker 1: all right, Like Adam means calling the NFL. What if
Speaker 1: Adam is called upon on a random Friday morning because
Speaker 1: another Fox person can't call the game, and now Adam's
Speaker 1: calling it remotely. I think it's all on the table.
Speaker 2: Hm. Okay, Well, more fantasy things to come and we'll correct.
Speaker 1: But he stays healthy. Please, No, we're fingers across it.
Speaker 1: Everybody's safe and practicing safe things for sure.
Speaker 2: For those new listeners to the show, we do a
Speaker 2: thing called the window of opportunity. We like to play
Speaker 2: the old Windows two thousand sound to signify that, But basically,
Speaker 2: the way it works in normal circumstances is we look
Speaker 2: at the full slate of games in a given week,
Speaker 2: and then we pick out the moments where you can
Speaker 2: go out and be a normal human being.
Speaker 1: If you've got an errand you need to run, or
Speaker 1: if something with your significant other can't wait and you
Speaker 1: need to schedule it appropriately so that you can do
Speaker 1: what you gotta do, but at the same time not
Speaker 1: miss the bulk or the story or the theme of
Speaker 1: a given college football week. That's the window of opportunity.
Speaker 2: You could argue that the whole season this year is
Speaker 2: a bit of a window of opportunity and not going
Speaker 2: to go there with this.
Speaker 1: Well, as an organ fan, I'm listening.
Speaker 2: I think as it relates to this specific college football week,
Speaker 2: anything in the nightcap qualifies as window of opportunity. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at a bunch games that are going to be
Speaker 2: incredible blowouts here, Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's just not that they're going to be blowouts.
Speaker 1: It's that we don't have two interesting teams playing. I
Speaker 1: have I have a good amount of interest in Western
Speaker 1: Kentucky Louisville. So I think that's it. It's not interesting
Speaker 1: because I think the outcome is necessarily in doubt, but
Speaker 1: because Western Kentucky last seen as the team who I
Speaker 1: think it was. People looked at it as funny when
Speaker 1: they beat Arkansas. But Hilltoppers are good. Hilltoppers are good team.
Speaker 1: They made a really nice defensive jump last year, and
Speaker 1: I think now they now start Tyrrell Pigram, Maryland transfer
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Learned his nickname is Piggy T, which I'm
Speaker 1: all in. Okay, that's that's the one exception to me, belso,
Speaker 1: because I get tos see McHale, McHale, Yeah, mckabe by
Speaker 1: the way, Yeah. Blunk of the Week eight pm.
Speaker 2: Western Kentucky on the road at Louisville.
Speaker 1: Louisville.
Speaker 2: Louisville's a twelve point home favored on ACC network. His
Speaker 2: team's played last year. Louisville won by a seventeen point
Speaker 2: margin after being up twenty four at half. Yeah, twelve
Speaker 2: points is far too few. I don't care how good
Speaker 2: Western is. I don't care if Piggy T is their quarterback.
Speaker 2: I am riding with Mikhaial Cunningham and the boys. Louisville's
Speaker 2: got a ton coming back. I think they're going to
Speaker 2: be loaded for bear here and I think they're going
Speaker 2: to win by at least two touchdowns over Western, So
Speaker 2: first lock of the year Louisville minus twelve. Give it
Speaker 2: to me, all right.
Speaker 1: I mean another team that depended on the pass a lot.
Speaker 1: So if that's somewhere you're falling that this is going
Speaker 1: to be a slow start for teams that passed the
Speaker 1: ball around and depend on passing yardage for success. Though
Speaker 1: Javian Hawkins really good at running back. Uh, I think
Speaker 1: I agree with that because I think the best player
Speaker 1: on the field is McHale and can affect so much.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm going to roll with eventual cover but
Speaker 1: a scare for two and a half quarter, so you're
Speaker 1: not going double barrel locked of the week or now.
Speaker 1: Piggyts is a name that's too fun to say for
Speaker 1: me to pick against them enthusiastically.
Speaker 2: Some other games in the nightcap here, We've got at
Speaker 2: seven pm Missouri State at Oklahoma. At seven point thirty.
Speaker 2: We've got number one Clemson, a thirty three point road
Speaker 2: favorite at Wake Forest That one's on ABC at eight pm.
Speaker 2: We've got UTEP at Texas. Texas is somehow a forty
Speaker 2: three point favorite. There's a really big number on a
Speaker 2: week where there aren't that many big numbers. That one's
Speaker 2: on Longhorn Network eight pm. Also, we've got Houston Baptist
Speaker 2: at Texas Tech on ESPN Plus.
Speaker 1: And then the Late Lake game for those.
Speaker 2: Of you folks out there with insomnia, Coastal Carolina at Kansas.
Speaker 2: Kansas is a seven point home favorite ten pm Eastern
Speaker 2: on FS one Dan. Any of those games of particular
Speaker 2: or interest to you.
Speaker 1: We got Bobby Patrino back in the mix, and Bobby
Speaker 1: Patrino being back nothing moves the needle to dramatically for
Speaker 1: me of these games. I hope Texas tex stays healthy
Speaker 1: on offense. I hope we get to see some big
Speaker 1: new names from Texas worked into both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: They've recruited pretty well on both sides. And I hope
Speaker 1: Kansas doesn't lose to Coastal Carolina. That'd be a bummer
Speaker 1: more less miles ranting about China to come. Perhaps if
Speaker 1: that happens, great, Yeah, let's just hope Kansas wins.
Speaker 2: I gotta say that that Kansas game. Originally, when I
Speaker 2: jotted down the point spread, it was three and a half,
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at it thinking, Oh, what does Vegas
Speaker 2: know about this game that I should know other than
Speaker 2: the fact that it's Kansas playing? What did they know
Speaker 2: about this game to make it a field goal? And
Speaker 2: then I checked back and now it's up seven, and
Speaker 2: I can't get out of my head that it used
Speaker 2: to be three and a half.
Speaker 1: I could have bought a beach house. Ti, I know
Speaker 1: you could have had yourself a beach house on coastal Carolina. Perhaps, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. So I'm really conflicted here. I will go Kansas,
Speaker 1: So I will go less miles. I'm not even going
Speaker 1: to pretend to give you a reason for this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the Thursday game? It's been
Speaker 1: a long time since I've been able to watch Derek
Speaker 1: King play football, so I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2: We generally will do the Thursday game last because we
Speaker 2: dropped this show early on a Wednesday, and only a
Speaker 2: small percentage of people will have an opportunity to listen
Speaker 2: before kickoff. But it's UAB on the road at Miami,
Speaker 2: Miami about a two touchdown favorite Thursday, eight pm on
Speaker 2: the ACC Network. I am excited to see dearick King.
Speaker 2: This is another one where the line seems kind of low,
Speaker 2: but I'm just so wish you watch she on any
Speaker 2: kind of points spread right now. Outside of the Louisville game,
Speaker 2: of course, sure, but deerk king out there. The Miami
Speaker 2: defense another year under Manny Diaz, new offense that we'll
Speaker 2: get a chance to test the medal of rhtt Lashley.
Speaker 1: Your boy, you know you love RHT Lashley.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I you know Miami wins this game, point
Speaker 2: spread kind of goes out the window a little bit.
Speaker 2: But Thursday night will be fun to watch college football.
Speaker 1: For sure. Plazers almost assuredly had the number one Conference
Speaker 1: USA defense last year. This is not this is a
Speaker 1: bowl caliber team. This is not a nothing team, so
Speaker 1: we could have some entertaining football Thursday night. I'm good
Speaker 1: with that they won won nine games last year.
Speaker 2: U ab right, yeah, all right, And the only other
Speaker 2: games that I have here, just to be complete and
Speaker 2: mention the other three. We've got Charlotte at app State
Speaker 2: Saturday high noon, p two. App State a healthy favorite
Speaker 2: there by seventeen we've got Citadel at USF at one
Speaker 2: pm on ESPN Plus, and then at one point thirty
Speaker 2: we've got Louisiana Monroe on the road at Army Army,
Speaker 2: a seventeen point favorite, that one on CBS Sports Network, Dan,
Speaker 2: how will you do me a favor?
Speaker 1: Yes? Please, I have looked up the future schedules of
Speaker 1: the Patriot. We are so sad, so sad. We might
Speaker 1: need to come up with a new bit now that
Speaker 1: we can't do drum and fife. I will not well,
Speaker 1: I will not put drum and fife on another conference.
Speaker 1: I know I'm saying we need a new bit, entirely
Speaker 1: new bit. I know. All right, we'll review some things.
Speaker 1: We'll do like Delaware high school football if they haven't canceled. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll come up with something. But man, miss your Calgate,
Speaker 1: missyr Fordham, Missy Georgetown, we'll be together against So please
Speaker 1: do right in. We are open mind.
Speaker 2: Did suggestions are welcome for how we can approach this now,
Speaker 2: But there's a gaping hole at the end of the
Speaker 2: podcast where we would typically play. This brings a tear
Speaker 2: to my eye.
Speaker 1: They're playing football in Alaska. High school football in Alaska.
Speaker 1: If you want to get super into it. We need
Speaker 1: to put our heads together. We should have been more prepared, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we should have. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Solidverbal at gmail dot com is the email right in,
Speaker 2: let us know what we should do here.
Speaker 1: You're taking West Valley or North Pole? Got to go
Speaker 1: north Pole?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I go West Valley because I'm from the West Valley.
Speaker 1: I'm from Northampton. You are from So we disagree. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, right in again, solid verbal at gmail
Speaker 2: dot com and call in four eight verbal one. That
Speaker 2: is our reverb line. Again, that's the reaction line. Call in,
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Speaker 1: We will cut those up.
Speaker 2: We will play them on the Sunday recap show that
Speaker 2: will drop after the conclusion of of week two.
Speaker 1: As it were, Yes, that's all I got, d That's
Speaker 1: all I got. Yes, obviously. Who are you watching games with?
Speaker 1: Are you cooking anything? What's your watch situation this weekend?
Speaker 2: It looks like it's going to be about seventy five
Speaker 2: degrees and Sonny on Saturday, I would love to test
Speaker 2: out some sort of setup outside on the patio. Great,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you have, but now I don't
Speaker 2: have anything set. But that's just kind of a working
Speaker 2: idea at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just watching here. Oh, friendly reminder to sign
Speaker 1: up for the newsletter of Intent. The first one's going
Speaker 1: out this week. The first one's going out this week.
Speaker 1: And I promised to. We've done shows for twelve years
Speaker 1: and we get people emailing all the time. We get
Speaker 1: a ton of emails. And then I gave out a
Speaker 1: very basic salsa recipe and we have been inundated with
Speaker 1: what's the recipe again? What do you I want to
Speaker 1: make salsa? And so I'll put that very basic salsa
Speaker 1: recipe in the newsletter of Intent this week. I just
Speaker 1: can't respond to every single person who asks for the
Speaker 1: recipe because it has literally been dozens and dozens of
Speaker 1: people asking for the salsa recipes. So I'll put that
Speaker 1: in the newsletter of Intent. You can sign up at
Speaker 1: soliverble dot com. Correct tie correct, yup. Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: going out this week. Awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, we are excited to have you with us as
Speaker 2: we embark on this new season. We will be back
Speaker 2: when Friday.
Speaker 1: Correct. We have a new theme ooh, a new weekly
Speaker 1: theme episode. Does it start up this week or is
Speaker 1: it next week? This week? We're doing it this week,
Speaker 1: cancel your plans. Tie.
Speaker 2: More to come on that front. As Dan said, sign
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Speaker 2: of our episodes as they become available, and if you
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Speaker 1: I would just say for the third show, Tie, because
Speaker 1: we do our preview and recap show. I'm just telling people,
Speaker 1: you know, they have a limited time in their podcast diet.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, save some space for this one. Well,
Speaker 1: not that that's what we call a teas in the business. Yeah,
Speaker 1: save some space all right, for that guy over there,
Speaker 1: my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Ty Hildenbrandt, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for downloading, for listening, for subscribing.
Speaker 2: Hope you enjoy week one. We will hope you enjoy
Speaker 2: week two. We will talk to.
Speaker 1: You all soon. In the meantime, stay healthy and stay solid. Peace.