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Speaker 2: stuff college football weirdness, as you may have heard us
Speaker 2: say when we did our previews this week. Week four
Speaker 2: does not have any obvious headliners, and oftentimes at college
Speaker 2: football it's the weird weeks. It's the quiet weeks that
Speaker 2: jump up and get you and produce just the weird outcomes,
Speaker 2: the weird situations that make college football great. So we
Speaker 2: went through and we wanted to talk about the weird
Speaker 2: circumstances we could be talking about when we do our
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about some weird college football stuff stuff.
Speaker 1: Dan, you're really going for it today. Your voice is
Speaker 1: back and you are You're digging deep.
Speaker 2: I am digging deep. We are looking for results. We
Speaker 2: are looking for game situations that would make for the
Speaker 2: most entertaining retelling when we do our recap show on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Have you given a look to this slate? What is
Speaker 2: the weirdest possible thing that could happen this week?
Speaker 1: Iowa and Rutgers hitting the over, although it keeps coming down,
Speaker 1: so that's I guess less and less relatively impressive.
Speaker 2: But it's still over under the over. I tweeted this
Speaker 2: out shortly before we went live. This single most confusing
Speaker 2: thing that could happen, not just this week, maybe all
Speaker 2: year is Iowa and Rutgers getting into a shootout. The
Speaker 2: over under currently is thirty three and a half points.
Speaker 2: That is the lowest point total in college football in
Speaker 2: over twenty years, I believe since the year two thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I made that joke earlier in the week
Speaker 1: and even better.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this means there's any possibility of
Speaker 2: the over hitting or a shootout happened, But some hints
Speaker 2: this week. Did you see what Greg Ciano had to say?
Speaker 2: Some hints this week that maybe one of our favorite
Speaker 2: coaching tropes, maybe they would open up the offense.
Speaker 1: Got to open it up, really open it up.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll open up the offense for this special game
Speaker 2: against Iowa as if they were holding back against their
Speaker 2: previous opponents. Maybe we'll open it up, open it up
Speaker 2: for this game against Iowa.
Speaker 1: Dan, it would be great if in the preseason, in
Speaker 1: fall camp, Kirk Farns in a press conference said, you know,
Speaker 1: really thinking about closing up the playbook even more, really
Speaker 1: thinking about narrowing. It's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Tech mobile out there. Four plays, keep it simple, Maybe
Speaker 2: run a few variations off that and expand to eight.
Speaker 1: Iowa Rutgers thirty four. I'm seeing maybe thirty three and
Speaker 1: a half at the moment. Wow, I mean, so the
Speaker 1: big surprise there would be great quarterback play or even
Speaker 1: I guess comp quarterback playing like well. Final score twenty
Speaker 1: eight twenty four. Fifty is not a huge number to
Speaker 1: hit as far as win total or point totals go. No,
Speaker 1: if they were to surpass fifty, that would be like
Speaker 1: eyeballs popping out of your head, tongue wagging, slapping the
Speaker 1: ground like a cartoon wolf. I can't believe what I'm
Speaker 1: looking at here. The thing is, I hate betting unders.
Speaker 1: I hate it because it's such a buzzkill, Like I
Speaker 1: just want to say some points, but this is rooting
Speaker 1: against action.
Speaker 2: But this is so comically low. It's so comically low
Speaker 2: that I'm conflicted because normally I would bet over because
Speaker 2: I want to see action, and clearly I don't want
Speaker 2: to see a game that has twenty total points. That
Speaker 2: just seems boring as hell. So I'm inclined to go
Speaker 2: over just because it's so low. I'm also inclined to
Speaker 2: go under, just so twenty years from now, I can
Speaker 2: say I was there, when I was there, when this
Speaker 2: game was decided on two field goals and a six
Speaker 2: nothing score.
Speaker 1: I'd have Wisconsin scoring twenty eight points against Ohio State
Speaker 1: as a very weird occurrence unless there are plural, multiple
Speaker 1: pick sixes. Really yeah, I'm just not a believer in
Speaker 1: this offense at all, with what they did against Wazoo.
Speaker 1: I know they got loose a little bit last week
Speaker 1: against no body, but.
Speaker 2: Six to seven against New Mexico State, Dan, come on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, shout out Skyler Bell. But I just I
Speaker 1: don't see that happening against Ohio State. There's just there
Speaker 1: are a few places where you're like, why are they
Speaker 1: ever bat at off Why are they ever like underwhelming
Speaker 1: at offense when they have that vision? And I can
Speaker 1: understand things growing stale. Excuse me, but the depths of
Speaker 1: where Wisconsin, who did end up winning a bunch of
Speaker 1: games last year after a pretty nightmarish September highlighted by
Speaker 1: was it the Notre Dame and Penn State games, Still
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like much has changed. That there's a
Speaker 1: certain sloppiness to Wisconsin's offense that we saw against Washington State.
Speaker 1: That would be surprising to me that they get to
Speaker 1: twenty eight Kansas State getting to twenty eight. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: our like weird, like the hateful twenty eight. That's our
Speaker 1: number right now. It would be so it would be
Speaker 1: weird for me, even with the news story. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you have any Wisconsin offense thoughts. It would
Speaker 1: be weird to me if Quinn Yours were already back
Speaker 1: and he's well, the story is that he's going to dress.
Speaker 1: The story is that he's going to dress. So this
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up.
Speaker 2: Quin Yours because I was actually going to bring this
Speaker 2: up when he got done Quinn Yours. When he initially
Speaker 2: went down, the reports were all over the place the
Speaker 2: span of his injury, how long it would take to heal,
Speaker 2: and the initial report was two to six weeks. Now
Speaker 2: that's a bit of a spectrum, right, That's that's you
Speaker 2: Usually hear a little bit more specificity around and any
Speaker 2: kind of injury along along the lines of how much
Speaker 2: how much healing time is required, But two to six
Speaker 2: is a window. And then there have been reports along
Speaker 2: the way where Quinn Ewers is progressing better than better
Speaker 2: than expected. The prognosis maybe isn't as bad as initially thought.
Speaker 2: You know, that's still I mean, that's a huge deal
Speaker 2: for Texas. First off, if he comes back, because I
Speaker 2: think he's far and away the better quarterback there. What
Speaker 2: I was going to say as for a weird result
Speaker 2: would be Quinn, you weres playing playing well in Texas
Speaker 2: still losing, that would be odd, still losing on the
Speaker 2: road to Texas Tech, which you know, it may not
Speaker 2: come down to whoever is playing quarterback for the Longhorns.
Speaker 2: It may come down to whether or not the Texas
Speaker 2: defense can show the flashes that they showed against Alabama,
Speaker 2: or if we're going to see more of what the
Speaker 2: advanced numbers would tell us the efficiency numbers tell us
Speaker 2: about Texas football, which is they're going to have a
Speaker 2: hard time stopping the pass, particularly against a pass happy
Speaker 2: offense in the form of Texas Tech led by Zach Kittley,
Speaker 2: the new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be. It would be weird if at
Speaker 1: three h eight pm on Saturday, the prevailing whether it's Twitter,
Speaker 1: whether it's whatever, the prevailing bit of advice is you
Speaker 1: gotta get it on ESPN, Misszoo. Auburn is just going off.
Speaker 1: The game is going off. This is much like I
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening here. These guys are trading haymakers.
Speaker 1: This game is wild. That would be an unexpected weird
Speaker 1: thing to come across mid to late afternoon on Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 1: because I don't know. I'm not a believer. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: in either one of these teams, but I'm gonna flip
Speaker 1: it to the positive, TI, please. It would be a
Speaker 1: shock to me if, as I'm looking across the SEC,
Speaker 1: it would be a shock in an incredible way that
Speaker 1: Texas A and M got attacked together this week, and
Speaker 1: now I know they're getting healthier at receiver. Evan Stewart
Speaker 1: namely is coming back. They got a couple of young
Speaker 1: dbs back against Arkansas, which seems important against kJ Jefferson.
Speaker 1: It would be weird to me if this game weren't incredible,
Speaker 1: just because it always kind of is. Last year, I
Speaker 1: know was pretty disappointing. Yeah, and that was just one
Speaker 1: big play basically responsible for A and M's points. But
Speaker 1: this game is always it always seems to be because
Speaker 1: it's at Jerry World, always seems to be odd and
Speaker 1: comes down to a weird overtime moment or comes down
Speaker 1: to a last second thing. It would be weird to
Speaker 1: me if this game weren't incredible, because I just always
Speaker 1: look forward to it in the SEC.
Speaker 2: I think Florida going to Tennessee and winning by two
Speaker 2: touchdowns or multiple touchdowns would confuse every projection system I've
Speaker 2: seen so far this year. None of the metrics would
Speaker 2: know what to do with that, because nothing says that
Speaker 2: that's even a possibility. I think that'd be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think there is there's a certain amount of turbulence
Speaker 1: to Florida Tennessee. There just is.
Speaker 2: There is, there is rivalry game table for sure. Penn
Speaker 2: State being taken to the wire with Central Michigan seems
Speaker 2: plausible to me.
Speaker 1: That seems pausible to me. Taken to the wire four
Speaker 1: touchdown favorites, Yeah, that seems plausible to me. Penn State
Speaker 1: obviously let down spot Central Michigan could score points. We've
Speaker 1: already seen that this year. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: bad off out. They can't stop any buddy, but offensively
Speaker 1: they're not bad. This seems like the kind of game
Speaker 1: Penn State takes off. They're not going to lose, But
Speaker 1: twenty eight points that seems like a stretch to me.
Speaker 1: I would I'm not going to include that in my
Speaker 1: tie versus the world. Bet Okay, I know if you
Speaker 1: if you were feeling really strongly about no.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you were saying weirdness, weirdness potential, weirdness
Speaker 2: potential is there with the Penn State Central Michigan game.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of folks in the chat bringing
Speaker 2: up Oregon State and USC.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's deep.
Speaker 2: Dive running the full gamut from USC losing on a
Speaker 2: pick six, which would be that would actually be kind
Speaker 2: of funny.
Speaker 1: Poetic all the way to.
Speaker 2: Like what do we got here? Oh my gosh, there's
Speaker 2: a bunch of USC Oregon State thoughts here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, in general, I think Oregon State beating USC.
Speaker 2: I don't care how they do it, but Oregon State
Speaker 2: beating USC feels entirely possible to me. It would also
Speaker 2: be very crushing for the PAC twelve, which I believe
Speaker 2: would cannibalize itself earlier than usual if that were the case,
Speaker 2: Like I guess, I guess Washington still has a chance
Speaker 2: in Utah. You know, Utah would have to get its
Speaker 2: act together and impress in a way that they didn't
Speaker 2: back in week one. But right now, there's so much
Speaker 2: steam on USC that losing on the road to Oregon
Speaker 2: State would would be a pretty big dagger to the
Speaker 2: Pac twelve.
Speaker 1: If that game were a seventeen thirteen final, that would
Speaker 1: be a surprise to me. With some of the down
Speaker 1: moments from these defenses. You know, it wouldn't be weird.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be a surprise if Oregon State pulled it off.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Smith, I saw it in a couple different places,
Speaker 1: has had success against Alex Grinch, going back to their
Speaker 1: time competing against each other in the Apple Cup. Different
Speaker 1: sort of roster, especially on defense for those Washington teams
Speaker 1: with you know, Buddha Baker and Videvea, guys like that.
Speaker 1: But no, given i mean US comfortably won this game
Speaker 1: last year in LA and given the different ways in
Speaker 1: which Oregon State on offense can gash teams, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm worried about the Oregon State defense. I'm I'm worried
Speaker 1: that the safety valve on that offense, Luke Musgrave is
Speaker 1: out for this game. Some shaky kicking at times for
Speaker 1: Oregon State. That US is not an excellent team. So
Speaker 1: to say that you need to be buttoned up to
Speaker 1: beat USC isn't totally true. But it'd be nicer to
Speaker 1: be healthier if you're Oregon State and to have a
Speaker 1: defense that you could count on a little bit more
Speaker 1: than what you've been able to these past couple of years.
Speaker 1: But teams get better, teams improve on either side of
Speaker 1: the ball. I'm just I'd be surprised if it were
Speaker 1: low scoring to me with these defenses.
Speaker 2: A bunch of awesome suggestions here in the chat, let
Speaker 2: me see if I can get to as many of
Speaker 2: these as I can. We've got Shaye, We've got Alex
Speaker 2: talking about the Maryland Michigan game. Maryland blowing out Michigan.
Speaker 2: I mean that would be a huge surprise, Shay, or
Speaker 2: Maryland just upsetting Michigan would definitely be a big deal.
Speaker 2: We know Maryland can score. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: trust him to win. But alas, we've got Nathan saying,
Speaker 2: weirdest thing would be Arkansas and A and M playing
Speaker 2: a totally normal, boring game in Arlington. To your point, Dan, right,
Speaker 2: this is a game that just oozes weirdness. It's sort
Speaker 2: of what the matchup is made out of.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Jeff Collins fired at halftime by getting run over by
Speaker 2: the Rambling wreck at the fifties.
Speaker 1: Oh, pick gruesome. I don't mean to laugh at violence.
Speaker 2: That would be weird, that would that would definitely be weird.
Speaker 2: We've got other ones here. Let's see, We've got someone
Speaker 2: calls it cor Vegas cor Vaalus. I've never heard that one.
Speaker 2: I like. I like that one. Navy playing ECU can't
Speaker 2: bet on the pirates against the United States Naval Academy
Speaker 2: just out of principle, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: What's happened in the Sunbeast?
Speaker 2: Tie?
Speaker 1: What's coastal in the Sunbast? We have Coastal tonight, Coastal
Speaker 1: Carolina on the road against Georgia State. Yeah, I quietly
Speaker 1: liked the Panthers and Coastal Carolina despite George staping all
Speaker 1: on three only two and a half point favorites. So
Speaker 1: that's sneaky, weird jmu App State tie. It would be
Speaker 1: weird if this weren't No, I'm not saying I'm not
Speaker 1: picking right now. I'm just saying, you'd be weird if
Speaker 1: this wasn't crazy, right.
Speaker 2: I think it might be a blowout. Honestly, I think
Speaker 2: App State's going to blow him out, all right?
Speaker 1: That does it Forballers.
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