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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Solid Verbo hell.

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Speaker 2: That for me, I'm a man, I'm forty. I've heard

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Speaker 2: so many players say, well, I want to be happy.

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Speaker 1: Is that woo? Woof? And them and ty Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the salad Rebel boys and girls. My name is

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Speaker 1: Kai hilden Brandt. You will hear from Dan Rubinstein momentarily

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Speaker 1: because this is an excerpt from College Football Thursdays, the

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Speaker 1: show we do live every Thursday evening five pm East,

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Speaker 1: two pm West. We play games, We talk about a

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff we don't have an opportunity to get

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Speaker 1: into on our normal Thursday preview episode. In this excerpt,

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Speaker 1: in particular, we talk about the night window in a

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Speaker 1: little bit more detail. I'm thrilled about the night window

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Speaker 1: of games in week ten. We've got Alabama LSU, We've

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Speaker 1: got Notre Dame Clemson. We've even got a weird game

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Speaker 1: between NC State and Wake Forest that I think could

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Speaker 1: be highly entertaining. We accompany this segment with the appropriate

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Speaker 1: amount of Ryan Gosling sound bites, as we want to

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Speaker 1: do here on the Solid Ruble. If you weren't able

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Speaker 1: to make it out this Thursday. Hope you can join

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Speaker 1: us next Thursday again five pm East, two pm West.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy this excerpt from college football Thursdays, and if we

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Speaker 1: don't talk to you beforehand, enjoy Week ten. Stay solid.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to the nightcap, because I think the

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Speaker 1: nightcap is the most exciting. We don't We only have

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Speaker 1: a one through three ranking. We don't go up to four,

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Speaker 2: We can object to object to the object to the

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Speaker 1: Okay, that was improv there from Dan Rubinstein.

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Speaker 2: I tried my best. Yeah, I mean, I'm what I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to do, ty is build the excitement, brick by brick. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: when it comes to Ryan Gosling and the Jack Tracker,

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Speaker 1: Late game seven PMSPN Alabama minus thirteen and a half.

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Speaker 1: My voice just goes up with that one too.

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Speaker 2: Minus thirteen and a half.

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Speaker 1: On the road at LSU, number ten LSU. Now through

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Speaker 1: this new series of playoff rankings, we've also got Clemson

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Speaker 1: minus three and a half on the road at Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: We've also got Kansas State at home about a two

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Speaker 1: and a half three point dog against the Texas Longhorns.

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Speaker 1: We've also got wake Forest against NC State a battle

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Speaker 1: of six and two teams also got Florida State Miami

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Speaker 1: A lot of big time games in that night cap, Dan.

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Speaker 2: Huge, absolutely huge. I think we got a message perhaps

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Speaker 2: on Forbolers dot Com that Rutgers, who's hosting Michigan, has

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Speaker 2: America's worst red zone defense. So if Michigan's not able

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Speaker 2: guess if you're looking at whatever that game twenty four

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Speaker 2: to twenty five, twenty six points spread for Michigan. If

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Speaker 2: they have that opportunity, then it's time to panic if

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Alabama LSU. This is obviously the police,

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Speaker 1: the show piece here of the nightcap. That's a big number,

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Speaker 1: thirteen and a half points. Even as LSU has gotten better,

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Speaker 1: there is still a fair amount of skepticism that their

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Speaker 1: offense the way it is presently constructed, can hang with,

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Speaker 1: can knock off, can whatever. The Alabama crimson tide. Alabama

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Speaker 1: is also not impervious. Alabama has shown vulnerability. They've lost

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Speaker 1: once already their season has been in fits and starts

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Speaker 2: Dan, Yeah, No, it's that's a big number. It's a

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Speaker 2: I actually really just like Alabama, because I'm not the

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Speaker 2: It puts a lot of weight on ole Miss being

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Speaker 1: Let you know in the chat what everyone thinks about

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Speaker 1: this game is a big point spread. We can come

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Speaker 1: Thirteen and a hals a big freaking number.

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Speaker 2: Counterpoint, if you tell Nick Saban, you only have to

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Speaker 2: worry about Swag Kelly or Johnny Manziel or Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 2: He still struggles sometimes, well he struggles.

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Speaker 2: I'm in on K State. Texas coming off of a

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Speaker 2: I'm just not sure what there is to bank on

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Speaker 2: And you know, Cloma State was beat up. Spencer Sanders

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Speaker 2: I don't like to say this, A lot of what

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Speaker 1: This guy, and this guy's the guy?

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Speaker 2: Is he like the best of him? Is the best

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Speaker 2: of him? Absolutely can make incredible winning throws against very good,

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Speaker 2: if not excellent teams. What does his seventh best pass

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Speaker 2: worries me about Texas on the road in a weird

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