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Speaker 1: He knows he knows the deal about being the head

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Speaker 1: coach at Ohio State. So my point in saying this

427
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Speaker 1: would make no sense to anyone else is if you

428
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,919
Speaker 1: were the head coach of the New England Patriots or whatnot.

429
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many times you lose to the

430
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Speaker 1: Jets in a row. If you're winning the AFC, like

431
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 1: if you're playing for or winning a Super Bowl, now

432
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: one's talking about your record versus the Jets. That's cause

433
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: the NFL is not college football. In college football, they're

434
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: just different compartments. They don't even have to touch each other,

435
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: like they don't have to overlap. You can go win

436
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: a national title and have still failed in your most

437
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: important role as the head coach somewhere. If that somewhere

438
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: is a place like Ohio State. So I don't care

439
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: if that doesn't make sense to anyone else. And I'm

440
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: not one of these crazy people, well it's wrong for

441
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: me to cast dispersions. I'm not one of these people

442
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,959
Speaker 1: who was ever yelling you got to get him out

443
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: of there. If you don't beat Michigan, you got to

444
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: get him out of there. I wasn't that last year.

445
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 1: I was not that. I thought it was a little

446
00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: bit off the rails. But at the same time, there's

447
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: no one who places more of a premium on winning

448
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: rivalry games than me. I literally think it's the most

449
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: important thing that you can do as a head coach.

450
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: I literally prioritize it above winning the conference in the

451
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: national title. That's how imperative it is to me that

452
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: you win rivalry games. So to a casual college football fan,

453
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: to an agnostic sports fan who just like looks at

454
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: college football from afar, that will sound crazy. But that's okay.

455
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: They don't understand this world. That's fine. I don't ever

456
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 1: try and go in the world of tennis and ask, wait,

457
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: why is the scoring fifteen thirty forty? What does love mean?

458
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense to me. Well, that's okay.

459
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: It may be their sport's not for me. Maybe this

460
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: sport's not for you if it makes no sense to

461
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: you that there could still be a lot of pressure

462
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 1: on Ryan Day even after you just won a national championship.

463
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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you who it does make sense to

464
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: Ryan Day. I bet you it makes sense to him.

465
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: They're watching us an Elk Grove, California, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Bloomington, Indiana.

466
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: We appreciate everyone for being tuned in. It looks like

467
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: I just wanted their towns up. No, I wanted the

468
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 1: post it note up, the Town's just happened to be there. Oh,

469
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: this is a fun question. Someone asked Patrick from West Newbury, Massachusetts.

470
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: I would assume up there they would say West Newbury.

471
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: But I think that's crazy, just like Strawberry is crazy. No, no, no,

472
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: And don't even get me started on Caraenmel versus Carmel. Anyway,

473
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Speaker 1: Patrick said, who were some of your influences in terms

474
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Speaker 1: of getting into college football media. I don't hear anyone

475
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 1: like you, so I'm curious. I hope you don't hear

476
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Speaker 1: anyone like me. It's probably in everyone's best interest. Patrick, No,

477
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Speaker 1: So I could answer this two ways. There were people

478
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid that I heard outside of

479
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Speaker 1: the boundaries of college media or even in sports media

480
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: that always struck me as I got a little bit older,

481
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: I always thought Colin Cowherd when he first got to

482
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: ESPN radio, really set a tone that was different than

483
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: anything else I had ever heard. It was the first

484
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: time I ever started listening to sports talk radio in

485
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: a consistent manner. It connected with me. I mean, he

486
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: was the only one really talking college football at a

487
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: national level, so that's probably why it connected with me.

488
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: But I also remember, just like the theater of the

489
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: mind aspect that he was so good at the community

490
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: building that he was really good at So I mean,

491
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: that guy got me through several early morning shifts at

492
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Speaker 1: the warehouse. He was my bridge between unloading the Southeastern

493
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: Freight truck stocking the shelves. Finally we got to our

494
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: lunch break about the time he hands it off to

495
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: the early afternoon show. But then as it got real

496
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: to me that maybe I'll be able to do this

497
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Speaker 1: for a living, or or maybe I at least want

498
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: to roll the dice. I want to bet on myself.

499
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: I want to take a shot. There were two shows

500
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: that were already in the space that I was really

501
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: paying attention to. I've talked about them before. One of

502
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 1: them that I used to listen to I still listen to,

503
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 1: but I listened to religiously was the solid Verbal with

504
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: Tyholde Brandt and Dan Rubinstein, and those guys were doing

505
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do. They weren't necessarily like working

506
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: for any big corporation, any big media company. It was

507
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: their show. It was unique under anything else in the space.

508
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of other options in the space

509
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: yet that would soon change. But I was heavily influenced

510
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: by those guys, not so much stylistically, like I knew

511
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: kind of I've got my way that I'd like to

512
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: do it. I think the things I think, I talk,

513
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: the way I talk, all that stuff. But I listened

514
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: to them and I would. At the time, I was

515
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: don't let Savannah stay to hear this. But I was

516
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 1: dating a girl who lived up in Atlanta. I was

517
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: still down in Columbus, so I had a you know,

518
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: an hour and a half commute each way if I

519
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: was going to go see her. So that's when I

520
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: would listen to a solid verbal and I just, man,

521
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: you feel like you know those guys and you've never

522
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: met them. And I remember thinking to myself, that's what

523
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: you have to establish. I feel like I've got a

524
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: relationship with these two dudes. I've never met them. I

525
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: don't even know what they look like. At the time,

526
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: I didn't, and so that influenced me, and the guys

527
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: at college football Nerds influenced me, both of whom were

528
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: at the wedding last month. What a you know, a

529
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: circular not quite circle of life. That's not what they

530
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: meant at all in the Lion King, but it was

531
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: kind of a full circle moment, I guess, but I

532
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,959
Speaker 1: remember talking to them. I was looking at their YouTube

533
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: channel back then. I was thinking, man, dude, if we

534
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: could ever get like a fraction of the subscribers they have.

535
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: But more than that, I was thinking, these guys are

536
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: talking math in a way that I don't think I

537
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: could ever talk. But it makes sense to me. And

538
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: that influenced me because I remember, man, most of the

539
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,959
Speaker 1: stat type stuff, most of the data based stuff, it

540
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: loses me in three nanoseconds. I don't have the attention

541
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: span for it. Those guys were really good at it,

542
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: and you know, when you would comment on their channel,

543
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: they would comment back, which is something I still try

544
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: and do as much as I can. But those two,

545
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: it's four guys, but those four, they heavily influenced me.

546
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: They're both doing their stuff today, like I highly recommend

547
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: Solid Verbal and college football nerds. You could do me

548
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: a big favor if you go check both of their

549
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: shows out. All right, we have a very very important

550
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: exercise that we've been doing on the show. I want

551
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: to continue it tonight. We've been doing this exercise for

552
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: a little while where we look at teams and we

553
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: look at the record from last year and we just

554
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: got to call our shot. Now, throw your dart at

555
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: the board. Are there going to be better this year

556
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: or worse this year than they were last year? I

557
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: want to start with Ole Miss tonight. Ole Miss was

558
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: nine and three last year. They're over unders eight and

559
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: a half. If you're interested, nine and three last year

560
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: should have made the playoffs. It's their fault they didn't.

561
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: I think they'll be worse this year. If I had

562
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: to guess record wise, I think Old Miss may fall

563
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: off a game compared to what they did last year.

564
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: I think they'll still be good to excellent offensively. I'm

565
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: a big believer in Austin Simmons. There's nothing you need

566
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: to sell me on there. The defense is a pretty

567
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: big question mark for me. They're gonna have regression. We

568
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: talked about that in the previous show. There will be regression,

569
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: it's how much does it fall off. I don't think

570
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: that portal class had the same pop that it did

571
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: a cycle before, and so because of that, I look

572
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: at games like the LSU game going to Georgia and

573
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: Oklahoma back to back South Carolina after that, there's no

574
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: buy that gets at Georgia at Oklahoma South Carolina. They

575
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: got Florida late in the year. I'm asking myself, could

576
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: they lose four of those games? I think they could.

577
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: So it's not something I'm betting on. I don't feel

578
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: that strongly about it. But I slightly lean worse than

579
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: nine and three, and I hope that's not the case,

580
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: because at that point, you ask, man, did almost miss

581
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: their best shot to do something in the playoff by

582
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: missing it entirely next up SMU eleven and one last year,

583
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: you gotta go worse. I mean, just we're asking what's

584
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: more likely. It's far more likely they're worse. They got

585
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: a tougher schedule this year than they did last year.

586
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: We were talking about them, I mean, we were talking

587
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: about them as being the prime sleeper contender merely because

588
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: of schedule. We almost labeled them that sight unseen because

589
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: of how fortuitous their schedule set up was last year.

590
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: So three of the top four wide receivers are gone.

591
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: Schedule gets a little bit tougher. Defensive tackle question, edge question.

592
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: They had to go to the portal. Not that they're

593
00:31:58,440 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: the only ones who had to do this, but they

594
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: had to go the portal to backfield. Defensively, they had

595
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: a top ten rush defense last year. Are they just

596
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: gonna do that again? So if they go ten and two,

597
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm right Like they could go ten and two, they

598
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: could be playing for the conference title again and I'd

599
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: be right. So I'm gonna go worse for SMU. For Nebraska,

600
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: this is important. So I'm gonna wait Compton up William Nebraska.

601
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: I am ready to predict. I am ready to back

602
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: with my own money that Nebraska will be better than

603
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: six and six this year. Okay, it's Matt rule. It's

604
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: year three. You know the science behind the rule three,

605
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: The rule of three tam trademark. That's mine. Now, Dylan

606
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: Riyola with better options, That's what I'm thinking about now.

607
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: I don't love that Tony White's gone. I just need

608
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: him to hold the rope defensively. Again, We're not trying

609
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: to go ten and two or eleven and one here.

610
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out, how does Nebraska win eight games?

611
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: Seven or eight games? That's where they should be at

612
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: least this year. If you look at the schedule, as

613
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: many will start to do this time of year, when

614
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: do they play Ohio State? Oh, they don't well, let

615
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: me see, where's Oregon here? Oh? Oh, Oregon's not there. Well,

616
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: where's the tough road games? Michigan? No, they get them

617
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 1: at home. Oh man, that trip to USC is going

618
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: to be tough. Oh wait, they get USC at home

619
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: as well. Dude, No one wants to go to Iowa

620
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Oh Iowa comes there,

621
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: they got a game at Penn State elsewhere. Where's the

622
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: road trip that I'm supposed to be scared of? So,

623
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: you know what, they better win more than six games.

624
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: They're over under win totals. What seven and a half? Yeah,

625
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: they do. Will Compton and Matt Rule better not screw

626
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: this up like it's got to happen. It's got I've

627
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: been accused of Nebraska slander for, you know, predicting anything

628
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: less than a Big ten championship game appearance. No, No,

629
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: not quite that bullish yet. But they gotta they gotta

630
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: do better than six and six now, swear in that

631
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: rough portion of the country. Are my Iowa State Cyclones

632
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: Big twelve runners up? Last year? Things just didn't go

633
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: our way in the conference title game. Shame on you,

634
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: Kenny Dillingham. They went ten to two last year. There

635
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: is not a bone in my body that's about to

636
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: publicly state that Iowa State will be worse than that

637
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: this year. I don't care what you put in front

638
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 1: of me. I will plug my ears with both index

639
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: fingers and shout la la la. I can't hear you

640
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: as long as it takes, or until I lose my voice.

641
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: I'm team rock Obeck all day. Quarterback still there, head coach,

642
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: still there, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator still there. Top third

643
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: of the country in returning production. It's just a stat

644
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: we're thrown around now. It is a navigable schedule. There's

645
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: no Texas Tech on there. There's no Baylor, there's no Utah.

646
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: They got Iowa at home. Candidly, I think they do

647
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: better in their house. But whatever, they get Arizona State

648
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: at home, bringing Young's at home again, that's not a

649
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: tough road slate. So ten and two I could see it.

650
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: I could see and you know what, maybe eleven and

651
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: one is not out of the realm of possibility. But

652
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: as we all know, Iowa State has now established themselves

653
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: as a perennial contender. Okay, So nowadays and aims we

654
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,919
Speaker 1: talk about nine or ten when that's the floor. Matt

655
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: Campbell will appreciate this. They love expectations up there. They

656
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: love it. Look the expectation that's okay to have any

657
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: time of year's Quick Trip's going to be there for you.

658
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: They welcome that. Okay, you expect them to have cold

659
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: brew on tap, they welcome that. There's never any complacency.

660
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,479
Speaker 1: They're not closing. Okay, the pumps will work, the cold

661
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: brew on tap will work. And if it doesn't, I

662
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: don't want to be held responsible. But I'm pretty sure

663
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: it'll work. And they'll have food in there, and they'll

664
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: have snacks in there, and you know what else they'll have.

665
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: They'll have our back. We need to go on the

666
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: road for a tour of this far. They got us.

667
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: We just went to what sixteen places this spring on

668
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: the Speakers series tour. They had us. They're the exclusive

669
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: fuel provider of pet State. This university is entirely fueled

670
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: by Quick Trip in every way imaginable. So thank you

671
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 1: Quick Trip. Let's continue question season. It's big question season,

672
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: you know in college football. And I got a question

673
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: tonight from one of you that I've chosen to answer.

674
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: One of you said, Hey, I got the biggest question

675
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: for you this year how many SEC and Big ten

676
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: teams will make the playoff. This was the hot topic

677
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: of conversation around Halloween and beyond last year and just

678
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: spit on myself. So last year it was seven seven

679
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,959
Speaker 1: of them made it. There's not a lot of fluctuation here,

680
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: Like seven is probably the baseline. One of them is

681
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: probably gonna have four, the other one's gonna have at

682
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: least three. That's probably the way this goes. But the

683
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: thing about it is it's gonna be like at least seven.

684
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: Nine is the max because we still got twelve teams

685
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: this year, and the ACC's gotta have one. The Big

686
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: ten in the SEC, all right, they'll have several, but

687
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: the ACC's got to have one, the Big twelve's got

688
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: to have one, the G five's got to have one.

689
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: Nine is the most you can get, and if Notre

690
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: Dame doesn't make it in then you can get nine.

691
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: It's most likely they get eight, Like I think, that's

692
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 1: how much they get in or how many they get in.

693
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: So in the odds to make the playoff, nine of

694
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: the top thirteen are from the Big ten or the SEC. Yes,

695
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna load up the odds board, but

696
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: they're also gonna play each other, so they're gonna knock

697
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: a lot of each other out. But the question here

698
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: is okay, well, how many of them are good enough?

699
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: And then the follow up is twofold? I think is

700
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 1: the follow up that I don't really know the answer

701
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: to question number one. Did SMU's performance last year when

702
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: they got benefit of the doubt and they got put

703
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: in the playoff and then got smoked on the road

704
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: at Penn State? Does that sway the opinion making. My

705
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: personal opinion is SMU deserved to be in the playoff

706
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: over Alabama, so I agreed with the decision. I expected

707
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: them to lose handedly to Penn State. I didn't get anything.

708
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: I didn't expect they could lose by one hundred and

709
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't change whether they should or shouldn't have been

710
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 1: placed in. Your body of work is what determines whether

711
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: you get placed in not. We're going to put you

712
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: in and then see if you deserved it by what

713
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: you do after the fact. That's not part of your resume.

714
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: But I could see some people thinking along those lines,

715
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 1: maybe even some committee members, And by that I mean,

716
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: if we do have another ab scenario, where there's a

717
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: Big ten or an SEC team that's maybe three losses

718
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: versus an SMU whoever that is. This year, I could

719
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: see a lot of people in the media making a

720
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: bad faith argument that, you know, big boys should be

721
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: in over Cinderella over here. And then part B is

722
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: they've got that new strength of schedule and strength of

723
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: record metric and criteria that they're going to insert into

724
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: the selection process. Does that tilt the odds in the

725
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: favor of an extra team from the SEC and extra

726
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: team from the Big ten? I think it will. My

727
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: guess is they're going to have eight in this year.

728
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: Could be five and three, could be four and four, whatever,

729
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: but I think they'll have eight in. Let's move it

730
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: merrily along, nice brisk pace tonight. I like where we're at.

731
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: Like where we're at. We were two shows ago. We

732
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: did like a ninety minute show in June somehow, So

733
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: we've been trying to tell the truth on a lot

734
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: of head coaches, and I wanted to tell the truth

735
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: about Marcus Freeman tonight. This have worked out any better

736
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: for Notre Dame. We should have put the Notre Dame

737
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: helmet on the sets right over there. I'm looking at

738
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: it right now, could this have worked out any better

739
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: for Notre Dame? Remember a couple of years ago, Brian Kelly,

740
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: he had been there for a long time, He's what

741
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: the all time winning his head coach in Notre Dame history,

742
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: and he didn't get fired. He chose to leave. He

743
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: chose to leave. It hurt some people's feelings. It didn't

744
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: hurt everybody's feelings, but they had. As it turns out,

745
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: his backfill already in house. Marcus Freeman was already there,

746
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: and so Marcus Freeman does not go with him. Marcus

747
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: Freeman stays. Marcus Freeman becomes the head coach at Notre

748
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: Dame has never been a head coach before, So like

749
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: Ohio State and like Georgia and like Oklahoma recently, at

750
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: that point, Notre Dame's gonna roll the dice on a

751
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: first time head coach, and Marcus Freeman takes the job.

752
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: And now three years later, I think we can definitively

753
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: look at Notre Dame football and say they're in a

754
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: better spot than where Brian Kelly had him. And I

755
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: doubted that would happen, by the way, Like if you

756
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: told me that was gonna happen. I would have said,

757
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 1: all right, I need to see it. I guess it's

758
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: not impossible, but I'm going to need to see that. Well,

759
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,879
Speaker 1: you know what, I've seen it, and he's been there

760
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: three years, and you you should still be seeing a

761
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: sharp learning curve. Guy's in his late thirties. Okay, that

762
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: guy at a major program should be showing obvious flaws

763
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: still And you know what, you could throw out the

764
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: martial laws, the Northern Illinois loss. It's not like they

765
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: haven't been there. What I'm saying is it should be glaring. Really,

766
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: if history has taught us anything, it should be glaring

767
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: when you take a first time head coach and give

768
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,479
Speaker 1: him a major job. Period. But he's been a first

769
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: time head coach being given a major job in the

770
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: most tumultuous era in the history of college football. And

771
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 1: there've been bumps on the road. But the dude played

772
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: for a national championship last year. And need I remind

773
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: you they came into the season, we thought their offensive

774
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: line would be their weakness, and not only was it not,

775
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: they got injured along the way on the offensive line

776
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 1: and still just this was the biggest testament to Marcus Freeman.

777
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: The overall aura, the vibe, the identity of the team

778
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: almost made it feel like it didn't matter how badly

779
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: they got banged up. I'm watching Notre Dame and at

780
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: a certain point last year, you look and you say, oh,

781
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 1: another lineman went down. It's notre name. They'll just find

782
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: a way. That is a place few programs rarely get to.

783
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: But if you do get there, that's the best testament

784
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: that you can give to a head coach, cause that

785
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: means head coach has done his job. What is his job?

786
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,240
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman's not in the face of every offensive lineman

787
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: in the weight room every day, butis strength and conditioning

788
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: staff that he hired. Is Marcus Freeman's not in the

789
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: face of those guys on the field, but his offensive

790
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: line and that staff that coaches his offensive line. They

791
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: are the development aspect, the psychological aspect, that the mental

792
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,919
Speaker 1: and physical, every compartment that he's in charge of overseeing

793
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: has been perfected enough to where that's the result that

794
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: it's bearing. Okay, So then you ask yourself, well, where

795
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: do they go from here? I think he's in an

796
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: interesting spot right now. I think the truth is their

797
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: recruiting has trended up, and it's trended up after they

798
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: lost the general manager. This is kind of a big

799
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: thing people behind the scenes have been talking about in

800
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: college football. Chad Bowden went to USC, it was a

801
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: huge get for USC. USC recruiting has seen a big uptick,

802
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: and the thinking was, well, USC's gain has to be

803
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's life. Maybe it was, Maybe it wasn't. The

804
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: point is you look at Notre Dame and if you're

805
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: looking for the lingering effects, the after effects of that,

806
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: they're nowhere to be found. Because as good as USC

807
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 1: is doing, Notre Dame's killing it too. Notre Dame's on

808
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: the path to maybe putting together the best class that

809
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 1: Freeman's put together there. So again, what you're talking about

810
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: is you're talking about the very early indicators of you know,

811
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 1: what great coaches have done in the past. What you've

812
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: seen with great coaches is they build such a machine

813
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: that the parts are interchangeable. You don't want to talk

814
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: about people like that because the program's only as good

815
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: as the people. But if you've got a strong program,

816
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: it attracts the right people. So like one of the

817
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: right people leaves, another of the right people comes right

818
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: there in to replace him or her or whatever the

819
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: case may be. Point being again, most programs never get

820
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: to that level. And here's what's crazy about that. You

821
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,439
Speaker 1: could look in the past, you say, man like Nick

822
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: Saban is the tailor made example of that. Yeah, yes,

823
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: Sabin did that at Bama. You know what else is

824
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: true about Nick Saban. Freeman's thirty nine years old. When

825
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: Nick Saban was thirty nine years old, he was a

826
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: decade away from taking the LSU job. So they're doing it.

827
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: I mean, Marcus Freeman's starting to do this at a

828
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: completely different juncture of his life than Nick Saban ever

829
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: thought about doing it. Sabin was at Toledo when he

830
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: was thirty nine years old. Just to give you an

831
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: idea of sort of how different the trajectory is for

832
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman. Like some other Dan Lannings this age, like

833
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: a lot of other guys are doing this. Maybe not

834
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: at this level, though, I think when you look back

835
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: on twenty twenty four, I think Marcus Freeman will benefit

836
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: a ton from what twenty twenty four was. You benefit

837
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: from going to the National Championship Game because you finally

838
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: have it to put in front of people's faces. Of

839
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: the doubting Thomas's so to speak, that had to see

840
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: it to believe it. Well, there it is. We went.

841
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: I mean, we played for a national championship, and anyone

842
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: who told you we couldn't do that again, they lied

843
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: to you. So you get to say that, but you

844
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: also get to continue to hold the carrot collectively over

845
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: your program, over your players, over your staff because you

846
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: still got embarrassed last year at home against Northern Illinois.

847
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: You still got to the dance, but you didn't get

848
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: the job done there. So it's like this perfect combination

849
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: of a proof of performance, but also there's no complacency

850
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Speaker 1: It's not impossible. USC has the fifth best odds to

904
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905
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: have a lot of close games and they just win

906
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907
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908
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909
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,360
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910
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,719
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911
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 1: Let's say they were to beat Michigan and Notre Dame

912
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913
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,680
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914
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,279
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915
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Speaker 1: be nothing but conference games. You know how long November

916
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Speaker 1: would be. And they got a trip to Oregon the second,

917
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: the last week of the year. Nobody associated with that

918
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: program has done it at this point. Lincoln's done it,

919
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920
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921
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Speaker 1: can they walk it all the way across? That's tough

922
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Speaker 1: to do. That's tough to do. They gotta win. They

923
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Speaker 1: got to go to India and win the game too,

924
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925
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Speaker 1: would cause great consternation. Nate from Saint Clairsville, Ohio says

926
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927
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Speaker 1: His prediction arch Manning accounts for four plus touchdowns in

928
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Speaker 1: Week one, Texas beats OU or Ohio State my bad

929
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: by twenty one plus. Give me a nine point seventy

930
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: five on this. Now, nobody goes into Columbus Ohio and

931
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: does that by that margin, and I don't expect it

932
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933
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: so I don't expect that to happen. But the reason

934
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Speaker 1: I didn't make it a ten is because there's so

935
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Speaker 1: much newness for both of them. Really, either team winning

936
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: by three touchdowns, which is just three plays, is not

937
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Speaker 1: like out of this world crazy to me. It's very unlikely. Okay,

938
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Speaker 1: but if you told me that Texas's pass rush just

939
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Speaker 1: goes in there and creates a nightmare, and Julian saying,

940
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Speaker 1: in that pass offense, Brian hartline calling plays for the

941
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: first time, he just never gets in a rhythm, and

942
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Speaker 1: Texas turns them over three times. Arch starts three different

943
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: drives inside his thirty five yard line. I could see

944
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: that happening. I don't think it's going to like if

945
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: you told me that's the way that game plays out.

946
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: I've seen crazier things. I think we'll see crazier things

947
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: this year than that. I mean, Vandy beat Bama last

948
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: year and the goalpost ended up in the Cumberland River,

949
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Speaker 1: So don't tell me crazy can't happen. Next up, Jeffrey

950
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Speaker 1: from Carry North Carolina. Clemson becomes the first team since

951
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: Fresno in twenty thirteen with three one thousand plus yard receivers. Okay,

952
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: this is only a nine, and we've been talking about

953
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: how ridiculously underwhelming Clemson's wide receiver room's been for a while,

954
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: but not now. They got one of the best in

955
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Speaker 1: the country now, so this almost certainly would be Antonio Williams,

956
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: Bryant Westco Junior TJ. Moore. Those have got to be

957
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: your three one thousand yard receivers. They had nine oh four,

958
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: seven oh eight, and six fifty one respectively last year.

959
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: There was some injury thrown in there. So if cave

960
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: club Nick plays to the level I think he can,

961
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: if those those three guys are healthy most of the year,

962
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: they may lack a ground game with enough punch. Brenning

963
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: Stool's gone, so they don't probably have a premiere tight end.

964
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: I could see this being the way their offense functions.

965
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: This could happen. It's a nine. It's very bold. It's

966
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: not impossible. So it's so refreshing to be able to

967
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: think that about Clemson. And lastly, oh no, oh no.

968
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: This is from Hot Springs, Arkansas. Great horse racing there.

969
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: I was there in February. Great horse racing there. Arkansas

970
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: pulls off two top ten upsets. I'm gonna put a

971
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: nine point twenty five on this. Arkansas sneaky enough to

972
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: do this. I'm just wondering, well, who are the top

973
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:51,320
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974
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Speaker 1: in week three could be a top ten team. They

975
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: got Notre Dame in Week five, that'll probably be a

976
00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: top ten team. Unless there's upsets early Tennessee week seven,

977
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. A and M week eight, I don't know,

978
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: Auburn week nine, I don't know, LSU week twelve, possibly,

979
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: at Texas week thirteen, probably, Missouri week fourteen, maybe, And

980
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: then they got to beat two of those teams, and

981
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: it has to be two teams that are in the

982
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: top ten. That's just hard to do. Man. Also, Arkansas's

983
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: questionable this year, So I'm gonna put a nine point

984
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: twenty five on that one. Because I love Trey Biddy

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989
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990
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991
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,840
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992
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