Speaker 1: All right, welcome everybody. Week two or one or zero
Speaker 1: of the Fade this podcast Matt Jones Drew Franklin. Week
Speaker 1: one was a very successful week. We previewed the SEC
Speaker 1: and the Big Twelve to widespread accolades across the world
Speaker 1: of sports. Drew, I enjoyed it. Here's what I want
Speaker 1: to say to all the listeners out there. You all
Speaker 1: have a job. You're supposed to tell one person to
Speaker 1: listen to Fade This as a matter of fact, I
Speaker 1: want you to tell one person that's not even like
Speaker 1: a fan of the team you're a fan of. So
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of Kentucky, tell a fan of
Speaker 1: like Boston College. Okay, if you're a fan of Illinois,
Speaker 1: tele a fan of I don't know, Boise Stay. You
Speaker 1: may not know them, but just call somebody up in
Speaker 1: the phone book. I don't care, but I want you
Speaker 1: to tell one fan because we're going to do a
Speaker 1: contest later where if you've told a fan you can
Speaker 1: win it.
Speaker 2: I like that you directed people to the phone book
Speaker 2: that might have a hard time finding one of those.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if you have access to the Boise phone book,
Speaker 2: call them up, tell them, tell them listen.
Speaker 1: Do they still they still do phone books.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean they lasted longer than
Speaker 2: they should have. I remember some hitting my porch within
Speaker 2: the last few years, but I think that calmed down
Speaker 2: and maybe even died.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think i'd realize un till right
Speaker 1: now that they don't do phone books. You know, when
Speaker 1: I started practicing law, the first advertisement Jones and Bruce
Speaker 1: made was in the phone book. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you something for lawyers, and I think lawyers would
Speaker 1: know this. The phone book was a very lucrat like.
Speaker 1: We probably got seventy five percent of our earliest business
Speaker 1: from the phone book.
Speaker 3: That's a lot.
Speaker 1: Well, most people don't know a lawyer, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. They just like, let's go the phone book.
Speaker 1: Those two young guys look handsome, you know. We had
Speaker 1: a serious scowl on her face and we were like
Speaker 1: Jones and Bruce, and I think people go, I want
Speaker 1: them to do my adoption.
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 1: The very first thing we ever did was an adoption.
Speaker 2: Wow. Look, I like this blasting. Did you all have
Speaker 2: a whole page? Like the half the page for you
Speaker 2: a little bit?
Speaker 1: They were very expensive. You could buy like the back
Speaker 1: of the book was like way out of our price range,
Speaker 1: but you could buy a full page, you could buy half.
Speaker 1: I think we bought a quarter. But we were very
Speaker 1: young at the time. We kind of thought we were
Speaker 1: like ruggedly handsome, so we like were very intent on
Speaker 1: putting our pictures. Apparently the woman who sold them said,
Speaker 1: I don't now this may have just been our line,
Speaker 1: but she was like, I don't tell people to put
Speaker 1: pictures if they're not good looking, because if you're ugly,
Speaker 1: it actually is better to not have a picture. And
Speaker 1: so with the phone book, Yeah, you didn't know that, Like, well,
Speaker 1: think about it. You're just naturally more like to go
Speaker 1: to a handsome or a beautiful lawyer than like a I.
Speaker 2: Mean, if there's a fat guy with his suit didn't
Speaker 2: fit in crook, yeah, I'm not calling him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if I have an ugly son, I should
Speaker 3: tell him he cannot be a lawyer.
Speaker 1: Well he can't. He just can't advertise in the phone book.
Speaker 1: But then your son's probably not gonna know what a
Speaker 1: phone book is.
Speaker 3: That's true. Transitioned out.
Speaker 1: So all right, well, uh with with that intro that
Speaker 1: gets you ready for what we do here, which is
Speaker 1: we are going to This is part two of our
Speaker 1: conference preview. Already previewed the SEC and the Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: We're going to do the Big Ten and the ACC today.
Speaker 1: We'll start with the Big Ten. And I would like
Speaker 1: to start with this thought for you, Drew. There are
Speaker 1: eighteen teams in the Big Ten.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you think we can get an agreement?
Speaker 1: But amongst these conferences to have the number next to
Speaker 1: their team conference be the number of teams. Here's my suggestion.
Speaker 1: The Big Ten is allowed to be the Big eighteen,
Speaker 1: and then the Big twelve just has to pick something else,
Speaker 1: like Happy League. One of them use a Roman numeral
Speaker 1: one use Big twelve first of all, because they're worse.
Speaker 1: They just have to pick something else. You know.
Speaker 2: I don't know God's plan. I would love to watch
Speaker 2: the gods playing championship.
Speaker 1: I don't care what it is, but I do not
Speaker 1: like that neither the Big Ten nor the twelve Big
Speaker 1: twelve have the correct number next to their teams. That's confusing.
Speaker 1: Children would look at that and go, this is stupid,
Speaker 1: So I think they need to check.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Younger generations who don't know what a phone book
Speaker 2: is also won't remember that it was the Big ten
Speaker 2: or the Big twelve. They're just going to count the
Speaker 2: teams and say this is dumb. Imagine you have a kid, Billy, Okay, I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to be your kid, William the fourth.
Speaker 2: Daddy, You're you're playing okay? Yes, son, Hello, Son, I
Speaker 2: don't like.
Speaker 1: That you name me the fourth. Kids make fun of me.
Speaker 1: Tough daddy. We're watching Big ten football on Peacock. What
Speaker 1: does big ten? Why is it ten?
Speaker 2: Well Son?
Speaker 3: Back in the day before all this realignment, there was
Speaker 3: only ten teams in the conference.
Speaker 1: But now there's more.
Speaker 3: There is, and they're just too lazy to change it.
Speaker 2: All right, so you can see the Diliver. This is
Speaker 2: gonna be a great episode. You know, I got a
Speaker 2: lot of feedback about episode one, more than usual, But
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how much people wanted us to sing
Speaker 2: Broadway musicals. Most of it has been about our Book
Speaker 2: of Mormon. Lots of people loved our Orlando. I can
Speaker 2: see why I didn't get a lot of feedback about
Speaker 2: our Vandy over Under or you know, all the other
Speaker 2: stuff we talked about. But the musicals, I think we
Speaker 2: might have found a lane we should stay in.
Speaker 1: I actually was singing I was singing the one that
Speaker 1: I did. Oh wait a minute, we can't play these
Speaker 1: on the air right like they get masded. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I guess I have to sing it. But I was
Speaker 1: doing the I'm going to baptize her. I've been singing
Speaker 1: that in my head. I'm going to bathe in her sins.
Speaker 1: I've been singing that for like a week straight. I
Speaker 1: can't get it out of my head. You and this listeners, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go see the Book of morm. All right, let's get started. First.
Speaker 1: Up is Illinois. Billy, give us some facts?
Speaker 3: Yes, can you tell me the head coach of it?
Speaker 1: I actually can, Brett Belama.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 3: They went five and seven last year. They averaged or
Speaker 3: they allowed thirty points a game, so it didn't go
Speaker 3: well defensively, but they did play a little bit better
Speaker 3: later in the season got them to a five and seven.
Speaker 3: Finished though great.
Speaker 1: He was the guy that I said I thought his
Speaker 1: wife was attractive, And then Billy started talking about how
Speaker 1: hot Sam Pittman's wife was and he couldn't stop, Like
Speaker 1: he's everywhere I hear everywhere Billy goes, He's like Sam
Speaker 1: Pittman's wife. You know, I get the Sam Pittman be
Speaker 1: a confusion, though they have similar buildings. What is the
Speaker 1: what's the over under? What is the five and a half?
Speaker 1: So last year they won five. I look at their schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick their wins. They have Eastern Illinois and
Speaker 1: Central Michigan. They go to Kansas. They're not gonna win
Speaker 1: that game. Kansas is good this year, right, they host Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I think Minnesota's bad. They host Michigan State. I think
Speaker 1: Michigan State is bad. So they have four games. I
Speaker 1: feel good about him winning. Then they host Purdue. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the over. I see six wins on this uh,
Speaker 1: on this they play north that they may play Northwestern
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field, UH the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and that
Speaker 1: game might decide if they get the over wonder I
Speaker 1: say they win, I'm gonna take over.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go under. I just don't feel very confident
Speaker 2: in them. They're They're traditionally not a good school. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at that record. You know, if you lose Kansas,
Speaker 2: you go to at Nebraska at Penn State. On the
Speaker 2: first five weeks, I mean, you could start two and
Speaker 2: three and the wheels start falling off. So I'll go
Speaker 2: under there. But shout out to Brett Beeloman.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, shout out to britil Illinois football is one
Speaker 1: of those teams I don't know anything about. Like, give
Speaker 1: me your best Illinois football memory, Lovey Smith just that
Speaker 1: his beer was watching. Yeah, there's nothing else to say about, Like, seriously,
Speaker 1: give me an on the field Illinois moment that you
Speaker 1: can remember.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna have.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: I think I could just read through the phone book
Speaker 2: before I would come up with.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go further. I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of an Illinois football game. You can you
Speaker 1: remember watching an Illinois football game? Ever?
Speaker 2: No, I mean I've seen enough to know that Lovey
Speaker 2: Smith had a white beard, so I guess they've been
Speaker 2: on my TV.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go further. I don't think they have ever
Speaker 1: been on television. I cannot remember. I couldn't tell you
Speaker 1: what their stadium looks like.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Can you name a player that played there?
Speaker 3: I can't. I'm looking through their history.
Speaker 2: I can do one. I don't know why I popped
Speaker 2: in my head. Didn't Dick Buckets play there? I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm going way back. No, I'm going way back. It's
Speaker 2: not recent. I had a good running back. Further, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Say Illinois might be of the power for schools, the
Speaker 1: most mundane, nothing to talk about team that exists. I
Speaker 1: cannot think of a team that I have less memories
Speaker 1: of than Illinois.
Speaker 2: I really can't. I can't name a game.
Speaker 1: For those of you that don't listen to KSR the
Speaker 1: text machine where you can send us text seven seven
Speaker 1: two seven seven four five two five four send me
Speaker 1: if you have an Illinois football moment, what it would.
Speaker 3: Be for me?
Speaker 2: It would have to be it was on before a game.
Speaker 2: I was excited watch and I caught the Terror and they.
Speaker 1: Didn't think they're good enough to get that ESPN noon
Speaker 1: slot that Purdue always plays in. I don't even think
Speaker 1: they're in that game. I'm with you, So there you go,
Speaker 1: Beard under If I can't think, if I can't think
Speaker 1: of a moment in that team, ever, then I can't
Speaker 1: pick the.
Speaker 2: Open I placed the name of the running back, Minden Hall.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that someone Rashad Mindenhall. He went to Illinois. So
Speaker 2: I have Dick Buckis Lovey Smith's beard and Rashad Minton.
Speaker 1: Hall great moments Indiana. I do remember some Indiana games
Speaker 1: because they beat I think they played Olhio State once
Speaker 1: in a game that really mattered. I think they lost,
Speaker 1: but it was early in the year. The Kentucky's played them.
Speaker 2: They were pretty good, just a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: Michael Pennocks before he transferred to watch what's there tell
Speaker 2: me about?
Speaker 3: They did beat Wisconsin last year twenty to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: They fired their head coach Tom Allen, So they now
Speaker 3: have Kurt Signetti. Can you tell me where he's from? No,
Speaker 3: James Madison.
Speaker 1: Why did they fire Tom? What did he do?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did get James Madison coaches last year.
Speaker 3: Not a great year for the Hoosier.
Speaker 2: Good hire by them, though, James Madison. Remember they even
Speaker 2: had game day last year? Yeah, you almost. I thought
Speaker 2: that guy would go to a better job than in Indiana.
Speaker 1: Really think he would. Indiana seems like a pretty dead
Speaker 1: end job to me. Well, l remember him? Yes, what's
Speaker 1: there over under whatever?
Speaker 2: Five and a half?
Speaker 1: All right, so they'll play Florida Illinois, they'll beat them.
Speaker 1: They play Western Illinois, they go to UCLA, who's terrible.
Speaker 1: They beat They play Charlotte. They do have a lot
Speaker 1: of the good teams. They play Ohio State, they play Michigan,
Speaker 1: they play Washington, but Ucla stinks, Maryland stinks, Northwestern's not great,
Speaker 1: Michigan State, and.
Speaker 2: They can start five and oh yeah, I'm gonna go ahead.
Speaker 1: If it's five and a half, give me over on Indiana.
Speaker 2: I like that too. I think they start five and
Speaker 2: oh and then it certainly gets more difficult.
Speaker 1: You get with the Northwestern and they can start seven.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah in Nebraska, Washington, Michigan, I mean Michigan. But
Speaker 2: those are all home games.
Speaker 1: I'll go over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gona get off to a great start. My
Speaker 2: get a little confidence, and I trust James Madison's coach,
Speaker 2: whose name is Billy say it again, Signetti?
Speaker 1: Yeah him. The key game for them is that week
Speaker 1: three at Ucla. They need to win that because you
Speaker 1: say that's not good. They won't. I mean, who in
Speaker 1: La is gonna be like is coming to town? Let's
Speaker 1: go prime time in Pasadena. That's the game they need
Speaker 1: to win. What's next.
Speaker 3: Iowa went ten and four last year. They lost their
Speaker 3: bowl game to Tennessee UH in the Citrus Bowl, and
Speaker 3: it was very, very common knowledge that offensive coordinator Brian
Speaker 3: Ferrence lost his job because he couldn't score enough points.
Speaker 2: Friends, Yes, uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Iowa. Honestly, like being an Iowa fan,
Speaker 1: would you want to be a fan of the team
Speaker 1: that's the worst to watch, but is good.
Speaker 2: They just keep winning though at the end of the
Speaker 2: day they go home smiling because they won. But it
Speaker 2: is boring for a ball board last year, especially.
Speaker 1: Easy schedule this year. Honestly, honestly, they're a they're a
Speaker 1: sleepy playoff team in the Big Ten. They play Washington,
Speaker 1: but they play them at home. They do not play
Speaker 1: Penn State. They do not play Ohio State, they do
Speaker 1: not play Michigan, they do not play USC. No, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, they do play at Ohio State. So let's
Speaker 1: assume they lose that one. But then you look at
Speaker 1: those other games. There's not a reason they should lose
Speaker 1: any of they. I mean, you could make a strong
Speaker 1: argument they should go eleven and one, ten and two
Speaker 1: at the worst. So if the over under is nine
Speaker 1: and a half, which is what it is, right, no
Speaker 1: much lower? What is it?
Speaker 2: It was at seven and a half, now it's at eight.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love this one. I love this, they're
Speaker 2: going over eight. They got their quarterback back.
Speaker 1: I wish I got it.
Speaker 2: They almost have all the starters back. I think it's
Speaker 2: seventeen of the time two.
Speaker 1: And it's on this schedule.
Speaker 2: Just looking at that, I mean they're going to be
Speaker 2: favored in most games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the three loose, Like okay, let's just
Speaker 1: say you lose to Ohio Washington at home. They might lose,
Speaker 1: but they can win Wisconsin at home, and then the
Speaker 1: rest of their games all stink.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe when I saw there was eight, and
Speaker 2: like I said, it started at seven.
Speaker 1: And a half.
Speaker 2: What do they know that we don't know what they
Speaker 2: want to do with DraftKings.
Speaker 3: They want you to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, Iowa Lockey Lock Hawk Rock Hawk Lock.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. When I was typing up my
Speaker 2: spreadsheet here getting ready for the show and I had
Speaker 2: the eight, I couldn't believe at that schedule.
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable to me that that is a all
Speaker 1: right Maryland. The coach is Ralph Frigin right.
Speaker 3: Close Mike Locksley. He did finish his third consecutive winning season.
Speaker 3: Last year.
Speaker 2: They started five.
Speaker 3: And zero but then went two and five down the
Speaker 3: stretch to finish seven and five?
Speaker 1: Is Ralph frig alive?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You killed two people last week, so be careful.
Speaker 1: Look up and see if he's a love.
Speaker 2: Who'd you kill last week? The Kansas coach and someone? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Ralph frigin freegent. He went to the Orange Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think one year with Maryland.
Speaker 2: He's alive and well seventy seven years old.
Speaker 1: Good. I'm glad. I mean that's that was the key
Speaker 1: to me, that he that he is. They play yukon
Speaker 1: non conference Villa Nova. They're just playing a basketball non
Speaker 1: conference it looks like, and then it looks like they
Speaker 1: play I guess Virginia is technically not in the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: So they play Virginia on the road. You know, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what's the over or what's the line
Speaker 1: or games whatever? Six and a Half's what am I
Speaker 1: looking for? What am I trying to say?
Speaker 2: Win total? I guess six and a half. I'll add
Speaker 2: they had four years of baby Tua as their quarterback
Speaker 2: and he's gone, so this will be the first quarterback
Speaker 2: in four seasons when.
Speaker 1: They play USC, Oregon, Iowa, and Penn State. So they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose all those, so that's eight and so you
Speaker 1: got to think that they only lose one more game
Speaker 1: to go over. They also, you know, they go to Minnesota,
Speaker 1: they play Northwest, and go to Indiana. I'm picking them
Speaker 1: to lose that, so I'm gonna say under.
Speaker 2: I'm going under too. Had that one circled, Like I said,
Speaker 2: I think losing you're gonna make me tag.
Speaker 1: A to a taga viola.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was, Yeah, I'm not gonna I call
Speaker 2: him baby to a. I just think with a new
Speaker 2: quarterback might be some growing pains, and with that schedule,
Speaker 2: I'll go under.
Speaker 1: Michigan, Okay, crazy, they won the national championship last year.
Speaker 1: I don't think I know the coach's name. Before you say, what,
Speaker 1: do you know the good new guy's name? Do char Moore? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It's the uh that is Sharon Moore?
Speaker 2: Yes, did I just come up with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was like Homer Simpson, like I, I I have
Speaker 1: no idea what he looks like. I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: I get that name.
Speaker 2: You remember that weird interview where he was like crying
Speaker 2: over hardball and the cheating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't I don't know why I know
Speaker 1: that name.
Speaker 3: Well, you know the NEDD some text messages to me.
Speaker 2: Now they're gonna have hardball back for the first game
Speaker 2: he ended up canceling.
Speaker 3: Connor Stallion's no longer with Michigan.
Speaker 2: Connor Stallion's got a job defensive coordinator for a high.
Speaker 3: School, Detroit Mumford.
Speaker 2: Look at you knowing the name of the high school
Speaker 2: sounds like a porn name. Connor Stains or Detroit Mumford.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're in the same film both.
Speaker 1: I like to think Detroit Mumford is a Mumford and
Speaker 1: Sons cover band Detroit.
Speaker 2: I remember presid Billy pulled that out.
Speaker 1: Of Detroit Mumford is is good? A good one is
Speaker 1: a good one too? All right, what's the win.
Speaker 2: Do Their win total is nine even this season. Their
Speaker 2: big returner on the cover of College Football twenty five
Speaker 2: is running back Donovan Edwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going under. So they play texts. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say they lose that game. They go to Washington, they
Speaker 1: play Oregon, they go to Ohio State. So I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's nine, you gotta assume they win one of
Speaker 1: those games and then don't drop another game. And now,
Speaker 1: to be fair, you look at the other games they play,
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot that you would think they can drop.
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're gonna get to ten, So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pick something where the best I can
Speaker 1: do is push, So I'm gonna go under.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they lose Ohio State Texas if they lose,
Speaker 2: all three of those games are at nine. So Wellington State,
Speaker 2: even though it's a home game this year, that's always close.
Speaker 2: I've been to that game before. They'll give them a game.
Speaker 1: I think Missions States supposed to be really bad.
Speaker 2: It's one of those rivalries though it doesn't really matter
Speaker 2: how the teams look, they always keep it close. I'm
Speaker 2: going under also, and I would love to hear Detroit
Speaker 2: Mumford in concert.
Speaker 1: What is it? What was their big song wait Wait
Speaker 1: for You? But their lead singer looked like Tim Tebow.
Speaker 2: Remember I saw Marcus Mumford by himself at Realbird Is
Speaker 2: much so like Mumford and Son's sons. Marcus count of
Speaker 2: by himself, he's got a good thing.
Speaker 1: That was the other guy, his brother.
Speaker 2: I think the sons, no, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just know Mark.
Speaker 1: Why were they Mumford and Sons? Because he wasn't the dad.
Speaker 2: Highly unlikely he was the dad puts on a great
Speaker 2: show by himself.
Speaker 1: I feel like you could get a really good couch
Speaker 1: at Mumford and.
Speaker 2: Could be a plumbing company and Sons any any local
Speaker 2: LLC you could have it and Sons at the.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a little bit of a off
Speaker 1: topic aggression. And I know, should I watch any of
Speaker 1: the Marvel movies? Yes? Why? Uh?
Speaker 3: Because they're great?
Speaker 1: Because we talked about this, you've seen them.
Speaker 2: All right, No, I mean not all of them. Not now.
Speaker 1: I never watched Disney Plus, but now you get Hulu
Speaker 1: with Disney Plus and so like I have to log
Speaker 1: on to Disney Plus to get to Hulu. And it
Speaker 1: keeps that Marvel movie, keep thinking, keep saying there, and
Speaker 1: you know something you've known about me for a long time.
Speaker 1: I like a lot of something. And it's just like
Speaker 1: teasing me watch these Marvel movies. But I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't think because I don't think
Speaker 1: I like any of them.
Speaker 3: Did you ever read comic books?
Speaker 1: No? No, yeah, no way, who reads comic books?
Speaker 2: A lot of people. I was reading the phone Book.
Speaker 2: That's not true. I was more of a DC Batman guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just it feels like that's the one thing
Speaker 1: in culture that, like, you know, I don't know TikTok
Speaker 1: stars either, but the one thing in culture that like
Speaker 1: I should know that I just don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2: A little overwhelming.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of them, But if you want to
Speaker 3: watch the hits, what's the.
Speaker 2: What's the best Marvel movie?
Speaker 3: Probably Avengers Endgame? See.
Speaker 2: I watched that one on a plane, and everyone's like,
Speaker 2: you just watched the last one without seeing the others.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, I don't know. That's what Delta had
Speaker 2: for an option, and I turned it on.
Speaker 1: I thought people said the one thing people have told
Speaker 1: me I would like Wanda Vision.
Speaker 2: I started that one as a tea made it. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: It was fine.
Speaker 2: I just felt like, kind of like you're saying, once
Speaker 2: you're not in the Marvel universe, it moves on without you.
Speaker 2: What are there like thirty something of them now? I
Speaker 2: just feel like I missed the boat on all of them.
Speaker 1: Have I told you I figured out what my TikTok
Speaker 1: gimmick is going to be. I'm just I'm gonna it's
Speaker 1: all gonna be about phone books. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: very niche. I'm just gonna pull out phone books and
Speaker 1: go today kids, this is the Syracuse pull book. It's
Speaker 1: actually from nineteen eighty seven. Let's look at it. No,
Speaker 1: I uh, I'm gonna do pick of the day. So
Speaker 1: every day I'm gonna do one where my head is floating.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't let you always call your head floating.
Speaker 1: My head is floating. I'm just gonna talk about something
Speaker 1: like my pick of the day. But it'll allow me
Speaker 1: to talk about something different every day and it and
Speaker 1: it could be something I think is good, something I
Speaker 1: think is bad, Like maybe you're the pick of the
Speaker 1: day what like, but like that way, it's that's my thing.
Speaker 1: And then I don't feel like I have to dance
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Do you like that a good start?
Speaker 3: We can get you a green screen, tell you how
Speaker 3: to work that.
Speaker 2: Get that marios. I'm not I don't know how to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: Okay, just floating it.
Speaker 2: Uh. I just remembered I have a party trick in
Speaker 2: college that made me a lot of money. I can
Speaker 2: open a bottle of wine with a phone book. Really,
Speaker 2: no one ever believes it until I do it.
Speaker 1: All right. So that's but one day, my pick of
Speaker 1: the day would be Drew opens up a phone book
Speaker 1: with a wide bot.
Speaker 2: I can I can do it with a with a
Speaker 2: phone book and a shoe. And when I worked at
Speaker 2: Malones on my last day of work, I was having
Speaker 2: a little bit of fun and a guest wanted me
Speaker 2: to do the shoe trick. And I started to take
Speaker 2: my shoe off in the middle of Malones and the
Speaker 2: server and they were immediately put your shoe back on,
Speaker 2: get back.
Speaker 1: Here and Malones after you worked at the rib place. Yes,
Speaker 1: I climbed the climbed the ladder first time. Tony Romas, Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I hired Drew, he we had just hired him
Speaker 1: and I went and uh, I like, hired this new guy.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, he's gonna be he's
Speaker 1: gonna be young, he's gonna bring a fresh insight. And
Speaker 1: then I went to Tony Robins and he was a
Speaker 1: server there, and I was like, I don't think this
Speaker 1: was a good idea.
Speaker 2: I missed Tony Romas. Hey, Malon's too good money there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, phone book trick. Maybe one day I'll reveal it's.
Speaker 1: Gonna be my pick of the day one day, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Uh, Minnesota. I thought Michigan State was next. Do we
Speaker 3: don't want You're gonna skip over this part. Michigan State
Speaker 3: they started to and oh, but then ended two and eight,
Speaker 3: So not a great season. Fired.
Speaker 1: They ended two and eight. They didn't play their last
Speaker 1: two games.
Speaker 3: They their final ten games, they finished two and eight
Speaker 3: in them. Yeah, so four and eight total. They fired
Speaker 3: Mel Tucker.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And they have a new coach, Jonathan Smith from Oregon State.
Speaker 2: From Pocahontas, Captain John Smith.
Speaker 1: That's not a real person, Jonathan Smith. Actually, I think
Speaker 1: one of Andy Basher's, maybe his chief of staff, is
Speaker 1: named John Smith.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good way.
Speaker 2: Did he move from there to I bet you could
Speaker 2: pick up any phone book and there'd be a John
Speaker 2: Smith in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Matt Joe. Yes about that then, like
Speaker 1: Matt Jones, I'm gonna take the under unless you tell
Speaker 1: me it's three and a half.
Speaker 2: It is higher than three and a half. It is
Speaker 2: an even five under.
Speaker 1: They'll beat pray View A and M, they'll beat Florida
Speaker 1: Atlantic and they might not win another game under. What
Speaker 1: do you got?
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the schedule. They go to Illinois. I mean,
Speaker 2: we we just covered what a traditional powerhouse Illinois is.
Speaker 2: I'll go under as well. Yeah I don't trust John Smith.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't either. Who was the Did you say
Speaker 1: there was an explorer John Smith? Right? What did he?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Pocahontas in John Smith? That's the thing, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Where was Pocahontas? Like I know the movie, but
Speaker 1: like was she a real person?
Speaker 2: As far as I know? It was a cartoon to
Speaker 2: me growing up? But I.
Speaker 1: Don't know.
Speaker 3: I was thinking of John Smith. Wasn't he a religious
Speaker 3: leader in Mormons? Or was that Joseph Smith?
Speaker 1: Joseph Smith?
Speaker 2: If you'd watched the Book of Mormon like I told
Speaker 2: you to, I know it's on the list.
Speaker 1: Yeah was he? John Smith and Pocahontas.
Speaker 2: According to disneyfandom dot com, where you're gonna catch up
Speaker 2: on all my history, note, he is a renowned English
Speaker 2: explorer that took part in Governor Ratcliffe's expedition to Virginia
Speaker 2: where he met and fell in love with Pocahontas.
Speaker 1: There you go, see, I didn't I didn't know that Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I had a big twelve to ten victory against Iowa.
Speaker 3: Seemed like they were on the right track. Then they
Speaker 3: lost four straight. After that, they finished five and seven.
Speaker 2: PJ.
Speaker 3: Fleck Row the boat head coach.
Speaker 2: Big Road, the boat guy. Hey remember, so he was
Speaker 2: he was a hot name there for a while from
Speaker 2: Western Michigan.
Speaker 1: Is that right, that's right?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I look at their schedule. They play North Carolina,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island in Nevada, they get uc USC, Michigan, Iowa,
Speaker 1: Penn State, and Wisconsin. So I'm going to say under
Speaker 1: if it's six and a half. If it's six or more,
Speaker 1: I might say over, what is it?
Speaker 2: It's five and a half? Ooh, they added a quarterback
Speaker 2: from New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make it any better. Well, I'm picking a lot.
Speaker 1: I think I'm picking a lot of unders.
Speaker 2: But I guess I got a receiver from Georgia, receiver
Speaker 2: from Penn State. They did well in the portal.
Speaker 1: I'm going under. I think PJ. Flip Flack is a
Speaker 1: little bit of it.
Speaker 2: He was, uh, he was one of the hottest names
Speaker 2: in coaching. Then he went to Minnesota and just kind
Speaker 2: of leveled off. I'll go over here just to be
Speaker 2: a little different. I feel like we've been greening a lot.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna trust fcs all American Max Brosmer from New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that word means.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll talk about it afterwards.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, should you beep it?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Why don't you beep it? And then people when people
Speaker 1: have to guess what I said?
Speaker 3: All right, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Nebraska Nebraska Matt Ruhle, former head coach in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Right Baylor lifetime ago. Yes, lost five of seven games
Speaker 3: by one score last year. Yeah, and they're sitting here
Speaker 3: ready to go again.
Speaker 1: Hard schedule, but I kind of like them this year.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over. They're gonna beat you TEP, They're
Speaker 1: gonna beat Colorado, they're gonna beat Northern Iowa. Then they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat Illinois. They're gonna be Purdue. They're gonna beat Rutgers.
Speaker 1: They have a very good chance of being six and
Speaker 1: oh they do play Ohio State, USC in Wisconsin and
Speaker 1: Iowa on the back end. But I think they'll beat
Speaker 1: USCLA for seven, in Indiana for eight. So I have
Speaker 1: eight definite wins. What's over and seven and a half?
Speaker 1: Give me give me the over.
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a good year for Nebraska.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a Nebraska guy, but I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna here's what's gonna happen. They're gonna start out
Speaker 1: six and oh when everybody's gonna go Nebraska back, Think
Speaker 1: Nebraska's back, Nebraska's back, and then game day or whatever
Speaker 1: will go to like they're at Ohio State game and
Speaker 1: it'll be but then they'll fall apart. But I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna take them to go over seven a half.
Speaker 2: I like it too. They're a disappoint last year and
Speaker 2: I cashed in. I'm betting against them a lot last season.
Speaker 2: They have a Dylan Raiola, the five star quarterback, taken
Speaker 2: over this year, expect to have a big season. I'm
Speaker 2: going over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that one a lot. I like uh.
Speaker 1: I like the over for Nebraska, and you know, as
Speaker 1: people who have listened to me, I'm always a Nebraska hater,
Speaker 1: but I think this one's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: They've been easy money lately betting against them. But their
Speaker 2: quarterback was like top twenty recruit, five star. If he
Speaker 2: can adjust to college football, he's they have high expectations
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 1: Northwestern, who this year is playing their games. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the stadium they're playing in. They're playing in like
Speaker 1: a high school state. Oh nice, Like they're playing in
Speaker 1: like uh, look it up. I think they're literally playing
Speaker 1: like in someone's backyard. Like it's it's a crazy that
Speaker 1: the stadium they're playing in, the fact that they're going
Speaker 1: to be major games. That's why I think they're playing
Speaker 1: two or three games at Soldier Field is because the
Speaker 1: stadium is so small. Like I think they're playing Ohio
Speaker 1: State maybe at Soldier Field, and but like, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: playing Ohio State Soldier Field and Illinois at Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: But I think the rest of their games are literally
Speaker 1: like in a high school state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're building something new and it's not ready.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at it. Yeah, and it didn't give
Speaker 2: you a good college big college football vibes.
Speaker 1: I mean like it's it looks it literally looks like
Speaker 1: it's just at a dude's house.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're missing as a crane holding the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what's what's the what's the over? Well, what's
Speaker 1: the first of all? Give me something about it.
Speaker 3: One of the surprises of the Big Ten last year
Speaker 3: after the off season dismissal of Pat Fitzgerald UH seven
Speaker 3: and five, and they promoted interim head coach David Brawn
Speaker 3: to full time.
Speaker 1: All Right, I don't know him.
Speaker 2: What's the Fitzgerald was there a long time, including in
Speaker 2: the Music City Bowl that shed in.
Speaker 1: Trouble in the end for like, was it spanking players
Speaker 1: or something?
Speaker 2: Spaking players? He did have his scandal for it was
Speaker 2: I don't know if he himself was bending them over
Speaker 2: his knee, but yeah, no, there was a big hazing.
Speaker 1: Telling me he didn't look at like Darnell Autry and
Speaker 1: go bend over.
Speaker 2: You've been a bad boy who takes off his bells
Speaker 2: after practice. No, I don't think it was that extreme,
Speaker 2: but there was a big hazing scandal that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think he was aware of it and didn't do much.
Speaker 2: This look look like it was crazy. He was spanking players.
Speaker 2: I knew there was something, all right, So what's the window?
Speaker 2: Four and a half?
Speaker 1: Oh? Is that it?
Speaker 2: It's all? Do you trust?
Speaker 1: Remind me of Ohio Duke and Eastern Illinois. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say they win all those and then they get to three.
Speaker 1: The problem is finding that fourth and fifth win is hard.
Speaker 1: They have a rough, They have a brutal skin. Now
Speaker 1: with that, I mean they played Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio State, Michigan, Washington.
Speaker 2: They play Ohio State and Michigan back to back. That's
Speaker 2: not fair after going to Purdue.
Speaker 1: Like though, four, I mean you said it was four
Speaker 1: and a half. They're definitely gonna get three. I feel
Speaker 1: like Illinois they can get would be four. So I
Speaker 1: gotta do is find one more You think they can
Speaker 1: beat Maryland?
Speaker 2: Yeah, at Purdue or at Maryland is what you're looking
Speaker 2: at is the flipping.
Speaker 1: It mean, I gotta go with one of these teams.
Speaker 1: I've already said Maryland stinks. I think I'll go first.
Speaker 1: You've been leading.
Speaker 2: I'll go over. I trust David Braun. They got the
Speaker 2: spanker out of there. He's there to just coach football.
Speaker 2: The atmosphere will be soothing to them. It'll just be
Speaker 2: like they're in their backyard growing up, playing backyard football.
Speaker 2: I'm going over.
Speaker 1: I'm going over to I went to college with a
Speaker 1: guy named Greg Braun. He was kind of a jerk
Speaker 1: to me then, so you would think I would want
Speaker 1: revenge by saying under But you know what, in honor
Speaker 1: of Greg Braun and the idea that yes, you can
Speaker 1: be a jerk and I'm still gonna be nice to you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick the over, which I know is what
Speaker 1: he wants for Northwestern, And if you know Greg Broun,
Speaker 1: tell him it's not personal that I just brought him
Speaker 1: up on this podcast.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they have a familiar quarterback, Mike Wright, who
Speaker 2: was at Vandy Beakentucky, then he went to Missus State
Speaker 2: for a year, didn't really play that much, and then
Speaker 2: here he is in Northwestern.
Speaker 1: Ill good for you. Grat Ohio State.
Speaker 3: Eleven and one lost to Michigan for the third year
Speaker 3: in a row.
Speaker 1: They play at Oregon. Otherwise they're gonna win every game,
Speaker 1: So feel good about this one. If it's ten and
Speaker 1: a half, give me the over. Me too, it's ten
Speaker 1: and a half. I like the over. They host Michigan.
Speaker 1: I think Michigan takes a little bit of a step
Speaker 1: back after losing Hardball. Iowa is my lock lock, but
Speaker 1: this is in the conversation for a lock. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Georgia and Ohio State. If I don't know what
Speaker 1: the odds would be on DraftKings for will both of
Speaker 1: these teams make the playoff. But I would feel very
Speaker 1: good of a bet of a Georgia Ohio State both
Speaker 1: will make the playoff, partly because I think they're the
Speaker 1: two teams, and then honestly, if you could throw in Utah,
Speaker 1: you could probably get it about even money. And because
Speaker 1: I think all three of those are making it. So yep.
Speaker 2: They bring a lot of starters back and they added
Speaker 2: Will Howard, the best quarterback in the portal. Everyone says
Speaker 2: from Kansas State. So I expect you had another good
Speaker 2: year for Ohio State and they'll finally get Michigan.
Speaker 1: Oregon is in the Big Ten. Don't know why. They
Speaker 1: have a weird schedule. They play Idaho, Boise State, and
Speaker 1: Oregon State and then they're like, now let's go play
Speaker 1: our conference games on the other side of the country. Again.
Speaker 1: They host Ohio State and then that you look at
Speaker 1: their schedule and you're like, all right, well, where are
Speaker 1: they gonna lose?
Speaker 2: I mean, is he over under ten? Ten and a half?
Speaker 1: See, I don't love the ten and a half because
Speaker 1: they could lose to Washington, could lose to Michigan.
Speaker 2: Got Dylan Gabriel at quarterback, No Nicks, probably best quarterback
Speaker 2: in the conference. Yeah, I'm gonna go over. I think
Speaker 2: they'll win eleven as well, at least what any information
Speaker 2: from you that.
Speaker 3: They had that crazy game versus Washington last year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: besides that, I mean they pretty much destroyed every other team.
Speaker 3: Besides that in Texas Tech, I like them.
Speaker 1: I mean it's ten and a half. I wish it
Speaker 1: was ten, but if it's ten and a half, I'll
Speaker 1: still taken over. You know, they if they were to
Speaker 1: somehow beat Ohio State, then I think it's a lot
Speaker 1: like if you bet Ohio State and Oregon to go
Speaker 1: over ten and a half, you're guaranteed, I think, to
Speaker 1: win one of them and then the other one. You're
Speaker 1: just hoping the team goes undefeated otherwise. So if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bet one of them as well, bet them both.
Speaker 2: Yeah. As we said with Michigan, I have Michigan slipping
Speaker 2: this year. In Ohio State and Oregon are my two
Speaker 2: national championship contenders out of this conference. So I like
Speaker 2: the Overallso Penn State James Franklin.
Speaker 3: One double digit games for the fifth time under James Franklin,
Speaker 3: but they lost to both Ohio State and Michigan. And
Speaker 3: that's what you gotta do is win those games. As
Speaker 3: the Penn State coach ten and three overall.
Speaker 1: At USC, Ohio State, Washington are the only games that
Speaker 1: may be Wisconsin so at Wisconsin. So there's four potentially
Speaker 1: losable games. I think you're gonna tell me the over
Speaker 1: unders nine and a half, right.
Speaker 2: Ten and a half?
Speaker 1: Under me too.
Speaker 2: I like the under as I just said. With Michigan,
Speaker 2: I think Penn State and Michigan are like running third
Speaker 2: and fourth in this conference behind Ohio State and a half.
Speaker 1: That feels high, friends of draftings. I mean, they play
Speaker 1: Ohio State at USC, They're gonna be an underdog probably
Speaker 1: in both of those games. Right, Maybe not at USC,
Speaker 1: but I would think so.
Speaker 2: Their defense was amazing last year, but there were times
Speaker 2: their offense was hard to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like the under there me too. Purdue.
Speaker 2: When I think of Purdue, I think of Drew Brees's mole.
Speaker 2: That's what you think is fair? I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's the most famous quarterback from Purdue, and that's the
Speaker 2: most famous mole in football. It's not he never took
Speaker 2: it off, did he. I I like that though, Like,
Speaker 2: why would I take it off? Man looks like a
Speaker 2: man looks right?
Speaker 1: FA One of the most famous moles in people Cindy Crawford,
Speaker 1: Sindy Crawfords, but hers was cute. His is big.
Speaker 2: You don't think Brees got cute little moll.
Speaker 3: The guy from Austin Powers.
Speaker 1: I mean, it probably is one of the more famous ones.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody else you can think of? Like? I
Speaker 1: get little moles on my face, but I usually try
Speaker 1: to get him taken off. It looks like most people
Speaker 1: people don't, or some people don't. Drew Brees doesn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, Cindy Crawford just immediately comes to mind. Kate
Speaker 2: Upton had a little bit of a mole. She was
Speaker 2: following the Cindy Crawford path.
Speaker 1: Billy, did you know that Drew and I once that
Speaker 1: one night we both danced with Kate.
Speaker 3: Both of you danced with me. I think she still
Speaker 3: talks about before the Justin Verlander days.
Speaker 1: Huh oh, Yeah, Me and me and Drew spent like
Speaker 1: all night with her.
Speaker 2: She for some reason was uncomfortable around everyone but us.
Speaker 2: Maybe we just seemed normal. I think she just held
Speaker 2: her purse for like an hour. She said, we hold
Speaker 2: this off.
Speaker 1: She sort of saw us as harmless. There's a I
Speaker 1: have a picture. There's a picture of me and Drew
Speaker 1: and her and DeMarcus Cousins. There's a picture of the
Speaker 1: four of us. He was ruined our vibes. And then
Speaker 1: I have a picture of her, of me and her,
Speaker 1: where like in the moment she was very friendly, like
Speaker 1: hugging me like I was her best friend. But for
Speaker 1: some reason in the picture, I look really like creepy
Speaker 1: with her, Like it looks like I'm which makes me
Speaker 1: mad because I always want to post that picture, but
Speaker 1: then it looks like I'm like, it doesn't look good
Speaker 1: for me, even though I mean the whole night I'm not.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to say she
Speaker 1: was into me Andrew. She wasn't. But like we had
Speaker 1: a ton of fun with her. And I have to
Speaker 1: tell you, I barely knew who she was that night.
Speaker 1: That video of her dancing at the the game had
Speaker 1: just come out. She did the dougie yeah, and that
Speaker 1: hadn't that just come out? So the party, it's like
Speaker 1: I had seen her, but I really didn't know who
Speaker 1: she was. I mean, she wasn't so famous. They couldn't
Speaker 1: bring her in for that Derby party.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't have set her down with me and you
Speaker 2: if she were an a list day.
Speaker 1: It was me and Drew and her and DeMarcus cousins.
Speaker 1: Basically the whole night.
Speaker 2: Not only did we dance with her, we got one
Speaker 2: of those photo booths where you have the hats and glasses.
Speaker 2: Remember we did that too. I still have those on
Speaker 2: my phone. I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: That might have been, along with Marilyn Manson, the most
Speaker 1: real communication you and I have ever had with his celebrity.
Speaker 2: I means of importance? What's celebrity to her level? Says
Speaker 2: I gotta go. You just hold my purse and then
Speaker 2: just left me there. I'm like, this is Kate Upton's purse. DeMarcus,
Speaker 2: I'm just in charge of this. DeMarcus was convinced they
Speaker 2: were hooking up, and.
Speaker 3: She must have friend zoned you pretty quickly. You're holding purses.
Speaker 2: Well. At the end of the night, she was going
Speaker 2: to waffle house and I asked her, I think it's
Speaker 2: her cousin or manager. Yeah, said we'd go, and instead
Speaker 2: of getting a phone number, I got an email. Dress
Speaker 2: but that wasn't a note. That wasn't a note. I
Speaker 2: got an email instead of a phone number.
Speaker 1: Whit did you? You asked her to go to waffle house.
Speaker 2: No, they were going to waffle house and I were like,
Speaker 2: we go and she was like, yeah, let's leak up
Speaker 2: and she pulls out her phone. I'm like, am I
Speaker 2: about to get a number? But then she gave an
Speaker 2: email address.
Speaker 1: That picture's like really a different era of the two
Speaker 1: of us. I mean, like we're both fatter than.
Speaker 3: We are not.
Speaker 2: I hadn't grown a beard yet, you had not grown
Speaker 2: a beerd you look the babyface young in that picture.
Speaker 2: That was a fun night, though, That was a night
Speaker 2: de Marcus Cousins threatened Pete Thamel. Someone I won't see
Speaker 2: who they are, but someone with a small level of
Speaker 2: fame texted me last night out of the blue completely
Speaker 2: ran him and him from a while, Like remember that
Speaker 2: nine Pete Amil was in Louisville and you all walked
Speaker 2: up on him just well, we walked up behind DeMarcus
Speaker 2: to see it. Yeah he didn't.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus was gonna let When I see Pete Tham on TV,
Speaker 1: I just think to myself, you know you're lucky that DeMarcus. Yeah, fame.
Speaker 2: Also, he why is he on Game Day?
Speaker 1: He has the charisma? Okay, I gotta be careful ESPN.
Speaker 1: I mean he has the charisma though of a paper bag.
Speaker 1: I mean he's at ESPN because he's Adrian Mojenowski's I mean, basically,
Speaker 1: Adrian Rojanowski is a huge amount of pool at ESPN
Speaker 1: and he they're friends, and so that's why he's there.
Speaker 2: He went from tearing down in his canter and trying
Speaker 2: to tear down Eric bloods one DeMarcus Cousins to tell
Speaker 2: me which football games to watch. I just I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't support that really has no charisma, like at
Speaker 1: least I mean, Adrian Morojanowski has some charisma, but Pete
Speaker 1: is like just sucks the air.
Speaker 2: I didn't see him in the photo booth with Kate Upton,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 1: Have to say, I mean, great employee with me, great colleague,
Speaker 1: great colleague, Rutgers the scarlet.
Speaker 2: Did we even give our picks? We just really wanted
Speaker 2: to brag about knowing Kate Upton.
Speaker 1: And we did. They played Notre Dame, they go to
Speaker 1: Oregon State. Tough schedule. What's there over under four.
Speaker 3: And a half.
Speaker 1: It's a tough non conference.
Speaker 2: Do you want me to lead off? I'm going under
Speaker 2: I think I trust it.
Speaker 1: I think game too, that there's not a game that
Speaker 1: I look at and say that's an obvious win except
Speaker 1: Indiana State.
Speaker 2: They were in the big Team Big Ten Championship with Brohm.
Speaker 2: They go to the new coach whose name is what again.
Speaker 3: Ryan Walters, who has Illinois defensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they would they win like three or
Speaker 2: four games. I don't have faith in Ryan Walters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was not a lot. Perdue was four and eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I like the under because I think, except
Speaker 1: for Indiana State, there's not a game on that schedule
Speaker 1: you can say they're definitely gonna win. So give me
Speaker 1: the under. I actually would put that second to my
Speaker 1: what was it Iowa?
Speaker 2: Was my Lock, Lock Locke.
Speaker 1: I think this would be this would be the rock
Speaker 1: Chalk second place Lock. We're feeling good about some of these.
Speaker 1: We really ones. I feel like I kind of am
Speaker 1: seeing it.
Speaker 3: Rutgers big success for them last year they went six
Speaker 3: and six under Greg Shechiano, who's back first winning. I
Speaker 3: forgot the records since twenty fourteen because they went seven
Speaker 3: and six after the Bowl win and only allowed twenty
Speaker 3: one points a game on defense that was very solid.
Speaker 1: So the good thing for them is they avoid most
Speaker 1: of the good teams. They go to Virginia Tech, but
Speaker 1: then they do not play Ohio State. They do not
Speaker 1: play Michigan, they do not play Penn State, they do
Speaker 1: not Pluy. They do play usc but they avoid the
Speaker 1: best teams in the conference. Let me guess, is its.
Speaker 2: Gavin Wims quarterback?
Speaker 1: Is it six and a half?
Speaker 2: It was, it's moved down to six from people betting
Speaker 2: the under, so it's six even.
Speaker 1: Now give me the over. They're gonna beat Howard, They're
Speaker 1: gonna beat Akron.
Speaker 2: You're going against the public.
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose three straight. But then they're gonna finish strong.
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat UCLA, They're gonna beat Minnesota, they're gonna
Speaker 1: beat Maryland, The're gonna beat Illinois. The're gonna beat Michigan State.
Speaker 1: Like I think they're gonna finish strong, I'll take the over.
Speaker 1: I think they at least win six, so I'll give
Speaker 1: us a shot at winning seven.
Speaker 2: I'll go over to they had a great defense last
Speaker 2: year and bring a lot of those guys back. Uh,
Speaker 2: they're replacing Gavin Wims it with Athan Caliak menace Ye,
Speaker 2: I like that guy from Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Would you take under? No? I'm going over over.
Speaker 2: I think it got bet down too much, so I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go the other way.
Speaker 1: It sounds like the quarterback. He pronounces it like the
Speaker 1: town in Kentucky, like Athens. Instead of Athens, he's Athen.
Speaker 1: I'm reading it off a website. Yeah, I did my homework,
Speaker 1: not my pronunciation homework. Uh, Ucla. Here's what's interesting about UCLA.
Speaker 1: They're playing Hawaii and normally teams decide to play Hawaii
Speaker 1: because if you play Hawaii, as an incentive to play Hawaii,
Speaker 1: they'll let you play an extra game. Did you know that? No,
Speaker 1: because nobody wants to schedule. Why because it's so far away,
Speaker 1: so to get so much out of you, So to
Speaker 1: give teams incentive to play Hawaii. If you play Hawaii,
Speaker 1: you get to play a thirteenth kame. Wow, UCLA is
Speaker 1: playing Hawai, but then just said no on the.
Speaker 3: Thirteenth k Yeah, don't need the money.
Speaker 1: But isn't that kind of odd? Just like nope, not interesting?
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no Hawaii for us.
Speaker 1: So they're supposed to be awful. Who's their coach?
Speaker 3: Deshaun Foster, former UCLA NFL running back.
Speaker 2: Really he had the famous media day moment. He was
Speaker 2: clearly he was so nervous, and he said, we're excited
Speaker 2: to be here where UCLA. We're located in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and that's all he said.
Speaker 1: These some things you don't know about us.
Speaker 2: We're located in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: We played that on ESPN when I hosted.
Speaker 2: That was great on your Hawaii point, real quick fun fact,
Speaker 2: Delaware State opens with them and they missed their bus
Speaker 2: to the airport and they're having trouble getting to Hawaii for
Speaker 2: a week zero. So you're talking about how hard it
Speaker 2: is to schedule teams. They finally get an opponent and
Speaker 2: Delaware State was late to JFK and I couldn't get there.
Speaker 2: It's too bad.
Speaker 1: I was at JFK that day.
Speaker 2: It was busy see Delaware State running to.
Speaker 1: Their but I was there. I was there that day
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, man, this is busy, you know, Billy.
Speaker 1: I was able to Oh, so it was like but
Speaker 1: if you if you didn't, it might have been hard.
Speaker 1: That delta line was way way long.
Speaker 2: Now, the of course, don't look very fun here recently,
Speaker 2: and I like to fly. It just seems to be chaos.
Speaker 2: Every time I open Twitter, there's a New Airport with
Speaker 2: I walked up Madness flight to.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati delayed and I was like, oh was it? The
Speaker 1: flight was supposed to be at two thirty nine. So
Speaker 1: I walk up to the woman at the counter and
Speaker 1: I go, how long is this delay too? And she
Speaker 1: goes to forty one. I got that in me. I
Speaker 1: was like, what flash in red lights? Delayed? If it's
Speaker 1: going to be two minutes? Like, just don't even tell me?
Speaker 1: I mean, but they did. What's the over under?
Speaker 2: I have UCLA again. It's one that's moved. It opened
Speaker 2: at five and a half, now it's down to five.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like the under. They're not winning six games.
Speaker 2: Really. I know their coach as a famous running back,
Speaker 2: but just seeing him at the podium made me wonder
Speaker 2: if he's cut out to be a head coach. I
Speaker 2: get it, not everybody can public speak. I'm not great
Speaker 2: at it either, but that was really embarrassing as his
Speaker 2: first media day. So I just don't know if he's
Speaker 2: if he's cut out to lead the Bruins. I'm going
Speaker 2: under two.
Speaker 1: Tough schedule for USC play LSU play Notre Dame, and
Speaker 1: then the regular conference schedule, which will include Washington. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: they miss a lot of the other good teams at Michigan.
Speaker 1: Who's their coach, Lincoln Riley? Right, that's right? Yes, what's
Speaker 1: there over? Under?
Speaker 2: Uh? Seven and a half, Yes, seven and a half.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take I'm gonna take the over. They're gonna
Speaker 1: they'll beat either LSU or Notre Dame probably well, maybe neither.
Speaker 1: But then you look at their schedule, like, I don't
Speaker 1: see a ton of games they'll lose. They do play
Speaker 1: Penn State, they play Michigan.
Speaker 2: I'm going under. They actually have some Notre Dame, Nebraska,
Speaker 2: they have some teams that we've picked overs for so
Speaker 2: we if we don't want to contradict ourselves, I'm going over.
Speaker 1: I mean under.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, mm, you make good points. But they beat
Speaker 2: Louis Blake thirty five in the bowl game.
Speaker 1: It's true. I'm gonna go over. Well, we'll contrast on
Speaker 1: that one. I'll believe in the power of a trojan.
Speaker 2: The Caleb Williams is gone. He's off to your bears.
Speaker 2: Hard Knocks has been awesome, by the way it has.
Speaker 1: I'm liking Kayle Williams. You know where he carries a purse?
Speaker 3: Yeah, fingernail poplay but.
Speaker 1: He's mad about that. What's wrong? I mean a purse
Speaker 1: is actually like a I don't carry one, but like.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of blongie. Look, I got this
Speaker 2: big backpack right here.
Speaker 1: I'd love to know what's base.
Speaker 3: Uh, Well, there's a difference between a person a satchel
Speaker 3: as well. I mean there's a lot of differences.
Speaker 2: I think i'd say, why why why why can't If
Speaker 2: you can carry a satchel and a man can do that,
Speaker 2: why can't he carry a purse.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean gender norms. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just think of all the gender norms, that's a
Speaker 1: dumb one.
Speaker 3: Well, especially if you got stuff to carry, right.
Speaker 2: Like a jockstrap at least makes sense. Why is it
Speaker 2: a bad I should wear a fanny pack more often?
Speaker 2: To be honest, we anti fanny pack. How do you
Speaker 2: all feel about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know a few.
Speaker 1: Times the punter for the Bears, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he wants me to say this, but that's okay. The
Speaker 1: punter for the Bears is Australian and he was featured
Speaker 1: on the episode last night. They talked to him a lot.
Speaker 1: So this morning I got up, I saw Max, I
Speaker 1: go a, uh, well, I hadn't seen him in like
Speaker 1: a week. I was like, hey, man, do you see
Speaker 1: the that's not you need to watch a new episode
Speaker 1: of Hard Knocks. They're the Australian guys there. He was like,
Speaker 1: I hate him. I go, really, I thought you guys
Speaker 1: all liked each other and he was just like no,
Speaker 1: he was like he's the worst.
Speaker 2: As he competition got it.
Speaker 1: I guess I thought they'd all like each other.
Speaker 2: You know, my Titans open up the season at Chicago,
Speaker 2: so this has been a nice scouting report. Oh that's right,
Speaker 2: because they were Will Levis game. I thought ESPN was
Speaker 2: going to sit. When I looked at the schedule, I
Speaker 2: thought they were going to send us, and then they didn't.
Speaker 1: But you're going down Washington open up against Weber State
Speaker 1: and then they play in the Apple Cup against Washington State.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the new Washington coach.
Speaker 3: I don't know much about him.
Speaker 1: Well, tell me what his name is. How about we'll
Speaker 1: start with that.
Speaker 3: I don't have that one either, Jed Fish. There you go,
Speaker 3: how do you not have it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: We were we were transitioning to a CC and I
Speaker 3: wasn't aware of that. Yeah, I jumped ahead a little
Speaker 3: bit undefeated regular season.
Speaker 1: They did, it's a championship game. Actually was competitive for
Speaker 1: a while. What's what's the the win total?
Speaker 2: The win total is six and a half. They lost
Speaker 2: Michael PENNOCKX to the NFL, drafted much higher than anyone expected.
Speaker 2: They bring him Will Rogers for Mississippi State. We all
Speaker 2: know Will Rogers from the SEC.
Speaker 1: Say they lose to Oregon, say they lose at penn State.
Speaker 1: Let's even say they lose at Iowa. Still seven and
Speaker 1: a half, six and a half, six and a half.
Speaker 1: Give me the over. Why is everybody so down? And why?
Speaker 1: I mean they don't play great teams? Give me over?
Speaker 1: I like that one.
Speaker 2: I'm doing the math here. I kind of agree with you.
Speaker 2: A lot of their teams on the schedule I've taken
Speaker 2: unders for so we can have Washington help us out
Speaker 2: by winning those games. I'll go over.
Speaker 1: Let's go finally, Wisconsin, Ron Daan, that's.
Speaker 3: Right, Wisconsin. Not a great year last year.
Speaker 1: Are you still with us, Billy? Are you in the ACC?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Can we go back? Tell me the Wisconsin coaches to
Speaker 1: start with.
Speaker 3: I can tell you they went seven and six last year.
Speaker 1: So you don't know who the coach is.
Speaker 2: No, Luke Fickle. Everybody knows Luke Fickle from Cincinnati went
Speaker 2: up to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: J J. Watts no longer there. Russell Wilson's no longer there.
Speaker 1: They play Alabama, which is a pretty amazing scheduling thing
Speaker 1: for them. They decide to They're hosting Alabama. That'll be
Speaker 1: a big day in Madison. I don't know. This is
Speaker 1: maybe the one I know the least of what to do.
Speaker 2: Their quarterback is Tyler Van Dyke from Miami. Last year.
Speaker 1: He was good. He was like what some of the
Speaker 1: people thought would get drafted, right, and then he ended
Speaker 1: up at Wisconsin. What's the what's the window? Seven? Excuse me? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Seven?
Speaker 1: Even all right. They're gonna lose to Oregon. They're gonna
Speaker 1: lose to Penn State, the lose at Iowa, the loose
Speaker 1: to USC to lose to Alabama. So I'm at seven
Speaker 1: right there. I'm gonna take an off the board under
Speaker 1: because I think the best I can do is push.
Speaker 1: So when I just taking under.
Speaker 2: Look into the odds the unders minus one forty, so
Speaker 2: everyone agrees with you. I will also go under. They
Speaker 2: won seven games last year. I think at best. You
Speaker 2: pushed there, but I'll take the under.
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Speaker 1: You want to talk about it? We're talking about a
Speaker 1: conference that's stupid. Well, why are these teams in this conference?
Speaker 3: Well, half of them were trying to get out of
Speaker 3: the conference.
Speaker 1: They should have. You looked at it.
Speaker 2: It won't be there much longer.
Speaker 1: You think they're the ones that go away? Think so? Well, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what let's play as we do this.
Speaker 1: You picked the conference this team will be in in
Speaker 1: seven years. Oh goodness, okay, let's do that as we're going.
Speaker 1: All right, Boston College. Tell me about them.
Speaker 3: Their new head coach, Bill O'Brien. May I heard of him.
Speaker 2: He was therefore right first year year.
Speaker 1: But didn't he coach there like fifteen years ago? Oh?
Speaker 3: I think that's he was.
Speaker 1: He was at Penn State, but I think before that
Speaker 1: he was at Boston College.
Speaker 3: That that is a possibility.
Speaker 1: And then their coach like left to be a coordinator somewhere, right.
Speaker 3: I don't have that. They did win the with Sabby
Speaker 3: Fenway ball against SMU seven and six record for them
Speaker 3: last year, their.
Speaker 2: Quarterback, excuse me, their coach went to the Packers to
Speaker 2: be the defensive coordinator. Bill O'Brien was at the Patriots
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and tell you I have no clue
Speaker 1: what the thing. I don't know who's on the team.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're good. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: So just give me a win total and I'll just
Speaker 1: flip a coin.
Speaker 2: Five wins.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's an even number, which makes it hard.
Speaker 1: All right, they'll beat Ducaine. They're not gonna win at Missouri,
Speaker 1: They'll beat Western. Sorry, Billy, I'm going under, which is
Speaker 1: tough because it's five they don't have to win, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go under.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna believe in the Patriots brands coming over with
Speaker 2: Bill O'Brien. I think the win that flips them to
Speaker 2: the over is they beat Louisville. How about that?
Speaker 1: I like it all right, sounds good.
Speaker 2: I got a lot of starters back. It's a good coach.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows who Bill O'Brien is. I'm gonna trust him.
Speaker 2: In year one in Boston, I Cal Cow Cal's in
Speaker 2: the ACC stop Like that's so dumb.
Speaker 3: It is dumb, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's their coach?
Speaker 2: Justin Wilcox. It's been there a long time.
Speaker 1: I was looking at ESPN sends out a press release
Speaker 1: every week that I'm on, where they tell you who's
Speaker 1: going to announce each game, you know, in this opening
Speaker 1: week because so many teams play one double A teams
Speaker 1: or whatever, they have to get announcers that they don't
Speaker 1: use like any other week of the year.
Speaker 2: So like, you know, so tell me you're calling an
Speaker 2: ACC game.
Speaker 1: No, But I did look and I saw that Cal
Speaker 1: was playing UC Davis, and I thought, if you get
Speaker 1: a signed this game, do you just go maybe go
Speaker 1: into accounting, you start somewhere, Vince so where you are.
Speaker 2: In your career.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, if I'm fifty five and I get Cal you
Speaker 2: see Davis, I'm saying, no, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: Not doing it because you don't even get to do
Speaker 1: many games. That means you're so low on the depth
Speaker 1: chop they're not using you again this year.
Speaker 2: But if I'm twenty four and trying to get my
Speaker 2: fond do I would love calvers UC day now.
Speaker 1: I say that if they asked me, I'd be there
Speaker 1: in a minute. But like, I'm also not married.
Speaker 2: And you would not say much about the game. You
Speaker 2: would be talking about phone books and book the Moth.
Speaker 2: You would enjoy it, Yeah, I would use. I've offered
Speaker 2: to call games and they've politely.
Speaker 1: Declined We're good. I was like, you could, you're already
Speaker 1: paying me, I'll do it for free. They're like, you
Speaker 1: know what, you just keep doing what you're doing?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 1: Uh, what's the what's the over end?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Which one about CAL six six? Even that's higher than
Speaker 2: I would have thought it was six and a half
Speaker 2: slid down to six even I have a question. I
Speaker 2: know traveling doesn't really matter this day and age, but
Speaker 2: looking at their away games, they are nowhere near California
Speaker 2: when they're playing they at all, I feel like it
Speaker 2: has to matter in some scenario.
Speaker 1: At Auburn at Florida State, at pitt at Wake Forest.
Speaker 2: At SMU. I mean, that's so a lot of times
Speaker 2: I think the trap stuff's overrated. But when you're going
Speaker 2: from California, have five times completely across the country and
Speaker 2: starting a new in a new conference, I actually think
Speaker 2: that will weigh on.
Speaker 1: Them a little. I'm going under. I just don't know
Speaker 1: where those winds are. Where are those wins? Well, you
Speaker 1: see Davis, Okay, you think they beat San Diego State.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to get anywhere near that wind total. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that's under Maybe Stanford, Yeah fine, but I'm
Speaker 2: still under.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 2: I'm under as well.
Speaker 1: Clemson. I cannot stand Dabo Sweety. Just need to get
Speaker 1: that on the record. He's still a coach, right is
Speaker 1: Gaully g I ain't gonna take tranfer. They don't follow
Speaker 1: the Lord. It's what we do here, Clempson.
Speaker 2: He's not changing for the rules we do in all
Speaker 2: heavenly follow What did he say in ile stood for No?
Speaker 2: He said we do it in the name, image and
Speaker 2: likeness of God. I thought, we do it full for night,
Speaker 2: the image of the lightness.
Speaker 1: Of the Lord.
Speaker 3: Then they beat Kentucky in a bowl game.
Speaker 1: Do you know who Jimmy Swagger is? That's the impression.
Speaker 3: I just I didn't know what you're going for.
Speaker 1: If it was Jimmy Swagger was a televangelist who who
Speaker 1: bought a prostitute and then he had to go on
Speaker 1: TV and he had to apologize for like live on
Speaker 1: his church. And he got up there and he started
Speaker 1: crying and he goes, oh asum against you, my Lord,
Speaker 1: and like he's crying and is like his makeup starts running.
Speaker 1: I think of Dabbo Sweeney when I see.
Speaker 3: That guy, like her little baby Billy in there too.
Speaker 1: Well, baby Billy is based on Jimmy Swagger.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense?
Speaker 1: No, I mean, like baby Billy has the same slick
Speaker 1: back hair Jimmy Swagger. Does you need to look up
Speaker 1: Jimmy Swag? Like Jimmy Swagger was until Billy Graham's kid,
Speaker 1: he was the worst, like the most scam the list preacher,
Speaker 1: and then Billy not Billy Grant, Jerry fall Wells kid,
Speaker 1: Jerry foll Well's kid blew him out of the water.
Speaker 1: But what are we on? Okay, what's over?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: Nine and a half over?
Speaker 1: As much as I don't like him, they'll lose to Georgia.
Speaker 1: They might lose at Florida State, but then they're not
Speaker 1: gonna lose another game. You know, I'm gonna go under.
Speaker 1: You're slipping.
Speaker 2: They were kind of a failure last year by their standards,
Speaker 2: where they have like nine wins. I think they'll slip
Speaker 2: up somewhere you can't, you know, push the portal away
Speaker 2: in n I l and continue to be on the
Speaker 2: run that they were a few years ago. I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna continue to slip.
Speaker 1: Their quarterback is supposed to be really good, right, Like,
Speaker 1: don't they have a young guy that everybody's club. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be good, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But Dabbo's just so stubborn and it's changed so
Speaker 2: much since he had Deshaun Watson in those good runs.
Speaker 2: I just feel like they're gonna get farther and farther
Speaker 2: away from being at the top.
Speaker 1: All right, I like.
Speaker 3: That splip duke Duke Manny diaz is do you remember
Speaker 3: that name? Former Miami coach.
Speaker 1: We interviewed him, and we interviewed him on the Fine
Speaker 1: Bomb Show one time. Had nothing you said?
Speaker 2: You said to me, Manny Diaz from Miami's on and
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was that the hurricane the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: That was the first time we ever hosted Fine Bomb
Speaker 1: and I brought Drew on and they go all right.
Speaker 1: And we sat with the producer and he was like,
Speaker 1: all right, here's a rundown for today. We got Many
Speaker 1: diaz on Andrew and I both said we need some
Speaker 1: more info. They said Miami.
Speaker 2: Coach still didn't know. That didn't help it.
Speaker 1: He was like maybe baseball.
Speaker 2: I knew it wasn't Skulstra, so I eliminated that one,
Speaker 2: but it could have been the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Say it like, we got many diaz on and we
Speaker 1: did both go all right, sported a little more than the.
Speaker 2: Manny Robertson. I don't know what's what's the wind to
Speaker 2: the wind total is five and a half. As they
Speaker 2: replaced Mike Elko who went to a and m I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna go they had a good year they did. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. Elon's a win, Yukon Middle Tennessee. It's pretty
Speaker 1: hard from there. Would you say five and a half,
Speaker 1: I'll go under. If it was four and a half,
Speaker 1: i'd dad. I think they went five.
Speaker 2: Elko had a good run, But I think Duke goes
Speaker 2: back to being Duke. With all due respect to many Ds,
Speaker 2: one of my all time favorite Miami coaches. I'm good
Speaker 2: joining you on the under Yeah, any DS that I
Speaker 2: wonder if he thinks about us.
Speaker 1: Another good Me and Drew hosting Fine Bomb is we'd
Speaker 1: spend a whole day preparing to which SEC town would
Speaker 1: we not want to live in? Ranking we were basically
Speaker 1: going to spend the whole day making fun of SEC towns.
Speaker 1: And then right before the show, the assistant coach at
Speaker 1: Ohio State gets allegations that he beat his wife and
Speaker 1: we had to do remember that, Yeah, and Drew and
Speaker 1: I had to host that show with that crowd. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're having to talk about domestic abuse allegations with
Speaker 1: the Fine Bomb audience about Ohio State, who they all hate,
Speaker 1: and it was so new like the other shows hadn't
Speaker 1: talked about it like it was the first esp the
Speaker 1: guy who broke the story, who was Bret McMurphy, and
Speaker 1: ESPN had not had him on all day and they
Speaker 1: were getting a lot of criticism online for not having
Speaker 1: him on, and so they just decided to put him
Speaker 1: on Fine bamb because Fine Bomb knew him. But nobody
Speaker 1: bothered to check that Fine Bomb was off that day.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, my producer goes. The president
Speaker 1: of ESPN just called, he really needs you to handle this,
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, the president of you at
Speaker 1: ESPN is trying to make sure I don't screw this
Speaker 1: interview up, which I don't know. They thought I'd like
Speaker 1: fallen off a turnip truck. I was gonna be a
Speaker 1: little brilliant, you know, I was. Actually it was a
Speaker 1: legal things.
Speaker 2: He actually worked out very well for it.
Speaker 1: It worked out and it actually it's how I got
Speaker 1: my that interview, and that day is how I got
Speaker 1: my national trust.
Speaker 2: You after that, no, I mean they that's I got it.
Speaker 1: That's how I got on the radar.
Speaker 2: Was that day, Zack Smith. That was a guy's name,
Speaker 2: good memory. All I wanted to do was make fun
Speaker 2: of Starkville, and we had to talk about Zach.
Speaker 1: And we we had talked. I mean, listen, domestic abuse
Speaker 1: is awful and trying to talk about it on the
Speaker 1: Fine Bomb Show three hours. It's not exactly an easy thing.
Speaker 3: Florida State, well, they beat Louisville in the conference championship
Speaker 3: game and then we're destroyed in their bowl game.
Speaker 1: But they planned to play like random guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Norval.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're gonna play in Dublin and then pretty easy schedule. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you look at it. They play Clympson,
Speaker 1: they're at Miami, and they play Notre Dame. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: assume it's.
Speaker 2: Ten and a half, nine and a half. Give me
Speaker 2: the It's gonna be good. They got dj U from
Speaker 2: Oregon State. Even though I like to make fun of
Speaker 2: them at the end of last season when they didn't
Speaker 2: get in the playoff, I think they're gonna be back
Speaker 2: in the conversation this year. They're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Ramlin wreck of Georgia Tech. Who's their coach?
Speaker 3: Bret Key?
Speaker 1: No idea?
Speaker 2: I know that name. Where'd he come from?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know he was interm he was an intern.
Speaker 3: An interim, head coach say in interim interim, way this we're.
Speaker 2: Now stopping a second intern intern.
Speaker 1: No, you keep saying interm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in turn t E R or interim three syllables
Speaker 2: if you're there's words interim in turn.
Speaker 1: First of all, we started by you couldn't say interim.
Speaker 1: Now you can't say intern. Is there something wrong with
Speaker 1: how you say words.
Speaker 3: That start with I?
Speaker 2: You say enter enter intern.
Speaker 1: That wasn't great inter Okay, So let's try again. Let's
Speaker 1: start with we have it KSR, interns, interns. You got
Speaker 1: that I was an intern once there you go, that
Speaker 1: was great. You did a lot better when you didn't
Speaker 1: just sound it out now interim interim?
Speaker 3: Is that it?
Speaker 1: Why was that so much?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: How did you?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I got a lot going on, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to write your thing down, and I'm trying
Speaker 3: to figure out who the head coach.
Speaker 2: Frustrated Georgia is.
Speaker 3: Okay, who even.
Speaker 2: Knows what conference are you on? Now? We're in the ACC,
Speaker 2: you know. Oh yeah, wait till you call a random
Speaker 2: town here in a little.
Speaker 1: Bit that you open the season in the air Lingus
Speaker 1: College Football Classic Drew got Erlings. What do you got? Uh?
Speaker 2: They're win total?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: Yeah, did I say it? Nine and a half? No, way,
Speaker 2: we're on. We're in Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech five.
Speaker 2: Sorry, they're playing each other and we've got them back
Speaker 2: to back and thrown off five.
Speaker 1: Their schedule is hard, like you look at it. They
Speaker 1: play they play Florida State, they play Miami, they play
Speaker 1: North Carolina, they play Notre Dame, they play Georgia, they
Speaker 1: play at Louisville. Where are they winning five games under?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to find a way to give them
Speaker 2: an over. I don't I might even go under on four.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know where they're winning the games.
Speaker 2: Five is crazy.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be Georgia State v and my and then Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a definite. I'm going under. That's gonna be. That's
Speaker 1: so far. That's my lead for acc lock. All right,
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech under Louisville. Jeff Brom I know this one.
Speaker 1: What do you know? Oh?
Speaker 3: I just know, Jeff Brom.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: Well lost to Kentucky last game of the year.
Speaker 1: Well done, they were great. Then they lost their last
Speaker 1: three games and embarrassing performances. What's the win total this year?
Speaker 1: Eight and a half?
Speaker 2: Another one I feel strongly about, not just as a
Speaker 2: Louisville hater, go for it under why even though they
Speaker 2: had a great record last year until the end of
Speaker 2: the season, even their opponents they should have handled, they
Speaker 2: were all one possession games. I think they were five
Speaker 2: and oh in one possession games. That doesn't last forever.
Speaker 2: I think that it flips the other way this year.
Speaker 2: So it's it's eight and a half. Okay, I'm taking under.
Speaker 1: At Notre Dame Miami at Clemson. I mean, it basically
Speaker 1: comes down to if you think Kentucky's gonna beat them
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 2: And we already know how I feel about that one.
Speaker 2: I think they slip up somewhere else, though.
Speaker 1: You do, but where just Virginia would suspect that they're bad.
Speaker 1: Games are against really bad teams.
Speaker 2: At Boston College, how about right there?
Speaker 1: Bill, I'm gonna go because I'm gonna pick Kentucky to
Speaker 1: beat them. But really, honestly, if if they beat Kentucky,
Speaker 1: they'll go I mean they're gonna have They're gonna be
Speaker 1: eight and three coming into that Kentucky game. So okay,
Speaker 1: Uh Miami.
Speaker 3: Miami Mario crystal Ball. You know, they had a couple
Speaker 3: hiccups last year, seven and five.
Speaker 1: Twelve and thirteen and two years ago. Then this year,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think you're gonna tell me nine
Speaker 1: and a half.
Speaker 2: Right, it is nine even easy?
Speaker 1: Oh you're going I'm high Miami.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose. They'll lose at They'll lose to Florida State.
Speaker 1: But I think they go. I think they go eleven
Speaker 1: and one. It's pretty easy schedule, easy schedu They play
Speaker 1: at Florida, which started season, but if they win that game,
Speaker 1: I think they're going eleven and one. Miami is another. Like,
Speaker 1: what's the odds for Miami to get the playoff? I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but I I like the
Speaker 1: I like my I think Miami's gonna have a good year. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Florida State, Miami, maybe Clemson are your your
Speaker 2: three playoff teams you're looking at, and you.
Speaker 1: Might get three from the ACC, which is gonna be
Speaker 1: very rare I think in the future, but I think
Speaker 1: you might get it this year.
Speaker 2: I have Clemson slipping, but I think Florida State and
Speaker 2: Miami the other two in the conversation.
Speaker 1: N C State at Clemson, Tennessee. Who's their coach?
Speaker 2: Dave Dorran got it some of us that our homework.
Speaker 3: Billy I was on North Carolina alphabetically.
Speaker 1: Is okay, that's fine. Tell me what's they're over under.
Speaker 2: They're over under is eight and a half.
Speaker 1: Eight and a half, eight and a half. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go under talking about NC State, m hmm. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think they're one of those teams that always slightly underperforms.
Speaker 1: Give me in C State.
Speaker 2: Under it took a quarterback from Coastal Carolina. They won
Speaker 2: five of six at the end of last year. I'll
Speaker 2: be different, go.
Speaker 1: Over, Okay. I do not have strong opinions about in
Speaker 1: C State North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Mac Brown lost Drake May from last year eight and four.
Speaker 2: That replaced Drake May with Max Johnson, one of the
Speaker 2: A and M quarterbacks that they couldn't get figured out
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 3: Brad Johnson's son.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: He is a lefty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're running out of time, and I don't really
Speaker 1: have any strong thoughts one way or the other.
Speaker 2: Seven and a half is the total.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over. Like mac Brown, don't think he
Speaker 1: fails I'll go over with you, all right, Let's run
Speaker 1: through Pitt, SMU, and Stanford, quite frankly, because I don't
Speaker 1: care about any of them. Give me Pitt.
Speaker 2: Pitt totals five and a half. Last season they went
Speaker 2: three and nine with Pat Nardoozy under SMU. He was
Speaker 2: their worst season since nineteen ninety eight. I'll go under two.
Speaker 1: SMU. They're going to be better than you think. Is
Speaker 1: it seven and a half? Six and a half?
Speaker 2: Eight and a half. That's too many. I was with you.
Speaker 2: They can't do eight and a half. They're new to
Speaker 2: the conference. It's just gonna be weird that they're there
Speaker 2: in the first place.
Speaker 1: SMU. Uh, you know that's like the SMU is a
Speaker 1: school that rich people go to. Like like SMU is
Speaker 1: the school when when people in the Dallas area when
Speaker 1: they have kids and they want their kid to go
Speaker 1: to like Duke or whatever, but they can't get in,
Speaker 1: they send them to SMU.
Speaker 2: And then SMU got in the conference and they like
Speaker 2: take a deal like they they don't. Yeah, they can
Speaker 2: put off their money for the cents to the dollar,
Speaker 2: like they let s m U. They're like at SMU,
Speaker 2: you can work as a bouncer here you can you
Speaker 2: can hang out, but we're not giving you any of
Speaker 2: the money.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: It would be impressive if they came in and made
Speaker 2: a big splash. But I'm gonna go under.
Speaker 1: I will say this, SMU per capita, the hottest mothers
Speaker 1: of students.
Speaker 2: Hottest mothers of students. Okay, like parents weekends. We're old enough.
Speaker 1: Now that like you can't talk about the students, the children,
Speaker 1: but the on parents weekend. If you you're looking for
Speaker 1: divorced moms Dallas, no, because the divorce mom a probably
Speaker 1: got a good settlement in the divorce. Because everybody's rich
Speaker 1: at that school.
Speaker 2: Everybody Settlement mom university.
Speaker 1: That's what it stands. Settlement mom university University, Billy. That's
Speaker 1: where you go to meet. Well, you're getting married, but
Speaker 1: that's where in theory a single person like myself, that
Speaker 1: might be where I'm not saying I've gone out with
Speaker 1: an SMU mom, but maybe I have. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that's where that that that's what that school's done for.
Speaker 3: Not too far away from Austin, same state.
Speaker 2: So eight and a half, you're going under the single moms,
Speaker 2: have your attention.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at their schedule. I'm gonna go under
Speaker 1: just because it's a new conference. Stanford. Yeah, who knows
Speaker 1: who's the coach?
Speaker 3: Troy Taylor, not David Shaw anymore.
Speaker 1: Troy Taylor sounds right.
Speaker 2: Another one with we're talking about the travel fun fact.
Speaker 2: They will travel eighteen thousand miles this season just to
Speaker 2: play their games. That's a lot. Four and a half,
Speaker 2: three and a half.
Speaker 1: While they'll beat San Jose State, they'll beat cal Poly,
Speaker 1: They're gonna go on the road and up sant Syracuse.
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat Wake Forest for homecoming.
Speaker 2: Over they were ranked outside the top one hundred in
Speaker 2: offense and defense each of the last three years.
Speaker 3: I'm going under.
Speaker 1: Andrew lockein't walking through that. I want you to think about.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the excitement in Palo Alto when the
Speaker 1: wake Forest demon Deacons come in for homecoming. The band
Speaker 1: will be on the field, Tiger Woods in the stands.
Speaker 1: The over is a lot.
Speaker 2: Then a couple weeks later, Louisville comes to town. They'll
Speaker 2: be excited about that.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about a mismatch of academic profiles
Speaker 1: Stanford versus Louisville. I'm going under Syracuse. The QS is
Speaker 1: in the house. Oh my god, who's the coach?
Speaker 3: New coach Fran Brown defensive backs coach from Georgia replaces
Speaker 3: Dino Barbers neighbors.
Speaker 2: He got fired.
Speaker 1: It's a man named Frans franf Shillah. Okay, what's the
Speaker 1: over under? It is seven even under. I've got him
Speaker 1: losing Ohio or excuse me, beating Ohio. But then they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose to Stanford'll be well. They do have an
Speaker 1: easy schedule. But yeah, I'm looking at the schedule. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go over. I trust Fran Brown. Friends.
Speaker 2: The man don't play anyone hard. Fran came from Georgia,
Speaker 2: where he was.
Speaker 1: The national can't believe I'm gonna take over on Syracuse.
Speaker 1: But that is an easy schedule. They do not play
Speaker 1: Florida State. They do not play Clemson. The only good
Speaker 1: team they play is Miami, and they play the worst
Speaker 1: teams in the conference. They play Stanford, they play col
Speaker 1: They play a yukon pitt.
Speaker 2: Wait till i'll tell you who their quarterback is, Kyle
Speaker 2: McCord from Ohio State. Guys play a little bit of ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go over. I can't believe I'm going
Speaker 1: over on Syracuse, but I think you have to Virginia.
Speaker 3: Tony Elliott, head coach.
Speaker 1: You said that like I would know who that is,
Speaker 1: should I not?
Speaker 3: Necessarily? He was at Clemson for a while as an
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: Okay, they've had consecutive seasons with three or fewer wins
Speaker 2: for the first time since nineteen eighty one. Haven't been
Speaker 2: doing well lately.
Speaker 1: They play Richmond. That's really the only game you can
Speaker 1: certainly say they're gonna win. Actual they have a hard
Speaker 1: schedule at Virginia Tech, at Notre Dame, at Clemson, at
Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina. They're going to Coastal Carolina. They're gonna lose
Speaker 1: that game. Unless you tell me this number is two
Speaker 1: and a half, I'm your way under four and a
Speaker 1: half under and Tony Elliott has never won more than
Speaker 1: three games. You talk about the program on the fall
Speaker 1: under Virginia, what's yours?
Speaker 2: Certainly under Virginia like that a lot Virginia Tech, Brent Priye, Okay,
Speaker 2: I would not have guessed that. Yeah, didn't they have?
Speaker 1: They had that guy from Memphis, what was his name?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: J C.
Speaker 3: Price or Justin.
Speaker 1: You mean they've had a coach since the guy from.
Speaker 3: Memphis in term. There we go again, interim.
Speaker 2: Why is that so hard? You did it? You did
Speaker 2: it just a minute ago.
Speaker 3: Now I've got a mental block on that second half
Speaker 3: of that word.
Speaker 1: If you don't think about it, you seem to get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if I'm just filling in, I'm an interim
Speaker 3: head coach.
Speaker 2: See you got it there.
Speaker 1: The brain is weird though, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like seriously, like the brain works in weird ways. That
Speaker 1: may just be like a mental block that you can
Speaker 1: say it if you just but if you think about
Speaker 1: it you can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it looks like it sounds okay, maybe it's
Speaker 3: on me.
Speaker 1: What's what's the number?
Speaker 2: The eight and a half? I was gonna bring up
Speaker 2: they've also had Bud Foster there from Somerset. Kentucky's no
Speaker 2: longer there, but that was a Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over that schedule is not hard. Clemson
Speaker 1: in Miami and that's really it. And it's eight and
Speaker 1: a half, eight and a half. Yeah, they're gonna win
Speaker 1: nine games. Give me Virginia Tech over you. Big Brent
Speaker 1: Prye guy, love him, love everything about him.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the roster. None of these names jump out.
Speaker 2: Uh so tells me it's gonna be a breakout year
Speaker 2: for Virginia Tech. I'll go over as well.
Speaker 1: That schedules easy, man, if they if they just win
Speaker 1: the games they're supposed to, they could easily win ten games.
Speaker 2: I mean they don't they bring back their quarterback, their
Speaker 2: top rusher, and their top receiver, their leader in sacks,
Speaker 2: their leader in tackles, and their leader in interceptions. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what twenty two starters.
Speaker 1: It is hard to find four losses on that schedule.
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. That may be a sleeper that you may
Speaker 1: not be thinking about, that could be a playoff contender,
Speaker 1: just sheerly based on their schedule.
Speaker 2: They won their bowl game too.
Speaker 1: Finally, wake Forest.
Speaker 3: Dave Clawson has been there.
Speaker 1: It's been there for a while. Everybody to know, everybody
Speaker 1: speak up at once.
Speaker 2: What's the Billy's Billy's knowledge has gotten shorter and shorter.
Speaker 2: He's now just saying the names of the coaching coaches names.
Speaker 2: He's like, it's been a long podcast. I understand. All right,
Speaker 2: four and a half, they're gonna meet up North Carolina
Speaker 2: A and T. They'll beat Louisiana, they'll beat Yukon, they'll
Speaker 2: beat cal that's four. Can I find a fifth win? No?
Speaker 1: I have him losing the cow under.
Speaker 2: That a top five offense three years ago, and since
Speaker 2: they haven't been inside the top one hundred now, they're
Speaker 2: just going the wrong way. Under Dave Clawson, I'm going
Speaker 2: under two.
Speaker 1: All right, wake Forest has. If you've ever been to
Speaker 1: wins Salem, no, you know what? Do you know why
Speaker 1: his name? Winston Salem? No, you don't know. No, was
Speaker 1: there a guy cigarettes? Think about it? Winston Cigarettes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Salem cigarettes.
Speaker 3: They're just making SIGs back in there.
Speaker 1: That was like the that was the America's biggest producer
Speaker 1: of cigarettes in the in the whole country was well,
Speaker 1: I mean the tobacco was in Virginia and Kentucky, but
Speaker 1: the actual manufacturing was in Winston Salem. You know what,
Speaker 1: even when I went to law school in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands, when you drove through there, it smelled like cigarettes.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, and I'm not even kidding about that.
Speaker 1: It really did. It doesn't anymore, but it did back then.
Speaker 1: It was so big.
Speaker 2: They had the NASCAR Winston Cup.
Speaker 3: All right, those cigarettes, So can I get an ashtray
Speaker 3: at the waffle house there, or am I gonna have
Speaker 3: to do?
Speaker 1: You smoke a lot?
Speaker 3: No? No, But I was in Salem, Indiana, and they
Speaker 3: gave me an ash tray at a waffle house.
Speaker 1: Excuse me for not for certain knowing that connection about
Speaker 1: who gave you an ashtray. However, many years ago that
Speaker 1: was I wouldn't have I was saying about this in Europe,
Speaker 1: where a lot of people smoke, like a lot of
Speaker 1: people smoking, I was. It is amazing to what extent
Speaker 1: the United States has eradicated smoking in a very short
Speaker 1: period of time. When people tell you that like the
Speaker 1: government can't do something, they can if they want to.
Speaker 1: Because smoking, when I was in college, everybody smoked, like
Speaker 1: everybody you know, you'd walk And it was when I
Speaker 1: was when I first got to college, you could smoke
Speaker 1: in the door. Now by the time I got out
Speaker 1: of college, they made you go outside, but everybody stood
Speaker 1: outside and smoked. But my first year people were smoking
Speaker 1: in the dorm, which is crazy. They used to smoke
Speaker 1: on airplanes, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: He still occasionally see a little ashtray.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like it's it's wild. And the fact
Speaker 1: that Now. I know young, younger people vape, but when's
Speaker 1: the last time you've seen like a college student. I mean,
Speaker 1: we had a smoking area at my high school, like
Speaker 1: students to go smoke in high school.
Speaker 2: I still think it's crazy. We'd walk in a restaurant
Speaker 2: and they'd say smoking or not, and you would just
Speaker 2: be feet away from the people smoking, and that was
Speaker 2: supposed to make a difference. Yeah, I can see them.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't even be a barrier. It was like it's
Speaker 1: like the table the next.
Speaker 3: Table over, or on an airplane too, right.
Speaker 1: I just said that a minute ago. Yes, So the
Speaker 1: how much that has changed so quickly is really amazing
Speaker 1: because in Europe people still smoke, not like they do
Speaker 1: used to here twenty five years ago, but they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you said, I think Americans replaced it with vaping,
Speaker 2: because that is everywhere were they vaping in Europe.
Speaker 1: Less vaping, more smoking.
Speaker 2: I was at a restaurant recently and the person take
Speaker 2: care of me would lean down to vape like I
Speaker 2: couldn't see her, and then would just blow the biggest
Speaker 2: cloud up in the airs like that. You're not high
Speaker 2: as well as you think you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but still though I mean, vaping's not as bad
Speaker 1: for you as cigarettes is it.
Speaker 2: Don't think it's not good for you, shouldn't do it,
Speaker 2: but it certainly doesn't disturb as many people around you.
Speaker 2: It's as a little more inconspicuous.
Speaker 1: But like, it is crazy to me to think about
Speaker 1: what's what it used to be like in America. I mean,
Speaker 1: my grandfather, rest his soul, would just like blow the
Speaker 1: smoke in my eye, you know, good luck. And now
Speaker 1: when I walk into a place where people smoke, what's
Speaker 1: the last place you've walked into that has a smell
Speaker 1: of smoke? Even houses, don't that waffle house? And which
Speaker 1: makes us go full circle real quick. Since there will
Speaker 1: be at least one team from the playoff, one team
Speaker 1: in the playoff that's not in a power conference? Who
Speaker 1: is your pick for team in the playoff that is
Speaker 1: not in the power conference? Since I'm throwing this on you, Drew,
Speaker 1: I'll give mine for me. The team that's going to
Speaker 1: get in is Apple latch in state. Appalachian State will
Speaker 1: play Liberty at the end of the year and they
Speaker 1: will play each other. I think it's the last game
Speaker 1: of the year in the Sun Belt and they will
Speaker 1: or no, they don't play them in the Sunbelt. Liberty
Speaker 1: is not in the sun Belt never mind, but Apple, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they play them September twenty eighth. The winner of that
Speaker 1: game is going to go to the playoffs. Appalachian State
Speaker 1: is going to be eleven. They play at Clemson, but
Speaker 1: they won't get punished for that game. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, they'll actually probably get credit for that game
Speaker 1: because it will improve their schedule. They're going to go
Speaker 1: undefeated in the in the in the Conference. They play
Speaker 1: Liberty in boone, a home field. Liberty won't make it anyway,
Speaker 1: because they got beat so bad by Oregon last year
Speaker 1: that even if they were twelve and Nino oh, they're
Speaker 1: not putting them in that game again. So, Drew, my
Speaker 1: pick is that Appalachian State in the sun Belt will
Speaker 1: be the team to go to the playoff.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Tulane.
Speaker 1: Okay, good pick. I think that's the Honestly, I think
Speaker 1: those are the two most likely teams.
Speaker 2: I don't even know their schedule, I don't know their odds.
Speaker 2: I'm just a big fan of John Sumrall taking over
Speaker 2: and what he did at Troy, and I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna have them playing well, I mean, here's the only
Speaker 2: problem forne Here's the only problem for Tulane.
Speaker 1: They play Kansas State and Oklahoma, and I feel like
Speaker 1: they gotta win one of those to get in, and
Speaker 1: I don't think they will. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard for a ten and two team to go because
Speaker 1: I think somebody will be undefeated or have one loss.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna make it hard. If you like Tulane, though,
Speaker 1: let me give you the underrated billy game of the
Speaker 1: year in college football that you probably don't think about. Okay,
Speaker 1: please Tulane and Memphis play the last game of the year.
Speaker 1: Memphis has a good chance to be they play at
Speaker 1: Florida State. They'll lose that game, but they have a
Speaker 1: chance to be eleven or ten and one going into
Speaker 1: that tou Lane. That Tulane game against Memphis last game
Speaker 1: of the season. It's already scheduled on a Thursday night
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving on ESPN on Thanksgiving. Okay, I think they're
Speaker 1: putting it on Thanksgiving because they believe there'll be a
Speaker 1: chance that that might be the who's going to the
Speaker 1: playoff Tulane or Memphis game. That's one to watch because
Speaker 1: I think Memphis is really good. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: at the contenders, I think Tulane, Memphis, and Appalachian State
Speaker 1: are the best contenders.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I just kind of just pulled that
Speaker 2: off my brain. Didn't even know their schedule. But go
Speaker 2: Green Wave.
Speaker 1: I believe we try to act like we don't know
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, but I actually on this because
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that there's gonna be a random team.
Speaker 2: Go James Madison could be in the conversation again even
Speaker 2: though they changed coaches.
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