Speaker 1: And with that sound year two of the Fade, this
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Speaker 1: Year two of picking all of the college football games
Speaker 1: that matter and getting you ready for college football season.
Speaker 1: I'm Matt Jones, Drew Franklin joins me. We have our
Speaker 1: producer Billy as well and Drew. It's excited. You can
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Speaker 2: And I just you know, last season went well. We
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Speaker 1: going to do this now. Of course we're still a
Speaker 1: couple weeks from the games, but we wanted to get started,
Speaker 1: so we decided we're going to preview. We're going to
Speaker 1: do two preview episodes this week. We're going to preview
Speaker 1: the SEC and the Big twelve. The next week the
Speaker 1: Big ten, the ACC and then in the you know,
Speaker 1: the small conferences, the little ones. So this week it's
Speaker 1: SEC and Big twelve, and I wanted to do that
Speaker 1: because the SEC is, of course the pre eminent football conference. Drew,
Speaker 1: it adds Texas and Oklahoma this year. Are you happy
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 2: As a fan of the Kentucky Wildcats, it makes things
Speaker 2: a lot more difficult. But I am excited to add too,
Speaker 2: you know, very very historic programs with a lot of
Speaker 2: tradition to the already best conference. And I'm especially excited
Speaker 2: that Kentucky ghost to Austin. I will be getting my
Speaker 2: first taste of going down to Texas and seeing that. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of shuffling around. If I had
Speaker 2: to take a quiz on all the conferences, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure i'd get one hundred percent. But I do like
Speaker 2: what the SEC did in adding those two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big picture, I mean, you're gonna get Alabama, Texas,
Speaker 1: You're gonna get Oklahoma, LSU, you're gonna get you know, Georgia,
Speaker 1: and now like you're gonna get some great games and
Speaker 1: that's Texas.
Speaker 3: They're excited about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you live in Texas, I'm sorry, But besides that,
Speaker 1: you get Texas and Texas A and M playing each other.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be exciting because, like I think Texas is
Speaker 1: one of the great public universities in America. I think
Speaker 1: Texas A and M they wear those stupid uniforms, the
Speaker 1: little uh shooter cheerleader uniforms. And now that rivalry continues.
Speaker 1: And then in the Big Twelve, which we'll get to
Speaker 1: in a minute, what an assortment of schools. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: now I challenge you to know all the schools in
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. Like I mean, you've probably looked it up,
Speaker 1: but at this point it looks See they have six
Speaker 1: nine twelve, they have sixteen sixteen schools. They range all
Speaker 1: the way from West Virginia to you know, BYU to Arizona, Colorado, TCU,
Speaker 1: Central Florida means all of America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got so Florida and Utah schools involved in
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve. Man, It's it takes some getting used to,
Speaker 2: but they're gonna do very well on the the frequent
Speaker 2: flyer miles getting around the conference.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Well, so let's start with the SEC. So we're just
Speaker 1: gonna preview the games. Here's what we're gonna do. Billy's
Speaker 1: gonna give us a little bit about every team. Then
Speaker 1: Drew is gonna tell us they're over under wins, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about the schedule, and then we'll.
Speaker 3: Tell you to pick over under Bill.
Speaker 1: You're gonna keep track, right, Yeah, for the year we
Speaker 1: last year, sometimes you would lie and say we didn't
Speaker 1: get one ride.
Speaker 2: Anytime we double check the math, they don't. They didn't
Speaker 2: always meet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing with Billy is you get two surprises how
Speaker 1: you did and then how he adds up the totals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we figure it out as the season goes along.
Speaker 4: I'm just looking forward to some over under picks from Drew.
Speaker 4: That's where I think we had.
Speaker 3: Our best success. You robbed me of my totals last year.
Speaker 3: When I want to go five and zero, I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: we don't do totals here.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's get started with the Alabama Cripson Todd,
Speaker 1: you can't start college basketball without time or college football.
Speaker 1: You could start well college basketball, he went to the
Speaker 1: Final Four. Just can't start without the Alabama Crimstott. New
Speaker 1: coach Kaitlin de Boor, tell me about Alabama.
Speaker 4: They were twelve and two last year, Matt. They had
Speaker 4: an early loss to Texas and not a great showing
Speaker 4: against USF won that game seventeen to seven, but they
Speaker 4: rebounded to win the SEC. They earned a trip to
Speaker 4: the College Football Playoff. Jalen Milroe still the quarterback.
Speaker 3: To the quarterback, you'll like him. You think he's good.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: And he's mad about how last year And did you
Speaker 2: know they had went for the little QB draw there
Speaker 2: at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: It came up short.
Speaker 1: But is it possibly he's not good because like a
Speaker 1: lot of their mistakes last year would ultimately be his mistakes.
Speaker 3: But he's got an extra year of experience.
Speaker 2: They're getting away from that, you know, saving ball for
Speaker 2: so long. Now they're bringing ad boor it brings that
Speaker 2: Washington offense were throwing around, moving a little quicker.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be good for k for mill Rose.
Speaker 3: What's the over under.
Speaker 2: Our friends of DraftKings, the crown is yours have their
Speaker 2: win total set at nine and a half.
Speaker 3: It's a lot. They went eleven to one last year,
Speaker 3: as Billy noted.
Speaker 1: Nine and a half. New coach, returning quarterback. Let me
Speaker 1: give you their score because it's all over. They go
Speaker 1: to Wisconsin, so their non good, non conference game is
Speaker 1: a road game at Wisconsin they host Georgia, go to Tennessee,
Speaker 1: go to LSU, go to Oklahoma. So I'm going I
Speaker 1: do all these with losable games. You'll see this through
Speaker 1: the course of it. I'm a losable game guy. I
Speaker 1: look at their schedule. I see four losable games at Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: at LSU, at Tennessee, at Wisconsin. Excuse me, at Wisconsin
Speaker 1: in Georgia, five losable games. You say it's nine and
Speaker 1: a half. I'm gonna take the over. I think they
Speaker 1: get ten. I think they lose at home to Georgia,
Speaker 1: and I think they either drop at Oklahoma or at
Speaker 1: LSU or at Tennessee. So I'm going to take the
Speaker 1: over and say they go ten and two.
Speaker 3: What about you?
Speaker 2: Do you not feel threatened by opening against Billy's Western
Speaker 2: Kentucky Hilltoppers.
Speaker 4: Who's their coach now, Tyson Helton's been there for a
Speaker 4: few years too long.
Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna go under. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: under under. He's filling the weight of Nick Saban being gone.
Speaker 2: Is that's a lot of pressure. Has there been a
Speaker 2: job with as much pressure as he's gonna have right now?
Speaker 2: You know Alabama fans, they don't like to lose and
Speaker 2: I just think he's gonna be filling that working in
Speaker 2: a new system.
Speaker 3: Do you think Alabama goes nine and three?
Speaker 2: I say they go nine and three. I mean they
Speaker 2: go to Tennessee. I don't know if Tennessee's gonna be great,
Speaker 2: but that'll be a tough place to play. Tennessee's always
Speaker 2: thought that's a rivalry. Maybe this year they finally get
Speaker 2: one at Wisconsin. Wisconsin ball that's always, that's always. But
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go under nine three still might be an
Speaker 2: effect still in the playoff. Yeah, no, they're gonna be good,
Speaker 2: but I just think that, uh, year one might have
Speaker 2: some growing paintings.
Speaker 1: Would you recognize Kayln de boor if he was walking
Speaker 1: down the street, like, do you know.
Speaker 3: What he is?
Speaker 2: If he was wearing an Alabama polo? I know enough,
Speaker 2: if he walked in this room, I probably wouldn't just
Speaker 2: be able to say, hey, Caaylen, how you doing? But
Speaker 2: in a college football setting, I think I could.
Speaker 3: Idea, couldn't pick he could be anyone. I watched a
Speaker 3: lot of Washington. Do you know what he looks like? No?
Speaker 4: No idea.
Speaker 1: I mean, who would have ever thought you'd be in
Speaker 1: a world where the Alabama coach. You don't even know
Speaker 1: what they look like. Uh, that's gonna be interesting. Not
Speaker 1: having saving you is gonna be on game day? You
Speaker 1: think would be good?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think he will. It'll be good having him.
Speaker 2: I've even enjoyed his few spots on Fine Bomb here
Speaker 2: and there. But I don't know if he brings and
Speaker 2: you need a little energy on game day and being
Speaker 2: a Saturday morning, you're getting fired up.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he'll be that.
Speaker 1: But he'll make Pat McAfee talk less.
Speaker 2: That they could use a little of that. Saban's knowledge
Speaker 2: would be good. I don't know how good it will
Speaker 2: be a TV.
Speaker 1: Like, we haven't done research, bro what But like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm here, he's crazy.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Connor? That's my mac.
Speaker 2: I do like how McAfee will just play the crowd
Speaker 2: when he has nothing left to add and have them
Speaker 2: do their own chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it made that part. I think does
Speaker 3: make for good tea like that.
Speaker 2: Do you think sab It will wear the black tank
Speaker 2: top with with mcaffee.
Speaker 3: I would like that they should just trade out fits.
Speaker 2: Mcaffee start ESPN. I don't see him a lot, but
Speaker 2: if that take you just had I thought you over.
Speaker 2: Nothing against him. I really appreciate, like, I respect what
Speaker 2: he's built. But there's he says bro too much and
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 1: He'll start a sentence by going, now, I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about this, but and then have an opinion.
Speaker 2: Well, he has to talk because AJ Hawk is not saying.
Speaker 3: A Jhawk just stares there, stares at him, and they
Speaker 3: put me They make his face so big.
Speaker 2: If I were him, I'd be like, hey, I don't
Speaker 2: always have to be on the screen while he's talking.
Speaker 3: You can take the dollar a second.
Speaker 1: Sometimes at the bar on our big screen TV. I
Speaker 1: feel like a J Hawk is gonna eat me facially.
Speaker 3: He's intimidating guy. He's huge, all right. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Arkansas Razorbacks. They're still coached by Sam Pillman.
Speaker 3: Pitt Pittman, Pittman Man likes a good beer. Tell me
Speaker 3: about Arkansas.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's a team that had top twenty five aspirations map.
Speaker 4: They ended four and eight, so it was not a
Speaker 4: good year good for Arkansas.
Speaker 3: I me bones angry about their inn ale.
Speaker 4: They had a game at home that they lost to
Speaker 4: Mississippi State seven to three. That's a great game last year.
Speaker 4: They did beat Florida on the road thirty nine to
Speaker 4: thirty six, but overall pretty disappointing from the squad.
Speaker 1: They go to Oklahoma State in the non conference, they
Speaker 1: have Texas, A and M, Tennessee, LSU old miss Texas
Speaker 1: not I mean, they not the worst schedule in the world.
Speaker 3: What's there? Over under four and a half A low
Speaker 3: bar for Sam Pittman in his what four and a half? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Fifth season?
Speaker 2: M all right, so let's just captain the entire all
Speaker 2: twelve starters back on offense.
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat Austin p They're gonna beat you a B.
Speaker 1: They play on the road and they'll beat Louisiana Texas.
Speaker 1: That's three. They do go to Missouri. Yeah, finding the
Speaker 1: fourth and fifth win is not easy. I mean they're
Speaker 1: you think they went at Auburn.
Speaker 2: Auburn is gonna be pretty down. That's just the atmosphere,
Speaker 2: I lean know, But I.
Speaker 1: Mean Oklahoma State, No, they're not beating A and M
Speaker 1: home Tennessee. Like, no, I'm going under I'd like I
Speaker 1: heard that. I was gonna say over, but I don't
Speaker 1: know who they're gonna be.
Speaker 2: They end the season at Missouri they play Texas Ole miss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that's an under for me. I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna win four games again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as I said, they have twelve starters back, I
Speaker 2: said on offense, there's certainly not twelve people on. That
Speaker 2: was me getting carried away. But no, I'll go under two.
Speaker 2: I think this might be the end of Sam Pittman,
Speaker 2: who I like. I feel like college football needs more.
Speaker 2: Sam Pittman's he married.
Speaker 3: Really like he's got a hot wife. Right, I've never
Speaker 3: seen his wife. I'll take you. I think he has
Speaker 3: a hot wife. Okay, I believe that Billy. Doesn't he
Speaker 3: have a hot wife.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna confirm.
Speaker 3: You know your wife wouldn't let you just say that.
Speaker 3: A woman, Oh she would, she would.
Speaker 4: She's a fiance.
Speaker 1: I think I've seen a picture or maybe that's Brett Belama.
Speaker 1: That's Brett be Lama. She's Sam Pittman's wife.
Speaker 2: I like Sam Pittman. He just likes to get cold beer,
Speaker 2: got a.
Speaker 3: Little belly on him.
Speaker 1: It was Brett Belama that had a big billy and
Speaker 1: a hot wife, auburn.
Speaker 4: She is mildly attractive.
Speaker 3: Okay, break down, you don't need to do that.
Speaker 4: I was like, they Okay, Auburn last year was Hugh
Speaker 4: Freeze's debut season. Uh. They ended up with a record
Speaker 4: of six and seven. They had close games versus Auburn
Speaker 4: or not Auburn, but Alabama and Georgia, but a blowout
Speaker 4: loss to New Mexico State at home near the end
Speaker 4: of the year was rough, and then a loss in
Speaker 4: the Music City Bowl to Maryland.
Speaker 3: What's their coach's name, Hugh Freeze.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's trying to get him back on the
Speaker 2: right track here two for you.
Speaker 3: Is he the one that hired prostitutes?
Speaker 2: Yes, and he's the one that coached from the hospital bed.
Speaker 3: That was one of the great scene. Hugh's got a.
Speaker 1: Great track record of being viral. You talk about amazing comeback.
Speaker 1: You go from hiring prostitutes, which you know is look
Speaker 1: down upon it some schools, to coaching a religious school, like.
Speaker 3: I mean, they weren't They had their own issues this show.
Speaker 3: But have you ever seen that Jerry Follwell doc. Yes,
Speaker 3: that is a crazy docu, cool boy Pool boy, and
Speaker 3: like he would get he was like, don't stop having
Speaker 3: sex for my life. In fact, would you like to
Speaker 3: go on vacation if you stop having sex with my wife.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be angry at you, Like that's a pretty
Speaker 3: amazing thing.
Speaker 1: Here, have dinner with us. He's like, all right, look,
Speaker 1: i'd like to stop having sex with your wife. No
Speaker 1: you can't. Just I don't know what book of the
Speaker 1: Bible that's in true Maybe Ephesians. I didn't get that far.
Speaker 1: Auburn plays home against California. That's their big non conference game.
Speaker 1: What's there over under seven and a half. They actually
Speaker 1: have a relatively easy schedule for the SEC. I mean,
Speaker 1: they play Alabama, they go to Missouri, they go to Kentucky,
Speaker 1: they go to Georgia, but they play Vandy.
Speaker 3: Seven and a half.
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat caw so they're gonna win their four
Speaker 1: non conference games. They're gonna beat Arkansas. That's five, Oklahoma, Georgia, Missouri.
Speaker 1: They're not getting seven and a half. That's under. If
Speaker 1: it's seven and a half, I would pick them. I
Speaker 1: think they win seven games. They're going under.
Speaker 2: I hate to do three straight unders for the best
Speaker 2: conference in football, but I agree. I think the game
Speaker 2: at Kentucky will tip the scales to under. I think
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a big game for their season. And uh,
Speaker 2: Kroger Field will be rocking for that one. A little
Speaker 2: bit of a homer pick there, but I'm going under
Speaker 2: again with Auburn.
Speaker 1: Hardest schedule in college football Florida Gators, that's right. Let
Speaker 1: me just read you this schedule before you tell me
Speaker 1: about Miami, Sanford, A and m Mississippi State, Central Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Texas, LSU,
Speaker 1: oh Miss, Florida State.
Speaker 3: That'll finish. That is wild.
Speaker 1: Their their final games are Georgia, Texas, LSU, old Miss,
Speaker 1: and Florida State. Their last five games, they play five
Speaker 1: teams in the top twelve.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be another bad year for Florida this year.
Speaker 3: What's it do you think Billy Napier? You think that's it?
Speaker 4: Well, last year was the second losing season under Billy Napier,
Speaker 4: So at a.
Speaker 5: Thirty, he's gonna be it, but he's not. He has
Speaker 5: no chance of success, right Drew, Like there's no wather Slim.
Speaker 2: That's another one. I mean, I hate to keep being
Speaker 2: Kentucky centric, but that's what we do. I mean, if
Speaker 2: they lose to Kentucky in Gainesville, that might be it.
Speaker 3: So what's there over under.
Speaker 2: I did all this beforehand, and I have it at
Speaker 2: four and a half. But I want to double check
Speaker 2: because that just seems so low for Florida. But I'm
Speaker 2: scrolling on the app, right, who are.
Speaker 3: They gonna beat?
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna beat for Stanford, Let's say they
Speaker 1: win at Mississippi State. That's two. They'll beat Central Florida
Speaker 1: that's three. But I don't see another win, maybe Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I should trust my own spreadsheet. Yeah, I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the app right here, Crown is yours four and a half.
Speaker 5: I mean I'm going with another under. I don't know
Speaker 5: who Florida's beaten. Right, they beat Tennessee last year, Well.
Speaker 3: They ain't beating them this year in Knoxville.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to give an over because Florida under
Speaker 2: four and a half seems criminal.
Speaker 3: But I'm looking at this schedule. I'll go under under.
Speaker 3: I sound like such a hater. I don't know what
Speaker 3: else you can do.
Speaker 2: Four and a half, just that number for the Florida
Speaker 2: Gators football program is sad in itself, without even looking
Speaker 2: at anything else.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite what's your favorite Florida quarterback of all time?
Speaker 1: That's Jesse Palmer. You big Jesse Palmer. Guy, he hosted
Speaker 1: The Bachelor. It was nice to me once, great hair.
Speaker 1: I like Jesse.
Speaker 3: He's got to the point where they'll let him host anything. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's one of those things that's like Michael Strahan. I
Speaker 3: don't understand why Michael stray Han's on anything and he's
Speaker 3: on everything. But who's your favorite Florida?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's easy. It's t Bow. They had go to
Speaker 4: the hospital locally here hit his head on his own
Speaker 4: lineman's knee.
Speaker 3: It's true. What about you? I have a lot I
Speaker 3: don't likee Matthews. Chris Leek comes to mind as one.
Speaker 2: I don't like you. Why do you not like Chris Lee?
Speaker 2: He lit up the cats? Okay, Uh, Danny Warfol like Danny.
Speaker 3: Worf, All right, that'll be my Georgia.
Speaker 4: Uh won every game but one happened to be the
Speaker 4: SEC championship, and losing that game kept them out of
Speaker 4: the College Football Playoff. They also beat Kentucky fifty one
Speaker 4: to thirteen last year in Athens.
Speaker 1: All right, so they their non conference game is against
Speaker 1: Clemson and Georgia text. They opened the season against Clemson.
Speaker 1: They go to Kentucky they go to Alabama, they go
Speaker 1: to Texas, and they go to Old Miss. I mean
Speaker 1: they play Alabama, Texas, and Old Miss on the road.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good schedule. What's there over.
Speaker 3: Under ten and a half.
Speaker 1: I'm going over they go at least eleven to one.
Speaker 1: I feel good about that one.
Speaker 2: I think they go twelve and Oh, to be honest,
Speaker 2: they have who's considered the best quarterback in college football.
Speaker 2: I think two or three of their offensive linemen are
Speaker 2: on most preseason All American teams. I just I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna do it again. And you know they're playing
Speaker 2: a lot of teams that have already given an under two.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go over.
Speaker 1: So you think they beat Texas, Alabama, and Old Miss
Speaker 1: all on the road. Do you think they win all
Speaker 1: three of those games?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I have Alabama slipping a little bit with the saving pressure.
Speaker 2: Texas is a little different, and we'll get to them,
Speaker 2: but they've had two significant running back injuries that I
Speaker 2: think are going to set them back when they were
Speaker 2: due for a big seasons.
Speaker 3: Of a run.
Speaker 1: If they beat all three of those teams on the road,
Speaker 1: that's a heck of a run.
Speaker 3: So we both agree with.
Speaker 2: I have their Florida eleven and one, so which is
Speaker 2: still an over.
Speaker 3: We both agree on the over over there. By the way,
Speaker 3: you have to pick a lock of the conference. So
Speaker 3: just keep that in mind as you're going Kentucky. I
Speaker 3: don't need you to tell me about Kentucky, Billy. I
Speaker 3: know them. Uh. Their non conference game is Louisville, as
Speaker 3: it is every.
Speaker 1: Year, and then they play at Old Miss at Florida,
Speaker 1: at Tennessee at Texas. So they are at Old Miss,
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Texas. That's a tough one. They play Georgia
Speaker 1: at home, Auburn at home Vandy. Uh in South Carolina,
Speaker 1: what's the over under six and a half. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the over because I think they win seven. I
Speaker 1: think they I think I think seven is the right
Speaker 1: number for them. Most important game of the year, second
Speaker 1: game against South Carolina. Got to win it. But if
Speaker 1: they win that, I think they get to seven. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: Uh, South Carolina Week two and ending the year with
Speaker 2: Louisville are two games that can decide the season. A
Speaker 2: lot of it I think will be pretty chalk, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the over. I think they go eight
Speaker 2: and four, seven and five.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 1: Mark Stoop's longest tenured coach in the SEC twelve years.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Mark Stoops story? Like if you had
Speaker 1: to if you had to encompass a podcast or just
Speaker 1: us talking, well, I mean the Pie casts we have
Speaker 1: a little more freedom than the radio show. So it's
Speaker 1: not like what we would say if we were at
Speaker 1: Ruby's and he was sitting at the table next to us,
Speaker 1: which is very likely, it would be like, you know,
Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle of.
Speaker 2: It's not really a story, but I like how he
Speaker 2: just he's a different person when he comes on KSR
Speaker 2: or Toxic at media day, it's like it's like one
Speaker 2: of the guys. You don't even feel like you're talking
Speaker 2: to a coach when normally it's coach speaking in any
Speaker 2: other setting.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that encompasses Mark Stoops the most
Speaker 1: was the night before the LSU game when they won
Speaker 1: here at home, because that's one of the great wins
Speaker 1: in recent Kentucky football history. LSU comes in with orgeron
Speaker 1: Kentucky wins, and the night before the game, he was
Speaker 1: like holding court a Jeff his fundraising.
Speaker 2: He was every very important night he being in town.
Speaker 1: He had a ton of people there. The whole bar
Speaker 1: area is all like Stoops having fun. I'm sitting with
Speaker 1: Jordan Rodgers and his hair, Cold Kublic and his lack
Speaker 1: of hair, and Tom Hart and Mark Stoops comes over
Speaker 1: and he's.
Speaker 3: Like, hey, guys, hates he was having a good time.
Speaker 1: And Cold Kublic goes. No other coach in the SEC
Speaker 1: would be out to dinner the night before a game,
Speaker 1: and he was like, this is why this man can
Speaker 1: never leave here.
Speaker 3: But then he went and won like that, Stoops one
Speaker 3: of the biggest wins that he's had. Good time guy,
Speaker 3: and then goes and gets the winder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that following great time, I'll add I
Speaker 2: love how angry he gets on.
Speaker 3: The side and he turns so red, so.
Speaker 2: Red, and it's amazing he hasn't picked up an official
Speaker 2: and body slammed. And when something goes wrong. There's been
Speaker 2: times where he is his get back guy. Needs to
Speaker 2: get back guy who needs to get back guy. They're
Speaker 2: having to pull him back off the field.
Speaker 1: I also got to give him a huge shout out
Speaker 1: for sticking on to that.
Speaker 2: Here. It will ask me what about Nick Ary Alche
Speaker 2: asking him last year at Media Day that was uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: I was behind the camera when he said, when are
Speaker 2: you gonna come home?
Speaker 3: I give him credit man, Like you know my air standing.
Speaker 3: It's hard, but my man is going to hold on
Speaker 3: to the last drop, and I give him credit for it. Also,
Speaker 3: he has a bourbon business. You know.
Speaker 2: He doesn't throw it out there too much, but it's
Speaker 2: big enough. Yeah, but it's big enough. At media Days
Speaker 2: this year when the commissioner introduced him, he mentioned his
Speaker 2: bourbon to the entire ballroom and everyone watching.
Speaker 3: Take him.
Speaker 1: Don't ever feel sorry for Mark Stoops. Financially, he's killing
Speaker 1: it all right. LSU opens up the season against USC.
Speaker 1: What do I need to know about him?
Speaker 3: Bill Well?
Speaker 4: Last year they had the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback in
Speaker 4: Jaden Daniels. They had high expectations thanks for after the
Speaker 4: SEC West Championship in twenty two, but the Week one
Speaker 4: lost to Florida State. They had a loss on the
Speaker 4: road to Ole, Miss fifty five to forty nine, and
Speaker 4: then they also lost to Alabama. They did cap it
Speaker 4: off with a win versus Wisconsin in the Reliquest Bowl.
Speaker 3: What's relquest? Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't have no idea what we should.
Speaker 3: Call him, Yeah, we should. We did that a lot
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 1: They play both USC and UCLA non conference.
Speaker 3: Which isn't that kind of a lot.
Speaker 1: UCLA is going to Baton Rouge, they go to South Carolina,
Speaker 1: they go to Arkansas. Those are both very winnable road games.
Speaker 1: That's a good schedule for them. Go to A and M.
Speaker 1: They can win that, and they go to Florida. So
Speaker 1: their road games are all very very winnable. Oklahoma, Alabama
Speaker 1: Vandy at home.
Speaker 3: I look at this.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you're over under is, but
Speaker 1: I see this and I definitely see nine wins and
Speaker 1: I might see ten wins.
Speaker 3: So what's the over runner. It's not even I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take the over because I don't think they can go
Speaker 3: under nine.
Speaker 1: You look at that schedule. I mean when your road games,
Speaker 1: you can't ask for a better draw. Your road games
Speaker 1: are at Arkansas, at Florida, both those teams are no good.
Speaker 1: At South Carolina also not good. And then at A
Speaker 1: and M they play Vandy home. Like, to me, as
Speaker 1: long as you beat either UCLA or USC, they're winning nine.
Speaker 1: So if I can push it nine, I'm taking the
Speaker 1: over perfact, that's gonna be my lock.
Speaker 3: Lock l s U over nine.
Speaker 2: I think it worse you push. I'm going over to agree. Uh,
Speaker 2: they were number one and about everything in offense last year.
Speaker 2: As Billy said, they lost Daniels. Then you've got neighbors
Speaker 2: punching guys in the NFL. But I still think they're
Speaker 2: gonna have a great offense. And you know, I went
Speaker 2: under on a lot of teams on their schedule with
Speaker 2: LSU in mind as a team that could beat them.
Speaker 3: So I'm going over. What a draw? All right, Mississippi State,
Speaker 3: I don't even want to like. Who cares they have? Under?
Speaker 3: All right? Next, they have my favorite number.
Speaker 2: Uh you know you always just say four if you
Speaker 2: don't know their their their win totals four, just an
Speaker 2: even four.
Speaker 3: It's only four four four American? All right? Well, now,
Speaker 3: I guess I do have to look at the schedule
Speaker 3: because four seems low.
Speaker 1: They play Eastern, they go to Arizona State, they play Toledo.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll go over because I think they win four.
Speaker 1: They'll beat Eastern, they'll beat Toledo, they'll beat you Mass Yeah,
Speaker 1: under way under because I can't find another one.
Speaker 3: They went.
Speaker 1: Okay, So they played Florida at home. I guess that's
Speaker 1: the biggest game of the year for them. Actually know
Speaker 1: what over because I think they pushed.
Speaker 3: I think they pushed. What do you got? I don't
Speaker 3: think they're gonna be good.
Speaker 2: Uh, I gotta go over for I mean, I'll take
Speaker 2: my push it for if it doesn't work out all.
Speaker 1: Right now, on every scale that I have this for regression,
Speaker 1: Missouri would be on. Okay, Missouri was what ten and
Speaker 1: two last year? Very good, lush. Everybody thinks they're great.
Speaker 1: They beat Ohio State, got a lot of guys back,
Speaker 1: that's great. They got Luther Deaton on the team. He's
Speaker 1: the President's Central Bank. They have Luther Burton the third okay,
Speaker 1: the son of Luther Burton and the grandson of Luther Burton.
Speaker 1: I feel like Brady Cook the quarter have two generations
Speaker 1: of Luther. You got enough Luther's what can you imagine? Like,
Speaker 1: would you name your kid Luther?
Speaker 4: Probably not? No, I have to name my kid William.
Speaker 4: What mean you have to well on the third.
Speaker 5: So I feel like, oh, so you're going to do
Speaker 5: a fourth Yeah, oh, you're like Luther Burden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I I used to have a theory
Speaker 1: about the fourths.
Speaker 3: What's that they all suck and I don't want your
Speaker 3: kid to suck. I don't because they fourths are pretty pretentious,
Speaker 3: Like you have to be pretty pretentious to think there
Speaker 3: should be four of you.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm just I don't think that. I'm just trying
Speaker 4: to carry on the history of why don't you break
Speaker 4: the chain? Would name them?
Speaker 3: Luther? Luther Luther are sports. There's just so much pressure though,
Speaker 3: generation a lot of pressure. Yeah, there is, Huh, you
Speaker 3: don't hear a lot of fifths. It feels like a
Speaker 3: lot of people stop it four.
Speaker 4: You get past four, then you're going you're going for
Speaker 4: the long haul?
Speaker 3: Who who is a fifth? Are there any famous fishs?
Speaker 2: We had stetsn't been at the fourth That was a
Speaker 2: pretty long run.
Speaker 3: Besides, like Henry the.
Speaker 4: Fish I was going to say, King Henry was that?
Speaker 1: Can you think do you know of a person who
Speaker 1: is a fifth? All right, none of this has to
Speaker 1: do anything with Missouri.
Speaker 2: It never does. Stay on task nine and a half.
Speaker 1: Under under they're gonna lose at Alabama, They're gonna lose
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M. And then they will drop
Speaker 1: a game somewhere. Although they have a pretty easy schedule,
Speaker 1: schedules cake for an say it is they they did
Speaker 1: get a really good schedule. I'm still gonna take them
Speaker 1: to drop one because I think they're overrated.
Speaker 3: They really do.
Speaker 1: They don't even really have a hard non conference game,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to find the third loss. I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna take under.
Speaker 2: Let's see Luther Burden the third is by far the
Speaker 2: best receiver in the country. He's got Brady Cook coming
Speaker 2: back to him. And I'm looking at that schedule. I
Speaker 2: can't believe I'm gonna say Missouri is gonna win ten games,
Speaker 2: but that schedule is that was a gift that wasn't
Speaker 2: going over.
Speaker 3: The schedule is a gift, Todd. I'm going over. As
Speaker 3: much as I don't like to say it, I think
Speaker 3: those are gonna drop one. They're gonna the.
Speaker 1: Defense is going to regress a lot. They had a
Speaker 1: good defense lest teams like Missouri. They'll drop a game
Speaker 1: that they shouldn't lose. I don't know who it'll be,
Speaker 1: but Oklahoma. You know they're new to the SEC. What
Speaker 1: should people know about Oklahoma?
Speaker 4: Billy Oh, I wasn't ready for Oklahoma, but they're next. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was gonna go Ole Miss, but give me a second,
Speaker 4: I'll find it.
Speaker 3: Went to the three last year.
Speaker 4: Last year, Brent Venable's second season, they beat Texas thirty
Speaker 4: four to thirty. They did lose at Kansas and Oklahoma State,
Speaker 4: and they did not reach the Big twelve title game.
Speaker 3: Did you ever see them? Dylan Gabriel's gun? Do you
Speaker 3: ever see the musical Oklahoma? I'm familiar with it, but
Speaker 3: never watched it. Yeah, me neither. I just know what exists.
Speaker 3: H Drake Stoops is gone. That's a big hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he probayed though didn't he did very good receiver,
Speaker 2: lost the whole offensive line and Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 1: Their non conference game is Houston at home, so that's nothing.
Speaker 1: So they got four wins from that. They go to Tennessee,
Speaker 1: go to Auburn, go to Old Miss, go to Missouri.
Speaker 1: It's a tough little run. Go to LSU Texas in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Their home games conference South Carolina Alabama. I don't like
Speaker 1: their schedule. What if they're over under? He's we think,
Speaker 1: what's the over under? Seven and a half?
Speaker 3: Nailed it. I'm gonna go under. I'm gonna say they
Speaker 3: win seven.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna agree with you, and it's has
Speaker 2: I'm adding a little bit of factor if they're gonna
Speaker 2: have the SEC wake up call.
Speaker 3: I think teams are gonna be up to play.
Speaker 2: I mean, you always get up for a game, but
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a little bit Hey, you're
Speaker 2: not just gonna come here and run things. I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna have a bit of a rude awakening to
Speaker 2: how the SEC plays football. So I will also go
Speaker 2: under said they had a lot of losses on offense.
Speaker 3: Oh miss, you like Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4: I've come around on him.
Speaker 3: Yeah you do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't at first when he was Does.
Speaker 3: He still have like that twenty five year old girlfriend?
Speaker 4: I don't know about that. He did name his son
Speaker 4: Knox and then left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that's a that's a shame. Name your
Speaker 3: kid after a city and then leave. I don't like
Speaker 3: to admit how much I like him. It's really just
Speaker 3: on Twitter when he just right up trolls like you
Speaker 3: don't see coaches talking trash on Twitter about stealing recruit
Speaker 3: or putting out memes. He's I didn't like him at
Speaker 3: Tennessee at all. I didn't like him at USC but
Speaker 3: something about it all I kind of agree, like he's
Speaker 3: like you almost can't help it.
Speaker 2: And then that that moment with fine Bomb earlier when
Speaker 2: he's like, I don't know what you're good at talking
Speaker 2: to fine Bomb and talking about how he got him fired.
Speaker 2: He's just very no filter and you don't. It's kind
Speaker 2: of refreshing.
Speaker 4: Theyeh won ten games to over the last three years.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. That'll miss that. That actually really is impressive.
Speaker 1: Their non conference game is at Wake Forest, which is
Speaker 1: on the c W. It's your favorite show that was
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Speaker 3: A Gossip Girl on the CW. It was.
Speaker 1: I never watched it that you talk about. I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody to know that I'm watching gossip Girl. I
Speaker 1: mean no, I remember like it's a it was a
Speaker 1: I watched it a long time ago. It was kind
Speaker 1: of like when you would watch like nine O two,
Speaker 1: one oh and the OC. You didn't feel good about it,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty entertaining. Do you remember the premise
Speaker 1: of Gossip Girl?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, my wife watches it. I've caught it
Speaker 2: in the background.
Speaker 3: I did it. I just is there any got there?
Speaker 2: Another big CW show they had the Superman spin off?
Speaker 2: Was that Smallville?
Speaker 3: People like that? Yeah, I didn't watch that either, but
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 4: They still produce shows, I think, and it exists still,
Speaker 4: so I would say, yes, can I.
Speaker 3: Tell you a quick story about the CW. We'd be honored.
Speaker 1: About a year and a half ago, we got a
Speaker 1: meeting with the CW nationally to potentially get a OVW
Speaker 1: like a television deal. Yeah, and uh, we got on
Speaker 1: the conference call that Al snow who I'd prepped for
Speaker 1: this meeting.
Speaker 3: I thought we were talking to two b.
Speaker 4: It's a big difference.
Speaker 1: And he was like, I have to tell you, I
Speaker 1: didn't know you all were a network, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have said either.
Speaker 3: First of you so interly we did not get a
Speaker 3: contract with you with the CW.
Speaker 2: I had to sit down with Red Bull one time
Speaker 2: and I said I love Monster. In this moment I
Speaker 2: said it, I was like, all right, well, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna leave just this. I've clearly miss gotta.
Speaker 3: Be careful to know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Oh Miss at South Carolina at LSU, at Arkansas at Florida.
Speaker 1: I mean they got a great schedule, play Kentucky at
Speaker 1: home Oklahoma. I mean I look at this schedule, Drew,
Speaker 1: and I think they've got ten wins all over it,
Speaker 1: I must say. Is the over under nine and a half?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 1: And I'm pro with this. Yeah, I mean I didn't not,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you just look at schedule. It's hard
Speaker 1: to see losses. So I'm gonna give them ten. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say over.
Speaker 2: I completely agree. I think they're legit. Being in the
Speaker 2: early playoff conversation. You got Jackson Dart with his top
Speaker 2: receiver back. They added from the portal. Uh, the schedule
Speaker 2: pans out. Kentucky could kind of spoil it. As a
Speaker 2: team that's on their ski edge, they probably counting as
Speaker 2: a win. But I still think they're going over nine
Speaker 2: and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so do I. So there you go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna take the over with old Miss
Speaker 1: South Carolina stinks?
Speaker 3: Are they what? Four and a half? Five and a half?
Speaker 3: Oh under? Give me the under.
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat They'll beat Old Dominion, they'll beat Akron,
Speaker 1: they'll beat Vandy, they'll beat Wafford, So that's four, but
Speaker 1: they're losing every other game under.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. Uh their new quarterback start a freshman
Speaker 2: that's thrown like four passes or second year guy throwing
Speaker 2: like four passes Leonora Sellers. They took a Rocket Sanders
Speaker 2: from Arkansas, who's pretty good. But I still don't think.
Speaker 3: They're going a very good year. They they're five and
Speaker 3: a half, five and a half. Who do they think
Speaker 3: their wins are? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's go for their certain losses. Clemson's a loss,
Speaker 1: Missouri's a loss, A and M's a loss, Oklahoma's a loss,
Speaker 1: Alabama's a loss, Old Miss is a loss. So basically,
Speaker 1: they're saying they're either gonna beat LSU or at Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Actually they're saying they're going with them both.
Speaker 2: Vandy might be the only conference game they win.
Speaker 1: That's okay, switch my lock is South Carolina under I thought,
Speaker 1: I said that's my lock five and a half.
Speaker 2: Can we have the same lock, because I'm also very
Speaker 2: passionate about this one. That can be the uh double
Speaker 2: duty Beamer lock. Kentucky's one they're probably looking at as
Speaker 2: we got to win that. But that game means so
Speaker 2: much to Kentucky in Week two. I just think the
Speaker 2: Cats are gonna be for that one. That there's still
Speaker 2: a half game short. That's true, Dude, lock of the
Speaker 2: year South Carolina under.
Speaker 3: That'd be so bad for Beamer. I would hate that.
Speaker 1: We're at Tennessee is playing in the Duke's Mayo Classic,
Speaker 1: Sea State.
Speaker 2: Tennessee is sponsored by Pilot. We have to say that
Speaker 2: now anytime we mentioned Tennessee sponsor Pilot.
Speaker 1: Uh. They're road games at Oklahoma, at Arkansas, at Georgia,
Speaker 1: at Vandy, they host Alabama. Pretty good schedule for them, honestly,
Speaker 1: is it nine eight and a half? They I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it, but they gotta go over Tennessee.
Speaker 1: That schedule's too easy. I mean, I don't know who
Speaker 1: the losses.
Speaker 3: Are, and I don't know.
Speaker 2: If you saw Philip Fullmer's comments, he could just be
Speaker 2: talking noise to get excitement, but he's talking about how
Speaker 2: good Nico looks, one of the best quarterbacks he's seen
Speaker 2: at this point in camp.
Speaker 1: All Right, So say they lose to Georgia and Alabama,
Speaker 1: and let's even say they lose at Oklahoma, They're gonna
Speaker 1: be huge favorites in every one of their other games.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And I didn't like Joe Milton last year when everyone
Speaker 2: else did, so I don't think him being gone is
Speaker 2: a good thing. I think Nico's an upgrade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you're scoring at home, I would say
Speaker 1: South Carolina under the lock. Tennessee over's good. I like
Speaker 1: LSU over, but I think South. I think Tennessee's my
Speaker 1: second favorite pick so far.
Speaker 4: Tennessee's got nineteen wins over the past two years. That's
Speaker 4: the most since six oh seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah wow, And they're sponsored by Pilot.
Speaker 4: And sponsored by Pilot.
Speaker 2: They did lose nine of eleven starters on defense, so
Speaker 2: they might also give up points as they're scoring.
Speaker 1: Texas goes to Michigan, they play Oklahoma, they host Georgia,
Speaker 1: go to Arkansas, go to a and m go to Vandy.
Speaker 1: They got a pretty good schedule too, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you. So I think they'll lose to Michigan.
Speaker 3: And what is it? Is it ten? Is it nine
Speaker 3: and a half? What's there over ten and a half?
Speaker 3: I feel good about.
Speaker 1: I can't do ten and a half because because they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose to Mission. Well maybe they won't lose to Michigan.
Speaker 1: I don't know though. Georgia at home is like their
Speaker 1: only game they won't be favored in.
Speaker 2: They had two significant injuries in camp both I don't
Speaker 2: know how deep that running back rooms go room goes,
Speaker 2: but losing Baxter in his backup was a big hit.
Speaker 3: You were going it is about running back. I'm taking.
Speaker 3: If it's ten and a half, I'm taking the under.
Speaker 3: That's too much.
Speaker 2: I agree what we're you gonna tell us about Texas
Speaker 2: just as the university. Oh so you like arch Manning.
Speaker 4: They made the College Football Playoff thirteen and one Big
Speaker 4: Twelve title.
Speaker 3: That's about it again.
Speaker 2: I'm saying this with Oklahoma, I think there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a little smack in the mouth being the first year
Speaker 2: in the SEC. They both of them are talking like
Speaker 2: they're gonna come in here and run the show like
Speaker 2: they have been in the Big Twelve. I think there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a little bit of a learning curve for.
Speaker 1: Those of you that have never been to Austin. Torchy
Speaker 1: tacos love it really good.
Speaker 3: You know there's one just north of Cincinnati. I went recently.
Speaker 3: Really where uh one of the little towns just when
Speaker 3: you get above it on the way to Dayton.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing about Austin, Like it's even changed
Speaker 1: since I was going there like three years ago. Like
Speaker 1: it's a different place. Like you talk about a place
Speaker 1: that's changed the moment, Elon musk Elon musk ruins everything
Speaker 1: that's not an.
Speaker 3: Electric car as soon as he got there. Now there's
Speaker 3: just too many people.
Speaker 2: A lot of la people moved to Austin. Yeah, Drake
Speaker 2: moved to Texas. I think I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: in Austin, but he's even in Texas.
Speaker 1: Now, was it Drake? No, it's Kanye who's inhaling the Knox,
Speaker 1: the nitrous, the nitrous. Drake didn't do that, and I
Speaker 1: don't think so.
Speaker 2: Drake's got his own issues. I don't know that he
Speaker 2: has those issues. Just shit, But lots of people just
Speaker 2: flocked to uh, Austin. Who would be.
Speaker 3: Worse to be who has a worst public image right now? Drake?
Speaker 3: Or find one worse Drake or jd Vance.
Speaker 2: Drake lost a pretty big, uh, pretty big battle to Kendrick.
Speaker 3: Fine.
Speaker 4: He's fine, Fine, he's one of the best artists of.
Speaker 3: You like him.
Speaker 2: I think the popularity took a significant hit recently.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got like children going like children.
Speaker 2: Also part of what's getting Drake in trouble, Allegedly, I'm
Speaker 2: just quoting Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 3: I don't. I am amazed at how quick the Drake
Speaker 3: thing has flipped right, Like, it's amazing how everyone I
Speaker 3: don't know any pop song that's come out in the
Speaker 3: last year, and I know that song.
Speaker 2: And then he did that big concert and like some
Speaker 2: of Drake's friends where they're dancing like it was.
Speaker 3: Just we just got dunked on. When he sees videos
Speaker 3: of Lebron dancing to the song, that like, that's kind
Speaker 3: of break his heart, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just released new music. He's not dead, but
Speaker 2: he certainly took a significant hit.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you what I'm sure is a stupid question. Yes,
Speaker 3: Why don't they like each other? What happened? Oh what
Speaker 3: is the feud about?
Speaker 2: Well, every rapper needs a good feud to sell records.
Speaker 2: But I think he got in a little too deep
Speaker 2: and Kendrick was team no blank.
Speaker 1: Mario, this feels like something you would know. Come on
Speaker 1: here for a second, Come on, Mario. For people who
Speaker 1: don't know, twenty four years old, he's like our young
Speaker 1: he's our official young person, Mario. Why do Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: and Drake not like each other?
Speaker 3: You put me on the spot. You definitely put me
Speaker 3: on the spot. I know they had beef. This is
Speaker 3: not something that started yesterday. But about what? What's their
Speaker 3: beef about? Do you think they've been fighting so long
Speaker 3: they don't even remember why they don't like each other.
Speaker 3: It's just music stuff, who's better? You know? Competitive competitiveness,
Speaker 3: that's the most part. But they say really mean things
Speaker 3: about each other, Like they don't just go, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: better than you. They're like a minor like it's it's
Speaker 3: mean rap battles and do you just think that's his normal? Yeah,
Speaker 3: people say anything in rat battles.
Speaker 2: Condrick Quin, I don't think he was ready for how
Speaker 2: far Kendrick was feeling to take you. There's been rap
Speaker 2: battle at battles every year. I can name thousands of them.
Speaker 2: But Kendrick just kept going.
Speaker 1: When I was in college, I had a friend named
Speaker 1: Mo and he you would get in an argument with
Speaker 1: him and then he would just take it like to
Speaker 1: another level. She'd go, hey, Mo, you should pick up
Speaker 1: your socks, and he would go, your mom doesn't love you.
Speaker 3: It's like, WHOA just trying to a little casual beaker,
Speaker 3: like just just pick up your son. So I feel
Speaker 3: like that's kind of what happened with the Drake.
Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamarthy moved to Texas. Who I think we'll have
Speaker 2: the under on toon.
Speaker 1: And haety and conceivably could go see Texas A and
Speaker 1: M play right, Texas A and M plays Notre Dame
Speaker 1: in week one at Texas A and M. They go
Speaker 1: to Florida, they go to Mississippi State, go to South Carolina,
Speaker 1: those go to Auburn. You can talk about easy set
Speaker 1: of road games. Florida, Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Auburn.
Speaker 1: They couldn't have asked for better road games. Now their
Speaker 1: home games are a little harder. They got Missouri, Texas LSU.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling sneaky about the over.
Speaker 2: Here new head coach Mike Elko season that the dup
Speaker 2: from Duke it was it was almost the guy from UK.
Speaker 3: What's there? Over under eight and a half over.
Speaker 1: They play there. It's a perfect schedule. They play their
Speaker 1: bad teams on the road, they play their good teams
Speaker 1: at home. They're going over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, their road games being Florida, South Caro, Rolana and
Speaker 2: Mississippi State.
Speaker 3: That's that's great. Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you. And
Speaker 3: then Auburn is the other one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they got their quarterback back, got a
Speaker 2: lot of starters back. I like that Texas A and
Speaker 2: M I think, honestly, I think losing Jimbo, I don't
Speaker 2: know what Elko will do, but I think that'll be
Speaker 2: good for them.
Speaker 4: That's positive. Moving on from Jim.
Speaker 1: If they beat Notre Dame, I mean the way I
Speaker 1: would do it is I would bet a and m
Speaker 1: over because if they beat Notre Dame, like they're almost
Speaker 1: guaranteed the over right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now I'm looking at the schedule. I like it.
Speaker 1: So Notre Dame is the swing game for them right
Speaker 1: there and there, and it's at home. And what Elko
Speaker 1: did a duke was pretty impressive. It was finally Vandy
Speaker 1: under they go to why is Vandy opening on the
Speaker 1: road to Virginia.
Speaker 3: Tech's good question.
Speaker 4: Is that in Blackburn that's not a.
Speaker 3: Place's what's the city called Blacksburg?
Speaker 4: Blacksburg, same difference.
Speaker 3: Blackburn is an English soccer team. Is that what you
Speaker 3: were thinking of?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Blackburn Rovers That's what I was thinking about.
Speaker 3: Oh you knew the soccer team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a Blackburn Rovers scarf.
Speaker 3: Come on that line where you gotta wear it next week?
Speaker 3: Where did you get a Blackburn Rovers scarf?
Speaker 4: I had a buddy that I played FIFA with in college,
Speaker 4: a lot that was my favorite team. He went to
Speaker 4: London and ended up getting me a scarf.
Speaker 3: Why did you pick Blackburn ro No, no.
Speaker 4: No idea like their logo I think.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you real quick an update in the
Speaker 1: world of soccer? Y? You know, when I was in Europe,
Speaker 1: I went to two European Conference Do you know what
Speaker 1: the European Conference League is EFL?
Speaker 3: Or that's not it? You know they have the Champions League. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's for the best teams.
Speaker 1: Then they have a Europa League, which is kind of
Speaker 1: for like the next tier of teams, and then they
Speaker 1: have the Europa Conference League, which is like for the
Speaker 1: best teams from small country. Okay, So I went and
Speaker 1: saw Saint Patrick's Athletic. Okay, that was in Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 1: I went and watched one of their games. Twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred people there, one of the best times I've had.
Speaker 1: They were playing a team from I think Luxembourg and
Speaker 1: they won, and I got so worked up into it
Speaker 1: that I was like, you know what, if we win
Speaker 1: this round, I'll go to the next game.
Speaker 3: The problem is I was.
Speaker 1: Going to be back in America. So when the draw
Speaker 1: came out, would you like to know who they had
Speaker 1: to play? Who was a team in iSER By Jean.
Speaker 1: So a guy wrote me that I sat next to him,
Speaker 1: goes you going to Iserby Jean and I had to
Speaker 1: say no. They this game just ended. They beat the
Speaker 1: team from iSER Oh wow, they beat them to nothing,
Speaker 1: and Saint Patrick's Athletic is now moving to the next
Speaker 1: round of the Europa Company you got I have a
Speaker 1: scar enough, I have a scar.
Speaker 3: I have a couple of soccer scarves in order to
Speaker 3: take a collection game. By the way, they were sold out,
Speaker 3: and I talked my way into the game.
Speaker 1: I walked up to the front and I said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm from America. I've come all the way over here
Speaker 1: to watch this game, which was.
Speaker 3: You went to a few other places, but they didn't
Speaker 3: mean to know that. I was like, I'm a reporter
Speaker 3: for ESPN, journalist reporter.
Speaker 2: So far you've told no lies, not total truths, but
Speaker 2: not lies. You cannot call those false statements. That neither
Speaker 2: a false.
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm considering writing a book about European soccer,
Speaker 1: considering You.
Speaker 2: Didn't say how long you considered it. If you thought
Speaker 2: about it for a minute, you at least considered it.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm already here, can you get me? And
Speaker 2: he just looked at me and said, do you have
Speaker 2: twenty dollars? And I said, in fact, I.
Speaker 3: Did exactly twenty dollars, and I gave you twenty dollars
Speaker 3: and he goes, wait a minute, and then he was
Speaker 3: gone for a long time.
Speaker 2: Is this like when you're buying a car and they
Speaker 2: just want you to prove that you're interested in, like,
Speaker 2: give me one hundred dollars? Was gone.
Speaker 1: I thought he had just taken my twenty dollars, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you. And then he came back and
Speaker 1: he goes, this is my buddy Frank's ticket.
Speaker 3: You can go in. And it was an awesome experience.
Speaker 3: Good to know under man, what's the number? By the way, three?
Speaker 2: Even under you know what I'm going over and I
Speaker 2: want to I want to explain it.
Speaker 4: They started two and l last year.
Speaker 2: Sure they have ten straight losing seasons. They're on a
Speaker 2: ten game losing streak. They went oh to eight in
Speaker 2: the SEC last year. But if the number's three, we
Speaker 2: just got to beat al Corn State, Georgia State, and
Speaker 2: Ball State to push and then I've got him upsetting
Speaker 2: South Carolina or at least as long as they win
Speaker 2: that three. I'm working with some house money in the SEC.
Speaker 3: Can you bet the push? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I would bet that push. That's a good Honestly, that's
Speaker 1: a good case to be made. Can't go again, and
Speaker 1: we have to actually get them out to be He's
Speaker 1: convinced me they're gonna beat Georgia State.
Speaker 3: What were the other ones.
Speaker 2: They play Alcorn State at they go to Georgia State
Speaker 2: and they host Ball State.
Speaker 3: Why did they go?
Speaker 2: But if you just win those three, I'm not losing
Speaker 2: money schedules for them, just just telling you what's on
Speaker 2: their schedule. Let's go win those and we know we're
Speaker 2: at least pushing. Where is Georgia State in the state
Speaker 2: of Georgia.
Speaker 3: Well done?
Speaker 2: My math is mathing though, because I've got South Carolina
Speaker 2: kind of sucking.
Speaker 3: They host South.
Speaker 2: Carolina knowing it's their one chance to not go oh
Speaker 2: and sixteen in the SEC and team makes a really
Speaker 2: good case.
Speaker 4: Georgia State's Atlanta actually, and maybe you get lucky Virginia Tech.
Speaker 3: And we think they play their home baseball games at
Speaker 3: Fulton County Stadium. No, they play them at Turner Field.
Speaker 4: That's even cooler.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not the current Braves place the old
Speaker 1: the old new Brave Stadium. I think Georgia State plays
Speaker 1: their baseball games there.
Speaker 2: You know what, I want Vandy to be my lock
Speaker 2: of the year. They're beating South Carolina. I like when
Speaker 2: the three non conference beat South Carolina. I'll see at
Speaker 2: the window. So there's your SEC preview.
Speaker 3: We're going.
Speaker 1: I'm going South Carolina under lock. He's going Vandy over lock.
Speaker 1: And we got it. So we're gonna take a little
Speaker 1: break here. Everybody breathe, take a deep breath. When we
Speaker 1: come back some hot Big twelve action. Saint Patrick's Athletic
Speaker 1: beat iSER by Jehan two to nothing. Is now time
Speaker 1: for the Big twelve. But we've had some questions to
Speaker 1: write in from the listeners. After the first segment, one
Speaker 1: person writes, Matt, does Billy have any idea where iSER
Speaker 1: BYI Jean.
Speaker 4: Is uh no, no, I do not Middle East.
Speaker 3: Ah kind of, but it's still in Europe. I think
Speaker 3: it like borders the Middle.
Speaker 4: Least okay, Eastern Europe ish.
Speaker 3: Yes, what have you ever been to Europe? Nope? Would
Speaker 3: you like to go?
Speaker 4: Of course? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, you know next year. Well I'm not gonna say it,
Speaker 3: but you called that thought pack a back. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're not going, but I'm saying, like, no, you might go.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it. Let's go to the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Arizona's in the Big twelve. That's new you excited about that?
Speaker 2: Could not care less, But for the sake of this exercise,
Speaker 2: I'm going to participate.
Speaker 3: I think, Billy, don't they have some like they have
Speaker 3: like two good players? Like isn't their quarterback really good?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Ok, thank you for being prepared. Tell me about Arizona.
Speaker 4: I wasn't prepared for Arizona. But last year, how are
Speaker 4: you not prepared? Because I had the Big twelve ready?
Speaker 4: Didn't realize that.
Speaker 2: Arizona's in the Big Twe I know it's in. Last
Speaker 2: year went ten to three, new coach, that's right.
Speaker 4: Ten and three. They did beat Colorado, the darling of America.
Speaker 4: Last year thirty four to thirty one. Yeah, they did
Speaker 4: beat Oklahoma in the thirty eight twenty four. Besides that,
Speaker 4: they had a loss to Washington, which can you blame them?
Speaker 4: They were in the College Football playoffs and a bad
Speaker 4: loss to Mississippi State early on.
Speaker 1: They I don't know what's with their schedule because it
Speaker 1: looks like they play ten conference games, but they might
Speaker 1: like have a game that was already on their schedule
Speaker 1: that doesn't count as a conference game because of whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna tell you. With all these Big twelve teams,
Speaker 3: I have no idea it's good. Like I know Utah
Speaker 3: is supposed to be good. I know Kansas State is
Speaker 3: supposed to be decently good, and then beyond that, I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna tell you right now, don't do what I
Speaker 3: say on any of these.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the Big twelve. This is
Speaker 1: gonna all be a guess. So is the over undered
Speaker 1: it for this like seven and a half.
Speaker 3: Right on it.
Speaker 2: You're good at that, Yeah, mister, I don't know anything
Speaker 2: about the Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose at Utah, They're gonna lose at Kansas State.
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose at TCU, But I still think they're
Speaker 1: gonna go over. I'll take uh, I'll take the over.
Speaker 2: You're right, they have their their return, their quarterback, Noah Fafida.
Speaker 1: I think he's really good. They never receiver. I think
Speaker 1: they have a receiver that's gonna be a first round pick.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they took San Jose State's coach, it's his first year.
Speaker 2: Then you're moving into a new conference. I'll join you
Speaker 2: on the over though. Like I said, I don't know
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen with the Big Twelve. You know, so
Speaker 2: many moving parts, teams leaving, teams adding, They added a
Speaker 2: bunch of utah.
Speaker 3: But uh, i'll go over here. Too much of Utah,
Speaker 3: way too much Utah.
Speaker 2: The Big Twelve, more than anything that's happened, is gonna
Speaker 2: take the most getting take.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're never gonna believe that Arizona State against
Speaker 1: Central Florida is a Big Twelve. No's never gonna be
Speaker 1: something that you think is true. But it is actually
Speaker 1: the case. Uh, Arizona State does uh what's his face?
Speaker 1: Doesn't coach there anymore? Her Edwards, Yeah, that's a dumb
Speaker 1: question because he's on my pregame show every week.
Speaker 3: If he was, he's actually become a friend. And I
Speaker 3: still thought he might have of coached Arizona State.
Speaker 2: Even though they have a new coach. They're coming off
Speaker 2: the best finish since nineteen ninety eight. They were number eleven,
Speaker 2: going nine and three lass or ten and three with
Speaker 2: the Bowlgan they went ten and three.
Speaker 3: They were ranked most of year. Tell me one person
Speaker 3: that's ever played football for Arizona State.
Speaker 2: I was still talking about Arizona Yeah, Arizona State went
Speaker 2: three and moved on. Yeah, but I was to the
Speaker 2: Arizona overback back. So Arizona State went three and nine,
Speaker 2: three and nine. Okay, plumb, Jake Plumber, That's what I
Speaker 2: was gonna say too. They played Mississippi State. No, No,
Speaker 2: they went back getting back on track here. Arizona State
Speaker 2: was not good last year at all.
Speaker 3: They beat they played Mississippi State. They go to Texas.
Speaker 4: State, Oh, the prestigious Texas State.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: Who is scheduling these games? Why did they agree to
Speaker 1: go to Texas State?
Speaker 4: Texas State got a place, so I think Texas State.
Speaker 3: Was from that movie? Is that a real school? It
Speaker 3: does seem like a fictional school. Lot I thought that
Speaker 3: was an unnecessary roughness.
Speaker 1: Again, you could say any number. I'm gonna guess it
Speaker 1: is four.
Speaker 2: You know what, four and a half, But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say you're right on it. We're counting that
Speaker 2: for Azz. You get another one for four and a half.
Speaker 1: I'm going under because like they were bad last year,
Speaker 1: and you know, you don't walk into Texas State and
Speaker 1: just think you're gonna get a victory.
Speaker 2: They're in their worst two year run since the nineteen
Speaker 2: forties as they go into a new conference. So I'm
Speaker 2: also going under two three win seasons in the last
Speaker 2: two years.
Speaker 1: The Baylor Bears home of Chip Gains and Loretta Gains.
Speaker 1: They are in Waco, Texas. I tried to stop in
Speaker 1: Waco once Billy to buy a sweatshirt and I ended
Speaker 1: up getting a flat tire and I've hated the place
Speaker 1: ever since.
Speaker 4: Good reason.
Speaker 3: So for that.
Speaker 1: They played Billy Gillespie and Tarlatan State to open up
Speaker 1: the season. Tell me about the team.
Speaker 4: They were three and nine last year.
Speaker 3: They've gotten that bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're only victories in the conference where UCF and
Speaker 4: Cincinnati both newcomers last year, and they ranked last in
Speaker 4: the Big twelve in scoring, offense and defense.
Speaker 2: Have a fun stet for you with their decline. Remember
Speaker 2: they won the conference championship in twenty twenty one, but
Speaker 2: ever since their win total has been cutting half each
Speaker 2: season they won twelve, they won six, and then they
Speaker 2: won three.
Speaker 3: So win one and a half this year. Yep.
Speaker 1: Did you see Robert Griffin third got fired from ESPN?
Speaker 1: Really over the croissant thing? Or just what do you
Speaker 1: do about croissant? The big croissant.
Speaker 3: That's the only thing I can remember he's done recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not going to use this film. Since he
Speaker 2: worked at ESPN. I've actually interviewed him a number of times.
Speaker 2: Seemed like a pleasant fellow. He got fired. So did
Speaker 2: Sam Ponder, who I really liked.
Speaker 3: I like Sampond was not like darg three who's got
Speaker 3: on social media.
Speaker 1: Sim Potter was really nice to me over the years.
Speaker 1: Not that that's why you should keep your job, but
Speaker 1: all right, So they played Tarlaton State Air Force and
Speaker 1: a bunch of other teams. Is he over under four
Speaker 1: and a half?
Speaker 3: Again? Five and a half? Oh? Definitely under?
Speaker 2: I went one and seven at home last season under
Speaker 2: how's that? As a season ticket?
Speaker 3: Holder. Yeah, I'm going under too, under b Yu. Oh.
Speaker 4: You know we're bigger.
Speaker 3: Our listeners know.
Speaker 1: So as you know if you've listened to this podcast,
Speaker 1: we were very pro Mormon. I went to the Book
Speaker 1: of Mormon for the fourth time in London when I
Speaker 1: was there.
Speaker 3: You ever see it, Billy now? The play it's great,
Speaker 3: it's coming here.
Speaker 2: I'm going I saw it in New York, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna see it again in Lexington, the traveling version.
Speaker 3: I mean, think of Orlando, Orlando, Hello, my name is
Speaker 3: Elder Price. Try to think of the other songs.
Speaker 1: What's the one they sing that's like the thing they
Speaker 1: say It'll be like not worried about anything.
Speaker 2: It's been a while since it's great. It's it's really great.
Speaker 2: If you've never seen Worth my time, I have it
Speaker 2: four times. So yeah, I have a unique story about
Speaker 2: my one time seeing it. I kind of decided on
Speaker 2: the fly to go in Times Square. It was about start,
Speaker 2: so I go to buy tickets and at the ticket
Speaker 2: office they only had standing room only, but they were
Speaker 2: only like twenty dollars, And I look at my wife
Speaker 2: and I'm like, who, that's a lot of standing But
Speaker 2: for twenty dollars and we'll just give it a go.
Speaker 2: So we go in and we're really enjoying it. That
Speaker 2: you sit right behind a rail on the bottom level,
Speaker 2: but if you even leaned over or squatted, someone would
Speaker 2: tap you and say stand up, Like I couldn't. I
Speaker 2: couldn't like, you know, bend down and just kind of
Speaker 2: give my legs and bend. They would immediately come up
Speaker 2: to you to say no, straight up.
Speaker 3: Stay for three hours.
Speaker 2: Even though the standing spot was in a great area,
Speaker 2: you couldn't do any kind of stretching. You had to
Speaker 2: be stiff as a board for three hours. Still enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Though, I'm going to baptize her, isn't that one?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 2: So you've seen much more than me. I'm more of
Speaker 2: a Hamilton guy myself. I'm going to bathe her in
Speaker 2: her sins. I'm going to baptize like no one who
Speaker 2: If you haven't heard this, I seem ridiculous. But that's
Speaker 2: a song in this right. Yeah, Okay, I'm hoping.
Speaker 3: The traveling shows more like they don't like it.
Speaker 2: Well, I was wondering, you know here in Lexington, it's
Speaker 2: coming right as we were welcoming a lot of Mormon
Speaker 2: to our town with Mark Pope. I doubt I'm gonna
Speaker 2: see any of them at Lexington Opera House?
Speaker 3: Does you see it? Though? I think at the end
Speaker 3: it actually like, I don't think it's bad for the Mormons.
Speaker 3: Like it basically sort of says these are nice people.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they give them, they give them their their love.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of jokes in there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Mormons like it or not, but
Speaker 1: I actually think they should because I actually think it
Speaker 1: paints Mormons in a pretty good light.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 2: Was an aren't the the South Park guys the road
Speaker 2: of their Mormon I don't think they're just tearing down
Speaker 2: the road.
Speaker 3: I believe so. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I could have completely made that up, but I think so.
Speaker 3: None of that has anything to do with b YU.
Speaker 4: It is important though they play.
Speaker 1: They play four or five ranked teams, so tough schedule.
Speaker 1: They go to they post Kansas State, they go to
Speaker 1: Utah again. I could act like I have any idea
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. Let me get seven and a half.
Speaker 3: You're gonna want to go under four and a half,
Speaker 3: four and a half, four and a half. I say
Speaker 3: they win five over.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have no idea what to expect the
Speaker 2: do yu, But because I am an expert, I have
Speaker 2: to give some kind of stance here, and I'm very passionate.
Speaker 3: About the under why. I don't know, I just said that, Okay,
Speaker 3: just to be different, all right, I'm going over.
Speaker 2: I believe in the Mormons, and I'm gonna go see
Speaker 2: him for a fifth time, probably when they come to Lexington.
Speaker 2: It's coming up Cincinnati. They are in the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: They play a lot of teams. They got Scott's tot
Speaker 2: leading him in the second He's why would you hire
Speaker 2: Scott's at if he had.
Speaker 4: A horrible debut last year and to pay a buy
Speaker 4: out to get him out of his job?
Speaker 3: Why just just to go three and nine? Is that
Speaker 3: they went three and nine. It was their worst season
Speaker 3: in decades, nine of their next ten. So what's there over? Under?
Speaker 3: Three and a half?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Looks like I have five here? Yeah? Five five under?
Speaker 1: I look at this schedule. They're not beating anybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll beat Townsend and Miami. They play at Miami.
Speaker 3: How do they get these schedules? How are you going?
Speaker 3: You're in Cincinnati, going to Oxford? Come time for dinner.
Speaker 3: I'm taking under.
Speaker 2: Just the fact that Scott Saderfield is their coach. I
Speaker 2: have to go under uh And if they do go
Speaker 2: under five wins, that's sad for Cincinnati. That's been so
Speaker 2: good and relevant recently to have three and nine and
Speaker 2: then three or four whatever they're gonna do this year. Dion,
Speaker 2: this is this is a polarizing topic. You like him,
Speaker 2: you pro or anti Dion?
Speaker 3: I love him? You do? Yeah? What about the story
Speaker 3: that like his players are all like acting out hit
Speaker 3: him up on? Well? Yeah, the locker room was described
Speaker 3: as grand theft auto.
Speaker 4: You need a little little order in there. But you know,
Speaker 4: playing favorites with his sons. I would have I do
Speaker 4: the same thing if I was in his posiness, you would.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like one of these days William Rutledge the
Speaker 2: fourth would play quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if I'm if I'm coaching a team, Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: getting the spot.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Dion Dion over here.
Speaker 2: I was all about him for a while, but I
Speaker 2: suffered from Dion exhaustion and then that expose that came out,
Speaker 2: kind of talking about all the stuff he's doing. H
Speaker 2: It's that's that's not sustainable. They got guys running out
Speaker 2: of there because it's so bad behind the scenes, like
Speaker 2: too much.
Speaker 4: Four and eight last year, but it was an exciting start.
Speaker 3: Are you sore, Mario? What are you doing?
Speaker 2: You could never make it through Book of Mormon. You
Speaker 2: literally like you can have a seat, Like what we're
Speaker 2: doing right now? I got yelled at, like sit down.
Speaker 2: If it's like are you okay? Like you're acting uh huh,
Speaker 2: you're moving fring.
Speaker 1: You're just feels like some podcast and you're like acting
Speaker 1: like you've been doing manual labor over there. I'm not
Speaker 1: I love Deanna's player, but I'm kind of over.
Speaker 2: Thing with this team. If they start off winning, I
Speaker 2: think they'll get some momentum going and might have a
Speaker 2: good year. But if it's bad from the start, I
Speaker 2: see a lot of that locker room quitting because they
Speaker 2: already seem miserable in camp.
Speaker 3: What's over under five and a half under, lock mark
Speaker 3: it down, lock under? Trying to do Matthew on the game.
Speaker 3: They're gonna win.
Speaker 1: They'll beat North Dakota State, They're gonna lose to Nebraska,
Speaker 1: they'll beat Baylor, they'll beat Cincinnati. That's they're gonna win
Speaker 1: three maybe four maybe they beat colro State, so they
Speaker 1: maybe get four. There's no way they're getting five and.
Speaker 2: A half as good as Travis Hunter is and then
Speaker 2: Sdora Sanders. I just think this this thing is the
Speaker 2: Dion experience is heading for a crash landing.
Speaker 1: There was literally a topic on ESPN, will Dion coach
Speaker 1: the Cowboys?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Another four and eight year he could Dan Jones, Jones,
Speaker 4: anybody is not gonna hire Dion.
Speaker 3: Stop.
Speaker 2: It was a good run with that initial excitement they had.
Speaker 2: I was all on board. You know, a game day
Speaker 2: went there an guy in the area that bought season
Speaker 2: tickets and just talked about how crazy the games were
Speaker 2: after being terrible for so long.
Speaker 3: So it was fun for a while. But I think
Speaker 3: that has since past.
Speaker 1: Houston is in this conference. Uh they they're non conference games?
Speaker 1: Are you and LV at Oklahoma? Wh's the lose?
Speaker 3: And Rice? Here's a little thing you didn't know Billy,
Speaker 3: Houston and Rice play a game. Do you know what?
Speaker 3: It's called.
Speaker 4: Rice Bowl?
Speaker 3: The Buy You Bucket Classic.
Speaker 4: I like that name. Do they have the bucket? Like
Speaker 4: it's a thing to ask you a question?
Speaker 3: Houston and Rice are both in Houston, that's not the
Speaker 3: buy You That was gonna be my question though. Are
Speaker 3: they playing any Louisiana teams?
Speaker 2: So why are they the buy You Bucket like that
Speaker 2: they're not in the bye I don't know. I don't understand.
Speaker 2: It's like Kentucky playing Louisville in the Windy City Classic.
Speaker 2: It's the Desert Bowl, Kentucky versus Louisville.
Speaker 3: Well, why they is? It?
Speaker 2: Is that like a meal at Popeyes or something by you,
Speaker 2: I would lead me more in more into the culture.
Speaker 2: Maybe a Megan the Stallion Bowl or.
Speaker 3: A Paul Wall Bowl. Yeah, Travis Scott, I'm still tipping.
Speaker 3: Lots of options.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Astro World there you go. Yeah, a good call,
Speaker 2: a lot of hip hop. And this debut of season two.
Speaker 3: That's right, what's the overhead? Uh? It is a lowly
Speaker 3: three and a half. We'll go over.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win to Buy You Bucket Classic and with
Speaker 1: all the pressure, oh bye you is watching that one
Speaker 1: and from there it's on Houston.
Speaker 3: I'm going over three in.
Speaker 2: That I'm going over and I'm gonna give my explanation
Speaker 2: as I feel like I've done under every team so far,
Speaker 2: and somebody has to win these conference games. So I've
Speaker 2: got to do it over uh.
Speaker 1: Iowa State ames Iowa, where I once judged a Girl's
Speaker 1: Gone Wild contest.
Speaker 3: I wasn't really a judge. I walked in and they
Speaker 3: were having it and they said, who do you vote for?
Speaker 3: I was like, I just wanted some food, just here
Speaker 3: for the wings.
Speaker 1: They play North Dakota Arkansas State, and then they play
Speaker 1: Iowa in the Iowa Corn Series. Now, that is a
Speaker 1: game that is correct, that makes sense, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: What's the over under? Uh?
Speaker 2: Seven and a half? They went seven and five last season?
Speaker 4: Seems high, man.
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you held me down at gunpoint and
Speaker 1: said tell me something right now about this year's Iowa
Speaker 1: State football team. I don't even think I could make
Speaker 1: something up.
Speaker 2: I know nothing about the roster. But Matt Campbell is
Speaker 2: a good coach. He's been there a long time. He's
Speaker 2: like he's psych season, gone somewhere else. Yeah, so he's
Speaker 2: all I know about it. But I will trust Matt
Speaker 2: Campbell and go with you over here, not knowing anything
Speaker 2: about who's on the team.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna go. I'll go with you over Kansas
Speaker 1: is ranked twenty second in the country. Mark Mangino's getting
Speaker 1: it done. There has been gone a few years. But yeah,
Speaker 1: of course he laid the foundation. He walked so Lan
Speaker 1: sleep Pole could roll run. He's dead, rest in peace.
Speaker 1: I don't think so did Okay, I'll.
Speaker 3: Look at the praise. He's risen. I have news you're
Speaker 3: gonna love. He is not dead. Breaking news. Their first
Speaker 3: Bowl win since two the best news of the day
Speaker 3: for the Manginos. I can't hear his name or think
Speaker 3: about him. With that that little kid costume that went
Speaker 3: so viral where he's just like him, had the mustache
Speaker 3: and everything. I feel like you could get a good
Speaker 3: sub at Mangino. So what's Kansas? What's there? Overrun? Eight even?
Speaker 3: And they won? They went eight and four in the
Speaker 3: regular season last year. They opened this season with a
Speaker 3: team called Lyndon Wood. What is that win on a
Speaker 3: Thursday night? So you say eight eight?
Speaker 2: Last year they won nine total, accounting the Bowl game
Speaker 2: to wins in several years.
Speaker 1: They feel like a team that's a regression team. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take under on on Kansas.
Speaker 2: I was about to ask Billy if he remembers this,
Speaker 2: but their stats weren't exactly exactly accurate. I feel like
Speaker 2: Kansas was very good to me last year. I took
Speaker 2: them a lot. I don't know what their record was
Speaker 2: against the spread, but I feel like they made me
Speaker 2: more money than most teams. So I'm gonna ride Kansas
Speaker 2: again and go with the over.
Speaker 4: You're dogging my stats a little too much.
Speaker 3: Do you remember?
Speaker 2: Do you have any recollection of Kansas. I feel like
Speaker 2: I picked them a lot and they.
Speaker 3: Were good too.
Speaker 4: They were beating the spread. You know, they lost their
Speaker 4: quarterback at like one of the first games of the
Speaker 4: year last year, and.
Speaker 3: So the coach there was good. Remember I was going
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 1: During one of our drives, we talked about going to
Speaker 1: college game day Duke versus Kansas.
Speaker 2: They remember for years they had no one at games,
Speaker 2: and they actually started getting some excitement last season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kansas State is supposed to be good. That's on.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I know about them is that
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be good. I'm gonna guess the over
Speaker 1: end just nine and a half.
Speaker 3: Yep, They've had nine plus wins in back to back season.
Speaker 1: I'm taking I'm gonna take the over because you look
Speaker 1: at their record and you go Okay, where are they
Speaker 1: gonna lose? They go to BYU, but we know they stink.
Speaker 1: They go to Colorado the win. They go to West
Speaker 1: Virginia the win. Houston's bad. I look at it. I
Speaker 1: mean that Kansas snate snate. Kansas State is a sneaky
Speaker 1: could be in the playoff team. So I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the over.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The only thing I really know about them is their
Speaker 2: quarterback Will Howard left to go to Ohio or Ohio State. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was a big transfer the.
Speaker 1: Guy they had. Now again, their coach could have been
Speaker 1: lying about this. Avian Johnson. Their coach said this dude
Speaker 1: would have beaten Will Howard out if he had stayed.
Speaker 3: Now, I don't. He probably made that up, but like
Speaker 3: he has to be decent to say that, right, I agree.
Speaker 2: Also a fun fact here, all four of their losses
Speaker 2: last season were by one possession, So I mean, even
Speaker 2: when they were losing, they were in it. I'm still
Speaker 2: gonna go under, just to be a little different.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State Mike Gundy is a man, and uh he is.
Speaker 1: They haven't been as good recently. They play South Dakota State,
Speaker 1: Arkansas and at Tulsa. Who schedules these games. Why are
Speaker 1: you going to Tulsa if you're Oklahoma State.
Speaker 4: They were in the Big twelve title game last year,
Speaker 4: Is that right? Yeah? They lost to Texas forty nine
Speaker 4: to twenty one, and then beat A and M in
Speaker 4: the Texas.
Speaker 3: Boy, they went ten and four last year. You don't
Speaker 3: hear as much about my gun anymore.
Speaker 2: Ever since he started saying nothing's wrong with the dui
Speaker 2: or whatever he said this, remember that he's like, hey,
Speaker 2: I've done that a few times. I have a few
Speaker 2: beers and drive every once in a while. That's pretty
Speaker 2: reckless comment.
Speaker 3: If you're a coach, just sometimes take me a little
Speaker 3: and go out and what do you want from that
Speaker 3: runs that town? What's the over under? It is eight?
Speaker 2: Even it started at seven and a half and moved
Speaker 2: to eight, so the money was on the over early.
Speaker 2: Just to give you a little fun fact there.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna win eight, so I'll take a push,
Speaker 3: but i'll do over.
Speaker 2: I'll go under just because I cannot stand that guy
Speaker 2: and I want you to lose. I was at a
Speaker 2: purely personal whatever the main bar is in still Water,
Speaker 2: it's called like Crazy Monkeys or something like that.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows what it is like the main bar there.
Speaker 3: I went to eat there one time and I sat
Speaker 3: at the bar and two people set from me to Mario,
Speaker 3: a man and a woman, and just made out right
Speaker 3: in front of me the entire time.
Speaker 1: And there were only like eight people in the bar,
Speaker 1: and they could have set anywhere else. And they came
Speaker 1: and plopped right next down, right next to me and
Speaker 1: just stuck their tongue down each other's throats in stillwater.
Speaker 1: OKLAO did you give them a tip? I just was like,
Speaker 1: please stop there bumping into me and like TCU, good segue.
Speaker 1: TCU plays Stanford on the road Long Island University. They
Speaker 1: ended up in that game and at SMU. Did you
Speaker 1: know tc and SMS it's like a big rivalry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do that, like a really.
Speaker 2: Big ride, like they get into it games. Also on
Speaker 2: the CW for those of you that are excited, what's
Speaker 2: there over in the seven and a half. A fun
Speaker 2: fact about them? They went from the national championship game
Speaker 2: to a losing season lost to Colorado. Yep, I'm going under.
Speaker 2: I'm also going under. Sorry Sunny Dyke's but I'm not
Speaker 2: a believer.
Speaker 1: Wow happens Texas Tech Lubbock maybe the worst town to
Speaker 1: live in outside of Corvallis, Oregon in America. Uh so
Speaker 1: they're gonna be excited to get out of town for
Speaker 1: the road games. They go to Washington State, they play
Speaker 1: North Texas and Abilene Christian. So that's quite a schedule.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's on the team, No clue who
Speaker 1: the coach is.
Speaker 3: Do you know who the coach is? Nope?
Speaker 4: No, Well Patrick Mahome's not still around there.
Speaker 3: Joey McGuire third season. Joey McGuire, isn't that like a
Speaker 3: famous person? When I said that, I'm like, that is
Speaker 3: a there's someone else that's the There is somebody famous
Speaker 3: named joe Woe McGuire. Maybe I'm just thinking, know how
Speaker 3: bad I am? Wait a second, you came over from Baylor.
Speaker 3: That's what I remember for I watched a lot of
Speaker 3: his games. What what's the what's the over? Seven and
Speaker 3: a half. I'm gonna go over because they play Abilene
Speaker 3: Christian in North Texas over.
Speaker 2: They won four or five to in their season. According
Speaker 2: to me, looking at that right in front of me,
Speaker 2: right now, I'm gonna go over. They're gonna ride that
Speaker 2: momentent that momentum and the Joey McGuire brand into a
Speaker 2: winning Supers. Let's say they went eight or nine games.
Speaker 3: Good brand, Central Florida again, Why are they in this conference?
Speaker 3: Do you know Central Florida is one of the biggest
Speaker 3: universities in America?
Speaker 4: Billy in America. No, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: It's like Ohio State, Texas, Central fl I mean, like
Speaker 1: Central Florida is, like it's the biggest school in Florida,
Speaker 1: I think, and like you don't think about it, but
Speaker 1: it's got like two hundred eighty thousand people in it.
Speaker 4: A lot of mediocre people in Florida.
Speaker 1: I mean there's am I right, Central Florida's a huge
Speaker 1: Like it's a huge school. Like they're sleeping giant in
Speaker 1: sports if they ever get going.
Speaker 3: What's there over.
Speaker 2: Other seven and a half head coach, very familiar name,
Speaker 2: Gus Melzon. Oh yeah, they had six straight winning seasons
Speaker 2: until last year.
Speaker 4: And they beat Oklahoma State forty five to three last year.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be an over because I think they
Speaker 1: you know, I like to look at teams that historically good,
Speaker 1: have a down year then bounce back.
Speaker 3: Central Florida over.
Speaker 2: They added kJ Jefferson at quarterback. Penny Boone was the
Speaker 2: MAC Offensive Player of the Year, even Florida with Kentucky
Speaker 2: for a little bit. I remember the BB listeners, So.
Speaker 3: Y'a, I'll go over.
Speaker 1: Utah is supposed to be great, and I see here
Speaker 1: and look at Utah, and I want you to tell
Speaker 1: me where they lose. Southern Utah, Baylor, Utah State at
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, Arizona, Arizona State, TCU, Houston, BYU at Colorado,
Speaker 1: Iowa State at UCF. Is that am I crazy? Is
Speaker 1: that a team that could go twelve to zero?
Speaker 2: It's pretty easy record, and their win total is nine
Speaker 2: and a half over but at minus one fifty is
Speaker 2: showing a lot of the money's on them.
Speaker 3: So over going over to that's a huge over.
Speaker 1: Utah is gonna be If you were to tell me,
Speaker 1: all right, Matt, what team would you bet on to
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs. So this doesn't mean they're the
Speaker 1: best teams, but if you were to rank the teams
Speaker 1: most likely to go to the playoffs, Ohio State's probably number one.
Speaker 3: Would you agree?
Speaker 1: Then you probably go Georgia because they're like their schedule.
Speaker 1: Utah might be third for me because they They're going
Speaker 1: to be so much better than all these teams, and
Speaker 1: then their schedule is not hard.
Speaker 2: Adding to that first team All Pack twelve quarterback Cam
Speaker 2: Rising is back. That's a name that I think he
Speaker 2: was injured last year, but he's been a really good
Speaker 2: player for him.
Speaker 1: And finally, Neil Brown and the Fighting Hillbillies from West Virginia.
Speaker 1: They play Penn State to open the season and then
Speaker 1: Albany and at pitt and then their schedule. Big year
Speaker 1: for Neil Brown had a good season last year, didn't.
Speaker 2: He Fun fact about Neil Brown last year. Entering the year,
Speaker 2: they always come out with those odds as coach most
Speaker 2: likely to be fired.
Speaker 3: He was number one. He said, eat it, I'm not
Speaker 3: getting fired this year. He has.
Speaker 2: He's seventh on the board, so he's moving the right direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He By the way, it's worth noting, you know, serious,
Speaker 1: like I think that didn't they didn't.
Speaker 3: Tavon Austin pass away. He retired. He retired. You keep
Speaker 3: killing people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tavon Austin retired yesterday. You probably think there were
Speaker 2: highlights of him everywhere because he's the famous mixtape.
Speaker 3: I thought I heard Pat McAfee go yo.
Speaker 2: Bro, No, you just thought a J Hawk was having
Speaker 2: a moment of silence for him, but that was just
Speaker 2: him being on the show.
Speaker 3: He is. He is the best highlight ever he retired.
Speaker 1: He and Mark Mangino are both okay, which I had
Speaker 1: to kill anyone else on the show.
Speaker 3: All right, he was on TV a lot. No, there
Speaker 3: are his highlights were everywhere when he retired. What is
Speaker 3: there over six and a half, I'm going over. I'll
Speaker 3: go first.
Speaker 2: I believe in Neil Brown. He's getting farther and farther
Speaker 2: away from that hot seat. I think they're gonna do it.
Speaker 3: You don't think they're gonna beat Penn State though, right,
Speaker 3: I won't count it out, but no, unlikely.
Speaker 1: You look at their schedule, their pivot game, the game
Speaker 1: that like it will kind of they need. They play
Speaker 1: at Arizona. You think they can win that one.
Speaker 2: Uh, we're just talking about how good they could be. Also,
Speaker 2: they go to Pitt. That game's always close. That's a
Speaker 2: nasty rivalry. It's that Pitt West Virginia. Pitt is probably
Speaker 2: the game where the fan bases hate each other more
Speaker 2: than you realize that a classic last year was it
Speaker 2: two years ago?
Speaker 3: They call it the backyard brawl.
Speaker 1: And they they really because like you think of Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: because of the Steelers, you think of it as like
Speaker 1: the city with like this urban thing, but they're a
Speaker 1: bunch of rednecks that cheer for Pat pitt It's like
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh West. So it's like it's basically like everybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Appalachia in Pennsylvania. People don't realize it.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like Appalachian Pennsylvanians versus Appalachi in
Speaker 1: West Virginia in a who can spit your chaw on
Speaker 1: each other's eye first, and it's a really good battle.
Speaker 2: Actually, Yep, I'm believing in Neil Brown. As I said,
Speaker 2: he was on the hottest seat last year. They were
Speaker 2: picked last in the Big twelve and then they went
Speaker 2: nine and four. So he's been shutting up a lot
Speaker 2: of haters and contain six and a half, six and
Speaker 2: a half.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over. I'm gonna I really like Neil Brown,
Speaker 1: really smart guy. Hope he succeeds. I'm gonna go over
Speaker 1: quarterbacks back.
Speaker 3: All right, So finally who wins the sec who wins
Speaker 3: the Big Twelve?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty set on Georgia. I had them going twelve
Speaker 2: and zero. Uh pick twelve. I think I picked under
Speaker 2: about every team but two of them. I guess I
Speaker 2: gotta have somebody win.
Speaker 3: Do I want to go Arizona in your one? Go
Speaker 3: for it. I'll go Arizona. All right, I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: you Tom. I can't remember. Did I have arizonas over?
Speaker 3: Under Arizona over? I'm gonna go Utah wins the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: I think that's an easy It's true. We talked about
Speaker 3: that schedule. I'm gonna say, in the SEC, give me Georgia.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that's chalk, but I feel like
Speaker 3: they're gonna I feel like they're gonna be the best.
Speaker 1: They have the most talent. They do have a tougher schedule,
Speaker 1: but they'll get to the championship game. Give me the
Speaker 1: playoff teams from each conference. I'm gonna say the Big
Speaker 1: Twelve sends two. I'm gonna say they send two teams
Speaker 1: to the playoff, which is a lot for that league. Actually,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna actually, you know what, Kansas State won't
Speaker 1: make it. They're gonna send Utah, and then the SEC
Speaker 1: is gonna send Georgia. LSU Texas in Alabama. So the
Speaker 1: SEC sends four, the big twelve cents one.
Speaker 2: I like your your big twelve sending one. But since
Speaker 2: I just said Arizona, I gotta stick with it. But
Speaker 2: I got all missing there. I mean, I was pretty
Speaker 2: I love their over I think maybe two losses as
Speaker 2: much as I hate to say it, so I'm putting
Speaker 2: Ole Miss in the playoff one teams. You said, let's
Speaker 2: say though the LSU. Let's just say LSU and ole
Speaker 2: Miss were to finish with the same record. One of
Speaker 2: things to remember is Old missus non conference schedule is Furman, Middle, Tennessee,
Speaker 2: Wake Forest and Georgia Southern. So like, I kind of
Speaker 2: think they have to go ten and two because they
Speaker 2: didn't play anybody right, so they're not gonna get the
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt. Whereas LSU's non conference includes USC
Speaker 2: and UCLA. So LSUF let's say both teams finished nine
Speaker 2: to three, I think LSU would get in instead of
Speaker 2: Old Miss because of who they played in the non conference.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Georgia Alabama Ole Miss. I kind of
Speaker 2: want to have Texas as a bust, but part of
Speaker 2: that is me being a hater because I'm going to
Speaker 2: watch Kentucky there. But Missouri with that schedule. Don't count
Speaker 2: them out either.
Speaker 1: The Missouri sket but again they have this the other problem,
Speaker 1: which is they don't play anybody, so they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go at least ten and two. But I think
Speaker 1: that's but they can do they really they can't. Well,
Speaker 1: next week we will do the A C C in
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. Thank you to uh Billy Mario. I
Speaker 1: hope you get some stretching, uh because I know you've been.
Speaker 1: It's it looks like you got worn down by standing
Speaker 1: there and filming this. And thank you all for listening.
Speaker 3: We look forward to the next edition of A