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Speaker 1: October twenty fourth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: jam packed, high a Top, downtown and crowded. Might I

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Speaker 1: not exactly the best of friends. But we're here, Director

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Speaker 1: Colin and I, as well as our entire crew down

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Speaker 1: jam packed as always. Penn State, Why HOWD? What gives

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Speaker 1: you the right? Is my first question to Penn State.

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Speaker 1: What do you think you're doing? Is my question to Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: Several questions that I have to ask very reputable programs tonight.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know we're gonna have an answer from

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Speaker 1: ask the pressing questions. Nonetheless, Bama rolled yesterday. Ohio State

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Speaker 1: rolled yesterday. Probably the single worst feel, just got feel

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Speaker 1: So I'm here to slap myself on the wrist. We've

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Speaker 1: got so many different roads to go down. It was,

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Speaker 1: as usual one of those Saturdays that the casuals out

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Speaker 1: goes down that way. I was at Alabama Tennessee yesterday

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Speaker 1: is it not. That's why we're here together to do

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Speaker 1: this show three nights a week. Manny Diaz, what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen to him? At Miami? They won yesterday? But

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Speaker 1: So it's been a big time around here. And now

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Speaker 1: Tuesday Late Cake Extra podcast. I do have a couple

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Speaker 1: every beginning of the Sunday Night Show, except for last

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Speaker 1: Kick Renaissance Tour is taking us this Saturday. The Week

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Speaker 1: Why is that because, in true old days fashion, the

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Speaker 1: the Heisman, nor should he. That doesn't mean he can't

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Speaker 1: And because Bama blows Tennessee out on the regular these days,

427
00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 1: when you're at the game at Bryant Denny Stadium, they

428
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 1: don't wait until the end of the fourth quarter to

429
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Speaker 1: start lighting up. And I was talking to someone in

430
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 1: a position of authority yesterday and I asked about the

431
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Speaker 1: smoking ban on campus and he said, I don't know

432
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Speaker 1: what to tell you. We got one three hundred and

433
00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,920
Speaker 1: sixty four days a year here, and he just walked away,

434
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: and there was not much enforcement of it. Last night.

435
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: I shot some video actually from field level. It's a

436
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 1: very interesting vantage point when you're on field because a

437
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 1: lot of these a lot of these stadiums have elevated

438
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,600
Speaker 1: seating to where you can really see the smoke waft.

439
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 1: It looks like the student sections on fire. Actually, this

440
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 1: looks like a giant fire extinguisher should be taking to

441
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Speaker 1: the student section. And then this is what I told

442
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: you last week on podcast, that haze. Even with a

443
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 1: breeze in that place last night, there's just a cloud

444
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 1: over the entire field. By the time Bama Tennessee games

445
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 1: m now This should serve a supreme motivation for Josh

446
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,879
Speaker 1: Heipel and the folks there, but it's also for older

447
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: Alabama fans. It never loses its sweetness. And that's what

448
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 1: stands out to me when I go to Bama Tennessee games.

449
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: If you're nineteen years old, like those students right there, yeah,

450
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 1: you're smoking your cigars, half of your choking to death.

451
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 1: But you don't really get it. You know it's a tradition.

452
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 1: You know you're supposed to do it, and you do it.

453
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 1: Nick Saban actually walked over there and applauded in front

454
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Speaker 1: of the student section last night, so he approves of

455
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: the no smoking band for at least one day. But

456
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,880
Speaker 1: the older folks, I wish you could see it when

457
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: you walk around. When I'm walking around there after the

458
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Speaker 1: game and you're looking at a fifty seven year old guy.

459
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 1: They've lived through Tennessee domination. They've lived through oh, let's say,

460
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: former head coaches at Tennessee trying to put you out

461
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,679
Speaker 1: of business entirely. They've lived through all that. This is

462
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,679
Speaker 1: a bitter rivalry. There is supreme hatred in this that

463
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,919
Speaker 1: you just don't get if you're new to the table.

464
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 1: But they do. And so if you could see the

465
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Speaker 1: looks on these people's faces when they have those cigars

466
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Speaker 1: in their mouth, it's very glazed over. It's kind of

467
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Speaker 1: off in the distance. And I like to picture all

468
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 1: of them just looking at a giant pinata with Phil

469
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: Fullmer's face on the pinata, and with every puff they're

470
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: taking a broomstick to that pinata. And boy, they've done

471
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Speaker 1: a lot of beating lately. Tennessee goes down again at

472
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: the hands of Alabama fifty two to twenty four. Let's

473
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Speaker 1: move on to satder times. I mean, that was sad

474
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Speaker 1: enough if you were a Tennessee fan. But oh my goodness,

475
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: let me collect my thoughts, let me rub the sleep

476
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Speaker 1: out of my eyes. So Illinois beat Penn State yesterday

477
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 1: in what was a multi part travesty of a football game.

478
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 1: Twenty to eighteen is the final. Now, I want to

479
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 1: congratulate Illinois, but I'm going to make this about Penn

480
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 1: State at the expense of our Illinois brethren, and you

481
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Speaker 1: can send the hate mail to me later. This was

482
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Speaker 1: every bit of stunning to me as the Florida LSU

483
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: outcome last week. I mean stunned. The line on this

484
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 1: game was twenty three and a half. If anything, I

485
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: thought Penn State would cover, especially if you told me

486
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Speaker 1: Clifford was starting. They are coming out of a bye

487
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Speaker 1: week before that, they had played Iowa, and to the

488
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Speaker 1: point where Sean Clifford, the starting quarterback at Penn State,

489
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Speaker 1: went down, they looked good offensively. They had done some

490
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 1: good things against a very salty defense in Iowa. I

491
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 1: say all that to say I felt really good about

492
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Speaker 1: where Penn State was, and they did too. I think

493
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Speaker 1: they're just as stunned as the rest of us, So

494
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Speaker 1: I said, multipart travesty. Here, let's talk about the football

495
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: game and the specific team in a second. Number one,

496
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 1: you can take this new overtime format and you can

497
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: wad it up and you can throw it right in

498
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: the trash. And if any of you out there were

499
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 1: under the impression that because you were entertained by them

500
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: going like thirteen innings in a football game, that it

501
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: somehow equates to good football, then after you throw the

502
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Speaker 1: offense and then you throw the overtime as well in

503
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Speaker 1: the trash, then you need to sit by the trash

504
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: for a little while. That's not the way a college

505
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: football game is supposed to end. This is what happens

506
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: when you let people who never played sports make rules

507
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: for sports. Nobody watched that yesterday with any common sense

508
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: about themselves and said, as feels right, absolutely, this is

509
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 1: the way we should decide a football game. And just

510
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: like with the targeting, we skipped nine logical steps that

511
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: should have been taken before we got to that point.

512
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: No one stepped up and said, hey, before we radically

513
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Speaker 1: alter overtime, why don't we just take field goals out

514
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Speaker 1: of overtime? You have to score touchdowns, Why don't we

515
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: make you go so for two after every touchdown instead

516
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 1: of waiting for the third overtime? Why don't we do

517
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,919
Speaker 1: those things first before we decide to go like soccer

518
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: penalty kick style, director Colin said, why don't we just

519
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: have a punting contest? Why don't we just see who

520
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: can coffin corner things the best? Why don't we just

521
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: decided that way? I think it's as good as ideas

522
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 1: we saw yesterday. That's horrible. That's terrible. So, judging by

523
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Speaker 1: the hastiness with which we've addressed the horrible targeting rules

524
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 1: in this sport, we should address this in the next

525
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: decade or so. I think we're on track to do that.

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Speaker 1: Travesty number two is obvious. This was an utter crowbar

527
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Speaker 1: to the shins of the Penn State football team for

528
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Speaker 1: this year, but in a lot of ways the program

529
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Speaker 1: and I just made the comparison to the LSU defeat

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Speaker 1: of Florida last week, and the more I think about it, actually,

531
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Speaker 1: as I'm sitting here, the more there is some irony

532
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: that that game popped in my mind. And this is

533
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: kind of the alarming part, if you will, for Penn State.

534
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: I think we're starting to see some parallels between the

535
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: penns State program and the Florida program. Now, these are

536
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: good programs, these are not bad programs. But the problem

537
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: is they do not have the caliber of athlete top

538
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: to bottom on that roster to just throw their helmet

539
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: out on the field and bail themselves out in games

540
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: like these, and they should should You never say that

541
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Speaker 1: out loud. No coach would ever even think that way,

542
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: much less say it out loud. But if you're at

543
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: for instance, Ohio State and you played Illinois yesterday, you

544
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: could play your C minus game. Your helmet would bail

545
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 1: you out in the m Oklahoma had this happen yesterday.

546
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: Their helmet bailed them out against Kansas. In the end,

547
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: Penn State's helmet didn't bail them out because they don't

548
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: have that caliber of athlete. They've got good athletes. I'm

549
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: not saying they don't. You need to understand the context here.

550
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about them as some woebegone program that

551
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: finishes in the seventies and recruiting every year. But they

552
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: don't finish top five either perennially. They don't finish top

553
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 1: six to seven normally. And that is the difference. You've

554
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: got to show up, even against the Illinois of the world,

555
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: the Illinois of the world. You've got to show up,

556
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 1: and you got to bring at least your B plus

557
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: even at home, as it turns out, or else you

558
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: can get beat. I can't stress this enough. Illinois is

559
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: a bad football team. Illinois didn't have forty yards passing

560
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: yesterday and they still won this thing. When I tell

561
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: you what I'm about to tell you, you tell me who

562
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: should be on which side of this. If I were

563
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,640
Speaker 1: to tell you one team in this matchup won't even

564
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: need to throw the ball to win, who should that be?

565
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: That should be Penn State ten times out of ten,

566
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: and yet it wasn't it was Illinois. Penn State tried

567
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: to run it twenty nine times yesterday. They put sixty

568
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: two yards on the board. They couldn't run it. And

569
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Speaker 1: that's not a yesterday problem. That's been an all season problem.

570
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: It just cropped up again. So nothing changed in the

571
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: bye week. Illinois ran it sixty seven times in a

572
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: football game, not the whole season, just yesterday they ran

573
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: it sixty seven times for three hundred and fifty seven yards.

574
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: I know that sounds bad. That's actually not terrible for

575
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: the Penn State defense, given that they ran it nearly

576
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: seventy times. But I'm not sure where they go from here.

577
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: I had some of you ask me that today, Where

578
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: does Penn State go from here? Normally, that's a lazy

579
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: question because that's the go to for anyone who's trying

580
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: to write a post game recap and they don't have

581
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: any creative ideas. That's where they always go. Well, where

582
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: does so and so go from here? I think it's

583
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: kind of valid in this particular instance because now Penn

584
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: State's what two and two in conference? They still have

585
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: to play at Ohio State this week. They're well over

586
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: a two touchdown underdog in that one. For some of you,

587
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: they can't put a number out high enough for you

588
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: not to bet Ohio State. But also, little news flash,

589
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: Penn State still got to play Michigan. Penn State still

590
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: got to go to Michigan State. So I don't know

591
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: is my answer as to where they go. So again,

592
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: congratulations to Brett Bielam. I mean, he trashed his offensive

593
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: line this week and they ended up paving the way

594
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: for three hundred and fifty seven yards on the ground.

595
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: But this was very, very surprising to me. They got

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Speaker 1: Sean Clifford back. He obviously was not remotely close to himself,

597
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: and even you know, with him playing at the level

598
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: he played, which he lied to you in post game,

599
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: which he's supposed to do. He lied to you postgame

600
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: and said it didn't affect him. Well, of course it did.

601
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: So he competitively fibbed to you. And there's no other

602
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: way to approach that. You don't say I was hurt. Guys,

603
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: if I wouldn't hurt, we would have won. No, that's

604
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: a different set of problems if you got your quarterback

605
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: talking like that. But if Sean Clifford is one hundred percent.

606
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: I think we all understand this game turns out differently.

607
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: But the problem is that's really all it took. That's

608
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: all it takes to bring Penn State down to a

609
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: level where they cannot out athlete Illinois. And that's a

610
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: problem and it's got to get addressed. Several other takeaways

611
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: from yesterday. Who I don't even you know. I could

612
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: spin the wheel. I've got one too. I got about

613
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: five games I needed to go over here right quick.

614
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: I could spin the wheel, and I could start with

615
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: any one of them. But let's just rapidly react to

616
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: a few games from week eight here. Ohio State, I mean,

617
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: just made fools of several people, myself included. They beat

618
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: Indiana fifty four to seven. Sometimes you have an angle.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you how I felt about this game.

620
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: The model leaned Indiana, and then I agreed with the

621
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: modeicles What I thought was, I thought Indiana was a

622
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: little bit underrepresented statistically because of poor turnover luck, and

623
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: maybe I thought it could just shift. But I also

624
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: thought to myself, maybe we've seen it happen before. Maybe

625
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: Ohio State got fat on some inferior competition and then

626
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: they're going up against the team that looks a little

627
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: bit worse than they are because of turnover. Look, maybe

628
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit closer than twenty one. No. No,

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Speaker 1: So grab those ear muffs that you had for the kids,

630
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: and I want you to put them back on, because

631
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: this was how Ohio State started the game. Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.

632
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: Then charitably they decided to punt. Then they scored another touchdown,

633
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: then they put a field goal on there for good measure,

634
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: and then they punted to end the game. They had

635
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: thirty one first downs on sixty nine total plays. I

636
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: think they only got to third down like nine times.

637
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: I want to say there were six of nine. I

638
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: don't know how that happens. I got. Let me tell

639
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: you how weird I am. I can remember all my

640
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: middle school locker combinations. I just, off the top of

641
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: my head recalled the Ohio State box score. I do

642
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: not have it in front of me, but some critical things,

643
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: like my credit card number, I can't remember it to

644
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: save my life. Thirty two, eighteen, thirty six, four sixteen eight,

645
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: and eight twelve zero. By the way, those were my

646
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: middle school locker combinations. So Ohio State is rolling the

647
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: folks that cover that program. I was looking at Dave

648
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: Biddle earlier today and I don't have any reason to

649
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: disagree with him when he says this, It is the

650
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: most impressive offense they've ever seen there. If you guys

651
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: want to talk Heisman, you need to be talking about

652
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: the signal caller up there at Ohio State. CJ. Stroud's

653
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: playing phenomenal right now. Now they're going to get into

654
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: a little stretch where I guess you would call it

655
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: the meat of their schedule. You're looking at their schedule here.

656
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: They've got Penn State this week. Again, they're well over

657
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: a two touchdown favorite. There, they go to Nebraska, they

658
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: got Purdue Michigan State at Michigan. It's not an easy stretch,

659
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: but it is also tough to make an argument for

660
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: any of those teams beating this this squad right now.

661
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: How about Iowa State. We had a good game yesterday.

662
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: If you'll notice the vernacular I've been using, it sounded

663
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: a lot like this. They have struggled as of late,

664
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: but we looked a lot better yesterday. You got to

665
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: be very liberal in your use of they and we.

666
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: I'm just joking, it's we right or die here, But

667
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: Iowa State got it done twenty seven to twenty four.

668
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State falls from the ranks of the unbeaten. Not

669
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: the biggest shock in the world, even those of you

670
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: who were trying to kid yourselves into thinking that that

671
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: was a playoff contender. The way that you know you

672
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: were trying to kid yourself is because you didn't even

673
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,479
Speaker 1: you didn't even get that shocked when they got beat yesterday.

674
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Coastal Carolina crowd. Good for

675
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina. They got beaten the middle of the week

676
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: last week, and you didn't even bat an eye at it.

677
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: So those of you were trying to prop these brands

678
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: up because you think record means everything, and you are

679
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: what your record says you are. You don't even believe that.

680
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: If you did, you would have treated this game the

681
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: same as when A and M beat Alabama. That's how

682
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: you're supposed to act when a real playoff contender goes down.

683
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: You didn't even care about this. Now when that same

684
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: team lost to this same team in twenty eleven, as

685
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: I was in a movie theater that night on a Thursday,

686
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: when Iowa State beat Oklahoma State that year. That is

687
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: how you know you thought Oklahoma State was a real

688
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: playoff contender because that shockways throughout the entire sport. Let

689
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: me ask you this, as I'm looking for padlock stats,

690
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: I would ask myself and if I were to approach

691
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: to you Friday, and I would have said, Hey, is

692
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: this a padlock stat? Iowa State in this game where

693
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: they're favored by seven against an undefeated Oklahoma State. If

694
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: I tell you Iowa State is only going to have

695
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards rushing and no one's going to turn

696
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: the ball over. So Iowa State sixty seven yards rushing?

697
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,719
Speaker 1: Is that a padlock stat for Oklahoma State? As it

698
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 1: turns out, no, it was not. And the reason it

699
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: was not is because Brock Purdy showed up quarterback there

700
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: for the Cyclones twenty seven of thirty three, three to

701
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: oher seve through the air two touchdowns. I don't use

702
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: the phrase or the term Broctober because I didn't come

703
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: up with it, but happy Broctober to Brock Purty in

704
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: company yesterday. Now they got two losses, they have both

705
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: been games they statistically at least should have won. I

706
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: don't really use that terminology because if you should have,

707
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: you would have. But statistically the postgame win expectancy would

708
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: indicate Iowa State should have beaten Iowa should have beaten Baylor.

709
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: Well they didn't. So now they're a two loss team.

710
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: Well what are they going to accomplish the rest of

711
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: the way? Because they got this win, they got to

712
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: win against Kansas State last week. They're playing easily the

713
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: best football they've played all year. It's a long football season,

714
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,720
Speaker 1: so you've had time to believe in them, write them off,

715
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,479
Speaker 1: and now come back to the bandwagon because they've still

716
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: got some very consequential games. They're still going to play

717
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: Texas in a little while. Of course, they've got a

718
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: trip to Oklahoma second to last week of the regular season.

719
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: By the way, they go to Norman. So it's possible

720
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: that this team still plays for a Big Twelve championship.

721
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: It's possible they can still win the Big twelve championship.

722
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: You never know. I like to mention JP from angels

723
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: in the outfield at least once a show it could happen.

724
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: It could happen. Pitt beat Clemson yesterday twenty seven to seventeen.

725
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: Some of you were scared of Clemson last week, and

726
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: it's the very definition of a paper tiger pun intended.

727
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: I don't know why you were scared. What was it

728
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: you thought was in the Clemson arsenal that they had

729
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: capable of breaking out on you that thus far had

730
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: not been broken out. What did you think was there?

731
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: This team doesn't have claws. That it's been declawed. They're

732
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: not going to grow him back before the end of

733
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: the year. Two incredible stats that I want to read you,

734
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: and neither one of them came from my mind. College

735
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: Football Talk Daily, CEFB Talk Daily on Twitter put this

736
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: out earlier today. This is dj Uyarngalaley, formerly top rink

737
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: quarterback in the country. YadA, YadA, YadA. He's got a

738
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: fifty four point eight completion percentage right now. He got

739
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: benched during part of this game yesterday. He's got a

740
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: little over eleven hundred passing yards. That's good for ninety

741
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: second in the country. He has got four touchdowns that's

742
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: one fifteenth in the country. And then there's this little

743
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: tidbit for Matt Zeniz. There are two Power five teams

744
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: right now that have yet to score twenty points or

745
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: more against FBS competition. Just two of them in all

746
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: of Power five. One of them's Arizona and the other

747
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: one's Clemson. What planet are we living on right now?

748
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: Let me read that again. Some of you may have

749
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: been partially tuned out. There are two Power five teams

750
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: that have yet to score twenty points versus FBS opponents.

751
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: One of them's Arizona sucking water through a garden hose

752
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: right now, and the other is the Clemson Tigers. Yeah,

753
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: those Clemson Tigers. Dabo said all the right or wrong things,

754
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: depending on your perspective in the postgame. You know, he

755
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: dropped the old line if I start taking suggestions from

756
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: the crowd, then I'll end up sitting with the crowd paraphrasing.

757
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: That's basically what he said, and I normally agree with that.

758
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: But look, I think it's obvious whether he admits it

759
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: or not. Yeah, you're gonna have to take a long,

760
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: hard look at this program. They may still have more

761
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: losses coming. This may not even be done. I mean,

762
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: I saw someone for the first time yesterday ask out loud,

763
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 1: could South Carolina beat Clemson? And South Carolina got rolled

764
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: by A and M yesterday. Just to give you an

765
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: idea of what the talk in the Palmetto State is

766
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: right now, how about Notre Dame. They came through a

767
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: sports yesterday big time, thirty one to sixteen Irish over Trojans.

768
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: This was the best their offensive lines played all year.

769
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: I was able to actually watch this one earlier today.

770
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: And because of that offensive line improving, what do you know, magically,

771
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: run game has showed up. I think they had forty

772
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: one carries yesterday for one hundred and seventy. Now that's

773
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: not all world, but it's much better than what they had.

774
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: They ran it for about four point one per pop,

775
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: and they had some more tempo. It felt like they

776
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: had more purpose, is the way that I looked at it. Offensively,

777
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: they had a really good plan. They used Jack Cone

778
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: at quarterback, I think the best that they've used them

779
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: all year. They didn't just you know, kind of take

780
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: a dice and then and shake it up in their

781
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: hand and open it up. Okay, Tyler Buttner, you're in

782
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: this series. Oh wait, wait, wait, nope, Jack Cohen, you're in.

783
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: It felt like there was a lot more purpose behind

784
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: the offensive game plan. They were coming out of a bye,

785
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: so it stands to reason they should have had their

786
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: They should have had their affairs in order there and

787
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: had a little bit better plan, and they did and

788
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: they played well. Now, the same question I asked for

789
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: Iowa State exists for Notre Dame. What are they capable of?

790
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: This is a one loss team. Remember they had all

791
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: those close wins earlier in the year, and I told you,

792
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: don't discount those close wins because you keep assuming, well,

793
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: they won this one really close. All they'll lose multiple games.

794
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: But what if they don't, because down the road, you

795
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: don't remember how close the wins were. You just remember

796
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: that they're wins. So here's Notre Dame and they got

797
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: one loss, and they just beat Southern cal They will

798
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: be favored the rest of the way. A lot of

799
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: games that looked like they were going to be marquee

800
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: are not. For instance, this week they played North Carolina.

801
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: I thought we would be in South Bend for that

802
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: game at the beginning of the year, and that's not

803
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: even on our radar, which goes to show you you

804
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: should plan your future in pencil, both travel wise and

805
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: just LifeWise, planet in pencil. So good on Notre Dame.

806
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: Now they get to be in the same position that

807
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: they find themselves very frequently, which is hanging around a

808
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: crowd that you don't think they need to be hanging

809
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: around the playoff crowd, and then they get to make

810
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: you mad because depending on what happens with the other contenders,

811
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: they get to kind of hello, one loss over here. Hello,

812
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: And if you guys answered the door, I know how

813
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: you deal with them. Lastly, we got to give some

814
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: credit to the Oregon Ducks. They were up thirty four

815
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: to seventeen, ended up holding on to win thirty four

816
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: to thirty one against Ucla. I thought Ucla'd win this game.

817
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: Thought they had advantages in a couple of different areas.

818
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: So let's talk about that right quick, because the line

819
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: of scrimmage was the real area where you had to

820
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: wonder is Oregon gonna hold up? Talked about that multiple

821
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: times last week. Well they did. Ucla had one hundred

822
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: and ten yards rushing, but only two point four per carry.

823
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: That is a really good number, and quite frankly, that's

824
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: not a number that I thought Oregon was going to

825
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: be able to hold them to. Ucla ran ninety one

826
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: plays in this game and did not eclipse three hundred

827
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: and sixty yards, and that you don't see very often normally,

828
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: if you're not able to eclipse more yardage, you're not

829
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: on the field for enough series and extending enough drives

830
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,479
Speaker 1: to run ninety one plays. And if you run ninety

831
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: one plays, you normally got like five hundred yards of offense.

832
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: So that's number one. Yes, Yes, Oregon was able to

833
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: win enough of those line of scrimmage battles. But number

834
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: two Anthony Brown. Most recently you heard him being booed

835
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: at home against cal Well. He went on the road

836
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: and he is not going to play at a Heisman level.

837
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: But judging based on the curve of what we've seen

838
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: at quarterbacks so far this year for Oregon, he played

839
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: well enough. He had two hundred and thirty six through

840
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: the air. He ran for another eighty five yards. Travis

841
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: Dye had one of the weirdest stat lines I've ever

842
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: seen yesterday, thirty six yards rushing and four touchdowns scored

843
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,479
Speaker 1: I think on four consecutive plays at one point, which

844
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: is sort of x box ish. But Oregon same deal.

845
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 1: They're off the radar, but they've only got one loss,

846
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: and now you start to ask, especially because they've got

847
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: a win at Ohio State on their resume or resume.

848
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: I wonder what they're capable of. They've still got losable games,

849
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: like a lot of these teams down the Strets are

850
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: gonna play losable games. But there's an assumption out there

851
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: right now in the old college football ether that the

852
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: SEC will have at least one, if not two, in

853
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: the playoff, and Ohio State will be there, and then

854
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: maybe a second Big Ten will be there. But if

855
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: not them, it'll be Oklahoma. If not them, it'll be Cincinnati.

856
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: That's great, and those of you who may not have

857
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: observed the first half of the season and learned better

858
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: can go on assuming that. I don't assume that. So

859
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: I think there may be some doors open for some

860
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: teams that you don't expect to have access. I don't

861
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: know if Oregon's going to be that team, nor if

862
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: they will even qualify, because you see the games they

863
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: still have to play here. I mean, they still got

864
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: some tricky test ahead. But let's just not dismiss them.

865
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Don't dismiss Notre Dame, don't dismiss

866
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: Oregon because I don't think that they need to be

867
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: dismissed yet, Like I think they're still in the conversation.

868
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: They're just on the very very fringe of it. One

869
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: more game that I wanted to talk about, but it's

870
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: not so much the game as it is the circumstances

871
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: surrounding the game. I don't know what's happening at Miami

872
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: right now. It's gotten really uncomfortable down there now. The

873
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: Canes won yesterday over NC State thirty one to thirty.

874
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: Strange times though in Coral Gables, those of you close

875
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: to Miami, you followed this drama the past week, but

876
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: those of you who may be in Topeka, Kansas, I

877
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: doubt that you've been following this. Blake James is the

878
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: athletic director there and he's been under fire for many reasons,

879
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: both amongst the fan base and now the media locally

880
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: and regionally. He did a little, very very elective, might

881
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: I add, a little media tour, kind of unscheduled. Just

882
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: decided to go talk to some folks. And this is

883
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: called CYA for those of you in the real world.

884
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: He had a CYA tour last week. You can figure

885
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: out the acronym for those of you unfamiliar, and he

886
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 1: essentially tried to distance himself from Manny Diaz. He also

887
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 1: did not promise anything beyond twenty twenty one, and here's

888
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 1: what it was. What it was was essentially the remember

889
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 1: the Titan scene, lose a game and they'll fire you.

890
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: But he didn't say that, but it was left to

891
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: be understood by pretty much everyone, including myself, that if

892
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: manny Da has lost yesterday, as ridiculous as this is

893
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: to let it come down to one game, if he

894
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: lost yesterday, he was probably going to be out. Okay,

895
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: well they won by one point. Is manny Da has

896
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: really a different coach? Answer is no. But when you

897
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: have someone who may not be the most equipped to

898
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: be making these kinds of decisions, it can come down

899
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: to that. Do you know what the difference in a

900
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: football game sometimes is? Sometimes it's six inches to the

901
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: left and right of an upright a field goal kick

902
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: when you're down too at the at the end of

903
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: the clock. If it's six inches this way six inches

904
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: that way, it makes no difference in what kind of

905
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: coach you are. But there are some decision makers out

906
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: there that, based on that twelve inch difference, would decide

907
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: whether you're good enough to lead their program or not.

908
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: So apparently that's where we are at Miami. My whole

909
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: take on that is what's I'm going to ask you

910
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: guys at Miami because I'm as interested to get your

911
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: responses here as anyone. What do you think Miami is

912
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: really ready to do here? Because I look at Miami now,

913
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 1: I felt this way for a couple of years now.

914
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 1: I have felt this massive detachment between their history, which

915
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 1: is the reason most of us know about them, and

916
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: the current administrative culture there. To me, the administrative culture

917
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: is not in lockstep whatsoever with the fan base and

918
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: the tradition and the history. Those are two totally different mentalities.

919
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: Those of you who have been around for a while,

920
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: or maybe you've just watched the documentaries and you were younger,

921
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: and you hunger and thirst for the days when that

922
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: you meant what it used to mean. I don't think

923
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: you guys think the same way at all as the

924
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: administrative types down there. Well, where rubber meets the road

925
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: here is when I hear an athletic director like Blake

926
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: James talk like he was talking, you could tell me

927
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: all day. He could have even come out and just

928
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: straight up said, if Mannydaz doesn't win today, he's fired.

929
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't really. The team played hard

930
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: for him yesterday, so they haven't bailed on him. Has

931
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: the performance been good enough? No? Has recruiting been good

932
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: enough to me? No? But if you get rid of him,

933
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: what comes after that? Because everybody's idea down there was

934
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: the same, and everybody nationally if Mannydaz, if you had

935
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: a headline as soon as I went off air tonight

936
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: Manidaz fired at Miami, everyone's idea is the same. It's

937
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: Mario Christoval. That's who everyone wants to go after. Why

938
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: is he leaving Oregon from Miami? And I say that

939
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: knowing he played there. I say that knowing his entire

940
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: family lives in South Florida. Even with those advantages, I'm

941
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: asking you, why would Mario Christoval leave Oregon from Miami?

942
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: Because my assumption is the program, the university, the decision

943
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: makers there, I don't think have it in them to

944
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: put a strong enough offer in front of Mario Christball

945
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: to entice him. And that's independent of whether he'd even

946
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: entertain it. Anyway, I'm saying, even if Mario christaball was

947
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: open to it, I don't get the sense that they're

948
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: ready to make it worth his while. The fan base

949
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: would be obviously, you know, if you were to get

950
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: I know they honored the one title team yesterday, if

951
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: you had them in the decision making room, you know,

952
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: it's a different story. Well, they're not in there. Guys

953
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: like Blake James are in there, you know, and he's

954
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: not the only one, let me be clear. But those

955
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: folks when you start talking about the kind of salary

956
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: you have to pay, and then the kind of staff

957
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: that you have to dedicate and the resources that you

958
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: have to allocate. When you start talking about all that stuff,

959
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: telling you you as a fan, you know they're in

960
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg, you may say, yeah, okay, let's do it.

961
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't. You know. If you're Ed Reid

962
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: from that team back back in the day and you

963
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: hear that, you say, yeah, of course, that's what the

964
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: big boys do. The administrative types don't feel that way.

965
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: At least that's the field that I get. Now, Look,

966
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to be wrong there. Good Miami is

967
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: good for college football. I firmly believe that. And you know,

968
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: my philosophy on recruiting in South Florida and how Miami

969
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: or Florida State or Florida or combination of the three

970
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: locking down a little bit more of the Enstate talent

971
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: would go a long way and evening out the balance

972
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: of power in the sport. But it's not happening right now,

973
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: and maybe it won't happen under Manidaz. I'm just asking,

974
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: in lieu of him, who you're bringing in there. I'm

975
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: not asking the fan base. I'm asking the fan base.

976
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: Who do you think your administration is capable of bringing

977
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: in there that can make a difference to that. My

978
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: answer is I don't know. I'll cross my fingers and

979
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: hope for the best. All right, let's wrap it up

980
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: here with best bets. A good day yesterday back above

981
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: five hundred, so onward and upward. The Roman Noodle Express

982
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: is headed to Lee County, Alabama. None of you know

983
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,439
Speaker 1: where that is. That's where Auburn is. They are off

984
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: a bye. They are playing ole Miss at home. This

985
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: is the biggest game in the SEC this week. It

986
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: opened a pick. That's what we got it right now.

987
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: The first best bet of the week is the Auburn

988
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: Tigers pick at home. Rested. While ole Miss has played,

989
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: remember this consecutively, they've played how far back do I

990
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: want to go. I mean, they played Bama and then

991
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: they played at Tennessee, and yesterday they played LSU, and

992
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: now they're going to Auburn. They've had no buy in

993
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: here and Auburn's rested, and Auburn was playing their best

994
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: football before the bye week, and so I love Auburn here,

995
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: our model loves Auburn here. So we're gonna take Auburn

996
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 1: as the first best bet of the week. Also wanted

997
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: to quickly point out I didn't have time to talk

998
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: to Michigan over Northwestern. Good on Michigan. That's a spot

999
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: with Michigan State on deck that they easily could have

1000
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: been wobbly, and they really weren't. I know it was

1001
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: close early, but they pulled away. They did what they

1002
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: needed to do. The whole Cincinnati versus Navy thing, Cincinnati

1003
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: barely beat a very bad Navy team yesterday. To me,

1004
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: it's irrelevant. It's irrelevant because it doesn't change the future

1005
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. Cincinnati is in a position where if they

1006
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: go undefeated, whether their scores are by fifty or by five,

1007
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be irrelevant because here's what

1008
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: they have to have happened. They got to have one

1009
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: of these big boys lose, they gotta have one of

1010
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: those doors open. If it opens, they'll get in. They'll

1011
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: get in because of circumstances I've already talked about. But

1012
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,720
Speaker 1: if those doors don't open, no amount of impressive fifty

1013
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: point wins over the likes of Navy is going to

1014
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: make the difference. So as long as they keep winning.

1015
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: At this point, they're in the unique position where I

1016
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: don't really think margin matters. Normally, the style points matter

1017
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: a lot for the G five team. I don't think

1018
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: they matter here as long as they keep on winning.

1019
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: And like I said, Ole miss thirty one to seventeen

1020
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: over LSU. Now that's up a showdown this Saturday at Auburn.

1021
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: It's going to be a really really good week, really

1022
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: good week. This is not the week, nor is it

1023
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: ever the week to be headed to a wedding or

1024
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: a birthday party, which is even more inexcusable because there's

1025
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: no reason you can't have Friday birthday parties. I digress

1026
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: because I don't want to get in trouble again. But

1027
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Make sure you are subscribed to

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1034
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: So it's going to be an exciting week. Headed to

1035
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: East Lancing at the end of it, and we'll be

1036
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: talking about that obviously a lot when we break down

1037
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: the games on Tuesday. Until then for Director Colin, for

1038
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Speaker 1: our entire crew in Fort Lauderdale, I'm Josh Pate. Have

1039
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Speaker 1: yourselves a great start to your week. Thanks again for

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