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Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal hull ah for me, I'm

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Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,

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Speaker 1: I want to be happy.

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Speaker 2: You want to be happy for day Ato State?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Whoo whoom? And Dan and tie Dan Robinstein,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, Happy new year. We've got games to discuss,

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Speaker 1: We've got bulbingo to discuss, We've got college football abound

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Speaker 1: here in the year of twenty twenty six, My good friend,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. How are you? I'm great?

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Speaker 2: Though, I did just discover and confirm that Blink one

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Speaker 2: eighty two is now considered to be.

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Speaker 1: Everybody sit down now classic rock. What is classic rock?

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Speaker 2: So if you are looking at like the uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: what's my age again? All the small things area, you're

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Speaker 2: talking about nineteen ninty nine, you' talking about twenty six

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Speaker 2: years ago, And so nineteen ninety nine minus twenty six

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Speaker 1: Three, right, oh man, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Buddy, twenty which is I think how old most of

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Speaker 2: Indiana's players are? Are they in there like in the

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Speaker 2: mid twenties. Yeah, you've got a lot of six and

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Speaker 1: Can see during some of that great era of blinkwentity

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Speaker 1: two music. I can only with it on in the back.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah, maybe a little pennywise going there.

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Speaker 1: I'm not knowing this now it appears you are correct, sir,

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Speaker 1: good hell it's a rock huh all right? And with

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Speaker 1: ready to talk about a new year, a new semi final,

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Speaker 1: a new set of games here, but now I feel

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Speaker 1: really old, older than before. Welcome back it, follow it,

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Speaker 1: subscribe if that wasn't too much cold water for all

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Speaker 2: Ty, if you really are feeling your age, you can

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Speaker 2: always just do what Kurt Signetti does and brush a

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Speaker 2: little bit of that less miles formula right in there.

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Speaker 1: Sir, you were doing a little bit of investigative work.

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Speaker 2: I think Kurt Signetti is the best, truly, I do

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Speaker 2: think he's the best. But I remember seeing older pictures

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Speaker 2: at some previous stops, and now he's dark.

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Speaker 1: Dark. I mean, he's got more money than Davy Crockett.

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Speaker 1: You could do it every way, is here, right?

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Speaker 2: I listen, I have nothing but good things to say

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Speaker 2: But that is an option for you. I'm just putting

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six. Welcome one and all. We've got

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Speaker 1: two games to preview on today's episode. We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: help us give you the lay of the land. Talk

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Speaker 1: We got two matchups here. We got one in the

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Speaker 1: the Chick fil A Peach Bowl on Friday. This, by

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. And among these four teams, both

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Speaker 1: Speaking of giving me life, good lord, what a game.

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Speaker 2: You know, the word hero is thrown around too much tie,

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Speaker 2: But for you to summon the energy to in a

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Speaker 2: man Ti, I know people don't appreciate you like they should.

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Speaker 1: Bigger picture thirty thousand foot view, zoom all the way out,

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Speaker 1: Dan Miami versus Old Miss What are the key themes

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Speaker 2: I think the obvious identifiers for both of these teams

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Speaker 2: which makes me think whatever ole Miss can show in

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Speaker 2: So you're saying wear them down is in like not

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Speaker 1: First and foremost, I am looking for Old Miss to

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Speaker 1: Legs matter. Put then on a shirt tie legs do. Mattter,

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Speaker 1: The other thing that I would add, since we're talking

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Speaker 2: And it wasn't his legs against Georgia. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: Trinidad and Old Trego. I was like trying to Wallace,

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Speaker 2: I don't know we'll get there. You made an attempt

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Speaker 2: I think what ole Miss has is they've got nothing

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Speaker 2: they lose their head coach and it doesn't matter. They

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Speaker 1: That by the way, we're recording this Monday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know the full answer. So this is

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five sec Alpha, right, last man's standing

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The concern I have is not that I think it's

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: So I just got more of a sense and this

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Speaker 2: there was just like that was more of a business

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Speaker 1: Of the year.

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Speaker 2: So like, I think Miami might be more locked into

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Speaker 1: I do worry a little bit though that ole miss

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Speaker 2: You can't block Reuben Bain with good vibes, I know,

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Speaker 1: You can try to tire them out, but yeah, the

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Speaker 2: Right, and you know a Keemes or any of these

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Speaker 1: Be a long day.

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Speaker 2: I have basically the same stuff that like, you know,

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Speaker 2: thing is on the money. I think it's be creative

435
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 2: in the run game, because you're not going to be

436
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 2: able to be super direct with going straight at this

437
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,880
Speaker 2: Miami defense. And then I think even a bigger deal

438
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 2: is this defense is good for ole Miss. It's not excellent,

439
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: it's good, not everything it could be, I suppose, and

440
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 2: not everything it perhaps was last season. So if you

441
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 2: can come up with if you can concoct a formula

442
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 2: to have Carson Beck see those ghosts, right, and I

443
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 2: don't think they're going to have him responsible for going

444
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 2: through a ton of progressions and going five wide and

445
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 2: making tough like I think they're going to take what's

446
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 2: given to them, and I think they're going to try

447
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 2: to pound the ball because ole Miss doesn't stop the

448
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 2: run consistently, and go from there and convert red zone

449
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 2: appearances and stop ole Miss in the red zone to

450
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,959
Speaker 2: the best of their ability, and try to win this

451
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 2: game and shorten this game to the best of their ability.

452
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 2: I think you know, everything holds true for ole Miss

453
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 2: on offense, where it's just like if Trinidad Chambliss is

454
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 2: able to convert those improvised plays into backbreaking third downs.

455
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: That's sort of the theme of both of these games,

456
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 2: by the way, like who's able to convert and stop

457
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 2: backbreaking third down opportunities. Yeah, I think it's just going

458
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 2: to be enormous here. But I give the edge to Miami.

459
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,640
Speaker 2: I give the edge to a defense in these spots. Again,

460
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 2: I don't know what the legs are going to be like,

461
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 2: and I don't know how well ole Miss is going

462
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 2: to stress those Miami legs. But I think there's I

463
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 2: think Miami is playing with a certain amount of confidence.

464
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 2: And I just come back to in these games, eventually

465
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 2: the large humans decide it, and I just come back

466
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 2: to Miami having the better large humans to me, and

467
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 2: it will look it will take a little bit of

468
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 2: pixie dust for ole Miss to me right. If it's

469
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 2: a pick six said, it's a scoop and score, whether

470
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: it's three short fields, whether it's the Malachai Tony fumble,

471
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 2: luck not, you know, continuing as it. You know, he

472
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 2: dropped a couple balls against Ohio State, but he dropped

473
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 2: it right to himself that you know, maybe the universe

474
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,199
Speaker 2: evens things out a little bit turnover wise. I just

475
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 2: it is a certain point thing for me with Miami

476
00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: and eventually squeezing the life when they are fully operated.

477
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 2: A lot of the teams that they play, and I'm going.

478
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: To go with that. Here, what's your final score?

479
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 2: Seventy seven, seventy two? No, I wrote down twenty three

480
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 2: to twenty one.

481
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 1: Okay, so lower scoring, but you're taking points. You're taking

482
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 1: points notably, what is it? Four to four and a half?

483
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 2: Three and a half, three and a half. Okay, Yes,

484
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 2: I am taking points. I do think it'll be back

485
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 2: and forth, but I'm going large human here.

486
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean what I'm worried about on the Miami

487
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: side totally separate from tempo, which I do think we'll

488
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: see from ole Miss. Yeah.

489
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 2: By the way, fourteen offensive points against Ohio State, that's right,

490
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 2: should be noted.

491
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got to figure out a way to keep

492
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss in the pocket. Yes, and part of the

493
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: reason why I liked ole Miss last week, though I

494
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: didn't predict them to win out right like you did,

495
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: but we both took points at a minimum. The first

496
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: time he played against Georgia, that's again, that's what killed him.

497
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: His ability to get outside the pocket and make plays

498
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 1: and improvise just pulled the defense apart. And he's very

499
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: good at that. So saw it again. My hunch is

500
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 1: that ole Miss would just, you know, love to keep

501
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 1: doing that. So with these edge guys screaming off the

502
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 1: edge trying to sack them, there is obviously a risk

503
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: that he's going to break contain and he's going to

504
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: do the same thing. They got to figure out a

505
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: way to not let him do that, because if he does,

506
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: that could be an issue. And to me, that's I

507
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: think what I'm going to be watching for the most

508
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: outside of the tempo is can they keep this guy

509
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: from just getting outside that little cocoon and killing him? Yep,

510
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: But totally separate from that, one of the other ways

511
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: that you could play defense against a team that would

512
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: love to get into a track meet is to slow

513
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: the game down. Slow it down, almost the opposite of

514
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: what I think ole Miss is going to try to

515
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 1: do in Miami. Miami should just do kind of what

516
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: Ohio State tried to do to them, and I think

517
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: they do that by getting Mark Fletcher going. You mentioned it.

518
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: Ole Miss does not have a spectacular run defense by

519
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: any stretch. Thus far, Mark Fletcher's come up huge in

520
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 1: their first two playoff games. This should be another opportunity

521
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: for him to eat on the ground. Charmar laite.

522
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

523
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: So if they can get as an extension of that

524
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: all missed and maybe over commit a little bit, try

525
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: to stop them on the ground, maybe that opens up

526
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: some opportunities over the top. By the way, this is

527
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: the kind of matchup that I think is very ripe

528
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: for a flea flicker or a half back pass or

529
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: something like that, if you can get the ground game established.

530
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: On the Miami side of things, I'm not an offensive coordinator.

531
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: I just play one on the podcast, but I think

532
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: that's something that we could see them do. We know

533
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: that they've got a few of those in the bag.

534
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: Of course, for me, it's really a question of do

535
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: you trust the quarterback with the hot hand or do

536
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: you trust the defense with the large humans. That feels

537
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: like it is playing with a ton of momentum right now. Yep,

538
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: and I am going to take the defense. Yeah.

539
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: By the way, Georgia has terrifically large humans as well,

540
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 2: and it ultimately didn't pay off.

541
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: It didn't, so it didn't. I think Miami controls the lines.

542
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: I like the fact that they've got a veteran quarterback

543
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: who has not been playing outside of himself at all. Right.

544
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a rock fight, nor do

545
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: I think it's a shootout. I think it's twenty seven

546
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: to twenty four in Miami. I guess that means I've

547
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 1: got Old Miss covering. I think it's the same score

548
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: that Miami beat notre named by back in Week one. Ooh,

549
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: some poetry, A little bit of poetry there the other

550
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: thing that I would add here. And I thought about

551
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: this a lot, and I didn't really know the best

552
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: way to articulate it. But if you watch the game,

553
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: or if you go back and watch the Old Miss

554
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: game against Georgia, despite the fact that Trinidad Chambuss was amazing,

555
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,719
Speaker 1: an Old Miss in their offense came on like you know,

556
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: a freight train in the second half. There were plenty

557
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: of moments in that game that were frustrating as hell

558
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: on the Old Miss, and I spoke to it when

559
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: we did the recap, but the time management at the

560
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: end of the first half, there were drops, there were

561
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: Miss tackles. There were plenty of moments in that one

562
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: for Old Miss. Despite the fact that they want and

563
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: everybody's high on high on Pete Golding and the Rebels

564
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: right now, there are plenty of moments in that game

565
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: where it was like, if they want to win this thing,

566
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: they got to shore this up. And they got away

567
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: with it against Georgia because the offense and Trinidad Chambliss

568
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: were incredible, But I don't know if you get away

569
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: with it against the defense like Miami's. So I'm on

570
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: the Canes here, I'm on the Canes. I guess, not

571
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: the cover, but to win outright in what should be

572
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: a good game. I'm really excited about this one. I

573
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: don't think this is a blowut won't wear or another.

574
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: I think if it ends up being a shootout, Old

575
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: Miss wins, if it ends up being a rock fight,

576
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: Miami wins. I think it's somewhere right in the middle,

577
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: and I think it's close. So give me twenty seven

578
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: to twenty four, Kaynes.

579
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: Look, it's taken what usually thirty plus points to beat

580
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: Old Miss No, and so we have this as lower

581
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: scoring and these things happen, then the rhythms change for

582
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 2: these games and these teams in these seasons. By the way,

583
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: I mean, you alluded to it and we talked about

584
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 2: it a little bit, but I mean, depending on how

585
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 2: classically spiritual you are as a listener of this show,

586
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: if you are a believer in college football gods deities

587
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 2: of some kind, Lane Kiffin walking away from an eventual

588
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 2: national champion is the funniest possible outcome if you're going

589
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: to believe in that kind of power. The cares is

590
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin saying he wants to coach through the national championship,

591
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 2: but developing over years upon years and hitting the portal

592
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: and hiring coaches and hitting the recruiting trail whatever to

593
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: help build this team and then take the LSU job

594
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: right before they win a national championship and he's not

595
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: a part of the playoff journey is the funniest possible

596
00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 2: spiritual outcome to all of this.

597
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: I would agree with that completely.

598
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, if you are a true believer in the

599
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 2: college football gods, there is only one pick.

600
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: If you have no dog in this fight, you've got

601
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: any bets, you know, got any picks, you're just sort

602
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,719
Speaker 1: of a passive observer. If you're rooting for the funniest

603
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: possible outcome, you're I agree, that's probably it.

604
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 2: Blaine Kiffin's sweating through these games like he's in hot

605
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 2: yoga tie. By the way, if you're not watching on

606
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,239
Speaker 2: YouTube dot com, Slash solid verbal. He is wearing a

607
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: beautifully appointed pewter shirt. It's a light blue shirt that

608
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 2: you're wearing right now. It looks not I know you

609
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: have like trouble with shades and colors with your with

610
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: your corneas. But that's an old miss ish blue shirt

611
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: you're wearing right now.

612
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: It is are UCLA. I don't know. Go to soliverble

613
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,239
Speaker 1: dot com slash store. Yeah, there it is.

614
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 2: So we agree.

615
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: We do agree. We do agree. Let's go to the

616
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: second game. I think we're good.

617
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 2: I think we're good.

618
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: What plenty tie? Are you nervous about this game? Of course? Orgon,

619
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: What kind of fan would I be if I weren't nervous,

620
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: I'd be nervous as hell about this game? Yeah you. Friday,

621
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: January the ninth, seven thirty pm Eastern Time, the Chick

622
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: fil A Peach Bowl down in Atlanta, Mercedes Benz Stadium.

623
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: This is gonna be your Oregon Ducks, the number five

624
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: seed at thirteen and one, scoring off against the number

625
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: one Indiana huhu hoosiers. Indiana comes in as a four

626
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: point favorite. They are fourteen and zero on the year. Oregon,

627
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: of course, off of that, twenty three to zip shutout

628
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: of Texas Tech and the Orange Bowl Indiana off of

629
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: just a total dismantling of Alabama thirty eight to three

630
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: in the Rose Bowl. Dan, Yes, I took some heat

631
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: from your orgon people about the way that I characterized

632
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: the organ win, that you disrespected the Ducks. I took

633
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: some heat. Yeah, I did. That's okay.

634
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: That means you're doing something right, Ty, you're getting people

635
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 2: riled up trying to do that.

636
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,959
Speaker 1: You're not trying, But I'm trying to be honest. I

637
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 1: know I would be disingenuous if I weren't. Yeah, And

638
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: so I saw a lot of like, geez, ty, give

639
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: us some credit for the shutout, and I thought I did.

640
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: I thought I did. It was a very good defensive

641
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: showing against Excuse me, I'm still got this little tickle here.

642
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: An offense that was ripe for exposure. Excuse me, I

643
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: got this. I think I need some water here. That's

644
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: I think a little bit rich. You don't think they

645
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: were ripe for exposure.

646
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: I when looking at the quarter final quarterbacks, I was

647
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: not in on Baron Morton as one who was among

648
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 2: the best. But this was still an offense that performed

649
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: this season did they not?

650
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:48,719
Speaker 1: They did?

651
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: Were they one of the most explosive? Did they win

652
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: all of their games by thirty ish?

653
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: They did? Yeah. I think in terms of the cover

654
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: points per game, they were like covering by fourteen points

655
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: over the point spread or something like that. They've been

656
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: truly to the point of good teams win, great teams

657
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: cover by that measure. Texas Tech has been a great team.

658
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't think like ripe for exposure is necessarily accurate.

659
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 2: They excuse me, right, yeah, right, for exposure. That's how

660
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,919
Speaker 2: I would say, you're totally right. But I think you're

661
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: wrong about which game involved the exposure. I think it

662
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: was more Indiana exposing Alabama for who they've been longer,

663
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 2: rather than Texas Tech's beating everybody forty to nine being

664
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 2: a fraud. I'm not saying they're a fraudm not saying

665
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 2: anybody's a fraud, but I just well, you would use

666
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 2: the term exposure. You're exposing Texas Tech.

667
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: As what I think Oregon was far and away the

668
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: best defense they played, and I think they got exposed

669
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: for it. And what it was Baron Morton or their

670
00:34:55,160 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: offensive line or whatever, however you want to characterize what

671
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: we saw out of the Texas Tech offense. Yeah, they

672
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: got exposed. They had four turnovers, is the worst they

673
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: looked all year. And the Oregon offense, to their credit,

674
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: was good enough to convert the mistakes into points and

675
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: they were able to press their advantage through the air.

676
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: Maybe not as much with Kenyan Sadiq as I expected,

677
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: but certainly their other tight end Jamar Johnson, was very,

678
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: very good in this game. But it's not like they

679
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: could run the ball. They made a bunch of dumb

680
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: mistakes on offense totally. And forgive me Oregon people, by

681
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: the way, I've picked Oregon literally every game this year,

682
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 1: both against the points spread and against the opponent outright.

683
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: So you took them against Penn State? I did? Oh, Okay,

684
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: I can't remember that, So forgive me for picking them

685
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: in every other game. Ok. But coming away from this

686
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: one with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth,

687
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,720
Speaker 1: I have a bit of a sound taste in my mouth.

688
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: Even though they were twenty three to nothing. I think

689
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: it was like the first shutout in the twelve team

690
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: playoff air or something like like, undeniably a great win

691
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: to get to this point. I'm sorry for you.

692
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 2: That guy.

693
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: Say hello to the bad guy. But I have a

694
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: little bit of a sour taste in my mouth. That's all.

695
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: I'll shut up.

696
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: There's more you can add to your case. They scored

697
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: two touchdowns against Texas Tech. One came on a six

698
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 2: yard run after a strip sack from Mateo Oi on

699
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: La and then it was a six yard run from

700
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 2: Jordan Davison, So a six yard offensive touchdown drive there.

701
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 2: And then the second one was in garbage time when

702
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: they wanted to be emphatic, right, so they didn't have

703
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 2: a proper touchdown. Well, it was the top defense in

704
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 2: the in the country. People have been saying, I understand

705
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: that's true.

706
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, if you want to if you want

707
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: to be a national champion, if you want to be

708
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: my late Tech salesman, sure of course I'm gonna need

709
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 1: to see a little bit more organ that's all. I'm sorry.

710
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: That's all fair. Sorry if I'm that guy, but we

711
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: have seen this matchup before. By the way, we have

712
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: to be clear.

713
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 2: To be clear for the people who are hating on

714
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 2: Ty Hilton rent once for everybody in the back, even

715
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 2: Whitney Houston will tell you what did the Texas Tech

716
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: offense get against Oregon.

717
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: Tie?

718
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 2: Me once again, what did this Texas Tech offense get

719
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 2: against this Oregon defense in the biggest game of their

720
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 2: program's history.

721
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: Mee, there is okay, So look, this is a rematch

722
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: they played back in week seven. Indiana won thirty to twenty.

723
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: That was on the road in Aughtsin Stadium. An incredible win,

724
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: certainly Indiana at that point in the season announcing that

725
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: last year wasn't a fluke and that they were very

726
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: much going to be part of the conversation in twenty

727
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: twenty five. This was a good football game that was

728
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: tied at twenty a piece until the back half of

729
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. And now we step into this moment

730
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: where obviously Indiana won the first time around, but it

731
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: is the second time that these teams have played. If

732
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: anybody knows how hard it is to beat a team twice,

733
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: it's Dan Lanningham. All right, Am I right, Dan Rubinstein,

734
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: give me a hell.

735
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 2: Yet Yola couldn't even be Washington once when they lost

736
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 2: the repeat performance in the Pac twelve championship game a

737
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. But yes, you're right, hell, yes.

738
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: So I'm curious your biggest takeaways from that first matchup,

739
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: because you know, we don't have the benefit of that

740
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: with Miami versus Old miss, but we do in this one.

741
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: And so I'm curious if you had a chance to

742
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: go back and rewatch, even if you didn't. As you

743
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: think back to that game back in week seven in Eugene,

744
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 1: what comes to mind.

745
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 2: On which side or just in general the rhythm of

746
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 2: that game that Indiana was better prepared to win more

747
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 2: moments on the road. And you know it was I

748
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 2: think off of a bye at home for Oregon, right,

749
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 2: the guy they had to buy after the Penn State game.

750
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 2: Indian I believe also had a buye before that game.

751
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 2: Indiana came in more prepared to win those moments, whether

752
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 2: it's Fernando Mendoza scrambling when nothing is there on third down,

753
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: whether it's Fernando Mendoz in the passing game in the

754
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 2: red zone, whether it was the defense feeling confident, especially upfront,

755
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: in confusing Oregon upfront, confusing Dante more in sort of

756
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 2: staying the course after that pick six, which I think

757
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 2: tied it at twenty. All I want to say, lay

758
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, yep, right, and so they stay the

759
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: course they're on the road Attson Stadium, one of the

760
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,919
Speaker 2: more explosive atmospheres in the sport is going nuts after

761
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: Brandon Finney Junior returns the pick six and they don't waiver, right,

762
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 2: the defense doesn't waiver. They know that they have to

763
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 2: bow up and they absolutely do and they get the

764
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 2: interceptions and they close out the game in a strong way.

765
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 2: And what they showed that day came to pass because

766
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: they've look before that they were tested, I want to

767
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 2: say at Iowa, right, so they're fourth quarter tested, and

768
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: to do so at Oddson Stadium, given the ceiling of

769
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 2: what Oregon's are especially can be and had been up

770
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 2: to that point for the most part at home, I

771
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,919
Speaker 2: thought was crazy impressive. And they showed it the rest

772
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 2: of the season, whether or not they were at home,

773
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 2: whether or not they're on the road, whether or not

774
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 2: they're in the Rosewell, whether or not they're in the

775
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 2: Big Ten Championship game. But I thought that was a

776
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: great proof of concept for this year's iteration of Indiana,

777
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 2: and from the organ perspective, I don't know if it's

778
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: a letdown moment. They were just beat. I mean they

779
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 2: were beat up front. Dante more looked confused. If you

780
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 2: go back and watch the tape, there were moments where

781
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 2: he hit dudes down the field. I use like a

782
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 2: long touchdown pas to Malak Benson. Moments he missed dudes

783
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 2: down the field. They started running really well against Indiana,

784
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 2: as like when Indiana has been tested this year, it's

785
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 2: because teams have been able to run it. They've been

786
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 2: able to get tough yards early on in drives, whether

787
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 2: it was Iowa, whether it was Penn State, whether it

788
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 2: was Ohio State. Right, Ohio State also has Jeremiah Smith,

789
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 2: which is helpful. Ty, you can write that down. Help

790
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith helped full for an offensive cause. But if

791
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 2: you can get going a little bit on the ground

792
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 2: against Indiana and get yourself a bunch of third and manageable,

793
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 2: I mean this is true about anybody, right. If you

794
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 2: can do that against anybody, you're in a good spot.

795
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,479
Speaker 2: And Oregan was able to do that at times. Jordan

796
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 2: Davison ran really well against Indiana. Oregon was just in

797
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: a fits and starts position. Right when it looks like

798
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: they were driving when they converted Keith third down, they've

799
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 2: just come to a full stop. Indiana smothers them in

800
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: the red zone something like that. And so that's what

801
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: I just there was a tightness to Oregon. There was

802
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: a confusion to Oregon that day. And all of it

803
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: is because of Indiana. All of it is because of

804
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 2: Indiana's excellence that they proved over the course of this year,

805
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 2: and it's why they're number one in the country. And

806
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 2: so Oregon has improved since then, especially on defense, But

807
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: so is Indiana is it? So that's the intriguing thing

808
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 2: to me, is Oregon now has much more tape on Indiana.

809
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 2: Oregon can self diagnose what went wrong in that game,

810
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 2: how they can correct it against anybody else, and how

811
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 2: they can correct it against Indiana. Oregon's a little bit

812
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: thinner in certain spots. You know, they're beat up along

813
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 2: the offensive line. They were beat up a lot at receiver.

814
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 2: Indiana's down a couple key defensive linemens since then. I

815
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: think it's what Kellen Wyatt and Stephen Day didn't matter.

816
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 2: It didn't matter, It didn't matter last week, but it

817
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 2: hasn't mattered. But I'm just these teams have grown since

818
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: that game, and now they play in Atlanta and it

819
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: looks like a heavyweight bout. It looks like we could

820
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 2: be watching a national championship caliber fight here.

821
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: I went back and rewatched a game this morning. Indiana

822
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: held Oregon a three or fourteen on third downs. Yeah,

823
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: so in those high leverage moments, to your point, Indiana

824
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: was ready. They found a way to get the job

825
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: done when it counted the most. Indiana was also in

826
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: Dante More's face all day. Yep. I ran the numbers

827
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: on it. Forty two drop backs he was under pressure

828
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: on twenty of them, ended up getting sacked six times. Also,

829
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 1: of those forty two drop backs, Indiana blitz nineteen times.

830
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: They did a much better job getting in his face

831
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: than Oregon did up against Fernana Mendozo, and they tried

832
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: to get in his face. Much has been made about

833
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: Mendoza and his ability to diagnose a defense post snap

834
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: or if he does have some pressure. But what I

835
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: don't think has been talked about enough is the ability

836
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: of Indiana's line to give him a clean pocket. Definitely,

837
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: And they spoke to this on the broadcast during the

838
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. Was it the Indiana line that got the

839
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: game ball or the trophy or something like that. Yeah,

840
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: there was a Notre Dame player in the playoff and

841
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: Pat Cooper pack Cougan was there. Yeah, But when you've

842
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: got a line that's this hard to confuse and a

843
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 1: quarterback that is also this hard to confuse, that presents

844
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: a real challenge. And so that, to me was one

845
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: of the most obvious disparities that we saw in that

846
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: first matchup. Indiana's ability to get to Dante, Oregon's ability

847
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: to get to Fernando.

848
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, and his eyes were immediately down at the line.

849
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: That's right, that he was immediately worried that there was

850
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 2: pressure coming from somewhere, that his line wasn't picking up

851
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: and wasn't going through progressions because they forced that reality

852
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 2: into his heart.

853
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: They did the other thing that I'll add if you

854
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: go back again and watch that first game. Oregon played

855
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: really tight pass coverage did and Fernanda Mendoza tried a

856
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: bunch of back shoulder throws. Some of them were perfect,

857
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: a few others were perfect enough to draw a pass

858
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: interference call, and so as much as anything, and there

859
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: were moments in that game that swung the momentum in

860
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: favor of Oregon at one point Indiana at another, but

861
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: those pass interference calls definitely helped swing the game in

862
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 1: favor of Indiana. By the way, this isn't me saying

863
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,760
Speaker 1: they were bogus calls. For what it's worth, the refs

864
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: missed another one that they didn't call, so I'm not

865
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: saying it was the wrong call. But if we're being

866
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: complete about what helped tilt things, they were important moments. Yeah,

867
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: in favor of Indiana. Those were important moments. So to

868
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: the point on Finny. Finny had the two interceptions against

869
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: Texas Tech a week ago. He had the big pick

870
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: six in the first matchup between these two teams that,

871
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, tied it at twenty. I think he

872
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: will again have a rather large part to play in

873
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: this matchup because we know Indiana is going to want

874
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: to probably do a lot of the same stuff. In fact,

875
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: one of the things that I had trouble with is

876
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 1: I tried to go through here and pick out the

877
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: keys to the game. I can come up with a

878
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: bunch of them. On the Organ side, what they need

879
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: to do different, How maybe they could get a little

880
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: bit here, a little bit there. On the Indiana side. Honestly,

881
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: it's just do what you've continued to do all here, right, Like,

882
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if they really need to do a

883
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: whole lot different in this matchup in order to win.

884
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: I think they just keep doing what they've been doing

885
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: all season long, which is, to your point, be very prepared,

886
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: to your point, be very disciplined, to your point, lean

887
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: on Oregon until Oregon feels like they need to make

888
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: a big play, like they need to play outside of

889
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: themselves and capitalize on the moment. Indiana's formula here is

890
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: not the sexiest, flashiest thing in college football right now.

891
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 1: Indiana's formula is, Hey, we're going to be really efficient

892
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: when we have the ball. We trust our guys. We

893
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: joked at the top, they're a little bit of an

894
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: older team. They are a little bit of an older team,

895
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: but so what they know what they're doing. They play

896
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: extremely well together, and they're disciplined, and we're going to

897
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: force you, whoever is on the other side, to be

898
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: your most efficient in order to beat us. We're going

899
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: to trust you to make a few mistakes to maybe

900
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: help us beat you. This is what Indiana is very,

901
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: very good at. There is a sense of inevitability when

902
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: you are watching this team, and I almost hate to

903
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: conjure up the spirit of like Alabama team's past. But

904
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: we felt similarly about those teams when Sabin was coaching,

905
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: whereas like you just didn't know how, you didn't know

906
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: what moments were going to be in store, but he

907
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: just trusted that Alabama was gonna find some way, somehow

908
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: to be right in that moment and get the job done. Yeah,

909
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,439
Speaker 1: and that's kind of who Indiana is right now.

910
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 2: There's a really I've listened to a couple of interviews

911
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 2: with players, top players who've played Novak Djokovic h all time,

912
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 2: and it was like, you kind of feel like you're

913
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 2: in the match, right There are quotes they were like,

914
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: you kind of feel like you're in the match. You're

915
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 2: going back and forth a little bit, and then you.

916
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: Just feel the water level keep rising exactly exactly like

917
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: if I want to make a golf analogy, Indiana Scotti Scheffler, Yeah,

918
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: Scotty Scheffler is great because he.

919
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 2: Doesn't make bogie exactly right.

920
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: That is why Scotty Scheffler, he's not the best putter,

921
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: he's not the longest hitter on tory. He's great with

922
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,959
Speaker 1: his irons, which is this is not a golf show,

923
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: but he doesn't make bogee and nor does Indiana. That's

924
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: why they find themselves in this position as the number

925
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: one team in the country.

926
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 2: Yep, Yeah, this is what I have written down. The

927
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 2: case for Indiana more consistent in most phases. Game plan

928
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 2: and prep were extremely crisp per. Alabama confident that they

929
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 2: can win after beating Oregon and Eugene. The efficiency and

930
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 2: athleticism of Mendoza, high leverage, excellence in the red zone,

931
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: third down on both sides, fourth quarter tests the right

932
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 2: file state. Yeah, number one turnover margin team in America.

933
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: Their deep ra at receiver with Charlie Becker now as

934
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: a major player that he didn't I don't.

935
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: Think he had a catch in that first game, but

936
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: was definitely a threat against man coverage. Alabama, you know,

937
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: obviously had a part to play there.

938
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 2: So I have feasts on teams that self inflict wounds,

939
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 2: which is what you just said. The other thing, by

940
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 2: the way, is Indiana's playing against a team with two

941
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 2: coordinators likely completely fried from working two big jobs each.

942
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 2: That's not nothing tie now, right, we currently have Toash

943
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 2: Lupoy in Berkeley recruiting the portal and will Stein in

944
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 2: Lexington recruiting the portal hosting quarterbacks. Hosting defensive linemen, hosting

945
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,919
Speaker 2: running backs, trying to figure out a way to put

946
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 2: together a roster for a team hundreds if not thousands

947
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 2: of miles away from Eugene, Oregon while prepping for Indiana.

948
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 2: A heartbreaking loss the first time around.

949
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: Not nothing, So look, I would like to see Oregon

950
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 1: lean a little heavier on the run game. You brought

951
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: that up. Same. The rushing stats from the first game

952
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: are skewed because of the sack yardage. But when you

953
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: pull that out, Oregon's running backs were all averaging well

954
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: not all.

955
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 2: Of them, but Jorg Davison was over seven right.

956
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: Collectively, Yeah, collectively, they were over five to carry. Yeah,

957
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: Indiana doesn't give you big plays. So if you're going

958
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: to score consistently, we talk about efficiency, it's going to

959
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 1: be a bunch of eight to ten yard drives. You're

960
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: not going to get a whole lot of three to

961
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: four plays. Yeah, you know, three to four plays and

962
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: you score a touchdown unless you get a turnover or

963
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: something like that. But it's a lot of eight to

964
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: ten play drives. You got to be efficient, you got

965
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: to be balanced if you want to beat him. And

966
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,479
Speaker 1: I thought the running game was there the first time around.

967
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: I'd like to see them do a little bit more

968
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: of that. The other thing that I would add, and

969
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: I mentioned this before, Indiana doesn't want to give anyone

970
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: time to throw, and they did a really good job

971
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: the first time around against Dante. More i'd like for

972
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: that Oregon attack to be a little less dependent on

973
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: giving Dante time. Now, to his credit and to Oregon's credit,

974
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: Dante has been getting rid of the ball quicker as

975
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: of late. This is an area where he has improved.

976
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: Right as we talk, these teams are these teams, are

977
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: these seasons? Are living breathing things or Oregon and Dante

978
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: have gotten better at that. And I'd say in general,

979
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: I think Oregon still has better athletes across the board,

980
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: better depth of athlete than Indiana. They just need to

981
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: find a way to get those guys in space, get

982
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: more guys in space. More to the point on athletes.

983
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: If we flipped to the other side of the ball, please,

984
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: Oregon did play super aggressive coverage. They were content to

985
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: put their guys on islands because they believe in their

986
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: athletic abilities. And so I still believe that's the case

987
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: this time around. I think we're going to see a

988
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: lot of the same stuff from Oregon. I would like

989
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: twenty percent more discipline, like ye try to avoid one

990
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: or two of those DPI calls that gave a free

991
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: first down to Fernando Mendozo.

992
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 2: We we have not seen refs with an itchy flag hand.

993
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 2: We have not we have this playoff, like Miami had

994
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 2: zero penalties I believe against Ohio State.

995
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: Is that true? I mean, for a good one was

996
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: a wild number for Miami at all?

997
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I think Ohio State ended up with one penalty.

998
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:54,720
Speaker 1: We just have not seen.

999
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 2: And look, there were some very pro Georgia refereeing moments

1000
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 2: in that old but by and large, we have not

1001
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 2: seen like six penalties for that team, eight penalties for

1002
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 2: this team. We haven't seen holds called a ton, we

1003
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 2: haven't seen, defensive holding. We haven't seen hence the face.

1004
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 2: We haven't seen pis a ton. There have been some

1005
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 2: procedural stuff, but in terms of letting the guys play that.

1006
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 1: May favor Oregon here, which I like, by the way, Okay,

1007
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: I like when they kind of take a little bit

1008
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: more of a backseat because we've seen far too many

1009
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 1: games this season, and I feel like the last two

1010
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: years have been especially bad with this with officiating, too

1011
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: many of those moments where you're watching the game at home,

1012
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: like come on right, enough of the tiki tax stuff.

1013
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,919
Speaker 1: So just something to watch for. But I do think

1014
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:51,760
Speaker 1: you'll find Oregon defenders on islands again against these Indiana

1015
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: pass catchers, and I think that'll make for a really

1016
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: really interesting matchup. They just got to be a little

1017
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: bit more disciplined, a little bit more on the Indiana

1018
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: side again, keep doing what you're doing, be ready for

1019
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: that aggressive coverage. I also think they can lean a

1020
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: little heavier on the run too. They had some success,

1021
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch, and they were trying to salt

1022
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: the game away. I would like to see them lean

1023
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more on that. But by and large,

1024
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 1: I don't really have any notes for Indiana. I thought

1025
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: Indiana had a really good game plan the first time around,

1026
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: and I think if they execute on that, they will

1027
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: again win because they feel more buttoned up. To me,

1028
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: like with rare exception this season, Yeah, it feels like

1029
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: the team's going up against Indiana inevitably end up desperate

1030
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: for a big play or two, and that's what they

1031
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: are hoping will shift the momentum, whereas Indiana is just

1032
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: kind of content to play their game and do their

1033
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: thing right, and there just aren't many examples of teams

1034
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: that were able to effectively take Indiana out of their rhythm.

1035
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:54,240
Speaker 1: Iowa kinda did it, Penn State definitely did it, weirdly enough,

1036
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: but again, there is a distinctly Alabama field to this

1037
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: team that gives me that sense of an evitability. I

1038
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: think Indiana wins this one as well. I've got it

1039
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,280
Speaker 1: at twenty seven to twenty, right on the number. Okay,

1040
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: so what do you think.

1041
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 2: You think it's just a simil I mean, that's nearly

1042
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 2: the same score as the first time I was thirty

1043
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 2: to twenty. You think it sort of goes the same

1044
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 2: way that is not able to effectively adjust.

1045
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:19,959
Speaker 1: A very similar game.

1046
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 2: All right, that's fair enough. I don't have a strong

1047
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 2: case against it. This is what I have down, by

1048
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 2: the way, for the case for Oregon, they just fully

1049
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 2: shut out a highly performing team in the College Football Playoff.

1050
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 2: The defense seems to be at its best, playing with

1051
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 2: a higher ceiling than they were in the first matchup,

1052
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,240
Speaker 2: So it is Indiana wide receivers are healthy. The second

1053
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,479
Speaker 2: tight end, Jamury Johnson has emerged as a legit weapon.

1054
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 2: As they play, they play a lot of twelve personnel.

1055
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 2: There actually is like a lot of similarities between what

1056
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 2: Oregon I think stylistically would like to do on offense

1057
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 2: with where Georgia was. They don't have the high end

1058
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 2: talent on defense that Georgia had, but in terms of

1059
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 2: rotating in running backs, using multiple tight ends, and just

1060
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 2: trying to suffocate teams with you know, serving the defense,

1061
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 2: there's something there. Indiana's playing a third straight team with

1062
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 2: very high level talent. I don't know if that means

1063
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 2: anything to you.

1064
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:10,919
Speaker 1: This is a game.

1065
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 2: It's Ohio State and Alabama then Oregon. Now I happen

1066
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 2: to believe Alabama is not all that much.

1067
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Indiana won that game by thirty five, and

1068
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 1: it could have been more. So it clearly would more

1069
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 1: have too much of an impact on the Hoosiers.

1070
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the question is also could Virginia have won

1071
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:33,439
Speaker 2: that game against Alabama twenty eight to fourteen? Like that's

1072
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 2: in no disrespect either of those teams intended, But like

1073
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 2: Alabama with the way that they finished out the season,

1074
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 2: you know, ty Simpson not doing anything against Auburn and

1075
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 2: then essentially scoring a garbage time touchdown in the SEC

1076
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 2: Championship game, right, and Alabama beat Oklahoma. You should give

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Speaker 2: them credit for that, But there is something to like.

1078
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 2: Is Alabama the Alabama brand worth celebrating in the same way?

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Speaker 1: I suspect no? And by the way, Alabama fans would

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Speaker 1: probably agree to that too.

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Speaker 2: Alabama fans are the first people to tell you how

1082
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 2: much they hate this year's Alabama not even a take,

1083
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 2: but continue organ has had the advantage of having the

1084
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 2: time to diagnose and address where they came up short

1085
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,280
Speaker 2: against Indiana the first time. It's pass protection, red zone coverages, whatever.

1086
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 2: They've improved their havoc allowed since then. That the number

1087
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Speaker 2: one EPA rushing team in America. I can go through stats,

1088
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 2: it's kind of boring to do so, but they're excellent

1089
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 2: at generating and stopping big plays, excellent at avoiding and

1090
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 2: generating three and outs. And it's once again, it's difficult

1091
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Speaker 2: to beat a strong team twice in the same season.

1092
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Speaker 2: And if you're going to look at Indiana as excellent,

1093
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 2: which I think is accurate, they're not unbeatable. They've been

1094
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 2: in games against average two pretty good teams this year.

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Speaker 2: They the Ohio State game was extraordinarily losable and went

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Speaker 2: on to prove that Indiana has a winning instinct, that

1097
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 2: winning is a skill that Indiana possesses. That was a

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00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 2: close game late, and we could be talking about a

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00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 2: very different draw for Indiana where they're you know, getting

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Speaker 2: Miami in a previous round, and it's just a different look.

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Speaker 2: They're not twenty nineteen LSU. They're not beating everybody by

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00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 2: thirty five, and so I don't think they're perfect. I

1103
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 2: think they're excellent. And so I think Oregon if they

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00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 2: are eat off the floor clean on offense.

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Speaker 1: Right, eat off the floor clean.

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00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 2: That's good, Eat off the floor clean. And they have

1107
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 2: to play Fernando Mendoza when he is off platform, well, right,

1108
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 2: they're going to have to Instead of Fernando Mendoza rushing

1109
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 2: for a first down, scrambling for a first down on

1110
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 2: third and six, he has to dip out of bounds

1111
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 2: as he's throwing the ball away though again backbreaking third

1112
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 2: down conversions or stops. I think is this entire game.

1113
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 2: I think Oregon should be okay, not perfect, but okay

1114
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 2: in handling pressure. Even with what they weren't able to

1115
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 2: do on the right side of the offensive line against

1116
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. I think that line's a little bit different,

1117
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 2: and I think Indiana is the better team.

1118
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: I truly do.

1119
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 2: I think they're more consistent and more phases. I think

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Speaker 2: they're the better team. I think they're the more trustworthy team.

1121
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Speaker 2: But I also think it's nearly impossible to go sixteen

1122
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 2: and zero in this sport. Oregon's winning this game late

1123
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 2: twenty to seventeen on the foot of Atticus Sappington, Lord Sappington.

1124
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 2: I don't know how it gets there. I think it's

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Speaker 2: low scoring twenty to seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Noted unbiased Oregon alum Dan Rubinstein.

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00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 2: I am never claimed to be that. I have fully

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00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 2: never claimed to be that. There's a over my right

1129
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 2: shoulder right there, there's a vintage Oregon Ducks hat. Okay,

1130
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 2: I am the first person to tell you how miserable

1131
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 2: I've been for stretches this year years watching Oregon football.

1132
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, I.

1133
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 2: Think, if you want to have Dan Lanning in an

1134
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 2: ideal state, give the other team the betting odds.

1135
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: Make Oregon an underdog.

1136
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 2: If you want to channel like the inner post Penn

1137
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 2: State Dan Lanning, the like inner zangief of Dan Lanning.

1138
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: The cocaine bear version that people post online.

1139
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 2: Give Dan Lanning the AMMO of saying you're a three

1140
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 2: and a half four and a half point dog.

1141
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he might bite the head off a

1142
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: live bird in the pregame.

1143
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 2: Now, that might also lead to Oregon losing this game

1144
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 2: by thirty. But I'm saying, if you're if you're going

1145
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 2: to want the ideal Agro Lanning, make Oregon.

1146
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: A dog in a huge spot.

1147
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 2: That's all.

1148
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: We disagree. But I think in both cases, both the

1149
00:59:57,760 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: Miami Old Miss game.

1150
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 2: You mean there's letdown thing by the way for Indiana. No,

1151
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,439
Speaker 2: not that they won't be up there, excellently coached, right,

1152
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 2: they are crisp and prepared at every turn.

1153
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: I'm not big on I'm not big on letdowns after

1154
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: a blowout.

1155
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 2: I'm not saying letdown like they're not going to be

1156
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 2: up for this game, like they're not going to be

1157
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 2: ready for this game. I'm just saying, compared to Oregon

1158
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 2: winning the Orange Bowl in front of five hundred and

1159
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 2: thirty eight people at noon, that's a stretch.

1160
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: But it was not.

1161
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 2: I don't think it was a sold out Orange Bowl. Now,

1162
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 2: there were empty seats and then Indiana never playing in

1163
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl, beating Alabama in the Rose Bowl in LA.

1164
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 2: I just think the stage was so much bigger.

1165
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: It was a bit that it was.

1166
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 2: It was a big It's definitely a program benchmark to

1167
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 2: do something like that, whereas like again, no disrespect to

1168
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 2: Texas Tech.

1169
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing.

1170
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 2: But I don't know how much you know, in ten

1171
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 2: years are Oregon fans going to think about this as

1172
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 2: like an enormous win for this program, whereas like Indiana fans,

1173
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 2: by we beat BAM on the road, I can tell

1174
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 2: my grandkids about that.

1175
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you're right to bring it up,

1176
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: but I also don't think you can talk about how

1177
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: locked in Indiana is and expect that this is going

1178
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: to have any kind of lasting impact.

1179
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 2: I'm just saying we're if this were week eight, it'd

1180
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 2: be nonsense. But we're all talking about legs, we are

1181
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 2: talking about travel. You know, an Oregon is now going

1182
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 2: to be they have a little bit more of a

1183
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 2: rhythm because they'll played three straight games, whereas Indiana's had

1184
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 2: more of a time off. Obviously it didn't have any

1185
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 2: effect on their performance in the Rose Bowl. But something

1186
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 2: I'm paying attention to just in terms of like how

1187
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 2: flat does Indiana look for the first.

1188
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 1: Three drives versus an one drive something? I mean again,

1189
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: Fernana mendon'ta talked about it a little bit, the rust

1190
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: factor for two drives. But I envision him right now

1191
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: sitting somewhere in Bloomington with like the metal spike in

1192
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 1: the back of his head, like out of the matrix.

1193
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: Just totally reasonable, just absorbing everything that Oregon has done

1194
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: since their matchup back in Week seven. Totally. I think

1195
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: he'll be ready. I think they'll be ready, and I

1196
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: think this would be a good game because it Indiana's

1197
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: look great. This was a really good game the first

1198
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: time around. It's a really good game the first time around.

1199
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Speaker 1: The only bit of separation came in the last six

1200
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Speaker 1: six minutes and fifty two seconds whatever of the fourth quarter.

1201
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: This is a good game between two good teams. I

1202
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: think the points bread reflects that. Yeah, if we get

1203
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty, if we get twenty three twenty one,

1204
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: if we get twenty seventeen via whatever, I don't think

1205
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a thirty eight to three type of

1206
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: situation like I saw when Indiana beat Alabama and the

1207
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: Rose Bowls.

1208
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Speaker 2: So I'm also saying, by the way, there's just like

1209
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 2: a weird and maybe it's you know, maybe it'll pay off.

1210
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 2: There's just like a yeah, Indiana's a machine. They're gonna

1211
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Speaker 2: win again.

1212
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: Right.

1213
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 2: Maybe it's my vantage point as an Oregon human, right,

1214
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 2: but there is the like, look what they did to Alabama.

1215
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 2: They're a machine. They've already beaten Oregon. Can't wait to

1216
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 2: see who Indiana plays in the National Championship. And when

1217
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 2: we get to that point where people are, you know,

1218
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 2: picking Ohio State as you know their number one or

1219
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 2: the number two, but they're or battle tested and look

1220
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 2: at Julian Saye and Jeremiah like it's college football. And

1221
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 2: when we go down too far down a road assuming

1222
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 2: something about a team, this is Indiana's, especially this year,

1223
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 2: especially this year, this year, and Indiana was number one,

1224
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 2: number two for most of the season. Right, They weren't

1225
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 2: the most hunted. They were a great story all season long.

1226
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 2: They were excellent all season long. But now they are

1227
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 2: in a new position this week of being the favorite

1228
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 2: to win the National Championship. Indiana Football, that's a new spot,

1229
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 2: doesn't mean they can't respond and beat both their next

1230
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 2: two opponents by twenty one each. But it's a new spot.

1231
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Speaker 1: I think Oregon can win this game. I don't think

1232
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Speaker 1: they will.

1233
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 2: Eat off the floor clean tie.

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Speaker 1: I think it would take an inspired effort to say

1235
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Speaker 1: the least. But can Oregon win? Yeah, they can win.

1236
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Speaker 1: Think I'm an idiot. Of course they can win. Yeah.

1237
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Speaker 1: So I'm hopeful that we're gonna get two really good games.

1238
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Speaker 1: And if we get too real games and we end

1239
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Speaker 1: up with a good matchup in the National Championship, whoever

1240
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,400
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Speaker 2: By the way, as we're recording this, and you can

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1285
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Speaker 2: Championship game, Bill Connolly's going to be there. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: which would give Oregon a win over a national champion.

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Speaker 1: Let us not forget. I will go Illinois State plus

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Speaker 1: the points.

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Speaker 2: Whoa well, Montana State. Feel good about Montana State.

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Speaker 1: We will.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk some bowl games, by the way, on a

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Speaker 2: future episode. We've got some fun interesting.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of results about man, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk.

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Speaker 2: About coaching moves. Yeah, there's Yeah, you mentioned portal stuff.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot to go through.

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Speaker 1: We haven't talked about assistant hires. No, obviously the portal.

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Speaker 1: I'll bring that up again. We have to talk lot

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Speaker 1: about that. But before long there will be draft declarations,

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Speaker 1: which I think could be very interesting, especially given maybe

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Speaker 1: not so much on the quarterback side this year, but

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Speaker 1: certainly other positions that will be affected. Certainly now as

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Speaker 1: we talk about so much coaching movement, how that affects

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Speaker 1: draft declaration. There's a lot. There's a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: So just because the season is going to be over

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Speaker 1: in like two weeks from now, whatever, that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: we're going to have any shortage of things to talk about,

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Speaker 1: so we'd appreciate it it.

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin, Wisconsin just won the national title. Ty Wisconsin. River

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Speaker 2: Falls won the D three national title, and I saw

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Speaker 2: their quarterback recruited his co worker at a bar and

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Speaker 2: grill who is a basketball player, to join the football team.

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Speaker 1: And was like a contributor. And yeah, and big Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the right way to classify them.

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Speaker 1: Big Wisconsin. The big one is River Falls. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin at Madison got Colton Joseph, the quarterback from ODU,

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Speaker 1: which by all accounts is a great prospect in the

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Speaker 1: portal ran all over Indiana. Yeah, exactly, everybody's trying to

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Speaker 1: beat Indiana nowt all right, that's true. Let's leave it

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Speaker 1: the game again, totally free to play. We would encourage

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Speaker 1: everybody to stop on buy and check that out. Dan Rubinstein, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you in a day or so.

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Speaker 1: We will do another episode. Of course, will talk to

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Speaker 1: you in the immediate aftermath of both of these playoff games,

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Speaker 1: but in the interim that go over there, Dan, for myself,

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Speaker 1: tie for the millions of our ballers listening and watching

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Speaker 1: at home. You know the drill, Stay solid, Peace,