WEBVTT - Bowl Previews: Part 2 (12/14/2016) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome to the Solid Verbal. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.200 I'll that for me. I'm a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.000 be happy. You want to be happy for day Edith State? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:19.520 Is that? Whoo whoom? And Dan and Tye welcome back 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.759 to the Solid Verbal Boys and girls. My name is 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.680 ty Hildebrant. I am joined as always by my trusted 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.080 co host and colleague and friend of many years. His 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.960 name is Dan Rubinstein. Don't forget You can subscribe to 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.280 our show. We broadcast all off season, though not always, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.600 twice a week at iTunes, dot com slash Solid Verbal. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.320 We are also available. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.320 Let's see Dan on Google Play, on tune in, on Stitcher, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.720 on uh where am I forgetting? 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.280 What am I forgetting? Facebook? 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.520 Facebook, Twitteritter, dot com, Instagram, Snapchat, A whole bunch of places. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.640 Sir, how are you good? And I just and this 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:07.679 is actually breaking news. We're now on farmers only, so okay, listen. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.880 We don't plow fields, but you get the idea. You 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.200 get you get the idea. Yeah, we're everywhere, and we 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.880 are also speaking of being everywhere. On January fourteenth, in 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.080 New York City, we will be announcing the details about 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.680 how to get tickets soon, and it is a very 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.840 limited engagement. But we are doing a live show here 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.520 in New York. I say here because I am in 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.399 New York at the moment. You are not terribly far 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.360 away from New York. We are going to be doing 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.920 a live show and just hanging out and eating. I 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.920 guess it's some sort of like mini verbicon slash live show. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.200 I don't know what we're calling it, but it's happening 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.839 January fourteenth. We confirm the venue. We will have details soon. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.440 I would follow our Facebook page, I guess like our 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.560 Facebook page. I would follow Twitter, dot com slash Solid Verbal, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.840 and I would listen to this show for details. That's 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.200 what I'm saying right now to you and to everybody. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.000 As you said, we'll be announcing details of it. You 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.880 and I still have a lot to plan on this front, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.320 not the least of which is how we're selling tickets. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.600 And we're gonna get that barter system barter system right. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.560 We'll get that figured out here in relatively short order. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.680 But do stay tuned to all the social media channels. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.240 That's probably the best and quickest way to get updates. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.440 We'd love to see you there. If you're in the 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.400 New York City area, even if you're just passing through again, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.280 details are forthcoming. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.639 So be alive. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:30.080 Okay, we've got some actual breaking news, backing news. We've 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:35.359 got a new head football coach at Florida Atlantic University 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.399 Dan As some have said. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.920 The owl owls. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:41.520 The new coach is Laying Kiffin. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:47.400 Huh it is And this and thus concludes a pretty 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.240 exhaustive question that you've asked a lot of our guests. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:52.720 How what is the over under? 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.320 What if I gave you an over under of three 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:55.760 and a half four and a half two and a 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.560 half years after Lane Kiffin was unceremoniously let go at 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.600 the tarm at Lax from USC, what is the number 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.720 of years that will go by before Lane Kiffin gets 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.160 a new head coaching job. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.160 Well, that was one of the over unders, But the 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.480 big over under is still on the table. The big 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.840 over under is how many head coaching jobs will Lane 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.080 Kiffin have in his career? Sure, so it started. It 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.239 started with the Oakland Raiders. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:22.760 That was one. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.240 Then he moved to Tennessee that was two, then to 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.280 USC that was three. Then he got fired all right, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.280 So the over under was always I believe five and 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.920 a half, all right, which means that he's got four 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.720 now with Florida Atlantic. You would assume if it goes 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.040 well at Florida Atlantic, there will be a fifth. The 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.240 question is will there be a sixth? So you're over 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.880 under five and a half still on the board. But 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.160 it does get interesting now as he takes his FAU job. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.520 First and foremost, a ton of coaching talent in Florida, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.520 because Charlie Strong's there. Now, We've obviously got Jim mcalwayn 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.560 who's been doing a pretty good job recruiting, though not 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:03.400 actually winning. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.240 We've got Mark Richt, who is also. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.920 In the Florida area, a lot of artillery when it 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.480 comes to the coaching side of things in the great 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.240 state of Florida. And also he took a pay cut 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.840 to get this gig. I thought the most insightful comment 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.680 of all came from our friend Stuart Mandel, who I 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.080 believe wrote a piece about how now at forty one, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.160 Lane Kiffin gets the job that he should have had 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:26.880 at thirty one. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.359 Yeah, it's not a bad point at all, and it 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.240 would be somewhat easy to see him succeeding at a 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.599 place like FAU, if not for the fact that Charlie 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.520 Strong is now which is also breaking news officially, Yeah, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.159 it's at USF and taking the place of Willie Taggart 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.080 who moved on to Oregon. Butch Davis is at FIU, 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.919 Jimbo Fisher, of course at Florida State, Jim Mclawaine at Florida, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.880 and Miami has Mark rickt all of whom are very 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.520 good recruiters. And not to say that three star recruits 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.000 in Florida are scraps because of Florida. Three star recruit 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.400 is a significant recruit pretty much everywhere in the country. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.560 But if there's enough talent to go around, and Lane 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.760 Kiffin is able to field a good to pretty good 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:15.080 to even very good team at FAU for the Owls, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.320 where does he springboard? What is his Western Kentucky to Louisville. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.400 I was thinking South Carolina. After they fire Wilmas champion 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.719 two years, he woul think he's only gonna last three years. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.520 They improved that they went six and six. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.400 Knee jerk reaction South Carolina. But it's somewhere in the southeast. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.320 I'm going to say San Diego State. Rocky Long a 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:43.520 sixty six mm Okay, interesting. Yeah, well we'll see. We'll see. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.160 Lane Kiff and your new coach at FAU. The state 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.159 of Florida gets really interesting on the recruiting front. The 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.880 other news, and again we're recording this on a Monday. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.360 We should add there are probably going to be other 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.400 news tidbits that drop now that going to FAU to 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.080 be head coach, some coordinator moves and things of that 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.440 ilk that I would imagine are going to pop up 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.479 here over the next couple days that we might miss 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.520 on this show. But at least before we hit record, 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.159 Deshaun Kaiser did announce that he is going pro. He's 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.120 going to forego next season and go to the NFL. 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.840 I think it's a good move for him. What I 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.080 know that a lot of the guys out there, the scouts, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.880 are saying no, he should get an another year in 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.200 college to kind of ripen a little bit more. But 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.160 Kaiser reminds me of a guy who's going to test 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.400 pretty well at the combine. He's going to do real 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.560 well on the wonder Lick. He's going to wow people 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.440 with his interview skills, and there's always a team out 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.960 there that's willing to reach on a project quarterback. We 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.599 saw Christian Hackenberg went pretty high a year ago, He's 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.240 still a long ways away from being a starter in 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.240 the NFL. Jared Goff went one overall, a guy that 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.920 I don't believe you or I was too high on 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.680 coming out of college, but he left early, went one overall, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.680 and he's now kind of sputtering through his first year 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.600 in the NFL. I just feel like, if you're a 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.280 quarterback with great physical tools, if you test well at 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.640 the combine, someone's going to take a risk on you. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.440 And if Matt Barkley's the cautionary tale dog, go out 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.360 and get your money before you get hurt. So that 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.760 combined with the fact that things at Notre Dame didn't 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.680 go all that peachy last season for him. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.440 And I just feel like it was the right move 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.880 across the board. I did what was his best game 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.760 against a decent team this past year. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.720 And I'm totally willing and I saw I don't know 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.480 if it was our Pyle Pete Sampson talking about that 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.400 the wide receiver targets that he had were something like 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.640 six to forty on contested targets like it certainly was 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.040 a step back from twenty fifteen in terms of what 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.239 he had out wide, But what was his best game? 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.880 I have his game log right here. Obviously there was 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.480 a disaster in the monsoon that North Carolina State, I 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.480 would argue was probably not even decent. Michigan State is 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.000 a three and nine team. He had a pretty good 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.480 game against them. Texas fired their coach and he had 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.560 a very good game against Texas, but they turned out 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:19.880 to be not so good. Miami was decent. Is Miami 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.480 the answer? Miami defense might be the answer. He dropped 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.920 a few dimes in that game. Yeah, But Virginia Tech, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.880 I would would say it was somewhat disappointing. It didn't 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.080 complete fifty percent of his passes, and obviously that's not 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.600 all on him. Uh, the USC game was kind of 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.280 a mess. I'm going to answer and say Michigan State. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.480 And I know Michigan State's not a decent team, but 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.240 in terms of how he fared in that game versus others, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.040 it was pretty apparent about midway through that he was 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.720 going to have to hoist the team on his back 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.840 in order to win that game. They obviously didn't win. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.080 They lost by eight, but Notre Dame came crawling back. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.080 That was back in the early part of the season 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.880 where everyone thought Notre Dame could still have a chance 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.840 at salvaging the season after losing that heartbreaker to Texas. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.240 It became apparent early in that game that it was 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.880 going to be kaiser or bust, and he damn near 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.040 did it. So for me just watching at home, the 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.360 numbers don't quite compare to some of the other games 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.800 throughout the course of the season, But in terms of 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.880 how important he was to his team, I think is 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.400 probably Michigan State. Yeah, he took a step back completion 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.880 percentage rating and yards per attempt from twenty fifteen to 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.560 twenty sixteen against ranked teams. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:31.079 This year. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:36.040 He finished twelfth in quarterback rating against ranked teams in 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.360 twenty sixteen forty eighth. Yeah, so that certainly struggled at times. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.320 That makes sense to me. I just I don't think 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.800 he trusted his line. I don't think he trusted his receivers. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:45.680 Okay. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.680 I think he's got some ripening that he needs to 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.280 do as a player before maybe he can grow into 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.960 his full potential. But I think a good move for him. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.280 I think the time is right to part ways. And 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.160 you know, cik new beginning in the NFL. Is he 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.840 a first round pick. I'm not a draft expert. I 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.520 think he's probably got first round talent. I just don't 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.760 know if it's if it's quite there out in the 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.280 open yet. There's definitely room to grow. He missed a 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:09.680 lot of open guys is here. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.400 And the future for Notre Dame ic quarterback now without 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.560 Shaun Kaiser on Malik Sayre, the future is Brandon Wimbush, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.000 And behind the scenes, folks are pretty excited about Brandon Wimbush. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:23.640 He's no competition, a true dual threat guy. I can't 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.240 imagine there'd be much competition. I think it's his job, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.000 barring any kind of crazy injury or anything like that. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.839 So we'll see which direction they take the offense now 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.080 with Wimbush, he's more Zaire than I think Kaiser with 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.720 his running ability, So you know, we'll see what. We'll 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.840 see how they tailor the offense in twenty seventeen. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.520 What direction do you want to see the offense go 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.000 with the talent available in South Bend. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.000 I want to see them get better at running the football. Okay, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.960 that was a problem this year. I expected them to 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.920 be way better running the ball. They just they didn't 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.840 have it, So they got to get better at running 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.840 the football. If they get better at running the football, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.880 I think that helps you unlock Wimbush as a passer. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.400 He's got a cannon, right, He's got a cannon for 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.920 an arm like Ken Phelps. But you need to get 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.240 that running game in place first before we can really 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.560 utilize his entire skill set. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:22.160 Okay, but your takeaway from Deshaun Kaiser's legacy his time 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.480 at Notre Dame net positive. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.480 Total net positive, total net positive. He represented himself and 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.000 the university. Well, I thought he did an admirable job 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.640 in twenty fifteen, nearly leading Notre Dame into the playoffs, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.480 and this year was just a systemic failure on a 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.360 number of different fronts. He contributed to it, but he 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.800 wasn't the sole reason. Okay, let's leave it at there. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.520 Enough any other news for you, Dan, No, that's all 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.400 I got. All right, Join our bullpool. 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So as soon as I land, it's breaking news, 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.960 break pit it breaking news. I'm too late now, but okay, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.880 as soon as I land, I will ask the gate 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.320 agent how to pronounce the potato pasta. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.920 I know it to benok. Perfect. All right, let's get 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.480 some bowls. Let's do it. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:14.880 The week. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.160 I almost need a different sound for this because they're 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:19.720 not really picks of the week, are they. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:21.600 I'm looking here. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.760 So we've got Thursday of Thursday the twenty second through 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.680 Tuesday the twenty seventh, so it's like it's picks of 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.240 the week, and that there is a week span. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.920 Sure, picks of a week, Picks of a week. All right, 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.200 So here's what we're doing. We're doing bowls and waves 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.160 and five waves. The fifth wave is going to be 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.040 the Biggins. Like the New Year's Six Games, the playoff 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.239 games and whatnot. We've got a bunch of other groupings 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.680 in between. Today we're going from the Famous Idaho Potato 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.560 Bowl all the way up through the Zaxby's Heart of 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:54.240 Dallas Bowl. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.400 All right, are you prepared for this? I am tie yes. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.280 When I give you the signal, hold on, yeah, I 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.920 gotta load this. This has taken a little bit, but 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.160 it's gonna work out. I'm very confident. When I give 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.320 you the signal, I need you to repeat the two 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:13.120 bowls that we are spanning. Okay, yeah, okay, once again, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.960 Ty tell me which two bowls we are spanning on 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:17.920 this show. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:23.600 The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and the Zaxby's Heart of 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:24.240 Dallas Bowl. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.480 That's right. It needs a little bit of seasoning. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.440 Ky needs a little bit of kosher salt, some crack 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.680 black pepper. Yeah, a little siracha, maybe little saffron. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:45.680 Okay, yeah, all right, Famous Idaho Potato bol bois Idaho. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:51.360 Thursday, December twenty second, seven pm on ESPN. This game 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:56.200 is played on the smurf turf of Albertson Stadium. As 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.320 you mentioned, is where Boise State plays. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:16:59.600 True or false? 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.000 Dan, a little snoops trivia for you. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.679 True or false that local waterfowl confuse this field for 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.639 a body of water and crash into it. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.520 That I thought was true? Is it not true? That 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.240 is apparently a myth. Oh that's garbage, fake news. It's everywhere, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:22.280 even college football. Not true? All right, fair, not true? Okay. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:27.240 This game is between Colorado State and Idaho the Vandals. Yeah, 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.040 sort of playing a home game, if you will. Colorado 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.760 State a thirteen and a half point favorite, now you know, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.720 I look at these home game things again to reiterate 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:41.440 my formula. I'm looking first and foremost at motivating factors 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.760 for the teams involved in these bowl games, and then secondly, 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.640 I'm looking to try in front load points wherever I can. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.640 That's a new and improved formula for this year. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:52.320 Yep. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.359 I'm inclined to say that this is a home game 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:00.480 for Idaho. However, that's not really a thing because they're 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.520 three hundred miles away from the stadium here. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:02.920 Yep. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:04.760 Idaho's a big state. It's like five and a half 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.520 hours away. So it's a home state game, which I'm 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.520 going to say is like half credit. If that's cool with. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:10.800 You, that's great by me. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.600 Idaho's played well down the stretch. They've won their last 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.640 four games. The question, though, is the competition. The competition's 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.680 been a little suspect, not so much for Colorado State. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:23.520 They've played way. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.840 Tougher competition this year, and according to the SMP, Colorado 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.160 State's like the twenty third best team in the country. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.920 That puts them ahead of teams like Virginia Tech and 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.840 pitt in Houston and Notre Dame, which is twenty fifth. Somehow, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.679 just forget about that and nothing's perfect. Do you have 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:41.840 a leaning here, Dan? 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:43.879 I do like the Rams. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:45.639 I do like Colorado State, and not a lot of 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.720 people in the football world like rams right around now. No, No, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.480 Colorado State hugely improved on offense, especially at the end 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.280 of the season. If you paid a little bit of 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.639 attention to Nick Stevens, the Colorado State quarterback, they finished 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.159 season winning four or five. They dropped sixty three a 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.800 very good San Diego State defense. They beat New Mexico 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.720 Bowl team, a really good offense of New Mexico. The 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.919 Colorado State defense isn't great, particularly versus the run, but 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.679 here's the problem Idaho. While that they're Bowl eligible as 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.440 a Sun Belt team, everything is very weird in Idaho 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.919 and Idaho under Paul Patrino they have the best passing 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.520 offense in the Sun Belt. But I don't think defensively 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.240 Idaho is there, especially giving up bigger plays. I like 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.680 Colorado State big, something like forty four to twenty one. 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:28.520 Yeah, I'm with you. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.880 I don't think it favors Idaho on offense or defense. 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.720 From what it's worth, my hunch is that this game 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.280 means a lot to them being so it is an 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.159 in state kind of thing. So it wouldn't surprise me 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:42.600 if they cover thirteen and a half. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.520 Potentially they're second to last FBS Bowl game in a 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:48.240 long time. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:49.000 Yeah. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.600 So yeah, I just feel like Colorado State's got got 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.320 a little too much. So I'm gonna do we agree, 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.359 We do agree. I'm gonna go Colorado State thirty nine points. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.480 Dan, and the players in this game will be going 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.520 to a gift suite. They'll be getting a backpack tie 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.600 is your prediction? Oaklear Ogio gonna go both. It is 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:12.240 just Oakley, a beanie, a football, and proof eye wear sunglasses. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:13.919 So they'll be walking away from this. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:14.239 All right? 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.280 You ever been to Bois? I haven't been to Boise. 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:17.720 I've heard great things though. 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.840 I've been to Boise a few times. It's a it's 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.920 a pretty fun town. It will dawn on you after 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.040 a little while you're like, oh, this is Caucasia. This 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.480