Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal.
Speaker 2: Hell that for me, I'm a man, I'm forty.
Speaker 1: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to
Speaker 1: be happy. You want to be happy for a day?
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Speaker 2: And then and Tye, welcome back to the solid verbal
Speaker 2: Boys and girls, My name is ty Hildebrand. Dan Rubenstein
Speaker 2: will be by momentarily because this This is an excerpt
Speaker 2: from our live show that we do every Thursday night
Speaker 2: called College Football Thursdays Live over on Spotify five pm Eastern,
Speaker 2: two pm Pacific. You can join in, you can hop
Speaker 2: in the chat room, you can hop up on stage
Speaker 2: with us, give us your picks, your hot takes, and whatnot.
Speaker 2: If you weren't able to make it this week, hopefully
Speaker 2: you can stop by next week because we do it
Speaker 2: every Thursday, five PM's two pm West. What you're going
Speaker 2: to hear now is a little thing we call the
Speaker 2: Ryan Gosling Jack Tracker. Dan came up with it. It's
Speaker 2: a spin off of the Jared Vennett sound from The
Speaker 2: Big Short. We have taken this to an uncomfortable degree,
Speaker 2: but yet we are very very excited about it. Give
Speaker 2: it a listen. As per usual, give us a holler
Speaker 2: over adverballers dot Com or anywhere across social media. In
Speaker 2: the meantime, enjoy the rest of the show and your
Speaker 2: college football weekend. I'm over here, dancing baby. I'm ready
Speaker 2: for Week five. I am ready for Week five. Remind
Speaker 2: folks how the jacktracker works. I know there was some confusion.
Speaker 2: I saw it in the chat, people saying jacktracker, But yes,
Speaker 2: the Jacked tracker, Yes, past tense, Jacked does. What is
Speaker 2: this metric, this very official metric that we have invented
Speaker 2: for this very ridiculous purpose.
Speaker 1: I think it's more of an adjective. You are Jack.
Speaker 1: So it is an easy premise that we are going
Speaker 1: to react to each window and we are going to
Speaker 1: buy a scale of It's Jared Bevennett technically the Ryan
Speaker 1: Gosling character from The Big Short. If it is a window.
Speaker 2: That one is paying attention.
Speaker 1: Right that there's no reason to pay close attention to.
Speaker 1: If it's the morning window there or not morning, but
Speaker 1: if it's the midday window, the afternoon window, or the
Speaker 1: evening window. If it's if there's opportunity for excitement, and
Speaker 1: that is an opportunity, and then if you're fully convinced
Speaker 1: that it's wall to wall action object to and so
Speaker 1: that is our scale and there is little room for gray.
Speaker 1: We are dealing with absolutes and extremes on the Ryan
Speaker 1: Gosling Jack Tracker.
Speaker 2: It's very syth like of you, Dan. We only deal
Speaker 2: in absolutes here, absolutes when we're talking about the Ryan
Speaker 2: Goslingjacktracker for week five. Okay, here is a quick look
Speaker 2: at the blocks of games for the weekend. We are
Speaker 2: going to rake that accordingly. We'll start in Friday. We're
Speaker 2: doing the show on Thursday. There's a big and on Friday. Actually,
Speaker 2: you really like the Friday slate, if memory serves, when
Speaker 2: we did our preview show that you can find out
Speaker 2: on soliburbo dot com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: We published that early on Thursday morning, ten thirty Eastern ESPN.
Speaker 2: It is Washington traveling down to Ucla. Washington favored by
Speaker 2: about three points. You actually like Ucla here, you're give
Speaker 2: me like a one to three jacktrack on how you
Speaker 2: feel about this particular matchup, not necessarily the full window
Speaker 2: of games in Friday night.
Speaker 1: I'm not in love with UCLA football. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I'm not, but the heights of UCLA football and the
Speaker 1: backfield at its best of UCLA football with dtr next
Speaker 1: to Zach Sharboney at home late night. And I think
Speaker 1: Washington fans are going to travel for this one because
Speaker 1: you get to go southern California, you get to go
Speaker 1: to the Rose Bowl, and the Lord knows, it's been
Speaker 1: a minute since Washington has gone to the other version.
Speaker 2: Will anybody else be at the Rose Bowl though, that's
Speaker 2: the question. Will there be twenty eight odd maybe more?
Speaker 1: If you're playing in an unusually quiet stadium, that's a
Speaker 1: different experience because honestly, this is Washington's first road trip,
Speaker 1: is it not of the season?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: So they start with what Kent State, Portland State, Michigan State,
Speaker 1: and Stanford all in Seattle, so it's their first foray
Speaker 1: onto the road. And maybe it's odd. Maybe it's just
Speaker 1: odd because the home stadium, you know what, rocking on
Speaker 1: the Lake.
Speaker 2: I love this zag. This is potentially a zag that
Speaker 2: UCLA could steer into because you remember during COVID when
Speaker 2: there was no one in the stands. Some of the
Speaker 2: players were like, yeah, that's weird. Yeah, we're just on
Speaker 2: I'm not used to that off. Yeah, maybe they steer
Speaker 2: into that, Dan, maybe that's their competitive advantage. Maybe Chipper
Speaker 2: Chip Kelly, your boy Charles him Kelly, maybe he's figured
Speaker 2: something out.
Speaker 1: Not to be so hyper local and specific with the comparison,
Speaker 1: but there is difficulty in facing Jamie Moyer types, as
Speaker 1: seattleites know. Yeah, and maybe the Rose Bowl, which is
Speaker 1: eighth full for this matchup. I don't know how full
Speaker 1: it's going to be, but it's a big stadium for
Speaker 1: a team that does not command big crowds. So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe there's something there that UCLA, even though again down season,
Speaker 1: it's more of the situation specifics about the Bruins. I
Speaker 1: understand you're concern, but they haven't lost and has been
Speaker 1: all closing.
Speaker 2: No, no, they're two undefeated teams to four and oo teams.
Speaker 2: Alexander in the chat, thank you for chiming in. ALEXANDERA
Speaker 2: says he hopes UCLA people show up. Should be a
Speaker 2: fun game. I agree, Cold in the chat says four
Speaker 2: sideline tickets available for ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, always available. The other thing is just in terms
Speaker 1: of your belief system with lines is Washington has very
Speaker 1: clearly taken care of business more impressively than UCLA has
Speaker 1: against subpar competition. Yeah, like the struggles early against Bowling Green,
Speaker 1: obviously winning last second against South Alabama, all due respect
Speaker 1: to the Jags, Washington has blown out everybody comfortably. One
Speaker 1: and then the line is only two and a half
Speaker 1: two and a half three point.
Speaker 2: Depends where you look. Yeah, yeah, it's it's round around
Speaker 2: and field goal. So okay, you're into this game. Shall
Speaker 2: we move to the early block on Saturday? Shall we
Speaker 2: just do this? I'm so ready? Shall we get this?
Speaker 2: I want you to play our sound denoting optimum possible
Speaker 2: jackedness for this window. Please at this, at this moment,
Speaker 2: can you do that for me? O? Thank you, Dan. Yes,
Speaker 2: twelve o'clock on Fox. We've got Michigan, We've got Iowa.
Speaker 2: Michigan's on the road. They're favored by eleven. We will
Speaker 2: come back to that game momentarily. I promised you. Nice
Speaker 2: high noon, ABC Oklahoma minus six and a half on
Speaker 2: the road at TCU. Interesting matchup, getting spicy, Yeah, spicy.
Speaker 2: Twelve o'clock ESPN Kentucky four and Oh Oh Miss four
Speaker 2: and O favored by a touchdown at home, favored by
Speaker 2: seven and then just throw this in as like a
Speaker 2: nice little appetizer, a nice little adder, Big twelve Network
Speaker 2: or ESPN plus whatever. That is Texas Tech fresh off
Speaker 2: their big upset victory over Texas now on the road
Speaker 2: against Kansas State, fresh off their upset victory over the
Speaker 2: aforementioned Oklahoma Sooner as Yansas Kansas State favored by eight
Speaker 2: point stand this is a loaded slate here, a loaded slate.
Speaker 1: Really good.
Speaker 2: I am super jacked for this slate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one. It's nice because there's nothing unless you're
Speaker 1: not a Purdue believer or an Illinois believer, I suppose,
Speaker 1: But there's nothing but what appears to be competitive teams
Speaker 1: on the list that you just rattled off, right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that everybody. Even if we have questions about TCU's defense
Speaker 1: or Ole Misses passing game, or everything that Iowa attempts
Speaker 1: to do on offense, or Adrian Martinez's consistency, or Illinois
Speaker 1: and the schedule that they've played, there is a pretty
Speaker 1: high competence floor overall with these teams, mostly because Iowa
Speaker 1: can score touchdowns plural on defense. If that weren't the case,
Speaker 1: that'd be a problem. But there's the competitive nature of
Speaker 1: this early window is sort of such that you got
Speaker 1: to get on the couch early.
Speaker 2: You just have to. Oh, Josh says here in the chat,
Speaker 2: it's a fun window. It is a fun window. It's
Speaker 2: fun as hell. Josh, I'm super excited to watch this
Speaker 2: slate of games. I will not give away the tease.
Speaker 2: I know some people who are listening, who are in
Speaker 2: the chat right now, they know where we stand on
Speaker 2: the Michigan Iowa game. If you've looked at any of
Speaker 2: our social media accounts in the last couple hours, it's
Speaker 2: pretty well documented where we stand on the Michigan how
Speaker 2: we disagree on the Michigan Iowa game. So we'll come
Speaker 2: back to that when we play Tie versus the World.
Speaker 2: But let's just say that it's a very interesting contest,
Speaker 2: if only because of the contrasting styles here. Those contrasting
Speaker 2: styles be being Iowa on defense versus offense. Right defense
Speaker 2: first in scoring defense one hundred and thirty, first in
Speaker 2: scoring offense. You can go pretty much down the list.
Speaker 2: Defense versus offense on the Iowa side is just comically
Speaker 2: unbalanced Michigan. This is an interesting contest for Michigan, if
Speaker 2: only because there's plenty of data to show that Iowa
Speaker 2: at home in these big matchups like this, they hold
Speaker 2: their own. Michigan of course, JJ McCarthy first road start
Speaker 2: as starting quarterback for the Michigan Wolverine. So there's some
Speaker 2: things to be concerned about on the Michigan side, and
Speaker 2: we can talk about those a little bit later as
Speaker 2: we get into the picks, because I feel very strongly
Speaker 2: about my side of this thing.
Speaker 1: But which is your volume game?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Which game? I don't know, if you're you know, multiple
Speaker 1: TVs or you're gonna watch on a laptop or an
Speaker 1: iPad or something like that, which one deserves the play
Speaker 1: by play track?
Speaker 2: I think it's Michigan Iowa. It's got to be Michigan Iowa. Yeah, God, no,
Speaker 2: I know, I know. But here's the thing. I have
Speaker 2: staked my professional reputation so much to the outcome of
Speaker 2: this game, m that I feel like when we do
Speaker 2: our recap show on Sunday, if I am not fully
Speaker 2: versed in all things that were either part of the
Speaker 2: game or part of the commentary, I'm assuming this is
Speaker 2: a GUS game. Gush Johnson, it's big noon Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, if I'm not well versed enough to know
Speaker 2: every nooking cranny of this game. I'm not doing my
Speaker 2: job here.
Speaker 1: I am going with either TC Oklahoma or Ole Miss
Speaker 1: Kentucky getting volume. Anyway. I'll have the Michigan Iowa game.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be my number two game. But I can't
Speaker 1: have Iowa offensive descriptors in my ear for an extended
Speaker 1: period of time. I just can't. If it gets close
Speaker 1: and it's weird and ioways moving the ball. Yes, this
Speaker 1: game will get volume, but those are the two that
Speaker 1: i'm Those are a it's a toss up for me,
Speaker 1: all right. So we're both pretty jacked about that slate
Speaker 1: of games. Yes, yes, absolutely the early slate. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the afternoon slate. Here are five games. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's quite as intriguing as the early slate,
Speaker 1: but you guys tell me in the chat.
Speaker 2: Let me know. Three thirty CBS, we got Alabama on
Speaker 2: the road, seventeen point favorite at ARK and so it's
Speaker 2: a big friggin' number. Holy cow. Also at three thirty
Speaker 2: on Fox, Oahoma State against Baylor, a bit of a
Speaker 2: revenge spot for Oklahoma State after that big twelve championship
Speaker 2: bloss a year ago. Baylor favored by two two and
Speaker 2: a half three points. Again depends when and where you look.
Speaker 2: Also three point thirty ABC, We've got wake Forest on
Speaker 2: the road at Florida State. Florida State favored in that
Speaker 2: one by about seven points. Also Iowa State versus Kansas,
Speaker 2: Iowa State on the road three point favorite, only a
Speaker 2: three point favorite against the four and oh Jayhawks. And
Speaker 2: then last but certainly not least a little bit later
Speaker 2: on at four o'clock SEC Network, it is Texas A
Speaker 2: and M at Mississippi State. Mississippi State favored by about
Speaker 2: three and a half points. There, Dan, how does this
Speaker 2: window for you stack up against the early slate?
Speaker 1: I think I'm man if Michigan State were better because
Speaker 1: the Michigan State Maryland game could have been fun. I
Speaker 1: think I'm right here is an opportunity.
Speaker 2: We're right in the.
Speaker 1: Middle, and I'll tell you why. Yeah, Alabama, Arkansas could
Speaker 1: get out of control, Maryland Michigan State does not intrigue
Speaker 1: me that much.
Speaker 2: I didn't even list that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you didn't.
Speaker 2: That's a good one to list.
Speaker 1: A and M Mississippi State could go could get out
Speaker 1: of control, probably in the Mississippi State running away with
Speaker 1: it direction. But I think Texas and m can certainly
Speaker 1: hang around or win this game close. I just don't
Speaker 1: see a high flying Aggie offense all of a sudden
Speaker 1: in Starkville in a sandwich spot. I could see Iowa
Speaker 1: State blowing the doors off of Kansas. That they are
Speaker 1: an LRO candidate luck running out that Kansas. And it's
Speaker 1: not luck, obviously, there's a tremendous amount offensive skill, but
Speaker 1: the fact that they're four and oh the fact that
Speaker 1: they're winning games despite a defense that has allowed a
Speaker 1: lot there is a bit of luck involved at that
Speaker 1: and so wake Florida State probably not a blowout, but
Speaker 1: I could see a couple of games getting a little
Speaker 1: bit ugly. We don't know what the weather's going to
Speaker 1: be like in a lot of these places. If it's
Speaker 1: mucked up a little bit, again, hope everybody is terrifically
Speaker 1: safe during anything effect by Hurricane Ian. You know, Baylor,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State could be pickleball. It could be ugly. So
Speaker 1: that's why I'm not fully sold on electricity in this window,
Speaker 1: but still can't wait.
Speaker 2: By the way, we've got an interesting line here from
Speaker 2: Alex in the chat. Also throwing out that Northwestern against
Speaker 2: Penn State. You're Northwestern Wildcats being so you're in the
Speaker 2: greater Chicagoland area, Northwestern traveling to state college are one
Speaker 2: in three after that week one win, week zero win,
Speaker 2: excuse me over Nebraska in Ireland, Penn State favored by
Speaker 2: twenty five, Alex saying that this is a game that's
Speaker 2: going to be close for no reason. And you know what, Alex,
Speaker 2: I almost couldn't agree more. This game is just weird.
Speaker 2: Every year it's weird, Penn State, alum, It's a weird
Speaker 2: game for them every freaking time it happens.
Speaker 1: I believe the Wildcats of Northwestern undefeated away from Evanston
Speaker 1: this season, undefeated away from the United States this season,
Speaker 1: well yeah, but undefeated definitely away from Evanston. As you know,
Speaker 1: they beating Nebraska in Dublin by lose all three Duke
Speaker 1: Southern Illinois and Miami the friendly confines of the North Shore.
Speaker 1: So maybe there's something about Northwestern getting away that I
Speaker 1: can't really sell it. I'm sorry, Penn State's gonna win comfortable.
Speaker 2: Just wait till they build the new stadium, Wait till
Speaker 2: they get the new Ryan Field up and running. That's
Speaker 2: how you know. Yeah, that's when it will start.
Speaker 1: That's what it must be.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're a solid two out of three
Speaker 2: here in the afternoon block. Yes, yes, all right, let's
Speaker 2: go to the Late Lake Block Saturday, late seven pm ESPN. LSU,
Speaker 2: Oh boy, this game. We need to talk through this game.
Speaker 1: Don't we a wager game?
Speaker 2: It is a wager game, Okay. LSU at three and
Speaker 2: one is minus eight. Now. I saw it at minus nine.
Speaker 2: We did our preview show. It was minus nine. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm sticking to. I need that extra point. It
Speaker 2: is LSU minus eight, but minus nine for our purposes
Speaker 2: here versus Auburn on the road playing this game in
Speaker 2: the planes. Auburn also three and one, ever the conflict
Speaker 2: dover Brian Harston still being coached, but winning record, big game,
Speaker 2: LSU coming to town. Dan, we have a wager on
Speaker 2: this game. You were very adamant about LSU minus eight
Speaker 2: and r minus nine. Excuse me, gosh, surely I jest
Speaker 2: LSU minus nine on the road, and I was pretty
Speaker 2: gung ho on Auburn plus nine, if only because it
Speaker 2: feels like a lot of points for me. The LS
Speaker 2: was still in transition they've progressively gotten better, but nine
Speaker 2: points feels like a lot to me, especially at night
Speaker 2: in that environment. We have a wager. You actually came
Speaker 2: up with this via a suggestion we got from one
Speaker 2: of our patreon for ball ers, Chaka. What do we
Speaker 2: decide on earlier today?
Speaker 1: Well, I think Chaka suggested or helped to suggest some
Speaker 1: sort of tiger costume because we have the LSU tigers
Speaker 1: and Auburn tigers. What we're gonna do is a little
Speaker 1: bit more detail orient the loser of this bets. So
Speaker 1: I'm given the points. You are taking the points the
Speaker 1: loser of the bet before is it our bruin a
Speaker 1: show in a couple weeks? When is this happening? Is
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks? Whatever?
Speaker 2: The Thursday is before Halloween? Oh, the Thursday before Halloween. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the loser of this bet. So if LSU covers this spread,
Speaker 2: you will have to and if Auburn covers the spread,
Speaker 2: I will have to get our face painted in detail
Speaker 2: by a kids party face painter as a tiger. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like they have it as a zoo right.
Speaker 1: Spots, whiskers pronounced eyebrows, that kind of thing. And we're
Speaker 1: going to have to record that Q and a episode
Speaker 1: with full tiger face paint that's going to be available
Speaker 1: at verballers dot com. Available now, but yeah, that show
Speaker 1: will be available. Then somebody will have a painted face
Speaker 1: on the Thursday night before Halloween.
Speaker 2: And the good part about that is that lives on
Speaker 2: the internet forever forever. Can never can never wash that off.
Speaker 2: Even if you wash it off, it never, you can
Speaker 2: never really wash that off.
Speaker 1: And the comments can't wait for tie Ger.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sorry, I feel I just that's too many
Speaker 2: points all right? Elsewhere ESPNU seven pm, Cincinnati minus nine
Speaker 2: and a half at Tulsa. I think you were wise
Speaker 2: to bring this matchup front and center. Excuse me when
Speaker 2: we did our preview show, because even though Cincinnati's better,
Speaker 2: Tulsa just beats good teams. It's like what they do,
Speaker 2: or at least they scare teams that are better than
Speaker 2: them are supposed to be better than them. And you
Speaker 2: could see that happening here. It wouldn't be even though
Speaker 2: Ben Bryant looked really good at quarterback for Cincy. You
Speaker 2: can see Tulsa again fund in a way to keep
Speaker 2: this thing close.
Speaker 1: Let the record show Dan is not making a quip
Speaker 1: about a team named the Golden Hurricane this week now,
Speaker 1: although he just sort of did in the third person,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that counts, but yes, this
Speaker 1: is who Tulsa is year in and year out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: things change year to year, and the start has been
Speaker 1: pretty slow thus far for Tulsa just by their own standards.
Speaker 1: And I know they lost their I think they lost
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator to tease you, if memory serves, but
Speaker 1: there is something in the Golden Hurricane. DNA defense has
Speaker 1: been pretty bad this year, by the way, Yeah for Tulsa,
Speaker 1: especially against the pass. So maybe if you like Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: Ben Bryant's gonna throw for a bajillion yards here, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, Tulsa hasn't been getting after the quarterback all
Speaker 1: that well, hasn't played I mean, they've played ole Miss,
Speaker 1: but otherwise it's Northern Illinois, Jacksonville State, Wyoming, so opportunities
Speaker 1: to perform losing two. I mean, Wyoming has improved since
Speaker 1: they got blown out by Illinois, but not ideal. Not
Speaker 1: ideal thus far, still hung with ole Miss. There's this opportunity,
Speaker 1: we'll see, but the defense is generally what has kept
Speaker 1: them in these games against big teams and has not
Speaker 1: been present in the way it normally is.
Speaker 2: We'll see what they can do against the real big
Speaker 2: Ben Ben Bryant seven point thirty ABC is the big
Speaker 2: inning this window. It's NC State, It's Clemson. Clemson favored
Speaker 2: by six and a half at home. We come back
Speaker 2: to this game, talk a little bit more about it.
Speaker 2: But I've also got West Virginia at Texas. We've also
Speaker 2: got Stanford against your Oregon Ducks. Oregon favored at a
Speaker 2: favor boy eleven points. They're also playing or excuse me,
Speaker 2: favored by seventeen points. They're playing this game at eleven PM.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you'll be asleep. You're gonna be watching this
Speaker 2: whole YouTube on Sunday morning. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The difficult thing with this is, yeah, I'll have it
Speaker 1: on the YouTube, TV cloud DVR. Not a sponsor could
Speaker 1: be is The tough thing is like I will wake
Speaker 1: up at three twenty seven am to go pee, and
Speaker 1: it's knowing.
Speaker 2: Oh, the game's probably over.
Speaker 1: I could look up the score, yeah, and not looking
Speaker 1: at my phone. That's the tough thing.
Speaker 2: That takes a lot of willpower though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I want I want the drama of seeing
Speaker 1: how everything unfolds the next morning at you know, five
Speaker 1: fourteen am, you know, an hour and a half later.
Speaker 1: So that's the toughie. But yeah, I'm not staying up
Speaker 1: for this, no way.
Speaker 2: See, I pull the move where I fall asleep on
Speaker 2: the couch while I'm watching whatever late game is on
Speaker 2: the TV. And then I wake up at like two
Speaker 2: thirty in the morning, and I got to walk upstairs
Speaker 2: to bed because I don't want to have a crook
Speaker 2: in my back by the time we record bright and
Speaker 2: early on Sunday morning. And then in that like short
Speaker 2: trip or crick, I don't know, crick, it's probably whatever
Speaker 2: it is. The short joint up the stairs is when
Speaker 2: I check my phone and I see the score, and
Speaker 2: then at that point as something goes sideways and I'm
Speaker 2: awake that I'm awake for at least an hour and
Speaker 2: a half trying to figure out what the hell happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the tough one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do we feel about this window generally? Because
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, when I went through and I looked
Speaker 2: at it, it's a great slate of games, the full
Speaker 2: way through. When I looked at this slate of games,
Speaker 2: if there were going to be a one, it would
Speaker 2: be this one for me.
Speaker 1: It's not for me.
Speaker 2: It's a solid two. It's a solid two.
Speaker 1: Is an opportunity.
Speaker 2: I feel there's opportunity here. You still got good teams
Speaker 2: on the road. So I got good teams on the
Speaker 2: road and interesting teams on the road, even if they're
Speaker 2: not good. Like West Virginia at Texas. We don't really
Speaker 2: know what Texas is, do we? But that game seems
Speaker 2: very watchable most if not every year. I know That's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Like West Virginia, as we discussed earlier,
Speaker 2: might be the worst team in the Big twelve, at
Speaker 2: least that time of.
Speaker 1: Recording, I don't know, Yeah, who's worse. I just haven't
Speaker 1: seen TCU against a Power five team of note, so
Speaker 1: all due respect to Colorado at some points they are interesting,
Speaker 1: but we don't have really any meaningful high level data.
Speaker 1: Like I think SMU is interesting and will eventually be
Speaker 1: pretty dangerous under RHT lashly, but you know, you win
Speaker 1: a rivalry game, big emotion behind it with Sunny Dyke's moving,
Speaker 1: But I think it's probably if you're going to bet
Speaker 1: your own money, like we talked about on our Q
Speaker 1: and A show, TCU's probably the best bet for coming up,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty behind in the Big twelve. But it's
Speaker 1: a pretty like high flooried conference at the moment.
Speaker 2: All right, so we're we're in agreement on a two. Yes,
Speaker 2: all right. Here is the final tally here with the
Speaker 2: Gosslin Jack Tracker, very official. Saturday early three out of three,
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon two out of two, Saturday late two out
Speaker 2: of two. And where were you at on Friday?
Speaker 1: I think it's a solid two too. Is an opportunity.
Speaker 1: So Friday gives us beyond Washington UCLA, that's Tulane Houston,
Speaker 1: that's the road runners of UTSA and Middle Tennessee in
Speaker 1: a letdown spot for the big win against Miami. And
Speaker 1: I have no idea what to make of San Diego
Speaker 1: State Boise State. Somebody has to win this game. Somebody
Speaker 1: has to move the ball on offense at times.
Speaker 2: Over under, by the way, thirty nine points. I believe
Speaker 2: San Diego State Boise is yeah, oh two, ioways out.
Speaker 1: There, but also kind of makes sense. Yeah, so no,
Speaker 1: I think Friday is like a secretly pretty fun night
Speaker 1: of football ahead of us.
Speaker 2: All right, that does it for our excerpt today again,
Speaker 2: don't forget to tune into College Football Thursdays Live every
Speaker 2: Thursday night, five pm East, two pm West Over on Spotify.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your weekend of college football. Stay safe, stay happy, and,
Speaker 2: as per usual, stay solid.