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Speaker 1: And welcome in La cag Is Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, September sixteenth, the Year of Our

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Speaker 2: Lord twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: It three two one and welcome in Lake cag Is Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, September sixteenth, the Year of Our

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Speaker 2: Lord twenty twenty one. Jam packed wall to wall, then

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Speaker 2: again we always are. We're about to dive headlong into

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Speaker 2: week three. We've got some games on the marquete, We've

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Speaker 2: got several more games on the undercard, and we're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk about a whole lot of them tonight. Let me

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Speaker 2: ask you a question rhetorical. We're about to hit it.

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Speaker 2: Who are going to learn the most about? Because I

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Speaker 2: got several teams, Some of them are on the radar,

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Speaker 2: some of them a little bit off the radar. This

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Speaker 2: is the time of year that's dangerous. This is the

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Speaker 2: time of year where we on the show metaphorically every year,

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Speaker 2: like to tell you the fog starts to burn off,

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Speaker 2: and the fog is the things you think you know.

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Speaker 2: We all think we know some stuff this time of year,

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Speaker 2: and then the fog burns off, and you see the

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Speaker 2: landscape a little bit more clearly, and it turns out

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Speaker 2: three weeks from now you'll look back and say, remember

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Speaker 2: when we thought this, Remember when we thought we had

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Speaker 2: that pegged. This is when that process starts. This is

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Speaker 2: why we never use the word lock ever, but much

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Speaker 2: less in week three. You never start speaking definitively. We

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Speaker 2: never put any of these bootleg playoff projections out because

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Speaker 2: we don't believe in the playoff in September. But we're

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Speaker 2: going to start to learn some more things this week.

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Speaker 2: We'll come back to that in just a second. We've

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Speaker 2: got mood Tracker updates, three more of them. Texas has

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Speaker 2: warranted a mood Tracker updates, certainly, Arkansas been talking with

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Speaker 2: our friends over on howgsports in the last hour actually,

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Speaker 2: and Ohio State butt nuts up in arms defensive, might

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Speaker 2: I add, and we're going to talk about all those programs. Also, Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: the G five love that you claim we don't give,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give. I can make an argument to you

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Speaker 2: that the Bearcats play the biggest game since Luke Fickle

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Speaker 2: has been there this Saturday. It's not the biggest in

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Speaker 2: terms of prestige, but it is the biggest I think

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Speaker 2: in terms of current and future impact all that, and

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Speaker 2: we're going to add two more best bets onto the

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Speaker 2: Rama Noodle Express. So just a little word of the wise,

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Speaker 2: by the way, as we talk about the Rama Noodle

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Speaker 2: Express and we're about to dive into the show, the

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Speaker 2: Model this week likes way more than just five or

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Speaker 2: six games. I mean, we're gonna have six games before

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Speaker 2: the end of the show tonight for you, but I've

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Speaker 2: got even more than that. They're not all going to

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Speaker 2: be official best bets. The reason I'm telling you this

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Speaker 2: is because those of you who have been checking out

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Speaker 2: Friday Night Lines, which is our super secret off the

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Speaker 2: radar kind of gambling chat on Instagram live. It should

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Speaker 2: be lively to what tomorrow night. We're going to do

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Speaker 2: it live from some random Pittsburgh hotel room. But I

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Speaker 2: would highly encourage you if you have some games that

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Speaker 1: That's the time it's live chat.

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Speaker 2: I feeled as many questions as possible last about fifteen

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Speaker 2: because there's some value on the board, even more so

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Speaker 2: than I'm going to be handing out on the show. Also,

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Speaker 2: I had a lot of you texting me about this.

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Speaker 2: I've been putting the show together, so I hadn't been

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Speaker 2: able to respond. But Dustin Hockinsmith and the folks at

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Speaker 2: penn Live did a really good feature on me and

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Speaker 2: the show earlier today. It's available penlive dot com. It's

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Speaker 2: a huge mega website in Pennsylvania. I've even heard about it,

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Speaker 2: and I grew up in Georgia and had some really

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Speaker 2: about that our Adam Stanko was quoted, Colin. I don't

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Speaker 2: think you were quoted. Colin's saving himself for he's only national.

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Speaker 2: When we do New York Times USA today, that's probably

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Speaker 2: when Colin will be reached for a quote. But thank

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Speaker 2: guys for checking that feature out. They're watching us tonight

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Speaker 2: Remember when Malson came to Auburn, it was his first year,

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Speaker 2: But point being, no one thought Auburn had any business

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Speaker 2: great so far against borderline Air, not to disrespect opponents,

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Speaker 2: what they're supposed to do. But now we find out

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Speaker 2: if Brian Harson has any of that Malsan year one

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Speaker 1: Win this game? Everyone's focused on bow knicks. Well I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm focused on Tank Bigsby, and I remember being that

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Speaker 2: the air a whole lot with bo Nicks. In fact,

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Speaker 2: interceptions may not be the biggest issue. Fear of letting

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Speaker 2: but all that can be negated if they find out

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Speaker 2: order to win the game. Thirdly, how about Penn State

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Speaker 2: Week one. The box score tells a different story. Doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: You got to be able to take games.

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Speaker 2: And unlike Week one, you're not in a hostile environment,

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Speaker 2: You're in a friendly environment. Auburn should feel like they're

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Speaker 2: things I'm watching in that one. How about Alabama at Florida.

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Speaker 1: In week one.

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Speaker 2: You think Miami's a top twenty team thereabouts, and you

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Speaker 1: They look really good. And they did look really good.

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Speaker 2: But the thing about the early season fog is sometimes

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Speaker 2: is a really good team is not a really good team. Well,

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Speaker 2: so now we've got another week of perspective, and that

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Speaker 1: The swamp for the first time. Pretty much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone on that roster does. The overall caliber of

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Speaker 2: twenty nine to twenty three. Those are two wins, but

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Speaker 2: you know they hit you a little bit different. Just

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Speaker 2: the overall caliber of play, nothing too specific, just the

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Speaker 1: That's one thing. And then I got another thing.

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Speaker 2: I was asking director Colin about probably about thirty minutes ago.

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Speaker 2: I was just I was randomly just writing some notes down,

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Speaker 2: not again. I said, yeah, just just humor me for

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Speaker 2: not seen anyone outright predicted Florida win. Since no one's

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Speaker 2: predicting it, what if Dan Mullin wins. You ever stop

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Speaker 2: to think about that for a second. What if, instead

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Speaker 2: of covering some people have been bold enough to predict that,

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Speaker 2: What if Dan Mullin and Florida actually win. How radically

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Speaker 2: would that shift the whole dynamic. I'm kind of asking

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Speaker 1: the other day.

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Speaker 2: I got an email from some of the high upsite

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Speaker 2: Academy and they told me that you guys had been

440
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Speaker 2: hitting them up saying we bought some Academy merchandise and

441
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Speaker 2: we did it because you are a partner with Lake Kick.

442
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Speaker 2: So here's what I need you to do. I was

443
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Speaker 2: talking to one of our sales executives.

444
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Speaker 1: Today and here's what I want you to do.

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Speaker 2: When you do that, just tag me in it because

446
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Speaker 2: I want to have that because that's really fun.

447
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Speaker 1: I would love to just screenshot that.

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Speaker 2: So if you're going to academy dot com or you're

449
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Speaker 2: in the store, which a lot of you have been doing,

450
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Speaker 2: just screenshot yourself. I don't care where you are, just

451
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Speaker 2: tag me in it, send it to me Twitter, Instagram, wherever,

452
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Speaker 2: because I want to build a little folder of that,

453
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Speaker 2: and then I want to just break it out down

454
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Speaker 2: the road, probably in a sales department meeting, and I

455
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Speaker 2: just want to run through a ridiculously showy slideshow presentation of.

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Speaker 1: Boom Boom Boom boom boom, boom boom.

457
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Speaker 2: All of our folks buying Academy gear. So thank you

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Speaker 2: for that. Nothing but help the show. It does nothing

459
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Speaker 2: but help our partners. Let's talk about moods. We don't, normally,

460
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Speaker 2: to be honest with you, do the mood tracker until

461
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Speaker 2: it's either spring, when we do one for pretty much

462
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Speaker 2: every program, or it's really late in the season. But

463
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Speaker 2: this season has necessitated that we do several mood trackers.

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Speaker 2: I think this after this seconmdent we will have done

465
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Speaker 2: for already. So Colin, here's your endpoint. Let's set some

466
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Speaker 2: mood trackers because there are moods rapidly evolving across the

467
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Speaker 2: landscape of college football, and we got to start with Texas.

468
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Speaker 2: The Texas mood has been updated to in casey we trust.

469
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Speaker 2: I trust that a lot of you saw the Arkansas game,

470
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Speaker 2: not even going to call it an Arkansas Texas game.

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, Texas did not have a

472
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Speaker 2: whole lot of choice with how that outcome came to be.

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Speaker 2: But now what you also saw if you tuned in

474
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Speaker 2: through the duration, is a quarterback change, which of course

475
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Speaker 2: was what we were fearful of in the latter portion

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Speaker 2: of Texas fall camp. We saw that there was no

477
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Speaker 2: clear leader. That was made obvious because Steve Sarkisian himself

478
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Speaker 2: said so, and so it was Hudson Card, and it

479
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Speaker 2: was Casey Thompson, and finally you have a scrimmage where

480
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Speaker 2: Card looks a little bit better. Chip Brown over at

481
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Speaker 2: Horns twenty four to seven shared some pretty interesting information

482
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Speaker 2: with his insiders and members over there earlier today that

483
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Speaker 2: indicated maybe that coincided with Casey Thompson showing up a

484
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Speaker 2: couple minutes late for some things, and when it's a

485
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Speaker 2: battle of inches, that goes a long way in determining

486
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Speaker 2: the outcome. Whatever determined the outcome, sark picks Hudson Card

487
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Speaker 2: as a starting quarterback, and that was all well and good,

488
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Speaker 2: But remember what we said on the show at the time,

489
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Speaker 2: which is ringing very true now. I said, this is

490
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Speaker 2: not a Texas team that is talented enough to just

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Speaker 2: pick their quarterback and then take off and get the

492
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Speaker 2: cruising altitude thirty eight thousand feet within ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be bumpy. They're just not there yet. Obviously.

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Speaker 2: That's why they have a brand new coaching staff and

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Speaker 2: the problem therein lies because when you had two quarterbacks

496
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Speaker 2: so hotly contesting each other in fall camp, it's inevitable

497
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Speaker 2: that you have a little division with than your locker room.

498
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it can be healthy. But you got how many guys.

499
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Speaker 2: You got over one hundred guys in there. I mean

500
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Speaker 2: you got one hundred different sets of eyeballs. They're not

501
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Speaker 2: all seen it the way you do. You better believe

502
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Speaker 2: there were some folks that said man coach picked Hudson car.

503
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Speaker 2: I think Casey Thompson. I think he's our leader. I

504
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Speaker 2: think he's our guy. Now, Sark made the best decision.

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Speaker 2: He knew how to with the information at hand. But

506
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Speaker 2: what we said is the second the first wheel gets wobbly,

507
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Speaker 2: there's probably going to be a change. And lo and

508
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Speaker 2: behold the wheels got wobbly Saturday night in Fable, and

509
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Speaker 2: now we've seen a change. And Casey Thompson, in case

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Speaker 2: you've missed it, has been announced as the starting quarterback

511
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Speaker 2: for Rice this Saturday. Rule number one on the show,

512
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Speaker 2: don't lose to food. Rule number two see rule number one.

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Speaker 2: And so I believe Casey Thompson is going to have

514
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Speaker 2: a good game Saturday. Now, the reason the Texas mood

515
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Speaker 2: has shifted to in Casey, we trust is because there's

516
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Speaker 2: no other option.

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Speaker 1: That's about it. But I'll tell you something else.

518
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Speaker 2: Casey Thompson is liked by a lot of the Texas

519
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Speaker 2: fan base, and if you were indifferent on him, then I.

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Speaker 1: Think you ought to go over there and take a look.

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Speaker 2: At Chip Brown's insider report over on Horn's twenty four

522
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Speaker 2: to seven, because he talked a lot about He talked

523
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Speaker 2: a lot about the attitude and had some direct quotes

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Speaker 2: from Casey Thompson. And here's the way I interpreted it

525
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Speaker 2: and the way a lot of you at Texas interpreted it.

526
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Speaker 2: It was believed that if Hudson Card won that job,

527
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Speaker 2: there was a strong likelihood that Casey Thompson was going

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Speaker 2: to transfer. Sark himself was worried about that, and when

529
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Speaker 2: it happened, I was reading Chip Brown's report. I'm paraphrasing.

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Speaker 2: Go read it in it's entirety if you want to.

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Speaker 2: Over on Horns twenty four to seven dot com. He said,

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Speaker 2: Casey Thompson was very distraught. He just kind of cut

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Speaker 2: himself off from the world for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: But then he.

535
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Speaker 2: Decided I'm gonna stick it out. I'm gonna go work

536
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Speaker 2: my tail off. I'm gonna try and do it on

537
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Speaker 2: my own and prove to everyone that I deserved this job.

538
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep myself ready. And so he was ready

539
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Speaker 2: when his number got called Saturday night. He was ready.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people have observed that inside the program.

541
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Speaker 2: It makes you want to root for a guy like

542
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Speaker 2: that because he did not hit the exit door, he

543
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Speaker 2: didn't hit the dump button immediately. And so for those

544
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Speaker 2: two reasons, I think it's in Casey we trust right now.

545
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Speaker 2: With Texas Longhorn fans, again, no one wins where no

546
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Speaker 2: one expects to win a national title out there this year,

547
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Speaker 2: but they want to see evidence from Steve Starkesian in

548
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Speaker 2: his organization at least or his version of the Texas organization,

549
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Speaker 2: that there's something to build in and buy into in

550
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Speaker 2: the future. And you can start to do that with

551
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Speaker 2: nailing down who the starting quarterback is going to be

552
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Speaker 2: for the rest of the year and not make it

553
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Speaker 2: a week to week sort of deal up In Columbus, Ohio, Yeah,

554
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Speaker 2: that's it. That's my impression of a lot of my

555
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Speaker 2: Ohio State buddies. This week, the Ohio State fan mood

556
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 2: tracker has shifted to one word defensive, And there is

557
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Speaker 2: a double entendre there, obviously, because they were anything. But

558
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Speaker 2: that were the Ohio State Buckeyes against Oregon Saturday. I

559
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Speaker 2: was in an unair conditioned Iowa State press box. Yes, guys,

560
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Speaker 2: I'm out there in the trenches. I mean, I'm fighting

561
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Speaker 2: a battle out there in ninety five degree temperatures for

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Speaker 2: all of us.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing it for you so you don't have to

564
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Speaker 1: sweat through your shirts.

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Speaker 2: But I was watching the Oregon Ohio State game on

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Speaker 2: a press box TV.

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Speaker 1: And I'm watching and I'm saying, is that a replay?

568
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Speaker 2: No, that looks just like a play that gashed Ohio

569
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Speaker 2: State a drive before.

570
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Speaker 1: They just ran it again. Oh, look there they go again.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you.

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Speaker 2: It felt like I watched one hundred twenty yard chunk

573
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Speaker 2: plays on the ground ripped off by CJ.

574
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Speaker 1: Verdell.

575
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Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't all that far from reality. And so

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Speaker 2: we read you. On the Tuesday night edition of Late

577
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Speaker 2: Kick Live, several quotes from Ryan Day about needing to

578
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Speaker 2: overhaul a lot.

579
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Speaker 1: Of things about the Ohio State defense.

580
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Speaker 2: Very uncommon language to be blunt about a program that

581
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Speaker 2: is as elite in stature as Ohio State is at

582
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Speaker 2: this point in a season. You can talk that way

583
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Speaker 2: in spring, you can talk that way in fall camp.

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Speaker 1: You rarely hear head coaches be.

585
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Speaker 2: That drastic in their language in a season, but it's merited,

586
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Speaker 2: it is absolutely warranted.

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Speaker 1: So the focal point this.

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Speaker 2: Week and they're playing I think Tulsa this week, the

589
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Speaker 2: focal point this week for Ohio State fans has been

590
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 2: tracking every practice update. They want to know who's going

591
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 2: to be the coordinator there the rest of the year,

592
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,479
Speaker 2: and more importantly, forget titles and forget you know, plaques

593
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 2: on the desk, who's calling the plays, and a lot

594
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Speaker 2: of that is shrouded in secrecy. I mean officially, no

595
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 2: changes have been made. I would bet my bottom dollar.

596
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Speaker 2: Changes have been made. I don't know exactly what they are,

597
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 2: but everyone wants to know if things are going to change,

598
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 2: and so with every fresh practice report, now we tried

599
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 2: something new today, or we were working on something new today. Well,

600
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 2: in my time observing this game, I can tell you

601
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Speaker 2: when fundamental changes are being made.

602
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Speaker 1: It is never adding complexity at anything.

603
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 2: It is stripping things out and it is making it

604
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Speaker 2: as simple as possible. It is removing the pen from

605
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 2: your hand and inserting a red crayon. And if that's

606
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 2: what it takes to get a competent defensive product on

607
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 2: the field, that will absolutely get picked part down the

608
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 2: road by more elite offensive products, so be it. Because

609
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 2: if Ryan Day is looking at things and he's asking, well,

610
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 2: out of the two alternatives, what do I prefer people

611
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 2: looking lost or people doing their job and someone just

612
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 2: eventually figuring us out several series end of the game,

613
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna take the ladder. You can at

614
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 2: least stomach the ladder. I can't stomach the former. And

615
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 2: so it's defensive right now because Ohio State fans are

616
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 2: asking a question that's normally inverted. Normally, you watch a

617
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: team that has a really good defense and they can't

618
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 2: score enough, and so you ask, man, are we gonna

619
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 2: waste a great defense this year because we can't score enough?

620
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: It's the total opposite.

621
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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying they're elite offensively yet there, but

622
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 2: they have a ceiling of elite production. Offensively, they can score.

623
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Speaker 2: Ohio State can score on their good days. They're asking does.

624
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: It matter right now?

625
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 2: Are we gonna be able to stop anyone because I mean,

626
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: you know, if Minnesota moved it on us, and then

627
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 2: certainly Oregon moved it on us. Looking down the road,

628
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 2: and there's some teams that in a former life I

629
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 2: would expect us to house pretty comfortably are probably going

630
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 2: to be able to make us uncomfortable, kind of like

631
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: the Indiana game last year, because they're going to be

632
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 2: able to score on us. And that is a bad

633
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: place to be. That's a bad feeling to having the

634
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 2: pit of your stomach. The total opposite of that is

635
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 2: the way our Arkansas friends are feeling. And we've had

636
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 2: a ton of Arkansas folks watching the show the past week,

637
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: and I appreciate it. I mean, I've done some radio

638
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: and little rock this month, and I've talked about the

639
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 2: things that I love about college football, and I'm not

640
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 2: gonna beat this to death again, but anytime you watch

641
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 2: a program get the culture fit, you got to stand

642
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 2: up and applaud it. I mean, if you love the

643
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: sport as a whole, then there's no way that you

644
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: can dislike what's happening at Arkansas to Sam Pittman. And

645
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: if you're unfamiliar, if you're just kind of a casual

646
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: fan and maybe you pull for your program, and maybe

647
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: you know you're a Washington State fan and you just

648
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 2: don't know a lot about Arkansas. For the good of

649
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: the sport, I would encourage you to root for Arkansas

650
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 2: because if that template is proven on a national level

651
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 2: to work, then you'll have far more programs out there.

652
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: A second and very hard look at their own hiring practices.

653
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: I'm looking in Los Angeles, California as we speak through

654
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 2: the camera, of course, and understand that you can't have

655
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: the same five or six list of questions no matter

656
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 2: where you're trying to hire.

657
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: You gotta have cultureist part of it. Arkansas, I got

658
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,239
Speaker 1: it figured out.

659
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: So anyway, we beat that drumm a lot Sunday and Tuesday,

660
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: the mood tracker at Arkansas. I don't know how popular

661
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 2: Jason Maraz would ever be in Arkansas. However, he had

662
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: a song one time that I was listening to last night.

663
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 2: That's why it's stuck in my head, and it's called

664
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 2: make It Mine. Well, if I'm an Arkansas fan, my

665
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 2: mood is make it ours. You know how the sport

666
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 2: is shaped, You know how the very conference you.

667
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: Reside in is shaped.

668
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 2: You know how the division in the conference you reside

669
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 2: in is shaped. It doesn't really matter how good you become.

670
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 2: No one's handing you anything. No no, no preseason magazine

671
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 2: is ever going to coordinate you a favorite of anything.

672
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 2: Vegas odds makers aren't going to do it. Certainly media

673
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 2: is not going.

674
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: To do it every game.

675
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: Even if you ultimately go on to win, it is

676
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 2: gonna be again with your back proverbally against the wall,

677
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 2: just like last week, and even though you went on

678
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: to skull drag someone, you had to prove everyone wrong

679
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 2: in doing it well. The point is, if you're waiting

680
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: for the crowd that didn't expect you to be able

681
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: to do that to ever hand you any kind of accolade,

682
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: you're gonna be waiting until.

683
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: You're in your grave. So don't wait. Just make it yours.

684
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: Sam Pittman's got that attitude.

685
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: I can promise you the rest of the program has

686
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 2: that attitude, and I would venture to think the fan

687
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: base will not have a very hard time at all

688
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 2: adopting that attitude. The reason is because Sam Pittman is

689
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 2: one of them. He is one of you guys, and

690
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: so you all think the same way, and you should

691
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 2: be thinking the same way. I cannot wait to watch

692
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: several more of those patented Trey Biddy walking talks outside

693
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: of Reynolds Razorback Stadium in the future where you guys were,

694
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: of course an underdog and then you end up beating

695
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 2: someone and there's Trey Bitty just walking around selfie stick

696
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: in hand, empty stadium.

697
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: Said, well, we did it again. You got a pause,

698
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: look around for effect.

699
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 2: As only Trey Biddy can do. Yep, we got him.

700
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I've watched him.

701
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 2: Doubt Sam, we got him again tonight of the walking talks,

702
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 2: Trey Betty's walkin talks are great. Make it ours, that's it.

703
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: Make it ours. Remember at the beginning of the year,

704
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: when I was telling you the difference between rankings and

705
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: predictions and ratings, I need to have a little soliloqually on.

706
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: The JP pole before we go off the air.

707
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: Reminder there there were a lot of people who didn't

708
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: expect anything from Arkansas this year because they thought they

709
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,479
Speaker 2: weren't a good team. But there was a much bigger

710
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 2: crowd out there that probably thought Arkansas is a decent team,

711
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 2: but they thought the schedule was insurmountable. And I just

712
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 2: made the point that I want to reiterate before we

713
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: move on. Yes, Arkansas has got a brutally difficult schedule.

714
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 2: You don't play a schedule every week. Arkansas didn't play

715
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 2: their schedule last week they played Texas. Texas was one

716
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 2: layer of what you thought made this season non winnable

717
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 2: for Arkansas.

718
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: But then they won the game.

719
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 2: So that's one domino down that you didn't think they

720
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: could knock down. This week they got Georgia Southern. Arkansas

721
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 2: is not talented enough to overlook anyone. I pray they

722
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: don't overlook Georgia Southern. It's the last program at that

723
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 2: level you want to be overlooking. But then they're going

724
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 2: to play an in Dallas. We are giving strong consideration

725
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 2: to taking the Renaissance Tour to Dallas, Texas for that game.

726
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 2: By the way, decisions to be made this weekend. Take

727
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 2: care of business first.

728
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: People are gonna look at A and M haines, can

729
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: you or not.

730
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: They're gonna look at them and say that's gonna be tough,

731
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty at best, maybe even forty sixty. But

732
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: then if they win that when you'll have two dominoes down.

733
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 2: Then it really gets thick. Then you have no chance, right,

734
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: no chance whatsoever of going into Athens, and then the

735
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 2: week after that at Old Miss.

736
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: By the way, if.

737
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 2: You count the trip to Dallas, their third week on

738
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 2: the road in a row, which never happens unless you're

739
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 2: an FCS program. The point being, you don't look at

740
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: a schedule in totality. You look at weeks and in

741
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: a week I did check. Even Arkansas just has to

742
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 2: play one team per week, they'll be okay. You maintain

743
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: and bottle up the energy and passion and attitude they

744
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: played with last week, they'll be okay. They'll have a

745
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 2: shot to compete in almost every game they play.

746
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: That's it. Those are the only mood trackers we have

747
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: to update.

748
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: But I will tell you this, looking at this weekend slate,

749
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: I would venture to think some more moods are going

750
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 2: to have to be updated this time next week. I

751
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: did want to touch on one program in particular. I

752
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: think it's probably a game that some of you are

753
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: gonna miss, and I understand it farbeit for me to

754
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: guide your viewing habits for you, But there's a game

755
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: that happens Saturday noon Eastern kickoff and it is Cincinnati

756
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: at Indiana. And I'm gonna tell you right now, I

757
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 2: think it's the biggest game Luke Fickle has had at

758
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: Cincinnati since.

759
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: He's been there.

760
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: They've had bigger games in terms of marquee, they will

761
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 2: have had more viewed games.

762
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: This is a big one though. I think it is

763
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: the big one for them.

764
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: I had a buddy hit me up earlier this week

765
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: and said, I don't think since he's gonna cover the

766
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: four point spread, which I will touch on in just

767
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 2: a second, said.

768
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: I don't like it.

769
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 2: I said, why, well, I just think it's a little

770
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: bit of a letdown spot. Maybe they overlook Indiana this

771
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: you listen, you are high on bath salts if you

772
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 2: think they're about to overlook Indiana. This is not an

773
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: overlook game. This is a circle game. This is one

774
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 2: of their supers. If anything, you'll get over the cliff

775
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: Max effort from Cincinnati Saturday. Remember back in July we

776
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 2: did a segment here. I still stand by it even

777
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 2: more today than I did then. I said, very matter

778
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 2: of factly, I don't care what the past has shown you.

779
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: A lot of you think it's impossible for a g

780
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 2: five team to make the playoffs. If this one right here,

781
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 2: If the Cincinnati team goes undefeated this year, they're going

782
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 2: to be in the playoff. Still believe that. Believe it

783
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: even more today than I did then. And now you

784
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: know that it sounds weird coming from my mouth because

785
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 2: I've been the dude in the past who told you

786
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: I don't ever think a G five team deserves to

787
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 2: be in the playoff. And I've got reasons that are

788
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: not related to how good the team is. So we

789
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: can have that fight in January if you want to,

790
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter what I think should happen, because

791
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 2: I'm telling you what I think will happen, and I

792
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 2: think Cincinnati is going to make the playoff if they

793
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: go undefeated. That is about the last time I want

794
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: to talk about the playoff in September. But think about

795
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 2: what this Saturday represents for Cincinnati, because what if they've

796
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 2: been told, whether it's right or wrong, what have they

797
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 2: been led to believe is the biggest hurdle between them,

798
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 2: you know, and the grand prize of making a college

799
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: football playoff. Number One, it is conference affiliation. It's that

800
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 2: G five proverbial sticker on your helmet the AAC. Well,

801
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 2: the reputation of that conference has never been stronger. Some

802
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 2: would argue winning that conference is tougher than winning a

803
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 2: couple of the Power fives that are sandbagging heavily out

804
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: here right now, and I don't think I need to

805
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 2: be any more specific. The profile of that conference has

806
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 2: never been stronger.

807
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 1: That's one. Number Two.

808
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: You've been told, well, you know, you got to be

809
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 2: able to schedule some legitimate Power five competition and beat them.

810
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: If you had to play P five teams.

811
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: Then stands to reason your strength of schedule will be

812
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 2: too tough and you wouldn't have gone undefeated. Well, here

813
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 2: you go, because not only do you have Indiana, you

814
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 2: just so happen to have Indiana coming off a year

815
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 2: where if they finished higher rank than in any point

816
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 2: in any of our lifetimes, at least recently. And so

817
00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 2: you get one. And then they've got Notre Dame after this.

818
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: I think there's a bye week, but they have Notre

819
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 2: Dame after this. This is the stretch that they've been

820
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: told they have to not only put on their schedule,

821
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: but then hurtle perfectly over if they're ever going to

822
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 2: make a playoff. They've been told strength of schedules not legit,

823
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 2: Well this takes care of it. They've been told you

824
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: gotta beat those p fives, Well this takes care of it.

825
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: Now.

826
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: The Vegas line on this game currently, as I went

827
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 2: on the air with Cincinnati minus four to Cincinnati minus

828
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: four and a half and our line, our late kick

829
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 2: line is six. So we think Cincinnati covers, we lean Cincinnati.

830
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: I thought about making it an outright play, even though

831
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 2: our model indicates about a fifty five percent cover probability.

832
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: Here's what's hard when you're trying to set your own line.

833
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 2: What's really hard is understanding which external factors to quantify

834
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 2: and to value and which ones to just dismiss totally.

835
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: Like a lot of times when people talk about revenge

836
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,439
Speaker 2: angles and all this stuff, we don't care. I don't

837
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: even give it a quarter of a point's worth of attention.

838
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 2: But in this I wonder if we shouldn't bump it more.

839
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 2: I wonder if we shouldn't make a little manual override,

840
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 2: because what could happen is this stuff could matter a

841
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: whole lot. It could matter even more than you and

842
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 2: I could ever imagine. It could be that this has

843
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: been drilled into their heads so much in summer workouts

844
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: and fall camp, it could be drilled into their head

845
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 2: that your back is against the wall, this is your

846
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 2: one shot. Play the eight mile soundtrack in your ear.

847
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: You only got one chance, and you got to go

848
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: make it happen. And it's on the road. At Indiana.

849
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 2: We're going to have heavy crowd representation there. This is

850
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 2: not the most hostile of environments in the world, but

851
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: it is the biggest opportunity in our world.

852
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: Man.

853
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 2: If that's the mentality they're going in there with and

854
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: they execute at a high level, Cincinnati can run it

855
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: up on Indiana. Indiana's offense is look bad. In fact,

856
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's offense has not really had a game where you

857
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 2: would argue they just clicked since that Ohio State game,

858
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: And some people still have the residue of that game

859
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: in their head.

860
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: A narrow loss to Ohio.

861
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 2: State, and I still think it's baked into some of

862
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: these numbers, and in reality, even I think our model

863
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 2: is a little bit short here. I think Cincinnati is

864
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 2: going to win by more than that. We'll talk about

865
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 2: that more on The Secret Late Night Out of Management's

866
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: View gambling chat on Instagram Live.

867
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: But there's a third factor in play.

868
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 2: Maybe you've turned on Twitter, checked your favorite sports website

869
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 2: this week. Maybe one of you has even cracked a

870
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 2: newspaper right there, a physical copy in your hand, and

871
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 2: you've seen Luke Fickle's name mentioned in regard to the

872
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: USC job. I don't think that matters. Just wanted to

873
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: put that out there. That won't have an iota's worth

874
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 2: of difference a nickel's worth of difference in this game.

875
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what will.

876
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 2: The fact that Clemson already has a loss on the resume,

877
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: the fact that Ohio State already has a loss on

878
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 2: the resume, the fact that Tulane pushed Oklahoma to the

879
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 2: very limit, and Alabama's perfect but they still have their

880
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 2: biggest test ahead of them. Point being, remember back in July,

881
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: everyone dismissed this notion I put out there that I

882
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 2: thought a perfect Cincinnati would make the playoff because you

883
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 2: couldn't wrap your head around Cincinnati making the playoff over

884
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: an undefeated Clemson. Well they're not undefeated anymore. Or undefeatedt

885
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 2: Ohio State, Well they're not undefeated anymore. Renaissance theory is

886
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 2: what we call it, and it's in full effect I

887
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 2: told you you'll still have Redwoods in the sport this year.

888
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 2: It's just they're going to be shaved down. They're going

889
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 2: to be a lot closer to the pack. That is

890
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 2: what college football is this year. It wasn't all that

891
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 2: hard to see coming. I know because even I figured

892
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 2: it out. This is an environment that is ripe for

893
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 2: Cincinnati to make it.

894
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: But it's also an.

895
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 2: Environment where they could lose Saturday and it could all

896
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 2: be out the window. And that is my best pitch

897
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 2: for the fine folks at ESPN to get you to

898
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 2: turn on their network and watch this game. We do

899
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 2: have to do one more little piece of business before

900
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 2: we get out of here.

901
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: Thank you for watching. By the way, tonight we got

902
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: to talk best bets.

903
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 2: I've already got four of them on the board, but

904
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: now we're going to add not one, but two more.

905
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 2: We've got such a loaded card we couldn't even use

906
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: our fancy rom and noodle graphic. We have to use

907
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: a standard old slider graphic. So I already gave you

908
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 2: Texas A and M minus twenty five and a half.

909
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 2: That's all the way up to twenty nine or thirty.

910
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 2: Now you've got to be.

911
00:39:58,960 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: Following on Twitter.

912
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: I cannot stress it enough at late kick, Josh, you

913
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: have lost what five points of line value if you

914
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 2: weren't following when I originally handed that out. And I

915
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 2: do not like it at thirty, by the way, we

916
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 2: like it at twenty five and a half. Kansas State

917
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 2: plus two and a half. That one is creeping down

918
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 2: near zero. Now we're on the right side of that one.

919
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 2: Penn State minus four and a half. That one went

920
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 2: up to six. It's coming back down. We want four

921
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 2: and a half, and we got it. We got Virginia

922
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 2: Tech plus three. I think that one is still available

923
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 2: at three. Now we're adding two more. We're doing it again.

924
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: We are taking Vanderbilt in a football game to try

925
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 2: and make us money. Vanderbilt is at home. Nashville's team

926
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: is at home Saturday. They are facing Stanford West Coast

927
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 2: Vandy and they are getting twelve points. Our model makes

928
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 2: it Vandy losing by seven.

929
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: And a half.

930
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 2: I texted Barton today and just lied to him and

931
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 2: told him model says they're gonna win outright again. It doesn't,

932
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 2: but we do think they're gonna cover Vandy plus twelve

933
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: and Brigham Young not to be confused with BYU, which

934
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 2: we don't say on the program because I can't pronounce

935
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: the why Brigham Young plus three and a half. This

936
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:06,280
Speaker 2: number is low because there is a widely held theory

937
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: that Brigham Young is drained after beating Utah last week

938
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 2: and they will lay an egg this week. Our model

939
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 2: does not believe. So they are welcoming in Arizona, by

940
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 2: the way, And I'm not a believer in the sun

941
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 2: devils right now, I'll just give it to you straight.

942
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 2: And they haven't really been tested, and they're about to

943
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 2: be here, and it's a really, really tough out in

944
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 2: Brigham Young. I also think that the loss of Zach

945
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 2: Wilson has been overbaked into their number. That's a very

946
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 2: very sound team, very sound culture, and I think the

947
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 2: collective effort will be good enough not only to cover

948
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 2: the three and a half, maybe even get us a

949
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 2: whim so quickly, if you're listening on the podcast, we

950
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 2: got A and M minus twenty five and a half,

951
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 2: Kansas State plus two and a half, Penn State minus

952
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 2: four and a half, VA Tech plus three, Vandy plus twelve,

953
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 2: Brigham Young plus three and a half.

954
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: And I cannot stress enough this may not be it.

955
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: We may not be done.

956
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,720
Speaker 2: Make sure you're following on the socials at late kick Josh.

957
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: Make sure you're tuned into that Instagram live tomorrow night.

958
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 2: It's probably between eleven and twelve Eastern time. It is

959
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 2: available the next morning. If you do have a reasonable

960
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 2: bedtime hour you want to watch the replay, it'll be

961
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 2: available the next morning. I can't promise the lines will

962
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 2: be the same, so thank you so much for watching.

963
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: Make sure you're subscribe, by the way, to the YouTube channel.

964
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 2: We are well into the sixty five sixty three thousand range,

965
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 2: so let's keep that number five for director Colin. For

966
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 2: our entire crew in Fort Lauderdale, we are very excited

967
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 2: to head up to Pennsylvania tomorrow. I'm Josh Pate excited

968
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: to see you this weekend. Cannot wait for what should

969
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 2: be an incredible atmosphere in State College and then we'll

970
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 2: see you Sunday and night for all the reaction until then,

971
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 2: have a great weekend and God bless