WEBVTT - The Bowl Barge: Part 4.5 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the Solid Verbal. I'll that for me. I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.719 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.640 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.040 for day Edith State? Is that? Whoo? Whoom and Dan 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.360 and tie Welcome back to the Solid River, Boys and girls. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.680 My name is ty Hild joining me over there. Beautiful 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.960 New York City, My man Dandredstein, sir, how are you? 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.320 It actually is beautiful today, it's been really cold. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.199 We're recording this and this is actually important for just 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.360 your own everybody listening and their their presuppositions about what 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.479 we should be talking about. We're recording this on Sunday 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:45.040 the twenty second, so we're going to be recapping and previewing. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.760 But if you're listening to this on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.680 and beyond, that's why we are not saying, oh my god, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:55.280 I can't believe Marshall upset UCF or uh one hundred 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.760 to ninety eight Hawaii b YU in the in the 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.560 Loha Stadium, in the Sofi Hawaii. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:00.520 I can't believe it. 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.080 So that's why we are just doing this opening round, 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.560 recapping wise and then previewing the games that we are previewing, 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.360 and ty, I gotta say, are you familiar with dough fermentation? 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.880 Dough fermentation like pizza dough, how you let it ferment 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.040 and sit to let the dough grow. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.400 I am familiar with it to the extent I know 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.760 it happens, right, and so you let it sit and 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.080 it grows. You let it sit. I believe that's how 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.760 yeast works. But my guess is that you know a 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.480 lot more about this subject than I do. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.680 No, not really, I would assume I don't, but I 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.280 have been trying to learn more about it, and I 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:44.119 will say after the season ended, I was ready for 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.920 a little bit of non football time, a lot of 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.880 arguments about what the postseason should be, and this scenario 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.160 of Baylor wins, in this scenario of Oregon, I was 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:58.040 ready for just a time to exhale. But as the 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.920 bowl games have begun, not unlike the sugars breaking down 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.000 to allow carbon dioxide and alcohol to fill up those 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.720 cells with gas. Boy, it's slowly eating away at me 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.120 and helping my excitement grow into a brand new feeling 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.320 of excitement about bull season. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.880 There's a lot of gas in this opening Stanza here, Dan, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:19.600 I'm not gonna. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.880 There's a lot of gas this opening statement. But I 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.799 went into ball season saying, wow, I don't know, it 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.360 was like four and a half games that are kind 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.400 of interesting to me. Now I'm just ready for the 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:34.600 Gamut tie. I needed that time to intellectually ferment about 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:35.239 ball season. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.640 Give me that Capital One Bowl week baby. Capital One, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.760 not a sponsor, should point that out out, But yeah, 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.359 I am excited for Bowl season. We are going to 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.200 break down a handful of games. As Dan said, did 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.240 we want to do the oh my god, Nick Saban 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.360 retired bit for this show or like, just in case, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.160 maybe we should pre record that and just. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.280 Having realized he couldn't keep up with Josh gadd in 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.520 the Michigan offense and had to throw in the. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.200 If it happens between now and when this show drops 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.400 on Tuesday, yeah, we may want to cover our bases, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.239 but that's true. Other than that, thank you for joining 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.360 us here on the show. We not only are going 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.840 to recap, but we're going to preview a bunch of 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.120 other games that we need to get through. So you 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.400 know the deal by now soliverble dot com slash pick 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.720 them is where you get to the Bowl. Confidence pooll. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.080 Now you can't enter at this point. The picks are 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.639 locked because the bulls have started. But if you want 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.600 to get back to check and see how you're doing, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:38.160 to see where you rank relative to the m thirteen 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:43.920 hundred other people that are also competing for roback gift cards, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.480 you can do so by going to soliverble dot com 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:52.560 slash pick them. I saw after this wave of games 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.480 that I am currently ranked twenty second. Look at you 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.840 currently ranked twenty second. But I will say that number, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.360 that ranking is very inflated because I just went five 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.880 and four on the first first weekend of Kent State. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.080 Did you have the Golden Flashes of Kent State? The 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.800 Golden Flashes their first win in one hundred years in 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.120 a bowl game. Did you have that down? Nope, did 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:17.840 not have that down. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.920 Okay, I did not submit my picks. I made my picks, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.479 but didn't hit submit until the first game had started. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.240 And I loved Buffalo, so I missed out on the 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.160 points for that one. But I also loved Utah State. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.360 So you know, all's well that ends well, I guess 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:35.680 let's start. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:41.960 On Friday, December twentieth, there were two games Buffalo won 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.039 by twenty two over Charlotte by a thirty one to 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.480 nine final. And the game that you were talking about, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.960 Kent State fifty one, Utah State forty one. It is 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:58.800 Kent State's first bowl victory in one hundred years of 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.960 being a college football pro You believe. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.839 That it's ridiculous but amazing. Nonetheless, just like their fourth quarter. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.880 Incredible fourth quarter, they score twenty five points to secure 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.080 the victory. Jordan Love, the guy that I know both 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.760 you and I were pretty focused on, had a good 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.920 game as well, but just couldn't couldn't do enough. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.160 Incredible dual threat effort from Dust and Crumb of Kent State. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.120 I will not claim to have watched a lot of 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.320 Kent State football this season, but for them to pourt 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.560 on late like they did against a Utah State team 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.839 that took a very clear step back this season amidst 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.480 the coaching change, very cool, both for history's sake and 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.839 just for Kent State player's sake. You know, I've become 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.720 a big proponent of Bowl games are good, even if 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.119 the matchups aren't great to somebody from ten thousand feet away. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.080 Good for Kent State. For what was the Frisco ball, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.160 This is the Fristco Bowl. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.039 Yeah, very cool, the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl. The 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.279 other thing here that I wanted to note about this game, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.880 and it really is a strike against both of us 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.240 that we missed this guy all season long? Did you 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.279 happen to see Utah States leading receiver in this game? 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.680 I mean I watched the plays. I can't What was it, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.559 Isaiah McCoy. Nope, Siah oc Mariner? Oh sorry sorry keys 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.880 Ken States. Yeah, Mariner Dan. He had one third Mariners 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.279 and two touchdowns on the day, So good for him. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.080 I want to say Ucla had a Mariner recently. All right, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.360 anything else to say about these games. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.320 About the Frisco Ball or just the games in general? Oh, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.080 you're about those first Buffalo Charlotte. Cool to see Charlotte 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.920 make a bowl game. Obviously they did not have the 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.520 necessarily the defense to hang with Buffalo. Lancelipold obviously has 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.400 done a very good job at Buffalo. A down year 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.000 for the Bulls. I like somebody tweeted out that it 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.160 was some sort of weird knockoff bulls forty nine Buffalo 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:55.000 Bulls against the forty nine Ers NFL game, But yes, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.719 it was. You know we talked about just briefly dust 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.839 and Crumb and his dual threat ability. Chris Reynolds had 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.240 a very nice season doing much of the same, but 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.040 ultimately it was it was Jared Patterson. I scrubed through 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.880 this game pretty quickly, and it looked like he had 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.120 the ball in his hands successfully a lot, so good 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:11.960 for Buffalo. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:17.280 Then on Saturday the twenty first, we had Washington thirty 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.280 eight to seven over Boise in the Las Vegas Bowl. Yep. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.600 We had app State thirty one to seventeen over UAB 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.640 in the New Orleans Bowl. We had San Diego State. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.400 Did I say it wrong? I think it's just New Orleans, 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:37.000 San Diego State forty eight, Central Michigan eleven in the 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.679 unsponsored New Mexico Bowl. I don't know if San Diego 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:45.120 State scored forty eight points total all year. Amazing, amaze. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.120 Save the best for last, I guess Florida Atlantic with 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.720 a big win fifty two to twenty eight over SMU 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.400 and the Boca Ratone Bowl. Arkansas State wins by eight 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.640 over FIU in the Chamellea Bowl. And finally it was 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.440 Liberty twenty three to sixteen over Georgia Southern and their 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.920 option offense in the Cure Bowl. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.440 Dan, Yes, I guess we can start with the Power 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:17.960 five game of the day. Washington just stomped Boise, who 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.000 had quarterback issues. They sort of rotated to Hank Boch. My, sorry, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.320 it's okay, it's totally good. Defense looked incredible and there 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.480 were two different Washington teams this year and we saw 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.760 them comfortably beat BYU who was the one team to 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.640 beat Boise State before the Vegas Bowl. And Washington ran well, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.160 they threw well, and most importantly, they just completely silenced 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.120 any efforts at offense from Boise. So I suppose I'm 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.199 happy for Chris Peterson to go out this way against 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.280 his former team. The Jimmy Lake era now officially begins. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.240 Jacob Eason seemed fine. It was not a lot downfield, 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.240 but it really hasn't been the case all season long. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.880 I don't think he threw a pick, right, No, that's 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.440 that's something with a way he finished his season. It 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.000 was cool to see. It was cool to see Washington 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.960 end things comfortably and go eight and five. If you're 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.360 a fan of the Pac twelve and Boise good Mountain 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:15.199 West only okay, and I'm sure missing Zach Hill, their 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.920 offensive coordinator, and you know the uncertainty at quarterback as 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.720 the season finished out. Wasn't the best by Washington, the 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.760 clear better team, the class of the Vegas. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.000 Bowl, Class of the Vegas Bowl. Yeah, they hold down 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.920 Boise's offense under three hundred yards. They forced three turnovers 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:30.520 in that game. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.120 May have thrown a few shekels on this too. Actually, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.440 oh good for you. I liked Washington going in as well. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.800 The surprise to me FAU over SMU in that manner. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.160 He saw the clip of Lane Kiffen watching with a 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.840 couple of I think it was coaches he brought with 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.640 him to Ole Miss but both Chris Robison, bj Emmons, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.280 they just they stomped a SMU killed him. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.720 They did not. It was that one coming I went. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.000 I think I went against my points for drive theory 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.840 because FAU was the clear better defense in this matchup 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.760 and playing at home, and I think I looked at 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.839 FAU as an underdog because of the Lane kiff and 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.199 leaving situation, and I went against all of my tenants, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.560 and I screwed up. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.480 Should have stuck to your guns, should have. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.200 Stuck to my guns. App State big third quarter, including 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.439 a fumble return touchdown on a weird play gets them 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.480 a comfortable win over who they beat fiue, excuse me, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.360 the Blazers. They beat the Blazers, which I had a 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.040 lot of confidence in and it was close at halftime 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.840 and scared the but Jesus I think was actually up 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.160 at halftime. I mentioned the San Diego State thing. Yeah, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.080 fourteen to ten San Diego State, Central Michigan. I loved 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.680 San Diego State in this one. Nice story for Central Michigan, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.480 but I didn't feel like their season or their team 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.920 was on the level of the Aztecs. And finally Arkansas 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.319 State FIU got close near the end, but big day 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.720 from Lane Hatcher, quarterback for for Arkansas State led the 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:59.600 way for the red Wolves. And obviously very emotional season 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.520 for Blake Anderson in Arkansas State. So cool to see 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.080 them win went out the way they did, and I 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.280 think they finished with eight wins, So good to for 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:07.960 Arkansas State. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.880 Yeah, and I'd only add that Liberty's passing offense is 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.400 pretty legit. Pretty legit. Yeah, I mean they got Bowl 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:21.680 eligible in a kind of suspect, I agree, but as 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.880 a passing entity, they're pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.400 The Liberty game. Was I mentioned the receiver I liked. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.480 I think he had an okay game. Antonio Gandy Golden. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.880 But yeah, I mean winning a bowl game is always 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.720 going to be a big deal. Liberty as an independent team, 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.400 had to do a little bit of schedule calculus. I 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.520 think they lost to Rutgers, but they beat U MASS. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.520 Everybody should beat you Mass. And I want to say 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.439 they beat New Mexico State twice and won two FCS 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.559 games to get here. But hey, do what you can. 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:53.800 Nice postseason win. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.439 All right, anything else to add on that first round 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.360 of games, I don't think so. I think I'm good. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.600 This is the Bowl of Barge. It is hard four 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:09.920 all aboard. Let's talk about the Belk, Sun, Liberty, Arizona, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:19.160 Alamo Outback, Citrus, Rose, and Sugar. Yeah, that dark foghorn 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.600 means it's time to preview. Let's deliver some other bowl games. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.000 So today we've got, as you could hear, the Belk, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:34.360 the Sun, the Liberty, the Arizona, Alamo, Outback, Citrus, Rose, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.000 and Sugar bowls of all of these games, not including 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.280 the Rose Bowl. Since I know you have a rooting interest, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:47.079 which one interests you the most? 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:51.920 Utah Texas, just the way both of those teams ended 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.320 the season, Utah largely in a positive way even though 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.880 they lose the backwelve championship game, and Texas trying to 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.640 figure out a new era for themselves. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.240 Minnesota is interesting to me. Yeah, that's my answer. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.520 Alabama Michigan. I wish we got to see two. Uh, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.640 Georgia Baylor is gonna be a lot of defense. So 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:12.959 I think your answer is right. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.439 Auburn Minnesota, I think is the ultimate, the ultimate test 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.400 of my theory of motivation in bowl games. And we'll 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.800 get to that one in a little bit here, but 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.040 let's start at the top. Let's go Belk Bowl Numero Uno. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.960 This one played on New Year's Eve on ESPN. It 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.720 is eight and four Virginia Tech. It is seven and five. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:41.120 Kentucky Tech is currently a three point favorite. Now, my boy, 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.160 our boy, Lynn Bowden Junior. We already listed him off 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.200 in a previous show as having declared for the NFL Draft. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.920 There was just this open question around around whether or 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.760 not he's going to play in this game. He's playing, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.839 Dan is taking He's taking first team reps at quarterback. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.040 He had a quote that I read that something like 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.600 the last impression is the best impression or whatever. He's 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.200 going out there. He's going to play quarterback. He is 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.200 not going to be quarterback in the NFL. But the 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.120 fact that he wants to be part of this Bowl game, 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.880 I think is pretty cool on paper. On paper, I 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.960 have no lean whatsoever here. It looks pretty dead even 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.480 I obviously like the way Virginia Tech kind of built 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.920 momentum and finally found their quarterback and got things going 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:33.040 in a better direction. But I am partial to Kentucky, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.400 not just because of Lynn Boden. They played better teams. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.000 I trust their defense more. I think it's low scoring. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.560 I think it's a lot of defense. But I think 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.160 Kentucky wins outright. I'm not very confident. I would say 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:49.120 like four confidence points on this one. Two elite punting 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.280 teams tie. Yes. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:56.320 If you want to become an administrator, if you want 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.280 to become a civic leader, you can become the mayor 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.640 of punt City by watching this game. So let's start 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.960 with Kentucky. They finished the season winning four of five. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.280 If something's happening for this offense, as you mentioned, it's 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.720 happening on the ground with Linn Bowden, Defensively, they were 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.120 pushed around up front. You can run on this Kentucky team, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.960 but they do get after the quarterback. They do a 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.360 good job in the past game defensively. And Virginia Tech, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.520 they finished the season pretty well, even though they lose 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.560 to their rival for the first time in forever. They 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.280 finished winning three of four with that Virginia loss. A 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.120 much improved passing team with Hendon Hooker in there. The 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.720 defense looked pretty good. They gave up too many big 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.640 plays in Bud Foster's final season. And if there's anybody 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.960 to watch defensively in this game, I'm gonna go with 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.680 Ray Shard Ashby, linebacker for Virginia Tech. I have the 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.800 Hokies by seven. Here really the number of ways. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.520 They can win. I think it's a nice bounce back. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.920 This game is in Charlotte, correct the bel yes correct, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.000 So I will once again recommend fudo bhuta for ramen 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:00.360 and then anisio anitzo for pizza. Also, if you are 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.080 playing a player in this game, you get a shopping 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.080 trip to a Belk department store and a winger watch. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.880 Didn't someone get in trouble last year for trying to 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.680 steal from the Belk Department Store. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.400 I want to say it was in the last couple 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.479 of years an Arkansas player. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.680 That sounds right, but somebody tried to take a little 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.120 bit more than they were supposed to. Yeah, all right, 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.200 Belk Bowl, we disagree. Disagree. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.680 I like the Hokies, Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, Tony 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.080 the Tiger Sunboll What. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.640 Why not? How does Tony the Tiger have this kind 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.120 of cabbage to sponsor the Sun Bowl? Do you think 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:45.040 Brute is like a Fortune ten company? Why isn't it 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.400 the Kellogg's Sun Ball Tony the Tiger, why is he 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:53.200 on this? Why not? If they're promoting frosted flakes, that 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:58.400 gets people talking. Wow, New Year's Eve CBS Arizona State 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.680 seven and five flow to State six and six, ASU 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.359 is a four point favorite. I other than having Tony 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.720 the Tiger as the sponsor, which I cannot wait to 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.280 see the commercials for this. You a frosted flakes man, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.560 I'm not not a frosted flakes guy. What number would 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:16.800 it be? 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.880 If you're just if you're walking through Egman's and you're saying, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.760 damn it, if I don't need some sort of sweet 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.320 cereal to scratch an itch I have right now, what 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.040 number down or a top your sweet cereal ranking? Does 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:30.040 frosted flakes fall? 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.560 It's probably in the top five. I don't know if 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.399 anything could ever unseat frosted miniwheats. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.680 But this is this is why we do a show together. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.640 Ty yeah, Mini wheat man myself. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.399 I don't know. I'd have to give more thought to it, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.360 but frosted flakes are up there. Sure yeah, Cinnamon toast 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.000 crunches right there. Maybe Golden Grams, Golden Grahams aren't bad. Yeah, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:50.360 Golden Grahms are terrific. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.440 So as it relates to this game specifically, Florida State 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.399 lost two of three to finish out the season. They 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.000 have a new coach, they have no cam Akers. Even 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.480 with cam Akers, he couldn't do enough to make them 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.000 a really good rushing team. They were only okay through 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.240 the air. Defensively strong against the run, which I don't 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.240 think matters all that much against what this ASU team became. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.320 They were not great against the pass, which is concerning. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.680 But on the other side, Arizona State lost four of 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.120 six to finish out the season with a big astrosklot Oh. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.800 They beat a top ten team at home in Oregon, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.600 but even with Eno Benjamin they couldn't really run. They 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.440 did hit some bombs in the past game, no Brandon 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.400 Ayuk in this game for Arizona State, they were really 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.840 good against the run and only okay against the pass 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.159 because of so much shuffling from Florida State and missing 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.080 their clear best player. I have the Sun Devils by 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.040 seven here in El Paso, a city in which you 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.600 should be dining at H and H, a car wash 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.800 that has excellent Mexican food. Really yeah, and players in 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.439 this game have access to a gift suite and they 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.120 will also be given a timely watch company silvertone watch, 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:03.480 a Majestic Pro based Least pull over, an Ogo Excelsior backpack. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:08.160 Oh so okay, another Shuttle pack nonsense, a New Era cap, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:08.720 and a coin. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:10.640 What do you think The final score of this game 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:17.960 is twenty four seventeen. Yeah, I worry it doesn't even 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.119 get that high. Wow. I don't think these defenses are 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.159 all that good though they're not, but neither of the 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:28.840 offenses and Florida States without cam Akers, as you mentioned, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.280 ASU is without Brandon Ayu, maybe without Eno Benjamin. We 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.080 haven't heard on his status yet. But what this amounts 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.240 to is to very average offenses without their best players, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.960 and in normal circumstances that might mean a defensive struggle. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.639 That's not really Florida State's game either, is it? So? No, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.439 not really now, so I'm super torn here. I was 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.960 fully prepared to take FSU before the news about Cam Akers, 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.000 and I just I can't fight the feeling that Arizona 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.840 State's really overrated. Sorry, but that's how I feel. Okay, 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.160 So you know it depends on the news about Eno Benjamin. 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:10.199 If he is playing in this game, I will switch 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:16.120 over to ASU with seven confidence points. But I'm switching 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.840 it back if Eno Benjamin sits out. 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.400 He's out, He's not playing. I just I just looked 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:26.119 it up. According to Colin deaver Colin deaver is, I'd 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.159 say Colin dever TV, he is a an anchor in 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.040 It looks like in El Paso, Arizona State's leading receiver 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.720 joins the Sun Devil's leading rusher Ineno Benjamin and Florida 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.639 State leading rusher Cam Akers. This is in reference to 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:39.680 Brandon I, who will not play in the Sun Bowl. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.080 Then I'm going back to Florida State, baby, Okay, take 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.640 it I worry that outside of Tony the Tiger being 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.639 the sponsor, the most interesting thing you can say about 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.840 this year's Sun Bowl is that it absolutely could be 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.120 the second coming of the two thousand and eight Sun Bowl. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.680 And we all know what happened in that one. You're 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.040 took Oregon State, pitt, I know what happened in that one. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:02.200 Three nothing Oregon State. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:10.000 I have a proposition for you. I want any team 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.600 that has an interim coach because their coach left or 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.280 their coach was fired, they if they're going to make 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.280 that decision before the bowl game, which is their right, 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.600 they should be forced to be led by Barry Alvarez 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.240 in their bowl game. Barry Alvarez should be leading the 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:25.439 Seminoles out onto the field. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:32.080 Oh Man. Also Alex Hornybrooks skipping this bull game? Right? Yeah? 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:33.720 Well do you think he's just skipping out? We have 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.560 a job, interviewer. What's going on there? It'd be great 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:40.440 if he did get a job. Okay, what a mess. 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.760 I'm gonna go Florida State. But I got seven confidence points. 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.480 That'll be seven lost confidence points right there. 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.280 Yeah, going with this Florist State team. Twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:51.399 Someone's got to win this game, though. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.120 Oh man, I'm looking at the H and H car 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:55.840 wash menu right now. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:01.320