Speaker 1: Welcome to Unafraid Show Daily Live, where we talk about
Speaker 1: the most important things in sports quickly, honestly, and of
Speaker 1: course tell them truth. And we got college football this week,
Speaker 1: and after one week of college football zero weekend, Week one,
Speaker 1: there are many questions to be answered, and you guys
Speaker 1: sent in a bunch of them via Twitter, via email,
Speaker 1: and you guys can always send them in I'm mad,
Speaker 1: I amma d at Unafraid Show dot com or just
Speaker 1: shoot them on Twitter at George rece Serge you see
Speaker 1: down here below or at the Unafraid Show and we
Speaker 1: will answer them every single Tuesday. But the questions that
Speaker 1: you guys have, what happened to Florida State, what's to
Speaker 1: deal with my Oregon Ducks with the way that they
Speaker 1: looked after one week? Kent Texas A and M survive
Speaker 1: with Connor Weekman at quarterback? And do you take Travis
Speaker 1: Hunter or Tedoroa McMahon if you are the first pick
Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft. And we're also gonna look at
Speaker 1: the Week two of the AP Pole versus the Unafraid
Speaker 1: Show Top twenty five, and we will discuss the updated
Speaker 1: college football playoff and the new playoff polls with the
Speaker 1: way that they're shaking out, all right, And of course
Speaker 1: we have to discuss at three two one no and
Speaker 1: his tweet and how the whole barstool community. You got
Speaker 1: Josh paid people out there looking for that man. They
Speaker 1: found out who he is. But I'm wondering, do we
Speaker 1: really do we really expect this man to eat it?
Speaker 1: That's the biggest question, all right, and the but we're
Speaker 1: gonna start with what I think is the best, absolutely
Speaker 1: the best part of college football and absolutely the worst
Speaker 1: part about college football, And.
Speaker 2: It's the passion.
Speaker 1: It's the passion, the overreaction and everything in between, because
Speaker 1: aside from European side, there is nothing, There is no
Speaker 1: American sport that carries the same amount of passion and
Speaker 1: crazies as college football does.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 1: Try to think about, has anybody ever risked their life
Speaker 1: and freedom to get into the Super Bowl, like mass
Speaker 1: amounts of people that we're trying to get into Florida
Speaker 1: Stadium to go watch.
Speaker 2: The Kanafka Cup, Right, it ain't happening.
Speaker 1: But in college football you got fans willing to kill trees,
Speaker 1: people to kill people, people willing to kidnap mascots and
Speaker 1: everything in between. There are states that will not even
Speaker 1: allow the letter over the letter M in a certain
Speaker 1: color for an entire week. And that's actually the best
Speaker 1: part about college football. But the worst part about college
Speaker 1: football is the overreaction. Right So, Florida State's having major
Speaker 1: issues right now. They're owing to the lost to Georgia Tech,
Speaker 1: and then they came back and lost to Boston College
Speaker 1: this week, and the overreaction is wild.
Speaker 2: People talking about fire Mike nor Veil.
Speaker 1: The dude was just thirteen and oh last year and
Speaker 1: everybody was happy with him. The talking about you should
Speaker 1: have gone to the college football playoffs, you got snubbed
Speaker 1: everything else, regardless of whether that's true or not. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, after an zero to two start
Speaker 1: you on a fire, like we gotta have some sort
Speaker 1: of like realistic expectations, because the question is do you
Speaker 1: want somebody who's gonna fix it quick or you want
Speaker 1: to fix it right. It's like it's like building a
Speaker 1: set of legos. You're building a whole set of legos,
Speaker 1: and then you get about halfway through and you realize, damn,
Speaker 1: I missed the piece. Oh man, this ain't quite right,
Speaker 1: and instead of tearing it down back to where you
Speaker 1: know it's right, and then rebuilding from there. Nope, Nope,
Speaker 1: we just gonna keep on building with We'll just figure
Speaker 1: it out. We'll shoehorn something in there. No, you gotta
Speaker 1: have the foundation has to be built correctly, and when
Speaker 1: those overreactions happen, you fire people that you shouldn't fire.
Speaker 1: Look at what's going on at the University of Florida
Speaker 1: and Dan Mullen retweeting this was a Matthew Berry tweet
Speaker 1: was absolutely insane because the tweet read the Florida coach
Speaker 1: that got fired went to three consecutive New Year six
Speaker 1: games in his first three years and was let go
Speaker 1: in his fourth season.
Speaker 2: And that's Dan Mullen.
Speaker 1: Now, wouldn't the Florida Gator fans welcome back the Dan
Speaker 1: Mullen years. Absolutely, But the problem is is that we've
Speaker 1: gotten into this world in the world of college football,
Speaker 1: of thinking that every single program is supposed to look
Speaker 1: like what went on for sixteen of Nick sabans seventeen
Speaker 1: years at Alabama and what went on with Kirby Smart. Well,
Speaker 1: what's going on with Kirby Smart over there at Georgia
Speaker 1: right now? It's not gonna look like people overreact to this.
Speaker 1: In the NFL all the time, they look at their
Speaker 1: quarterback like Dak Prescott. Dude, getting your twelve wins every
Speaker 1: single year, getting you into the tournament. Oh, he sucks.
Speaker 1: We need to find anybody but Dak. Anybody but Dak.
Speaker 1: Anybody can't do what Dak is doing. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you don't want to win a championship. It just
Speaker 1: means that you just realizing that it's a lot harder
Speaker 1: than you thought, because everybody wants their young rookie quarterback,
Speaker 1: whether it's Trevor Lawrence or Kyler Murray or Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: or whoever else. Cayleb Williams this year. Oh, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes are the standard. No, they can't be
Speaker 1: the standard, Like that's never been the standard in the
Speaker 1: history of football. We're looking at outliers. What Nick Saban
Speaker 1: has done at Alabama and what Kirby Smart is doing
Speaker 1: at Georgia right now are outlier results. Those aren't the norm.
Speaker 1: So can your team do it? No, that's not normal.
Speaker 1: If it so happens to happen, sure, but that's not
Speaker 1: Those aren't typical results. And we get and we have
Speaker 1: to figure out some sort of way to express our displeasure.
Speaker 1: If you're a Florida State would have known to start
Speaker 1: and having some sort of common sense, because if you
Speaker 1: want to switch stuff up and be an unstable person
Speaker 1: every time something goes wrong, you're gonna be switching stuff
Speaker 1: up all the time and it doesn't give you time
Speaker 1: to build. And yes, it's just like a marriage being
Speaker 1: with a college football head coach. Yes, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: the majority of it should be good. But are you
Speaker 1: gonna have some downs? Yes, kids are gonna get sick,
Speaker 1: mom is gonna die, but the house is gonna flood,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have somebody's gonna lose a job, amongst all
Speaker 1: the other great things that happened. You have a family,
Speaker 1: your kids go to college. It doesn't necessarily amount to tragedy.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have some ebbs and flows along this
Speaker 1: marvelous climb, and you got to be able to take
Speaker 1: it and live with it. And it's gotta be okay.
Speaker 1: But now on to the mail bag. Though, the first
Speaker 1: question that you guys sent in was that I thought
Speaker 1: Florida State was gonna win the ACC and who gets
Speaker 1: more blamed for Florida State's oh, and to start Mike
Speaker 1: Norvel or dj Uya galle Now, this is funny and
Speaker 1: I gotta address this because people were cooking me after
Speaker 1: Florida State lost to Georgia Tech, and I said, Yo,
Speaker 1: I don't know why y'all are over exaggerating about this loss,
Speaker 1: even though I was concerned because of the lack of
Speaker 1: physicality with Florida State. I do not believe that Florida State. Like,
Speaker 1: the most embarrassing thing about the Florida State situation right now.
Speaker 2: Is there lack of.
Speaker 1: Physicality on the offensive line and on defense. This is
Speaker 1: a team that has gotten bullied in back to back weeks.
Speaker 1: So the question is is this more Mike Mike Norvel's
Speaker 1: fault or is this dj Uiaga le Les fault. This
Speaker 1: is Mike Norvell's fault because DJ you last night against
Speaker 1: uh Yeah, when they were playing against Boston College last night,
Speaker 1: was he good? No? But when he was hitting people
Speaker 1: in the numbers, his teammates didn't help him out a
Speaker 1: little bit. And for context here, Mike Norvel he's actually
Speaker 1: never had success with a transfer quarterback, like he recruited
Speaker 1: Brady White to Arizona State before White went to Memphis
Speaker 1: and then he threw for seventy three hundred yards in
Speaker 1: two years under Mike norvel.
Speaker 2: And that Jordan.
Speaker 1: Travis here was a lot like Taylor Kelly over at
Speaker 1: Arizona State, an accurate passing, lowly regarded recruit that could
Speaker 1: take off and run and maybe dipping into the portal
Speaker 1: for a big name isn't what Mike norvel needs to
Speaker 1: be doing, especially when is somebody like dj uy A
Speaker 1: Gal who's a pocket passer.
Speaker 2: And he was able to.
Speaker 1: Have some strength, well some success with Jonathan Smith last
Speaker 1: year at Oregon State, because that's the type of quarterback
Speaker 1: that Jonathan Smith at Oregon State who's now Michigan State
Speaker 1: had had success with Jake Lowton, Like that's what he's
Speaker 1: had and that's probably why DJ you looked good last year.
Speaker 1: So yes, this is Mike Norvelle's fault. It is Mike
Speaker 1: Norvell's fault that the offense and the defense are lacking physicality.
Speaker 1: Because even if you lost you know, players to the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, there is still a standard for physicality amongst
Speaker 1: your team, and if you can't maintain that physicality with
Speaker 1: your team, that's a significant issue.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The second question that you guys sent in is, uh,
Speaker 1: my organ Ducts are playing Boise State this week. So
Speaker 1: here's the question. Oregon has never beaten Boise State. Are
Speaker 1: you worried about this week? After Ashton Gentry, that's their
Speaker 1: running back, ran for two hundred and sixty seven yards
Speaker 1: and six touchdowns last week? Also, should Gentry be allowed
Speaker 1: to punch an Oregon defensive.
Speaker 2: Player as payback for Legarrett Blunt?
Speaker 1: So the first part of it is, well, actually, I'll
Speaker 1: address the second part of this question. First, should Ashton
Speaker 1: Gentry be allowed to punch an Oregon defensive player as
Speaker 1: payback for Lagarrett Blunt? And if you don't remember Lagarrett
Speaker 1: Bump Blunt punched Byron out in the face after Oregon
Speaker 1: lost to Boise State up at Boise State a number
Speaker 1: of years ago, Well, you let Legarrett Blunt say it
Speaker 1: that Byron Houte harassing him after the game, tapped him
Speaker 1: on the shoulder, called him the N word. I just
Speaker 1: saw a video about this earlier today where Legarrett was
Speaker 1: talking about it. Legarrett said he punched him because it
Speaker 1: was no longer about football when he called him the nword.
Speaker 1: So if you believed that version of the start, then no,
Speaker 1: Ashton Gentry shouldn't be allowed to punch anybody.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Are you worried about this week with Oregon, with Boise
Speaker 1: State and Gentry? My answer to that is no, because
Speaker 1: even though Oregon did not put up the amount of
Speaker 1: points that you thought that they should have against against Idaho,
Speaker 1: they were pretty stout against the run and this defensive
Speaker 1: line looks very physical. The Oregon linebackers do need to
Speaker 1: step it up, but Bossa didn't play the majority of
Speaker 1: the game. This team should be fine. And I expect
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning's team, who has recovered well in history after
Speaker 1: they you know, didn't play well, so I expect them
Speaker 1: to do it. And just so you guys know, the
Speaker 1: Boise State wins over Oregon where two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: over Mike Bellatti thirty seven, thirty two O nine over
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly nineteen to eight. That was the Byron Howt
Speaker 1: Lagarritt blunt punch game. And then the twenty and seventeen
Speaker 1: lost Vegas Bowl over christ Ball thirty.
Speaker 2: Eight twenty eight. All right.
Speaker 1: The third question is fsu is oz in two Clemson loss,
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech lost, North Carolina needed a missed field go
Speaker 1: to beat Minnesota. Is Miami gonna have to carry the
Speaker 1: ACC this year. Yes, the answer to that is yes, yes,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to carry the ACC. But but here's
Speaker 1: the other part of it. How much are they really
Speaker 1: kick carrying the ACC because number one, they won the
Speaker 1: scheduling roulette where Miami's schedule is softest grandma's love right now.
Speaker 1: I mean just literally softest grandma's love. When you look
Speaker 1: at the rest of this season, there is no way
Speaker 1: that you can look at this and be any type
Speaker 1: of intimidated if you are a Miami fan, you can't.
Speaker 1: They are off this week, oh no, no, no, sorry, They
Speaker 1: play Florida and A and M this week, so might
Speaker 1: as well be off. Then they play Ball State at home,
Speaker 1: they play at South Florida Virginia Tech, who doesn't look
Speaker 1: very good, cal Louisville, Florida State obviously, how bad they
Speaker 1: look Duke Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and then they end
Speaker 1: the season with Syracuse. So no, there is nobody in
Speaker 1: Miami's camp that should be scared. And if they drop
Speaker 1: more than one game this year because they were sleepwalking
Speaker 1: or something like that, that's going to be a major
Speaker 1: red flag. But my question about Miami is not this year.
Speaker 1: My question about Miami is next year because they are
Speaker 1: being they were saved by the PAC twelve because they
Speaker 1: got cam Ward over from Washington State. He looked obviously
Speaker 1: really good. And it's funny because he was the fifth
Speaker 1: or sixth best quarterback in the PAC twelve last year.
Speaker 1: Think about that fifth or sixth best because you already
Speaker 1: had Caleb Williams, you had Bo Knicks, Michael Pennick junior,
Speaker 1: you had Noah Fafida down at Arizona. I mean that
Speaker 1: at a minimum puts him at fifth at a minimum.
Speaker 1: So so the ACC, who you know, called themselves a
Speaker 1: quarterback conference, they needed help from the PAC twelve to really,
Speaker 1: you know, ensure that they were gonna be okay. Now,
Speaker 1: how about Clemson in the ACEC. It's Clemson going to
Speaker 1: be able to do much in the ACC. A lot
Speaker 1: of this has to do with Dabo Sweeney, because Dabo
Speaker 1: Sweeney must adapt or die at this.
Speaker 2: Point in time.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about it that my mom always says,
Speaker 1: you always do what you're always done, you always get
Speaker 1: what you always got. Now, Dabo's gotten a lot of success,
Speaker 1: but here is the problem is that change is happening
Speaker 1: around you, and Dabo Sweeney is not adapting to the
Speaker 1: changes in college football. Nick Saban adapted to the change.
Speaker 1: He did it wonderfully. Hiring Lane Kiffin changed his whole offense.
Speaker 1: Look at what happened down in LSU with Les Miles.
Speaker 1: He refused to change. Dinosaur died out. And this is
Speaker 1: where Dabo is. He's going to have to adapt. This
Speaker 1: is adapt or die time in college football. Now that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Now adapting does not mean that you mortgage
Speaker 1: or sacrifice your principles because you are supposed to be
Speaker 1: who you are at the core you. But when it
Speaker 1: comes down to winning football games, you have to do
Speaker 1: what you have to do to win football games within
Speaker 1: your culture. So you got to keep your culture intact,
Speaker 1: but also put the best team out on the field
Speaker 1: as possible. And Dabbo adapt or die, baby, adapt or die.
Speaker 1: Number four? Did you see Arizona State's head coach Kenny
Speaker 1: Dillingham put a walk on lineman in at running back
Speaker 1: to impress his five star basketball playing brother. And what
Speaker 1: did you think of that? Okay, So for you guys that.
Speaker 2: Don't know.
Speaker 1: CoA Pete who and that Peak family is one of
Speaker 1: the most athletic families around.
Speaker 2: Just google them. Pa Pea t.
Speaker 1: CoA Pete is a five star forward who has all seven,
Speaker 1: yes seven of his siblings playing college sports. And he
Speaker 1: was on an official visit to ASU and they're trying
Speaker 1: to compete with Duke and Arizona for this kid. So
Speaker 1: having the football coach in Kenny Dillingham put his brother
Speaker 1: in the game at running back, is that going to sweed? Listen,
Speaker 1: this is something that coaches need to be aware of.
Speaker 1: And this is actually something that Dan Lanning actually does
Speaker 1: really well. When kids are playing hometown kids like Sadiq
Speaker 1: bay Over at Oregon or Kenyan Sadik, Yes last name
Speaker 1: is Sadik. They were playing Idaho, He's from Idaho. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden he touched the ball a little bit
Speaker 1: more because that's something that means a lot to the kids.
Speaker 1: So I'm actually I'm not mad at Kenny Dillaham for that.
Speaker 1: They were blowing them out in the game. They were
Speaker 1: blowing out Wyoming, So yeah, is what it is, all right?
Speaker 1: The fifth question up Connor Weakman, who's Texas and M's quarterback.
Speaker 1: He only threw four hundred yards against Notre Dame. He
Speaker 1: was a five star coming out of high school? Are
Speaker 1: we ready to call him a bust? So here's the truth.
Speaker 1: In limited playing time, Connor Wigman has sixteen touchdowns two
Speaker 1: interceptions in his career. Obviously it's still early, and Notre
Speaker 1: Dame actually might be the best.
Speaker 2: Defense in the country right now.
Speaker 1: They look fantastic, Like look what they did to Caleb
Speaker 1: Williams in twenty twenty three, had him throw three picks.
Speaker 1: If Caleb Williams looked horrendous versus Notre Dame last year.
Speaker 1: So it is something about this about this defense as well.
Speaker 1: But the thing that we have to understand is that
Speaker 1: a five star rating coming out of high school, as
Speaker 1: much as we'd like five stars and people will tell
Speaker 1: you that stars matter and everything else, they are not
Speaker 1: a guarantee of success because there are guys that underperformed
Speaker 1: that rating for whatever reason every single year. Look at JT.
Speaker 1: Daniels who was over at USC and then it's been
Speaker 1: you know, multiple spots after that. Harrison Bailey, ty Thompson,
Speaker 1: who transferred from Oregon down to Tulane didn't win the job.
Speaker 1: Malachai Nelson left USC went to Boise, didn't win the job.
Speaker 1: Walker Howard Sam Hewart. All of these dudes, think about it.
Speaker 1: Them dudes have like Harrison Bailey, Tyd Thompson, Walker Howard,
Speaker 1: and Sam Hewart have one combined touchdown pass. Stars matter
Speaker 1: on a macro level, like if you have a team
Speaker 1: and you have the blue Chip rating, you know eighty
Speaker 1: percent where eighty percent of your roster is four and
Speaker 1: five star players. Yes, your team is going to be
Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the country, particularly if
Speaker 1: you're well coached. But on a micro level, like on
Speaker 1: an individual player level, stars don't matter. You can be
Speaker 1: a two star get a first round draft pick. You
Speaker 1: can be a five star and end up to never
Speaker 1: play no matter what school you go to. Just the
Speaker 1: reality of things, all right? Question six from you guys
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Speaker 1: to get to your questions.
Speaker 2: All right? Number six, Ah, this was good. George.
Speaker 1: You come across as a USC hater after we held
Speaker 1: LSU to twenty points. Are you ready to admit the
Speaker 1: Trojans are back? Number one. I am not a USC hater.
Speaker 1: I just try to call things out how they are.
Speaker 1: And USC had not put together a good defense even
Speaker 1: at all. And here's what we saw in the LSU game,
Speaker 1: and I want people to keep it in perspective. LSU
Speaker 1: and USC had two of the worst defenses in the
Speaker 1: country last year, the worst five far unadulter rated worst
Speaker 1: defenses in the country. And so you don't go from
Speaker 1: worse in the country to a top ten, top fifteen defense.
Speaker 1: So are both of those defenses better?
Speaker 2: Yes? Is USC's defense better? Yes?
Speaker 1: Was Miller Moss really good? Yes, it's LSU's defense great. No,
Speaker 1: So do not be fooled by what you saw. Take
Speaker 1: it as a really good win for USC, a good
Speaker 1: stepping stone and a building block for what they got
Speaker 1: coming up this year, and be okay with that, like
Speaker 1: that's where we got a land with this, and not
Speaker 1: try to make it more than what this game really was.
Speaker 1: And USC's upcoming schedule they got Utah State this week,
Speaker 1: then then they played Wisconsin at home, which is gonna
Speaker 1: be a formidable game at Wisconsin Penn State, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna find more and more out about this team. So
Speaker 1: there's no need to overreact there or be and be
Speaker 1: reactive to Oh my god, you're not giving them enough credit,
Speaker 1: you're hating Nah. Just really just making sure that we
Speaker 1: temper the expectations, because with great expectations comes great disappointment.
Speaker 1: And USC fans will be trying to fire Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 1: They will be if they lose like three games this
Speaker 1: year after the excitement of this LSU game, and how
Speaker 1: many times have we looked at it a week one
Speaker 1: week zero game and put way too much stock into it.
Speaker 1: Look at Colorado last year when they beat Nebraska, everybody's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they back baby. It beat Colorado State, they
Speaker 1: back baby, let us go. Then they lose seven out
Speaker 1: of eight in conference. Just saying, all right, number seven.
Speaker 1: You're an NFL general manager, George, and you have a
Speaker 1: top three pick, and you already have your quarterback of
Speaker 1: the future. Do you take Travis Hunter or Tetoroa McMillan
Speaker 1: out of Arizona in case you don't know who the
Speaker 1: kid is. Wow, I'm going to go with Travis Hunter
Speaker 1: only for one single solitary reason, and that's flexibility. That's
Speaker 1: flexibility because now I have a player that I can
Speaker 1: play at dB if I need to, Oh, Georgia can't
Speaker 1: play both ways. I mean the Patriots had a wide
Speaker 1: receiver playing nickel dB sometimes on a Super Bowl team.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and Travis Hunter is significantly better. So that's
Speaker 1: the only reason. But McMillan, t mac the kid is electric.
Speaker 1: If you have not watched Arizona play, watch him play.
Speaker 1: He cannot be covered. He was supposed to be. He
Speaker 1: was originally committed to Oregon. Because you're like, how do
Speaker 1: you ended up at at Arizona? He was originally commit
Speaker 1: to Oregon and then he ended up backing off his
Speaker 1: commitment once Mario Christobaul left and went to Miami, and
Speaker 1: so he went down to Arizona with his best friend
Speaker 1: and quarterback Noah Fafiita. All right, number eight, question number eight,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna take ten from you guys every single week,
Speaker 1: guys like Cam Rising and Tyler Shuck went off in
Speaker 1: a went off in week one. Do you believe that
Speaker 1: twenty five year olds should even be eligible.
Speaker 2: For the Heisman? Yes? Yes, what are we talking about here? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Yes? Twenty five year if you are.
Speaker 1: Eligible in college football, you should be eligible for any
Speaker 1: postseason award. Should Cam McCormick over at Miami in his
Speaker 1: ninth college football year, not be eligible for the Mackie
Speaker 1: Award as the best tight end in the country. Yes,
Speaker 1: the dude suffers four straight season ending injuries. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: earned that opportunity, Cam Rising, multiple injuries transferred are to
Speaker 1: sit out everything. So yes, you should not just be
Speaker 1: eligible just because you're the between the ages of seventeen
Speaker 1: and twenty one. I mean, if that's the case, should
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels have wanted it twenty.
Speaker 2: Three last year? Yes, he was the best player.
Speaker 1: Well let's old, no story, but anyways, he was really
Speaker 1: really good though, all right? And number nine, which G
Speaker 1: five quarterback, made themselves the most money in the transfer
Speaker 1: portal so far. That's like upcoming. So first one is
Speaker 1: because you got New Mexico's quarterback Devin Dampier. He's from
Speaker 1: Arizona originally, and I got the chance to see him
Speaker 1: when my son played against them in high school, and
Speaker 1: Arizona didn't want him back then, but they they might
Speaker 1: want him now. Even though norha Fida's doing a really
Speaker 1: good job. But three hundred and ninety total yards and
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, kid looks electric right now. And then you
Speaker 1: gotta look at a kid like Owen McCowan. He's over
Speaker 1: at UTSA right now, and Dion Sanders got him up
Speaker 1: out of Colorado two years ago and he against Kennessas
Speaker 1: State and Utsa's opener, three hundred and forty yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: so it's working out for him. Lincoln Riley got the
Speaker 1: kid Chandler Morris out of high school and he technically
Speaker 1: has a year of eligibility left after this year. And
Speaker 1: Morris was on that TCU team that actually went to
Speaker 1: the national championship. And I wonder if he rather play
Speaker 1: at North Texas then hopping the transfer portal after this year,
Speaker 1: because he went for four hundred and fifteen yards and
Speaker 1: five total touchdowns against South Alabama, so people are going
Speaker 1: to be calling his name after this season.
Speaker 2: Then you got J. C.
Speaker 1: French over at Georgia Southern, John Mattier at Washington State,
Speaker 1: Grant Wilson at Old Dominion. This is what it is,
Speaker 1: all right, the last of your mail bag questions which
Speaker 1: you can send to us.
Speaker 2: Eight. I was getting ready to give the phone numbers
Speaker 2: to my radio show on Mad Dog Is.
Speaker 1: I'm Matt i Ammad at Unafraid show dot com. So
Speaker 1: the tenth question is who will last longer into the season,
Speaker 1: Billy Napier over at Florida or Shane Beeamer over at
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Who I'm gonna go with Shane Beemer. And
Speaker 1: the reason why is because Billy Napier is fighting up
Speaker 1: hill already.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: They have already lost to Miami, which is an in
Speaker 1: state game. They they're end of the season with, like Georgia, Texas, Alabama.
Speaker 1: It's just not looking.
Speaker 2: Good right now.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be hard for him if Florida. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's look at Florida's schedule right now because
Speaker 1: just to make sure, just to see how long that
Speaker 1: this is gonna last. Because Florida plays Samford this week,
Speaker 1: then after that Texas A and m that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough game at Mississippi State at Tennessee Kentucky, and
Speaker 1: that's all before they get to Georgia, Texas, LSU, oh
Speaker 1: Miss and Florida State. That's all before they get to them, dudes.
Speaker 1: So if he racks up three losses before he gets
Speaker 1: to that Georgia game, it's it's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a problem. If I am Billy Napier
Speaker 1: right now. As much as I you know, believe in
Speaker 1: Graham Mertz or like Graham Merts or think he might
Speaker 1: be the best, the only way to save his job
Speaker 1: right now is to put DJ Lagway in that quarterback
Speaker 1: and let DJ Lagway cook. And if DJ Lagway looks
Speaker 1: like he's continuing to grow and get better and better
Speaker 1: under Billy Napier, maybe he can inspire some hope that
Speaker 1: he can get things fixed and get this whole train
Speaker 1: back on the on the trails. But Shane Beemer, though,
Speaker 1: Shane Beemer over at South Carolina, his situation is a
Speaker 1: little bit different because he's got Kentucky this week and
Speaker 1: they went to overtime with Old Dominion. Granted Old Dominion
Speaker 1: is much better, but South Carolina has a defensive end
Speaker 1: number six. He did bad things to Old Dominion's tackles. Boy,
Speaker 1: that kid as a true freshman, unbelievable. I gotta look
Speaker 1: up his name because his performance was incredible. But the
Speaker 1: difference is is that Florida's O one, South Carolina is one.
Speaker 2: And oh and if.
Speaker 1: They can beat Kentucky this week, oh oh, he's pretty
Speaker 1: much a shoe in to make it through the end
Speaker 1: of the season, even though the middle of the season
Speaker 1: gives you lsu Ole, Miss Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A and
Speaker 1: M and then Missouri a couple weeks later. Hey, he
Speaker 1: just got to win any of those games, oh, miss Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: Texas or Alabama, any of those three games, and he'll
Speaker 1: make it through the season. But my money, if I'm fading,
Speaker 1: it is on.
Speaker 2: Billy Naprier to.
Speaker 1: Be gone first, even though you know, everybody knows he's
Speaker 1: a good guy. But it doesn't matter in college football.
Speaker 1: All right, though, now it is time. I have revealed
Speaker 1: on Twitter already, but here is my top twenty five
Speaker 1: for this week in the world of college football. Top
Speaker 1: twenty five this week. So for context, the ap Pole
Speaker 1: put out its top twenty five. And the difference between
Speaker 1: my poll and the ap Pole and like you know,
Speaker 1: a Josh Pate rating poll, is that mine is based
Speaker 1: upon the three most important criteria for ranking teams. It's
Speaker 1: not betting odds, it's not you know, writers, any of
Speaker 1: that three most important criteria quality wins at the top
Speaker 1: of the list, Schedule played second on the list, and
Speaker 1: then Dominant's third on the list.
Speaker 2: So what that means is.
Speaker 1: Is that teams that have played better teams are going
Speaker 1: to be and one are going to be rewarded with
Speaker 1: a higher ranking despite a team that I feel is
Speaker 1: technically more talented or is you know or looks the part. Now,
Speaker 1: in the preseason, I did the rankings based upon recruiting rankings,
Speaker 1: returning roster, and coaching. But now that we have data
Speaker 1: and our model gets better and better as the season
Speaker 1: goes along, the more and more information that we get.
Speaker 1: So I don't project out to who Alabama's going to
Speaker 1: play later, No, no, no, no, I'm looking at who if
Speaker 1: they played now. So here is this week's top twenty five.
Speaker 1: We had Georgia at one, Notre Dame two, Penn State, Miami, USC,
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Texas, Ole, miss Alabama, and Oregon rounding out
Speaker 1: the top ten Utah, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Washington fifteen, Michigan, Iowa, Louisville,
Speaker 1: K State, and Georgia Tech to twenty LSU Arizona, NC State,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State and Clemson at number twenty five. Now people
Speaker 1: might be saying, George, how could you put Notre Dame
Speaker 1: at two? They absolutely played a good opponent in Texas,
Speaker 1: A and m they shut them down, got a big win.
Speaker 2: They look really good.
Speaker 1: So their schedule played quality wins high and they look
Speaker 1: dominated on defense. So yes, I could have actually made
Speaker 1: a case for them at number one, except for Georgia
Speaker 1: went to Clemson. Clemton is a good team on defense
Speaker 1: and put them in an absolute stranglehold. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out as the season goes on how good those
Speaker 1: wins are. And so here is the poll last week.
Speaker 1: The way you guys can understand how this works because
Speaker 1: some you know, with the ape pole, they don't react
Speaker 1: very much. So look at last week the preseason. I
Speaker 1: had Oregon at two. Oregon did not put on a
Speaker 1: very they they played Idaho and they didn't score a
Speaker 1: ton of points. Now, they were dominant on office. The
Speaker 1: quarterback almost threw for five hundred yards, they didn't convert
Speaker 1: in some special situations, they didn't turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: the defense was dominant. So yes, so Oregon fell a
Speaker 1: lot in the pole. But that's the reason why. And
Speaker 1: then you have Florida State fall completely out. Obviously Clemson
Speaker 1: because that Georgia Clemson game was actually closer than the
Speaker 1: score dictated. And Clemson still looks like a team that
Speaker 1: has some metal to them and can and can be better.
Speaker 1: Ohio State fell from three to six. Why they played
Speaker 1: accurate where they dominant one percent, USC, Miami and Penn
Speaker 1: State all played quality opponents. They at least played Power
Speaker 1: five opponents. Whether you think they're good or not, this
Speaker 1: whole different story. But you play Power five opponents and
Speaker 1: you dominate them, you are going to move up this pole.
Speaker 1: So I want you guys to understand that. And now
Speaker 1: I want you guys to take a peek at what
Speaker 1: the AP pole did this this week. And this is
Speaker 1: what the AP pole did this week versus what the
Speaker 1: AP pole was in week one.
Speaker 2: See the AP pole.
Speaker 1: Actually that's coaches poll, but they barely move teams from
Speaker 1: week to week. And here on the Unafraid Show, the
Speaker 1: more and more data and information that we get, we
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to fly up the polls. Just like
Speaker 1: for instance, this week we have the Michigan and Tennessee
Speaker 1: play right, Michigan, Tennessee. If Michigan and Tennessee play I'm
Speaker 1: sorry Michigan in Texas, excuse me, Michigan and Texas. Michigan
Speaker 1: and Texas played this week, Texas is right. Now is
Speaker 1: seven point favorite. If Texas wins this game by twenty
Speaker 1: one points, now we have to compare that to the
Speaker 1: Texas and the win.
Speaker 2: We got to compare that to the.
Speaker 1: When we punch all the numbers in, we got to
Speaker 1: put it against the Penn State, West Virginia win, the
Speaker 1: floor to Miami win. And depending on how those teams
Speaker 1: do this week, and with LSU and USC and so forth,
Speaker 1: just like we have Tennessee and NC State, those things
Speaker 1: can dramatically impact where you are in the rankings. Iowa
Speaker 1: Iowa State this week, so and Oregon plays Boise State.
Speaker 1: So if Oregon bounces back there, I think they're nineteen
Speaker 1: point favorites against Boise State. They knock the doors off
Speaker 1: of them and look really good. Okay, now we can
Speaker 1: add some to it, but that's still it's a better
Speaker 1: win than Idaho. But is it a better Is it
Speaker 1: going to be a better win than how many people
Speaker 1: are in front of them? So that's how the Unafraid
Speaker 1: sho Paul works and that's the reason why we do
Speaker 1: it the way we do it. So and with the
Speaker 1: top twenty five, that gives us how we are going
Speaker 1: to shape the playoff, because the playoff is its own beast.
Speaker 1: The playoff is its own beast. Because here is the
Speaker 1: preseason playoff bracket that I was able to do. The
Speaker 1: preseason playoff bracket, I had Oregon as a champion playing
Speaker 1: Notre Dame in the National Championship. Everybody laughed at me, Oh, George,
Speaker 1: how the hell could you have How the hell could
Speaker 1: you have Notre Dame in the in the top playing
Speaker 1: for the national championship. Yeah, you saw what they did,
Speaker 1: text saying in with that defense, right, Okay, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: accept all apologies, but I'm not gonna brag because I
Speaker 1: did have Florida State at number three, and there ain't
Speaker 1: no way that they're getting anywhere near the playoff unless
Speaker 1: they have a miracle and run through the SEC. Sorry,
Speaker 1: acc right now, but here is this week's Paul, here's
Speaker 1: this week's playoff bracket. I got Georgia winning the national championship.
Speaker 1: So you have Oregon, who went from the two seed
Speaker 1: down to the tennessee. Ohio State moved from the sixth
Speaker 1: seed down to the seventeen. USC jumped up to six,
Speaker 1: Alabama fell from ten to eleven, Liberty's out of there,
Speaker 1: Memphis is in Texas moves from eight to five. Notre
Speaker 1: Dame moves from nine to five, Utah stays at four,
Speaker 1: Alabama moved. Yeah, so Alabama moved there, but then Miami
Speaker 1: moved to number three and Penn State moved to number two.
Speaker 1: That's how it works, how it works, and so we
Speaker 1: will update these every single week, and you guys can
Speaker 1: always take advantage and see it and make sure that
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