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Speaker 1: And Dan and Ty.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the solid verbol driven by Geico. My

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Speaker 3: host Dan Rubinstein, Sir, Happy New Year, my friend.

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Speaker 1: I've watched a lot.

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Speaker 1: So what was your watch situation? Now?

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Speaker 2: Now it's nice. Now it's nice. Now. You saw it

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Speaker 3: What was your watch situation on Friday and Saturday? How

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was also clear that like the

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Speaker 1: You nailed it.

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Speaker 3: On the notion that since he didn't belong here, we

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Speaker 3: He had a great game, good job. The Georgia defense

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Speaker 2: Everything Georgia did and everybody who did that did those

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Speaker 2: They were completely held down. And that's the strength that's

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Speaker 2: On Stetson Bennett's name as not just like a cute

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Speaker 3: He's been good and you know what, he's gotten better

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Speaker 3: Daniels perceived to have the higher ceiling, but Stetson Bennett's

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Speaker 3: And to get them to the point now where they've

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Speaker 3: But sometimes it's just the little things. Sometimes it's little

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Speaker 3: a lot in this game. Kay McNamara had two interceptions. Now, again,

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Speaker 3: It's just little things like that that can change the

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Speaker 2: I think is a quarterback who at his best is

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Speaker 2: pretty good. But in the aggregate, Kate McNamara is fine.

438
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Speaker 2: His ceiling is evident. And with a quarterback like that,

439
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 2: without you know, an offensive line that can stand up

440
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 2: to the best of Georgia, without you know, all conference

441
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,199
Speaker 2: type receivers to throw to, there's just a limit that

442
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 2: Michigan can only win in like two ways, one and

443
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 2: a half to two ways. And I don't know if

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Speaker 2: that's going to change with future recruiting classes or JJ McCarthy,

445
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: but with what George is able to do with a

446
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 2: quarterback who is full on good according to me, full

447
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 2: on good, who doesn't necessarily have that deep all conference

448
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 2: stable of receivers but has a great tight end, has

449
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 2: good receivers, has a very good offensive line, and obviously

450
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 2: a defense to lean on that his own defense is

451
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 2: going to put the Georgia offense in such a great

452
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 2: position week in and week out. It's you know, it's

453
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 2: it's the most obvious thing in the world. It's easier

454
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Speaker 2: to win. It's just easier to win. So Michigan as

455
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Speaker 2: a program is depending on average to decent quarterback play.

456
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Speaker 2: It's good enough to win this iteration of the Big Ten.

457
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 2: But on this stage, you know, the everybody sort of

458
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,679
Speaker 2: moved to their corner, just like, oh, I see, I

459
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 2: see who is able to play on this stage. And look,

460
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Speaker 2: maybe it's Michigan next year or the year after that

461
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 2: or something like that where they take their recruiting up

462
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: a level and they develop guys or they you know,

463
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Speaker 2: year two of the Mike McDonald defense is really dialed in.

464
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Speaker 2: But it just it was early on. It was it

465
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 2: was very clear that like, oh man, Michigan needs I

466
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 2: don't know, a punt return, a pick six, and a

467
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 2: freak Georgia mistake to really be in this game.

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Speaker 1: To just get some start. There was no momentum.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, when you start need to ticking off, When

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Speaker 2: when you need to tick off those types of boxes,

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Speaker 3: officially set. It's going to be played a week from

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Speaker 2: I was just informed by Jody with an Eye that

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Speaker 2: that needed clearing. So I guess have fun with all

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Speaker 2: that Alabama and Georgia fans, because I'll be returning there

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Speaker 2: in two days, and it's it's a different way of living.

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Speaker 3: We will be dropping our preview one day this week

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Speaker 3: to get you ready for that national championship. But again

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00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 3: it is Alabama thirteen and one, Georgia thirteen and one.

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Speaker 3: Georgia is an early three point favorite. I checked this morning.

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Speaker 3: It looks like that is holding steady at least for now.

498
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Speaker 3: So we'll discuss that in alarming detail throughout the course

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Speaker 3: of this week. Yes, they played once before.

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Speaker 1: It is a rematch.

501
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 3: Bama won that one by seventeen about a month ago,

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Speaker 3: but we'll get to that in due time. Shall we

503
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Speaker 3: go on out to the Rose Bowl in the interim,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to the Rose Bowl again, presented by Capital

505
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Speaker 3: one venture X. A good one, A fun one. Ohio

506
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 3: State forty eight, Utah forty five. I have Utah led

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Speaker 3: thirty five twenty one and looked really good.

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Speaker 1: But but you did.

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Speaker 3: Get the sense that they weren't exactly holding down the

510
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 3: Ohio State offense, Like even though they were winning, and

511
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Speaker 3: even though it was halftime, you sort of just like, hmm,

512
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 3: you could feel the vibrations in the force that Ohio

513
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 3: State had a lot of meat left on the bone,

514
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 3: and indeed that was the case. Holy hell, did we

515
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Speaker 3: get statistics in this game?

516
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Speaker 1: CJ.

517
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 3: Stroud five seventy two, six touchdowns and one interception, Jackson

518
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 3: Smith and Jigba sixteen targets, fifteen catches and a Rose

519
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 3: Bowl record of three hundred and forty six yards and

520
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 3: three touchdowns. Just incredible video game numbers here. You can't

521
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Speaker 3: even put up these numbers in a video game for

522
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Speaker 3: Jackson Smith and Jigba, And I think on the whole

523
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 3: we could talk about Utah, but just again to close

524
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Speaker 3: the loop on this whole statistical anomaly that we saw

525
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 3: in this game, absolutely absurd to me that wide receiver

526
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 3: three goes for three forty six and three touchdowns and

527
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 3: what was it like wide receiver five or six? In

528
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Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison Junior gets three touchdowns in the freakin' rose

529
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Speaker 3: Ball with Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave sending out So

530
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 3: no shortage of talent on this Ohio State offense as

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Speaker 3: eventually they power their way to victory, led on the

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00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: arm of Stroud and with the hands and legs and

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00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 3: just incredible acrobatics of JSN who again finished with a

534
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 3: Rose Bowl record three forty six fun one to watch

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00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 3: as a fan. Man Like, there was no shortage of

536
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Speaker 3: excitement here.

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Speaker 2: I am horrified as a college football fan that this

538
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 2: wide receiver room also had Jamison Williams in it last season.

539
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 2: That first of all, calling Jackson Smith and jig By

540
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Speaker 2: the number three receiver is there's a heavy degree of

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Speaker 2: quotes that have to go around that number three. Yes,

542
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: because I think he did set a single season record

543
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 2: for receiving yardage for Ohio State now, so he was

544
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 2: arguably their best receiver, but cast into a number three

545
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 2: role in terms of name recognition and targets. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what the targets look like by the end of

547
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Speaker 2: the year, with Chris Olavey and Garrett Wilson obviously having

548
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Speaker 2: none in the Rose Bowl, But in terms of ceiling,

549
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Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba has the highest even with Chris

550
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 2: o'lave and Garrett Wilson in there. To me, just because

551
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: of what when he's what he's able to do in

552
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: the open field with the ball, what he's able to

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Speaker 2: do in terms of fully dominating a secondary I think

554
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: it's a unique quality in that room that's already, as

555
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: you mentioned, just crazy deep so you totally correct with

556
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: all those things. And yeah, it was the Utah defense

557
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 2: then as they were and you know, lots you know,

558
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 2: a lot of ink is going to be spilled, tie

559
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Speaker 2: about what Micah Bernard, the running back playing cornery led

560
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,479
Speaker 2: them in tackles, but he was certainly picked on, you know,

561
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: a good deal by c. J. Stroud and Ryan Day

562
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: and the Ohio State offense. And it just felt as

563
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 2: if Utah was doing everything that a team without that

564
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 2: kind of offensive firepower, but a good amount of firepower,

565
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Speaker 2: you know, getting the kickoff return touchdown from Britain Covey,

566
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Speaker 2: getting that freak touchdown run on what was fourth and

567
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 2: one that Cam Rising just sort of pinballed off of

568
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 2: a bunch of Wio State dudes and stayed up. Like

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Speaker 2: I think there's an underrated thickness to how hard Cam

570
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 2: Rising runs because he's a big dude. This is not

571
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Speaker 2: like a sort of just you know, a replacement level

572
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 2: quarterback physically, like this dude can throw, this dude can run.

573
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Speaker 2: And obviously they were a different team once he got

574
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: in there as the starter. But yeah, there was a

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00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: bit of an inevitability to Ohio State with how at

576
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 2: will they were able to operate on offense even without

577
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 2: being able to run the ball all that consistently. It's

578
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Speaker 2: just you have to have the guys in the second

579
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 2: Utah didn't. Utah was unable to get home all that

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Speaker 2: often against the Ohio State offensive line, even a short

581
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Speaker 2: handed offensive line, and they didn't Necessarily Utah didn't have

582
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 2: those playmakers out wide to push. I mean, what Ohio

583
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: State was without its starting corners, right, Marcus Williamson in

584
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: seven banks yep. So they just it's the difference in

585
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 2: the way that the roster is constructed that Utah still

586
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: needed another break or two to win this game, even

587
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 2: putting up the number of points that they put on

588
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Speaker 2: Ohio State. Obviously, cam Risen goes down late, but I

589
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Speaker 2: think it was Bryson Barnes was the backup quarterback who

590
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: actually threw a couple of dimes to keep Utah in it.

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Speaker 2: I was I kind of flabbergasted as to why Utah

592
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 2: wasn't trying to strategize at the end of the game.

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Speaker 2: They take three timeouts into the off season, which I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you cash them in. I don't know

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00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: if they're rollover timeouts for the twenty twenty two season.

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Speaker 1: It's like Vetorabule, you get credits, coach credits.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 1: That must be it.

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Speaker 2: That must be a Kylewoodham rolling in the digital front

600
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 2: office coaching credits. I was a little taken aback that

601
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Speaker 2: there was not a further attempt to game out the

602
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Speaker 2: end of the Rose Bowl from Utah. But otherwise, just

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00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 2: an incredible watch, an incredible TV show, the most entertaining

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Speaker 2: bowl game that I mean, depending on your thoughts on

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00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 2: I think it was what the Music City Bowl Tennessee

606
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Speaker 2: and Purdue. That game was drunk as well. But I

607
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 2: had a blast watching this game.

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Speaker 1: It was terrific.

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00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: I didn't think about Chris o'lave and Garrett Wilson and

610
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 2: Haskell Garrett and Nicholas petite Frere for a millisecond watching

611
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Speaker 2: this game, which I'm pretty happy about because that seemed

612
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: to be something that riled up a lot of people.

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00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, kirkharb Street or something.

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Speaker 1: I oh yeah, oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think about it for a millisecond, which going

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Speaker 2: in I was bummed out. We talked about this that

617
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 2: it kind of sucked that those guys weren't playing in

618
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 2: this huge game. To me, a huge game that you know,

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Speaker 2: the Rose Bull has this importance for a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Didn't think about it once, just enjoyed the football and

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Speaker 2: it was great.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well again, your final here is forty eight

623
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Speaker 3: to forty five. Ohio State finishes eleven and two. Utah

624
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Speaker 3: with a really good ten and four campaign, just ran

625
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Speaker 3: by the buzz saw. The one thing that I just

626
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 3: wanted to call out one more time here before we

627
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Speaker 3: move on. You know, we talk a lot about the

628
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 3: stats that these guys have put up.

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud's throwing motion is about the smoothest thing I've seen

631
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Speaker 3: all college football season. Yeah, we hear about quarterbacks all

632
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 3: the time who can really spin it? Right? It's one

633
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 3: of our little jokes here. He can really spin it.

634
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 3: There is yeah, minimal effort required for him to throw

635
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Speaker 3: the ball. The length of the field and the fact

636
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 3: that he's so young, the fact that he's just getting started,

637
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 3: the fact that frankly, guys like quinn Ewers are transferring

638
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 3: tells you everything you need to know about this guy's ceiling.

639
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 3: Because he had a remarkable finish too, in a ready

640
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Speaker 3: remarkable season.

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Speaker 2: It almost felt like and all season long, I'm saying

642
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 2: there was a basketball on grass, which is an overused term,

643
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: but it had that feeling of, oh, this guy just

644
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 2: starts fast breaks whether or not they're there or not,

645
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 2: that he passes it ahead to a streaking wing or

646
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 2: something like that. That the guys were so wide open

647
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: in that receiver room all over the field and you're

648
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: watch you know, the Michigan State game. There were some

649
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 2: down moments, of course, you know Michigan and Oregon, but

650
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: Ohio State at its best had that feel of, oh,

651
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: we're playing five on two basketball. Yeah, yeah, And I

652
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 2: don't know who's dunking it this time. I don't know

653
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 2: who's hitting an open three this time. But if we're operating,

654
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 2: eighty is on the table any given week. And even

655
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: with you know, without those two guys at receiver in

656
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl, you're right there, is that just sort

657
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 2: of like, oh, this is a backdoor cut that's wide

658
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: open for yet another eighty R dunk. And I don't

659
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 2: know how you how you hate on any of that,

660
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 2: even if you're a fan of another team, Like, it's

661
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 2: impressive to watch that much athleticism on display, and for CJ.

662
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: Stroud as a first year starter to look that comfortable

663
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: as the conductor of that kind of offensive symphony. It's

664
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 2: it's an amazing visual. Also, everything I just said about

665
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: Ohio State, the opposite is true for that defense. Yeah, yeah, all.

666
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 3: Right, let's go over to the All Stage Sugar Bowl.

667
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 3: Baylor twenty one Old Miss seven Matt Correl hurt at

668
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 3: Corral hurt towards the end of the first quarter, speaking

669
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 3: of charged Twitter moments where everyone going at Kirkhurve Street,

670
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: Corral decided to play. Corral had made comments a few

671
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 3: weeks ago that it wasn't like him to sit out.

672
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: He wanted to.

673
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 3: Play, and good for him. Whatever you want to do,

674
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 3: good for you. He twisted his ankle pretty badly. Eventually

675
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 3: had to be carted off back to the locker room,

676
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 3: came back out on crutches. I saw this morning that

677
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 3: X rays were negative, and it looks like it's just

678
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 3: a really bad high ankle sprain. It was ugly, and

679
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: of course all of our hearts were in our throats

680
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 3: because this is a kid who's clearly going to be

681
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 3: drafted pretty highly into the league. You don't want to

682
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 3: see anybody get hurt, especially in a game like this,

683
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 3: a big game. The All State Sugar Bowl. So with

684
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 3: him going out and Luke Altmeyer coming in, clearly that

685
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 3: meant advantage Baylor, but this was still a pretty close

686
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 3: game late. Yep, the Old Miss defense, for their part,

687
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 3: held really well. It wasn't as if there was an

688
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,919
Speaker 3: offensive explosion, at least on behalf of Gary Bohannon, who

689
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 3: did come back, who did play in this game, He

690
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 3: only had forty yards passing, a touchdown and the interception.

691
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 3: The focal point for this Baylor team was Abram Smith.

692
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,479
Speaker 3: Was that ground attack two hundred and seventy nine yards

693
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 3: and a touchdown in this one is what ultimately gave

694
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 3: them the difference. There was a long pick six towards

695
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 3: the end of this game that really swung things in

696
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: Baylor's favor, But for the most part, despite the fact

697
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 3: that Corral went out, this is a seven to seven

698
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 3: ball game after three quarters, Dan, this is a close matchup.

699
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was close and not that exceptional in terms

700
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: of offensive fireworks. But yeah, the best thing in this

701
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,959
Speaker 2: game was clearly Baylor's defense, especially knowing that they would

702
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,479
Speaker 2: have a green quarterback not used to seeing the type

703
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 2: of pressure Baylor is able to bring. And I just

704
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 2: all in all, it was an amazing story, especially with

705
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 2: where Baylor was last season. For Baylor to not only

706
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 2: win the Big Twelve, but to come out and win

707
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: the Sugar Bowl against a program like Ole Miss. Obviously

708
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 2: a short handed ole Miss, but yeah, not not the

709
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 2: best watch. If you'll like consistent passing, and you know,

710
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 2: you hope Matt Corral is okay and recover as well.

711
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 2: I think he'll have plenty of time. And I just

712
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: everything does not need to be a referendum on everything.

713
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 2: Matt Crow wanted to play. He knew the risks. I

714
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 2: applaud him. I hope he's all right. Everybody you know

715
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 2: approaches the sport and these types of decisions differently, and

716
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 2: you hope for the best for everybody. And so I

717
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: you know, Matt Crew came out on crutches, and I

718
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: would imagine that if you asked him if he would

719
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: do it again, he'd probably say yes to take that chance,

720
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 2: because he got Ole Missed to where they were. They

721
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 2: had an amazing season. So I came away just thoroughly

722
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 2: impressed by Baylor upfront, the big Man Eca was just

723
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 2: all over the place, the LSU transfer Opuwika, Yeah, and

724
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 2: Baylor heads into the off season in a really, really

725
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,720
Speaker 2: nice spot. I wonder how it'll translate on the recruiting

726
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 2: trail moving forward these next couple of seasons. But yeah,

727
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 2: especially I mean the Baylor athletic program just in general,

728
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 2: winning the national championships in basketball like they have these

729
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 2: past few years. It's just I'm sure it's a great

730
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 2: time to be a Baylor Bear.

731
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

732
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 3: By the way, ten sacks for the Baylor defensive unit chees.

733
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 3: So perhaps for Matt Corrall, was better that he took

734
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: an early exit at the end of the first quarter,

735
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 3: because this is a Baylor defense that was hungry. It

736
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 3: was a hungry trail. Bernard who got hurt last year.

737
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 3: One of the things that we talked about in the

738
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 3: twenty twenty season seventeen tackles, ten of which were solo.

739
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 3: So he had a man's effort out there, a total

740
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: dude in helping his team to victory. Baylor finishes with

741
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 3: a twelve and two mark. They of course won the

742
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 3: Big twelve Old Miss ten and three. I was going

743
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 3: back before we recorded, and I was looking at some

744
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 3: of the I guess early polls, like the Coach's poll,

745
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 3: and Old Miss wasn't a top ten team. They were

746
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 3: a top twenty five team. But I think by any measure,

747
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 3: this is a very successful campaign for Lan Kiffin. Oh yeah,

748
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 3: and that old mis squad.

749
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: Let's move on.

750
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl if we must to.

751
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:51,280
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I actually this game was the reason

752
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: why I felt pretty good about going out and getting

753
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 2: a snack before the Rose Bowls. Like, wow, twenty eight seven,

754
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 2: All right, good job Notre Dame. A nice start to

755
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 2: the Marcus Freeman era. Sure this will all go swimmingly.

756
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

757
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State went down twenty eight to seven in the

758
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 3: first half. They proceeded to rip off thirty straight points

759
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 3: to grab the lead. They played with tempo in the

760
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 3: second half. Notre Dame had no answer for it. It

761
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 3: definitely was a case, at least to my untrained eye,

762
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 3: of Mike Gundy of Oklahoma State making necessary adjustments in

763
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 3: Notre Dame not knowing how.

764
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 2: That's how it felt.

765
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 3: And so in the second half the complexion of the

766
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 3: game changed pretty dramatically, not just from the Oklahoma State offense,

767
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 3: which found its legs, but the Notre Dame offense suddenly

768
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 3: couldn't do what they were doing. I saw our friend

769
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 3: Pete Sampson tweeting out, like, Okay, somebody's got to figure

770
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 3: out what's going on with Jack Cone here. Jack con

771
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 3: had a great game. He had five hundred yards and

772
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 3: five touchdowns, most of that in the first half, mid you,

773
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 3: but second half it just the game was moving at

774
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 3: a different clip, at a different pace. He was seeing

775
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 3: the field as well. And credit to Oklahoma State for

776
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 3: mounting a huge comeback here. Mike Gundy said, quote clearly

777
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 3: the biggest win in the history of the school as

778
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 3: they win the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl, and you have to

779
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 3: give them credit. Like I could talk to him blue

780
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: in the face about the Notre Dame offense and how

781
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 3: they basically went air raid in this one, and all

782
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 3: the good things that we saw from the first half

783
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 3: of the Marcus Freeman era, and there's plenty to say

784
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 3: about the second half as well, But I just don't

785
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 3: want to overshadow the fact that this was a hell

786
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 3: of an effort from Oklahoma State to just not.

787
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: Lose their poise.

788
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 3: Spencer Sanders played a hell of a game. He had

789
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 3: the fumble light which might have cost them, but ultimately didn't.

790
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 3: Credit to them for keeping it together for staying motivated

791
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 3: and not just packing this one in early.

792
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: And it could have been uglier too, right Brennan Presley

793
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 2: fumbled it on the goal line as he's about to score.

794
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they would have.

795
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: Gone up ten, I think in that moment. So it

796
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 2: could have like just a wild game. As I I

797
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 2: watched it back, and one of those things that you

798
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 2: could depend on this year is win or lose. There

799
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 2: was something about Oklahoma State's defense in the second half,

800
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: and I was trying to remember the show and I

801
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: finally did. Do you remember the show that involved the

802
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 2: doctor who was like that that was specially trained to diagnose, right,

803
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 2: the rare diseases and disorders and Health Situation House MD. Yeah,

804
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 2: there is something to Nole's MD because what he was

805
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: able to do throughout the Big twelve season. You saw

806
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: it in the Bedlam game, right that. I don't think

807
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,479
Speaker 2: Oklahoma got in the end zone on offense after moving

808
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 2: the ball kind of at will in that first half.

809
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of adjustment Oklahoma State made

810
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 2: against Notre Dame. I do know if I told you

811
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 2: ahead of that game that Jack Cone is going to

812
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 2: throw the ball, damn near seventy times. It would not

813
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: have made you excited to watch.

814
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 3: No Well, if if you had told me that he

815
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 3: threw the ball sixty eight times, I would have assumed

816
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 3: that they were losing by forty points and that this

817
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 3: was the only way they could inch their way back

818
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 3: into it. But right what was apparent I think from

819
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 3: the jump is that they felt if they got the

820
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 3: ball out of his hands quickly, they did a lot

821
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 3: of five wide, They did a lot of motion. They

822
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 3: were trying to get the ball to their playmakers in space.

823
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 3: They did a great job of that early in the

824
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,240
Speaker 3: second half. Like you said, Noel's MD diagnosed the situation

825
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 3: at halftime came out and a lot of those plays

826
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 3: weren't there for Jack Cone And because they were off

827
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 3: the field so quickly, and because Oklahoma State was playing

828
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 3: with tempo, Notre Dame was gassed on defense, they couldn't stop.

829
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 3: First off, whatever they did on offense, Oklahoma State I

830
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 3: think centered around throwing at Clarence Lewis. Because Tay Martin

831
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 3: had a field day. They kept getting that match up.

832
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 3: They kept picking on Clarence Lewis, who I saw some

833
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 3: folks tweeting out went full Gary Gray which deep cut

834
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 3: for Notre Dame fans out there that matchup, in particular,

835
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 3: that tempo. It just all were together and catapulted Oklahoma

836
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 3: State to a thirty seven to thirty five victory. Even

837
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 3: despite the fact that Notre Dame gave up all those

838
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 3: points in the second half, they still had an opportunity

839
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 3: late to get back in this thing, potentially win it,

840
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 3: and the Noles defense just came through.

841
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 2: Well. Tye, as a charter member of the host of

842
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 2: the solid verbal who has watched his team give away

843
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 2: thirty ish unanswered and a loss to a Big twelve

844
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 2: team during bowl season, may I just say welcome, welcome

845
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 2: to my brother in choking.

846
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: Arms, because it's good to be here.

847
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: It doesn't and at least Notre Dame's quarterback was healthy

848
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 2: for all four quarters, and there was at least hope

849
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: that Notre Dame could make three to seven plays to

850
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 2: somehow pull victory back to South Bend. Notre Dame falls.

851
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 2: What was the number, They're now zero to ten in

852
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 2: their last ten major bowl games.

853
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it feels like oh on one hundred.

854
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 3: Yeah it's not Yeah, it's not ideal.

855
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: But should not be a referendum on Marcus Freeman being

856
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 2: thrust into this position, He's I mean, for all intents

857
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 2: and purposes, he's an interim coach yesterday. He is the

858
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 2: full time coach moving forward, but thrust into an interim

859
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 2: situation to close out this season. So again, I don't

860
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 2: look at that as any sort of defining game from

861
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 2: Marcus Freeman as a head coach. The Marcus Freeman era

862
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 2: starts today to me, so I am, I'm excited to

863
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 2: see what Notre Dame looks like moving forward. But man,

864
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State, way to battle Spencer Sanders. Mathematically, we talked

865
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 2: about this a little. It would have been very difficult

866
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 2: for him to have back to back three or four

867
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 2: interception games, just with the way his career has played out.

868
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 2: He's been a little bit on discipline, throwing the ball

869
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,479
Speaker 2: into you know, downfield or whatever. But he was due

870
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 2: for a pretty good game. And you called this too,

871
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 2: that he's going to have two or three plays with

872
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 2: his feet that are going to it's just going to

873
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 2: change field position.

874
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: And he did.

875
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yet he was the leading rusher I believe

876
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 2: for the Pokes, right yep, yep, So just an awesome effort.

877
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 2: Gundy's right, now you know, it was either this game

878
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 2: or I think would they be if hees a decade

879
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 2: ago Stanford, I want to say it's forty one, thirty

880
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 2: eight something along those lines. So great for Oklahoma State.

881
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 2: Way to stay with it and the belief system there

882
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 2: with like no lead is comfortable when you know there

883
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 2: there's a belief in this belief in this offense and

884
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 2: Jim Knowles's ability to adjust. Awesome. Awesome watch not for you,

885
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,959
Speaker 2: but just in general as a nonpartisan person watching this game,

886
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 2: it was. It was fun to see, especially in the

887
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 2: shadow of two pretty horrific games to watch in the playoff.

888
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 3: All right, let's go on over to the Chick fil

889
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 3: A Peach Bowl. We're gonna jump around a little bit here.

890
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.

891
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 3: Michigan State thirty one Pit twenty one pitt led twenty

892
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 3: one to ten midway through the fourth quarter. And that's

893
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 3: despite the fact that Kenny Pickett opted out and Nick Patty,

894
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 3: their backup, went down with an injury. So the down

895
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 3: to their third string guy, Davis Bevell, who for his

896
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 3: own part, didn't do terribly fourteen of eighteen. He won

897
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 3: forty nine, a touchdown, a pick. He was under a

898
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 3: lot of duress, which I think is the main takeaway

899
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 3: because Michigan State brought the house, but you know, got

900
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 3: a fumble return for a touchdown right at the start

901
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 3: of the third quarter to pad their lead. They're up

902
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 3: again twenty one to ten midway through the fourth quarter.

903
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 3: In the final eight minutes, as is ever the story

904
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 3: of the Michigan State Spartans. In twenty twenty one, Sparty

905
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 3: rips off twenty one on answer to win. They cap

906
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 3: it off with a late seventy eight yard interception return

907
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,760
Speaker 3: by Cal Halliday, their linebacker, but too late touchdown passes

908
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 3: from Peyton Thorn gave Sparty win number eleven on the season.

909
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 3: He finished with three point fifty four passing and three touchdowns.

910
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 3: Not much of a ground attack for him because Kenneth

911
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 3: walk the third was sitting out. But Peyton Thorn, man

912
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 3: like didn't always have great games, but clearly was a

913
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 3: catalyst for this team in a really big moment in

914
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 3: a New Year's six Bowl game. Michigan State on the

915
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 3: whole just sort of like too stubborn to die this season.

916
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 3: You could never count them out, especially in bowl season,

917
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 3: right and we talked about this in the build up

918
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 3: Michigan State. You were never going to out effort them.

919
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 3: They were always motivated to play. They played every game

920
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,919
Speaker 3: hard from whistle to whistle. And they did it again

921
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 3: here thirty one to twenty one. They mount the comeback late,

922
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 3: they get the job done in a really big spot against.

923
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: A good team like I came away.

924
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 3: Very impressed with pitt because they were without Kenny Pickett,

925
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 3: without their backup, and still you got Jordan Addison out there,

926
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 3: who's clearly going to be an NFL guy, like, oh h,

927
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 3: so good in the open field. The pit defense was very,

928
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 3: very good as well. A lot to like about both

929
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 3: these teams. But again it is that motivation station with

930
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 3: Michigan State finding guys who step up in a big moment.

931
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: To get the job done. Thirty one to twenty one.

932
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: Congrats to them.

933
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, easier with your starting quarterback to win a game

934
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 2: like this and to come back in a game like this,

935
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 2: and certainly was eventually for Michigan State. And yeah, you

936
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 2: know tip of the cap from Michigan State. You know,

937
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 2: it's from where they were at the end of the

938
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 2: Mark d Antonio era with like the empty Senior Day.

939
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 2: If you remember that visual of guys coming out with

940
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 2: parents to kind of an empty stadium in East Lansing

941
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: and to where they are now. And sure, pits down

942
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 2: to its third string quarterback, and sure, like the Ohio

943
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 2: State and Purdue games were ugly, I get all of that,

944
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 2: but they weathered. This is you know, Michigan State was

945
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 2: sort of the defining win year clunker team in a

946
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 2: very positive way of twenty twenty one. The way that

947
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 2: they were able to come back against Michigan, the way

948
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: that they beat Miami at times looking like they were

949
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 2: going to lose that game at times, that was a

950
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: nice one for Michigan State, and going down like they

951
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 2: did against Pitt's third string quarterback. And I did see

952
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 2: the message board geniuses the Twitter account, which might be

953
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: the only good college football Twitter account, there was some

954
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 2: Pitt fan who said, I have no respect for Michigan State.

955
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 2: You almost lost to our third string. Your conference is terrible.

956
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 2: I have nothing good to say about Michigan State. I

957
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,439
Speaker 2: love that energy heading into the new year. I loved

958
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 2: it so much. And Michigan State they won their clunker.

959
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 2: How do you not tip your cap to that? I

960
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 2: love it.

961
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 3: Let's move on, Let's go to the out Back Bowl.

962
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 3: Another Big ten team in action, Arkansas twenty four, Penn

963
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 3: State ten. How much of this game did you watch?

964
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 2: A good chunk.

965
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 3: Penn State was without six of their best players, five

966
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 3: of which were key contributors on defense. Bunch of guys

967
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 3: opted out. It didn't show initially. Initially, I actually felt

968
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 3: pretty good about Penn State because the defense looked solid

969
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 3: in the first half. But over the course of the game,

970
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:47,399
Speaker 3: it really began to show because Sam Pittman saw it.

971
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 3: He just eventually switched up to a full zone read

972
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 3: rushing offense. And so if you're looking at kJ Jefferson's

973
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 3: stat line and you're saying, wow, he just had ninety

974
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 3: eight yards passing.

975
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: What happened?

976
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 3: Well, he had won ten in a touchdown on the

977
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 3: ground between him and Raheem Sanders and Dominique Johnson and

978
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 3: Malik Hornsby who came in, and it was just freaking

979
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 3: playing like zone ree quarterback.

980
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

981
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 3: Officially, fifty eight rushing attempts, three hundred and fifty three

982
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 3: yards and three touchdowns. Penn State led it half. Arkansas

983
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 3: shut him down in the second half and just ran

984
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 3: the hell out of the ball. That was all they

985
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 3: had to.

986
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 2: Do directly at Penn State. Yeah, especially kJ Jefferson on

987
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:25,919
Speaker 2: those big third and fourth downs.

988
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

989
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 3: kJ Jefferson did what he had to do to win

990
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 3: this game. So I thought, again, if the motto of

991
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 3: the moment is making your adjustments at halftime, Mike Gundy

992
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 3: did it. Arkansas clearly did it here against Penn State,

993
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 3: just seeing what they saw in film, running the hell

994
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 3: out of the ball, wearing down a Penn State defense

995
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 3: that was clearly playing shorthanded.

996
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Arkansas doing what it does to a lot

997
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks, which is make them think for an extra

998
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 2: second and a half, you know, dropping that third safety deep,

999
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 2: where's this guy going to break? Where's this guy going

1000
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 2: to go? And made Sean Clifford think way too long

1001
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 2: and it showed.

1002
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:02,879
Speaker 1: It showed.

1003
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 2: I mean, Penn State shorthanded. A lot of these teams

1004
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 2: are shorthanded. That's just sort of the reality of bull

1005
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 2: season in twenty twenty two. But you could see that

1006
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 2: Barry Otom and the entirety of the the Arkansas defense

1007
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 2: really came to play and gave Sean Clifford way too

1008
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 2: much to think about.

1009
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 3: Clifford was, okay, two picks in this game, we mentioned

1010
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 3: Parker Washington still on the field despite the fact that

1011
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,879
Speaker 3: Johan Dotson had opted out. Parker Washington had a great game,

1012
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 3: had one of those Odell catches.

1013
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 1: It was an amazing catch.

1014
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 3: He led the receiving corps with ninety eight yards seven catches, but.

1015
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: Clifford had two picks.

1016
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 3: We can talk in the off season about whether or

1017
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 3: not he should have come back or announced that he's

1018
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 3: coming back for the twenty twenty two campaign. I have

1019
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 3: thoughts on that, and I thought this game actually was

1020
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 3: a pretty good microcosm for my feelings on Sean Clifford.

1021
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 3: Like he's not a bad quarterback, it's just like you

1022
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 3: said with k mcnamer, there's a very obvious ceiling, yep,

1023
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 3: and he makes some mistakes started going to cost him.

1024
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: Again.

1025
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 3: We'll get into that in the off season. But a

1026
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 3: great win here for Arkansas, great season for Arkansas man

1027
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 3: nine and four, nine and four with this kind of schedule. Granted,

1028
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 3: some of the teams on that schedule didn't live up

1029
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 3: to the billing. But if you're Sam Pittman man year

1030
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 3: two doing what they did here, if you are a

1031
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,760
Speaker 3: Hogs fan, you gotta be thrilled. What a campaign for them.

1032
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they get Jaden Hazelwood coming in. I'm just

1033
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,720
Speaker 2: a kJ Jefferson super fan, unabashed. He is everything i'd

1034
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 2: like in a quarterback.

1035
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: Now.

1036
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 2: Didn't throw a ton obviously against a still pretty strong

1037
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 2: Penn State defense, but his ceiling is tantalizing.

1038
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. He's incredible.

1039
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 3: Okay, so big win for Arkansas. Let's go over the

1040
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 3: Verbo Citrus Bowl. Kentucky twenty, Iowa seventeen. This one kind

1041
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 3: of started off boring in Iowa esque and it's seeming

1042
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 3: like a snoozer. The first half moved very quickly. They

1043
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 3: were three minutes into the third quarter when Notre Dame

1044
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 3: and Oklahoma State went to halftime, and they both kicked

1045
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 3: off at one pm Eastern h This game ended up

1046
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 3: being beautiful in its own way.

1047
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 2: Beautiful.

1048
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, But after that, after that lousy first half, Iowa

1049
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 3: storms back scores fourteen straight points to grab a lead

1050
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 3: early in the fourth quarter. They held the lead until

1051
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 3: the final minutes, when Kentucky went on an eight play

1052
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 3: eighty five yard drive in just a minute and forty

1053
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 3: three seconds, due in large part to a great effort

1054
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,280
Speaker 3: from Wandale Robinson hometown kid Wanda.

1055
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hey, gorgeous. Oh he was everywhere gorgeous.

1056
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 3: Fifty two yard catch and run that set up a

1057
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 3: Christopher Rodriguez six yard score for the win. Iowa did

1058
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,919
Speaker 3: its thing, you know, finished with seven sacks. They had

1059
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 3: Will Levis running for his life pretty much the entire game.

1060
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 3: And I got a credit iowas offense because they did

1061
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 3: show flashes of creativity and looked the lot better. Yep,

1062
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 3: in the second half, still only scored seventeen points. Let's

1063
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:15,240
Speaker 3: not get two carried away here. But it was again

1064
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 3: apparent to me that if they want to get creative

1065
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,240
Speaker 3: and if they actually want to do something with their athletes,

1066
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 3: they can, and it's Brian Farren's holding them up, like,

1067
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 3: please do more of what we saw down the stretch.

1068
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: No more play action passes on third and ten. They

1069
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: don't work in real life.

1070
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 3: No boring game at the start, but finished off and

1071
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 3: I thought a really exciting fashion.

1072
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, essentially it's Will Levis weathering Iowa, completely

1073
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 2: dominating the offensive line in front of him, and to

1074
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 2: make those plays at the end of the game, to

1075
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 2: lead that drive to make plays that was crazy impressive.

1076
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 2: Kentucky shorthanded at least on defense. But I think what

1077
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 2: Cavasi Smoke didn't play in this game. No Josh Ali,

1078
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 2: So they're down a bunch of dudes that would have

1079
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 2: contributed to a win. And fortunately for Kentucky they have

1080
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 2: that game ending drive. And you're right, Iowa did open

1081
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 2: things up impressively enough. Any of the throwback stuff they

1082
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 2: ran the ball, well, just not enough. There's just too

1083
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:15,760
Speaker 2: many long stretches of Iowa offensive malaise to win games

1084
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 2: like this. So it was it was a fun watch

1085
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 2: in that second half. I wish it would have been

1086
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 2: four quarters of Fun's.

1087
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 3: Go over to the trans Perfect Music City Bowl. Another

1088
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 3: fun one, Dan, This one went to overtime, Yes it did.

1089
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 3: This wasn't fun with a qualifier. This was just fun period.

1090
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 3: Ninety three points, close to thirteen hundred yards, A ton

1091
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 3: of big chunk plays.

1092
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:39,439
Speaker 1: In this one.

1093
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 3: I had a Tennessee minus five bet so I was

1094
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 3: on the edge of my seat here Tennessee got screwed.

1095
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: Did you see the end of this?

1096
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: Yeah? I have mixed thoughts. I mean, the guy was

1097
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 2: pulled forward into the end zone, which is a penalty,

1098
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: So I don't know how I feel, but continue.

1099
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: Here's the text.

1100
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 3: Okay, first overtime period, Jalen Wright, the ball carrier for Tennessee,

1101
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 3: whistled down just short of the goal line on fourth down.

1102
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 3: The call to quick whistle, for sure, a quick wit.

1103
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 3: It was a very quick whistle. The call in the

1104
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 3: field is that his forward progress had been stopped just

1105
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 3: before he reached the ball over the line with the

1106
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 3: second effort. They reviewed it, but forward progress is like

1107
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 3: almost never overturned. That's impossible to overturn, right. I thought

1108
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 3: it was a terrible call. I thought it was awful.

1109
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 3: It was a quick whistle. I understand why they can't

1110
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 3: overturn that with replay, but they should have given Tennessee

1111
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 3: the touchdown. They may not have won, but it should

1112
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 3: have been a touchdown. In so doing, Purdue ends up

1113
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 3: going to win the game with a field forty eight

1114
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 3: to forty five. Hell of a win for them. This

1115
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 3: is a good game. They were without David Bell, without

1116
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 3: George Carl loftis so to do what they did this

1117
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 3: season and then to win this bowl game against It's

1118
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,439
Speaker 3: a good SEC team and a good quarterback and Hendon

1119
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 3: Hooker had five touchdowns at three seventy eight passing.

1120
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 2: Yes, Cedric Tillman was ridiculous.

1121
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 3: Not a lot of defense here, but Jeff Bram again

1122
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 3: leads the Spoiler makers to victory. They finished nine and four,

1123
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 3: which is just a remarkable campaign that nobody saw coming

1124
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 3: at the start of the year. So credit to them

1125
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 3: where it's due.

1126
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 2: I certainly did not. I am raising my hand. I

1127
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: did not see this team as an eight and eight

1128
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 2: win regular season team with a bowl win over a

1129
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 2: dangerous Tennessee team. That would have surprised me if you

1130
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 2: told me that in August. And yeah, good for Purdue

1131
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 2: for weathering their own mistakes, Aidan O'Connell threw what three picks? Yep,

1132
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 2: they're able to. I mean they were up in this

1133
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 2: game late and so game goes to overtime and get

1134
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 2: the stop they need and win it. I don't know

1135
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 2: what to say. I mean like it was a quick whistle.

1136
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 2: I understand the controversy from that call, if anything. And

1137
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 2: I saw our friend Chrispy Brown, who is a biased

1138
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 2: Purdue alum, but saying it's it was a quick whistle.

1139
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 2: If you want to call the penalty as well, then

1140
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 2: it's fourth and seven or whatever, and Tennessee has one

1141
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 2: more chance to get it because you're allowed to push

1142
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 2: but not pull a ball carrier. So I don't know.

1143
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's good TV for me,

1144
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 2: And I understand if you're a Tennessee fan if you're pissed,

1145
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 2: and I understand if you're a Perdue fan, thinking whatever

1146
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 2: wins and win onward.

1147
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, the future is bright for both these teams. By

1148
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 3: the way, Hendon Hooker coming back.

1149
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

1150
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 3: For Tennessee, he was one of, if not the most

1151
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 3: efficient passers in all the nation, and more talent on

1152
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 3: the way at the quarterback position, especially for the Perdue

1153
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 3: boiler Makers.

1154
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: So a lot to like, a lot to be excited about.

1155
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 3: As they win the Music City Bowl. Let's stick with

1156
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 3: more Big ten teams in Bowl action. The SRS Las

1157
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 3: Vegas Bowl between Wisconsin and Arizona State. Wisconsin has seven

1158
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 3: point lead with nine to fifty seven left in the game,

1159
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 3: and they got the ball back on their own three

1160
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 3: yard line and then they ran an eighteen play drive

1161
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 3: that burned off the entire remaining quarter to seal the

1162
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 3: w They didn't even score, They didn't even score, They.

1163
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 1: Just burned off, just sat on them. It burned it off.

1164
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 3: Arizona State was without their top two running backs in

1165
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 3: this game, which sort of made it impossible for them

1166
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 3: to score. They didn't really have much in the way

1167
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 3: of offense. Brailen Allen Big Game one point fifty nine

1168
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 3: had the MVP Award for this game.

1169
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1170
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if this was a huge surprise. It

1171
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 3: sort of went the way I expected. And a credit

1172
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 3: to Wisconsin on finishing nine to four. It's a great

1173
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 3: story despite starting out one to three.

1174
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Graham Martz completing seventy percent of his passes

1175
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 2: and having success downfield a bit of a surprise to me.

1176
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 2: Braylen Allen running like he did, not a surprise. Wisconsin

1177
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 2: winning this game in the manner in which they did

1178
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 2: against a shorthanded ASU not a big surprise. And yeah,

1179
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 2: good for Wisconsin given the struggles that they had early

1180
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 2: on in the season to finish it out with a

1181
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 2: Bowl win against a big team. And I'm not gonna

1182
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 2: say the Vegas Bawl is all that big, but win

1183
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 2: is better than a loss.

1184
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 3: Absolutely, two more games here to discuss. Let's go over

1185
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 3: to the tax Slayer Gator Bowl Wake Forest thirty eight

1186
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 3: Rutgers ten Rutgers was a late addition to this game

1187
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 3: because A and M had to back out. They came

1188
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 3: in as a seventeen point dog, and they lasted about

1189
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 3: a quarter until this one started getting out of hand.

1190
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 3: In fairness, it was sort of an impossible ask, like,

1191
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 3: come on, right, what did we really expect here? Three

1192
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 3: hundred and four yards and three touchdowns for Sam Hartman,

1193
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 3: A big game for at Perry, who had ten catchers

1194
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 3: for a buck twenty seven and a touch. Wake Forest

1195
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 3: eleven wins for just the second time. Amazing in program history.

1196
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: Good on them.

1197
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 2: One of the more brutal fun offenses to watch in

1198
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 2: wake Forest. But Wake to eleven wins. Do whatever gets

1199
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 2: you there? Who am I to judge?

1200
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1201
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 2: Great for wake I mean, I don't know how far

1202
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 2: back we didn't have. We talked about Oregon, Oklahoma? We

1203
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 2: did how far did we? I forget all of these things?

1204
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 2: And we talked about like to carry and Joiner in

1205
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 2: South Carolina being a surprise quarterback. I forget all of

1206
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 2: these things. But yeah, what else? What do we have left?

1207
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 2: The Tony the Tiger Sunbull.

1208
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 3: Tony the Tiger Sun bowl Man, Central Michigan wins twenty

1209
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 3: four to twenty one weird circumstance here as well. Central

1210
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 3: Michigan the Chippewas originally slated for the Arizona Bowl, but

1211
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 3: they ended up in this one because Miami backed out.

1212
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 3: And nobody says no to that Tony the Tiger money.

1213
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 3: If you have the chance, it comes Colin. Nobody says

1214
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:44,439
Speaker 3: no to Tony the Tiger. Sort of a surprising outcome here,

1215
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 3: to be honest, especially since Central Michigan had short notice

1216
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 3: to get prepped for Wazoo, and Wazuo had played hard

1217
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 3: all season for Jake Dickard. And it didn't help that

1218
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 3: Jade and Lauren got hurt here. But sure, and the

1219
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 3: bit I saw they just didn't play well. They were

1220
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 3: out of sink. Central jumped out to a twenty one

1221
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 3: to nil halftime lead and sort of milked it, sort

1222
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 3: of milked it to end up getting the dubbed twenty

1223
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 3: four to twenty one.

1224
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 2: Did was that intentional with Tony the Tiger and frosted

1225
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 2: flakes and milking it? Was that a thing that you

1226
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 2: thought it wasn't a bit?

1227
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: That was not a bit?

1228
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 2: No, Now, that's how much of a pro you are

1229
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 2: that you were just in the mindset and the right

1230
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 2: wars just happened to be on the tip of your tongue.

1231
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: Not a bit, I promise.

1232
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, good, good for the Chips. You know, I'm anti

1233
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 2: Chip because of a personal thing from a long time

1234
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 2: ago where I feel like the wrestling team stole a microphone,

1235
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 2: uh transmitter of mine. But uh, you know, to short

1236
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 2: notice take on a new opponent, it's can't be easy.

1237
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 2: And good for Jim mckawain and the chipwas I don't

1238
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 2: believe he was doused with anything like sweet frosted flake

1239
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 2: milk from a Gatorade cooler. There was nothing.

1240
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,959
Speaker 1: I think he had frosted flakes poured on him. Didn't

1241
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: he was?

1242
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 2: Were they frosted flakes? Okay? Good for him, that doesn't

1243
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:00,040
Speaker 2: seem so.

1244
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 3: Did you want to talk about the Mayo and we

1245
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 3: mentioned it because we were recording oh wow during the show.

1246
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, during the show, we were giving live updates

1247
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 3: in on demand Universe what was transpiring between North Carolina

1248
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 3: and South Carolina. We mentioned that Shane Biemer was going

1249
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 3: to get the Mayo bath. They almost knocked him out.

1250
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 3: I don't know if he saw that.

1251
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they nailed him on the head. You made

1252
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 2: some sort of joke on Twitter about entering the Mayo

1253
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 2: concussion protocol.

1254
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 3: Correct, they needed to give it a bit of a

1255
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 3: jolt in order to get that Mayo out. They claimed

1256
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 3: to have watered it down, but nonetheless, yeah, it was sludgy.

1257
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 3: It was definitely a bit hairy there for a second.

1258
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 3: South Carolina wins thirty eight to twenty one over North Carolina,

1259
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 3: continuing the charmed season for Frank Beemer. You mentioned the

1260
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 3: surprise Shane Biemer, but Frank Biemer probably had a good

1261
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 3: time too, I said, Frank, I meant change to carry

1262
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 3: and Joyner whom you mentioned earlier, nine for nine as

1263
01:03:56,760 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 3: a quarterback with one hundred and sixty yards passing.

1264
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 2: And yeah one touch. Amazing story on the day.

1265
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 3: Big effort on the ground for Kevin Harris who had

1266
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 3: a buck eighty two here. So Sam Hall announced he's

1267
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 3: going pro. Not really a big surprise there, but did

1268
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 3: play in this game.

1269
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 2: Shane Beemer calling out was it Dennis Dodd after the game, yep,

1270
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 2: calling him miserable, YEP, calling him miserable, Which I've met

1271
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 2: Dennis Dodd. He seems like a nice enough dude to me.

1272
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 2: But because I guess he picked against South Carolina in

1273
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 2: a big way to in August whatever. Ahead of the season,

1274
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 2: South Carolina was an absolute surprise team, both to make

1275
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 2: it to a bowl and to win a bowl like

1276
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 2: they did, and the fact that they did the reverse

1277
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 2: of the usual narrative of Okay, this quarterback's not working out,

1278
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 2: he's now playing linebacker, he's now all over the field

1279
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 2: at safety, whatever. The fact that they bring into Kerry

1280
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 2: and Joyner as a quarterback, a much heralded high school quarterback,

1281
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 2: plays receiver for three years. Line him up at receiver

1282
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 2: during the twenty minute it's a media availability at practice

1283
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 2: earlier in the week, and then start him at quarterback.

1284
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 2: Who is what the third or fourth quarterback to play

1285
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 2: for South Carolina and have him wildly succeed. I love

1286
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 2: that inverted narrative.

1287
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 3: It's amazing and you got to be excited if you're

1288
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 3: a South Carolina fan because, oh yeah, support is on

1289
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 3: the way right Spencer Ratler. We'll see which direction things

1290
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:23,919
Speaker 3: go there. But this is a team that played hard

1291
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 3: for Shane Beemer and probably Frank as well. So sure

1292
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:31,479
Speaker 3: more to come in the South Carolina story. The Shane

1293
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 3: Beemer higher though looking like it's paying some early dividends

1294
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 3: anything further Dan before we let the fine people go here.

1295
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 2: I don't know, is there any like sort of draft

1296
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 2: declaration or coach movement or anything like that, any news

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Speaker 2: item that stands out to you? Or is that something

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Speaker 2: we want to save for a future show to drill

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Speaker 2: down on a little deep.

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Speaker 3: We need off season content, man, Yeah, that's true, we

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Speaker 3: didn't need, so we're gonna save that until we have

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Speaker 3: more to offer. Don't forget to go on out to

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Speaker 3: our website cliverrabl dot com again for more information how

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Speaker 3: you can get our past shows. Please do subscribe, rate

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Speaker 3: review like, tell your friends about our podcast out on

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Speaker 3: Apple and Spotify, follow along on social media, follow along

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Speaker 3: on YouTube at YouTube dot com, slash the Solid verbal,

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Speaker 3: and don't forget to go on out to solid giveaway

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Speaker 3: dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's where you can get.

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Speaker 3: Your name in the hat to win that Desmond Howard

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Speaker 3: signed Minnie helmet. That contest is ongoing for about another

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Speaker 3: week or so.

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Speaker 2: Did you eat well? You asked me what my watch

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Speaker 2: setup and eating set up was. How'd you do you know?

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Speaker 1: Not really? Ah, I had a COVID scare.

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Speaker 3: I know you're feeling okay now though, I'm okay, but

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Speaker 3: I thought I had it. I thought I caught it.

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Speaker 3: Thankfully I didn't, but I was feeling out of sorts

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Speaker 3: and therefore wasn't going to go out and be around

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Speaker 3: people and pick up food or any of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Did the responsible thing and we pulled the move where

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Speaker 3: we made two kuliflower pizzas in the oven.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, on New Year's Day.

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Speaker 2: So you gotta go big for the National Championship.

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Speaker 3: That for the National Championship, it will be like a

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Speaker 3: feast of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable.

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Speaker 1: Good.

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Speaker 2: I love to hear that.

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Speaker 3: I have not decided yet what that will be, but

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Speaker 3: we've got a week to decide. Dan, don't forget. We

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Speaker 3: will be doing our National Championship preview over the course

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Speaker 3: of the next week. We will be doing something I'm

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Speaker 3: sure for the National Championship as well. So stay tuned

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Speaker 3: here if you like the verbal for that guy over there,

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Speaker 3: my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Tie Hill and

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Speaker 3: the brand. Thanks for downloading, listening, playing along at home.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back in a few short days. In the meantime,

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Speaker 3: as always, stay solid, peace,