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Speaker 1: start the presidential debate tonight after late kick INDs. And

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Speaker 1: the oscars failed. We're jampacked, We're high top an electric

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Speaker 1: downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It is Thursday night, June twenty seventh,

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Speaker 1: the year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four. Do you

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Speaker 1: sense what's happening with rivalries? Not just in college football? Certainly,

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Speaker 1: exploding this fall. I'm gonna talk about that. I got

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Speaker 1: I've got a very interesting question that we're going to

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Speaker 1: And I got a question about that that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: like the pinnacle of college football this year. It's like

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Speaker 1: some big what if in college football this year? We've

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Speaker 1: A lot of you love the SEC, A lot more

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Speaker 1: still in the mode of sort of semi rooting for Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go with the show for the duration tonight.

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Speaker 1: I have a thing that happened today that, frankly, maybe

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, let me ask these questions right quick.

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest questions I think in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four is out of all these quarterbacks that used to

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Speaker 1: be rated five stars coming out of high school, how

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Speaker 1: many quarterbacks do we have in college football twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four that live up to five star billing? So you

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Speaker 1: could be a senior, you could be a true freshman

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Speaker 1: right now, if you're slated to start this fall and

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Speaker 1: you're a former five star quarterback. How many of those

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Speaker 1: guys should I expect to play at a five star

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Speaker 1: level the twenty twenty class. Dj ouyangol Lay still here,

478
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Speaker 1: he's playing at FSU, quinn Ewers in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one class, Drew Ahler, Connor Wegman, kde Klubnik from twenty two,

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Speaker 1: niko I Amaliava and Jackson Arnold from twenty three, and

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Speaker 1: Dylan Rayola true freshman probably going to start for Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: Have any of those guys played a season of five

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Speaker 1: star caliber football. I don't think they have. Oler was

484
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Speaker 1: decent last year. Connor Wegman, if he could stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: I think could do it. But none. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I've reached the level of playing a five star caliber season.

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Speaker 1: Across the board, quinn Ewers probably has the least amount

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Speaker 1: of room to climb before he's there, But I don't

489
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Speaker 1: even think that he's put forth a five star season,

490
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Speaker 1: but he would be the closest. He needs the wide

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Speaker 1: receivers this year to pan out. Lost multiples of his

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Speaker 1: top pass catchers from last year, so that's not some

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Speaker 1: slam dunk. But I'd feel really good if I were

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Speaker 1: a Texas fan. That game was crazy, by the way,

495
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Speaker 1: that Texas Bama game. Drew Aller at Penn State should

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Speaker 1: improve his numbers drastically this year. They weren't terrible numbers

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Speaker 1: last year. It's just in the big games there was

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Speaker 1: no ability. I mean they were shut down against Michigan,

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Speaker 1: they were shut down against Ohio State. They will have

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Speaker 1: a potent run game again this year. New offensive coordinator

501
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Speaker 1: in from Kansas defense should should still give him a

502
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Speaker 1: shot to win every game, But do his numbers improve

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Speaker 1: to the point does his overall caliber of play improved

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Speaker 1: to the point where we say, you know, Drew Aller

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Speaker 1: true freshman year, he learned some things. But man, if

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Speaker 1: he's not playing at a five star caliber level now,

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Speaker 1: we'll see Connor Wegman at Texas A and m is

508
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Speaker 1: the biggest wild card because again he's played in spurts

509
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Speaker 1: that make you say wow, if he could stay healthy

510
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Speaker 1: for a whole year, that right there is the kind

511
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Speaker 1: of guy who could play at a five star level.

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Speaker 1: He needs help, I think because of how much newness

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Speaker 1: they have around Texas A and m up to it,

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Speaker 1: including the head coach and Colin Klein. Do not overlook

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Speaker 1: them bringing in Colin Klein as the new OC there.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about Codle Nikki up at Penn State. He

517
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Speaker 1: came there from Kansas. Well, they went to Kansas State,

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Speaker 1: did Texas A and them and got Colin Klein. And

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Speaker 1: that's a big personnel move. Big feels like it happened

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Speaker 1: five years ago. It didn't. It happened a few months ago.

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Speaker 1: So Connor Wegman's there. And then, of course you've got

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Speaker 1: guys who will start their first full year this year.

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Speaker 1: Nico Iamaliava at Tennessee, even though he's a first year starter,

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Speaker 1: may be in as good a position as any of

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Speaker 1: these guys to warrant five star production labeling because of

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Speaker 1: the system he's going to be in, because of the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver and skill talent they have around him. Jackson

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Speaker 1: Arnold at Oklahoma had some turnover issues in the bowl game.

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Speaker 1: I don't totally think they got that cleaned up in spring.

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Speaker 1: I still have extremely high expectation for him. They made

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Speaker 1: big moves in the portal as well. They've got really

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Speaker 1: rock solid multi year recruiting classes stacked on top of

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Speaker 1: each other. Dylan Ryola true freshman but about to start

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Speaker 1: at Nebraska. I'm never in the business of trying to

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Speaker 1: overly hype a true freshman at that position. However, I

536
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Speaker 1: am happy to be pleasantly surprised, but just I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at the whole bunch. DJ quinn Ewers I kind of

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Speaker 1: skipped over DJ. DJ Atwiyan Glile though, is the I

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Speaker 1: think the most fascinating but also the most known commodity there. Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a believer that you'll see five star caliber

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Speaker 1: play from DJ this year, but you won't see bad play.

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Speaker 1: I think you'll see pretty good play at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: Big question is is that good enough for FSU to

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Speaker 1: do what they want to do this year? Also losing

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Speaker 1: the kind of wide receiver skill they lost. Is he

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Speaker 1: the caliber quarter that can make new skill or is

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00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: he the kind of guy who needs established skill to

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Speaker 1: make him Because you've seen both kinds of players. I

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Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence in Mike Norvel and his staff,

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Speaker 1: having said that at some point with quarterbacks, you've got

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Speaker 1: what you've got. So it's a really fine line of

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Speaker 1: a conversation about DJ because everybody wants to do the

553
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: whole ten or trash stuff. You're either great or you're trash.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be neither this year. I don't think he'll

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Speaker 1: be great. He's certainly nowhere close to trash. He's a

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Speaker 1: pretty good to really good quarterback. I think the ceiling

557
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: is really good. If they get really good play out

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Speaker 1: of him this year, it should be good enough for

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Speaker 1: them to win the ACC. They're watching us in Allen, Texas.

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00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Harbor Springs, Michigan, Ogden, Utah. We

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Speaker 1: had several Canadian check ins tonight. Who do we think

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Speaker 1: will win the Canadian League in college football this year?

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00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: It's a great question, great question. Tough league to handicap,

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Speaker 1: tough league. I appreciate you guys. I'm looking at the

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Speaker 1: live chat right now. I see a Gator emoji in

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Speaker 1: a trash Can we know what that's about? Shame on you, guys,

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Speaker 1: we know what that's about. I also see someone saying

568
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Speaker 1: Kyle McCord is elite, really, really, Kyle McCord is elite. Okay,

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Speaker 1: If he is, then Syracuse is a dark horse playoff contender. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that wasn't one of my big questions. My next big

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Speaker 1: question is as follows, do we think the Big Ten

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Speaker 1: is still going to be as top heavy this year

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Speaker 1: as it has been in recent years? Because I think

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Speaker 1: it's gotten a little ridiculous since twenty ten. How many

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Speaker 1: Big Ten teams have won double digit games? How many

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Speaker 1: different teams have had a double digit win season. There's

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Ohio State. Ohio State's won double

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Speaker 1: digit games twelve times in the past fourteen years, or yeah,

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Speaker 1: twelve times the past fourteen years. Michigan has seven of them,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin's got seven of them, but none since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Michigan State's got seven of them, Mark Dantonio, Penn State's

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Speaker 1: got five, Iowa's got four, Northwestern has got two, and

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Speaker 1: Minnesota and Nebraska have one. The important thing to remember

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Speaker 1: about your Nebraska, Minnesota, Northwestern, Iowa examples probably Wisconsin as well,

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Speaker 1: is in a post division world like we're in now,

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Speaker 1: most of those wouldn't have happened a lot of that's

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Speaker 1: just feasting on inferior division play. When you may have

588
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: poked your head up above a very very below average crowd. Well,

589
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: now there are no more divisions up there, so you're

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Speaker 1: kind of thrown in the same barrel as everyone else.

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00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: Everyone's got to play everyone. So the point is Ohio

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Speaker 1: State's done their job, Michigan's done their job, Penn State's

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Speaker 1: done their job, Wisconsin's kind of done their job. But

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Speaker 1: it's mainly been one of those big two and then

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Speaker 1: like one other and then you look at the rest

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Speaker 1: of the Big Ten, it's just a bunch of bluh.

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00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: Any given year, that's what the Big Ten has been.

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't be that way. And so this year and moving forward,

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Speaker 1: I wonder when we turn on the Big Ten in

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Speaker 1: the middle of November, what's the picture look like. Ohio

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Speaker 1: State's going to be there, Michigan highly likely to be

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Speaker 1: up there. Remember you're adding Oregon to this mix now,

603
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Speaker 1: Oregon very likely to be up there. I think Penn

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Speaker 1: State is very likely to be up there. And if

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Speaker 1: we just stop there, if you just guarantee me that

606
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: we've got four legit a list type teams this year

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Speaker 1: that's already better than what we have had most given years.

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Speaker 1: But I want to go deeper than that. I want

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Speaker 1: to look at the second tier, because to me, the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten with is as talent rich as they are

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Speaker 1: and should be relative to the rest of the country,

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Speaker 1: as premiere as they are, as highly exposed as the

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Speaker 1: conference is, as as big a media platform as they have,

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Speaker 1: as good a coaching roster as they have. There should

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Speaker 1: be a rock solid second tier of teams in this conference,

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Speaker 1: and there hasn't always been. So I told you a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I still believe this. I

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Speaker 1: believe with that infusion of TV money, there is an

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Speaker 1: unspoken understanding up there for the B and C t

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Speaker 1: R programs that you've just got to take football more seriously.

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Speaker 1: Stop accepting good enough as being enough. The stuff Iowa's

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Speaker 1: done offensively recently, like that's not good enough. It's not

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Speaker 1: good enough to not be upset about it. And so

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Speaker 1: I'm looking and I see Matt Ruhle trying to make

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00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: changes there. I see Farens making changes at Iowa. I

626
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: certainly believe in the future of Wisconsin. So there's a

627
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: lot trending up. But in the Big Ten, is this

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Speaker 1: the year where you see it? Or do I look

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Speaker 1: and I say, Ohio State chech Oregon check, Michigan. Pretty

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Speaker 1: good follow up? You're to a national title, Penn State?

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Speaker 1: Right there, the same dependable nine or ten wins I

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Speaker 1: always get from them. But outside of that, just a

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Speaker 1: bunch of average? Or does Nebraska make some serious noise?

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00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 1: What about Rutgers? Do they make some serious noise? Iowa?

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Speaker 1: Are they improved offensively? Does Washington come in out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere Jedfish year one and make some noise just produe?

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Speaker 1: I don't care where it comes from. There should be

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Speaker 1: a much deeper second tier there than there has been

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Speaker 1: in years past. Now this is the one that I

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Speaker 1: thought about leading the show with, but it's a question.

641
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: I love rivalries. I think they may be the best

642
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: part of college football, maybe even the best part of

643
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: college athletics. I think rivalries this year in college football

644
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: could be as collectively explosive as they've been in a

645
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: long time. So I want you to think about what

646
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: happened with Texas and Texas A and M earlier this

647
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: week in baseball, where the head coach goes from A

648
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: and M and losing a national championship to be in

649
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: the head coach at Texas. Twelve hours later, I was

650
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: out spoken about it. I am not a fan of

651
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: it at all, not about that in particular. I just

652
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: don't like coaches going from rival to rival. I don't

653
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: even like players transferring from rival to rival. I don't

654
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: think it should be illegal. I don't think it should

655
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: have to be illegal. I think it should just be understood.

656
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: But I digress. So that happened. Texas and Texas A

657
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: and M are in the same conference again, and I

658
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: really think people are overlooking how insane this rivalry game

659
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,479
Speaker 1: is about to be, because we have not had it

660
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: since twenty eleven. And so I've got a lot of

661
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: folks who watch this show that really aren't old enough

662
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: to really remember much about Texas and Texas A and

663
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: And that's the thing about these conference realignments. You end

664
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: up going what feels like not a long time, and

665
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, a generation has gone by,

666
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: and we define that as ten years in college athletics,

667
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: and you've got an entire generation of young people who

668
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: look and say, Texas and Texas A and M. They're

669
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: in the same state. I guess it makes sense that

670
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: they used to play yeah, they used to play, but

671
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: it may be that the most fiercest version of that

672
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: rivalry is still in the future. So they only met

673
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: two times in the two thousands as ranked versus ranked,

674
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: so it wasn't always a game with national championship implications

675
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 1: on the line. It's just hatred because it's in state stuff.

676
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: And there's the whole big brother little brother thing from

677
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: the past, which I think is guard Bridge moving forward,

678
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: but in the past it was very real. So I'm

679
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: gonna get back to that in a second. In fact,

680
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: let me put a little star up here because I'll

681
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: forget that game this year is in Kyle Field. I

682
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: want you to remember two years ago when Texas went

683
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: to Arkansas. Arkansas had their own little bottled up history

684
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: with Texas, and they unloaded those folks up there in

685
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: Fayetteville unloaded on Texas. Texas had no shot. It's like

686
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: someone hit a hornet's nest with a baseball bat five

687
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: times and then said, hey, come out here for a second.

688
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: Texas had no clue what they were walking into. I

689
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: have no idea how you don't expect Kyle Field to

690
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: be the same way this year. And then also you

691
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: bake in the idea that you don't have to take

692
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: a back seat to Texas anymore. You did in the

693
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: Big Twelve, you did in the Southwest Conference. There was

694
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 1: a baked in disadvantage for you. Whether anyone in Austin

695
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: wants to admit that or not, you don't have that anymore.

696
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: The only thing that can get in your way is

697
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: yourself now. In other words, if Texas continues to dominate you,

698
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: it's because you let it happen. I don't take a

699
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: back seat politically to them in the SEC, because that's

700
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: not the way it's gonna fly in the SEC. Texas

701
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: may dominate because they're just better. Texas may continue to

702
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: soar above you because they operated a higher capacity, But

703
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: it's not because any kind of intrinsic mechanisms in the

704
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: SEC are keeping you down. It's just gonna be because

705
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 1: A and M keeps itself down. So if you don't,

706
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: if you toss the sandbags out of the balloon, you

707
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: can fly just as high as they can. Those folks

708
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: realize that for the first time, they realize, Hey, our

709
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: destiny kind of really is in our hands. Atmosphere will

710
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: be out of this world insane. So that dynamic is

711
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: going on in that rivalry Michigan, Ohio State has gone

712
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 1: the way it's gone the past three years, and it's

713
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: totally inverted the way people think about what to that

714
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: point was a rivalry dominated by Ohio State, just utterly

715
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: dominated by it. You had started to take for granted that, yeah,

716
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: it's a rivalry in name only, but we all know

717
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: the way that one's going to go. Well, then all

718
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: of a sudden, boom, boom, boom. Three years in a row,

719
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: capped off by a national championship win with Michigan. And

720
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: then we get to twenty twenty four. What do we have.

721
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: We got folks like me and I'm not apologizing for

722
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: this saying I think this will be the best team

723
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Days have. I think it's the most talented roster

724
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: that Ryan Days had Michigan. It is reasonable to expect

725
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: them to take a step back. The odds makers agree

726
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: they've got to go to Columbus. Everything shapes up for

727
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 1: Ohio State to be solidly favored in and win that game.

728
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. They've been favored multiple times in

729
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: this little stretch that Michigan's had, this little run they've

730
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: been on, and they've been over. So it doesn't matter

731
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: what the numbers say, it doesn't matter what FanDuel says,

732
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter which venue this game's played in.

733
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: I was up there two years ago. I was up

734
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: there when not only did Ohio State get Michigan in

735
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: their own building, not only was Ohio State solidly favored,

736
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: not only do you have CJ. Stroud at quarterback, But

737
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: I remember during the week it looked like the weather

738
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: was going to be bad, and then comes Saturday, gorgeous skies,

739
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,240
Speaker 1: temperatures in the upper forties. It felt like everything aligned,

740
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: and then they just got after you again. So if

741
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: we get to this November and that rivalry game sets

742
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: up to where everything feels like it's lining up for

743
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Saturday still comes, the sun still rises and

744
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: eleven fifty eight, eleven fifty nine, boom, the stroke of

745
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: noon still comes, and you still got to play the game.

746
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: And can you imagine if that thing's thirteen to seven

747
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: Michigan at the half. I'm just saying it doesn't all

748
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: the other trappings, all the other talking, It doesn't matter.

749
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,720
Speaker 1: As long as you got to get them for sixty

750
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: and they get you for sixty. That rivalry I don't

751
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: think it's ever felt in my lifetime like it feels

752
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: right now. And then not to be outdone. Down in Alabama,

753
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: you've got Auburn and Alabama. Hat tip to Auburn. They

754
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: hung in many years with Bama at the ape of

755
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: the best run Bama ever went on. They beat them

756
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: a number of times. Auburn won a national championship in

757
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: the time Nick Saban was at Alabama and played for

758
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: another one, so it's not like they got steam rolled constantly. However,

759
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: everybody in the SEC took a back seat. Imagine being

760
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: in the same state as Nick Saban. Well, every Christmas,

761
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: every family reunion forever for the past decade and a half.

762
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: Down there, they've gathered and they've said, man, once Saban

763
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: gets out of here, we'll hit the reset button. So

764
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: they went and got Hugh Freeze last year, and that

765
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: was their choice of hire. And then Nick Saban retires

766
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: right afterwards, and all of a sudden there was rejoicing

767
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: down on the plains. And not only do we have

768
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: a guy who can recruit, but their assassin recruiter is retiring,

769
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: and they hired a guy from being told the Pacific

770
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: Northwest who's never even lived down here. He's never recruited

771
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: down here. This is our shot. And then Calin de

772
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: Boor comes in, and the earth early returns are he's

773
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: out recruiting you, or at least recruiting on par with you.

774
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: We don't know how the rest of the cycle is

775
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: gonna shape shake out, but that dynamics really really in

776
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: a state of flux right now, because there was a

777
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: window there where every Auburn person I know, and I

778
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: grew up around a ton of them that were really

779
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: boisterous and just sort of sort of accepting and daring

780
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: you not to accept the idea that time's passed for Alabama.

781
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: I mean, this new guy coming in now, he's a

782
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 1: good coach, but he didn't know the way it works

783
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: down here. And maybe that'll still be true. The early

784
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: returns are that's not true. And so the dynamic there

785
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: is is Auburn about to re grab that rivalry by

786
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: the throat like they had they had that thing in

787
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: a choke hole before Saban got their or is Calin

788
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: de Boorr gonna kind of grab the rope right does

789
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: it looked like it was about to fall and then

790
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: pull that thing right back with Max's tension on it

791
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: and you get no let up. That's why we play

792
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: the games. Rivalries are such a beautiful thing in college football,

793
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: so are video games. However, However, I knew that this

794
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: couldn't just be a summer of love in our sport.

795
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: I knew it. Colin, go ahead, and here's your endpoint,

796
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: which some of you take to mean E N D point. No,

797
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: I am telling Colin. When I say endpoint, I N

798
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: space point. That means when he goes back and edits

799
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: this and puts the individual video on YouTube. This is

800
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: where he incuts. And then whenever I get on talking,

801
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: that's where he outcuts. Okay, So the EA Sports College

802
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: Football video game is coming out. It is the biggest

803
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: story in the space. Now. You either care about it

804
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 1: or you don't. However, even if you don't care about it, oh,

805
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: I ha, do I have news for you on this

806
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: piece of paper in front of me. So I understand marketing,

807
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: Trust me, no one in this conversation understands the power

808
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: of solid marketing more than me. So EA Sports is

809
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: re releasing the college football game, and they've been just

810
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: they've been chumming the water a little bit. Here's a

811
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: graphic here's a clip of gameplay, here's this, here's a

812
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: player rating. Oh it's been great. Everybody's just it's been

813
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: a summer of love so far. But I knew it

814
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: couldn't last. I knew it couldn't last, and yet I'm

815
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: taking the bait. They released several things this week, and frankly,

816
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: I've got a beef with all of them, and so

817
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: love our friends over at EA. But my goodness, first off,

818
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: let's talk about this Toughest Places to Play list, and

819
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: mind you, the lists that they're releasing are synonymous with

820
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: the settings in the video game. Toughest Places to Play

821
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 1: they pumped out a top ten list Kyle Field, Texas

822
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: A and M number one. I had A and M

823
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: in my top eight of loudest stadiums, so it's not

824
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: like I have a huge problem with that. Bama has

825
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: no business being at number two. Ohio State has no

826
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: business being at number four. I think Georgia's a touch

827
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: high at number five. These are places where they win

828
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: all the time, especially Bama and Ohio State. I didn't

829
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: have either one in my top eight of loudest venues,

830
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm just defining it differently than the at

831
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 1: EA when you say toughest places to play, though in fairness,

832
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,240
Speaker 1: that doesn't have everything to do with atmosphere. You'll notice

833
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: a lot of these teams have just been really good

834
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: for a long time. It would be tough to play

835
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: Bama in the past fifteen years in a parking lot.

836
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: So I don't know that this is the best reflection

837
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 1: of Bryant Denny Stadium. Bryant Denny Stadium is a great venue.

838
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: It is certainly a top twelve type venue for me.

839
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: But number two, I don't think ahead of LSU. I

840
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: don't think so, and yet it is for EA Sports. Also,

841
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: I've never been to Oklahoma the stadium. I've been to

842
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: the state many times. I had some Oklahoma folks privately

843
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: reach out to me and say, hey, we appreciate this,

844
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: but we probably shouldn't be ahead of Ben Hill, Griffin Stadium,

845
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: the Swamp, we probably shouldn't be ahead of them, And blindly,

846
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 1: admittedly blindly, I have to agree with that. I've never

847
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 1: been to Oklahoma. Wisconsin's on here at number seven. Haven't

848
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: been there. That could change early this year, that could change,

849
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: But to this point, I've just got to go and

850
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: educate a guess and say they may be a little

851
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: too high. Niland stadiums not in the top ten, crazy,

852
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: Jordenhair stadiums not in the top ten. Crazy. I think

853
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: Washington wasn't even in their top twenty five. Jesse isn't

854
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: that right, which I think qualifies more as just a

855
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: typo than a omission. Oregon I don't think was in

856
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 1: there either. So look, if you're talking about toughest places

857
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: to play, and you're factoring in like winning percentage of

858
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,760
Speaker 1: the teams that play there over the past few years, okay,

859
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: be that as it may. If you're talking about loudest,

860
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: I've been to all these places, sands a couple of them. Wrong.

861
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: This is just a factually wrong list. It got worse

862
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: paper pop, it got worse. Offensive rankings were released today. Yes, friends,

863
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: the top ten offensive teams in the country, as baked

864
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,760
Speaker 1: into this video game we're released today. I have filed

865
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: more multiple protests pro ti the plural of protest about

866
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: these ratings, and one of them is Colorado is ranked

867
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: number eight, Clemson is ranked number ten. These teams finished

868
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: last year's sixtieth and fifty second, respectively in points per game.

869
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they may not improve. I'm not even

870
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: saying they may not be significantly better, but to crank

871
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: up the season eighth and tenth ahead of Ole Miss

872
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: What Look, I got a sister doesn't watch a whole

873
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: lot of college football, spends a lot of time on

874
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: the internet, but doesn't watch a lot of college football.

875
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: But if I sent her this list, she would lick

876
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: that index finger have to flip for three or four

877
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: seconds and say, whoo oh, miss looks a little low.

878
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: Colorado all the way up here at number eight. What's

879
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: And that's her talking. So if this is talent based,

880
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: which I have to assume it is, Yeah, I get

881
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: that Clemson has recruited well and Colorado has shdoric quarterback

882
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter. If that's the way you're thinking, okay, and

883
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: maybe I'm overthinking the room, but I don't think I am.

884
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: I really don't think I am. And I would argue

885
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: it got even worse than that. Here we go, double

886
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: paper pop on the defensive rankings that were listed. Again,

887
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: multiple protests pro ti in the plural have been filed.

888
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: Here we are bordering on deon tax territory. I've just

889
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: got to be real with you. Remember what the deon

890
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: tax is the deon tax is in exchange for having

891
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: a celebrity as the head coach at Colorado last year,

892
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: which we all love well I did. We had to

893
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: accept that there were some opinions that were going to

894
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: come into the room that weren't really all that informed.

895
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: But the folks at EA Sports shouldn't be that. And

896
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: yet I'm looking at Colorado. They were rated twentieth. Jesse

897
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: that Colorado Buffalo's do you hear me? Twentieth best defense

898
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: in the country to start the season. And how about this,

899
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: usc could not stop molasses in December defensively last year.

900
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: And they're ahead of Kansas State, Louisville, Auburn A, and

901
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: m USC is in the top twenty defensively in the preseason.

902
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: If they're anywhere close to right, you can go ahead

903
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: and give de'anton Lynn all of the assistant coaching awards

904
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: you possibly can, because that will be that will be

905
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: like a New Testament level miracle that has been performed

906
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: out in Los Angeles. If they're anywhere remotely close to

907
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: the top twenty defensively. And then we got Nebraska not

908
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: even in the top twenty five. That there are not

909
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: probably ten I'd pick above Nebraska. And the thing about

910
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: it is we're not banking on quantum leaps of improvement

911
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: with Nebraska. They were thirteenth in the country last year

912
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: in points per game, allowed, total yards per game eleventh.

913
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: Great staff, they kept it intact, and Nebraska's looking around

914
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: saying did you forget us? I mean, tennis folks in

915
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: Knoxville have every reason to write and Tennessee wasn't even

916
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: in the top twenty five. Offensively, Like, what are we doing?

917
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: So producer Jesse promises me that there will be an

918
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: update to these ratings. There will be at least one

919
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: update before the season starts. But the game comes out

920
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: in a little over twenty days, so we got some

921
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: things to iron out here. But they are very capable

922
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: over at EA Sports, and I think they will. But

923
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: this raised both of my eyebrows, and a third would

924
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: have been raised if I had the capacity. So some

925
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: of that makes no sense to me. All Right, we

926
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: move on. Let's talk about some unpopular takes. Yeah, I

927
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: know the debate is tonight. Look, first off, I probably

928
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: won't run for president. I don't want to rule it out.

929
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: I think what I would do is I would love

930
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: the debates and then if I got elected, I would

931
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: thank you. I would probably handle most of the major

932
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: decisions via social media poll you know, national security, I'd

933
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: probably step in and rule with an iron fist. But

934
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: largely I would love the debates more. But that right there,

935
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: the EA Sports college football ratings, I would love to

936
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: just debate that. I would welcome folks from EA on

937
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,439
Speaker 1: the show, and we could pixelate their face. We could

938
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: modulate their voice. Colin, we have this capability. We could

939
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 1: have him talk like Caine when he first spoke back

940
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: in the Attitude era because he was a burn victim,

941
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 1: so he had to speak with a voice modulator. And

942
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: now he's the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. So what

943
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: a glow up for Glenn Jacobs. Congratulations to that guy.

944
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: All right, let's do some on popular takes. This one's

945
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 1: gonna get me. This one's gonna get me. Irish fan

946
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: hit us up with his unpopular take in college football

947
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: wherever we heard this before? He says the SEC's overrated.

948
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: It's not even the best conference in college football. Now

949
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 1: I responded, as you know I would, and I asked

950
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,240
Speaker 1: what are they rated? And then I asked who's rated

951
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 1: above them based on your own statement, who is rated

952
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: above them? Part A of that is possible is the

953
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: reason I ask if you think the the SEC's overrated,

954
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: you may be right. You may be right, But he

955
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 1: didn't put a period at that point in the sentence.

956
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: He kept on going, couldn't stop himself. SEC's overrated. They're

957
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: not even the best conference in college football. Well, one

958
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: of those is possibly true. The other is just abject nonsense.

959
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: Whether you're talking about a one year period, a five

960
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: year period, a ten year period, whatever you want to do,

961
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: this conference has six national championships and twelve playoff appearances

962
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: just in the college football playoff era. Here's a good

963
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: piece of trivia for you if you want to talk

964
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: about talent. When it comes to talent acquisition recruiting as

965
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: we call it in college football, the SEC's finished with

966
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:44,720
Speaker 1: the number one class in the country for a long time.

967
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: Listen to this. Who do you think is the last

968
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,800
Speaker 1: non SEC team to finish with the number one recruiting

969
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: class in the country. Is it Ohio State? No? No,

970
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: it's not. Is it what Notre Dame? No? No it's not.

971
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: No it's not. It was Miami. Now guess what year

972
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: it was guess what year Miami was the number one

973
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: recruit class in the country. That would be two thousand

974
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: and eight. Since two thousand and eight, the SEC's landed

975
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 1: the number one class in the country every year, which,

976
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: of course, for someone like Irish Fan probably leads him

977
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, but the recruiting industry is in the

978
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: tank for the SEC, Josh. The recruiting industry is a

979
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: lap dog for the SEC, just like the media. You

980
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: guys all pump the SEC's tires will no wonder. It's

981
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: a self fulfilling prophecy. And I always listen to that,

982
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: and I always say yep, okay, yep, And then I ask,

983
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: is the NFL in on it? If you're gonna spread

984
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,720
Speaker 1: the conspiracy, you're gonna have to convince me the NFL

985
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: is in on that too. Because in the playoff era,

986
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: the SEC's had six hundred and thirty eight kids drafted.

987
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: The pig Tens the next closest with four hundred and

988
00:51:55,200 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: fifty seven. So they recruit better, they perform better on

989
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: the field, They get more players drafted by what metric?

990
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: What criteria are we looking at? Which other conference is

991
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: even close to tote in the SEC's jock in the

992
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: college football playoff era or several years prior. I have

993
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 1: no idea, I asked, shockingly. I did not get a response,

994
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: and so toll the bell ten times. That one's out,

995
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: that one's out the window, next up. This one's controversial,

996
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: but I know getting well some of you feel this way.

997
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 1: A I don't even know how to pronounce the name.

998
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: He hit me up and said, if you go to

999
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: a school, you should not be able to root for

1000
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: any other team, but you're alma mater. There is a

1001
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: principle in play here that I have no problem with.

1002
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: If you're a Tennessee fan, not a fan, if you're

1003
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: a grad of Tennessee. Okay, so we're not even talking

1004
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: about sidewalk alumni here. If you're a fan of Tennessee

1005
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you just decided to

1006
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: root for Georgia, the root for Florida or whoever. The okay,

1007
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: if you want to look sideways at those folks, go

1008
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: ahead and look sideways at him. But if you graduated

1009
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: from U Tam Martin and you want to pull for Tennessee,

1010
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: who gets mad at that? Who even has a problem

1011
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: with that? That's insane. There are different levels. There are

1012
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: different calibers of college football that are played, and it's

1013
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: very obvious that there are a few major brands they're

1014
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: almost like pro teams in this way, and that even

1015
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: if you went to a college in that state, if

1016
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: you went to Georgia State, okay, which is in the

1017
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 1: Sun Belt, I think Georgia State is like, quote unquote

1018
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 1: a team that competes for the same national title as

1019
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: the University of Georgia. But they're not. We all know that,

1020
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: I think most of us do. So if you graduated

1021
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,280
Speaker 1: from Georgia State, but you're also a fan of Georgia,

1022
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: you root for Georgia. All you've done is saying I'm

1023
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: a roof for my alma mater. But I'm gonna also

1024
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: be real about who does and doesn't ever have a

1025
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: shot with the way college football is constructed. Now, there's

1026
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: another more obnoxious person out there who says, if you

1027
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: didn't grab graduate from the school, you don't have any

1028
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: business rooting for the team at all. Those people are

1029
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: not to be taken seriously. Okay. I go to all

1030
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: these places and I notice how big they are. They're cathedrals,

1031
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: Sandford Stadium, Bryant Anny Stadium, Royal Stadium out there in Austin.

1032
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: You go all the way coast to coast, these are

1033
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: massive stadiums. I don't think they built them that big

1034
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 1: for alumni guys. I really think they're counting on folks

1035
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:29,720
Speaker 1: that never went there. And it's because the team transcends

1036
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: just having a meaning on campus. It's not inner murals.

1037
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: This is real, big boy college football. And so if

1038
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: you've never even been to Baton Rouge, if you grew

1039
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,439
Speaker 1: up in the northern part of the Boot, but you

1040
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: love LSU, love them. And if anyone walks in with

1041
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,919
Speaker 1: a sweater vest and washes their station, washes their hands

1042
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 1: before and after they walk in the gas station where

1043
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: they saw you at and they say take that shirt off.

1044
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: You didn't major in anything at LSU. You look at

1045
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: them and you say, gone, gone, get We are running

1046
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: no souper kitchen. We don't need to take them seriously.

1047
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: Let's continue to move on. There is a it's not

1048
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: a big fly. I don't think you can see it

1049
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: on camera, but there's been a fly around me the

1050
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: entire evening, possibly sent by management, definitely not taken care

1051
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: of by management. I hate to see it. Colin give

1052
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: me that ACC tweet. So earlier today I was on

1053
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: Sirius XM our buddy Tom Lougan Bill, friend of the program.

1054
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: He and I were talking about the ACC and ACC.

1055
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: Robbie hit me up and said, Hey, I heard you

1056
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: on SiriusXM. You were talking about how you think the

1057
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: entire ACC has dropped the ball. Can you explain what

1058
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: you meant? Yes, I can, Robbie. I don't think the

1059
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: entire ACC has. The Clemson Tigers have done a phenomenal

1060
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: job at shouldering their end of the load and carrying

1061
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: their end of the bargain. Florida State recently has gotten

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Speaker 1: themselves back on track, and at times Florida State has

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00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: been a very solid program, so I would say they

1064
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: have held up their end of the bargain. Outside of that,

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00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: the ACC has just sucked. It's not been anywhere remotely

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Speaker 1: close to the caliber of conference it should be. Miami

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00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten the job done. North Carolina hadn't gotten the

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Speaker 1: job done. Virginia Tech hadn't gotten the job done. NC

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00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 1: State has been a solid, dependable commodity, but they've never

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Speaker 1: taken it to the next level. They're not a double

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Speaker 1: digit win team. At any point in this stretch, and

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Speaker 1: outside of Clemson, this has been a glorified G five conference. Really,

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Speaker 1: if you look at results, how do you push back

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Speaker 1: on that. You've got your occasional Florida State. So now

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Speaker 1: Florida State's clearly ascended to that level so recently Clemson

1076
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Speaker 1: in Florida State. Outside of that, just a bunch of underachievement.

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Speaker 1: And here's the difference. Here's why I think they've dropped

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Speaker 1: Big Twelve has a bunch of programs that exist way

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Speaker 1: outside of the hottest recruiting footprints geographically in the country.

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Speaker 1: This is the acc you're talking about teams in the Carolinas.

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Speaker 1: Florida has got a couple of them, one of them's

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Speaker 1: other schools go to get their talent. And yet you

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00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: haven't kept any of yours home to the degree necessary

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Speaker 1: to develop and turn into a legitimate, like sustained powerhouse program.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's sad that the state of the conference

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Speaker 1: it lacks legitimacy. It lacks the kind of legitimacy it

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Speaker 1: should have. To me, the ACC should have always been

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Speaker 1: being in the conversation any given year for being power

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Speaker 1: conferences in college football, and instead the ACC has been

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Speaker 1: an afterthought. And there's no reason everything that you think

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Speaker 1: you need, you think you need. Financial resources, they got it.

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Speaker 1: Some of them won't come off their hip pocket because

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Speaker 1: they're just happy be in there, which is a problem.

1100
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: Others think they take football seriously enough, but they haven't

1101
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: taken football seriously enough. They take it serious by ACC standards,

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Speaker 1: but if you took a bunch of those programs and

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00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: as serious as we thought we were. It's like the

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Speaker 1: over worked this week. Oh, if you want me to

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Speaker 1: really grinding and think they're really tearing it up, and

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Speaker 1: You're not, especially if you're parked where you are on

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Speaker 1: you should define why. You should take it to the

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Speaker 1: odds for every one of them this year. Do you

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Speaker 1: you think Miami's going to come out of nowhere, well

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Speaker 1: Hold on just a second, Colin, Hold on just a second. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we need a few more minutes. Thank you. We'm seeing inn, Colin.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to start the debate yet. Okay, Bold

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Speaker 1: prediction time, What do you believe? About this upcoming year

1170
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: so strongly that you would bet your own money on it. Well,

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01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: first up, we've got an SEC championship game prediction that

1172
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: is a little off the beaten path, but not really.

1173
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: It comes to us from Norway and it is Texas

1174
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: and Ole Miss. They face off in the SEC Championship game.

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01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: This is the number two versus the number three team

1176
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: in the SEC odds right now according to Fanduels, So

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01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be shocking at all. I know it would

1178
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: be a little jarring for longtime fans to see Lane

1179
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: Kiffin leading a team into Atlanta to play for the

1180
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 1: SEC title, but in terms of odds, it would not

1181
01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: be crazy. They got two of the better schedules, more

1182
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: favorable schedules in the conference. Both of them return pretty

1183
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: high performing quarterbacks, and Jackson Darton and quin Ewers, both

1184
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: of them leveraged the portal very well this past cycle.

1185
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make this an eight point seventy five.

1186
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: It just means you got to find a way for

1187
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: Georgia to not be there. That's really what's tough Georgia,

1188
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: whether they go in as the higher seed or not,

1189
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: just keeping them out of the game entirely. That's difficult.

1190
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: Both of these teams play Georgia this year, though. Next up,

1191
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: this is fun. Ge Rob said he's from Bakersfield, California.

1192
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: First off, and he's no, it's George, My bad George

1193
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: from Bakersfield. Anyway, George is in Bakersfield. Thinking that three

1194
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: former Pack twelve schools will make the playoff this year,

1195
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: well that's a nine point five. That's a nine point

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Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. Now Oregon's a former Pack

1197
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Speaker 1: twelve school. They've got the fourth best odds to win

1198
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 1: the whole thing, so Oregon'll probably be in the playoff.

1199
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: Utah is favored to win the Big Twelve. You can

1200
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: see Utah on the playoff. Who's your third team, George, anyone?

1201
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: We need three of them here, not two of three.

1202
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: Is Arizona gonna randomly come out of the Big twelve

1203
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: and either win the conference or get some surprise at large?

1204
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: BIB is usc gonna surprise some people. I don't think

1205
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: you're counting on Washington or UCLA, cal Stanford. I don't

1206
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: think you're counting on those teams. Arizona State probably not

1207
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: there yet, so Oregon I could see it. Utah I

1208
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: could see it. I don't know who the third team is,

1209
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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna put a nine point five on that one.

1210
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Speaker 1: And next up, this was kind of trickly worded. It's

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Speaker 1: from Caden and Prattville, Alabama. He said there will be

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Speaker 1: two teams that play each other three times this year. Okay,

1213
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: so it doesn't mean two different pairs of teams. It

1214
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 1: just means there will be a couple of teams that

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Speaker 1: play each other thrice this year, once in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: once in the conference championship game, once in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: I put a nine on this. It's not as bold

1218
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Speaker 1: as it sounds. It's bold, but it's not crazy bold.

1219
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: It could be like Georgia Texas they play in the

1220
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: regular season, Georgia Ole, Miss Georgia Bama. They all play

1221
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: in the regular season in the SEC, could easily play

1222
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Speaker 1: in the conference title game. One of them wins and

1223
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Speaker 1: gets the buy, the other one loses, gets in that

1224
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Speaker 1: large spot, wins their first round game, could end up

1225
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Speaker 1: running into their conference mate in the following rounds. You

1226
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Speaker 1: could have Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan. They round robin each

1227
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Speaker 1: other in the Big Ten this year, so you can

1228
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Speaker 1: have a combination of those, Ohio State also plays Penn State.

1229
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: So the point is there are several opportunities for this

1230
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Speaker 1: and I think inevitably we've at least got a couple

1231
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Speaker 1: of rematches coming this year. Do we have the elusive

1232
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Speaker 1: third matchup? And would it be weird? Probably? So I'm

1233
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Speaker 1: going to put a nine on that one though, because

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Speaker 1: of how many of these high, highly ranked teams do

1235
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Speaker 1: play each other in the regular season. And lastly, speaking

1236
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Speaker 1: of that playoff, Joe in El Paso said, I think

1237
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Speaker 1: Miami and Missouri are going to the playoff this year. Joe,

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Speaker 1: it's not crazy. It's not crazy. Both of them have

1239
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Speaker 1: win totals of nine point five. I'm gonna make this

1240
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Speaker 1: an eight point seventy five on the bold prediction scale. Missouri,

1241
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Speaker 1: you think they're gonna make the playoff, You got a

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Speaker 1: FanDuel right now and vote yes. It's plus one eighty

1243
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Speaker 1: four odds. You think Miami's gonna make it, you go

1244
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Speaker 1: and pick yes. It's plus two to ten odds. Right now.

1245
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: Those aren't crazy. Both of them got good quarterback situations

1246
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Speaker 1: in their own right. So I think that's an eight

1247
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Speaker 1: point seventy five on the boldness scale. That's my story. Hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: we stayed over one thousand live views, and we overlapped

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