WEBVTT - College Football Week 9 Recap: Backups Better Than The Starters? 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:07.040 Welcome to the solid verbal hull. For me, I'm a. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:08.160 Man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:10.639 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 You want to be happy for a day? Edith Stake, 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.240 is that whoo whoom and. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.800 Then and tie? You know, we did our week nine preview, Dan, 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:25.160 we called it still into You Saturday. Yeah, I'm wondering 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:29.640 if we're still into calling it still into you after 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.279 we saw the influx of backups and the impact that 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.360 they had in week nine, after we saw the influx 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:44.080 of survival games. It was not a loaded week from 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:50.040 the standpoint of there being monster upsets, major earth shattering 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.240 storylines for us to discuss on this episode that we're 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:58.160 recording at midnight Eastern on Saturday, but in some way, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.240 shape or form, as we come to know, in college football, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.399 there are always interesting things to talk about, and we're 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.440 going to go into those here over the next hours. So, 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.360 my friend, how are you? 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.959 I'm good? What about Sideline getting loose Saturday for the 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.679 number of backup quarterbacks Marcel Reid Drew Pine. I think 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.840 it was what Brendan rose for Utah after they Sir 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:24.320 Isaac Wilson was benched the number Bo Pribula Penn state 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.640 the number of backup quarterbacks, either because the starter wasn't 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.760 working out, Connor Wagman, Marcel Reid comes in, or there's 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.520 an injury Drew Aller. Was it a knee situation? 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.160 For it was ankle? They said knee on the broadcast, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.120 but there's no way it would have been a knee 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.560 if he's just standing there kind of willy nilly on 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.560 the sideline. So I'm going with ankle my official diagnosis. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.200 I think Baron Morton went down for Texas Tech. So 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.560 sideline getting loose Saturday it was, Yeah, it was a 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.360 survival Saturday. There's a lot to talk about here. I'm 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.480 doing great. I hope you're doing great. You're on little 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.120 to no sleep. Which greatest show we've ever done? Worst 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.920 show we've ever done? You better stay tuned to find out. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.720 We'll find out. Yeah, talk to us in about an 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.720 hour or so. Thank you to one and all for downloading, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.640 for listening, for watching, for supporting. If you want to 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.639 continue helping us on that journey, make sure you hit 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.000 follow if you're new here. If you aren't, make sure 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.359 you tell a friend. Leave us a review out on 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.200 Apple podcasts, Leave us a star rating wherever you can. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.679 All of that stuff really helps. Of course, bright and 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.600 early tomorrow the new Verballer Top twelve pole is going 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.720 to go live. You can vote out at for ballers 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.400 dot com if you're a certified or Premium member out there. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.040 I don't know how much movement we're going to see 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.720 as a result of the action in week nine, but 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.840 suffice to say there was a fair amount of survival 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.519 going on in and around the world of College Trip 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.440 over the next hour. So we're going to go through 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.799 what we deem kind of the Big twelve, the Big 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.800 twelve things that transpired over the course of the weekend, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.880 which of course started a little bit earlier, as it 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.359 has for the last couple of weeks. Now. Then we 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.040 had games on Thursday and Friday and of course Saturday 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.960 that we need to get into here, Dan. 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.120 I some Liberty won and comm Accord was super accurate. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.840 I don't need to go through it super closely. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.760 Yes, No, may want to hold off on that asside. Okay, Fy, 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.200 what was the big story for you after having watched 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.839 everything in week twelve or week what was the big 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.080 story for you after having watched everything in week nine? 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.640 Is it week twelve already, Oh my god, Top twelve 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.960 week nine, you know, yes, yes, yeah, Top eleven or 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.160 twelve things week nine. I mean the theme is survival, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.200 right when you look across the sport, when you look 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.600 at Ohio State, when you look at Texas, when you 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.080 look at Kansas State surviving, I don't know, they made 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.920 like a ninety one yard field goal. I don't know 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.320 what these number. These numbers are getting cartoonish right now. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.040 But top teams, top fifteen, twenty teams, slow start for 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.160 Penn State losing a quarterback, they survive on the road 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.200 in a tough environment, like it doesn't matter how good 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.720 or average Wisconsin is week to week. That is a 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.040 tough place to win. And what Penn State was able 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.440 to do it's survival, and so thematically that's what it is. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.960 But when you look at those top few teams, especially 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.320 Ohio State and Texas, I think those are the ones, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:19.960 especially because their opponents were probably somewhere between okay and 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.320 pretty good. But these teams are built to not have 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.840 to fully compete with Vanderbilt and Nebraska the way those 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.680 teams are constructed at the moment, I think, but winning 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.560 is better than losing. So I guess you know, I 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.680 think that the top clunker performances in a survival way 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.240 where the or the story. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.200 Well, I actually had the Marcel Read performance against. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:44.920 He was the best reliever. I mean it is World 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.520 Series time. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.280 Yeah, I had that as kind of my top thing, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.800 which we'll get into. I also had Penn State up 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.560 at the top. But since you brought it up, why 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.880 don't we talk about the Ohio State and Texas situation 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.160 because that was about as close as I think we 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:03.360 got to actual upsets. Shout out to Roger Simon's father 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.440 and Woe a Blue Car. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.640 Okay, those are. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.919 Two of other ballers who are out an active out 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.599 on college Football Reddit who were posting about this, and 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:18.920 they said it best win your clunkers, Dan, win your clunkers. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:23.040 So Ohio State did win over Nebraska. The game was 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.240 at home, twenty one to seventeen. It was a bit 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.920 of a nail bier, which is why yes by off 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.200 bye with Penn State on deck, which is to say, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.559 of course that Nebraska had the ball with the chance 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.320 to win late they did not. Ohio State intercepts it 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.240 game over. But if you zoom out and look at 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.560 what transpired, in this game. It kind of had the 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.520 hallmarks of rusty, hallmarks of Russ. Ohio State won for 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.440 ten on third downs. They couldn't run the ball. Matt 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.200 Ruhle in the post games that he loved his defense 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.640 basically gave up three plays that he liked back, those 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:04.320 being the three touchdowns from Will Howard. You know who 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.880 knows what happens if Ohio State doesn't get to stop 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.520 when they got to stop, If in fact, Nebraska is 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.680 able to go down the field and score and win 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.960 the game. But this is one of those deals where 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.359 you're sort of looking and you're panning, and you're seeing 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.040 the scores kind of go across the bottom line, you 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.839 wrinkle your brow. Really, Ohio State was a twenty five 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.920 and a half point favor coming into this one. Dan 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.000 They win by four at home. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.080 So Ohio State down there. Starting left tackle for the season, 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.159 Josh Simmons went down against Oregon, obviously not playing against Nebraska. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.039 They lose another tackle. They're shifting things all over on 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.320 their offensive line. Will Howard looked like a Heisman caliber 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.760 quarterback in the very game, and Chip Kelly from the 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.720 booth saw ah Man. Will Howard is nailing it man, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.240 he's I mean, it's Carnell Tate, it's Jeremiah Smith. He 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.680 looks comfortable, he looks accurate, he looks like he's dealing 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.200 What if we ran at it behind a beat up 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.440 offensive line? Far be it for me to question ship Kelly. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.080 Chip Kelly is given me some incredible college football memories 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.279 as an Oregon human. But this one seemed a little 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.680 bit backwards, and I don't know if it were you know, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.560 RPO decisions, whatever it was. Chip Kelly is known for 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.720 his ability to craft a sensational run game and run 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.640 offense for a number of teams. Did it at Oregon, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.280 UCLA did with the Eagles for a little while, if 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:27.360 memory serves forty nine ers. While, but yeah, yeah has 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.200 incredible running backs at Ohio State doesn't necessarily have a 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.680 consistently incredible running game, at least not recently against defenses 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.800 like Oregon's and Nebraska's. I kind of wonder why they 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.800 weren't just airing it out a little bit more and 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.400 leaning into what was working, especially after seeing what Curtis 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.840 Roork and Tavin Jackson were able to do against the 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.800 Nebraska secondary and pass defense last week. So that was 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.040 curious to me, But Ohio States survived. Maybe they took 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.240 some lessons from this, but it was an ugly win 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.240 against I still think Nebraska's defense is pretty good, pretty tough. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.920 I thought the game planned really nicely terms of corraling 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.120 the running game and forcing a lot of pressure on 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.760 this offensive line on the ground. Unacceptable from my late 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.000 tech salesman. Playoff team of Ohio State. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.920 Yeah, I saw the meme going around on social media, 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.080 the two guys kind of arm wrestling. On one side 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.119 Penn State fans saying will this be good enough against 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.880 Ohio State? And on the other it's Ohio State fans 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.720 saying will this be good enough against Penn State? 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:25.280 Right? 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.320 Right? It was one of those weekends for sure in 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.160 the Big Ten. So how State does win? I take 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.400 away from whatever you want or take whatever you want 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.560 away from that win. The other one that we should 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.640 mention here at the top if we are talking about 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.679 survival is the Texas game. Yes, so Texas goes to Vandy. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.480 Everybody at this point the book is out on Vandy. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.400 The book's out on Diego Pavia. He's like a folk hero. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.720 That he's good, that they are a good football team. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.439 Yes, they're good, they're ranked football team. Diego Pavia is 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.920 a bit of a giant killer, right, he has that reputation, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.040 And there were moments in this game where didn't feel like, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.600 especially later in the game, it didn't feel like they 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.360 were going to be able to conjure up that magic. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.600 And then lo and behold, they friggin do it. They 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.920 freaking do it again. They find a way to score late. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.000 He somehow threads a needle to get the score late 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.000 to twenty four seventeen in favor of Texas. Eventually they 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.080 do get the ball back. They have an opportunity at 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.520 that point, though it just wasn't happening. So it didn't 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.640 happen for Vandy the way it did in that Bamba 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.720 game a few weeks back. But the fact that Texas 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.959 goes into Vandy, the fact that they end up struggling 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.360 like other teams are struggled, was was meaningful and definitely 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.240 worthy of our discussion. What's interesting to me, though, is 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.400 I kind of feel different about this one than I 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:49.240 do the Ohio State one. Okay, why In this one? 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:54.000 For sure, I felt like the story was quinn yours. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.679 It wasn't. It wasn't so much Diego Pavia and the 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.800 magic of Van Built and their ability to take teams 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.880 to the wire that we perceive as being better. This 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.199 is Quinn Yours actually stepping up at a really big spot, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.600 and given some of what he has gone through this 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:16.560 season and the Georgia game, right Like, there were rumors 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.800 this past week maybe he's going to sit out. That 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.400 was not a real rumor, Okay, but I might go 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.679 the other way. Continue. I just thought that this is 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.920 a pretty good performance by him, given everything that's transpired 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.120 now over the last month and a half or so. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.280 You can go in a couple of different directions with this. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.760 The offensive line struggled again and got pushed around. They 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.760 got pushed around by Georgia, and Vanderbilt was able to 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.160 find ways to pressure quin Yours. I came away being 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.600 impressed by some quin Yours throws, but having the same 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.520 concerns I think a lot of us have had these 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.320 past couple of years where he seems to tighten up 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.440 a little bit and the quality that you would love 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.760 to see. And look, he has a playoff quarterback he 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.600 helped to lead. He didn't play in every game last year, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.600 he played in the playoff. He was the best quarterback 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.200 on this team last season when they went to the 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.960 four team playoff. But there are just some moments where 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.920 you're just like, man, if he really needs to win 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.120 a game, if the run game isn't there, if the 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.400 defense isn't there, and the defense has largely been there, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.640 the offense has just been putting the Texas defense in 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.640 a bad position. And last week we saw it against 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.680 Georgia that the line was not able to weather the 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.559 Georgia front and Vanderbilt was able to get a bunch 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.760 of pressure on quinn yours and he seems four stretches 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.920 a little bit rattled to me. I don't know. I 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.199 think he's good, but I think there are limitations to 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.439 this offense right now. I think the skill talent is good, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.480 as beat up as this running back room still is. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.280 I don't know. I think Texas is good. I don't 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.800 think Texas fans should fully freak out like football's hard, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.400 The sec is hard, Going on the road to play 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.600 a good team is hard. But I think the early 0:11:55.679 --> 0:12:01.280 part of Texas's season maybe mischaracterized this team as arriving 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.400 once again without hiccups. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.800 Yeah, I mean to the point though, on Quinnewers. I'm 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.480 looking at this Texas rushing line right now, Yeah, and 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:17.920 I see Quintravion Wisner Wiser with seventeen carries seventy nine 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.080 yards with a long of twenty. I see Jayden Blue 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.800 ten carries forty seven yards long of twenty three. With 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.320 the exception of basically a couple big plays, Texas didn't 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.679 run and if they were gonna win, this is going 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.480 to be on Quinnewers in the defense. And so he 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.439 had those two tip passes and for short that there 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.920 are moments where he does tighten up, but they needed 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.800 him in this game. They escape twenty seven to twenty four. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.640 As your final Texas moves on, they will probably remain 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.560 a top five team. I don't know if I don't 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.360 think they should fall as a result of this. But 0:12:55.400 --> 0:13:00.640 another thin win that transpires squaring off against Vanderbilt, which 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.959 is one of the craziest stories we could have imagined 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:03.480 the season. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.160 I agree, I agree, And Vandy was right there. There 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.439 was an on side kick right for Vandy to try 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.000 and tie this game. Lights that's where we were in 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.000 this matchup. Texas was favored by how many points eighteen 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.840 and a half points Dan eighteen and a half points. No, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.679 the story to me is Vanderbilt's continued wave of quality 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:28.080 against anybody and everybody they play, and Texas not fully 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.960 adapting over the course of these games. They seem like 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.720 Texas was going to slow, like maybe a crockpot situation. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.880 In this game, Vanderbilt just kept common. And I don't 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.840 know at this point in the season, week nine, and 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.600 I know when yours has been beat up, he's still 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.320 coming back physically. I don't know. I feel as if 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:51.520 Texas the pop that Texas showed early is not necessarily 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.800 showing itself in that same way as the schedule has 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.559 gotten clearly more difficult. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.160 Well, let's stay in the sec then, and let's talk 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:03.240 about Marcel Reid please. Marcel Reid is sort of the 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.120 flag bearer this week for is the backup better than 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:07.680 the starter? 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:08.040 Now? 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.360 Is that where we're at. I don't think Marcel Reid 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:18.320 is the passer that Connor Wigman is or sometimes is, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.440 or sometimes is Noah, But there is no denying he 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.320 gave them a pop. Yes, when he came in, he 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:31.040 scored led a scoring drive. I should say on all 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.600 five of the second half possessions that he took part in. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.240 Four of them were touchdowns, one was a field goal. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.160 And they brought him in at a moment in this 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.640 game against LSU. They're at home. LSU seemingly had the 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.040 best of their offense. They just could not crack this 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.280 LSU defense, which in and of itself is kind of 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.240 a story. Give it where LSU was at a year ago. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.240 They bring in Marcel Reids. Suddenly it's like the floodgates open. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.360 LSU can't stop anything. Was out there sling it around 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.920 and I think only through two passes. Had one beautiful 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.880 long throw, dude, that. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.720 Was a no no, no, no, no, yes throw. It 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.840 was at Noah Thomas who caught it up the middle 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.160 about fifty some idrs. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.920 Beautiful throw just sort of like lurches back and guns 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.680 of deep hit him in stride is beautiful. But just 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.560 the ability to bring him in for Mike Elko and 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.560 offer something of a change of pace. The way it 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.960 flipped the game and how quickly it flipped the game 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.040 is really really interesting to discuss here. If I'm a 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.400 Texas A and M fan, I'm wondering, now, what does 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.280 the game plan look like moving forward? Because if you 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.000 look at A and M schedule, the rest of the way, 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.320 A and M might be the best team in the SEC, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.160 or they might at least get to that championship game 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:46.760 in the SEC. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.640 If they're in that conversation for sure, given their record 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.880 and the way that they've beaten teams, as led by 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.120 their defense and defensive improvement over the course of these games. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.000 Yeah, so you find yourself, I think if you're a 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.880 fan of the team wondering what is the game plan? 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:01.200 Now? 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.480 Do we go back to Wigman? Is it again one 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.600 of these deals where we're gonna play two quarterbacks. There's 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.080 gonna be a package from Marcel Reid. His ability to 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:15.360 step in in a relief effort, yes, and dominate LSU 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:16.040 was incredible. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.760 It really was. And look it's at home for Texas 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.760 A and M. But the atmosphere was foreboding, right, the 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.000 vibes were down when LSU was up what seventeen to seven, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:31.080 Garrett Nusmeyer making big throws. LSU receivers was Aaron Anderson 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.080 who had the long catch and run. Like there was 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.480 a lot going right for LSU. They showed the clips 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.680 of like guys getting into it with each other the 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.920 pre game, the lsun A and like things were getting chippy. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.320 Very pedantic. It seemed. It seemed very like I was 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:50.800 expecting either a full blown fight or it was aggressive nudges. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.400 Aggressive nudges. Yeah, it was very strange. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:58.120 There was like Garrett Nussmeier sort of taunting A and 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.000 M players into personal fact, like there was all sorts 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.080 of stuff happening, and the A and M defense. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.760 Got filthy tie over the. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.359 Course of this game. They got physical, they were hitting, 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.840 They got bigger and angry over the course of this game. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.320 And you're right about Marcel Reid that comes in with 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.200 his legs, with his arm, not as much perhaps as 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.480 his legs, but just the general I don't know, the 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.119 general mood of this A and M offense lifted so 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.800 much when he got in there. Connor Wagman was struggling 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.800 with accuracy and decision making. And I don't know what 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.280 Marcel Reid's ceiling is as a thrower, as somebody who 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.200 can lead this team against teams like Texas at the 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.760 end of the year, that defense, the Georgia defense, if 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.360 they play like I don't. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:43.920 Know, but. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.800 He seems to move the ball in the correct direction 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.360 more often, and so to me, if he has more 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.199 reps with the ones in practice, if Colin Klein can say, Okay, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.439 this is the new shape of our offense when we 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.440 have Marcel Reid, and as this season goes on, they 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.239 become pretty scary. I mean they are pretty scary. They 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.160 are pretty scary. It'd be pretty scary down seventeen seven 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.159 they win this game. What thirty eight twenty three, I 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.439 don't know, man, that's a that's a pretty nice night 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:13.280 if you're an aggie. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.600 Yeah, I mean it's it's almost as if Brian Kelly 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.800 had no answer. Almost they had no answer when he 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.000 came in. I mean, they just didn't they they couldn't 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.480 stop them. They didn't know how to stop him. And 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.399 it looked like BK was ready to pull his hair out. Yeah, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.960 on the sidelines. And you know, the same is true 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.840 to some extent. I would say with the Penn State 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.040 wisconsint game, which by the way, yours truly nailed the 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.680 final score of twenty eight thirteen, is that true? It's 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:41.560 one hundred percent, Trio. I went back and I checked 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:42.560 my document. 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:44.919 And you were like, you know, call me crazy. I 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.359 could see Drew Aller getting hurt right before halftime, and 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.400 there's gonna be Boprabula a little spark off the bench. Yeah, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:53.600 that's what you said in the preview. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.679 Continue Drew Aller did injure something, some sort of lower 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.920 leg injury. Now is like I guess we refer to it 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.600 in college football. She kind of drives me crazy. Yeah, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:05.639 I don't know if it was a knee tweak. I 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.600 don't know if it was ankle. James Franklin, I think 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.400 we know by now will not tell us what it 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.919 is because he's prickly about these sorts of things. But 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.320 whatever it was, Drew didn't come back in the game, 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.280 and that meant it was bow time. It was time 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.080 for Penn State's version of Doctor Bow was in effect. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.600 Trace mcsorly two point zero, And I felt kind of 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.560 crazy thinking this as I was watching bo Prabula just 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.920 move the ball at will out there with this offense. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:40.520 But I started genuinely having thoughts like should this guy 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.320 be the starter? And I don't think he's gotten near 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.919 the ceiling of Drew Maler And I almost feel dirty 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.800 even thinking it. But there was definitely a shift when 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.040 he came in. Their ability to use all of the 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.960 running backs kind of in tandem playoff that read option 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.040 that he runs pretty well. He threw the ball pretty well. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.840 I have seen other instances of bo Pribuela where he 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.920 does not throw the ball nearly as well. But they 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.919 had this defense on skates. This defense much like the 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.040 LSU defense I'm talking about. Wisconsin here was not prepared 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.000 for Prebuela to come in and have that kind of impact. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.159 They were prepared for him to come in at moments, 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.920 a package down by the goal line if you need 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.120 a third and one, that type of thing, but certainly 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.640 not to play the entirety of the second half. He 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.240 was really good. He looked really good, He was in command. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.200 It just kept much like the A and M thing, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.960 just kind of kept humming. It felt like momentum was 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.560 entirely at their back, and again Penn State ends up 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.800 getting a w road spot in Madison. Now they go 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.359 next week into Ohio State, which of course will preview 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.399 on Thursday. But a big road win and he was 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:55.920