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Speaker 1: got what twelve thirteen thousand people watching live. Welcome in, guys.

456
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Speaker 1: Should I do it? Should I do it? Yeah? I'll

457
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Speaker 1: put the smiley face in the live chat. Always makes

458
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Speaker 1: me feel alive when I prove that we're live. Texas

459
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Speaker 1: be at A and M last night, seventeen to seven.

460
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Speaker 1: I was there. I was on the sideline for this

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Speaker 1: when Kyle Field delivered, and it didn't matter. Not to

462
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Speaker 1: be a downer. This one gets two and a half

463
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Speaker 1: TALI on the one to five rating. I know Texas

464
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Speaker 1: fans loved it. I think for the rest of the country.

465
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Speaker 1: It was pretty whole Hume. They kept on waiting for

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Speaker 1: the volcano to erupt, and there was a pick six

467
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Speaker 1: and I happened to be in the A and M

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Speaker 1: press box when that happened last night. By the way,

469
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Speaker 1: I'm normally on the field, I had ventured up there

470
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: to scavenge some food. Man that press boxways so much.

471
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Speaker 1: I can't believe that's safe, but the engineers tell me

472
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Speaker 1: it's okay. It sounds. You may have noted over the

473
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Speaker 1: past few weeks when I talked about Texas that I

474
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Speaker 1: had a certain theme, a certain tone that I took

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Speaker 1: about Texas. And you know, they were putting twenty on Arkansas,

476
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 1: twenty seven on Vanderbilt, and I was like, yeah, okay,

477
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Speaker 1: I wish I could see more from the offense. But

478
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Speaker 1: this team, there's still something else there. There's still another

479
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: gear there. And if they peak late, this team will

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Speaker 1: win it all. This team will win the national championship

481
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Speaker 1: because I think that highly of the personnel Texas has. Well.

482
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Speaker 1: Could it be that they are peaking, just they're peaking

483
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Speaker 1: as a football team, not necessarily as a highly explosive

484
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Speaker 1: offensive unit. Makes a little more sense now now that

485
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Speaker 1: we start putting the full puzzle together, the offense struggle

486
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Speaker 1: has kind of been a feature in every game. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, they scored seventeen last night, plenty enough to win.

488
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Speaker 1: They scored twenty against Arkansas, plenty enough to win. They

489
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Speaker 1: scored twenty seven against Vandy set Vandy up in favorable

490
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Speaker 1: field position, so they did plenty enough to win without

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Speaker 1: hanging forty five. Which is the great misconception about Steve

492
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Speaker 1: Sarksian Or maybe it's not a misconception. Maybe he's just

493
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Speaker 1: evolving who he is. The old perception was sark teams

494
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Speaker 1: need to score a lot to win. Well, they don't anymore.

495
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Speaker 1: They don't anymore because he is ascending as a head coach.

496
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Speaker 1: They're ascending as a program. And I'm going to tell

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Speaker 1: you the surest sign of that. I've said the same

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Speaker 1: thing at times about hypol at Tennessee. The surest sign

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Speaker 1: that a program is in rapid ascension mode is when

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Speaker 1: they start to excel in areas foreign to the head

501
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Speaker 1: coach's identity. Sarks an offensive guy. This may be the

502
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Speaker 1: best defense in the country. Sarks an offensive guy. Special

503
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Speaker 1: teams are great at Texas, so that's not his Forte.

504
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Speaker 1: So what we have sometimes around the country is a

505
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Speaker 1: glorified coordinator masquerading as a head coach because he was

506
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Speaker 1: so good in that coordinator role. But really the program

507
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Speaker 1: is just a big reflection of his side of the ball,

508
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Speaker 1: his identity as a coordinator. That is not Texas. That's

509
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Speaker 1: not Texas. That's a very good thing because that means

510
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: you got more than just a team on your hands.

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Speaker 1: You got a program that's bubbling up and ready to explode.

512
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Speaker 1: At fourteen to nothing, I felt this game was over.

513
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Speaker 1: You could feel it on the field. There were going

514
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Speaker 1: to need to be defensive plays and special teams plays,

515
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Speaker 1: both of which A and M got. That kind of

516
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Speaker 1: kept it within arm's reach, but it really felled out

517
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Speaker 1: of reach man. Texas's defense allowed two hundred four four

518
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: total yards in here two point nine yards per rush.

519
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: They pitched a shutout. The only points, like I said,

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Speaker 1: were a pick six. They forced two turnovers, three sacks,

521
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Speaker 1: six tackles for loss. It sounds a lot like what

522
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Speaker 1: Georgia did to them a few weeks ago in Austin.

523
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Speaker 1: They held A and M to four of fourteen on

524
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Speaker 1: third and fourth down. So can Texas scale up? Remember

525
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Speaker 1: That was a question that we were asking last week.

526
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Speaker 1: Can they scale up? Well? What I meant by that is,

527
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Speaker 1: can quin viewers make the kind of throws he made

528
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Speaker 1: against Bama last year? He made one of them last night.

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Speaker 1: They didn't need him. They just didn't need them. They

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Speaker 1: could have afforded to score less than seventeen if they

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Speaker 1: really needed to, They could have buckled down and won

532
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: this game ten to nine, thirteen to nine, something like that.

533
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Speaker 1: I have now come to appreciate the concept that I

534
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: need about a six out of a ten from Texas offensively,

535
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Speaker 1: and they can win any game remaining on their schedule

536
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Speaker 1: that counts Georgia, and that counts anyone they play in

537
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Speaker 1: the playoff. If that defense comes to play at an

538
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Speaker 1: a level, you give me a six out of an offensively,

539
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: that'll be good enough. It just won't be good enough

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00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: to hang forty five. But you see, if you only

541
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Speaker 1: give up seventeen, you don't need to hang forty five.

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Speaker 1: Stat's an info. Tell me you need about twenty. You

543
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: need about twenty. That'll be good enough. In Fall Camp,

544
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: I thought they may be screwed. When they had those

545
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Speaker 1: two tailbacks go down. I thought they may be screwed.

546
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: I had a coach hit me up and say, they're

547
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: still gonna be good. Still got studs all over the place. However,

548
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: they've been disproportionately hit in one position group and that

549
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: was running back. What are they going to do in

550
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: short yardage? I mean, could Quinn Viewers be their best

551
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: option on third and three or less, fourth and two

552
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: or less? Who's going to pick up the tough yards

553
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: for him? Who about? Who? Amongst us even new about

554
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: mister Wisner. There thirty three carries last night in a month,

555
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: Josh no in an evening, one hundred and eighty six

556
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: yards five point six yards per carry. This right here

557
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: is depth, and this right here is development. I was

558
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: standing five feet from him. In his postgame press conference

559
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: last night. He said, we got a lot of four

560
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: and five stars on this team, man, but Weisner's not

561
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: one of them. He's just a program guy. And about

562
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: a month ago, we looked at the path ahead, we

563
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: knew we were gonna have to run the ball better.

564
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: We challenged the team, They accepted the challenge, and you

565
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: just got guys stepping up. That's just depth. That's depth

566
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Speaker 1: that's in very short supply around the country. Right now meanwhile,

567
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: Texas has got folks stepping up. Then, I don't even

568
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: think most Texas fans expected to step up. He's built

569
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: a program. They're a leade on defense. I gotta speak

570
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: to this again. I said it when they played Michigan.

571
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,719
Speaker 1: I think that's the last time I saw them in person,

572
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: but I saw him again last night. They are the

573
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Speaker 1: closest thing outside of Kirby Smart's Georgia teams that I've

574
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Speaker 1: seen to Saban's vintage Bama teams. In the way they

575
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: carry themselves. It's not a guarantee they'll win any game.

576
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: It is a guarantee that just the militaristic, ultra aggressive,

577
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: but at the same time ro bodic approach to playing

578
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: means there's not gonna be a ton of volatility and variance.

579
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: They're just gonna bring the same thing every week. Now,

580
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: you can beat them. They're not invincible, no one is

581
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: this year. But it is such a supreme compliment, and

582
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: it's such a supreme like pleasure to watch them. I

583
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: can't explain it. Guys, you'd know it if you could

584
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: see it, if you could see it from the vantage

585
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: point that we're blessed enough to see it. From and

586
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: if you could see the other teams that we've been

587
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: blessed to see in the past, there is a there

588
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: is a certain athletic profile that doesn't look like any

589
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: other team. You're just bigger and faster and stronger than everyone,

590
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 1: but you're also there's no looseness, like there's no extra fat.

591
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: It's all just meat, and it's all moving in the

592
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: same direction. Meet and moving in the same direction. What

593
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: more could you really ask for? But it's just so

594
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: buttoned down. They didn't have chronic false start issues last night.

595
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: I mean, how many other teams have you seen this

596
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: year get swallowed up in environments like that? A lot

597
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: of talk going into that thing. Texas, Man, they hadn't

598
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: played in a venue anywhere close to this big this year.

599
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: They didn't care, they didn't get They walked into Michigan

600
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: earlier in the year. Now. I know you guys don't

601
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: think much of Michigan even after yesterday, but they walked

602
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: in there and they played their style and just just

603
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: bludgeoned them. They'd crow bart them in the knees and

604
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: they relished it. And then they walked in there last night,

605
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: and how better to clinch your first trip to the

606
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: SEC championship game in your first year than to do

607
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: it in college station and they do it, and then

608
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: they almost look around and say, like, what's the big deal?

609
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: May of course we did it, Like what else was

610
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: gonna happen? We're gonna lose, or we're gonna struggle with

611
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: the environment. Their ultra discipline, there's there is such a

612
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: credit to that, and then there's such a challenge to

613
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Speaker 1: maintain that. It's like it's like if you take a

614
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: quarter and you flick it on a table. Initially it's

615
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: so tight and it's spinning. It looks like it's never

616
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: gonna fall, but it can hit the least grain of

617
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: sand or imperfection on the table, it starts wabbling and

618
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, bah bah blah blah, bah blah,

619
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Speaker 1: bah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Oh tails man,

620
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: that thing was spending good just a couple of minutes ago.

621
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Speaker 1: What happened. Well, it's hard to maintain that, just like

622
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: it's hard to maintain that caliber of play, that level

623
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: of play in a season, much less over the course

624
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: of several seasons. That's the challenge there. The consistency and

625
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: performance it's the challenge there. If you're a salesperson and

626
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: you get on a hot streak, you maintain that thing

627
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: for five years or five weeks. Most of the time

628
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,239
Speaker 1: it's the latter, it's not the former. Teams get on

629
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: hot streaks all the time. Can a program maintain that

630
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: because the very material that went into that gets poached

631
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: and your backups get offered exorbitant amounts of money to

632
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,959
Speaker 1: go to other other programs, and your coaches get elevated

633
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: from position to coordinator, from coordinator to head coach. And

634
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: that's why the principles and values have to be what's

635
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: driving the engine, the head coach and the prince and values,

636
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: because if that's what you're selling the folks, and that's

637
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: what they're buying when they come there. I don't care

638
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: if you're a player, or you're a coach, or you're

639
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: a staffer, or you're a recruiter, or you're a nutritionist,

640
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: or you're in sports science or you're in strength and conditioning.

641
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: That's how you maintain consistency. And that's an unknown with everyone,

642
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: Texas included, and that's getting ahead of ourselves. But that's

643
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: what I'll pay attention to. I said, it in August,

644
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: and then we kind of got into the fog of

645
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: fall about Texas A and M. I said eight and

646
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: four would be good for this Texas A and M

647
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: team this year. Well they've gone eight and four. I

648
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: think it was a good year for him, and I

649
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: didn't even I didn't even have any way of knowing

650
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: that they were going to have the turnover at quarterback.

651
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: So eight and four with a quarterback change, I'll take it.

652
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: Mike Elko, I had some of your second guess in

653
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: him last night. I'm not really sure what that's about.

654
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: I know the game didn't go the way you wanted

655
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: it to. Mike Elko. If football acumen is what you're

656
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: concerned about with that guy, your concerns will be short lived.

657
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: You'll be okay. Talent acquisition and the evaluation of that talent,

658
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: and then the development of that talent, and then the

659
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: proper use of that talent, that won't be an issue.

660
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: I didn't know that that was such a talking point

661
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: coming out of last night. I get it, you lost

662
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: the game. Texas is better, guys, that's a roster that

663
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: you're two years away from being able to resemble in

664
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: the best of times. So he got exposed as having

665
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: the second best team in the game. If that's exposed,

666
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: I don't really know what you expected him to do,

667
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: But I understand these games mean a lot. I get it.

668
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: Rivalry is incredible Texas really sort of. They didn't neutralize

669
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: the environment, but they kept it from exploding on them,

670
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: and that was key, highly entertaining place to be and

671
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: game to be at last night, and that was where

672
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: the whole New Saturday Tour wrapped up our regular season.

673
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: But as you know, we have conference championships coming up

674
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: this week. Texas is going to play in Atlanta in

675
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: the SEC championship game. We got acc got Big twelve,

676
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: we got Big ten. And I ran a poll earlier

677
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: today in the interest of gauging public opinion before I actually,

678
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: you know, share my own thoughts and whatnot. And there

679
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: have been some allegations floating around. I think that's fair

680
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: to say Jesse and Collins some allegations hurtful. But I'm

681
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: a big boy over here. I've prepared for this. But

682
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 1: I put out a poll and I said, hey, I've

683
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: made up my mind where I'm going this weekend, But

684
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: just out of curiosity, where do you think I'm going

685
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: ACC Championship game, maybe SMU, Clemson, anyone. SEC's got Texas, Georgia.

686
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: We got the Big twelve with Arizona State, Iowa State,

687
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: we got the Big ten. CBS has got the Big ten.

688
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: By the way, CBS guy here, listen to the chest pump,

689
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: and that's Oregon, Penn State. Now scratch out Ohio State.

690
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: Where am I going? Well, the overwhelming sentiment nearly forty

691
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: eight point seven percent of you think that I I

692
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: was going to the SEC Championship Game, and then a

693
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: distant second was the Big Ten, and then the Big

694
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: Twelve was third. Colin, why don't we show the people

695
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: where we're going. I'll tell you where I'm going. I'm

696
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: going to Arlington, Texas. I'm going to the Big twelve

697
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: championship Game. Are you people crazy? You think I'm lying

698
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: when I talk about these programs that I actually grew

699
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: up rooting for. For some reason, it's just not good enough,

700
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: and we have to create a mirage an image in

701
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: our mind, even in the face of me straight up

702
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: telling you wearing the T shirts in the process. Yeah,

703
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: I kind of grew up rooting for Iowa State. Yeah,

704
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 1: I got a little affinity for Arizona State. Well, they're

705
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: playing each other. They're in a game I'd rather be

706
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: at this Saturday than Arizona State and Iowa State. I'm

707
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: going to the Big twelve championship game for the first

708
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: time ever, and that is an eleven am kickoff. I

709
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: think they're in Arlington noon eastern. That'll be the first

710
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: conference championship game of the day. And looking forward to it,

711
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. A lot of you are going

712
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: to be able to make your trip there for the

713
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: first time. And while you do it, say hey to me.

714
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: I'll be front and center. Can't wait to get the

715
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: feedback on that. Can't wait. And then we'll go down

716
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: to Fort Lauderdale that night and we'll do Sunday reaction

717
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: for the playoff. We'll do our Sunday show. It'll be

718
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: it'll be a whole big deal. All right. Let's get

719
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: back to reactions from yesterday. A lot of games listen

720
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: to the listen to the heft in the stack of

721
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: papers here, and you know how rarely I use that

722
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: word I have I have to address something. So Notre

723
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: Dame did in fact beat USC. This game has gone final. Yes, Okay,

724
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: forty eight to thirty five. Congratulations Irish listen. I'm not

725
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: perfect Irish fans, but who we can? Neither are you?

726
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: And you know what, I dig it. I dig it

727
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: you should too. None of us are perfect, however, I

728
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: apparently am expected to be. This was a for Chalai game.

729
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: It was great to watch. I didn't get the result

730
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: that I predicted, and a lot of Notre Dame fans

731
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: took notice. Now, not a lot of them said anything

732
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: in the pregame. No, no, these are the kinds of

733
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: folks who wait until after the game's over to make

734
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: their statements. Easiest thing in the world to do. But

735
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: you know what, I deserve it. That's fine. I picked

736
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: the game. I was wrong, and for that I don't apologize.

737
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: I just wear it. I got to pick wrong. The

738
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: worst things have happened. I've gotten a few picks right

739
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: when Notre Dame in the past, I didn't hear from you, guys.

740
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: You sent your cousins they are crickets to talk to

741
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: me instead. What did Notre Dame do in this game? Well,

742
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: they ran to San Diego, that's what they did. Two

743
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight on the ground, nearly seven yards

744
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: per carry. Now, ironically had you told me that Friday,

745
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: I would have said, Wow, it's a good game for

746
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I still don't know that that definitively is

747
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: a padlock stat. I still don't know that that slams

748
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: the door on USC's chances because I thought USC was

749
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: going to be able to throw the ball, and they did.

750
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. They threw it to the other team

751
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,919
Speaker 1: some too. They'll get very Let me first talk about

752
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Here's for all you guys who

753
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: think I'm haters. Notre Dame will not get a lot

754
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: of credit for this win, and they should because you

755
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: know our opinion of USC around here. USC going into

756
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 1: this game was one of six teams in FBS who

757
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: had led every game in the fourth quarter. It just

758
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: so happens they had lost five of them, whereas the

759
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: other teams combined had lost five. So what that meant

760
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: is USC's probably a much better team than their record indicates.

761
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: I think Penn State's win out there is a great win.

762
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: They don't get credit for it, but I think it is.

763
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,959
Speaker 1: This was a great win for Notre Dame. They won't

764
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,479
Speaker 1: get a lot of credit for it now. They don't

765
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: need it because their playoff resume set. But this is

766
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: one of the best games that Notre Dames had for

767
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: me all year, they've looked more impressive. And you may

768
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: not like that USC put thirty five on you with

769
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: the threat of hanging a lot more. They're good, like

770
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: they're not a bad team. Probably the best offense face

771
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: all year and you put nearly you put half a

772
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: hundred on them. So this is a good when I

773
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: give them a lot more credit, maybe than most of

774
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: the upholsters will USC got to the Notre Dame twenty eight,

775
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: thirty eight, twenty one, and thirteen, and Notre Dame outscored

776
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: them fourteen to nothing on those. Now that was a

777
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: lot of numbers. I know a lot of you maybe

778
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: missed what I just said there. Think about this. This

779
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: this is the paper popper. This is the padlock stat us.

780
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: He's got the ball. Okay, in all of these instances

781
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: us he's got the ball. We're not even given Notre

782
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,479
Speaker 1: Dame a possession. USC gets to the Notre Dame twenty

783
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: eight yard line, the Notre Name thirty eight yard line.

784
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: These are all different drives. The Notre Dame twenty one

785
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: and the Notre Dame thirteen. Notre Dame somehow scored fourteen

786
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: on those drives. USC gets not a obviously, a couple

787
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: of pick sixes ninety nine plus yards in nature happened.

788
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: Notre Dame had two of those in their entire program history,

789
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: and then they had two in like five minutes. It's

790
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: a crazy thing. This sport of college football is crazy.

791
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: I low key got the game I expected. This is

792
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: what burned me. I started going back and forth with

793
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: some of you last night lovingly, of course, this is

794
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: what burned me. I kind of got the game that

795
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: I thought i'd get. USC moved the ball consistently Notre

796
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: Dame's defense. I do think it's a little overrating. That

797
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: was what I thought was a little overinflated. So I

798
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: thought USC would have success, and they did. They had

799
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: six drives of fifty plus yards, they had nine drives

800
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: of thirty five plus yards. They outgained Notre Dame by

801
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards. I was just banking, as I

802
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: texted Brady Quinn today because he was hating on me too.

803
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: I was banking on there being this one moment of

804
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: the year where the turnover look flipped and it went

805
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: southern Southern colsway and it just didn't happen. Apparently we're

806
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: going to go an entire year of having to deal

807
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 1: with this foolishness. And so hats off to Notre Dame.

808
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: Credit to Notre Dame because you got USC's fastball and

809
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: you were still that much better. So where's Notre Dame

810
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: headed now? Well, they're headed almost certainly to host a

811
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: playoff game, and it will be seven degrees probably no

812
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: matter what day it is and who they play up there.

813
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: We could see a Southern team go up there. So

814
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: a lot of you cold weather fantasy types, well get

815
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: your wish on that, But I want to know where

816
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: a us C is headed, because they're not going to

817
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: the playoff. Where's USC headed? There are a lot of

818
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: folks of the opinion that USC has regressed. No offensively,

819
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: they've regressed. That may be short term, it may be

820
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: long term. I've been very encouraged by how much better

821
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: defensively they've been this year. They've been in every game

822
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: they've played. This very easily could be a much different

823
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: looking season. They may very well change a couple of

824
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: plays in the end the playoff conversation, which doesn't matter

825
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: at all. But if you're asking me about the future,

826
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: it means I'm not going to freak out and think

827
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: they're miles away. They're just inches away. Several different times,

828
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: which again is an unpopular thing to say a day

829
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: after a big loss. I say the same thing about

830
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I don't think it's time to hit the

831
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: dump button. It's not time to fire anybody, well, a

832
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: head coaching position at least, but there's a there are

833
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: coarse corrections that can be made, or maybe they've made them,

834
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: but it just takes more than one year. I don't know. Defensively,

835
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: that's one thing. But offensively, those air raid guys, man,

836
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't know now, I don't who knows, who knows?

837
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: But congratulations to Notre Dame. Yes you were right. I

838
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: was wrong. You're smart, I'm dumb, you're attractive. I'm not

839
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: good looking. Is this what you wanted from me tonight?

840
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: Shame on all of you, but mostly shame on me.

841
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: Next up, Iron Bowl goes Alabama's way. As it turns out,

842
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: they turned the ball over like nineteen times and they

843
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: still win twenty eight to fourteen. I give this game

844
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: two and a half Chili on the one to five scale.

845
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: The one thing I was not going to do going

846
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: into this game is going to doubt Alabama's buy in.

847
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: That's one bit of credit that I'll give Kaylin to

848
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 1: Borr and that staff is there's not been an ounce

849
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: of quit in that team. They've played very up and down,

850
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: but I've not questioned the overall effort. Maybe individual efforts

851
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: at times, but not overall effort. No one's mailed the

852
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: season in or anything like that. So you got the

853
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: intensity level you needed, probably a little bit more than

854
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: you needed at some time yesterday. It's a beautiful rivalry,

855
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 1: one of several I know that some of the national

856
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: audience may have been turned off because there aren't like

857
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: immediate dueling playoff implications. It's not like A and M

858
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 1: Texas where the winner goes to Atlanta and the loser

859
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: goes home. But it's the Iron Bowl. Man. They've played

860
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: it my whole life. It's mattered every year of my life,

861
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 1: and so it mattered yesterday. You get those two uniforms

862
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: on the field, it matters matters a great deal, especially

863
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: to folks who aren't going to play in the game anymore.

864
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: I do have a padlocked staff. Very simple. This Alabama

865
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: team has been both impossible to predict and ultra easy

866
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: to figure out after games all year. Auburn goes two

867
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: of three in the red zone for six points, Alabama's

868
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: four to four for twenty eight points. Usually, kids, that's

869
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: a pretty good indicator. If they show you the answers

870
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: to the test on Friday and you see part of

871
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: it and that's what you see, usually a pretty good indicator.

872
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: Crimson team's gonna win. There. The run game was there,

873
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: so the rest didn't matter. That's the other thing about

874
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: Bama that if you know, you can forget all the rest.

875
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: They can even turn the ball over. It doesn't matter

876
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: if the run games there. They've had seven turnovers in

877
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: their last two games now. One game they couldn't run

878
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 1: the ball, they got embarrassed. The other game they could

879
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: run the ball and they won. It starts with the

880
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: quarterback position. It ends with the quarterback position. Paper Popper

881
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: stat number two. Jalen Milroe in nine wins this year

882
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: has averaged nearly seventy seven yards rushing per game. That's

883
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: in the wins, runs the ball seventy seven yards per game.

884
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: In the three losses nine point three yards per game,

885
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: not per carry per game. Just a mind boggling stat

886
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: But yep, it's right there in front of God and everyone.

887
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze, what do we think? What are we thinking

888
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: about the Auburn head coach? There, Yes, no thumbs up,

889
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: thumbs down, thumbs in the middle, some thumbs in the middle,

890
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: thumbs in the middle. Give me, give me the give

891
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: me the end difference, give me the Finch ride on.

892
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze right now, he's got to get it done

893
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. He's got to get it done.

894
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: A lot of you're watching right now, a lot of

895
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: your Auburn fans, Alabama fans, college football fans watching right now.

896
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe to the channel, because that's how

897
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: we keep this free. Because we do this show all

898
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: year round and we would love to keep it free.

899
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: And you guys already do that. I just asked those

900
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: of you who haven't. It's free, and it doesn't really

901
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: matter to you, it matters to us. So click that

902
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: subscribe button if you will. Hugh Freeze has to get

903
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: it done in twenty twenty five. He's finishing year two,

904
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: five and seven. This team had no business being five

905
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: and seven this year. They didn't have to be a

906
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 1: playoff team. But the fact that this team's not going

907
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: bowling is unacceptable. But yet, if you've watched them all year,

908
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: it makes sense they're a much better team. They're a

909
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: much more capable team, let me put it that way

910
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: than five and seven. So you can't change anything about that.

911
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: Here's what you can do. You can take the fact

912
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: that you're not going to be in the playoff, you're

913
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 1: not going to be in bowl season. Then you can say, Okay,

914
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: we got nothing else to focus on but retooling our

915
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: staff if we need to. But retooling this roster, which

916
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: we have to do. We got to go find a quarterback.

917
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: I think everyone understands the quarterback for Auburn in twenty

918
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: twenty five is not on the roster right now. At

919
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: least I would say that they are as of right now.

920
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: If you look at the twenty four to seven Sports

921
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 1: Team Talent composite, which is a very broad strokes tool,

922
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: take it for what it is, please, they are number

923
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 1: eighteen in the country in just overall team talent. Good

924
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,439
Speaker 1: players on the roster, not great, but it's a nice

925
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: solid roster. The last three recruiting classes eighteenth, tenth, and

926
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: this current one is ranked top five signing Day by

927
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: the way this Wednesday, so they are on pace to

928
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: sign yet another highly ranked class, solid foundation built. They

929
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: played a lot of young guys this year. They're gonna

930
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: go outside for their quarterback. Who's it gonna beat? Don't

931
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,720
Speaker 1: know when's it gonna happen, don't know, but they've got

932
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: to make major strides in twenty twenty five. If they don't,

933
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: he doesn't deserve to have any more length of rope.

934
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: And I think he gets that. And that's fair. That's

935
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: in the portal era. Look that sunset. Wow. In the

936
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: portal era, they give you three years. That's in some

937
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: some don't get three, so they give you three years

938
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: at a place like Almurn, that's fair. The whole Alabama

939
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: college football playoff picture right now at FanDuel, they have

940
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: odds about whether these teams will make the playoff or not.

941
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: Bama is currently plus one ten yes, minus one thirty

942
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: four no. So for those of you who don't know

943
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: what that means, that means they are slightly more likely

944
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,959
Speaker 1: to not make it than to make it. But it's

945
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: not a big gap. So the betting markets right now,

946
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: they're very much on the fence leaning slightly. No, but

947
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: it's very much up in the air. And listen, that's

948
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: before conference championship Saturday. So if you're Abama fan, you

949
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: basically just pull for SMU this Saturday, and if they win,

950
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: then it's you. It's South Carolina, it's Miami, it's Old

951
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: miss I'm gonna talk about that later in the show.

952
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: But you gotta like your chance. It's a whole lot better.

953
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: Obviously if SMU wins. They're watching us in Tucson, Arizona,

954
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: Silver Spring, Maryland, and Sarah Soda, Florida. We appreciate you

955
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: guys so much. Great live audience too. Nearly fourteen thousand

956
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: in here. Miami was a disaster. Yesterday Syrahcuse ends up

957
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: beating them. Syracuse is trailing twenty one to nothing. Most

958
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: of you have other games to watch. You turn it

959
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: off and then someone texts you like they did me yesterday.

960
00:48:58,120 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 1: I look at the eye, Josh, because I'm at another

961
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: and I say, Syracuse forty two thirty eight, Miami must

962
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: be playing in basketball as well this week. That was

963
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: my first thought. They must be playing in basketball. They

964
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: are not, to my knowledge, they did play in football.

965
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: Syracuse had the audacity to keep competing when they were

966
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: down twenty one to nothing. Shame on fran Brown and company.

967
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: And they end up winning the game, knocking Miami out

968
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: of the ACC Championship game, probably knocking them out of

969
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: the playoff picture, although time will tell on that. But

970
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: they're very much on the outside looking in in the

971
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: odds market right now. This was a disaster. I give

972
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: it for Chaali on the one to five scale, ultra

973
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: entertaining game to watch. But if you are Miami, you're

974
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: very lucky that Ohio State imploded like they did yesterday,

975
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: or you'd be front page news for all the wrong reasons,

976
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: and you should be. You ought to be embarrassed. Winners

977
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: first on this show, though, So Miami's gonna have to wait.

978
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: Kyle McCord, i'm accord, notably not good enough to play

979
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 1: quarterback at Ohio State anymore, proceeds to go twenty six

980
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: to thirty six for three hundred and eighty yards, three touchdowns,

981
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: no picks. He outplays cam Ward statistically, and he continues

982
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: to be oh I don't know the leading passer in FBS. Jesse,

983
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: remind me how Ohio State did through the air yesterday,

984
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: not no, not good. Okay, listen, I Kyle McCord lost

985
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: to Michigan as well. I understand what the rebuttal is

986
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: going to be in the live chat, so spare me,

987
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: but good for him. Kyle McCord could have gone up

988
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: to Syracuse and disappeared like so many of these transferred

989
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks do, and instead, like Dylan Gabriel nineteen thousand miles

990
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: away in Oregon, they're just shining. So good for them.

991
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: But when Syracuse defense cashed in that fumble return, they

992
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: made it thirty five twenty eight. I actually caught it

993
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: on the monitor because I ran up the tunnel to

994
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: a room to watch the game, and when they did that,

995
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: and the last thing I'd seen before that was their

996
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: down twenty one to nothing. I am thinking to myself,

997
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: if I were on the Miami sideline, I would be

998
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: so cotton mouthed right now. I wouldn't even know what

999
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: to do, knowing everything that's on the line, knowing how

1000
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: the Georgia Tech game went last year, knowing how it

1001
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: went this year for that matter, and then knowing all

1002
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: the perception of us is this which you shouldn't be

1003
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: thinking about during a game. But I am because I'm

1004
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: not in the game, and then the reality is binding

1005
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: us again. Oh no, and then yes, yes, oh yes,

1006
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: it happens. Miami had a fork in the road. We

1007
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: labeled it as such a month ago. You'll probably remember

1008
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: if you watch the show regularly. I looked and I said, Wow,

1009
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: So you've got a Heisman contender at quarterback and cam Ward.

1010
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 1: Those guys don't come around too often, just like Joe

1011
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: Burrow doesn't, just like Jayden Daniels doesn't. So LSU had

1012
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 1: both of those other guys. Remember Joe Burrow in twenty nineteen,

1013
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels in twenty twenty three. One of those teams

1014
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: ends up becoming good enough defensively, they explode offensively, they

1015
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: go on a legendary one they win a national championship,

1016
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: one of the best teams of all time. The other

1017
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: one was twenty twenty three LSU. They also had a

1018
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: Heisman winner at quarterback, but the defense famously could not

1019
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: stop molasses in December, as Memo would say, and they

1020
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 1: wasted that guy. Miami has wasted cam Ward this year

1021
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: because defensively they're abysmal. And I don't know enough to

1022
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: sit here and outright question the effort of individual players.

1023
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: But when you watched that yesterday, and I would imagine

1024
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 1: the All twenty two tells a similar story. There are

1025
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 1: some Syracuse plays where you look and you say, there

1026
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 1: is no way that's max effort. There's no way. I

1027
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: don't call guys out by name on that because that's

1028
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 1: not my place to do. But I think any Miami

1029
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: fan who's been watching this team has said that for

1030
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: quite a while. And the thing about it is they

1031
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 1: struggled in some wins. Virginia Tech struggle defensively, they win,

1032
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: cal struggle mightily defensively, they win, and you you sit

1033
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,439
Speaker 1: there and you think to yourself, Okay, you ran through

1034
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: two stop signs and didn't get plastered. Hopefully you learn

1035
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: your lesson and you don't have to get in the wreck.

1036
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 1: They had to get in the wreck. They couldn't learn

1037
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: the lesson, or maybe they're incapable of it. They had

1038
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: to get in the wreck. And so Syracuse second half

1039
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: their drives, touchdown, touchdown, red zone, fumble, touchdown, end of game.

1040
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: Miami couldn't get off the field when it mattered in

1041
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: a game they had to have against Syracuse on the road.

1042
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: Defensive staff changes, I think are imminent there the quarterback

1043
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: for that team in twenty twenty five. Miami's quarterback next year,

1044
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: my guess is not on the roster right now. That

1045
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: is my guess, and that's only me guessing. May he

1046
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: may be. He very much may be there. But at

1047
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: the same time, understanding who you've got to replace in

1048
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 1: cam Ward and understanding there will be no Givens defensively

1049
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: next year, even if they make all the staff changes.

1050
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: Right now, Miami, I said, they're on the outside looking in.

1051
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: I'm looking at FanDuel's numbers, like right now, they're in

1052
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 1: front of me. Miami is plus eight twenty yes minus

1053
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred no to make the playoff. So odds makers,

1054
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 1: the betting market thinks there's a lot that has to

1055
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: go right from Miami in order to make the playoff. Now,

1056
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: it's not impossible. It is highly unlikely they'd be on

1057
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: the outside looking in for me at this point, and frankly,

1058
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: this sounds crazy to say. This probably for the best.

1059
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: That team has no shot of winning a title, and

1060
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: their attention and energy would probably be best served getting

1061
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: a head start on changes both coaching and roster. Like

1062
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: I said with Auburn, to get a head start on

1063
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. That's the way I view Miami right now.

1064
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: There are some teams whose ceiling is far too low

1065
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: to win a title. Miami's one of them. It'd be

1066
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 1: nice in terms of novelty to make the playoff, but

1067
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: your standards higher than that around there. You haven't been

1068
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: able to meet it yet. You're not going to do

1069
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: it with this team. Your defense is your defense is

1070
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: well below that standard that did the freeze point, if

1071
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: you will, So next up, next up, in many different ways,

1072
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: next up. I was surprised. I gotta tell you. We

1073
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: said something on the Thursday show and the reaction. I'm

1074
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: just telling you, I was surprised. So let me let

1075
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: me crack up in a nice cold ZV here salted caramel,

1076
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: not to be confused with caramel, which is a bastardized pronunciation.

1077
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: New flavor here, salted caramel, all the rage. I've noticed

1078
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people going the salted caramel route. So

1079
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: what surprised you, Josh? Well, the other night I announced

1080
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: on the show we got our favorite zero sugar soda here.

1081
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: We've kind of partnered with ZVA on this, and I've

1082
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: been drinking at every show. I've been inhaling it in

1083
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: the apartment too, so I love it, especially cream soda

1084
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: salted caramel growing on me ginger ale not my particular

1085
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: cup of tea, but other around me like it. But

1086
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: I'm a big cream soda guy. But anyway, the other

1087
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:08,240
Speaker 1: night we announced it's available now nationwide in all Walmarts. Okay,

1088
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: Walmart is the name of the store. The plural is Walmart's.

1089
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 1: We do not put an S on the end of

1090
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: Walmart any more than we put an S on the

1091
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: end of Urban Meyer. It's not Urban Myers. There's not

1092
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: multiples of him. It's just one. But there are several Walmarts,

1093
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: so we call him Walmart's. But if you go in one,

1094
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: it's Walmart. They got Zvia in there, though, and so

1095
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: we announced we got a little contest going since many

1096
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: of you had already been taking pictures of yourself in

1097
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: random store parking lots having purchased Zevia. Because we are

1098
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: very loyal to our partners around here, and I appreciate

1099
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 1: that about you guys. Oh, I appreciate that. So do they.

1100
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: I talked to them and they said, look, contest time,

1101
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 1: you want to give away some free stuff. Yes, let's

1102
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: give away some free stuff. Let's give away money. And

1103
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: so they are giving away to twenty five of you

1104
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 1: a one hundred dollars Walmart gift card just in time

1105
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: for Christmas. You go out in the parking lot after

1106
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: you purchas Zvia there, you take a pic sure hashtag

1107
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: Zvia Pate State when you post it. That's it very simple.

1108
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: So I thought to myself, I'm sure a few people

1109
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 1: will do that. Hundreds of you did it the other day.

1110
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: I was blown away. We were like swimming in the

1111
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: submissions already, and I didn't even feature it a whole

1112
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: lot on the show the other day. I just kind

1113
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: of mentioned it. So, Zvia Pate State, show yourself in

1114
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: the parking lot at Walmart having purchased this. Twenty five

1115
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: of you get the gift card. But it gets even better.

1116
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: Three of you go Grand Prize level. That means the

1117
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars Walmart gift card. That means a case

1118
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: of my favorite flavor, which is cream soda. But also

1119
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: something you can't buy anywhere, even at Walmart. We're giving

1120
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: away three chawlive supremacy. You want to know how you

1121
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: get chili Supremacy well, here you go. Here's a way

1122
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: zvia pate state hashtag it moving on, Here we go.

1123
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: This was my favorite game to watch yesterday. South Carolina

1124
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: Clemson was awesome. Seventeen to fourteen. South Carolina comes out

1125
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: on top four and a half Chawli on the one

1126
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: to five scale. You could even argue for five. This

1127
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:03,959
Speaker 1: was extremely entertaining. And all I can say is thank

1128
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: you Spencer Ratler. That's all I kept thinking. Spencer Ratler

1129
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: was such a key in this game. And he didn't

1130
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: even play in the game. He's in the NFL. But

1131
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: Spencer Ratler was there at the right time in Columbia,

1132
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: and they recruited Leonora Sellers and they brought him in

1133
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: and they didn't have to start him right away because

1134
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: Spencer Ratler was there, and so Lenora Sellers could afford

1135
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: to sit and develop. And now it's his time. You

1136
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: remember when when they brought him in the three star recruit.

1137
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: They brought him in and we started immediately getting feedback that, oh,

1138
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: they think they really hit on this Lenora Sellers kid.

1139
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,479
Speaker 1: And he's not gonna play this year, but down the road,

1140
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:44,919
Speaker 1: oh watch out, Yeah, we're watching and we're seeing one

1141
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: of the most impressive performances I ever remember seeing. If

1142
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: you consider the magnitude of the moment, Yesterday, Sellers just

1143
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: goes off one of the most impressive performances that I've

1144
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: seen in a long time. So you may look at

1145
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: the box screen, you may say, what are you talking about?

1146
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: Josh was thirteen twenty one, one hundred and sixty four yards,

1147
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: didn't even throw a touchdown pass one interception. Well, I

1148
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: would like you to pay attention to the rushing yards

1149
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: on the bottom of the screen. There he had one

1150
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six of them, two rushing touchdowns. I

1151
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 1: want to take you to late in this game. He

1152
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: made several like chunk play, drive saver, game changer altering runs.

1153
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: But they're down fourteen to ten. Late in this game,

1154
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,479
Speaker 1: there's a minute and change to go, and they don't

1155
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: need a field goal. They got to have a touchdown.

1156
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: It's third and sixteen, Jesse, do we even have that play?

1157
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: This right here is insanity. This is an alien. This

1158
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: is not on a grease board. This is a guy

1159
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: taking a team on his back saying Nope, you gotta

1160
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: have a will to win. I will not lose. I

1161
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: will not be denied you got to understand what this

1162
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: game means. And college football is built on rivalries. You

1163
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: do not grow up being preached to about the college

1164
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: football playoff. If you grew up in Florence, South Carolina,

1165
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: like he did, Lenora Sellers, you get preached to about

1166
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: Clemson and about South Carolina, you're gonna choose a side.

1167
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: He did. He wasn't even recruited heavily by the other side.

1168
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: You look at his offer sheet and it's South Carolina

1169
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: and it's a bunch of G five schools. And he

1170
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: goes there and he immediately pops the immediately know, man,

1171
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: we got one here. And he waits his turn and

1172
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: he starts think about what's on the line there. It's

1173
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: the Clemson game. It's a rivalry game. For all you know,

1174
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: your playoff berth may be on the line as well,

1175
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: But forget all that stuff. It's the South Carolina Clemson game.

1176
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: It's all on the line. You gotta let it all

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01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: hang out right there, third and sixteen and you score.

1178
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how you watch it and don't get

1179
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: emotional Like that's as intense and as big a moment

1180
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: as you may ever be in your entire life. He

1181
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: may go on to play in Sunday. May he been

1182
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: go on to play on Sundays twenty years For all

1183
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 1: I know, that moment may be the biggest of his career.

1184
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 1: And oh man, the emotion that poured out was unbelievable.

1185
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: And so they end up winning the game. That's the

1186
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: game winner, that seals the deal. Three star quarterback from Florence,

1187
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: South Carolina making that play in that moment on the

1188
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: road in Death Valley unbelievable, unbelievable. You got a credit

1189
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: Clemson two man. Just a dogfight of a game. Awesome

1190
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 1: game to watch. Clemson leads with like a minute to go. There,

1191
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: turnovers both ways. It's I don't know how it was

1192
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: to put this other than one side had Leonora Sellers.

1193
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 1: One of these quarterbacks was a former five star, which

1194
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: one would you say it was? And that's not a

1195
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 1: knock on k club Nick necessarily, that's just South Carolina's

1196
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: got something special in Leonora's Sellers. Clemson had seven drives

1197
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: of five plays or less in this game. They couldn't sustain.

1198
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: So that's again that's credit to South Carolina's defense. They

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01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: have shown up all year. They made Clemson far too

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01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: reliant on explosive plays. But you know what, this game

1201
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 1: ends the way it does, and then you look in

1202
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: a few hours later, you still got like the tier

1203
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: streaks running down the EyeBlack and someone knocks on the door, says,

1204
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: mister Swinney, Yeah, you're in the ACC championship game. Impossible.

1205
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: We just lost, not a conference game, you didn't huh yeah, yeah, Miami,

1206
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: Miami just blew a three score lead against Syracuse. You's

1207
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: going to Charlotte by oh oh cool. Clemson could still

1208
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: be in the playoff. Clems could still win the AEC Championship,

1209
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: so they got plenty to play for there. They may

1210
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:26,479
Speaker 1: be playing for an eleven seed or a twelve seed.

1211
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: It could be weird how that shakes out, depending on

1212
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: if they win or if SMU wins. But what a game.

1213
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: What an afternoon for South Carolina, and as it turns out,

1214
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: what an evening for Clemson. If you haven't watched that game, guys,

1215
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 1: you gotta go watch it, just to watch the condensed version.

1216
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: I know Ohio State, Michigan was on, say the winner's

1217
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: name first. I know Michigan, Ohio State was on. You

1218
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: gotta go check that out. You gotta go look at

1219
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: sellers of some of the plays he made. It's so funny.

1220
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: You're Shane Biemer looks like a genius and the offensive

1221
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: stafflecks like a genius, and they're sitting over there saying, Wow,

1222
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: that's not how we design that play. But he is

1223
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: who he is. That's sometimes you've just got players who

1224
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 1: play well beyond the design and you're lucky they do.

1225
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: It makes you look so good. Many A Broil's Award,

1226
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: You Many A Home Depot Coach of the Year award

1227
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: has been won because guys went off script and made

1228
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 1: you look like a genius. The genius was you went

1229
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: and recruited him, and then you get out of the

1230
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 1: way when it's time to get out of the way. Unbelievable.

1231
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 1: Several added takeaways here. We still got a lot to

1232
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: get to appreciate you guys watching, make sure you are

1233
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: subscribed to the channel. I saw a couple of you

1234
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: mentioned in the live chat. You said the name Cam Newton,

1235
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: so I'll go there. It's almost impossible to say this

1236
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: without people hearing it the wrong way. You can say

1237
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 1: a performance reminds you of Cam Newton without saying this

1238
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 1: guy is the next Cam Newton. I'm not saying anyone's

1239
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: the next Cam Newton. That's dumb saying. When I watched

1240
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 1: Sellers yesterday, there were things he did that made me

1241
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: feel a way I haven't felt since I watched Newton

1242
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: do it about fifteen years ago. Now down at Auburn.

1243
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: And that's it, and that's all. But that's how special

1244
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 1: the performance was to me yesterday. Those moments being as

1245
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 1: big as they were, the plays being as incredible as

1246
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: they were, that's Cam Newton stuff. He used to do

1247
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 1: that stuff down at Auburn. Georgia on Friday night beat

1248
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech in eight overtimes. Georgia Tech just spanked him

1249
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: in the first half. Three hundred and seven to one

1250
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven was the yard dige advantage Georgia

1251
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: Tech at the break seventeen and nothing was the lead.

1252
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: They left points on the field. And then I did

1253
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: Friday Night Lines, which I do on Instagram live every

1254
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: Friday night at late kick Josh, if you haven't been watching,

1255
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: and I said, you gotta go Georgia second half here,

1256
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: what's the number? And you guys told me in the

1257
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: live chat what the number was. George has been in

1258
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 1: that position so many many times this year, this year?

1259
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 1: How many times have they gone into a half and

1260
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: then exploded in the second half. It was inevitable that

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01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: it was coming. It was could Georgia Tech sustain it?

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01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: And they almost did, but they didn't. Haines King what

1263
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: a warrior's effort. I know I'm talking about the losing

1264
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:19,440
Speaker 1: team here, but I mean, what more can you say?

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Speaker 1: It was? It's just a fight. So it was a

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Speaker 1: classic game. And then what happens, Well, we take what

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01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: has been a classic game, you know, So Colin, here's

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01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: a good endpoint for you. So Georgia, Georgia Tech. They've

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Speaker 1: just gone back and forth. It's a Black Friday classic.

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Speaker 1: And then we get to overtime. And then it's like

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01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: you take the logical people out of the room who

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Speaker 1: designed the game of football, and you bring in a

1273
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: Carnival Barker, you bring in a seven on seven tournament director,

1274
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,479
Speaker 1: and they you say, hey, guys, format overtime for us. Okay,

1275
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna start on the twenty five and then a

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01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,959
Speaker 1: couple of rounds later, we're not gonna have a clock

1277
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 1: involved at all. But if you can't out this thing,

1278
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: you're just going to alternate two point conversions, like if

1279
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 1: an infant through darts at a board. They could do

1280
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: a better job than how college football's overtime is structured.

1281
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:10,960
Speaker 1: And you want to know how, I know, clueless people

1282
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: and people who really don't know a thing about football

1283
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 1: design this, it's because they didn't even think it through.

1284
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: It's not only bad design, they didn't even think the

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01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: bad design through. So case in point, if you're watching

1286
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: this the other night, we keep going further and further

1287
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 1: and further, and you start to realize, wait a second,

1288
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: not only do we just alternate two point conversions, which

1289
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: is insane, it's not football. They give them a new

1290
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: timeout every period, so Kirby smart justsi is then cos

1291
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: time out after every period start and it stretches the

1292
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 1: game forever. It doesn't even closely resemble football. And you're

1293
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself, wait, not only why are we settling

1294
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: this game this way, they didn't think to not give

1295
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: them a new timeout. Oh oh, but we've got time

1296
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,040
Speaker 1: to talk about it because also they form out no

1297
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: where after one two point conversion alternation, you walk all

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01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 1: the way to the other end of the field. What

1299
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 1: are we doing? But I'm not here to just complain.

1300
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: I did enough of that on Friday night. Josh, you

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01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: complain so much. What's the solution. Yeah, the solution is

1302
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: play football. You don't have to do it the way

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01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: the NFL does. You don't have to have a whole

1304
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: new period, you don't have to do anything like that.

1305
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: Here's what I would love for us to do to

1306
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: settle overtime in college football. Alternating possessions are fine. Start

1307
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 1: at the fifty yard line first off, so you're not

1308
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: automatically in scoring range before you've ever snapped the ball.

1309
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 1: And number two. You can take this part or leave it.

1310
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 1: I would just prefer this because it brings strategy of

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01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 1: clock management into it. I would love for the clock

1312
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: to start at two minutes. You get your one or

1313
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 1: two timeouts. We'll decide on that. But I would love

1314
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: for you to have to start at the fifty with

1315
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 1: two minutes on the clock, two timeouts, and go. You

1316
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: can be made to go for two if you score

1317
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: or not. I don't even care about all that. We

1318
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 1: would settle games pretty quickly here. Remember LSU, Texas, A

1319
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 1: and M went to a million overtimes once upon a

1320
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: time a few years ago, and someone stepped in and

1321
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 1: said we can't have that again. This was their solution.

1322
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: This was the same folks who don't give you any

1323
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:20,760
Speaker 1: answers when it comes to officiating, were the ones who

1324
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: got in a room and banged their empty heads together

1325
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: long enough to where they came up with this pile

1326
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 1: of garbage. So I would love for someone to step

1327
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,600
Speaker 1: up and you know, like speak logically about this, but

1328
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 1: they can't because there's none applied to it. So I

1329
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:41,520
Speaker 1: would just ask this, where's the flaw in my proposal?

1330
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: I can spot forty seven of them in yours and

1331
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: we're currently doing it. So where's the flawed logic in

1332
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: starting at the fifty where number one you have to

1333
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:54,520
Speaker 1: go some distance to be able to get in scoring range.

1334
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:56,280
Speaker 1: You know, we're trying to shorten games, right, We're trying

1335
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 1: to get it over quick. Make someone earn the right

1336
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: to be able to score. Number two. I would love

1337
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: to involve the clock, you know, like every other aspect

1338
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: of football up until that point in the afternoon has done.

1339
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: And three, I would love for it to look like

1340
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: the game that actually led up to that moment. That's all. Humbly,

1341
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:20,639
Speaker 1: I suggest that to decide a football game, we play

1342
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: more football. Doesn't have to be a lot more. I

1343
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: doubt it would be a lot more, but just just

1344
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: more football, if you will. Florida not so surprisingly undressed

1345
01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: Florida State yesterday. I don't want to break down the game.

1346
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:37,480
Speaker 1: It was meaningless for folks outside of Gainesville. Florida closes

1347
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 1: this stretch that was supposed to be a murderer's row

1348
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 1: red hot. Good for Billy Napier, good for the staff.

1349
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:48,599
Speaker 1: I want you to listen and imagine it's August and

1350
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: listen to how they're going to close this out. They

1351
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 1: go to Kneeland and lose in overtime. They beat Kentucky.

1352
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: Everyone does. They lose to Georgia, but looked really good

1353
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: until Lagway went out. Well, they lose to Georgia. Georgia

1354
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 1: tax on a couple of late to make it look

1355
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: like it was a blowout. It was not very competitive game.

1356
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:09,280
Speaker 1: They don't have Lagway against Texas, they get their doors

1357
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: blown off. Lagway comes back, They beat LSU, they beat

1358
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 1: Ole Miss, they beat Florida State. They end up seven

1359
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 1: to five. The over hits on the preseason over under

1360
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: win total by like a game and a half or

1361
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:25,680
Speaker 1: two games recruiting is on fire, and there is an

1362
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: undeniable energy about the program. So tonight, Sunday, December first,

1363
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four, I am

1364
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 1: here to make it official. Florida football cool again. Congratulations,

1365
01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: you guys have earned it. Now we have to talk

1366
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 1: about an epidemic that is sweeping college football. Yesterday you

1367
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: probably watched Michigan beat Ohio State. Then you watched them

1368
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 1: try and plant the flag at midfield. You know, because

1369
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: whoms the monks us hasn't had a big accomplishment in

1370
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: life and immediately tried to plant a flag in turf

1371
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: where it's capable of being planted. Ohio State takes great

1372
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 1: exception to it. The worst part of this was not

1373
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: the mace to the face of the Michigan players or

1374
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:10,599
Speaker 1: the multiple fights that broke out. The worst thing was

1375
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: it was a noon game, which means a bunch of

1376
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: players that were about to play later in the day

1377
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:16,680
Speaker 1: were sitting in their hotel rooms watching. And so I

1378
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: got Florida Florida State doing it. Later, I got Arizona

1379
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 1: State Arizona doing it. I got NC State North Carolina

1380
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 1: doing it. And we go from hardly ever seeing it

1381
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: before to seeing it like nineteen times, multiple fights, and

1382
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there and thinking, what happened to the game?

1383
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 1: I love now? There's several schools of thought here. One

1384
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: of them is the bumper sticker logic approach. Bumper sticker

1385
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: logic is a thing you say because you want to

1386
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: sound profound, but it really doesn't hold up to much scrutiny.

1387
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 1: Bumper sticker logic in this vein would be, well, if

1388
01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 1: you don't want them to plant the flag on your field,

1389
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: beat them. Yes, of course, everyone knows if you win

1390
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: the game, it won't happen. That to me is kind

1391
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: of saying, well, if you don't want to get robbed,

1392
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:05,759
Speaker 1: lock your door. True. True. If I locked my door,

1393
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 1: they're far less likely to come in. Does it make

1394
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:11,679
Speaker 1: it right that they came in and robbed me? Though?

1395
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 1: You know, if you win the game, does it make

1396
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 1: it right? Whatever that means here? Subjectively to go out

1397
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: there and act a fool like this, people have differing

1398
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:22,880
Speaker 1: schools of thought on this. I don't love it now.

1399
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 1: Last night I was on the field with Texas after

1400
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: the game, and they go in there and make about

1401
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 1: as big a statement as anyone made yesterday, a couple

1402
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: of their players start acting like they're gonna do this,

1403
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: and Sark threatens their lives and they don't do it.

1404
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,560
Speaker 1: And then afterwards Sark gets asked about it in the

1405
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: postgame press conference and he dares to say, Yeah, I

1406
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 1: just kind of think we ought to win with class.

1407
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: There's a way we want to carry ourselves. Number One,

1408
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: we expected to win, so we're not gonna act shocked

1409
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: if we do it. Number Two, there's just a way

1410
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: that we want to carry ourselves that may look a

1411
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: little different than the rest of the country. I always

1412
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: go back to that if I'm running around acting like

1413
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 1: that after the game. Did I expect to win it? Oh?

1414
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 1: I've got immense pride. Oh man, I'm all about making

1415
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 1: a statement, which is what I heard a couple of

1416
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: times yesterday. I mean, we win, we want to make

1417
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: a statement. Was the win not the statement? Did I

1418
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 1: miss something here? Is the goal to make the statement?

1419
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 1: Or is the goal to win? And side note? If

1420
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: the goal is to make a statement, is winning not

1421
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 1: the biggest statement in this sport? I don't know, so,

1422
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: as you know, could be one week, could be two weeks.

1423
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: I will be the college football commissioner. Eventually, I am

1424
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: going to take this approach. We're either going to ban

1425
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,280
Speaker 1: this entirely, or we're going to go all in on it.

1426
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 1: Because I am observant enough to know many of you

1427
01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 1: disagree with me on this. So here is my proposal.

1428
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 1: When I'm college football commissioner, not if. When I'm college

1429
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: football commissioner, I will hold a fan slash player vote.

1430
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:52,080
Speaker 1: The player's votes will matter more than the fans, but

1431
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 1: all of them will be waited properly. And we are

1432
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: either going to ban, but we're going to ban the

1433
01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,600
Speaker 1: field plant entirely, the flag plan entirely. Either gonna have

1434
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: no flag planting at all, or We're gonna go all

1435
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 1: in on it, and I'm gonna encourage it. And my

1436
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 1: rule would be, if you're the losing team, you got

1437
01:14:08,439 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: to vacate the premises and just let the winning team

1438
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:13,439
Speaker 1: do whatever they want to out there. You could plan

1439
01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: a flag at midfield, you can plan a garden at midfield,

1440
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,719
Speaker 1: you could pee at midfield. I mean, we're not about

1441
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:22,599
Speaker 1: standards and rules anymore. And you guys are gonna decide

1442
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:24,880
Speaker 1: the law of the land. I'm just gonna rubber stamp it.

1443
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: Which direction are we gonna go Jesse. I don't know

1444
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 1: that we can do I don't know that we can

1445
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 1: do that poll in the live chat because I don't

1446
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 1: know how you'd word it. But that's where we're headed

1447
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 1: when I'm elected. That's where we're heading. Where you need

1448
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 1: the head if you want to place wagers on this

1449
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 1: weekend's conference championship games. Is fan duel because they're the

1450
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: exclusive odds provider of the show. Firstly, secondly, we got numbers, guys.

1451
01:14:46,240 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 1: You know SMU is favored against Clemson. You know that?

1452
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: Do you know Texas is favored against Georgia. Oh oh,

1453
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: by the way, By the way, the crowd out there

1454
01:14:55,800 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 1: who thinks that you are strictly a product of what

1455
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 1: a one game sample size has reflected, I've got bad

1456
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: news for you or great news. I got great news

1457
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 1: for you. Georgia went into Texas and beat them soundly.

1458
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: They're now going to play again on a neutral field

1459
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: in Georgia's backyard. In Texas is favored. Can you believe that?

1460
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: Easy money to be made? Right? I assume so you

1461
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 1: got to dump money on Georgia if if you buy

1462
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:26,839
Speaker 1: into that notion, same token I was in Las Vegas

1463
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 1: to watch Boise play UNLV. Right, that was in Las Vegas,

1464
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: UNLV's home turf. Boise wins. They play in Idaho this

1465
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:39,840
Speaker 1: Friday night. The line at FanDuel three and a half

1466
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 1: bois minus three and a half. They're essentially implying they're

1467
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: evenly matched. Teams were given bois three and a half

1468
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: for home field, and it's a blue field in the

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Speaker 1: So with all the tossing and turning and all the

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Speaker 1: football playoff bubble looks really interesting. Right now, we need

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Speaker 1: to discuss this bubble. So you got teams that I

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Speaker 1: think are in Let's just make sure we understand Notre

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Speaker 1: believer Joe Tessitour was right when he said the other night,

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01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: maybe nineteen times on the broadcast, his prerogative. But when

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01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 1: he said the other night, if Georgia beats Georgia Tech,

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01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:51,760
Speaker 1: they're in the playoff, regardless whether they win or lose

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01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: against Texas, they're going to be in. He's right. You

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01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: may not have liked how many times he said it,

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01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:58,760
Speaker 1: he's right. I believe he's right. There is not a

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01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 1: scenario this Saturday where Georgia loses to Texas. I don't

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01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: care about how many points and falls out of the playoff.

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01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: I believe they're in regardless. Indiana I think is in regardless.

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01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 1: Ohio State, yes, is in regardless. Oregon, of course is in.

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01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: Texas is in. Penn State's in. We're just trying to

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01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 1: find out if they win the conference title or not.

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01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: The Big twelve is going to have a team in

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01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 1: here the ACC how many teams the G five will

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01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 1: have their team in as well. So the South Carolina

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01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 1: conundrum is upon us. South Carolina could be called the

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01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: hottest team in the country. South Carolina is right there

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01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: on the cusp of being in the top twelve. The

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01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: JP pole has been on South Carolina for a long time,

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01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: and now we're looking potentially at an ab scenario, a

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01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 1: blind resume scenario, Bama or South Carolina. That's what it

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01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: could come down to to decide the final spot in

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01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:57,720
Speaker 1: the playoff. Now, there is one school of thought here,

1524
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:01,440
Speaker 1: and that is, well, if it's that if the resumes

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01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:03,920
Speaker 1: are comparable, we're supposed to resort to head to head, right,

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01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: and the two teams played in Alabama one so boom,

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01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: Bama's in South Carolina's out. That could be the way

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01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: it goes, could be, but it wouldn't be a fun

1529
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,320
Speaker 1: show if it was that simple. It also wouldn't be

1530
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: college football if it were that simple. Might I suggest

1531
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: there are two other built in levers, two other hinge points,

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01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:25,679
Speaker 1: if you will, that the committee could utilize, and they're

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01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: not new, they've already set the precedent two ways. Let

1534
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 1: me take you back. You remember last year there was

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01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:35,600
Speaker 1: a team by the name of FSU. There was a

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01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 1: player by the name of Jordan Travis, one of the

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01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the country. They're undefeated, but then he

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01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: gets hurt and the committee decides that we don't care

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01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: if this team's undefeated. We don't care if they're a

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01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:49,000
Speaker 1: conference chamt. We think that that quarterback was the straw

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01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: that stirred the drinking. Without him, we don't think they're

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01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:52,600
Speaker 1: good enough to be in the playoff. And they just

1543
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 1: took it upon themselves to leave Florida State out. In

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01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: other words, they took it upon themselves to define the

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01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: value of a player, and in hypothetical land, they took

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01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 1: it upon themselves to define what that team would be

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01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: with and without that quarterback. You remember the South Carolina

1548
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: LSU game. I do. I was there, and I remember

1549
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: the North Sellers get knocked out of the game, and

1550
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: I remember them getting the screw job nine ways from

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01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 1: Sunday by the officiating crew. But even having said that,

1552
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, man, if Sellers doesn't get knocked out

1553
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: of this game, South Carolina wins. Can the committee say

1554
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: that I didn't ask you? Should they forget about that?

1555
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: This is the college football payoff committee, man, I'm asking you.

1556
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: Could they say that that's lever number one? They could

1557
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: pull lever number two, they could pull. This is how

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01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:43,759
Speaker 1: you get past the head to head. Do you remember

1559
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 1: last year when we were leading up to selection Sunday

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01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: and we were talking about most deserving teams. You got

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01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: to put the most deserving teams in the field. Then

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01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:56,760
Speaker 1: Bill Hancott just does an interview on his own, voluntarily,

1563
01:20:57,200 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 1: and he offers up this little nugget quote, most deserving

1564
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: is not even in our lexicon. We're looking to put

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01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 1: the best teams in. And that's how they open the

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01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: door nonchalantly for Alabama to go in over Florida State.

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01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:17,799
Speaker 1: They just said, you know, because it's total bs, total bs,

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01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 1: that deserving hadn't been in their lux con. I'd heard

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01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: them say it a million times before. All of a sudden,

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01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: they decided, we got to build a trap door under

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01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: Florida State. Let's say that we're all about the best teams,

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01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: not the most deserving. Boom, they pulled the lever. Goodbye,

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01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: Florida State's out. Alabama's m They could do the exact

1574
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:38,400
Speaker 1: same thing to Bama this year. I think a lot

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01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:40,439
Speaker 1: of people will look at South Carolina and think they're

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01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 1: a better team right now than Alabama. I would I

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01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:46,400
Speaker 1: think South Carolina is a better team than Alabama right now.

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01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,800
Speaker 1: But if I'm on the playoff committee and I view

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01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: them as comparable, I'm supposed to look at that head

1580
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: to head result, and I'm supposed to value that head

1581
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:56,960
Speaker 1: to head result because if we don't value the head

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01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: to head, if we don't value the results on the field,

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01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 1: especially when two teams that we're measuring against each other

1584
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: have played, then then what are we playing the games for? Right,

1585
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 1: So you can see very quickly how it looks very

1586
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: clear and clean cut on the surface, but then it

1587
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 1: gets really muddy. That is why we call it the

1588
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: South Carolina conundrum and not merely the South Carolina situation.

1589
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: It is still too early to me for us to

1590
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 1: know how the Committee's going to handle conference championship game losers,

1591
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,679
Speaker 1: and it has a lot to do with whether South

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01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 1: Carolina or Alabama or Ole Miss could even have a

1593
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: back door open to try and get through the ACC.

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01:22:33,280 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: For example, SMU is playing Clemson. SMU's favored against Clemson,

1595
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: mind you, but SMU's playing Clemson. If Clemson wins, does

1596
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:49,240
Speaker 1: SMU drop out. If SMU wins, Clemson probably drops out,

1597
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: and that opens up a spot. But if Clemson wins,

1598
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:58,160
Speaker 1: they're in. Is SMU out? Does the Committee after having

1599
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: signaled that they may not punish a conference championship game

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01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 1: loser by dropping them out of the top twelve. Well,

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01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,640
Speaker 1: SMU's in the top twelve. If they lose, do they

1602
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:08,240
Speaker 1: drop them out or do we have two ACC teams

1603
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: in the playoff. That's something to watch. The Big ten.

1604
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: Penn State, you know, Pence taking it up, the number

1605
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: one seed in this thing. So they're playing Oregon in

1606
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 1: the conference title game in Indianapolis Saturday night. Penn State Jesse.

1607
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:23,519
Speaker 1: What are they right now? They're fourth? Right, we don't

1608
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:25,320
Speaker 1: know what this week's rankings will be, but they were

1609
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 1: fourth last week. I think, yeah, they were fourth. Okay,

1610
01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:31,000
Speaker 1: So if Penn State loses, let's say they're third or

1611
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: fourth or whatever. If they lose to Oregon, how far

1612
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: do they drop? If they lose thirty to thirteen, I mean,

1613
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 1: if it's a convincing loss, how far do they drop?

1614
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 1: Because there is a big difference, friends, and being the

1615
01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:46,639
Speaker 1: five seed or maybe in the sixth seed, versus being

1616
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: the seventh seed. You're the seventh seed, you can go

1617
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: play Georgia or someone like that. You're the five seed.

1618
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: You could be drawn a G five and a Big

1619
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 1: twelve in back to back rounds. So I got to

1620
01:23:57,200 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 1: watch that in the SEC. I've already told you if

1621
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 1: Texas Beach, Georgia. I don't care how bad it is.

1622
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm a believer that if you've got an SEC championship

1623
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:11,639
Speaker 1: game participant in the top twelve going into conference title weekend,

1624
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: that team will not be punished for losing their conference

1625
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 1: title game. I do not believe that all conferences will

1626
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 1: be treated equally on that front. Whether you think that's

1627
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 1: right or wrong, I'm not here to dispute that. I'm

1628
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 1: telling you I think they will be handled differently. The

1629
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 1: SEC will get preferential treatment. Case closed to me. I

1630
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 1: don't think there's any path. The only thing I could

1631
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:34,680
Speaker 1: see is if Georgia lost and Carson Beck like got

1632
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:37,400
Speaker 1: hurt or something God forbid. Obviously, but if they had

1633
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:39,320
Speaker 1: like a major injury at quarterback and they got hurt,

1634
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 1: because then you go Jordan Travis two point zero. I

1635
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 1: also have a lot of people talking about Alabama, So

1636
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: I got a lot of folks who supported playoff expansion yelling, oh,

1637
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 1: you can't let Bama in the playoff with that resume.

1638
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 1: Yet you absolutely can let them in now, if the

1639
01:24:55,479 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 1: playoff looked like it should look, if the playoffs looked

1640
01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 1: like folks like me wanted it to look, no Obama's

1641
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 1: nowhere near the playoff, nor should they be. That team

1642
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,680
Speaker 1: doesn't deserve to play for a national championship in my

1643
01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: world of college football. But we don't live in my

1644
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: world anymore. We live in the expanded college football playoff world.

1645
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 1: So there is absolutely a scenario or two or three.

1646
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: We're a three lost team, an Alabama team that lost

1647
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: a quarter of its games makes the playoff and could

1648
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:23,920
Speaker 1: make some noise in the playoff. I went back and

1649
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 1: forth with someone this weekend was a big proponent of expansion,

1650
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: and they said, I wanted playoff expansion because we had

1651
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 1: to break up the oligarchy. We had to get all

1652
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: of these teams that kept on choking off the rest

1653
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 1: of the life blood to the sport and they were

1654
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:40,680
Speaker 1: just keeping all the riches for themselves. And you know,

1655
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: the Alabama's, the Clemsons, the Ohio States, the Georgies of

1656
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 1: the world. Hey, they fooled you. They fooled you into

1657
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:50,479
Speaker 1: thinking a playoff was needed for that, an expanded playoff

1658
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:52,840
Speaker 1: was needed for that. It was already coming. It was

1659
01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:56,719
Speaker 1: coming when Nick Saban retired, and even before Sabin retired,

1660
01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: when you got nil and the portal, the tops of

1661
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:02,200
Speaker 1: the all the trees were already gonna get shaved off.

1662
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 1: We haven't even played in one of the twelve team

1663
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 1: playoffs yet, and already, look at how relatively balanced things are.

1664
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: Look at how few and far between the elite teams

1665
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,680
Speaker 1: or even the elite performances are. By the way, your

1666
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: oligarchy there tried to serve you fair warning on this.

1667
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,679
Speaker 1: Your expanded playoff was actually gonna give them a second

1668
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:25,280
Speaker 1: and third shot. Georgia is not in the playoff this

1669
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: year in all likelihood, if that thing's still at four, Bama,

1670
01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:33,360
Speaker 1: no we're close. Clemson, No, we're close. Ohio State is

1671
01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:35,799
Speaker 1: not in that thing this year if it's four teams.

1672
01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: But it's not. It's twelve, and all of them have

1673
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: a shot now because it's twelve. So I know some

1674
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: of you got fooled by the people who will enrich

1675
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Speaker 1: themselves off of the expanded playoff into believing, hey, we're

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