Speaker 1: Welcome to the Solid Verbo hell.
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Speaker 2: so many players say, well, I want to be happy.
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Speaker 1: to the salad Rebel boys and girls. My name is
Speaker 1: Kai hilden Brandt. You will hear from Dan Rubinstein momentarily
Speaker 1: because this is an excerpt from College Football Thursdays, the
Speaker 1: show we do live every Thursday evening five pm East,
Speaker 1: two pm West. We play games, We talk about a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff we don't have an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: into on our normal Thursday preview episode. In this excerpt,
Speaker 1: in particular, we talk about the night window in a
Speaker 1: little bit more detail. I'm thrilled about the night window
Speaker 1: of games in week ten. We've got Alabama LSU, We've
Speaker 1: got Notre Dame Clemson. We've even got a weird game
Speaker 1: between NC State and Wake Forest that I think could
Speaker 1: be highly entertaining. We accompany this segment with the appropriate
Speaker 1: amount of Ryan Gosling sound bites, as we want to
Speaker 1: do here on the Solid Ruble. If you weren't able
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Speaker 1: Enjoy this excerpt from college football Thursdays, and if we
Speaker 1: don't talk to you beforehand, enjoy Week ten. Stay solid.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the nightcap, because I think the
Speaker 1: nightcap is the most exciting. We don't We only have
Speaker 1: a one through three ranking. We don't go up to four,
Speaker 1: do we.
Speaker 2: We can object to object to the object to the
Speaker 2: object to the object to the.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was improv there from Dan Rubinstein.
Speaker 2: I tried my best. Yeah, I mean, I'm what I'm
Speaker 2: trying to do, ty is build the excitement, brick by brick. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when it comes to Ryan Gosling and the Jack Tracker,
Speaker 2: that's all.
Speaker 1: Late game seven PMSPN Alabama minus thirteen and a half.
Speaker 1: My voice just goes up with that one too.
Speaker 2: Minus thirteen and a half.
Speaker 1: On the road at LSU, number ten LSU. Now through
Speaker 1: this new series of playoff rankings, we've also got Clemson
Speaker 1: minus three and a half on the road at Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: We've also got Kansas State at home about a two
Speaker 1: and a half three point dog against the Texas Longhorns.
Speaker 1: We've also got wake Forest against NC State a battle
Speaker 1: of six and two teams also got Florida State Miami
Speaker 1: A lot of big time games in that night cap, Dan.
Speaker 2: Huge, absolutely huge. I think we got a message perhaps
Speaker 2: on Forbolers dot Com that Rutgers, who's hosting Michigan, has
Speaker 2: America's worst red zone defense. So if Michigan's not able
Speaker 2: to move the ball in the red zone into the
Speaker 2: end zone, then we know something is wrong. So I
Speaker 2: guess if you're looking at whatever that game twenty four
Speaker 2: to twenty five, twenty six points spread for Michigan. If
Speaker 2: it doesn't work out for the Wolverines and Piscataway when
Speaker 2: they have that opportunity, then it's time to panic if
Speaker 2: you're a Michigan fan.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Alabama LSU. This is obviously the police,
Speaker 1: the show piece here of the nightcap. That's a big number,
Speaker 1: thirteen and a half points. Even as LSU has gotten better,
Speaker 1: there is still a fair amount of skepticism that their
Speaker 1: offense the way it is presently constructed, can hang with,
Speaker 1: can knock off, can whatever. The Alabama crimson tide. Alabama
Speaker 1: is also not impervious. Alabama has shown vulnerability. They've lost
Speaker 1: once already their season has been in fits and starts
Speaker 1: on the road. If you look at what Alabama's done,
Speaker 1: they've clearly shown some weakness. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is the Alabama of two years ago. It's still
Speaker 1: a very good, talent laden team. They've got the reigning
Speaker 1: Heisman winner playing quarterback. They've got a running back in
Speaker 1: Jamior Gibbs who is incredible. They can use him out
Speaker 1: of the backfield, whether it's running, whether it's in the
Speaker 1: passing game. And clearly the defense is pretty good as well.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to like on the Alabama side.
Speaker 1: The question is how good has ls you've gotten over
Speaker 1: these last couple of weeks, because it feels genuinely like
Speaker 1: this team is trending in a direction or maybe they
Speaker 1: don't beat Alabama, but maybe they scare them. This game
Speaker 1: is in death Valley.
Speaker 2: Dan, Yeah, No, it's that's a big number. It's a
Speaker 2: number that makes you think that there's almost something ominous
Speaker 2: at play, whether it's an injury thing or somebody's going
Speaker 2: to be healthy that we didn't expect to be healthy,
Speaker 2: That something, even in the shadow of Halloween.
Speaker 1: Is a little bit I don't know.
Speaker 2: I actually really just like Alabama, because I'm not the
Speaker 2: premise that LSU is a fully realized version of himself
Speaker 2: or has the roster now, or has the explosive plays
Speaker 2: or the ability to stop explosive plays on defense, which
Speaker 2: I can still see LSU players bouncing off of Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: It puts a lot of weight on ole Miss being
Speaker 2: really strong and what they were able to do after
Speaker 2: falling behind whatever it was seventeen three, twenty to three
Speaker 2: and just running it up on them and figuring it
Speaker 2: out and putting pressure on Jackson Dart. I think the
Speaker 2: ability to make Jackson Dart beat you is a little
Speaker 2: bit different than the ability to make Bryce Young beat
Speaker 2: you and succeed in doing so. And so if you
Speaker 2: are an enormous believer in ole Miss, then obviously you
Speaker 2: have to be an enormous believer in LSU and covering
Speaker 2: this spread. I am not an enormous believer right now
Speaker 2: in ole Miss able to separate themselves and play four
Speaker 2: dominant quarters against good teams. So I'm not fully there
Speaker 2: with LSU. I think LSU is growing, I think they're impressive.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna win a lot of games under
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly, especially if I think it's Walker Howard is
Speaker 2: their quarterback of the future, especially if he works out.
Speaker 2: But until that happens, if Alabama and Bryce Young are
Speaker 2: at least feeling good health wise, I understand this spread.
Speaker 2: I do because the last team we saw if Alabama
Speaker 2: is Tennessee ish, which is such a wild thing to say. Now,
Speaker 2: Tennessee beat lsuy twenty seven in Death Valley, and so
Speaker 2: certainly if Alabama is on its game and they'll have
Speaker 2: you know, Tennessee or excuse me, LSU has Alabama's full attention,
Speaker 2: Alabama can beat them by three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Let you know in the chat what everyone thinks about
Speaker 1: this game is a big point spread. We can come
Speaker 1: back to it TI versus the World here in a
Speaker 1: few moments if you'd like. But my sense here, just
Speaker 1: in looking at the way that LSU has played so
Speaker 1: far this season, LSU does not blitz a whole lot.
Speaker 1: They're among the fewest in the nation when it comes
Speaker 1: to blitz us per drop back, and they also play
Speaker 1: a lot of zone I don't think that for me,
Speaker 1: that that specific combination is great against the again raiding
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner in Bryce Young, because We've seen moments
Speaker 1: this year where he has all day to throw because
Speaker 1: there's no blitz. You got a team drop in eight
Speaker 1: because they know he's going to throw it on third
Speaker 1: and long. When you give him the opportunity and all
Speaker 1: day to find somebody open, I don't care if Alabama
Speaker 1: is still trying to figure out who its deep threats are.
Speaker 1: He will find somebody open or he'll run for the
Speaker 1: first down. That's what he's good at doing. Even if
Speaker 1: you do bring some heat on him. He's great at
Speaker 1: e vating. I mean, he's so good at it. So
Speaker 1: it's just hard to really upset his timing and upset
Speaker 1: the rhythm of his game. We've seen it, right, He's
Speaker 1: not perfect. But I just feel like the way that
Speaker 1: LSU's played defense so far is not conducive to holding
Speaker 1: Alabama down long and I really like Alabama against an
Speaker 1: offense like LSU's, which is really based a lot around
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels. Jane Daniels is a nice story. Jane Daniels
Speaker 1: have a really good year. But I feel like if
Speaker 1: you give Nick Saban one guy to worry about the
Speaker 1: quarterback and there isn't even though the receivers have gotten
Speaker 1: better in the passing game, has been a little bit
Speaker 1: more downfield. That's still not really the strength of the
Speaker 1: offense here. I mean it's pretty much flowing through Jade
Speaker 1: Daniels with his legs, a lot of intermediate stuff. Again,
Speaker 1: that doesn't feel like a winning formula for me against
Speaker 1: against Alabama. So I'm with you. I think I go
Speaker 1: Obama minus the number, even though I'm very uncomfortable doing so.
Speaker 1: Thirteen and a hals a big freaking number.
Speaker 2: Counterpoint, if you tell Nick Saban, you only have to
Speaker 2: worry about Swag Kelly or Johnny Manziel or Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 2: He still struggles sometimes, well he struggles.
Speaker 1: You know. Deshaun Watson had a big guy who go
Speaker 1: up and get a fifty to fifty ball, Shawnnie Manzel
Speaker 1: had Mike Evans. Like, yeah, LSU clearly has talent out wide,
Speaker 1: but they're just not stretching the field in that quality.
Speaker 1: They just haven't done it so far this year. Maybe
Speaker 1: they will this game, Maybe they well, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but let us know in the chat way, you think
Speaker 1: here's a big number very quickly some other games to mention.
Speaker 1: Let me come back to the Clemson Notre Dame one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to that one in Ti versus the
Speaker 1: world here in a few minutes. Texas Kansas State. You
Speaker 1: kind of think this is a no brainer. You're all
Speaker 1: in on k State here.
Speaker 2: I'm in on K State. Texas coming off of a
Speaker 2: bye is at least a little bit concerning to me.
Speaker 2: I'm just not sure what there is to bank on
Speaker 2: if we believe Kansas State to be a good team.
Speaker 2: And you know, Cloma State was beat up. Spencer Sanders
Speaker 2: is clearly hurt on some level. What Texas has done
Speaker 2: this year is impressively lost to a team. Like I
Speaker 2: just I need more from Texas, and you're hearing about,
Speaker 2: you know, still more players only meetings, and I don't
Speaker 2: just there's something about Texas that I don't trust. With
Speaker 2: even like a twenty eight to thirteen lead in the
Speaker 2: second half, I'm like, well, they can just stop against
Speaker 2: a good team. They've done it before and they probably
Speaker 2: will again. I think they're improving, They're especially improving on defense,
Speaker 2: but I don't know, I still don't have the trust
Speaker 2: in Texas for four quarters and a lot of and
Speaker 2: I don't like to say this, A lot of what
Speaker 2: people put on Quinn yours as look at.
Speaker 1: This guy, and this guy's the guy?
Speaker 2: Is he like the best of him? Is the best
Speaker 2: of him? Absolutely can make incredible winning throws against very good,
Speaker 2: if not excellent teams. What does his seventh best pass
Speaker 2: look like in any given game? What is his eleventh
Speaker 2: best pass look like in any given game? That's what
Speaker 2: worries me about Texas on the road in a weird
Speaker 2: place to play in a big spot. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not there.