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Speaker 1: October twenty fifth, The Fear of Our Lord twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: We are jam packed as jam packed can possibly be.

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Speaker 1: Rama Noodle Express is so absolutely red hot. We may

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Speaker 1: but we're going to talk about that in just a second.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot on the Jalen Waddle injury, not

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Speaker 1: so much that it happened, but what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: moving forward. LSU just totally body back South Carolina yesterday,

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Speaker 1: much to the chagrin of those who wanted to stretch

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Speaker 1: October as long as we could. That's over now, Michigan. Hey,

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Speaker 1: just welcome to the party, Michigan. We're going to talk

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Speaker 1: a lot about that. Ohio State, Penn State, Penn State,

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Speaker 1: Penn State, We're going to talk about them. Auburn gets

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Speaker 1: another win, you know what, I'll be delicate and I'll

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Speaker 1: Like I said, ram Anudele Express five and one yesterday.

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Speaker 1: You know, we had a couple of weeks there and

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Speaker 1: Had a couple of weeks there. You know, you start

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Speaker 1: soft and slow, like a small earthquake, but when you

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Speaker 1: let go, half the valley's shakes. And if you're unfamiliar

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Speaker 1: with Neil Young, don't worry about it. I was just

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Speaker 1: that on air, so I just did. So cash that

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Speaker 1: and let's get into the show tonight. We've got a

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Speaker 1: lot to get to if, by the way, you are

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Speaker 1: still looking to book a one on one session with me.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you interested in maybe starting your own

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, starting your own podcast, getting into sports media,

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Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. I'm going to talk to

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Speaker 1: and may have a couple of slots open his first come,

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Speaker 1: first serve, So if you want to hit me up,

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Speaker 1: email Josh paid seven zero six at gmail dot com

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Speaker 1: or dm me on Twitter at late Kickjosh. The vast

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Speaker 1: about college football, so let's dive into it. Alabama forty eight,

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Speaker 1: asking questions that sound like this, Should he have even

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Speaker 1: Everybody gears up for Alabama. Everybody recruits to stop Alabama.

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Speaker 1: turn that island into a peninsula. Oh, I've given birth

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Speaker 1: to a new metaphor. Let me write that down island. Okay,

428
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Speaker 1: as much as this was South Carolina's time turn an

429
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Speaker 1: island into a peninsula. What's it gonna be for LSU?

430
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Speaker 1: Because now LSU goes on the road this week, and

431
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Speaker 1: LSU is I think a short favorite, like a two

432
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Speaker 1: point favorite at Auburn. This is their chance, this is

433
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Speaker 1: their chance to start their season for all intents and purposes.

434
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Speaker 1: That's what Oorgeron's probably preaching right now. Our season started yesterday.

435
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 1: We're one to zero. It's not the way it actually works.

436
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll get the league office to

437
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Speaker 1: go along with that, but I can buy into it.

438
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Speaker 1: How about Michigan. Okay, I called this game the one

439
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Speaker 1: I was most looking forward to out of the entire

440
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Speaker 1: national slate. Michigan ran away from Minnesota forty nine to

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Speaker 1: twenty four. And I've, as I've noted before, I got

442
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 1: some Wolverine buddies, and they have been kind of shy.

443
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,480
Speaker 1: They got like battered wolverine syndrome. They're kind of shy

444
00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,439
Speaker 1: about being exuberant about their confidence after this. Don't be

445
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,679
Speaker 1: don't be at all. We're not going to be on

446
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Speaker 1: this show. I'm very excited. I'm overly excited about what

447
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 1: I saw from them last night. I do not play

448
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 1: this whole Oh it was just Minnesota game. A lot

449
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 1: of you did that. I've talked about this before. Listen,

450
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,440
Speaker 1: you can't be looking at this game beforehand and saying, oh,

451
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:26,160
Speaker 1: Michigan Upsettler, they're only a three point favorite. You can't

452
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Speaker 1: be saying that before the game. And then they go

453
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Speaker 1: out there and they just totally throw Minnesota under a

454
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Speaker 1: bus and run over them. Back up, go over them again,

455
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Speaker 1: back up, go over them again. You can't watch that

456
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Speaker 1: happen and then say I was just Minnesota. No, No,

457
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,479
Speaker 1: it wasn't just Minnesota. It was Minnesota, That's who it was.

458
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Speaker 1: So that's a quality football team, that's a really good

459
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Speaker 1: established culture up there. And this was a team that

460
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Speaker 1: you were looking at Michigan I'm talking about now I'm saying, hmm,

461
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Speaker 1: what did we actually see last night? Because a lot

462
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Speaker 1: of times people want to overthink the room and they

463
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: see a very positive reaction, they see a very positive

464
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Speaker 1: about I'm in week one, and they want to overthink

465
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Speaker 1: the room and they want to sound like they're on

466
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Speaker 1: a different intellectual plane and they want to say, well,

467
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: calm down, don't get carried away. Well, it's possible to

468
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:11,959
Speaker 1: not get carried away and still be a little bit

469
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Speaker 1: excited about what you saw last night. So let me

470
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Speaker 1: tell you what I saw, and you can tell me

471
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Speaker 1: if you disagree with this. Number One, Joe Milton starts

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. Okay, let me put it to you like this.

473
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Speaker 1: I think Dylan McCaffrey starts that game. If this were

474
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Speaker 1: three or four years ago, Dylan mcaffrey's not there. Of

475
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Speaker 1: course he's transferred out. But Dylan McCaffrey transferred out because

476
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Speaker 1: it was obvious Joe Milton was the guy I'm telling

477
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Speaker 1: you three or four years ago in a different offensive

478
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Speaker 1: age from Michigan. I don't think McCaffrey's transferred because I

479
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: think Harball would probably be more comfortable with him, and

480
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Speaker 1: as a result, I think you would have probably seen

481
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Speaker 1: a sixteen to fourteen game last night. But instead it's

482
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Speaker 1: Josh Gaddis's offensive show. Now we have said for better

483
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: or for worse after that phrase the entire offseason. Maybe

484
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: it is indeed for the better, because let me give

485
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Speaker 1: you a point too. Not only did Joe Milton start

486
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Speaker 1: the game last night, he was prepared. I mean, hats

487
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Speaker 1: off to Michigan's entire offensive staff in particular, Josh Gaddis,

488
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Speaker 1: Joe Milton didn't stumble his way through this game? Did

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Speaker 1: he look like a rookie? Did he look like a

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Speaker 1: first time starter? To you? For that matter, Did Michigan

491
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Speaker 1: look like they were breaking in four new offensive linemen

492
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Speaker 1: to you? Not? To me? They didn't. That looked like

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Speaker 1: a team that had a lot of veteran presence, that

494
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Speaker 1: looked like a team that had been there before. And

495
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Speaker 1: it looked like Game seven or Game eight. So you

496
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Speaker 1: got to give that staff a whole lot of credit.

497
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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of questions around this in the offseason,

498
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Speaker 1: and all of them aren't answered in one week. That's impossible,

499
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Speaker 1: But I think a lot of their internal confidence and

500
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Speaker 1: their internal optimism. You can't say anything other than it

501
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 1: was validated last night. Immediately. I doubt Josh Gaddis had

502
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: walked off the field before he had picked up his

503
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Speaker 1: phone and started texting recruits. Getting in touch with recruits.

504
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Speaker 1: All you got to do is say, just catch the game.

505
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Speaker 1: If they say yes, you say all right, tell your

506
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Speaker 1: mom I said hey, talk to you later. That's all

507
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,959
Speaker 1: you need. Sell it, sell it, sell it, sell it,

508
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: keep selling that and then keep performing like that too.

509
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Speaker 1: So what do you look for next? As I say, well,

510
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: now you got to start stacking those performances on top

511
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: of each other because that offense hasn't arrived. If you

512
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: didn't watch that game last night, you see the forty

513
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 1: nine there and you would think they must have had

514
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Speaker 1: a quarterback go for four hundred and fifty yards. No,

515
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: that wasn't necessarily the case, but it was a nice

516
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Speaker 1: solid showing. He was Joe Milton being the heaves plenty

517
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Speaker 1: accurate enough. He was put in good situations, just like

518
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Speaker 1: we were talking about with LSU and that quarterback situation.

519
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 1: I believe this team's best offensive product is still well

520
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 1: ahead of them. If last night was a starting point,

521
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Speaker 1: you got to be really really optimistic about what their

522
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Speaker 1: finished product could be this year. So, I mean, they're

523
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Speaker 1: all in. This is what excites me the most. There

524
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Speaker 1: is no hesitance. They are all in on a new

525
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Speaker 1: offensive identity. Quarterback gives them a legitimate running option in

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Speaker 1: the RPO game, which they haven't had before. I mean,

527
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Speaker 1: they got really solid options at running back. That offensive

528
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: line was granted against a very green, very new Minnesota front,

529
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Speaker 1: very impressive last night. So you just have to start

530
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Speaker 1: stacking those performances on top of each other. Now they've

531
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Speaker 1: got Michigan State this week. Michigan couldn't look better last night,

532
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people's opinion Michigan State was horrific

533
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Speaker 1: against Rutgers, horrific. Can't wait for Saturday. How about some

534
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Speaker 1: other Week eight takeaways, because we got a lot of

535
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Speaker 1: them to get to. We still got a lot of

536
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Speaker 1: show left here. Auburn won against Olemiths yesterday. At least

537
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Speaker 1: that's what the scoreboard tells me. Thirty five to twenty

538
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Speaker 1: eight sec. Officiating in Auburn games has been a disaster,

539
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Speaker 1: just a total Hindenberg level disaster. I am not. As

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Speaker 1: I've told you before and those of you who have

541
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Speaker 1: watched the show, even before I got to twenty four

542
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Speaker 1: to seven. I don't do a couple of things I

543
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: never do. I never waste time on the show questioning officiating,

544
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: mainly judgment calls, like I'm not the one sitting here saying, oh,

545
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: they missed a hole in the third quarter. And I

546
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: don't question play calling. There have been multiple situations in

547
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: Auburn games this year now where I believe I believe

548
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: in at least two instances if not more outright wins

549
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: have been taken away from Auburn's opposition and given to them.

550
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: Yesterday was just the latest example. Now listen, here's what

551
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do. I'm not gonna bash Auburn for that.

552
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like Auburn's out there making the calls.

553
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: So they're playing the hand they're dealt. So we've acknowledged

554
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: the SEC officiating. Okay, it's a it's beyond a joke.

555
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: It's a shame that a conference that touts how much

556
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: money they rake in every year and how high profile

557
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: that brand is and you still got guys, all due respect,

558
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Speaker 1: officiating in this conference on Saturday that are working in

559
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: an office on Tuesday or Wednesday. They have normal jobs

560
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: during the week. They don't employ actual officials. They do

561
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: it the same way high school associations do. They just

562
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: get paid a little bit more money. I don't like

563
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: that because that is conveniently used to shield SEC officials

564
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Speaker 1: from having to be a fountable to you, me, to anyone,

565
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: to media, whatever. And also it lets the league office,

566
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: if it really comes down to it, in their back channels.

567
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: It lets them say, I mean, come on now, it's

568
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: not like these are NFL officials. I mean, there's are

569
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: part time guys. We'll hire full time guys, how about that.

570
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: So anyway, as for Auburn could be one and four,

571
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: but the fact of the matter is they're three and

572
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: two right now. And here's the complementary aspect. In order

573
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: to benefit from a blown call, you have to be

574
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Speaker 1: in position to benefit from it. If Auburn were down

575
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: three scores yesterday, that wouldn't have mattered, is my point.

576
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: Just like back in twenty thirteen, Kick six, the prayer

577
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: at Jorden here, Well, if they were down three scores,

578
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: neither one of those things would have mattered in terms

579
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: of the outcome. So at the very least, Auburn puts

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00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,959
Speaker 1: themselves in position to benefit from this. We got what

581
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: we expected in this game. Outside of the controversy. The

582
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: final was largely what we expected. We took Auburn, we

583
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: thought Auburn would win. We thought they would go on

584
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: the road and sort of balance things out a little bit,

585
00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: and they rode Tank Bigsby in the run game twenty

586
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: three passes, forty seven runs yesterday from Auburn. Bigsby, true

587
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: freshman out of Callaway High School, twenty four carries, again

588
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty nine yards, the average five point

589
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: four per carry. But how about this little caveat dive

590
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: into the box score a little bit further bo Nicks

591
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 1: been struggling a little bit through the air, turning the

592
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: ball over. Well, the surest way to stop that is,

593
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: don't let him throw it a whole lot and run

594
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Speaker 1: him more since he wants to run anyway. Nicks had

595
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: ten carries for fifty two yards yesterday, so they ran

596
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: the ball all afternoon yesterday. Now, some very very bad

597
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: news out of Auburn tonight is their right guard, Brandon Counsel,

598
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: is apparently out for the year. I think I saw

599
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: Malzan announce that as we were coming on air. So

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00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: that is the position they can least afford to lose

601
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: guys at at any point, but especially with LSU coming

602
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: to town. But every one of these games, I don't

603
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Speaker 1: care how they win it. Every one of these games

604
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: they went. It just buys them a little bit more time.

605
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: And this is a team that probably has no business

606
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: being above five hundred right now, but they are. And

607
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: so we're not going in reverse. You can only go

608
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: forward three and two. There sit the Auburn Tigers three

609
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: and two. Now Penn State had an implosion of their

610
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: own yesterday they lose on the road at Indiana thirty

611
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Speaker 1: six to thirty five. This was the Spider Web Special

612
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: of the week. The Spider Web Special is a pretty

613
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: new metaphor on the show, but it's age old in philosophy.

614
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: And what happens is you're playing a team that maybe

615
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: you outroster, maybe the box score is so heavily tilted

616
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: towards you, but there are critical factors that you don't

617
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: take care of business with, and as a result, you

618
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: walk straight into the spider web, and the spider Web

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Speaker 1: does to you what it does. I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: to you some aspects of this box score, and you

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Speaker 1: tell me how Indiana won this game. First downs Penn

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00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: State twenty seven to sixteen, edge total yards Penn State

623
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Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty eight to two hundred and eleven

624
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: total yards, edge rushing yards Penn State two point fifty,

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Speaker 1: Indiana forty one. Time of posses forty minutes twenty five

626
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Speaker 1: seconds for Penn State, nineteen minutes thirty five seconds for Indiana.

627
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Speaker 1: They doubled them up in time of possession, so you

628
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: might ask, how in the world did Indiana win this game?

629
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Speaker 1: How did Penn State walk into the spider web minus

630
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Speaker 1: one turnovers, one hundred yards and penalties oh of three

631
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Speaker 1: on field goals and did not kneel at the end

632
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Speaker 1: of the game instead of going in for a touchdown,

633
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Speaker 1: which would have ended the game, literally would have ended

634
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Speaker 1: the game. So as much as we talk about officials

635
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: handing Auburn a win, Penn State themselves had Indiana a

636
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: chance to win a game which Indiana ultimately went on

637
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Speaker 1: to do. I don't really know what more to say here.

638
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like we're going to sit here

639
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Speaker 1: and ask the question, has Indiana arrived? Is Penn State

640
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: season over? It's nothing like that. Penn State's got a

641
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: chance to atone for all. This Saturday, they play Ohio

642
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: State at home. Ohio State, I know circa opened them

643
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: at eight. That wouldn't stand under single digits. So that

644
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: is now an eleven point line. Ohio State favored by

645
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: eleven on the road. I was I was disappointed in

646
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: this outcome. I really was. We were confident in Penn

647
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: State and looking at that box score, I mean, that's

648
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 1: what we expected. You just you can't account for turnovers,

649
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: you can't account for penalties, and they're anyone who pretends

650
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: they cans lie into you. But you know, we went

651
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: five and one yesterday. This is the only game we

652
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: lost Penn State minus five and a half when that

653
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: kid did not kneel and he sort of accidentally scored

654
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: a touchdown and they went up by eight. If we

655
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: would have won that game in that manner, and that's

656
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: how we went six and oh scratched that. It never

657
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: would have happened. That just doesn't happen for us. So

658
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: five and one best we can do. That's fine. Ohio

659
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: State throttled Nebraska bodybagging special here fifty two to seven. Team.

660
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: I want to stress something. Do you remember a couple

661
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: of weeks ago when Alabama just pasted Texas A and M.

662
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: It may have been like the final score, it close

663
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: to this final score, and everyone wanted to write Texas

664
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Speaker 1: A and M off, And we came on the show

665
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Speaker 1: the following Sunday, I think, and we said Texas A

666
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: and M is not a bad team. There are a

667
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Speaker 1: couple of areas they don't meet the freeze point in

668
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: so therefore they were never going to stop Alabama. Well,

669
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: that's Nebraska. I don't think Nebraska is a bad team.

670
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: I want to really stress to you. Nebraska is not terrible.

671
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: Ohio State's just that good. Nebraska is not a bad team.

672
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: If you'll watch them the rest of the year, I

673
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: think they'll probably be undervalued because people's first impression of

674
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: a team. People are still thinking about Mike Leach beating LSU.

675
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: They hadn't done anything since. Your first impression tends to

676
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: be your lasting impression. That's why a lot of people

677
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: lose money betting this stuff. You gotta go week to

678
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: week on this. You watch Nebraska four or five weeks

679
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: down the road, probably be a pretty decent team, be

680
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: a tough out, and you'll say, well, in retrospect, I mean,

681
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: here's Ohio State still beating people's brains in So that's

682
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: not a bad loss, not nearly as bad as it

683
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: looks in retrospect. Justin fields is pretty incredible. Twenty twenty

684
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: one to either seventy six or twenty six. Either way,

685
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: it's good two touchdowns and much like bo Nicks, but

686
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: only a whole lot better than bow Niggs. Fifteen runs

687
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: fifty four yards on the ground. Now one place I

688
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: was very underwhelmed with Ohio State. And remember we pick

689
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: apart the elite teams with a fine tooth comb here,

690
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying anything Buckeye fans didn't see, really

691
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: underwhelmed by them at running back. Granted one game, but

692
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: sermon in tigue, neither went over one hundred yards. Just

693
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: kind of underwhelming. But again I made the Alabama comparison.

694
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Speaker 1: What were we saying after a couple of weeks with Alabama?

695
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: Right now? All we're seeing in Najee Harris's praise and

696
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: we're talking about Alabama having the best offensive line they've

697
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: ever had. Well, the first two weeks, we were saying,

698
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: where in the world's the run game for Alabama? So

699
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: not surprised here, and certainly think that the run game

700
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: will improve week over week. But again, as I said,

701
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Speaker 1: they go to Penn State, they being the Buckeyes, go

702
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: to Penn State Saturday, and they are eleven point favorites

703
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: as we speak right now. Now, let me get to one.

704
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: That was our best bet of the week, and boy

705
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: did a lot of you take exception with it in

706
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: the comments section. Not after the game, mind you, but

707
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: a lot of you came for me beforehand and said, oh,

708
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: I'll see you here afterwards. And in typical fashion, they

709
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: only show up when we're wrong. Missouri beat Kentucky twenty

710
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: to ten, and I'm going to tell you why. Because

711
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: Missouri is better than Kentucky and we thought that going

712
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Speaker 1: into the week and that's why we took the five points.

713
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: But we also told you we're taking Missouri to win

714
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: the game out right, So let me tell you what

715
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: it looks like when you were better than another team.

716
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: Four twenty one to one forty five that was the

717
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: yard to judge from Missouri. Twenty six to eight was

718
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: the first down edge. I'm gonna hit you with probably

719
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: the craziest stat. This is the padlock stat from this game.

720
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Speaker 1: Missouri ran ninety two plays yesterday, Kentucky ran thirty six.

721
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: Kentucky could have played till Wednesday, and it's probably still

722
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: what caught up with how many plays Missouri ended up

723
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Speaker 1: running and a forty three ten to sixteen ten time

724
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Speaker 1: of possession or forty or fifty whatever, Yeah, sixteen fifty.

725
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: So man, this was brutality. You would think by looking

726
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: at that box score they probably won by about thirty

727
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: turnovers do not last. I tried to explain this. Okay,

728
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: Kentucky was riding a wave of forced turnovers two weeks

729
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: in a row, and that's wonderful. They are totally random,

730
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: even the teams who look like they have made it

731
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: part of their DNA. Turnovers are not part of any

732
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Speaker 1: team's season long d When you have a team like

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Speaker 1: Kentucky that is limited a quarterback and who is winning

734
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Speaker 1: at the moment because they're forcing turnovers and they're plus

735
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: two plus three, it's not gonna last. So when you

736
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: have that situation combined with a situation in Missouri where

737
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: you had a very up and coming situation at quarterback

738
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Speaker 1: with Bezolak, who we're really high on, and we've been

739
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: higher on Missouri than most people have. Missouri is better

740
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: than Kentucky. You just didn't know it because what was

741
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: your impression. You still remember them getting smashed by Alabama

742
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: in Week one? What do you think would happen if

743
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: Bama played Kentucky Saturday? So don't hold that against anyone.

744
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: It's just skewing your impression of these teams. So Missouri wins.

745
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: Our best bet hits and now we move on Clemson.

746
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to touch on this right quick, they end

747
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,760
Speaker 1: up running away from Syracuse forty seven to twenty one. Listen,

748
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: don't fall for this stuff. It happens every year. Don't

749
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: fall for it. Don't be that guy or that girl

750
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: who walks into the water cooler tomorrow morning and starts

751
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: talking about all the vulnerabilities you see with Clemson. Clemson's

752
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: got vulnerabilities. They're going to be there all year. An

753
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: experienced and talented offensive line like Ohio State or Alabama has,

754
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to have some success against Clemson.

755
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: They're ultra talented, but they're ultra young in their defensive front.

756
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: This wide receiver group is not on the same level

757
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: as Clemson teams of the past. This is nothing we

758
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: learned yesterday. This is stuff. If you've watched that team,

759
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: you already know. Having said that, they're one of the

760
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,399
Speaker 1: very best in America. And I don't really care how

761
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: they played against Syracuse. Nothing whatsoever. Let me start that

762
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: sentence over so everyone hears it. Nothing whatsoever about Clemson

763
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: versus Syracuse will have any bearing on Clemson versus filling

764
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: the blank for the conference title game, Clemson versus filling

765
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: the blank for the playoff or filling the blank for

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00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: the national title won't even be the same team. You

767
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: know it. I know it because we've seen it before.

768
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: So those are the takeaways the Clemson Syracuse game. As

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00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: for my Iowa State Cyclones, yeah, we fell yesterday, hard

770
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: fought loss on the road twenty four to twenty one

771
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma State. These are the two teams the record

772
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: that I picked to go to the conference title game.

773
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: By the way, it had a very SEC feel. I

774
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: don't know if many of you saw this game. You

775
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: notice how everyone's talking about the high flying offenses in

776
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: the SEC. Anyone paid attention to what's happening in the

777
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: big twelve? Twenty four to twenty one. Anyone paying attention

778
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 1: to this. Both of these teams had over two hundred

779
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: and twenty yards on the ground. Both teams very run heavy,

780
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State severely limiting brought Purty's ability to make anything

781
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: happen through the air. For Iowa State, I think the

782
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: Cyclones four point eight yards per pass yesterday. So how

783
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: about this? Is it? Basically? Is it just a tag

784
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: team situation or styles of play being handed off from

785
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: one conference to the other. I don't know about that.

786
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: But here's what I do know the Big twelve is

787
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 1: getting serious really quick. Oklahoma State next three games versus

788
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: Texas Saturday. They opened as a three point favorite. They're

789
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: then at Kansas State and then they're at Oklahoma, so

790
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 1: that makes the breaks of their season over the next

791
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: three weeks. Looking really forward to that. Big twelve has

792
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: been fun to watch such to me, it's maybe not

793
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: the highest level product in the world, but it's been

794
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. All right, let's continue moving here.

795
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: We got to get the best bet out there. We

796
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: are now sixty one percent against the number on the season,

797
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 1: a little north of sixty one percent, so we feel

798
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: really good. We don't change our process. We don't start

799
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: betting more games. We're still giving out roughly the same amount.

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00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: If you are not following me on Twitter, you did

801
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: not get our late release yesterday. This sounds very tutish.

802
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: I gave you Liberty minus thirteen because we found out

803
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: so the Missus quarterback was going to be out before

804
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: the public did, so we handed that out yesterday morning.

805
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: Liberty ran away with the whim and so we ended

806
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: up going five and one instead of four and one.

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00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: You got to be following me on there and check

808
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: in frequently during the week at Late Kick Josh follow

809
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: me on Twitter. This week's best bet is taking place

810
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: in the Southeastern Conference. Arkansas is at Texas A and M.

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00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,919
Speaker 1: That game opens with A and M favored by ten.

812
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 1: We love Texas A and M. Two touchdowns are more.

813
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: This week we are taking the Aggies minus ten. I

814
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: think the number is gonna move more towards two touchdowns,

815
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: So listen, we've kind of been hit and miss with

816
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: our expectations of those line moves. What we haven't been

817
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: hit and miss on is being on the right side.

818
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: So we're gonna take A and M minus ten and

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00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 1: that is our early best bet. Again. I release these

820
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: at varying times throughout the week. You will eventually get

821
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: most of them on the Thursday show, but you need

822
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: to get them when we hand them out or the

823
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: lines sometimes have already moved. I told you before the

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00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: end of the show, and I just want to reiterate it.

825
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: I've got some open spots this week that I didn't

826
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Speaker 1: think i'd have, and what I'm doing every now and

827
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: then I'll toss out a little call to action. I

828
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: try and be able to fit as many of you

829
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: guys in as possible. I get so many emails, so

830
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: many dms from those of you in high school, college,

831
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: a little bit out of college. I don't really care

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00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: how old you are, to be honest with you that

833
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: are interested maybe in sports media, or you know, maybe

834
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: you're interested in this platform YouTube for example, and you're

835
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: just podcasting and you got questions and you want someone's opinion,

836
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: maybe who's inside of it. I'm happy to do it.

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00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time to do it,

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00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: but I do this week, So reach out. It's first come,

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00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: first serve. I don't have many slots available. It's one

840
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: on one, so you know, there are only so many

841
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: of those available at late Kick Josh on Twitter, you

842
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: can DM me or Josh paid seven zero six at

843
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. We got a busy week. Make sure

844
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: you've subscribed to the Late Kick podcast as well, and

845
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: submit your questions for the two Late Kick Extra podcasts.

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Speaker 1: We do them on Tuesday morning Thursday morning, and those

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Speaker 1: are podcasts only. You don't get those anywhere else. Colin,

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Speaker 1: I think we've promoted enough all right, for director Colin,

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Speaker 1: for Tani and Jordan on the podcast side, I'm Josh Pate.

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Speaker 1: Have a great week. I'll see you here Tuesday night.

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Speaker 1: Until then, God bless